in super bowl 46 rome roexlvi. president obama called it. he said it would be a nail biter. that time the giants also beat the patriots. >> you know obama was calling something else, too. to nbc's matt low ri, he was calling for four more years. he didn't chant it, but he did say he deserves it. you'll find out why. of course, you will find out the fallout from saying those things. a deadly factory collapse in pakistan. it's a three-story building that exploded. at least two people are dead. dozens more are believed to be trapped inside. some have been rescued as well. we'll have a live report for you. and also a terrible story out of washington. like at those flames. while that's a terrible story for anyone, it is loaded onto a horrible story from the beginning. a father and two sons dying in that house explosion. police saying he set it to kill his two children. he is the father who was suspected in the disappearance of susan powell back in 2009. remember the woman he said he went camping with his two babies while his wife disappeared. there are vigils planned for those boys. my goodness does this open up a can of worms in that investigation. >> very sad story to wake up to. poor family. >> it is. we are going to begin with the big story that you were likely watching even if you're an early riser. that was the super bowl. some people calling it deja blue. the giants peating the patriots. i hope my two little boys are not awake to hear me say that. the score was 21-17. they won super bowl xlvi. it's the second time in four years the giants beat the pats for the title. giants scored the game-winning touchdown in just the final minute of the game. it was a repeat just like they did four years ago. the only thing i can say is it's a good thing my boys are only four and six years old. they were in bed. >> i don't think they're up at 5 clock. >> giants quarterback eli manning, he is the mvp. we have a little ticker tape parade in new york. estimated 111 million people in the u.s. watched the super bowl. >> that's amazing. >> quite an audience. i found out that madonna didn't get paid for her half-time show. that's the exposure you get. >> they get freebies? >> mark mckay live at indianapolis for us. president obama said it was going to be a nail biter and they certainly delivered one. >> he said it and they delivered here. giants fans on this chilly monday morning in indianapolis warmed. their hearts are warm that they are once again super bowl champions after a thrilling game behind me at lucas oil stadium that ended a few hours ago. eli manning, during the season he was asked if he was an elite quarterback. he got a lot of heat for it when he said, yeah, i think i'm in that class. he certainly was last night engineering seven come backs including one of the biggest games of his life, the super bowl. 57 seconds, that's when the giants went ahead for good. tom brady tried to lead his team down to the other end but instead it's the giants super bowl champs once again. >> you know, i'm excited to win a championship, excited for my teammates. we have a number of guys, this is their first one. obviously other ones who are getting their second and more. excited for them, coach coughlin, all of the other ones. this isn't about one person, this is about a whole team coming together getting this win. proud of our guys. proud of the team, the way we fought all year. never got discouraged. kept our faith. kept our confidence and fought to the very end. >> reporter: eli manning now a two time super bowl most valuable player. a two-time super bowl winner. he has one more than his big brother peyton. the manning family, this goes up a few notches, now doesn't it? >> not bad. mark, there were mixed reviews from madonna's half-time show. what did you think? >> reporter: well, from one of the 68,000 that got to see it in person, it was fantastic even though we were high in the rafters of lucas oil staud stadium. what a tech know show. the dancing, music in there was fantastic. i understand there was a little bit of a finger malfunction. when you're far away. >> do we have that? that m.i.a. >> that doesn't play well on national or worldwide television, does it, guys? >> no. apparently they didn't get it on camera there was a photographer that was able to capture that moment. that was m.i.a. >> maybe she had an ex-boyfriend in the crowd. you never know. perhaps. >> i'm just giving her some love. >> mark mckay live for us. thank you very much. president obama doesn't just want to be president for another term. he says i deserve four more years in the white house. it all came during an interview. look at how excited he is. he got the crowd all revved up just like the republicans are getting everybody all revved up. i feel like we're in the annual election. he did that sitdown with matt lower and said to matt he believes the economy is head the in the right direction. he said pretty determined to, quote, finish what he started. >> i deserve a second term, but we're not