Guns out of the hands of good people. Its about keeping all the guns out of the hands of bad people. The white house takes new aim at gun control. Yesterday Congressional Democrats introduced a plan to ban assault weapons. We have had enough. These weapons do not belong on the streets. The reason you find so many of us very reluctant is we believe each step down the road leads to next step and the next step and the next step. The unbearable deep freeze is delivering yet another day of biting cold temperatures. This blast of cold air is now hitting the south. Forecasters expect freezing rain and dangerous accumulations of ice across the carolinas and tennessee. Manti teo is admitting he lied to the media after he admitted the girl oine didnt exist. The mastermind reportedly posed as a woman using a see if mail voice. Im just calling to say good night. I love you. It didnt sound like a man. It sounded like a woman. 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They started with perhaps the most controversial weapon, an assaults weapons ban. Its a key component of the recommendations that Vice President biden made to the president earlier this month, and today he is heading to richmond, virginia, with several cabinet members to try and sell it. Mr. Biden is even taking the fight online, making his gun control argument thursday in a web chat. Im much less concerned, quite frankly, about what youd call an assault weapon than i am the malg zone and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. The bill Senate Democrats introduced thursday would ban both. Its a tougher version of the assaults weapons ban that koj let lapse in 2004. This version closes some of the loopholes that manufacturers were able to exploit last time. Militarystyle assault weapons have but one purpose, and in my view thats a military purpose, to hold at the hip if possible, to spray fire, to be able to kill large numbers. The bill would ban the sale and manufacture of 157 different weapons. Though people who currently own those guns would be allowed to keep them. How are you going to go hunting with something look that . If you kill something, theres nothing left to eat. So far that argument has not swayed Congressional Republicans who argued the real issue isnt guns. Its mental illness. Thats what weve got to figure out, how to do it, how to identify the people, cure them if we can, separate them if we must, and prevent them from obtaining dangerous weapons in any case. And democrats have another challenge. Some of their own members disagree with the ban or come from rural states where voting for the ban would be politically perilous. Some of those democrat senators like mark baucus, mark pryor of alaska and mark begich are up for reelection in 2014. Dianne feinstein says she knows she has an uphill battle. I did this before. This is a campaign. If it takes one year, two years, three years, i have just been reelected. Were going to stay the course. She points out there are more than 2,000 types of hunting and sportingstyle firearms that would not be affected by this ban, and this is just the first in what democrats say will be a series of bills that theyre going to unveil over the next couple of months that deal with gun violence, mental illness, and school safety. Charlie andnorah. Nancy cordes, thank you. Republicans are in North Carolina this week. Theyre trying to come up with a new game plan to win voter. Last night bob j jindal had tough words for his fellow gop members. Weve got to stop being the stupid party. Its time for us to talk like it does, its time to Start Talking our visions for plans. Its no secret we had a numb behalf of republicans who damaged us with bizarre comments. Weve had enough of that. Governor, good morning. Good morning, charlie. Republicans have been the stupid party says the governor of louisiana. Well, the point he made is exactly right when you consider what two senate candidates, one in indiana and one in missouri, the comments that they made were stupid comments, offensive comments, and in todays world when a candidate in one state says something, the negative effect of that can spill over to lots of other candidates, and bobby jindal was exactly right. Its interesting, though, charlie, one of those candidates, todd akin, actually received more than a Million Dollars of Campaign Contributions from the democratic lead over the senate, harry reids p. A. C. Helped him win that primary and it was well reported in the state of missouri. After he made the comment, you can see why the democrats wanted to run against him. Governor, it was an interesting speep by Governor Jindal yesterday. He called the partys, quote, obsession with government bookkeeping a wrong game. Do you think that was a repudiation of the paul ryan approach or the tea Party Approach that focuses on fiscal matters . No, i dont think it was at all. I think it was an honest statement that when youre talking washington budget terms, youre committing yourself to a lot of things that not only the public doesnt understand, but its very misleading. In washington it is a cut when spending goes up but just not as fast as was planned. For the average american family, that is spends goes up more slowly. For the left they say to the public theyre cutting spending by trillions and trillions even though spendings going up to get in that jar gone and to use that lingo, bobby jindal is exactly right. We need to make the truth obvious to voters. But, governor, theres certainly a lot of soulsearching going on with the Republican Party and Governor Jindals speech last night exemplary feed that. However, you heard Speaker John Boehner says they triering to annihilate the go. Do you think the party itself has to make policy changes in order to recruit and attract different voters . This is my 12th president ial election. Ive been around more that we won than we lost but ive been around ones that we lost. This is what the republicans are upset about because they feel like they could have won. That the president governor, youre looking back youre looking back at the cam parngs but it seems to me from peggy noonan and a whole range of people, especially the speaker, to accuse the president of trying to annihilate the party, that takes it to the future, not the past. Well, look. This is the most political presidency weve ever had. This is the perpetual campaign. As soon as the campaign was over and we started talk about the first serious piece of business, the fiscal cliff, the Obama Campaign ran it purely like a political campaign. If your heard the president s state of the Union Address where the vast majority of americans are worried about economic growth, job creation, the gigantic debt crisis that the government has, he hardly mentioned that in his address. Governor barbour, thank you so much. Thank you, norah and charlie. Fire crews in northern massachusetts north of boston had to fight two fires yesterday in subfreezing weather. Theyre dealing with frozen hydrants and hose lines. Chicago adjustment one of many places expecting a wintry mix today says minneapolis mike agustugustyniak of our affiliat wcco. Chicago is getting snow and detroit is getting snow and its all in response to the warmer air thats going to be responding in the next couple of days. The ice is going to be program especially through i40 and north tennessee through kentucky and later today working through western North Carolina, western south carolina. A quarter of an inch of icing at most, enough to slick up the roads for sure. And there are schools closed already there. A little farther north from Norfolk Virginia to washington d. C. Light snow, enough to cause problems. 