White house. There were some positives. The u. S. Said that both sides understand that there should be a diplomatic way forward. Russia emphasized the importance in u. S. Russia relations. The u. S. Has begun sanctions and russia still needs to talk to ukraine. In on hourlong phone call, president obama again urged Vladimir Putin to pursue a diplomatic solution telling him to have dialogue with ukraine to let in international monitors and pull back his troops to their bases. Putin agreed on the need for diplomacy, but they see the situation differently. Crimea is part of ukraine. Crimea is ukraine. Reporter russia called it impossible to act in the face of unilateral semihysterical views. The administration saying it has grave concerns the situation could escalate further and wants to be prepared with powerful, flexible tools. If this violation continues, the resolve of the United States and our allies and the International Community will remain firm. Reporter but not for now sanctioning president putin specifically. Ukraine again asking for resolution. President putin, mr. Putin, tear down this wall, the wall of intimidation, the wall of military aggression and lets build up new type of relations between ukraine and russia. We are ready for cooperation, but we are not ready to surrender. Reporter here at home, republicans had some strong reactions to the situation. Speaker boehner calling putin a thug. One saying that at least putin has a strategy and that president obama has not. Remember, the eu decided not to do the sanctions yesterday, but theres this broad view that bipartisanship in this is necessary. Thanks for starting us off this morning. The crisis isnt stopping. If you can believe it an american missle destroyer from going right into the conflict. They say it was planned to go before the crisis. Lets get to ivan watson with a look at this. Ivan . All right. Looks like were having Communications Issues with vie van, i think on the boat. Well get back to him in just a bit. Chris . All right. So then lets talk about this big issue of a referendum. Crimeas parliament is under fire for ed scheduling this popular vote to decide whether they go with russia. Elected officials in russia are trying to ease concerns about possible war. The vote is just nine days away. Anna . Reporter yeah, chris, the countdown is on and the tensions are high. People speaking out against russia are being verbally attacked. If anything, that situation is only going to get worse as we get closer to the referendum. In the heart of the city, celebrations, russian speakers fly their nations flag and an older one. Confident that in a little over a week from now, crimea will be part of the motherland again. Its people power says this grandmother. We will be voting to return to our roots. I think we will be more powerful, we will have more rights. So i think its plus for for crimean people. Reporter there are plenty here who disagree, but few are willing to speak up. We dont need the referendum because crimea belongs to ukraine, says this student. These ukrainian feminists take a more dramatic stand, but are unsar mown justly dealt with. Cossack militia guard the new order. Ukraines troops are told to leave. Now a short time ago, the ukrainian Prime Minister said that no one in the civilized world will recognize the result of this referendum. Just to prove that the crimean selfelected government is willing to play ball, they Just Announced that they will invite International Observers to watch other this referendum. Interestingly enough, though, most of them will be russian. And that leads us to more questions. Thank you so much. Well check back in with you. Lets get straight back to ivan watson. I think we have the signal reconnected. Go ahead. And technology continues to fail us. Well continue to try to reconnect with ivan to talk about the important issue of the warship moving into the black sea. Russian organizers of the 2014 pair ra olympics now face political backlash over the situation in ukraine. President putin is expected to attend todays opening ceremony. Reporter good morning. President putin will be at the opening ceremony, but he will not be joined by western nations because they are staying away because of the events in the ukraine. The athletes are going to p be there, including the athletes from the ukrainian pair ralympi team. Their message is, please do not start a war with this country during the games. They are insisting that russias actions are compliant with International Law, that russia is just acting to help and respond to requests from help from russianspeaking people in the south and east of the country. Today in moscow there is a delegation. They are meeting with leading members of russias parliament. Theres been allot of applause as Russian Politicians praised them for their courage and de termation. And the russians are talking about how joyous they felt when they heard the news the crimea would be holding a referendum. They say they will honor the results if they do indeed vote to join russia. They say they will do it regardless of international sanctions. One of the interesting questions here, phil, is whether or not it really is going to be a democratic vote. A lot of people calling for international monitoring. Fueling speculation there. We will continue on ukraine and all the different pieces of that puzzle. But a lot of other news at well. Breaking overnight, officials investigating a potential Security Threat on an American Eagle flight. Passengers evacuated off the plane in kansas city after crews called in that a suitcase did not match up with a passenger. It was parked away from the terminal as a precaution. All 67 crew and passengers had to leave without their belongings. No other details at this point have been made available. To memphis now where a terrifying shooting left one man wounded inside a packed shopping mall. Police detained four men, but no charges were filed as of late thursday. They say it appears the victim and potential suspects knew each other and that there was a verbal confrontation before the shooting. A major blow thursday for a bipartisan push to change the way the military handles Sexual Assault cases. Instead, give it to independent prosecutors. Meanwhile, the u. S. Army is investigatiing groping allegations against a military officer. Right now, the frantic search for an 11yearold maryland girl after her mother found dead inside her home. Police now with an allout search for this 11yearold. An amber alert issued. Police searching from maryland to West Virginia and they believe she is in serious danger. The amber alert remains active. We have not found her yet. Her mother found dead thursday morning. The girls father now missing and Police Suspect he may be behind the disappearance. He is a suspect in the abduction of his daughter, and certainly we are interested in finding him and talking to him about what he can tell us about the mothers death. Police say he had been living with the family recently. He is not supposed to have her and we are concerned for her safety. His criminal record stretches back decades, including Domestic Violence charges that earned him a restraining order. Its