For senator manchin? then, how concerned for the country will senator manchin be? will senator manchin be disheartened in concerned enough, to be willing to join all of the other democrats in the senate and changing the senate rules to eliminated the 60 vote threshold in all, or some, senate votes? if the 60 vote threshold remains in the senate the entire biden harris legislative agenda, beginning with infrastructure and voting rights, will face the impossible hurdle of trying to find ten good solid patriots on the republican side of the senate. patriots oleading off our discun tonight are jim manly, a 29 year veteran who served as perry reed and senator kennedy. also wishes jonathan kaye party. host of an msnbc.
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of 890 seats on the federal bench, 136 are vacant with 15 nominations pending. during his eight years in the white house, president obama reshaped more than one key federal court and with the help of perry reed, change the rules for confirming federal judges to the lower court forever. the trump administration plans to use that to the president s advantage. what he needs to do is replicate the success of justice gorsuch on a massive scale throughout the courts of appeals and district court spirit conservatives point to a judge who was recently elevated to a seat on the sixth circuit bench. senator, i will follow the law and you will never have reason to say i didn t. he fits the mold. accomplished, conservative, young. that worries the left. if trump would be able to put a young judge in justice kennedy
of 890 seats on the federal bench, 136 are vacant with 15 nominations pending. during his eight years in the white house, president obama reshaped more than one key federal court and with the help of perry reed, change the rules for confirming federal judges to the lower court forever. the trump administration plans to use that to the president s advantage. what he needs to do is replicate the success of justice gorsuch on a massive scale throughout the courts of appeals and district court spirit conservatives point to a judge who was recently elevated to a seat on the sixth circuit bench. senator, i will follow the law and you will never have reason to say i didn t. he fits the mold. accomplished, conservative, young. that worries the left. if trump would be able to put a young judge in justice kennedy
No good choices. he knew he was going to have a tough race. he switched to being a democrat. think of the ad that was generated or you think would be generated, a guy in 2004 george bush saying what a nice senator this is. then suddenly he s a democrat. specter said publicly he did it to improve his chances of getting re-elected. still got beat. so it was the democrats that ended up killing his career. more than one republican i spoke to when he made that switch said they were glad to see him go, quite frankly. he was a storm in their side. away he goes. wish him well. we tease this. a lot of people heard from a lot of years, perry reed. what does he have to do with lady gaga and lindsay lohan. connect the dots, sir. this sort of surfaced over the weekend. he heard so much from members of the stark treaty that he hasn t had enough time to study the
this procedure vote that would then get things moving on the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, the nuclear arms agreement that slashes russia s nukes as well as our own. the debate has been multiple times delayed here. in california, we are all over the washout. have you seen those? some of the imaging of the flash flooding? obviously this is not the stuff you want to get stuck driving in. we ll be tackling all those stories. first i want to begin in washington. let s take a live shot of the u.s. senate. i want to tell you what s happening this hour. our u.s. senators are moving toward a vote on this house turkey international treaty, the test vote, a procedural vote. it should happen any moment now, and the treaty would trigger deep reductions in america s nuclear arsenals and the russians nuclear arsenal. there has been this bloc of senate reps who have continued to try to fight this. and it s clear with this treaty that they re trying to cram something else down the throats of the american people under the cover of christmas with a congress that s just been changed by the american people. and people are rightly outraged. now, we also, though, have some polls that shows americans want this treaty to happen. i want to bring in dana bash, who been following this for us. bring it up to speed. where does this stand right now? right now we re waiting for a very important test vote that would effectively cut off debate and begin the end game. the white house actually now has more than enough republicans to get the two-thirds majority needed to approve this treaty that ultimately probably won t happen until tomorrow. you mentioned the fact that there s a bloc of republicans who oppose this. it s been easier to count the number of reps who are supporting it than opposing it. that just gives you a sense of where republicans might end up. in fact, a perfect segue. i d like to tick off some of the names who want this treaty approve, many of whom are former secretary of state george schultz republican, former secretary of state henry kissinger, senator lamar alexander on the floor of the senate today. here he was. i will vote to ratify the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty between the united states and russia, because it leaves our country with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come, and because the president has committed to an $85 billion ten-year plan to make sure that those weapons work. so, dana, given this list that he just ticked off, why are the other republicans still holding out? what s the rationale? a couple reasons. first on substance, there are lots of republicans that i have talked to in the hallway, heard on the senate. who say they have lots of substantive issue with his this treaty. some of them say they simply don t trust that russia, according to the terms of this treaty will live up to it on the various things it s required to do. but also, and even more importantly, hearing it s more of the atmospherics, people like lindsey graham from south carolina, appear opresident-electic i think is fair to use, in talking about he is very upset about the democrats pushing this in the waning hours, hours of this congress when he felt that it needed more time, but also ritz wrapped up in what republicans call other democratic partisan issues that frankly they have been pretty successful at getting through this congress. it s irksome for reps. let me bring that point up. you and i were just, there are reports that say some of these republicans don t want him to have this victory, so would it be possible, dana, that some of them are just playing politics with national security? well, you know, obviously democrats are make that pretty clear in terms of the theme. mitch mcconnell was on the senate floor yesterday saying he doesn t want to do this to give a politician a press conference to declare victory, so take that for what you will. i just want to mention one other thing with regard to s.t.a.r.t., something i was just witnessing. that is about john mccain. he s a leader on national security, he s been upset about the timing of this, but get this. he is in feverish talks with some fellow republicans and it looks lie democrats to try to come up with language for an amendment that perhaps put on the senate floor after this key test vote that might, might, might get the vote of john mccain, which would be pretty remarkable for the white house. they re talking about some kind of language. his biggest issues is that he s concerned this treaty with russia would hurt