>>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" -- undeterred. all the scouting reports said russell wilson was too short to play in the nfl. >> scouts say you've got to be 6'2" to be a successful quarterback in the nfl. >> i think it gives me an extra little bit of motivation, a little fire in me. >> unexpected. >> i'm joey pants, lost my head, but hopefully after i take the blue pill i can survive an evening talking sports with rachel nichols. >> unrelenting. the colts were down 28 points against kansas city. but quarterback andrew luck had the chiefs right where he wanted them. >> luck scores! andrew picked up the fumble and scores! >> it's great to be able to go out there and try and overcome, you know, whatever the obstacle is. >>> welcome to "unguarded." the nfl playoffs are captivating millions once again this month. tomorrow, all eyes will be on seattle seahawks quarterback russell wilson. and with good reason. thrilling crowds with flare, wilson has seattle talking super bowl for the first time in nearly a decade. for a guy who looks lik

. >>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" -- unprecedented. how coach john fox led the broncos to within a game of the super bowl just months after major heart surgery. >> i really thought i was dying. >> unusual. >> i'm former nfl mvp boomer esiason. tonight, rachel and i will discuss figure skating. are you kidding me? >> undercover. the great one, wayne gretzky, opening up about his life, his kids, and a very interesting recent outing. >> i put a hat on, pair of sunglasses and toelgd them not to call me by my name. ♪ >> welcome to "unguarded." this weekend, future hall of famers peyton and tom brady will face off for the chance to go to the super bowl. as much as that has football fans salivating, the man directing manning from the sideline is drawing nearly as much interest. broncos' head coach john fox has done a masterful john leading denver, especially since he spent a third of the season coaching from 1400 miles away, recovering from a condition that nearly killed him. john fox is a football lifer. spending decades chasing a super bowl

>>> tonight, on "unguarded with rachel nichols," unexpected. you saw his loud side. >> that's the result you're going to get. >> tonight, you'll meet the other side of super bowl bound richard sherman. >> how almost oxy moronic that a kid from compton is going to stanford? >> unmarketed. after a record breaking 30 years, nba commissioner david stern has fined mark cuban for the last time. as he turns the job over to adam silver. >> mark cuban has been doing nothing but singing your praises. >> that's because he's sharpening his knives for adam. >>> welcome to "unguarded." we have a block custer show tonight with two rare interviews. we start with seahawks corner back richard sherman. sherman should be known for making the game-saving play to send seattle to next week's super bowl. but instead, his postgame outburst is what echoed well beyond the sports world. i was the first to sit down with sherman after that game. and in this cnn exclusive, what i found was a man whose life story adds up to so much more than the sum of those very loud words.

rachel nichols joining us. she's the host of rachel nichols -- unguarded with rachel nichols, friday nights 10:30 p.m. eastern. >>> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. "crossfire" starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire" -- fighting for middle class jobs and helping people who have lost their jobs. >> we waste so much time. >> why is it taking so long? what are the biggest hurdles? >> we think we have better ideas. >> on the left van jones, on the right kevin madden, in the crossfire, senator ben carton, a democrat from maryland and senator john barrasso from wyoming. what can washington do to help you get a better job? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire," i'm kevin madden on the right. >> i'm van jones on the left. >> in the crossfire we've got two senators that have different ideas about how to help the middle class, but one thing we know would lep a lot, extending the unemployment benefits. but a little over an hour ago, thanks to the republican

. >>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" -- undeterred.s said russell wilson was too short to play in the nfl. >> scouts say you've got to be 6'2" to be a successful quarterback in the nfl. >> i think it gives me an extra little bit of motivation, a little fire in me. >> unexpected. >> i'm joey pants, lost my head, but hopefully after i take the blue pill i can survive an evening talking sports with rachel nichols. >> unrelenting. the colts were down 28 points against kansas city. but quarterback andrew luck had the chiefs right where he wanted them. >> luck scores! andrew picked up the fumble and scores! >> it's great to be able to go out there and try and overcome,

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" -- undeterred.s said russell wilson was too short to play in the nfl. >> scouts say you've got to be 6'2" to be a successful quarterback in the nfl. >> i think it gives me an extra little bit of motivation, a little fire in me. >> unexpected. >> i'm joey pants, lost my head, but hopefully after i take the blue pill i can survive an evening talking sports with rachel nichols. >> unrelenting. the colts were down 28 points against kansas city. but quarterback andrew luck had the chiefs right where he wanted them. >> luck scores! andrew picked up the fumble and scores! >> it's great to be able to go out there and try and overcome, you know, whatever the obstacle is.

rachel nichols joining us.unguarded with rachel nichols, friday nights 10:30 p.m. eastern. >>> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. "crossfire" starts right now. >>> tonight on "crossfire" -- fighting for middle class jobs and helping people who have lost their jobs. >> we waste so much time. >> why is it taking so long? what are the biggest hurdles? >> we think we have better ideas. >>

we're talking with rachel nichols about her exclusive interview with richard sherman and his now famous. hey there. >> richard sherman told me he was 7 or 8 years old when he stumbled on film on mohamed ali. he was transfixed. he was also so clever and entertaining at the same time. sherman patterned some of his approach after that but like ali there's been some backlash and some of it has gotten very nasty. we've seen this. we've seen dion sanders, terrell owens and michael jordan, mohamed ali, guys get excited in the moment and make pronouncements. what happened to you is the reaction afterwards. the way it mushroomed. the fact that race so quickly became involved. >> yeah. you know, it was really mind-boggling. it was kind of sad at the way the world reacted. you know, i don't want to generalize people because there's a lot of great people who didn't react that way. for those who did and threw the racial slurs, it's sad especially that close to martin luther king, jr. day. you're not judging a guy. i'm not out there beating on people or committing crimes or getting arrested. i'm play

thank you, rachel nichols. erview "unguarded" with rachel nichols at 10:30 eastern on cnn. >>> you know there are winter sports happening right now that you can do at the beach. that is if you've got nerves of steel. namely we're talking about professional surfing and the mavericks international which started off the coast of half moon bay south of san francisco. look at this amazing pictures. the event includes 24 of the best surfers from all around the world riding 30 to 40-foot waves. which is big. these are the biggest waves we've seen in a long time. and the biggest waves we see in decades also drew surfers to hawaii's north shore this week. surfing legend laird hamilton says he saw waves well over 50 feet. anderson spoke with laird about what it's like to surf them. >> laird, i understand the waves are expected to be 40 to 50 feet. what did you see out there? >> well, we've had surf that's been well -- locations in hawaii right now well over 50 feet. there could be 60, 70-foot chases or more in certain are

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cnn's rachel nichols sat down for an in-depth interview. rachel, good to he sue you. he seem? >> richard sherman has become known as one of the most brash and outspoken players but also one of the smartest players in the nfl. he's got a degree from stanford and he's insightful. it's interesting to hear him talk about the backlash against him and now we're seeing a backlash to the backlash, people wanting to go out of their way to support him. when i sat down with sherman, he had an interesting take on all of that, and especially on the racially-charged tweets that he got right after it happened, some of them using specific hate speech but a lot of racially coded language that sherman said indicated a much deeper problem. >> i think it used to be the "n" word and now they are using thug instead of "n" word as a more accepting way and it's still sad, man, because what -- what was thug about what i did? because i said something about one guy b. a football game. i didn't go talking about, i'm going to fight the guy after the game. i'm going to go blow his car up or anythi

>>> tonight, on "unguarded with rachel nichols," unexpected.>> that's the result you're going to get. >> tonight, you'll meet the other side of super bowl bound richard sherman. >> how almost oxy moronic that a kid from compton is going to stanford? >> unmarketed. after a record breaking 30 years, nba commissioner david stern has fined mark cuban for the last time. as he turns the job over to adam silver. >> mark cuban has been doing nothing but singing your praises. >> that's because he's sharpening his knives for adam.

