Surprising numbers in a drop in childhood obesity. What could be a healthier point towards a healthier americans. Its not all good news, especially for older women. Im john berman, welcome to early start. Im christian romans, its wednesday, halfway through the week. Lets begin with our top story. It is drum roll, please the weather, arctic chill. Cold air, millions of americans waking up to face another bitterly cold morning. The arctic blast dropping temperatures on the midwest and east 20 degrees below normal. Record lows in some cases. And of course, it wouldnt be cold without some snow to go along with it. The latest freeze is not as deep as the one in january. Thats cold comfort for those of us who want spring to get here. What is it, 22 days, indra . Until spring comes . Hi there. Its actually worse than yesterday. Were talking temperatures again. Currently, 5 below. Minneapolis, 10 below. Duluth, 12 below. New york city, 12 below, duluth, 35 below with the windchill. It is miserable out there. Lets talk about what it feels like towards the afternoon, guys. This is the best it gets notice 26 in d. C. Detroit feeling like zero. Indianapolis, Single Digits at 5. Tomorrow, unbelievable, gets even worse, out towards minneapolis, its going to be rough. Theres some snow in the forecast. Not a biggie. Were talking a dusting as two systems make their way through. This is a reinforcing burst of cold air. Yes, this cold is expected to linger. As far as what were expecting, snow not produced from the first system, less than an inch. Lakeeffect snow thats where we get higher amounts of water, yes, 6 inches possible there. In the south, theyre getting rain. Finally, on the west coast, guys, two systems a really big one for the weekend can had they need for the dry conditions. I think its really hard to be in duluth right now. Heres a challenge for you, if youre in duluth watching our show, tweet us a picture watching a thermometer. Well send you sympathy. Lets go to arizona now where this morning the favorite a politically charged religious freedom bill lie its in hands 6 governor jan brewer. A lot of people asking why has she not acted already. Still, she has till friday that would allow businesses to deny services on gays, lesbians and others based on suggestions. And it appears she may be leaning towards a veto. Lets get more from miguel marquez. Reporter john, christine, another night, another protest. They say they will be here every single night until the governor decides. We know the governor is back in arizona. We expect today she will meet with business heres, supporters of 1062 and opponents of it, as well as legislators. And we expect, as soon as veto. Day, she could issue a and we do expect at this point that she will issue a veto. But she will use that opportunity, we understand, as an opportunity to make a speech and talk about some of the things that have been said about arizona during this debate. Some Big Companies that do business in arizona they have been coming out and saying we hope you veto this. American airlines, delta, apple, the nfl has issued thinly veiled threats. The super bowl commission. There are a lot coming down hard. Serious questions about the fragile relationship between the u. S. And afghanistan. President obama what amounts to a threat in a phone call with hamid karzai. The president has ordered the pentagon to begin planning for a complete withdrawal. Karzai has refused for months to sign the secured deal. Its the first time the two leaders have spoken since last june. New this morning, the white house says he considers four options for restructuring the National Security agency phone surveillance program. This morning, the wall street journal is reporting the options range running it through Telephone Companies to ditching the program altogether. The company gets millions of phone records from three companies. Last month, president obama asked the Intelligence Agency and the Justice Departments to come up with alternatives to take it out of the nsas hands. New information about controversial cuts in the number of air marshals. The department cutting the number of air marshals. Thats according to an internal dhs email obtained by cnn. The department declined to say how many positions have been eliminated. Critics say the secrecy allows dhs to cut the workforce without having to tell anybody about it. Something what happened in the years before 9 11. Those cuts could come up today as jay johnson testifies before house members. Hes expected to address security concerns at airports including the shoe bomb and toothpaste terror alert. This is johnson as first capitol hill appearance as secretary. Once on the critical list, obamacare seems to be in relatively good health. The president said 4 Million People have signed up for Affordable Health care. The white house is making a major push to get people signed up by the march 31st deadline. It doesnt seem like they will get to 7 million. More people do keep signing. You. And the help is relative. Happening today, credit swiss expected to be grilled by the alleged role in helping americans evade billions of dollars in taxes. Carl levin said the banks actions were right out of a james bond field and helped them hide billions from the irs. Currently their investigating Credit Suisse for offshore. Is it reads like a spy novel. Some of those monies into the bank vaults. I dont remember the bond film that was specifically about accounting. Irs commissioner john cosco will discuss about funds in the irs being aloe indicated including bonuses to employees. Hes maintained that bonuses are needed to retain and attract good employees. The commission will also face questions about the agencys accused targeting of tea party groups. President obama is taking his year of action message on the road today. Hell be in st. Paul, minnesota, pitching the economic plan spelled out in his state of the union address. The president has been able to focus on transportation issues at st. Pauls union depot. Announcing new competition, encouraging investments to create jobs and restore infrastructure. Today, House Democrats are set to kick off their efforts to raise the minimum wage. The president and democrats pushing to increase the minimum wage from 7. 