with me, ceo zain tankle who owns about 33 apple bbee's in t country. zain, thanks for joining me.effect does obamacare have on your business? >> my concern, jeanine, is really about all the people he claims he's helping. those are the people he's hurting. when i used to ask people if they know what obamacare was, they would say, sure. obama cares. now they know it's going to cost them some money, and obama doesn't care so much. it's hurting the exact people employers -- i'm not -- i want to make it clear i'm not, but employers are shrinking people down. obviously, the budget office has just said 2.5 million people over the next 10 years are going to leave full-time employment and go to part-time because they can now get the entitlement of health care, and that retards the economy, it retards gdp, retards the growth of it. i'm concerned about america. not republican, not democrat, about all the people that he claims, and he claims he's a great orator, he's just not a performer. >> you say you have 4,000 employees in applebee's. how does that affect them? as an employer, let's talk

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let's go to zain asher. explain this big bounce and the yellen factor. >> jake, first of all, i hope that you can hear me because of the noise in the background. yes, yellen is basically giving an excuse to buy in. the outlook overall in the u.s. is very good. she did talk about the fact that even when the rate falls below 6.6%, they are going to raise short-term rates as well. new york congresswoman karen maloney pressed her about december and january. they were relatively disappointing. she asked generjanet yellen abo that. she said it was obviously disappointing but let's not jump to conclusions. it doesn't mean that the trend of cold weather was a factor as well. overall, her stats are very accommodative. jake? >> zain asher and paul rogers, thank you very much. we appreciate it. now for "the national lead." could it happen all over again? last time it took just three inches to make atlanta look like the bobsled track in sochi. it was only two weeks ago but the memories are fresh. children stuck on schoo

zain asher is at the new york stock exchange to tell us why.milk prices. with he could see them rise by 60 cents by march. so currently, milk prices are roughly around per average $3.50. they could go up to $4.10. a couple reasons why. first of all, the drought in california we have been hearing about. obviously, farmers need water to feed cows and produce alfaphafa. also, growing demand for cheese, specially like in places like china. they have had their own problems, because of high feed cost, weather and disease. they have been imported more from the u.s. the spike in demand is the same as milk prices as well. the good news is that if some stores might actually absorb the cost rather than passing it on to consumers. that's what we hope for. zain asher reporting live. >>> the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts now. >> good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining knee. we begin this morning with a long shadow of the cold war and new explosions of that east versus west divisions. this is ukraine, where thousands of americans liv

they have hired their own private security firm, zain asher takes us to the company's headquarters. >> war zones, natural disasters, remote rescue operations. >> we're used to these types of environments where there are threats and not quite necessarily sure where those threats might come from. >> meet the man who will be watching the olympics more closely than most and not for the athletics. dan richards runs global rescue, a private security firm that will provide additional security for the u.s. ski and snowboarding team in sochi. >> when it comes to information and intelligence, we actually have our own teams of intel analysts located in our operation centers here in the united states and some of our other global locations. and they're constantly feeding us information. >> global rescue has had people on the ground gathering intelligence in sochi for months. they include former navy s.e.a.l.s. and army rangers trained and dispatched from this command center in boston. >> the strength for our guys on the ground is for them to see multiple options simultaneously and immediately. und

tell us about it, zain. >> reporter: hi, carol.x from a presidential press conference ever. i was blushing enormously. at the end of it, cnn got a special statement that was signed by the president which says that homosexuals should rehabilitate themselves and society should help them do so. we had an exclusive interview a short while ago. he told the west, stay out of african politics. don't impose your ideas, your values on to african culture. he said that being homosexual is disgusting, unnatural and not a human right. earlier, i asked him whether his views and his actions are going to take uganda backwards. here is what he had to say. >> we have been disappointed for a long time by the conduct of the west. but we just keep quiet. we just see how you do things, the families, how they organized. all these things. we see them. we keep quiet. we never comment, because it is not our country. maybe you like it. so this is now an attempt at social imperialism, to impose social values of one group on other society. then our disappointm

i'm zain asher in new york. at 5:30. >> pam: death and destruction in the ukranian capitol. we'll show you the fiery battle raging between police and protestors. >> pam: then at 5:45. the giants and the a's getting ready for baseball season. we'll take you live to spring training in arizona. >> pam: the center of the ukraine capital of kiev. is in flames tonight. after months of protests against the government, police moved in on their camp. >> pam: grant lodes is here with more on the violence. which has taken more than one dozen lives just today. grant? >> pam: as this map shows, the ukraine is situated right between russia and europe. >> reporter:and that in a nutshell is what is behind the confrontation. >> reporter:fires and explosions in a city of nearly three million people. the focal point is independence square, where protestors have been camped out since november. they were angry that the ukrainian president scrapped a trade agreement with the european union in favor of >> reporter:russian security for