cnn's sports rachel nichols has more on the story from charlotte, north carolina.w a-rod has claimed in the past the yankees aren't behind him on this because they want to get out of giving him that huge paycheck for the season. what more do you know about that? >> reporter: well, this is a tactic. look. alex rodriguez's legal team has clearly decided in the past few months that the best defense is a good offense so they are trying to make this into a larger issue, really trying to make this about anything that is not did alex rodriguez let someone inject him with steroids. take a look at the statement that he released here. "this injustice is major league baseball's first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining rounds." he's trying to point to that. "instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, further insinuating its corrupt investigation program from any variety of defense by accused players, any variety of objective review." now he's criticizing the process there. he's really taking a shot at three different things

>>> tonight, on "unguarded with rachel nichols," unexpected.e result you're going to get. >> tonight, you'll meet the other side of super bowl bound richard sherman. >> how almost oxy moronic that a kid from compton is going to stanford? >> unmarketed. after a record breaking 30 years, nba commissioner david stern has fined mark cuban for the last time. as he turns the job over to adam silver. >> mark cuban has been doing nothing but singing your praises. >> that's because he's sharpening his knives for adam.

and i talk exclusively to rachel nichols. rachel, before we get to your interview, which was a great coup for you and cnn, what was your reaction when you were watching it live to what he did? >> reporter: well, actually, we hear things like that all of the time. so i was a bit surprised at the reaction that mushroomed out from what richard sherman said. and here's what's fascinating about richard sherman. he is definitely one of the brashest, most outspoken guys in the nfl. but he's also one of the smartest players in the nfl. this is a guy who graduated from stanford while he was playing, and even started on his masters while he was there playing football. so not a surprise that while this a very emotional moment, when he sat down to talk to me, he was very reasonable and thoughtful. take a listen. there was the moment on the field when you made the play. there's the choke sign. there's the interview on the field post game. and then there's the press conference interview. what do you regret about all of that, what do you no

telling rachelle nichols he does have a few regrets. >> mostly i regret, i guess, the storm afterwardsnow, the way it was covered. the way was perceived. and the attention it took away from the fantastic performances from my teammates. that being the only part of it i regret, the way it's covered. it is what it is. what i said, i said. you know, i don't say -- i probably shouldn't have attacked another person. i don't mean to attack him. and that was immature. and i probably shouldn't have done that. i regret doing that. but i just felt like my teammates deserve better. >> you can see the interview with richard sherman with rachel nichols right here on cnn. i have never played football. i can't imagine how amped up they must be in the feel. just how amped up they could be. you want to see that in a player. >> amped like we are before "early start" every day. i love listening to richard sherman. >>> you think your car is safe? think again. the new test that shows small vehicles simply don't hold up. "money time" is next. hing we pue for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can

." >>> cnn's rachel nichols got the first sit-down interview with the seahawks' richard sherman followingis epic postgame rant and one of the topics they discussed was sherman being labeled a thug. >> i think it used to be the "n" word. now they're using thug instead of the "n" word. and you know, as a more accepted way of saying it. and it's still sad, man, because what was thug about what i did? because i said something about one guy, about a football game. you know, i didn't go talking about i'm going to fight the guy after the game, i'm going to go, you know, blow his car up or anything like that. >> you can catch the whole interview tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" at 10:30 eastern on cnn. and rachel also caught up with david stern to talk about his, of course, last season as the nba's commissioner. that should be another great interview. >> comes full circle, back to justin bieber. a lot of people yesterday when bieber was busted were saying, shouldn't we be calling him a thug? >> very true. >> so, richard sherman has some interesting points on race there, for sure. andy s