1 to 3 inches there. Looks like an inch or less in new york city. For cbs this morning, im mike agus stin yak in minneapolis. Many of the worlds top Business Leaders are in davos this week for the annual World Economic forum, but this year their focus is not on europe. Anthony mason joins us from davos. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie. Maybe its the abrasive air but theres been a move in davos. 12 months ago it looked like they could lead to a financial recession, what a difference a year makes. In the hallways and meeting rooms where top bankers, politicians and leaders come every year, theres a sense that Global Economy has finally turned the corner. Ask ken frazier, ceo of farther suit cal giant merck. I think the economy is poised to take off. I think its poised to take off. Its the strongest in the world. Reporter it will grow 3. 5 this year, a healthy number. And if theres debate about how things will get better, muhtar kent, the ceo of cocacola says things arent going get worse. The fear is largely gone. I dont think its right to say its gone. I think of it as walking on ice that isnt too secure, but i think everyone expected the ice to hold. Reporter what could crack that ice . If congress and the white house cant agree on the deficit or the debt ceiling. Will washington work is the theme of the seminar in davos today. House majority leader eric cantor whos here will have to answer. Thats the question on a lot of peoples minds. Why cant the u. S. Get its act together . Well, i think the thing that diff different yates us is we know what to do. Reporter the head of the International MonetaryFund Christine Lagarde says the u. S. Has to confront this. If those decisions are postponed again well, it will be pushing the can down the road yet again, which was an approach we made against the europeans, and i dont think the u. S. Should fall in that trap. Reporter and with the u. S. Economy now showing renewed strength, the feeling here is that the u. S. Could help pull up the rest of the world if washington could just get out of the way. Charlie, norah . Anthony mason, thank you. In the International Press institute reports that 132 journalists were killed around the world last year. And reporting on the war in syria is especially dangerous. James foley was abducted in syria by armed gunmen and hasnt been heard from since. Hes a friend of our own correspondent clairry sa ward whos in london clariss, good morning. Good morning, norah and charlie. You know james foley. How concerned is everyone, certainly his colleagues. You know him. Everyones extremely concerned. As you said before, james was abducted by armed gunmen on thanksgiving day. H was on his way out of syria trying to reach the Turkish Border and really since then nothing has been heard from him. We dont know who has him, we dont know what the motivations were for kidnapping and really in that part of syria, theres no way of narrowing it down. It could be rogue or criminal elements from within the Free Syrian Army and rebel fighters. It could be extremist elements. It could be there are still pockets of regime presence there and, of course, there are those proregime militias, so very difficult to get a sense of who has james. If syria is that dangerous, one of the most dangerous for reporters to cover, how do you cover the story . Its incredibly challenge. Its not the same as reporting from iraq and afghanistan where you were traveling with a conventional army, where you had access to medical care if something were to happen to you. Traveling with rebel fighters, trying to ascertain which groups are the most efficient or disciplined or most accommodating to western journalists, its really like cracking a safe, and theres an enormous amount of prior preparation that needs to be done before you take a trip into place like syria, and even with all of that security, its incredibly dangerous. Thats why youre seeing so many journalists killed in syria. Clarissa warksd congratulations on the dupont award. He defended himself before a National Television audience but as chip reid reports, theres word yet of another twist. What i went through is real. You know, the feelings, the pain, the sore row, that was all real. Reporter in his first tv interview since the scandal broke, allamerican linebacker manti teo told katie couric he didnt know what to do or say after seening the news that the supposed girlfriend that he only knew over the phone and that he thought had died of leukemia hadnt died at all. I think what people dont realize is that the same day that everybody else found out about the situation, i found out. What teo did the next few days is continue to tell interviewers that the love of his life died back in september. To see your son being accused of promoting a story, prolonging the story, and lying about the story im proud of this guy. I really am. Hes not a liar. Hes a kid. Reporter and this strange story continues to twist in the wind. Thursday the lawyer for alleged hoaxster says his client pretended to be teos nonexistent girlfriend in a long series of phone calls. It didnt sound like a man. It sounded like a woman. Baby, im just calling to say good night. I love you. I know youre proing doing your home work or with the boys. Hes an aspiring christian singer who has posted videos to the internet. Teo, by his own admission, spent hundreds of hours on the phone talking to someone he thought was lennay kekua. And at that time on december 8th, two days after i found out she was alive, as a 21yearold, i wasnt ready for that. He had been widely expected to be a first round nfl draft pick but this bizarre incident plus his poor play in College Football playoffs leaves it in doubt. Its time to show you headlines from around the world. Haaretz reports, the protests in cairo today over the new islamic government. The New York Times say north korean officials plan another weapons test and its aimed at the u. S. The wall street journalist says it could signal policing of wall street. Mary jo white is a former u. S. Attorney nope for going after white collar crimes. Usa today says states are scrambling to find money to pay for highway reparis. Massachusetts is considering raising the states gasoline, sales, and income taxes or imposing a tax based on how far someone drives. Virginia wants to end its gasoline tax and increase the sales tax instead. 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