zain asher is live in the new york stock exchange. what did they have to say that fired up?look on the u.s. economy was generally positive. she expects the trends to continue to improve. she did also talk about the fact that even when the unemployment rate dropped below 6.5%. it's the 6.6% right now. even when this t drops below 6 1/2%. doesn't mean the fed will actually raise short-term interest rates. certainly liked hearing that. also she addressed the jobs reports. the last two jobs reports have been relatively disappointing. she said it's not necessarily a trep. obviously cold weather may have been a factor in that as well. and then she addressed the turmoil in the emerging mark epts and recent volume title in the u.s. markets. that doesn't mean we're going downhill. a lot of generally positive comments. that's why the market is down right now. >> zain asher, thank you. >>> ever get the feeling no one is listening to you in washington? case in point. new poll. the atlantic council think tank say 56% of americans talk about normalizing relations, including cuba. among al

let's go to zain asher. how much are these players taking home from last night's game?j., the winner of the seahawks will be taking home $93,000 and it's been steadily increasing over time. as you mentioned, the losing team is not walking away empty handed either. the players will be taking home $46,000, not bad at all for a day's work. some players have extra compensation built into their contracts. so that's the minimum. when you compare super bowl checks to what these guys make in a year, it's chump change. a guy like marshawn lynch, take home $7 million a year, peyton manning takes home twice that amount, 15 million. it's less about the salary on game day and the value depends on the price of gold and it fluctuates with the price of gold. i've been talking to the nfl and the rings have a minimum value of $5,000, that's the amount that the nfl would be paying and if the team wants to get more elaborate they can do so. jake, looking online, looking at the resale value of these rings, they can go for as much as 40, $50,000. they are making out just fine. >> and as you

cnn's zain asher is outside new york city tonight, and there is more snow coming this way. we were looking at those live pictures of washington. that snow looked really intense. >> reporter: hi, erin. yes, for the time being, the skies have actually held up, for the time being, but i did actually bump into a new york city public schoolteacher that lives right around here. she told me that she made the very difficult decision to stay home tonight, today, partly because she wanted to avoid the sort of commute that we had, which is basically icy roads, slush, and a commute that took twice as long. it's a routine new yorkers know all too well. snow becomes rain, rain becomes slush, and slush becomes the commute from hell. >> you don't need to be in your car, don't use your car. >> reporter: by early this afternoon, more than 10 inches of snow had blanketed the city. >> it's pretty miserable, especially on the side streets. >> reporter: this time, it came sooner, lasted longer, fell harder than expected in many places. but here in white plains, new york, out of the bitter cold c

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. >> zain asher, thanks. >>> fighting in congress nothing new. soon our leaders in washington may have a new fight on their hands with us. there's a new petition from moveon.org calling on congress to give up their paychecks all $174,000 of it if they do not plan on passing any new laws this year. last year you might remember they hit a new low passing the fewest laws in modern history. nearly 30,000 americans think this is a good idea for them to give up their paychecks and have put to paper and signed the petition. and you also remember back in december, cnn/orc poll found two-thirds said this is the worst congress of their lifetime. so will this petition spur congress to action? i'll let you decide that one. >>> still to come -- the gap between the 1% and the 99% grows ever wider, the treasury secretary is throwing his hat into the ring in the fight over the minimum wage. he sat down with christine romans for an exclusive interview. hi, christine. >> hi, carol. he said in this economy, he sees a decided arc of progress, but a lot more work nee

. >>> zain asher has that. >> hi, they're called global rescue.ob is to provide medical and security services. they're working closely with the u.s. snowboarding team in sochi. we traveled down to boston to take a look at their command center. war zones, natural disaster, remote rescue operations. >> we're used to these types of environments where there are threats and they're not quite sure necessarily where the threats might come from. >> meet the man who will be watching the olympics more closely than most and not for the athletics. dan richards runs global rescue, a private security firm that will provide additional security for the u.s. ski and snowboarding team in sochi. >> when it comes to information and intelligence we actually have our own teams of intel analysts located in our operations centers here in the united states and some of our other global locations. and they're constantly feeding us information. >> reporter: global rescue has had people on the ground gathering intelligence in sochi for months. they include former navy s.e.a.l

zain ashers a a look at this wall street wrap. >> fredericka, it was a volatile week on nasdaq.d earnings. amazon, chevron, and mastercard all disappointed investors with their record cards. main drag came from worries about emerging markets. liquidity crunch in india, turkey, and argentina could affect corporate profits here. if american companies are not making enough money they won't grow, invest, and hire. week's volatility was notable in the dow. it ultimately rose and then fell in all five sessions. some of frustration was tied to latest federal reserve meeting. as expected, the fed reduced economic stimulus by another $10 billion. but investors wanted policymakers to in some way address the turmoil in emerging markets. the central bank didn't even acknowledge it in its closing statement was a disappointed to wall street. the meeting did not the last with ben bernanke at the helm. the former chairman's term expired on friday. ben bernanke is widely credited with steering the economy through the worst financial crisis since the great depression. janet yell len takes over th

zain asher, thanks. >>> still to come, a blockbuster deal could create the nation's largest cable providerbut in a deal worth tens of billions, could consumers get the shaft? christine romans has more. >> good morning, carol. a $45 billion deal between comcast and time warner cable. what will it mean for your customer service and for the number at the bottom of your cable bill? i'll have that for you after the break. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. well, knowing gives you confidence. start building your confident retirement today. >>> it is the dawn of a new era for cable tv subscribers. early this morning, comcast announced it's agreed to pay $45 billion to buy time warner cable and create the nation's largest cable provider. one analyst estimated that if this deal goes through,