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cnn's rachel nichols sat down with an exclusive interview. she joins us to tell us more. hard sherman is one of the most brash, most outspoken guys in the nfl. he is also one of the smartest players in the nfl. he graduated from stanford and started working on his master's while he was playing football there. when there was a huge backlash against him the other night, it is no surprise he had a smart take. i asked him about how race factored into all of this specially after he was hit with an avalanche of racist tweets and e-mails. calling him a monkey and much, much worse. take a listen. >> it was really mind-boggling and kind of sad the way the world reacted. i can't say the world. i don't want to generalize. there are a lot of great people that didn't react that way. for the people that did react that way and threw the racial slurs and things like that out there, it was really sad, specially that close to martin luther king day. i am not out there beating on people or committing crimes or getting arrested or doing anything. i'm playing a football game at high level. i g

rachel nichols joins me.saying, i never failed a drug test but neither did lance armstrong. >> reporter: testing is behind the cheaters. you can't invent a drug test to test a drug protocol that hasn't invented itself. they are never going to be able to get ahead of these guys but they can catch up through testing and investigation. this is the first time we have sign a u.s. major sports league use this much investigation to proactively go after the players and the athletes that it thinks is cheating and in this case, it worked. they are also hoping to toughen penalties that players feel more scared if there is something they get caught for, they might be out of the game for up to a year now. they are talking about instilling that. they are finding other ways around just testing. testing is never going to be the surefire way to stop performance-enhancing drugs in this game. >> the punishment has to be consistent too, right? when you look at johnny peralta, he got a 50-game suspension but signed a big fat $53

. >>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" -- unprecedented.fox led the broncos to within a game of the super bowl just months after major heart surgery. >> i really thought i was dying. >> unusual. >> i'm former nfl mvp boomer esiason. tonight, rachel and i will discuss figure skating. are you kidding me? >> undercover. the great one, wayne gretzky, opening up about his life, his kids, and a very interesting recent outing. >> i put a hat on, pair of sunglasses and toelgd them

you can catch unguarded with rachel nichols on friday nights here on cnn.for me. much more ahead in the newsroom with kyra phillips. >>> you are at the scene of newsroom. coming up, a-rod may have won a battle against the mlb, but not the war. his suspension reduced. he's not done fighting to get back in. the game. >>> a data breach spreading par wider than we thought. hear how spamers might trick you into getting more information. and chris christie in damage control. could the bridge scandal impact his future political aspirations? >>> e we begin with a state of emergency for 300,000 people in west virginia who have been told not to use their tap water. officials just wrapped up a news conference saying it could be days before it could be safe to drink the water. nine counties are in the middle of a dangerous situation after more than 7,000 gallons of a tox toxic chemical leaked into the ground water. there is some good news. fresh drinking water is arriving by the truckload. 16 tractor trailers sfrent tsen from the department of homeland security arrived

sherman told our rachel nichols that the term "thug" that's been tossed around is just another term for. do you buy that? >> oh, i would agree with that. however, if you go into the barbershop you should expect to get a haircut. you put yourself in these situations all this stuff starts coming out. it does not justify it happening. it tells you if you put these things in these positions bad things are going to happen if you act bad and silly. >> yeah. a new harris interactive poll fsg finds nfl is america's favorite sport, far ahead of auto racing, baseball. does this surprise you? >> not really. two words. nfl films. nfl films has been around for 50 years. the nfl has done a better job through nfl films and mechanisms marketing itself than any other sport that's out there. then you have the fact the nfl is a very easy sport to bet on. it's a controlled violence sport. whether people like to admit it or not, they like the violence of it all. the one thing i would point out. you mentioned the harris poll. there was an associated press poll that came out last week that showed that the nfl

well, our rachel nichols actually met with him. a pretty amazing story to tell. >> reporter: he has a colgate smile. stars in national commercials. and, oh, yes, he's the starting quarterback for the top seeded seattle seahawks. a favorite to reach next month's super bowl. but russell wilson is aware, according to the experts, he wasn't supposed to be sitting here. if i had asked outsiders in vegas what the odds were that you would be in this position right now, what do you think they would have given me? 1 in 10,000? more? >> probably something like that. being a 5'11" quarterback, not too many people think you can play in the national football league. >> reporter: wilson comes from a family of high achievers. his grandfather was a university president. his grandmother earned a doctorate on her way to becoming a college dean. and then there was his father. harrison. and ivy league graduate. president of his law school class. and a two-sport star who attended training camp with the san diego chargers. harrison raised russell in his

