Also a shocker. An amazing glimpse of what california looks like this morning. This picture from 2011. This from just last month. Ive been here all my life and never seen it this bad. The fight against fat. Were far from out of the woods. A major milestone, Childhood Obesity rates plummeting 43 and a new push to keep kids off sugary sweet drink but politics coming in to play. Its no longer father knows best, Mother Knows Best its what government knows best youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me in arizona the deadline grows nearer, the angry grows louder. The pressure building on governor jan brewer to veto a bill thats becoming a lightning rod in the battle over gay rights and in effect that bill would allow businesses to cite religious beliefs and deny service to gay customers. Brewer via twitter said her decision will not be rushed. Quote i assure you as always ill do the right thing for the state of arizona. In the meantime the list of National Companies urging a veto just keeps on growing. Some of the latest addition, at t, delta airlines, intel, petsmart and yelp. They joined the earliest opponents. Reporter good morning, carol. All eyes are on the Arizona State capitol and the Governors Office today as they wait to see what the governor is going to do with this bill that opponents say would allow businesses to discriminate. The governor said she will make her decision after she hears from both sides of this controversial legislation and we do know shes planning to meet with state lawmakers as well as business groups today, many of which are now urging theory veto this bill. The voices are growing louder against a bill that would allow businesses in arizona to refuse service to gays based on religious beliefs. The bills fate now in the hands of governor jan brewer. I dont rely a whole lot on my gut because i have to look at what it says and what the law says and take that information and do the right thing. Reporter brewer is staying out the spotlight since her interview with cnn on monday but other highprofile politicians are weighing in as pressure mounts on the governor. Mitt romney tweeting veto sb 1062 is right. Big business, including apple, american airlines, at t and intel vocally opposing the bill. And next years super bowl also on the line. Do you think that the governor is getting the message . She hasnt said a whole lot. Reporter conservative lawmakers who helped pass the bill remain largely quiet. No comment. Reporter one representative defended his vote by offering an example of what the bill is designed to prevent. What about this scenario . You have a gay person who owns a printing shop. Okay. Somebody from the west Borough Baptist Church comes in there and demand they print a sign that obviously the printer is not going to agree with. Should that group, that religious group demand that print shop print that thing . Reporter conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh igniting the remarks by saying brewer is being attacked. The governor of arizona is being bullied. Shes being bullied by the homosexual lobby in arizona and elsewhere. Reporter protesters vowing to continue the fight. We want the super bowl, we want apple, and were really asking our governor please do the right thing and veto this sb 1062. Reporter while nobody knows exactly what the governor is going to do, we do know she has vetoed other legislation similar to this. Just last year, in fact. We also know she prize herself on being a pro business governor, in her words and we know theres a lot of concern expressed by businesses about what this bill could mean for business in the state of arizona from its potential impact to attracting new businesses to the state, its impact on the Tourism Industry and yet we know also the governor has not shied away from signing other controversial legislation in the past. Right now its a waiting game and state lawmakers who are close to the governor tell us probably going to be a while before she makes her decision. Well check back. Were also hearing from several state lawmakers who originally voted for the bill and now asking the governor to kill it. Heres Arizona State republican steve pierce. It went through really quick, no one really had anything telling me dont do it. Several of us talked. We thought, you know, this isnt good, its not good for the state. But no one had said anything and we thought well well vote for it. Join us at the bottom of the other for more from senator pierce and his change of heart. Just in to coroner nn, russias president is sending a message to the world, cold war veteran put ordered surprise military exercises for his troops in an area bordering ukraine. It comes amid high tensions with the west over the former soviet republic and the weekend ouster of its president. Today in southern ukraine, new scuffles are flaring between pro russian protesters and those seeking ties with the west. Tell us more, frederick . Reporter were on the scene here where you had pro ukrainian and pro russian protesters facing off against each other. One think we have to say all of it is very peaceful. The protest is coming to a close right now. What happened was there was a lot of screaming, you had the russian side screaming russia crimea and this part thats not part of russia. A lot of screaming and pushing and shoving but so far no violence. Certainly theres a lot of tension here in this part of ukraine. Lot of people of russian heritage that feel their heritage is under threat that feel the russian language here in this country might be under threat, that feel their culture might be under threat. Right now theres a lot of tension in this country which is a very divided one. Back here at home a new study shows the ratified obesity among Young Children fell sharply in the last decade, plummeting a whopping 43 among 2 to 5yearolds. Thats a good thing. Separate studies said lifetime risk of obesity is established by age 5. Its the fourth anniversary of first lady Michele Obamas lets move initiative combat Childhood Obesity. She now wants new rules on food advertisements in schools. Later this hour ill talk with a doctor who specializes in obesity prevention. General motors is expanding its recall over a deadly safety problem that can cause cars to abruptly shut off while be driven. The automaker says nearly 1. 4 million vehicles may be affected and its linking 13 deaths to that problem. Christine romans is in new york with more on this. Good morning. Reporter carol, this is a much bigger recall than gm first announced, about double and, in fact, this was deadlier. This problem in this vehicle deadlier than gm first told us. 13 deaths directly linked to this ignition switch problem. It could be something as simple as having a heavy key chain that as it jangles the ignition switch pops from run to accessory mode, the car stops and then there are these car crashes that ensue after that. I want to put a list four what these compact car models are because theres some new models on the list. You can see them there. This is the chevy cobalt, pontiac g5, pontiac pursuit and some other names. General motors is saying they are sorry. This is what the company is saying. Ensuring our customers safety is our first issue. If youre driving one of these cars youre instructed to take off the key chain, just use the key and contact the company immediately. This recall will cost them a lot of money because you got a lot of lawsuits related to this as well and also investigators will be looking into the timeline here, what gm knew and when the chronology here from when its own engineers as early as 2005 noticed something was amiss. You call your dealer, bring your car in and they put in a new ignition switch . First take off the key chain and were told from gm they wilkon tact you. The dealer knows who has these cars. The dealer wilkon tact you. My advice take off that key chain immediately feign havent heard from them contact gm. Christine romans reporting live from new york. Still to come an urgent new warning for People Living near that dangerous coal ash spill in North Carolina. Dont touch the river water and dont eat the fish that comes out of the water. Drew griffin is looking into this. 