10 an hour to 10. 10 an hour. A procedure used only when leaders think they have a good chance of succeeding. I dont think they have a good chance of succeeding. They also use it to embarrass people who dont sign the petition. Stocks making mother run at futures. The s p 500 likely to open in record territory. At the same time, job cuts to jpmorgan chase, 5,000 happening this year. 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Thats their hope. The special riot police that battled protesters before Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. That group of police has now been disbanded. Meantime, the United States and britain voicing support urging russia to be part of the solution in ukraine. Cnns phil black is live in chi everybody this morning. Phil, whats the situation today . Reporter yeah, good morning, john. So many challenges ahead for this country after the revolution that has taken place here. First of all, establishing that interim government. It was supposed to happen yesterday. They missed that deadline. The challenge proved too great. And is it a significant challenge because theyre trying put together a government that represents all the main political opposition parties. These are parties that really dont agree on very much. Apart from the fact they dont like the former president Viktor Yanukovych. Its going to have technical experts. Also a desire to see some of the peoples heroes. These are people who rose to prominence through occupation and struggle on Independence Square behind me. The plan is is to have the list of names today. Theyre going to put it to the crowd here in the square before voting on it in the parliament tomorrow. The first job of this new government will be to tackle the countrys economic crisis. The country is broke. It needs tens of billions of dollars in aid, in donations and loans from other countries. The United States said its willing to be part of that conversation. It is ready to help. But first, this country has to get this interim government together, john. Its a crisis thats gone from political to economic. The European Union and the United States, were showing ukraine. It shows how much will it go on with tough love before they get the cash. Mexico said its holding top drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo guzman. Hell stand charged there before he even goes to the u. S. Guzman was considered the most powerful drug kingpin in the world. Experts fear mexican prosecutors could squander the opportunity to mine him for Vital Information about the countrys biggest and deadliest drug cartels. Missouris Michael Taylor executed after the governor refused his lastminute appeals. The 47 year taylor kidnapped and reigned a teen age girl back in 1989. Authorities argued that a lethal drug from a pharmacy could result in pain and suffering but the plea was rejected. The family of an oklahoma man who allegedly died in Police Custody released video of that tragic scene. Police say Elizabeth Rodriguez was combative when questioned about a domestic disturbance outside of a Movie Theater. Rodriguezs wife record the confrontation on her cell phone saying she feeder for her husbands life. He doesnt move. Well take care of him. He doesnt move. You kill him you kill him reporter taking him face down on to the pavement, pepper spraying his mouth, nose and eyes and putting the weight of five grown men on top of him and then handcuffing him as he was unconscious or possibly already dead. Autopsy results are pending. Police say the ever officers involved in the incident are now on administrative lead while the investigation is ongoing. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is facing voters questions hell face the questions from the ask the governor radio show. Theyre said to hold another town hall. One of the hot topics could be the whole bridge kwaet controversy. He did hold a town meeting last week in new jersey where that honestly never came up at all. Officials are investigating a massive cold ash spill. At least 30,000 tons of toxic coal ash released into the river when a pipe broke. Protesters were demanding that company remove the ash stored at its plants. An explosion forcing dozens of people to evacuate their homes in louisiana. Look at this, hazmat crews were on the scene this morning. Officials say the crew was drilling a gas well when there was a sudden explosion. So far, no reports of injuries and no word of evacuation. A big victory in the battle against childhood obesity, according to federal data, obesity in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has decreased over 40 in the last decade. Much of that reduction coming in the past three or four years. Experts report to increased attention to nutrition. Breastfeeding rates. Higher levels of physical activity. This comes as the first ladys lets move Program Marks its fourth anniversary. White house is pushing new rules to start advertising foods deemed unhealthy. This is huge news. Scientists say they dont know for sure whats causing it, but they dont know if its a greater focus on nutrition its wonderful news its happening. 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