. >> you can watch the entire interview with coach john fox tonight on "unguarded" with rachel nicholsel also sat down with hockey legend wayne gretzky. that's tonight, 10:30 eastern right here on cnn. >>> omaha! omaha! omaha! omaha! >> all right, you heard that right. peyton manning yelled "omaha" 44 times in sunday's playoff win over the san diego chargers, and 5 omaha-based corporations took notice to all those omahas, and now they want to pay it forward, and the plan is simple. they basically are going to donate $500 every time peyton manning yells "omaha" during the afc championship game this sunday. and of course, all that money will go to peyton manning's payback foundation, which helps disadvantaged kids. great story. hey, peyton's broncos host tom brady and the patriots sunday. that's 3:00 p.m. eastern. the 49ers are in seattle for the nfc championship game at 6:30 p.m. eastern. >> journalistic integrity is -- >> tom brady, go patriots. >> i subtly heard that, but i was thinking, peyton manning, peyton manning, it's his time, peyton manning. it's going to be warm in denver on

rachel nichols, as always, a pleasure. do you need an introduction. the legendary charles barkley. nice to see you. fresh off a plane. thank you for coming by. talking about richard sherman, so many times we watch the post-game and the guys say great game did you think it was refreshing hearing a guy really speak his mind? >> that doesn't bother me at all. i thought it was in the heat of the moment. he said something earlier this week about he was glad he had a microphone on. that changed the dynamic of the relationship. that is going to make you mad. >> he wasn't going to shake his hand. he said good game in a different way. you think he meant that? >> you saw it on the tape. good game. good game and held his handout. that to me is i think people overreacted. it bothered me for the simple fact that a guy can go from class and go to stanford working on his masters and the 15 sound byte. people can get like that. it's a learning lesson. you people they want to you stay in your place. it's like we like you as a player and you are all right, but i like the other things you said about

cnn's rachel nichols is here to wrap up wild card week. what pay weekend it was? three of the four games coming down to just three points or less. for my money, the most exciting, the indianapolis colts comeback win over the kansas city chiefs led by their young quarterback, andrew luck, a kid a lot of people have tabbed as the next john elway. he is a guy that showed determination, showed grit. we love sports, carol, when it is a metaphor for something bigger. this kid told his team when they were down nearly 30 points at halftime, you stay with me. i will get you there. we will win this game. we got to watch him do it. he does have the hall of fame career we are all predicting for him, we are all going to remember this weekend as the point where it all started, with are his legend really got going off the ground. >> that was an awesome play. he was like a torpedo going into the end zone. it was amazing. we have to talk about the bcs game, the last ever and then they go to the college playoff system. this should be one exciting game, maybe the most ever. >> it th

david stern denounced the trip and rachel nichols told our team sterns thinks money did play a role. >> i had the opportunity to ask david stern when he was a guest on "the situation room" with wolf blitzer why a guy like charles smith would take this smith. we know charles is a different guy than dennis rodman who tends to do this thing. we wouldn't expect this from charles. he said, look, i think the guys were blinded by the payday. i know that was the topic at the end of the conversation with charles smith and i do think money was a factor. >> others using diplomacy think it was a bad idea. charles smith painted it as a success. yesterday i asked hamer kareem abdul jabbar what he thought. >> i think it certainly back fired on them. i don't think they could have known, so much isn't known about north korea. it's a very unpredictable place. the leadership there can do some bizarre thing. caution is usually the best way to approach situations like that. when you have no idea of what's going to happen, it's usually a wise thing to do to stay away from those situations. >> a group of p

he had a great interview with rachel nichols, our rachel nichols. it aired last night.here were a lot of compelling elements. he regrets his actions because it's taking the attention away from his team and his team's success. >> mostly i regret, i guess, the storm afterwards, the way it was covered, the way it was perceived, and the attention that it took away from the fantastic performances from my teammates. you know. and that will be the only part of it i regret. >> so there's really two big stories going into super bowl week. one being richard sherman, the other being the weather because of where it's located. the new york/new jersey market. >> are you worried about it? >> it's going to be a part of it. but i don't think it's going to be the major overwhelming story to the game. i think we're going to talk about it all week. >> i know. >> but one of the things i think is interesting about this is the super bowl, the official s do have a contingency plan and they have one for every super bowl but this is one that could have to be used because of where it's located. i

. >>> sherman is speaking with rachel nichols tonight on piers morgan live" 9:00 p.m. eastern.e in. still to come an influential leader of the naacp compares senator tim scott the only black republican in the senate to a ventriloquist's dummy. reverend william barber is here to defend that statement. when you have diabetes like i do, getting the right nutrition isn't always easy. first, i want a way to help minimize my blood sugar spikes. then, a way to support heart health. ♪ and let's not forget immune support. ♪ but now i have new glucerna advance with three benefits in one. including carbsteady ultra to help minimize blood sugar spikes. it's the best from glucerna. [ male announcer ] new glucerna advance. from the brand doctors recommend most. advancing nutrition for diabetes. what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. over the pizza place on chestnut street th

rachel nichols will ask him next on "piers morgan live." that does it for us.cial edition of "ac360." hope you join us. hope you join us. "piers morgan live" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is "piers morgan live." welcome. tonight the rant that everyone in america is talking about. rich sherman's extraordinary trash talk on fox sports after the seahawks' amazing victory. >> i'm the best corner in the game! that's the result you're going to get! don't you ever talk about me! >> tonight, what was he thinking? richard sherman explains all, exclusively to cnn. >>> also the olympic gold medalist who says chris christie wanted him out of new jersey's senate race. carl lewis is here to explain. >>> and olympic-sized security scares for the winter games in sochi. president obama talked to vladimir putin about it today. i'll talk to meredith vieira tonight. shes

. >> all right, rachel nichols is going to have a special episode of "unguarded" tonight right here from with john elway, and he's going to talk about getting the broncos back to the super bowl. >> you know, as a player, this is the biggest game of your career, and you know, especially as a quarterback. there's, you know, a lot of things that ride on this game because of the fact of the attention that the game gets. and so, being with a coat on, you're a lot more in the background, which is a little bit more enjoyable. >> and you can catch that interview tonight at 10:30 eastern right here on cnn. >>> all right, trending on bleacherreport.com today, animals around the world are making their super bowl picks. hailing from montana, ozzie the grizzly bear, he went with the denver broncos peanut butter cake. now, buffett, the manatee in florida, agreed with ozzie, also went broncos. and you're going to want to take buffett seriously. he's got a six-game winning streak going in the super bowl. but hold on a second! eli the ape in utah, he has a six-game winning streak going as well, and he pi

about the super bowl, it is super bowl week and the game is on sunday, we talk with peter king, rachel nichols and adam schefter, this will be the colding weather super bowl that has ever been played and the temperatures will be in the twenties and thirties throughout the course of the night, it won't be anything cat chris politic or anything of that sort but it will have some impact on the game and be a novelty and play in the elements and have the elements. >> rose: does cold weather favor the defense, then? >> i think maybe if there is any team that would have an advantage maybe i it is seattle and its defense, but these two teams are used to it and grabbing in this cold weather all week long, denver is not exactly. >> rose: warm. >> sunshine. >> rose: and there is a fascinating new film about art, it is called tim's vermeer, we have tim jenison and teller. >> and i had seen the have meres in a museum and if you look by aver mears in a, vermeer in a museum it says i may be a photograph, and so i got interested. >> rose: that is good. >> it is. it is too good, it is inhumanely good and i rea

