Here is the dog named banana joe, wins best in show. The affenpinscher won the 137th Westminster Kennel Club dog show in new york last night. Joe, of course, going out on top. Westminster was his final competition. Banana joe beating out five other dogs that won in their own categories to be the top dog. Cnn newsroom continues right now. Homestretch. The nightmare cruise is getting closer to shore. The next 24 hours could be the worst yet. Im Brooke Baldwin. The news is now. The hunt for fugitive is in flames. Were going inside Chris Dorners final moments. Plus he inspired a jack nickholson character and today one of americas most notorious gangsters tells a judge why he should be let off the hook. And a student sues for mediocre grade. My hot topics panel weighs in. Good to see you. Im Brooke Baldwin live in the cnn world headquarters. Californias largest manhunt is over. A killer excop all but confirmed dead after that frantic last bid to escape that ended in fire and hail of bullets. Here is how it all went down. Guys down so it turns out, Christopher Dorner, already accused of three revenge killings, was hiding almost under the nose of the law. His demise all started with a single phone call, from two women he tied up in a cabin. Then fish and game wardens spotted dorner driving their car a short time late, but they lost him. Meantime, dorner was hijacking a pickup truck. Listen to the victim. He came up to me with his gun pointed at me. And i stopped my truck, put it in park, raised my hands and he said, i dont want to hurt you, just get out and start walking up the road and take your dog, which is what i did. Dorner then shouted out with the wardens before crashing that truck, taking refuge in this cabin where the manhunt came to a head with a gun battle. Reporter carter evans from one of our l. A. Affiliates happened to be yards away, recorded the whole thing on his cell phone. You, come here hey get out of here, now officer down. Officer down. Copy, officer down. Officer down. Dorner, killed one officer, wounded another. Want you to listen here, just some of the Police Scanner traffic recorded just before this cabin here. You see it. Burn it down. Shoot it down. Get the gas. Burning gas. Burning gas. Burning gas. Burning gas. Miguel marquez live for me in big bear. Miguel, we know a charred body was found inside. It has not been positively identified as dorner. Do we know how long that process will take . Reporter given the high profile nature of this, im guessing not long. We have a 4 00 p. M. Local, 7 00 p. M. Eastern press conference. Were expecting more information then. It is not clear how much the body was left. There are reports here locally that his wallet was found in there with his drivers license. So it is pretty clear in every official we speak to, at least privately, will say they have their man. Certainly everything in terms of searching for dorner has stopped here in San Bernardino and up on big bear. Let me ask you about some of the radio traffic we just played, talking about burning gas, burn it down. Do we know, miguel, any more today about how the cabin caught fire . Reporter we dont. It is possible that mr. Dorner set the fire himself. We do know that he had thrown out a gas canister or a smoke grenade at one point, apparently trying to create a diversion. Authorities then went in with their own, it sounds like, either going to put gas in there, cs gas, or tear gas. And they may have used other sorts of grenades as well. That could have set it off. There was a lot of gunfire as well. The gunfire could have set it off. Those bullets create a lot of heat going into the cabin. It is not clear how it got started. But thats one thing we also hope to hear from San Bernardino sheriffs office. Miguel marquez all over the story for us in southern california. Miguel, we appreciate it. Make sure you turn into ac 360 tonight. Anderson will devote the entire hour to this manhunt and to the final shootout. And the fire there at that cabin. Tonight 8 00 eastern. Meantime, how about the 4200 people still stranded on board that crippled cruise ship . They are now, though, at least one day away from freedom. Family are already waiting at that port in mobile, alabama, where this Carnival Cruise ship is expected to arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon. He said the conditions have gotten so bad that theyre asking them to use the restroom in bags and they were eating onion sandwiches and that was on monday. You know. I havent heard anything since. Ive just been following the news feed and that they were going to be here in mobile, alabama, so i was going to be here a day early and not two minutes later when that boat arrived. Onion sandwiches, she says. Keep in mind, this cruise left galveston, texas, last thursday. Fastforward to sunday, the ship was about 150 miles off mexicos yucatan peninsula when the fire started in the engine room. And that is what triggered this chain of events which took this from a luxury fourday vacation to it is now being described as a disgusting cruise from hell. First, the primary power source went down. The water mains crippled. Plumbing systems paralyzed. This boat was adrift, running only on backup power. And David Mattingly has more now on the problems plaguing the carnival triumph. Reporter it is no exaggeration to say this cruise to paradise has turned into a cruise through hell. There is raw sewage, pretty bad. When you walk in the hallway, you have to cover your face. We dont have any masks for breathing. Its disgusting. Reporter sundays fire which disabled the cruise ships engines also knocked out many of the cabin toilets. The hot water, and the air conditioning. The rooms are very hot unless you have a balcony room. And then you can kind of get air and light. But if you have an interior room like mine, it is pretty dark in there and it