done. look, when you and i sat down we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. now we're creating 250,000. we created 3.7 million jobs over the last 23 months. we've created the most jobs since 2005, the most manufacturing jobs since 1990. but we're not finished. >> of course the interview wasn't just all about the sort of domestic issues in the economy. it was a lot about foreign policy too. iran a big issue. the president saying, quote, no option's off the table. but he also says he doesn't think iranians have the wherewithal, the capability to attack us within our own borders. and as the economy slowly improves, so apparently does the president's chances getting that second term that he says he deserves. here's a new abc poll. it's a hypothetical match-up between president obama and mitt romney. it shows obama beats romney 52% to 43%. this is among all-americans. three states are up for grabs tomorrow in the republican presidential race, but, wait, before you get too excited. it's a little different here. there are caucuses in both colorado and minnesota. there's a weird nonbinding primary in missouri. no delegates at stake. you have to wait a month until the primary in that state allocates the delegates. gingrich, romney, santorum have campaign stops planned for colorado today. paul is campaigning in minnesota. after tomorrow's contest the next ones are arizona and then kahuna michigan. minding your business this morning, stocks spiked friday after a surprisingly strong jobs report. the nasdaq and s&p 500 both up 1.5% each. >> that was last week. this is this week. >> famously. . yesterday, today. >> that was yesterday's news. that's why christine romans basically works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> i tell you don't get too wrapped up in one day. on friday the nasdaq closed the highest in 11 years. so the last decade was all a bad dream. >> no, it wraent a bad dream. i was living it. >> i lived it, too. the dow was up some 48% since that horrible low in march 2009. remember when the bottom was falling out of the stock market? when the economy was tanking, when we didn't know whether wall street and main street was going to be able to get its act together ever again. we were talking about bailouts for the auto industry and banking. the dow is up 48% since then. the economy is getting better. you heard the president tout all of his accomplishments in the labor market. there is more work to be done, but there has been a pretty decent distance that has been covered so far in the labor market. you saw the stock market really reflecting that this week to close the week. this morning futures are a little bit lower and that's because of europe. whenever there is a step forward, it's europe and the rest of the world that brings us back. >> the gop has been attacking obama on gas prices. >> they can't on jobs and stocks. they will. they will, don't worry. lately it's good news. how about the gas prices? >> going up. they're going up pretty significantly. it was actually michele bachmann who i heard attacking the president on gas prices. she said she could bring gas prices down to $2 a gallon. >> i loved that. i don't know why i loved it. i love to to hear that but i know that's nuts. >> well, because if you have $2 gas, every expert that i talked to said you'd have to have a massive recession to have $2 gas. obama's first day in office gas prices were at 1. $4. today they're at $3.48. that's really sobering. it shows you gas prices are up 89%. why? libya, iran, the eu is tangling with iran. u.s. consumer isn't in a depression anymore. our consumption of gas is actually down. >> i'm not surprised by that. are you? >> it's anticipation. speculators in the market. the economy will get better. >> better vehicles. >> this is from the oil price information service 60 cents or more higher by may. >> oh, my goodness. >> chicago, new york, l.a. >> before memorial day. >> it does every year. other things working there too. >> christine, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> rob marciano is someone else who never leaves the office because if he left the office we would never know what was happening in the weather. >> oh, there's more qualified people who could tell you that. >> you sell yourself short. >> happy day after weather man's day. thank you for the cards flowers and candies. yesterday it was 70 plus. i'm thinking this is super bowl weather and i get an e-mail from the national hurricane center. we're checking something out in the northwestern caribbean. something that has a chance of developing maybe a subtropical low or tropical low itself. not looking all that healthy this morning. nonetheless, gives you an idea how whacky our weather is. our models are taking it to south florida. regardless if it develops, it will be a rain maker. some of the rain will get into the carolinas. mild weather. temperatures will be in the 50s from new york to d.c. to chicago. 