. >> watch "unguarded" with rachel nichols tonight at 10:30 eastern. i'm jake tapper. i'll turn you over to wolf blitzer. he's right next door. have a great weekend. >> jake, thank you very much. will there be much talk of unity in the president's state of the union address? why president obama may go confrontational. also, a political gamble by republicans moving up the date of their national convention. will they now decide to hold it in las vegas. >>> and planet hillary. a provocative magazine cover goes viral. i'll talk about the clinton universe with the author. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> but we begin with breaking news. a u.s. supreme court legal victory for religious groups at least for now. the justices have extended an injunction that let's some nonprofits remain exempt from obamacare rules requiring coverage of birth control. let's go to our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. explain this supreme court decision. is it a clear win for these religious groups? >> let me put it into a perspective here. the law says that there's a prov

he told rachel nichols, he said, i'm going to disney world, like everybody else says. >> that's not taking thanks so much. >>> the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i'm carol costello. stories we are watching right now in the "newsroom." athletes are arriving in sochi, russia for the winter olympics as new terror threats are surfacing. u.s. officials are taking no chances. they are moving warships and putting evacuation plans into place. our senior international correspondent, ivan watson, live in sochi this morning with more. good morning, ivan. >> reporter: good morning, carol. russian security forces numbering in the tens of thousands in the sochi region, you can see over my shoulder, the olympic torch burning over the very recently constructed olympic park here with russian workers still putting the final touches on that. meanwhile, the torch relay continues across russia going today to the turbulent caucuses reege avian of dagestan, which has been, according to the international crisis group, the scene of one of the deadliest c

this week, rachel nichols caught up with the star quarterback, drew luck. >>> your general manager comparedjordan the other day. he said you have your ability to raise your game in the fourth quarter to meet the moment. why do you think you are a guy that plays up when the stakes go up instead of shirking from them? >> i know i'm not michael jordan by any means. i'm not even a ten tth of what has done. >> he needs to shave that thing off. >> you can catch that whole interview at 10:30 right here on cnn >>> two years ago, the celtics jeff green, had to have open-heart surgery after an aneurysm. he is using that to help a ten yeerd names spencer. being told something is wrong with your heart, it's a blow. >> it was scary, because i've already been here a lot and it wasn't fun to come back. >> these two have become instant friends who share similar stories and similar scars. spencer has had six open-heart surgeries on the list to have a heart transplant. through all these adversities, he says, he has never lost his positive spirit. >> he is like a little man. it's amazing. >> turning on bleach

rachel nichols talked to him. >> reporter: john fox is a football lifer.spending decades chasing a super bowl championship. he has taken jobs for it, moved cities for it, missed school plays and family dinners, spent hundreds of thousands of hours watching film. >> i have been twice. once as defensive coordinator and once as head coach. i don't want that rug burn again or that rope burn as you walk across the field and you're not the winning team. but some day, hopefully this year, we'll be able to be in new york and hoist that trophy. >> reporter: there is not much that fox wouldn't give to finally win. but this year, he nearly gave his life. >> broncos head coach john fox hospitalized today after feeling lightheaded on a north carolina golf course. >> i've had this aortic valve problem since birth. it's something you're born with. you know, they monitor it the older you get. it's open heart surgery. it's a major, major surgery to go and actually replace the valve. so i put it off. thought i was going to make it to the end of the season. >> reporter: he d

cnn correspondent rachel nichols joins me now.out this this morning, and i thought, if this is true, how do they get away with this in seattle? >> you can sell your tickets to whoever you want to? and seattle wants to preserve its advantage. the crowd in seattle is the -- the crowd comes into it as the 12th member on the team. it's considered the best home field advantage of the league, they have set records on the size mom ter that measures earthquakes for how loud the crowd is. they want to preserve that and anyone who's been to a sporting event is having a tough place to play is one of the fun things about having your sports team play at home. 49ers fans can buy tickets, they can buy it from stubhub, they just can't buy tickets from them. they're not going to willingly sell their tickets to the opposite team. in seattle, tickets sold out in 30 minutes. what they also want to do is give their own fans, the people that supported the team, bought the merchandise, rooted for these players all season long, they want to give them a c

