symbolize? war on christmas animals? star of bethlehem, jesus or the magi. jesus. bill: jesus is a pear now. england prohibit from any practice of faith in private or public they would refer to religion things in code and jesus was the partridge in a pear tree. bill: i was supposed to know that? what an uplifting christmas question when henry the eighth was beheading all the catholics they thought jesus was a bird so they could live. and a merry christmas to you, doocy. thanks very much. bill o reilly, thank you very much. any time. steve: for gracing us with your wisdom. brian: that is so fantastic. gretchen: so great he wasn t out of character. merry christmas. brian: same character in the hallway or office. steve: usually at 9:00 eastern time. ali over to you. alisyn: voices of rise into
the path. from ohio to new york this morning and airlines are playing catch up after 900 flights were canceled. another severe storm watch in effect today. let s get the very latest from meteorologist rob marciano live in olympic park in atlanta. rough night for us up here. reporter: it was. not just for new york city, it was a massive storm system, christine. yesterday morning at this time we said the atmosphere was primed to explode and mother nature certainly took the cue yesterday afternoon. take a look at the radar from yesterday, i mean this damaging line of storms stretched from hartford all the way back through the ohio valley in through northern texas. 1700 miles of damaging storms over 300 wind reports that caused damage and one report of a tornado up there in elmira, new york, we don t expect to see that sort of action today but some folks will. leftover storms from last night across the delmarva and mid-atlantic and today that s where the main threat will be f
i ll have the weather on both sides of the pond. cnn newsroom starts right now. and good morning to you. happy friday. thank you for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new details on a man who is accused of being a serial infector of hepatitis c. david kwiatkowsky is accused of infecting many people. one hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. good morning, elizabeth. reporter: carol, let me tell you when what happened in arizona. cnn has learned that david kwiatkowsky was working at a hospital in arizona when his fellow employees found him passed out in the men s locker room. they found syringes on his person. he was in possession of syringes. they took him to the emergency room to treat him. when they tested him, he tested positi for cocaine and marijuana, and that hospital did report him to arizona authorities. legal authorities, law enforcement i should say. now, of course,
romney outright but said he was excited about the candidacy. both of those two men suggesting it s time for santorum and gingrich to get out of race so conservatives can coalesce behind romney. all the further with the expectation that he now set presumptive nominee and in fairly short order his supporters argue he will be the inevitable nominee. shep? shepard: carl cammeron live tonight in new orleans. shepard: the rise to freedom now. and each as the sky scrapers sore at the world trade center site in new york. down below we are seeing smaller signs of hope. the so-called survivor tree at the 9/11 memorial has blossomed now as spring comes early. it s the first time the public has been able to see it bloom since the place opened in the fall. the pear tree is prominently featured at the site it was located under the original twin towers. and somehow inexpickably withstood the collapse of
matt dubial is the father of that little boy named rocco and he s the person who filmed the incident and joins us live from chicago. good morning to you. good morning! ok, this has gone viral. a lot of people are looking at it, feel really sorry for you and rocco. this happened two years ago. and i know you were en route to disney and you wanted to get through the line, right? yeah, you know, i had three kids with me. two in-laws. my wife and a partridge in a pear tree and my wife just wanted me to get through, didn t want me to even tape it. but i felt that i needed to at least let the gentleman who was examining my son know that somebody was watching and it was being documented just in case. sure. and you hadn t even looked at this tape until the last week or so and then when you looked at it again, because you ve got a busy life. you got angry all over that you should have done more then to help your son who had the broken