A. M. Eastern. We are joined by jeffrey toobin, andrew neveling, and ted simon who worked on the amanda knox case will join us as well. And the monster winter storm wreaking havoc across 20 states. The National Guard looking for stranded motorists stuck on major highways and wreaking havoc on roads and airports. The blizzard is not done yet. The search is on for a killer hunted a wild vegas chase and shootout. Were hearing more about the victims, one an up and coming wrapper, another, a cab driver who recently moved to the city for a job. Tim tebow cancels a controversial talk. Starting point begins right now. In south africa, were less than a half an hour away of knowing whether accused murderer Oscar Pistorius will walk out of court on bail. A judge is expected to make a ruling. He is accused of premeditated murder of his model girlfriend. And this is the fourth day of pistorius bail hearing. We are awaiting the judges decision. 29 minutes away. Robyn curnow joins us live now from pretoria. Half an hour to go until we hear that judgment from the magistrate on whether or not Oscar Pistorius spends tonight and the next few months perhaps the rest of this year behind bars or whether he walks free for now and goes home. And, of course, the journalists standing outside here, the pretoria magistrates court, all waiting anxiously. Also we know inside that court, his family, he has a large family, they have been incredibly supportive. Literally standing behind him, sitting behind him, often putting their hand on his shoulder and they are all pretty anxious. We can see also Oscar Pistorius demeanor, is he drawn, he hasnt slept well. He is slowly coming to terms with the realization hes facing a formidable battle ahead to stay out of jail. Robyn kurnow. Thank you for the update. We will consider to follow the story. Last night, a close friend told piers morgan he never saw a dark side. Piers asked him about an incident at a restaurant when a gun that pistorius was carrying went off. It wasnt intentional and that could have been a very bad event and something very tragic. All very fortunate, and after that event, oscar was very apologetic. Thats how dangerous guns can be, by no means, do i think he was negligent with the gun. It was pure accident as to what happened. Kevin lerena said the last time he saw oscar and reeva together, they appeared very much in love. Lets bring in jeff toobin. Does that help or hurt him . To have a friend talk about a past incident with guns . Or is it largely irrelevant . I think its largely irrelevant. He has so many bugger problems than an incident that happened quite some time ago. He killed this woman, thats indisputable. One fact that dominates this proceeding and dominates his legal future, thats what he has got to deal with. Not some incident in the past. You walk through whats new today, first we know obviously in 27 minutes, there will be the ruling on the bail hearing. In fact, the judge will reveal the case first it will probably take 10 to 15 minutes to walk through the entire case over the last couple of days and hell give his ruling on bail yes, bail no. Also, the question is Oscar Pistorius a flight risk. He clearly has disability. Famous, almost impossible for him to get out of the country and the prosecution countering, in fact, other famous people able to get out pretty easily and finally the defense talking about culpable homicide. And i thought there was an interesting back and forth about intention. Didnt he intend to kill . He intended to kill a burglar. What kind of impact does that have on what they are talking about . A big impact. In the United States we would refer to that between the difference between Second Degree murder, premeditated intentional murder and Something Like mans. In south africa its true there are lesser penalties if it is not premeditated murder. So the this is an intent case. I think the facts the important fact we know is that pistorius killed reeva. Not disputed. Hes admitted it. Not who did he think she was . Exactly. Thats what the whole trial will be fought over. Is the charge as the defense contends whether or not he intended to kill reeva, right . The back and forth they are having, there was an intent to kill a person in the bathroom. Was it an accidental intent in terms of he didnt know it was reeva, or was it still intent. Well, the the difference is whether you intended if he intended to kill reeva, its a very different crime than if he intended to kill a burglar. That is what this trial will be fought about. He is very likely to have some criminal culpability, even if he wins that argument. Meaning what . He could face jail time . Absolutely. The prosecutor has made that point several times, is he looking at prison time under all scenarios here, even in south africa where crime is is so epidemic and a lot of people have guns to protect themselves, you cant shoot at a door. Without knowing who is behind it. And he has admitted to firing blindly. The question, how