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History were getting a better idea how much arsenic contaminated slop leaked into a North Carolina river. Researchers say it was as much as 35 million gallons. Enough to fill 53 olympic size swimming pools this toxic sludge. Officials are warning home to avoid contact with fish and wild life from the dan river. The governor told duke energy to remove its waste dump further away from the river. Protesters are demanding answers. Dozens of residents and environmentalists protested outside of duke energy and delivered 9,000 petition signatures demanding all coal ash pond be removed. We definitely feel that duke has plenty of money in the bank to not only pay to clean up this spill but to clean up all the other toxic coal ash sites thatter threatening other communities. Drew griffin was at that protest yesterday. He joins us this morning. You just broke out some news this morning. Were talking about the governor that used to work for duke energy for three decades. A lot of suspicion about him. But the governor is telling duke energy look you got all these ash ponds, 30 some ash ponds sitting next to our rivers its time to move them, move them away from the water. Thats a quoteunquote temporary environmentalists think its a necessary position. What the protesters want yesterday to get rid of that all together because theres no safe depository for these coal ash sludge ponds that sit there and seep into the ground. Theres all sorts of chemicals in this coal ash that could seep into the ground and spill into the river thats dangerous for human consumption. It is dangerous. The testing all shows the Drinking Water, the Drinking Water in North Carolina is safe. This is a little bit different than charleston, west virginia. The fact is these poisons are in the water. Its been tested. Its in the ground water. Thats the reason they have this kind of ongoing crisis before this crisis of the dan river. There is toxic sludge seeping into ground water in North Carolina and there doesnt seem until now anybody pushing to fix that. The reason that is theres no lining underneath these giant pits that hold all of this sludge so it just seeps into the ground and the ground water is underneath. You think a pit as a hole. What these are back in the day when we decided we would create electricity out of coal well burn the coal and the ash will come out like your fireplace only a coal plant its huge and well shove it on to the ground next to a river because thats where these Steam Energy Plants need the water. They just bulldozed it years ago and started to throw the junk out there. That junk piles up, piles up with water and seeps down, seeps down. Where does the water go . It goes into the ground. It goes into the river. So the 35 million gallons that seeped into the dan river, how did that happen . That happened because underneath one of these berms that i just talked about there was an old, old storm Drainage Pipe not expected to the plant. It was an old metal pipe. After i dont know how many 30rks 40 years that pipe burst. Imagine if you had a pipe going through your fish tank, all right. Well the pipe in the fish tank bursts and all the water goes rushing in to the pipe and into the river. Thats how it happens. Thats why it took so long to fix because they had to dig into that sludge to get to the pipe. It was a big mess. Now down the nitty gritty. The governor said duke energy clean up your mess. The protesters say we dont want the coal ash near our water supply or waters of North Carolina. What will to be done . Its hard to say. Duke energy has been given to march 15th to come up with some kind of plan. The state is in a lawsuit. So our environmental groups are trying to sue. The environmental groups want to get rid of the coal all together. The problem is that the coal ash is still there. So something has to be done with all of this. Its tremendously expensive to move this stuff. Duke energy is a big company, lot of money they could do it. Lets see what they come up with. The question is are we going to build huge safe depositories for all this coal ash, or is there going to be some other solution where were doing what were doing now, forget about it until theres a disaster. I will add other states are dealing with similar problems. Pennsylvania. North carolina is one of the lowest. Were talking about illinois has a huge problem. Pennsylvania huge problem. Theres 1100 of these things across the country. Drew griffin, thanks so much. Still to come, an airline slapped with huge fine. The government said it took Asiana Airline far too long to contact families after the crash. Every year. s 2 percent go to e trade and find out how much our advice and guidance costs. Spoiler alert. Its low. 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On the left folsom lake in 2011 at 97 capacity. On the right folsom lake last month, 17 capacity. Nasa is working with california to use new technology to better manage water resources. Another massive arctic blast pushing temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal in the eastern twothirds of the nation and millions of us will see more snow today. Oh, yeah. Indra petersons absolutely. Were talking about snow in new york city, d. C. , philly having 30rks 40minute delays at the airport and then four down in the south were talking about rain. We know thats not the big story its how cold it is. Look at this. Wind chills this morning. This is what it feels like right now if you go outside. Duluth feels like 32 below zero. Chicago, its chiberia 14 below with the wind chill. As we go through the afternoon still going to be miserable. Were talking about highs well below normal. 20, 30 below normal. Chicago your high today of just 11 degrees. Even to the south definitely well below. Tomorrow going to feel worse than today. Yesterday was bad. Tomorrow is worse tomorrow. Not worse. Chicago your high expected to be only 4 your freezing temperatures in the northeast, atlanta about 52 degrees. Getting better. Keep in mind everybody is asking how long will this last. Couple of cold fronts making their way through so that means reinforcing the cold it will be staying, carol. Sorry. Were going to have you back in just a couple of minutes to talk about the misery index and because many of us, this is like the worst winter ever. Miserable. Many of us are very miserable. Thanks so much. Still to come in the newsroom obamacare enrollment jumps but not in one critical area the white house is counting on. Well talk about that next. [ female announcer ] right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal a cold sore in as few as 2 1 2 days when used at the first sign. Without it, the virus spreads from cell to cell. 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