. >> you can watch the entire interview tonight on unguarded with rachel nichols. that's 10:30 eastern right here on cnn. >> omaha. omaha. omaha. omaha. >> yeah, you heard that right. that's a lot of omahas. peyton manning yelled omaha 48 times in the game against the charmers. the plan is to donate $500 every time the quarterback yells omaha during sunday's championship game. all that money will go to manning's pay back foundation. peyton broncos host the patriots. the 49ers with a late game in seattle. that's 6:30 p.m. eastern. going back to the omaha thing guys, he yelled it 44 times. do the math. that's 22,000 to the foundation. i hope he says a few times just to rack it up. >> just rack it up. i guess we can hope for him screaming a few omahas. i'll hope for a win, john berman. >> why would you say that? >> it's peyton's turn. it's peyton's turn. >> that does it. i can't have this. nobody watching this show right now hates the patriots more than i do. i got to tell you, i love my man jb. >> it's not that i don't love you. i just want you to lose in spectacular

cnn's rachel nichols got the first sitdown interview with richard sherman. of the topics they discussed was sherman being labeled a thug. >> i think it used to be the n word. now they're using thug instead of the n word as a more accepted way of saying -- it's still sad. >> you can catch this whole interview tonight with ray shell nichols. that's at 10:30 eastern. and in case you missed it, justin bieber was arrested yesterday. former nfl super star johnson who famously chased bieber tweeted, they finally caught him. everyone grows up at some point, hopefully he learns from it. eric dickerson another one of his neighbors as well tweeted, it's about time, nobody's above the law. as you can see his neighbors in his neighborhood are pretty excited that he finally got caught for speeding around. >> you know you're unpopular when johnson takes the high road in terms of the character of somebody. >> this is such a sad sight of the times when justin bieber even reaches into the sports arena. >> in case you missed it. >> now it can be part of the "political gut chec

we have the host, miss rachel nichols. >> i promise not to swan dive over to you.nting to see these two forces colliding and this is what happens when you have teams that come out of different conferences. we're getting testy. we don't know who is the stronger team. you have florida state that's been criticized for their level of competition. they have been racking up these huge scores and huge numbers but how good teams have they been playing. then you have the auburn kids that got out of scrape after scrape and so much fun to watch. you really have to say all right who is going to come out on top and both sides both fan bases thinking they are number one and that's part of the 30 day playoff. >> we need to wait, watch and see how this turns out because nobody knows who are more dominant. >> auburn has had all of these last minute wins. everybody thinks like oh, my gosh if there's a scrape they can get out of it. if there's something that comes down to it in the last moment those kids will have the experience, the presence of the moment to not wonder what the stak

he said to rachel nichols, a great interview.his team's great success. >> mostly i regret, i guess, the storm afterwards. the way it was covered. the way it was perceived. and the tension that it took away from the fantastic performances from my teammates, you know. and that would be the only part of it i regret. >> one thing's clear, guys, richard sherman whether you're on the side of oh, i like what he said, or i don't like what he said. this week, he did everything possible to get out in front of this. he clearly is a smart guy by wei a great back story, a guy from compton, going to the nfl, a young player with so much of a bright future ahead of him. the bottom line, he's trying to get the attention off of him and put it on his team. next week, media day, so much of what we've been talking about, hopefully, won't be the rant. >> joe carter, thank you very much. >> i learned something from him, nfl "no fun league." >> that's going to be the hash tag. would you believe a pair of tweezers and an eyebrow pencil started all of thi