much time he spends in prison, not whether or not he goes to prison. Were about 24 minutes away of the magistrate coming out and reviewing the case on whether Oscar Pistorius will be granted bail. At the bottom hour, well speak with andrew neveling. He is the editor with heat magazine in South African. And he has some insight on steenkamp and pistorius. And we have an Anderson Cooper special tonight at 7 00 p. M. Much of the midwest shoveling and shivering after a fierce winter storm covers a lot of the region with snow, ice, and sleet. Classes have been canceled. Universities closed. Kansas City International airport shut down. It just reopened a couple of minutes ago. United Airlines Flight stranded on the tarmac for an hour and a half because of heavy snow and this kansas city bus. Take a look at this, trying to negotiate a turn. And fish tails, takes out a light pole. How messy and dangerous it is. The storm affects 20 states. Millions affected. We have the story covered from all angles. Erin pike is in wichita and Jennifer Delgado in the cnn weather center. Erin, lets start with you. It is freezing here. A lot colder than yesterday. 14 degrees, and here in wichita, they got the second highest snowfall in recorded history. 14. 2 inches, so because of that, lots of School Districts remain closed. Yesterday, wichita was a ghost town. Trying to dig out today. Most of the flights out of kansas City International airport are canceled this morning until 9 00 central. The airport is open, though, as you mentioned, and flights look to be on time throughout the afternoon. Well keep monitoring that for you. The wichita and st. Louis airports are also open. Dozens of cancelations, so viewers traveling to and from those areas need to pay attention. The roads very icy, officialed wa want people to stay off the roads if they can. Thank you, erin. Jennifer gel de Jennifer Delgado. For areas in wichita, parts of missouri, they will be try. This is whats left of the storm system, producing light system, were not talking about more than two inches. Louisiana, mississippi, this whole area is going to be dealing with very heavy rainfall. For today alone, we could see potentially 3. 5 inches of rain, and as we go through the next couple days, more systems moving through. 4 to 6 inches of rainfall. Big area for flood threat, and the same Energy Moving up toward the northeast and potentially bringing a foot of snow or more, starting saturday for parts of new england. Overall, wider view today, things are looking pretty nice. A little bit cold, temperatures in the teens in parts of the midwest. Where people have been stranded on the roadways. Thats cold. Yes it is. A mess. Jennifer, thank you very much. Well talk about kansas city mayor sly james about whats happening in his community and talking about new developments in the wild chase and shootout that happened in las vegas. Christine has that and other stories making news. Really something. Police still on the hunt for the begunman that ended with a fiery crash right on the las vegas strip. This happened close to the flamingo resort. Among the three people dead, the taxi driver, his passenger, and a wrapper known as kenny clut. Maserati has been featured prominently on his pictures and youtube videos. The brother of the taxi driver, fighting back tears, says whoever did this needs to pay. My life mission is to see them punished for the things they did. They dont know who they touched. Bolden moved to las vegas a year ago to find work. And Drew Peterson sentenced to 38 years for the murder of his wife Kathleen Savio in 2004. Peterson screamed out i did not kill kathleen. Savios sister shouted right back, yes, you did, you liar. The former cop vows to appeal. And the defense claims savios death was an accident. I dont think there is anybody who has any doubt in this universe that we proved beyond all doubt that Kathleen Savio was murdered. Accident is off the table. Savios death was initially ruled an accident. But the case reopened in 2008 after petersons fourth wife stacy disappeared. She is still missing. Rescue crews in hawaii have not given up hope of finding a 34yearold navy s. E. A. L. Diver, he got separated on tuesday in an open water Training Exercise off oahu. They are using computer models to figure out why ocean current might take him. Three paratroopers caught between a rock and a hard place. They got tangled in the trees in Training Exercises in washington state. Heavy winds blew them off course. The paratrooper has bumps and bruises bruises, no serious injuries. And pork sausage recalled because it might contain bits of plastic. Onepound packages of gwalney mild pork saus age roll. They were sold in 11 states and washington, d. C. The plastic likely came from workers gloves. And tim tebow has canceled an april appearance at a dallas mega church causing a lot of controversy. The pastor Robert Jeffers has been ve open with his criticism of gays and other faiths. Interesting to see that. Still ahead on starting point more on developing stories. Kansas city slammed by the winter storm. The National Guard taking to the highways looking for stranded motorists. Airports are jammed. A bus slam into and taking out a light pole. Well ta talk to the mayor, Sylvester James jr. About the digout there. And Business News . Google stepping up its game. A new look at googles laptop in moments. The delightful discovery. The sweet realization that you have a moment all to yourself. 