Going as we start. Were ready for 2018. Welcome to early start. It is tuesday, january 2, 2018. 4 00 alas. M. The president , President Trump is back in washington this morning. Leaving 75 degree weather nor about 3 degrees with the wind chill and he faces a full and challenging agenda. In january alone what to do about dreamers, infrastructure, entitlements and keeping the Government Funded. Four weeks from today he gives his First Official state of the union. 44 weeks from today, the Midterm Election that is will hang over most, if not all political decisions youll see this year. At his annual new years eve he made this prediction. Were going to have a great 2018. Its going to be something, very, very special. Its all kicking in. Everybodys going to love whats happening with our country because were taking this big beautiful ship and were slowly turning it around, like they before he can get to work on domestic issues, hes facing international crises. Growing antigovernment protests in iran. The raining presideeining presi has no right to tsympathize. President trump tweeting great iranian people oppressed for years. When protests erupted in this iran in 2009 president obama responded cautiously to say the least. Iran call at the time the obama approach was seen as Foreign Policy realism. But now some Security Officials believe President Trump is striking the right tone. In retrospect i think we made a mistake. Monitoring the protests this morning, the protests in 2009 and today different with different goals and different level of organization. State tv reports nine more killed. What more i think is to be concerned about now is while weve seen hundreds of arrests were also hearing more strident language from the Security Forces. Back in 2009 what took many lives then. That was a protest that had a leader. This is leaderless, predominantly the youth. Yes, nearly doubling of the debt toll. In a statement of the ministry of intelligence saying those protesting over the subject of quote resolute and targeted revolutions soon. That may have been the reason why we see the death toll. I should say they occurred in one particular area. Many concerns exactly how the enormous split really in irans government between the moderates, president and recently won a sizable victory and the hardliners. How they somehow find Common Ground to deal with these protests why they dont have a figure head or person to negotiate terms with. Weve seen violence on the street, videos of police stations on fire. I think there are deep concerns, while the president has openly said theres some legitimacy to the protesters and they have to be heard. At the same time we know they have put people on the streets and the Republican Guard out there to try and repress protests very quickly, indeed all eyes on the next 2448 hours. More importantly, to how do they simply calm the anger on the streets. Critical 2448 hours. Another big issue confronting the president is the Nuclear Threat from north korea. Even as he threatened the u. S. , kim jongun extending an olive branch to south korea. Good morning to you. The olympics looming. Whats the latest . Well, dave, certainly from a south korean point of view, they are hoping the olympics is going to be the key to get back to some kind of negotiation between north and south korea. We had a very Surprising New years day speech from the north Korean Leader kim jongun on monday saying effectively that he wanted to talk to south korea. He wanted the two sides to sit down and try and alleviate the tensions on their own without outside pressure, but he has the same defiant message when it comes to the United States, saying that he is able to hit any part of mainland United States with Nuclear Weapons but wont be using it unless aggression is shown. What south korea is doing is bending over back wartwards to this work. They suggested next tuesday to sit down and have high level talks with north korea. Officials saying it has to be that quickly. Theres only a month to go before the olympics. The south korean president is welcoming this, say if they are part of the olympics maybe we can talk further. Many experts, though, are saying be cautious, by cynical. This has been promised in the past. North korea has offered the olive branch in the past and made agreements in the past and not necessarily kept them. Thanks so much. The Trump Administration refusing to release 255 in military aid to pakistan accusing its government for failing to adequately confront terror networks. The white house first threatened to with hold the funds in august. In october the president said he believed pakistan had started to respect the u. S. Again. First tweet of 2018 from President Trump accusing pakistan of giving the u. S. Nothing but lies and deceit. Pakistanee officials pakistans defense minister accusing the United States of giving his country nothing but mistrust over the last 15 years. Tomorrow democratic and Republican Leaders meet with white house chief of staff john kelly. Sources tell us main at the main topic will be Government Funding and preventing a shoutdown. The agenda is long and once alabamas senator is sworn in. 5149 from washington susan malvo has more. Reporter good morning. Happy new year. Everyones got the new years resolutions but for President Trump and the Republican Congress the first order of business is to make sure they are the same ones. Trump