is very stuffy. Especially if someone used your bathroom. Reporter of more than 3100 passengers, many are sleeping outside on mattresses and deck chairs. As for food cold cuts, fruit, bread, box of cereal, and water and sodas and they just opened the bar to give people free beer and wine. There is only really a couple of lines. It takes three and a half hours for food. Reporter fresh food is being brought aboard from other cruise ships. Two tug boats are pulling it to mobile, alabama. But at a whopping 7 miles an hour, it will take until Late Wednesday or thursday. Meanwhile, the crew are doing what they can. Were not having as much fun as what we had planned, but everyone seems to be doing okay. Reporter and, brooke, were hearing now from carnival officials theyre canceling all the cruises from the triumph, the ship now coming in here the next 12 cruises. There wont be any more passengers going on board that boat. Once it gets here to mobile, at least until april. Yeah, i heard the piece, free beer and wine. I dont know if that will cut it, David Mattingly. Thank you for us from mobile. Well cover the story live tomorrow afternoon when the ship arrives in mobile, alabama. Now to some of the host stories in flasca flash. We call it rapid fire. Roll it. Pope benedict presided over his last Ash Wednesday service today. This was his first public appearance since announcing his plans to resign at the end of the month. Speaking earlier to those gathered in a vatican city audience hall, the pope explained what was behind his decision. Having summoned before god my cautions, fully aware of the gravity and seriousness of such acts but also aware that it is not adequate for me to continue if i dont have the strength that it requires. Pope benedicts final days as pope is february 28th. An accused boston gangster Whitey Bulger says he got immunity to commit crimes and kill people while he was an fbi informant. A judge is hearing arguments on his immunity claim today as 83yearold bulger wants to use it as his defense in his upcoming trial on a racketeering indictment accusing him of participating in 19 different murders. Prosecutors say his immunity claim is here, and im quoting them, absurd. Stay with me. Next hour ill talk live with the guy who is cowriting bulgers biography, including all these details about his years on the run. Dont miss it. Now this. Poker face lady gaga, shes got some moves there. Apparently not so much right now. Shes canceling several concerts because of an injury, specifically severe inflammation of the joints. The pop star says shes been hiding the injury for a while and at one point could barely walk. Were told she will be out a week and will have to reschedule those concerts. Steven spielbergs movie lincoln will be available in every middle and high school in america. The fate of Human Dignity in our hands. Disney is sending schools a free dvd of the movie along with a teaching guide. Spielberg says he got a bunch of letters from teachers asking to please use the film in their classroom. This as some lawmakers say there are some factual errors. The son of basketball great larry bird arrested for allegedly trying to run over his exgirlfriend with a car. Indiana University Police charged 21yearold conner bird with intimidation with a deadly weapon, battery with injury and marijuana possession. Police say it happened after the two got in some sort of fight. The woman got out of the car to try to walk home. Wall street on market watch as the dow take a look here, flirting with 14,000 again, just shy of that, still a couple of points away from that all time high. Remember that was set back in october of 07. We will keep an eye on the number for you as were less than two hours away from the closing bell. And just hours after pushing for a higher minimum wage, and affordable prek, the president hits the road today to sell his plan, but not everyone is buying. My panel weighs in. Plus, a graduate student files a lawsuit over a c plus. Saying that grade and im quoting, ruined her life. Were going to hear the students side just ahead. [ male announcer ] whats the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles arent interesting . The lexus ct hybrid. This is the pursuit of perfection. Starts with arthritis pain and a choice. Take tylenol or take aleve, the 1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. 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Our middle class, when its growing, when its thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do better each year and then make sure their kids are doing even better than them, thats the american dream. Thats what we got to fight for. That is the president today, and here he is last night. Take a look. The entrance to the state of the union. He comes through. Watch for it, right hand, boom, fist pump. That is the president greeting Illinois Republican senator mark kirk, recently back from a stroke. Last night, a long list of what the president wants to accomplish, starting with a proposal for a job creating, bridge fixing brigade. Look. Tonight, i propose a fix it first program, to put people i ask congress to change the Higher Education act so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid. Those working with states to make high quality preschool available to every single child in america. Lets tie the minimum wage to the cost of living so it finally becomes a wage you can live on. Im also issuing a new goal for america. Lets cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years. Amy holmes is with me, an anchor for glenn becks network the blaze. In the middle, patricia murphy, contributor for the daily beast. Com and rick newman, chief business xcorrespondent for u. S news and world report. We heard the president tick off this list, if you will, abroad, a lot of adjectives thrown out today, ambitious state of