no recounted wisconsin for you. don t ever feel pressure. next season major league waitresses won t have to dress up. there will be an anti-hazing practice that covers the practice. the policy prohibits requiring or encouraging players to dress as women or wear costumes that is offensive based on race, sex, nags mall tee and gender identity. the vice president of mlb said the new rules were drawn up in light of social media which in our view sort of unfortunately publicized a lot of the dressing up of the players. not all costumes are banned. the rookies can be forced to be dressed up as batman and spider-man. some current and former players are dismayed by the move. seriously? i have to wear a customs
wanted to actually come out here and stand all day long just so that they can get the very best seat in the theater when the screen starts at 7:00 p.m. tonight. fandango and movetickets.com have both set new records for advanced sales with star wars tickets. they said they sold 20% more advanced tickets for the force awakens than they did even for jurassic world. if you notice, you ll notice these fans are not wearing costumes. a lot of the diehard fans do wear costumes. and that is good news because actually if you re planning to wear a costume, there are new rules put in place this year. i m going to try to see if i can actually get the statement from amc on my phone for you. check with your local theater because everybody has got different rules. but amc put out a statement saying guests are welcome to come dressed in costume, but we do not permit masks. no short, bring your lightsabre, turn it off during the movie and leave the blaster and darth vader mask at home. apparently
many untrue things as fast as you can to get them all into one or two quick statements. so i thought it was kind of wild. here s a snapshot of romney s tax details. for 2010, he and his wife reported income topping $21 million, mostly from investments on which they paid less than 14% in federal tax. the gingriches and the obamas earned far less and paid, percentage wise, far more. tax rates are sure to come up in president obama s third state of the union speech. here s one tip-off. we re told warren buffett s secretary will be a guest of the first lady. you ll remember in calling for higher taxes on millionaires, billionaire buffett remarked that his secretary pays a higher rate than he does. in just a few moments, we ll go behind the scenes of the biggest presidential speech of the year with man who s been there time and again. michael waldman joins me in face time about six minutes from now. as we speak, fans and friends of joe paterno are getting their first chance to
brutality. but this year they ve banned the alcohol and they re warning people if you show up drunk, then they re going to send to you an alcohol tent to sober up. race organizers said we needed to do something last year. 26 people were sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning and it was starting to get real hard finding sponsors for. so the organizers said we need to do something. they limited the entry to just 55,000 thing. normally there s 100,000 runners. they show up, wear costumes, get tanked and show up and room. this year they said if you show up intoxicate and are running in the race, you ll be arrested. you saw gorilla costume, people out there half-naked a lot of times. it is an event. you ve never raced in it. i ve been down there and i got out of there. but you wanted to race in it, didn t you? yeah. but it is a dry run now. ray, good to see you, as always.
freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda