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CNNW Early Start With John Berman And Christine Romans January 6, 2015

Millions. Temperatures plunging up to 40 degrees. How long will this last . Ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Nice to see you. Breaking news this morning. Two new York City Police officers shot responding to a robbery call at a store in the bronx. Officers are hospitalized one in Critical Condition. Police are hunting for two gunmen with a 10,000 reward offered for information. The shooting comes among the back drop of high tension with mayor bill de blasio and nypd officers after the ambush murders of two Police Officers last month. The mayor criticized as disrespectful. Officers who have turned their backs on him on multiple occasions. The commissioner downplayed of low level arrests. This is raising concern of a work slowdown by nypd officers. We have Miguel Marquez with more on the story. Reporter this is a disturbing issue here with the shooting of two officers. Officers in plain clothes. Not targeted like in the previous shootings of officer liu and officer ramos. This robbery was taking place in the bronx as the officers tried to enter a shop. One of the assailants shot one in the back and one in the elbow. They were off duty. All of this against a back drop of tension with the mayor and his police force. He addressed that yesterday in a press conference. And the sound byte that we were going to run was the mayor of new york talking about the officers turning their backs on him twice in a row. Once at the funeral for officer ramos. Then for officer liu. This was the first time the mayor has come out this strongly against his own department. Those individuals who took certain actions these last week last two weeks really they were disrespectful to the families involved. Disrespectful to the families who lost their loved ones. I cannot understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that. This shooting will not help the poor morale among the police and tension at city hall and Police Unions where all of this is going. It is not clear what the next move for the mayor is. No scheduled meeting with the mayor and any of the unions right now. They say they are looking at all those numbers and the low numbers of arrests and whether or not there is some slowdown. They are looking into it. They are not ready to call it a slowdown yet. The two officers shot. Not life threatening . One in Critical Condition. Both expected to survive. It is not going to be good. And the suspects on the loose . A manhunt as we speak. On the loose. 25 to 30yearold latino males. Miguel marquez. There are a lot of developments before us. Disappointment and concern in indonesia as crews searching for airasia flight 8501 race the clock in harsh conditions. The more time passes, the harder it is to find the wreckage and the deceased. Hope of rough weather would break today dashed and none of the divers in the search zone were deployed. Cnns anna coren is live for us in surabaya. Anna what is the latest . Reporter john there were such high hopes when the day began that they could get in the water. Some 97 divers ready to continue the search. A couple got in and checked visibility. It was terrible. They got back out. They are on stand by. We are waiting for word if they managed to get back in this afternoon. As you say, we are in the middle of monsoon season. The weather is bad. The seas are high. This is something that is really hampering the search process. There are four main objects they located by sonar. Another object located late last night. The speculation it could be the tail of the aircraft but really it is mere speculation. We know that the black boxes are in the tail but we cannot confirm whether that wreckage has been identified. Then late this afternoon, john we got word that another two bodies had been spotted. Once again waiting to hear from officials if they are able to retrieve the bodies by helicopter and take them back to the military base where they will be prepared and brought here to surabaya where they are then handed over to the disaster victim identification unit. We spoke to the head of that unit who talked about how they are racing against the clock because it is now in day ten and the bodies as we have been discussing are decomposing at a rapid rate. Lets take a listen. From the first day, you can find the bodies in good condition. Thats why you can just identify them using fingerprints. But lately you will find that the bodies are more decomposed. After the next few days you will find maybe not in an in tact body. You will find fragmented body or maybe worse. Reporter that was dr. Castelani who has the grim task of identifying the bodies and returning them to their loved ones to bury them. The bodies they have recovered. The 37 bodies have mainly been in tact. He has serious concerns about what the state of the bodies will be in the coming days. It is hoped that the majority of the bodies are with the wreckage of the plane which is yet to be found, john. Anna coren for us in surabaya thanks. When Congress Reconvenes today at noon republicans will be in control of the house and senate for the First Time Since 2006. There are obvious bumps in the road ahead for the gop. The first of course is the president ready to veto any bills rolling back obamacare or or elements of obamacare. There is a concern of internal rebellion as some republicans are set to vote against john boehner as speaker. Our correspondent dana bash with the latest. Reporter john and christine, the big question is how big will the rebellion of john boehner be . There will be 246 house members. Those in the Republican Leadership who i talked to say this is really just the group that they not so lovingly call hell no caucus. The House Speaker is elected, remember by the entire house. Boehner has to get a majority of all house members, 218, that means he can afford to lose 29 republicans and still be elected speakers. He talked to his aides and they are monitoring this but not that worried. Here is tom cole the Republican Congress member who is a boehner ally. This is a last moment side show. It distracts from the message now that we have the senate. About keystone and fixes on obamacare and trade and Regulatory Reform. Instead on the opening day of the Republican Congress we have republicans add odds. Thats unfortunate. It doesnt accomplish anything productive. Reporter the argument that cole and others make is you cannot replace someone with no one. Right now, there is no other House Republican who raised as much money or campaigned for as many people that comes close to getting 218 votes. Cole and other members of the team that i talked to say they are making calls to rankandfile. If boehner isnt deposed as speaker, he will start the congress back on its heels a bit because of this rebellion. John and christine. Thank you, dana. Dianene feinstein is calling for new measures. The outgoing chairman of the Senate Committee spearheaded a campaign of the use of the enhanced techniques after 9 11 of torture techniques. She sent a letter to president obama and said she will introduce legislation to ban the spy agency. And beating back isis fighters for the town of kobani. The kurds now control 80 of the northern syrian city after recapturing the government square. 14 isis militants reportedly killed in mondays battle. U. S. Led air strikes helped the kurds. The embattled leader of mexico meets president obama at the white house. President nieto is under tensions at home. Protests in mexico are turning violent as outrage over the disappearance of 43 students allegedly killed by drug traffickers after handed over by corrupt police. 11 minutes past the hour. Time for an early start on your money. Ugly start to the year for stocks. U. S. Stock futures down after a big selloff yesterday. The dow dropped 331 points. The s p fell about 2 . The main reason here is oil. Crude oil fell more than 5 yesterday. It is currently below 50 a barrel. Why was it that low in april of 2009 . A global recession. Prices falling now on weak demand. That is causing concerns of global weakness. It is because of a supply boom in the u. S. Iraqis are producing a lot of oil. Saudis are producing a lot of oil. Those prices are great for drivers, but devastating for those countries who depend on oil revenue. I will tell you, what goes down goes up. What goes up must go down. Those markets can snap back quickly. A lot of jitters in europe. Not just oil. Some of the frackers in the u. S. At what point do they pack up . Watch your mouth. Happening right now, millions facing fast falling temperatures. How low will they go and how long will it last . That is coming up next. [ female announcer ] when youre serious about fighting wrinkles, turn to roc® retinol correxion®. One week fine lines appear to fade. One month deep wrinkles look smoother. After one year, skin looks ageless. High performance skincare™ only from roc®. Coldest blast of arctic air so far this winter is hitting the u. S. Right now. Many states seeing temperatures up to 35 degrees below average for early january. South dakota slammed by snow and sub zero temperatures. You see people out on the roads. A 20car pile up closed down parts of interstate 80 near des moines in iowa. We were told several people were taken to the hospital. To the east, snow coming down hard in fulton new york. 3 inches falling in an hour. The lakeeffect snow prompted more accidents than 911 dispatchers could count. A mother and son driving in maine. Look at ice falling off the car in front of them shattering their windshield. She told our affiliate her adrenaline was pumping. It could have been worse. It could have been an accident. It could have gone through my windshield. You have to leave more than a car length. It is awful when it does that. These temperatures are pushing south and east from the midwest. Lets go to meteorologist Pedram Javaheri for an early look at our weather. Good tuesday morning, john and christine. Lets talk about what is happening nationally. Impressive set up with the arctic air across the central and Northern Tier of the country. The major metro cities will see light flurries. This area of High Pressure among the strongest areas of High Pressure we have ever seen across the lower 48. It sets up anywhere around this region you will have generally clear skies. Look at the windchills. Tuesday morning, 8 30 in the morning, 20 below zero across chicago up to minneapolis. Come wednesday morning, colder. Chicago 30 below zero and 40 below zero at minneapolis. We know some schools have been closed here. Some buses with the diesel buses having a hard Time Starting in the cold temperatures. National perspective. 5 is the best in minneapolis. Highs in the mid20s in new york city. Colder come wednesday across that region. Back to you. A member of the grand jury that cleared Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown shooting is suing to lift a gag order preventing them to speak about the case. The st. Louis county prosecutor as the defendant. They want to talk about the experience to contribute to the National Conversation on race relations. That is a really interesting case. Aclu is backing it. The transcript release, it is not impossible that a judge can say the grand juror can speak. Maybe it is part of the National Discussions on race relations. We will have to wait and see. 18 minutes after the hour. Day two of the jury selection of the accused Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. Tsarnaev is facing several criminal counts in the 2013 bombings that killed three people and injured 260 others. Also charged in the murder of the m. I. T. Police officer. Seating the jury could take a month. Prosecutors had discussed a plea deal in which he would get life without parole. Eric holder will represent the Obama Administration at the funeral for mario cuomo. He will be laid to rest later this morning. Cuomo died of Heart Failure on new years day at the age of 82. A number of people paid respects on monday. United states ski team is reeling this morning from the deaths of two stars. Ronnie berlack and bryce astle were killed in an avalanche in austria. Four other skiers managed to escape. 7yearold sailor gutzler is back home in illinois this morning in the arms of her family. The resilient girl is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents and sister and cousin. Relatives will raise sailor who somehow escaped a burning plane in the kentucky woods and wandered a mile in the bitter cold and at the door step of larry wilkins. She told me her parents were dead and she was in a plane crash and the plane was upside down. It was below 40. Between 35 and 40 degrees. Had a bit of a mist. She was damp all over. She was barefooted. She had one sock on one foot. Tremendous little girl. Funeral services for sailors cousin sierra wilder are planned for tomorrow. A private service for sailors mother father and sister. Samesex marriage is now legal in florida. The statewide ban ended at midnight. Florida is the 36th state to accept gay marriage. Marriage licenses in hand. Two women who sued for the right to marry, obviously very happy and shared the news with their adopted son. We got it we have been in a committed relationship full of love and joy. Now three children for ten years. So for us its just a piece of paper, but nice validation from the state. U. S. Supreme court has a chance to take up the issue of samesex marriage again this week. Justices will consider to act on cases that could perhaps help settle the matter nationwide. She is a serial liar. An attorney accused along with Prince Andrew in a sex slave scandal. The new developments next. Buckingham palace is denying allegations that Prince Andrew had sex with an underage girl as u. S. Attorney Alan Dershowitz facing similar claims takes a harder line. Both men named in legal papers in florida by Virginia Roberts. She claimed that Jeffery Epstein forced her to have sex with both Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. Believe me. I remember everybody i ever had sex with. Im not that old that i would forget. I did not have any sexual contact whatsoever under any circumstances. She made the whole thing up. I can prove it by flight records and my travel records. Neither dershowitz nor the prince are named, but dershowitz is filing disbarment papers against her lawyer. Buckingham palace taking a cautious stance. The palace will not rule out some kind of legal action. 25 minutes after the hour. Breaking news this morning. Two new york Police Officers shot in the line of duty just days after two others were killed. There is a manhunt this morning. The suspects are on the loose. This all coming as there are serious tensions with the department and citys mayor. We will break down the developments live after the break. Ah, push it. Push it. P. Push it real good ow oooh baby baby. Baby baby. If youre saltnpepa, you tell people to push it. Push it real good. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. Im pushing. Im pushing it real good breaking news this morning. Two new york Police Officers shot overnight. The gunmen on loose. This following the recent murder of two other officers. The violence unfolding as tensions with the department and citys mayor still high. The mayor calling recent actions of some officers disrespectful. We are breaking down the latest overnight and talking about how the department moves forward from here. Happening now. Frustration and disappointment in the search for airasia flight 8501. Stormy weather, murky and muddy water and time is ticking away to find remains and black boxes under the sea. We are live with the latest this morning. Polar plunge. Many facing fast falling temperatures this morning. So cold it could break records. We are tracking what you need to know for this day. Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. The breaking news this morning. Overnight, two new York City Police officers were shot responding to a robbery call at a store in the bronx. Officials say both officers are now hospitalized. One in Critical Condition and police are hunting for the two gunmen. They are on the loose. Theres a 10,000 reward offered for any information leading to their arrest. Now the shooting comes against a back drop of high tension with the mayor bill de blasio and City Police Officers following the ambush murders of two officers last month. The mayor addressed the rift for the first time at a News Conference on monday. He said the officers who turned their backs on him on multiple occasions said they were disrespectful. At the same time, the mayor and Police Commissioner downplayed in the plunge of arrests for low level offenses. More than 90 of arrests in some cases and that is raising concerns of a slowdown. We have our National Correspondent Miguel Marquez with the latest. These were two plain clothed cops. Not the same as the ambush and killings of detectives liu and ramos. These were two individuals getting off work. They responded to a robbery in progress. They went to check it out. They got there. One of the individuals came out of a shop and shot one through the arm a

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