45 degrees there. where's our winter? well n london they got some. here are pictures out of heathrow -- that's london. heathrow they had to cancel a good chunk of flights because of snow over the weekend. from london to rome, cue the violins. snow east of rome. folks are without power. this is part of a two-week onslaught of winter that has killed hundreds of people across especially eastern europe. as far south of rome they're getting snow. even some of the canals in venice are freezing over. >> i have never -- i don't know if i've ever heard of that. have you? >> it's only snowed in rome to that extent three times. they've been keeping records since 1975 or '85. >> how are they going to get around? >> they're going to need ice breakers. >> just wait for it to melt. >> rob, i had to look it up because i didn't believe you. national weather man's day is february 5th. congratulations to you. >> thank you. again, thank you for all the gifts. >> i'm sorry, i forgot. >> we'll send some. >> it was supposed to be in my calendar. i just forgot. >> we'll get you on your birthday. let's move on to international news. there's a lot happening on the international front. this one is breaking as we speak. this building collapse in pakistan's second largest city, lahor. apparently the reports are coming in that at least two dozen people are feared -- are dead and that dozens are trapped at this time. thirteen people so far apparently have been rescued from this complete disaster. the explosion happened in a three story factory building that was apparently making veterinary products. here's what's so sad. apparently it had been ordered closed but it had re-opened. >> ashleigh, there is no letup to the violence in syria. the government forces have been bombarding the cities of homs overnight. the bodies are piled on hospital floors. this comes on the heels of that failed u.n. resolution to isolate president al-assad. china and russia vetoed that measure. danny, syrian activist, desperately pleading for help from the west. >> we're not animals. we're human beings. we're asking for your help. they have rockets. they're going to kill us all. if you don't help us, they'll kill millions and no one will find out about us. >> you heard what he said, they're going to kill us all if you don't help us. the obama administration is adamant so far that the united states will not intervene militarily in syria. state department is saying it is, quote, deeply concerned about the possibility that 19 americans could be facing trial in egypt. 43 people in all are facing prosecution. it all has to do with those ngos in the crackdown. the defendants include sam lahood. if that name sounds familiar, it's because he is the son of our transportation secretary, ray lahood. ben wedeman is live in cairo. ben, there has been lots of posturing before with people who are detained, even high-level people who are detained, but there seems to be a different essence here, that there is really some fear. in fact, mr. lahood isn't feared for his safety. he fears for his future. >> reporter: yes. in fact, sam lahood who runs the international republican institute is one of several americans who have taken refuge in the u.s. embassy here in cairo, ashleigh. i got off the phone with one of those americans involved in the case, and he says their lawyers are flabbergasted, that they've been shown no documents. all their attempts to meet with justice ministry officials here in cairo have come to not, that they haven't been, for instance, served any legal documents in this case. one of the lawyers apparently saying that it's not lawyers they need in this case, it's diplomats. nothing seems to make sense. these americans are flabbergasted with the way the egyptian justice system is dealing with their case. it's widely believed that this is something of a ploy by the military rulers who run this country at the moment trying to deflect public criticism away from them given the clashes in the streets of cairo that have been going on now for their fifth day. that they're trying to shift public anger away from themselves and on to some sort of mysterious foreign hand that some of the egyptian media is suggesting is sort of riling up all of the trouble in the streets here. ashleigh? >> ben wedeman, keep an eye on that for us. thank you for that. it is 5:16. a family tragedy in washington state. a husband of a missing woman kills himself and his two songs. how did he do it? it was an explosion. why did he do it is what we're trying to figure out. two florida cruise ships hit by a fast spreading stomach virus. 500 passengers sick. heard this story before? so why does it happen over and over and what's going to be done about it now? former mississippi governor, mailly barber, he's under fire for those eleventh hour pardons before leaving office. he's making a very public appearance today. where is he headed? we're going to tell you. you're watching early start. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. 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