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Cars struck on roadways forced the National Guard to go out and the city declaring a state of emergency as its digging out. Sly jams the mayor of kansas city, missouri, he joins us by phone. Nice to talk to you. You are really busy. How does it look this morning. Pretty much shut down last night. Good morning, soledad, things looking considerably better. We were able to work all night and get a lot of the arterials plowed. They have all been plowed, as a matter of fact. We will be trying to clean them curb to curb. We are hampered by the fact that we have 6500 miles of street. Thats a lot. Im talking to you while i look at pictures of cars stuck on the highway. I know the National Guard had to help rescue people who couldnt move. What is the status of that right now . Well, its still an ongoing process to try to get people off the roads. Fortunately, were in much better shape than we were. We had 60 buses actually stranded, stuck in the height of the storm. So you can imagine how many vehicles, other than buses were as well. But it got to be pretty bad at one point in time and as you can probably imagine, pulling buses out of a ditch is not the easiest thing in the world. We actually also have a number of tow trucks or plow trucks that were stuck as well. Mayor sly james jr. Joining us from kansas city, missouri. Thank you for talking us with. I know its a very busy morning for you, we appreciate your time. Still ahead on starting point, continue to follow the breaking news in about eight minutes. Well find out if Oscar Pistorius will receive bail. The South African magistrate will hand down the decision at 7 30 a. M. Eastern. Well cover that for you live when it happens. And google trying to compete with apple, well look at that. Coming up next. For small busin. Get a shareable pool of data. Got enough joshua trees . On up to 25 devices. So you can spend less time. Yea, the golden barrels. 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The European Commission expects Economic Growth to contract more than originally thought. Many of the 17member nations in the eurozone are struggling with austerity measures, its a preview of what this country could face if forced spending cuts arent avoided one week away. Google unveiled the chrome book pixel yesterday. It features touch screen technology, enhanced cloud computing, and a builtin Cellular Network much it starts at 1 3sh,300. The previous chrome book goes for about 250. This expands the hardware business, taking aim at apple and microsoft. Its so interesting to see how they moved into this arena. Stocks near a record high. 800. Another thing we should have bought a lot of back in the day. Still ahead on starting point, in the courtroom for the magistrates decision. Legal analyst jeff toobin will join us for an alice. And remember when mitt romney said 47 of americans were victims. Carters grandson exposed that infamous comment. 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Were told three people on board. Two are confirmed dead. There is one survivor who apparently has been able to is conscious. Were not exactly sure what they have been able to tell rescuers. Police believe on board were all helicopter crew members and apparently a medical chopper, but we dont have more details on this crash. Looking at pictures from affiliate koco. Well bring you more as we get details. Other breaking news weve been talking about all morning. Were just a couple of minutes away from the big ruling in the sensational Oscar Pistorius murder case. The big question, of course, whether the judge will allow the olympic track star to go free on bail. Robyn curnow live outside the courthouse in pretoria, south africa. A couple of minutes away. How will the judge, the magistrate, make this ruling . Well before we even get there, soledad, the tension outside this court is palpable. All of the journalists on the sidewalk, literally poised waiting for information on the blackberries. We have cnn producer inside the courtroom. And i want to give you a sense of what she says, how she paints a picture of whats happening in the moment. I will read it to you from my blackberry. Its getting hot in there. Everybody is squeezed together on the benches. Friend, journalists, writing, tweeting, talking. The big question that everybody is talking about in the tiny little courtroom, will he, or wont he get bail . We havent been able to call it. The magistrate has asked some probing questions