the union speech. Patricia murphy, is the reelected barack obama perhaps overreaching . Well, you know, i think it obviously depends where youre coming from. If you look at what he was talking about, these are a series of smaller initiatives, universal prek, the talking about the minimum wage. These are things that are actually relatively targeted, relatively narrow. I think some of his more liberal counterparts would like to see him go bigger and bolder. I dont think it was an overreach. I do think it doesnt quite add up. There is no money left in the federal budget for the new initiatives. Thats where his new problem was with his speech. He says wont raise the deficit. Amy holmes, some say ambitious. You say i agree with patricia. Last nights state of the union was surprisingly modest. It was part George Jetson, this vision of the future where our cars dont run on gas anymore, but he didnt have any specific proposal on how to accomplish that, other than well study it. He talked about an Energy Security trust led up by ceos and military folks. You heard a lot of that last night of really big ideas, followed up by pretty modest proposals. Even his suggestion about looking at voting rights. Again, what was his solution . To get a couple of Campaign Lawyer together over whiskey and cigars to try to, you know, work something out. You heard some old school liberal ideas, the minimum wage, the prek idea and frankly i would sort predict that republicans would pass the minimum wage. They have in the past. But i dont think you heard really a lot of meat on those bones of the state of the union last night. Interesting you say modest but with the George Jetson inference here. Im thinking maybe not so much realistic thus far. I dont know if elroy is in the white house anytime soon. But one of the president s many proposals we heard him say is it affordable prek for every child in america. We pulled some numbers here. Look at this with me. This is 2011 state funding for prek programs went down 60 million. Do the math. 145 bucks less per child nationwide. Barely one fourth of 4yearolds were enrolled in prek and 11 states, right here, no help at all for prek. Amy holmes, the president is saying work with the states, lets boost prek. Why not . Well, you could argue is this really the role of the federal government, education is supposed to be handled at the state level. As far as prek goes, youre talking about working mothers and a way for this to be sort of government run day care, which has long been a goal, particularly of the feminist left. I think that was thrown out for them, that little, you know, small little morsel of red meat. But i dont think youre going to hear republicans necessarily coming to the table to spend more federal dollars on what should really be a state issue. Rick newman what do you think . Within a couple of years every 4yearold would have access to preschool. Plausible . Im wondering why obama picked that . You can identify shortcomings in the Education System at every grade level up to college. So he sort of picked the lowest level, prek and highest level, college, when talking about affordability. So he sort of bracketed the Education System there, but, again, these are ideas that dont have any funding attached to them right now. And he kind of said, well, youll see the details when my budget goes up to the hill in a couple of weeks. But i thisnk these are going to be like a lot of other obama proposals. Excuse me for a minute. Watergate 2. 0, guys. Senator marco rubio, he provided the republican response, sorry to say, marco rubio this is the one thing, guilty as charged, people are talking about today. Oh, my gosh. Nothing frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. So here he goes, live on tv. Bottoms up. Wets the whistle. What is he thinking . Unfortunately didnt have a cnn mug. Didnt have a cnn mug. We should have provided it for him. Patricia murphy, let me begin with you. Here he is, rising republican, it is just kind of silly. It is. It is and it isnt. I think somebody who is more seasoned and is used to delivering major speeches at major times would not have gone for the water. I think really rubio is such a bright shining light for the republican party, but it just feels a little too soon, and last night it looked way too soon. That was just such an amateur mistake and i think it really stepped all over his message, which would have been good if it wasnt marred by his performance there. Amy, after bobby jindal what do the republicans say to do to get this right . I was going to say, it was an improvement over bobby jindal, an improvement over bill clinton if you remember at the 1988 convention where he droned on and on and no one thought he had a political future. I think marco rubio can recover from this moment, but i think we can expect to see this on saturday night live on saturday. You think . Rick newman, you thirsty . Final thoughts . If he had given a really great rebuttal, we would be overlooking that. I thought rubio was more defensive than necessary. He was defending republicans against charges that obama did not really make against republicans or attacks that obama didnt really mount. So he sort of i think he prepared to rebut a different speech and that gulp of water made him look nervous, for good reason, he was rebutting the wrong speech in a way, but it is not definitive and well hear more from marco rubio. Well look for it saturday night as you point out. Patricia murphy, amy holmes, rick newman, thank you for coming on today. Cops say he is dangerous. He is desperate. And escaped prisoner on the run in shackles and handcuffs. Hear how this convicted sex offender managed to get away from police. Were on the case next. Need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geicos emergency roadside assistance is there 24 7. Oh dear, i got a flat tire.