is about pushing an infrastructure package at least 200 billion of projects over ten years with the hopes of addi adding 800 billion. Present it to paul ryan at camp david this coming weekend. We are toldthe president will provide the principles of the plan and allow members of congress to craft the legislation. The first problem however of court is getting the Republicans United over this. House republicans led by ryan have their sights on entitlement reform. Mcconnell has made it clear the senate has no appetite for in a, and he has noted that with republican the one seat on majority on the senate side theyve got to go after things they can work with democrats on, like a broad agreement on Government Spending and Bipartisan Legislation overhauling immigration. What to do with the young undocumented immigrants when daca ex pires in march. Christine, dave . All right. Thank you. Alsystems back up and running after the computers at customs and Border Protection went down for two hours. The outage forcing people to stand in long lines across the u. S. Officials say they had access to National Security related databases during the system o outa outage. Thats why you spent two hours at jfk trying to get in on new years day. Big name the is entertainment rolling out a wide ranging plan. It started to form shortly after the first round of allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein went public in the fall. Now more than 1,000 women want to help women in all fields. They say we want all survivors everywhere to be heard, believed and know accountability is possible. Among the early donors to the legal fund, reese witherspoon, shonda rhimes. How about a few more men join in that group. Le. Ahead, when we talk about high temperatures, its a relative term at best. How long will the deep freeze last . The chilly details next. Temperatures are climbing up to a balmy 25 degrees here in new york today. The cold snap wont go quietly. Actually on the warmer side of what well see over the weekend. Good morning to you ivan. Breaking out the shorts in new york city this afternoon i think with 25 degrees. We are i havent seen Something Like this in quite some time. We now have wind chill advisories stretching from the Canadian Border to the mexican border. You will not leave the wind chill advisory. Were checking in this morning in minneapolis at minus 24. Minus 7 in boston and theres new york. Youre above zero. Thats an improvement. The wind will vary. Wind chills continuing. Atlanta single digit wind chill values. Doing a little bit better but still 37 in orlando. The it will freeze with that kind of number. As far as the high temperatures, not factoring the wind, were only going to be in the teens and 20s across the northeast and 30s as far south as places like georgia. How about snow on the way . The track is to be determined. Looks like between wednesday and thursday, depending on where this thing moves. Were talking about this coastal low, the potential for some significant accumulation is there. The european model, showing about 2 to 4 inches. Kind of going back and forth. Just keep checking back with us. This may be a disruptive storm. The temperatures will continue quite cold. Notice new york, 20s and then drop into the mid teens and the aren to are that is we check on the maps, we have another arctic air mass on the way. That is not going to go any place any time soon. Were going to continue to see these waves of very cold air. When i see you in the next half hour were going to talk about why this is happening and continuing to happen in just a few minutes. Thanks. Hearing a lot of people say its too cold to ski. Which you know, theres some hardcore skiers that want nothing to do with the mountains right now. Too doecold to breathe too. Millions of American Workers are ringing in 2018 with a pay raise. As of january 18 states boosted their minimum raises. For example, in new york state, fast food pay rose to 11. 75 an hour with plans to hit 15 an hour for the year 2021. In washington the increase is one of several designed to reach 13. 50. Not every state is aiming tore 15 an hour and some remain pretty close to the federal minimum ways. That has not been raised since 2009. A higher wage is at the center of a hot political debate. Critics argue they will kill jobs. So far early studies have shown mixed results. Overall wage growth is sluggish, has been for years, its the one weak spot in an otherwise very strong labor market. The stock market has had double digit gains to half of america, the investor class is enjoying a pay raise through the stocks but workers really have not. So the states have been people in states have been passing these referendums. 18 more states. Republicans argue this tax cut plan will lead to wage growth. We shall see. Great College Possible last night for those of you sleep deprived. Georgia and alabama will meet. Bulldogs, georgia, epic comeback. This was maybe the greatest game of all soon. Led by 17 late in the first half before georgia came back to tie the score. Here you see ok we go to the second overtime after georgia blocked an oklahoma field goal attempt as michele was just phenomenal. He had three touchdowns, rushed for 300plus yards. 