0 to omaha instead of disney world. >> an online gambling site in canada is taking odd on how many times manning will signal using the city's name during the super bowl. >> my big fear is he's going to come up the line of scrimmage at the super bowl, look at the defense and say, kalamazoo. kalamazoo. >> either way, peyton the penguin will keep his name. dan simon, cnn, omaha. >> very cute. much more straight ahead and it much more straight ahead and it all starts again right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, again, everyone. here are the top stories we're following. what did he know and when did he know it? chris christie is facing more questions on the lane closures. the new allegations and the governor's reaction coming up. and blackhawk helicopters are in the skies above the super bowl stadium in new jersey. it's all part of a massive security operation ahead of the big show. we'll take you behind the scenes. and two former boy scout leaders doing this now facing serious jail time. for knocking over that rock. but not just any rock. the story this hour. first up, those new accusations against chris christie. one of his former political allies is leveling them saying christie new more about the lane closures than he admits. erin, this former appointee, david wildstein, was a port authority official who actually oversaw the lane closures. what is he saying? >> you may remember david wildstein, because it was christie's chief of staff who e-mailed him, time for some traffic problems and he had that enfamous replay, got it. the port authority refused once to pay his legal fees, so his lawyer wrote a letter friday. in the letter, the attorney claims that evidence exists tieing christie to having knowledge of the lane closures while they were closed. that is a direct contradiction to what christie was saying. there's no indication of what that evidence is or if wildstein himself even has it, so the revelation may be less damaging than reports suggested yesterday because it doesn't necessarily state he knew about the underlying scandal at the center of the investigation. so, in response, the christie administration doubled down in a statement friday evening that reads mr. wildstein's lawyer confirms what the governor has said all along. he had no prior knowledge of the lane closures and whatever mr. wildstein's reasons for for closing them to begin with. he first learned lanes were closed as reported by the press and no indication that this was anything other than a traffic study until he read otherwise the morning of january 8th. there's still some lingering confusion about the governor's timeline because there have been a few discrepancies, but he's sticking by the bottom line that he didn't know about the closings ahead of time, but if wildstein's bottom line is true and that is still a very big if at this point, the new jersey star ledger has an editorial this morning calling for christie to resign. >> meantime, the investigation into the scandal, you know, does continue. any idea whether the next step has now been influenced by this latest letter? >> the assemblyman leading the committee that is investigating said yesterday that if this evidence exists, he's like to see it and he's surprised that the press without him seeing it. now, you may remember that those subpoenas went out, 20 that is, a few weeks ago and all of that information, the documents, text messages, are due to them on monday. so we should be seeing a lot of developments coming up this week, fred. >> thanks so much in washington. so, these new allegations, well, they didn't stop. the governor from appearing in a very public event last night. he attended a 60th birthday bash for howard stern in new york. the governor made a few jokes even more introducing one of the night's biggest musical acts. here's an audio portion of the xhe comments. >> don't be dispinted, i'm not the representative of new jersey who you want to see right now. the representative of new jersey you want to see right now, it's not bah bah bowie. no. the representative you want to see is one of new jersey's favorite sons, one of my dpood friends and a great artist, ladies and gentlemen, john bon jovi. >> and there were plenty of other celebrity guests at the party including adam levine. a review of nearly 2600 cases across the state. all of the cases were processed by the same chemist in a regional crime lab. the work was done for 80 different agencies spanning 35 different florida counties. the review was triggered after prescription pain pills were replaced with overthe count medications in an evidence room. the cases go back as far as 2006. in about half an hour from now, we'll get more details from the florida journalist who has been covering that story. we are now just hours away from the biggest football game of the year and while fans are getting ready to enjoy the super bowl, thousands of security officials are focused on trying to maintain safety. alexandria steele joining me live from super bowl boulevard. this is a very complex security plan and it goes way beyond just officials right there on the ground. explain. >> absolutely. a lot of layers to this, including a level up in the sky. in order to keep those 80,000 fans in the middle of metlife stadium safe, you've got to keep the air space around it secure and that is a job for u.s. customs and border patrol agents. they took us up in one of their blackhawk helicopters. those helicopters will circle a ten-mile perimeter while the game is being played. that will be a strict no fly zone. if someone tries to invade that space, it's a blackhawk that would intercept. on the ground, security will also be in full effect. we visited a secret command center where state and local authorities are working together to monitor information and they'll have lots of cameras they'll be tracking while the game is being played. this is what the lieutenant colonel of the new jersey state police told us. he is the instate commander for the super bowl. >> will be checking the rails that nothing's going to be disruption on the rail lines. pilots will be flying with infrared capabilitiecapabilitie as night vision 24 hours a day, to make sure nobody's trying to get into the perimeter around the stadium. >> you'll also remember this super bowl is being billed as really the first mass transit super bowl. that makes the security measures even more difficult. even more complicted, but it is something they are as you just heard, already at work on today. >> all right, very excited fans. they don't care what you're saying. just excited to be there behind you. very cool. thank you so much. all right, another major sporting event starts next week. just days from now. thousands of miles to the east. from east rutherford over to new york city with the super bowl hosting, so we're talking about sochi, russia. a completely different set of security concerns surrounding the olympic games there from the stadium to the ski slopes. tens of thousands of russian security forces are in sochi and warships are also patrolling the coast of the black sea. russia has said this olympic games will be safe. u.s. athletes who arrived this week are just trying to focus on the games. focus on their sport, but many of them are worried about security. warning their families and friends to simply stay home in the u.s. this week, jake tapper asked president obama what he would say to people who wanted to go to the olympics. >> a lot of members of congress and not just like the fringe ones, the ones who are serious lawmakers have said to cnn they would not let their family members go to sochi. they are not confident it will be safe. you see all the intelligence. i know that you're not going, i know michelle and sasha and malia are not going, but if close friends of yours or the girls said hey, we're thinking about going, what would you tell them? >> i'd tell them that i believe that sochi is safe. and that there are always some risks this these large international gatherings. i'm always going to feel even better if it's inside the united states because then we have full control over what happens, but the russian authorities understand the stakes here. they understand that there are potential threats that are out there and we are coordinating with them. we've looked at their plans. i think we have a good sense of the security that they're putting in place to protect not only the athletes themselves, but also visitors there. so, what i would say is that if you want to go to the olympics, you should go to the olympics and you know, we're not discouraging in any way americans from participating. always an amazing, wonderful event. >> the full interview with the president is wide range and covering everything from immigration reform to marijuana policies and you can see more of it tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. on state of the union with candy crowley. amanda knox has been convicted on murder for a second time. will she now be extradited back to italy to serve out her sentence? 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