and to release whatever kind of aggression they might have. and for girls, it s a little bit different. anger is seen as something that is more masculine. so girls learn that they should express sadness, and not necessarily anger. so they tend to hold in their anger much more than boys do. joan, are schools starting to look into this issue in light of what happened in massachusetts. most importantly, what do they need to do? they really need to set zero tolerance policies for bullying. i think they need to set about an education that includes not only the children in the school, but parents need to be actively engaged in this. parents need to be able to step up, and indicate to the children, you know, and model for the children, what needs to take place. so that it s a coordinatored effort across the entire community. individually for the children and the families.
authorities are only beginning to get a handle on how widespread the damage really is. we re also watching one bridge on the paxtuxet river in rhode island. if it collapses, things to go from bad to worse quickly. parents want to know why something wasn t done to save phoebe prince. a student that was bullied to death by students in her local high school. our alina cho answers tough questions even as she s being thrown off of school property. our live report ahead. i m sure you ve seen the commercials offering free credit reports. the trouble is, things aren t free. we re going to tell you why it s easy to figure out those ads. and the amfix blog, it s going on now. any concerns about the weather. it s supposed to be nicer today. but things are still dicey in parts of the northeast. what do you think. go to cnn.com/amfix. we go to the northeast with flooding that can only be described with one word, and that s catastrophic. hundreds of people have been evacuated from
bachmann is now becoming i think the face of who they really are. well, she certainly is a face. i think their problem is that they don t have one face and if they do, it s actually dick cheney and that s very problematic. i think the t.e.a. party folks remind me of sarah palin back in the summer of 2008 where the republican party made a kind of deal with the devil. they needed somebody to energize the base, and all i heard from our republican friends back then, some of them would confess doubts to me about her but they d be like, she s energizing the base, look at her crowds. the t.e.a. party is somewhat similar. you look at those crowds. they are for sure a kind of base energy that could conceivably help some represents but i think mainstream republicans are really playing with fire because so many of them not all of them but some of them are really extremists. john, what about that? are republicans playing with fire talking like this? ed, think joan put her finger
a very good wednesday morning for you. i m richard lui in for robin meade. airport security did not work when it was needed the most. high-tech equipment that did not do the job. senate democrats may have a duff time keeping their majority in november. how two senators made that battle a lot hart harder. look at this, a woman throwing a fit at mckonlds. you have to see and hear why she s so upset. there may be holes in the system set up to keep you safe when you fly. we have brand-new details on airport security scares and how the government is responding. let s start with the scare at the new jersey airport. security cameras were not working properly. tsa saying airport cameras were running, but not recording. it may have given him time to get out of the airport, but he s not been found. the tsa paid for the cameras, but the port authority operates them. the 9/11 hijackers departed from the newark airport. not confirming how many cameras were down. our affiliate in new yor
making news in america this morning. arctic invasion. in the north.d setting records windchills of negative 50. in the south a fifth freezing morning for florida. it may only get worse. party shake-up. big changes are coming in the democratic party as more high-profile retirements are announced overnight. phone wars. can google s new gadt take on apple s iphone? it s wednesday, january 6th, to 2010. go good morning and thanks for being with us. well, there is no letup to winter s grip on much of the country this morng, 32 states are under some sort of wter weather watch or warning right now. and that stretches from montana to miami. take a look at some of these overnight temperatures. negative 1 in minneapolis. 19 in tallahassee, which is colder than new york or washington. and it s a chilly 41 in south florida. viviana hurtado has more on the longest cold snap in a generation. reporter: snow, snow and more snow combined with windchill temps in the negative