5448, the final score. Georgia victorious. The sugar bowl less exciting. Alabama crushed. Release the title game, six times in 11 years. That is hard to imagine. But that first game is the one youll be hearing talked about at the water coolers. That team in Central Florida undefeated. Ucf, undefeated. Very good game. A youtube star forced to apologize after posting a gruesome video from japan, the stunt prompting widespread outrage. Chances are you dont know who logan paul is but i guarantee your kids do. Story here next. You wont see these folks they have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. How do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. 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He was killed sunday morning when a gunman opened fire at officers at an apartment complex. The widow and daughter as overwhelmed by the support. I will do everything in my power to honor you. I will raise these girls to love you. It means so much to hear your stories and to hear about zack, because thats what im clinging on to right now. I want to hear about him and i want to soak it in. Whoa. We have now learned that the shoot every who was killed by police took a tactical rifle class over the summer. The owner of the company said he seemed proud of his military service, nothing odd about his demeanor. That does not fit the description from others. Reporter he enlisted in the army reserve in 2003 and was deployed to iraq in 2009 on a security mission. He was honorably dischanged in 2012. We also learned he was once a lawyer licensed wyoming. He was on the deans list. He passed the wyoming bar. It is not clear why in december, he post add rambling Youtube Video claiming to be a candidate for the libertarian party. He also criticized the Douglas County sheriff. You know hes going to flub big time next election. Spurlock. Hes a clown, so is his whole crew. He said he did not have a criminal record. In early december, he complained in a Facebook Post about being pulled over by a Law Enforcement officer in suburban denver. Separately the university of wyoming noticed some of his posts about the school will outrageous, vulgar and alarming. So alarming the school sent his photo to students and faculty asking them to call police if they saw him on campus. Scott mcclain for us. Thanks. You may not know who logan paul is but the chances are your kids do. The youtube star who has more than 15 million viewers, being forced to apologize after he posted a disturbing video called we found a dead body in japans suicide forest and showed a body hanging from a tree in what appeared to be a suicide. Paul, who is incredibly popular on youtube posted an apology on twitter saying he had been quote misguided by shock and awe. In the video he described the body before paul laughs uncomfortably and says it was all going to be a joke. The video sparked very real outrage on the internet. Commenters who viewed it more than 6 million times before it was taken down calling it sickening and disgusting. Hundreds of californias lining up monday to buy legal recreational marijuana. A medical marijuana stilt granted the first license to sell recreational pot and the joint was jumping. Were expepgcting business i would say 30 overnight. Looking around this room more like 50 to 60 . A big domestic agenda facing the president in 2018. Happy new year. Before he can tackle that, flareups with iran, north korea and pakistan demand his attention. Live reports on those stories next. 6 parr the white house with foreign focus as 2018 dawns. Expanding antigovernment protests in h iran and in a twist, potential talks next week between north and south korea. President ready to tackle an ambitious agenda. No shortage of domestic issues with another Government Shutdown looming over funding. One thing with bipartisan agreement, it is cold. Very cold. And its going to stay very cold, at least throw the weekend. More of early starts worldwide coverage begins right now. Welcome back to early start. Christine romans, happy new year. Happy new year to you, good to have you back. You ready . Are you ready for the president and you go from 75 degrees, palm beach to zero. Thats something. Minus 3 i think with the wind chill in d. C. Le good morning everybody. Lets start with the president back in d. C. Where it is frigid this morning. January alone, what to do about dreamers infrastructure, entitlements, Childrens Health care around keeping the Government Funded topped the agenda. Four weeks from today President Trump gives his First Official state of the union. 44 weeks from today, the Midterm Elections that will hang over many of the political decisions you will see this year. At his annual new years eve bash at maralago, the president made this prediction for the year ahead. Were going to have a great 2018. Its going to be something very, very special. Its all kicking in. Everybodys going to love whats happening with our country because were taking this big beautiful ship and were slowly turning it around. Like to do it faster. Before he can get to work on domestic issues, facing some international crises, topping that the antigovernment protests in iran going on for nearly a week. The iranian president urging National Unity but rebuffing President Trump saying an american president who once called iranians terrorists has no right to sympathize with them now. Irans statement reaction to President Trump tweeting this. The great iranian people have been repressed for many years. The white house approach is being closely watched. When protests erupted in