unfortunate that the laws arent a little bit more strict, you know, to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Neighbors now praying for her safe return. I just hope that shes found and shes okay and shes certainly not injured or anything. Very nice, sweet kid. Her two siblings are safe with family members this morning. We have an update. Massachusetts lawmakers moving very quickly to close a loophole that made taking secret Upskirt Photos of women legal. They made it illegal. This comes a day after Massachusetts Highest Court ruled that a man who took cell phone pictures of a female subway rider did not violate state law because of the way the law was written. So they are voting to change the law. You seem uncomfortable with that story. I was uncomfortable with your legal opposition to it yesterday. Thats defamatory. Thats slander that you just heard. My faith in broken government has been restored. At least they can get it right sometimes. The judge made clear they needed to change the wording of the law. You almost never see a governing body act that quickly. The law hadnt caught up the judges were handcuffed because they dont decide law. They could have decided it was wrong anyway. But women in boston when spring comes around, you can wear skirts. And i will sue you, by the way. In your defense, you pointed out no, you said i defended upskirting. Berman said chris was pro upskirting. I said you made clear what the law said and why the judge ruled the way the judge did. I dont think thats what you said. I know youre smarter than i am, but this time we have a record of this. I was talking with science yesterday, indra petersons, basically she said theres no need for a law, i would take care of it with an elbow. You may not know that it happens. If it is discreet enough doesnt apply to indra petersons. She says she knows everything. Oh my gosh. Im going to go right past that. Lets talk about what is expected to happen through the weekend. Notice right now, jet stream farther to the south. By the end of the weekend, look at this. We have finally a nice pattern change where its actually going to rebound and warm air will overtake by monday. Let me fast forward. Lets take you to monday where finally we are looking at above normal temperatures on the map. Enjoy it knowing each day will get a little bit better than the day before. Notice around the piedmont, a little bit of wintery mix. This is that low that was in the gulf just a few days ago climbing up the coastline. D. C. Looking for the wintery mix around commute time, but it is going offshore. Temperatures will be allowed to improve. In the southeast, talking about 70s over the weekend. Of course, this one cools you off for the first half of the weekend. Everyone rebounds there after. By the middle of next week, there is still a chance theres a chance we could have another storm by the middle of next week. A misuse of our favorite dumb dumber quote. I always agree with berman, so i got to go with that. He started it. Im going there. Now we know what the teams are. Well settle this in the break. You ready . Loosen up the sholders. Coming up on new day, good news, bad news for Chris Christie. The bad news, a new poll suggests it may not matter. Most republicans not behind christie for 2016. Pistorius exgirlfriend breaking down. 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Stop picking on great persons who are creating great things for our country. And try to assuage conservative concerns here about a blue state governor who works with democrats. We say were prolife. That doesnt mean that were prolife just when that human being is in the womb. The reaction here, a rousing response, as much or more so than conservative crowd favorites that also spoke or the senate gop leader who entered holding a rifle and gave it to retiring senator tom coburn. He connects with people. He says what needs to be said. And to me, hes the only personality who will be able to stand up to hillary clinton. But christie arrived to bad news in a brand new poll. They in ten republicans say they would never vote for him. Im personally not a big fan of him. Shes angry about christie embracing obama after Hurricane Sandy before the last election. And bridgegate is hurting him too. I thought it was impressive. He showed himself to be in charge, but i dont think id vote for him. Why not . The scandal really bothers me. Despite that criticism, the crowd responded well to one of christies more traditional messages, that republicans need to be for their own ideas, not just against democrats. Last year, he was snubbed, he wasnt even invited to one of the most important gatherings of conservatives. The los angeles lakers, theyve been a franchise for 54 years. Didnt start off in los angeles. Minnesota, right, the lakers. Minneapolis . Thank you very much, berman. They have never played as badly as they did last night. That is what happened, joe. Yes, and you are correct. They did start in minneapolis. But they moved to los angeles in 1960. During that 54year span, they have never lost as bad as they lost last night. The clippers beat them by 48 points. Its their worst loss in franchise history. Its the clippers biggest win in history. Blake griffin, chris paul, they didnt even have to play in the Fourth Quarter and they still won by nearly 50 points. The lakers are one loss away from their fist losing season in ten years. Lebron james, he only scored 19 points in last nights blowout loss to the spurs. He blamed his poor play on the nbas new sleeved jerseys. Lebron has always said hes not a fan of these things. He says theyre too snug and it affects his jump shot. Tiger woods only made it through ten holes yesterday, not because of his bad back, because of the bad weather. He looked rusty. He was two other par through ten holes and today hes going to have to play 26 holes to make up those that he didnt play yesterday. That could be tricky for him. To go to his defense, he did not even swing his driver yesterday until he teed off at the cadillac championship because he choose to save his back as long as possible. Only chipped and putted before he teed off for the first time yesterday. Can we go back to basketball . Do you believe the lebron james defense . He always said the jerseys because of how theyre cut, he doesnt like them, hes been critical of them. The nba likes them because its a new look. He doesnt have to worry about that anymore because obviously theyre not going to wear those jerseys for the rest of the season. Cuomo says that about pants a lot. Sometimes when theyre too tight it does restrict their range of movement. Say it again joe. I said where exactly where they tight on chris . You see what happens . Just to be clear, its because of berman. See what im saying . He makes that face and youre like, hed never say anything offensive. You dont back me up. You think its funny. I only make fun of the jets. See, thats an honest fight to have. Whats happening here today . Yelling at me to move on. Im the one getting beat down. Coming up next thanks joe. Coming up next on new day, emotional testimony at the Oscar Pistorius trial. 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