america s missile defense capabilities in america and elsewhere. so he s looking for language that would simply state u.s. policy. if they can come up with that, that would be something very interesting to get john mccain s vote. dana bash, we are watching the action there. as soon as we start learning of the procedural vote, definitely flag us, and we will bring that to our viewers live. dana bash on the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty, thank you. thank you. also this story, a lot of people talking about this one today. this 31-year-old las vegas dancer, she goes missing for over a week, and police are out there combing the streets, trying to find her. i m going to be speaking with her sister who is out there in vegas. also, police find a device with wires under a training seat in italy. was it a terror attempt? that report is next. [ sneezes ] you re up next. yeah. aww.that oj needs alka-seltzer plus. fast powder packs are a taste-free fizz-free way to transform your drink into a powerful cold fighter! there s a cold front moving in, but relief is on the way. welcome back. a couple stories moving for you. look at this video. this car is a truck, and obviously the truck is stuck. it is an extreme kay of high-water blues as record-breaking rainfall refuses to let up in southern california. folks, the entire l.a. area drenched with people there very nervously watching out for flash floods, mudslides, and the same storm system is pounding the sierra nevadas and other high elevations with several feet of snow. we ll get much more in just a moment. meantime, 70s sitcom fans, you nigh him as the intellectual member of barney miller s please squad. he was in a ton of movies and tv shows as well. his agent says he had been battling cancer. police say they found a suspicious device outside of rome. they say it was hidden underneath a seat in a plastic bag. police suspected it was a bomb, but now they say it could not have blown up. the driver inspecting this particular train at the end of the line found it after it reached its final stop on the city s outskirts. a police bomb squad and fire brigade went to the scene. it was a block box with wires hanging out of it. no claim of responsibilities thus far. the metro line continued operating normally after the package was removed. this is just the latest example of the world we re living in these days, where suspicious items can totally shut down public places and the public goes numb to these inconveniences that have intruded our day-to-day lives. donnell expect things to change anytime soon. eric holder disclosed new details about the evolving threat of home-grown terror. the threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners cometic here to worrying about people in the united states, american citizens, raised here, born here, you didn t worry about this, even 2 years ago. two years ago? did you hear that? he says that because in the last 18 months at least 50 americans have been charged with planning acts of terrorism and public enemy number one on holder s list is an american member of al qaeda anwar al walaki. the threat has changed from simply foreigners coming here to people in the united states, american citizens raised here, born here. you didn t worry about this evening two years ago. he is a person who an american citizen familiar with this country, and he brings a dimension because of that american familiarity that others do not. he would be on the same list with bin laden. he s up there. i don t know whether he s 1, 2, 3, 4, but certainly on the list of the people who worry me the most. the ability to go into your basement, turn on your computer, find a site that has this kind of hatred spewed, they have an ability to take somebody who is perhaps just interested, perhaps just on the edge, and take them over to the other side. how about that? holder did acknowledge the united states has made great strides in improving its ability to both detect and block would-be terrorists before they kill americans. you heard about this story, you like theater? a performer injured after falling in the middle of this broadway version of spirerman. the whole thing caught on camera. and the census figures are out. how your political landscape is about to change. you are in the cnn newsroom s,! [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. and with 25% off our best selling jewelry, together we ll find the perfect gift, right down to the wire. that s why only zales is the diamond store. s we have we talk census, as promised, here are live pictures, we ve just gotten words that the senators have just begun a test vote, a procedural vote, that would reduce america s nukes, russia s nukes. they have to get that magic number for this kind of vote would be 60. 60 would open debate, and if they reach that, they go on for the official vote which would have to be two thirds majority or 67. we won t worry with that for now. we ll keep our eyes on this procedural vote unfolding. staying in washington, remember the brouhaha over the census? there were bloggers, some members of congress warning about citizens don t respond. americans did respond and today the numbers are out. you esome of states highlighted experiencing population growth. you see them in blue. look at texas, see the plus 4? that means texas has grown enough to game as many as four congressional seats. now, switching the graphic, here s some of the states where the population is shrinking. this is important because these states will lose representation in the house of representatives, states in the north, in the midwest, plus louisiana which lost population due to hurricane katrina. i want to bring in kate bolduan. this looks like at least based on the shading, that it helps republicans. the states growing tend to be ones that vote republican. generalitily speaking, and that s pretty much all we can do. you re see gains in the congressional seats. those including traditionally republican-leaning states. you just mentioned it can it can. they re getting the they re gaining the most congressional seats. on the flip side, states who have seat a drop in population here centering in the midwest and the north and they include traditional strongholds like new york, michigan, massachusetts, so you could generally say who is the big winner? republicans seem to have an advantage when you re looking at the political landscape. and given this information, we know they have to redraw these stricts, and sometimes it even involves the courts, so my question is, kate, looking ahead to 2012, will the electoral map be redrawn? it needs to be redrawn in time for that. we know from the census bureau itself needs to get the information to the states they they d that to them by april 1st 2011, so beyond that, it needs to be done by 201. it s a big year. so those are the first races affected by the numb numbers in 2012. what kind of implications might there become come 2012? of course, at this point it s kind of difficult to say anything definitive. if you just look at the mid terms and how the political landscape has even changed since the mid terms, but as we mentioned, you can generally say it seems republicans have a bit of an advantage in terms of the seats that are gained, as well as those being states that are traditionally republican-leaning states. one aneck dote, this is a bit telling of of the eight states gaining house seats, president obama won three of those states in the 2011 election. look at the flip side. obama won eight of those in the 2008 election, so it will be interested to see how it looks come 2012. kate bolduan. we appreciate that. this dancer totally vanishes. it s been a week or so since she left her apartment. please, relatives, including her sister, she is now in vegas trying to plead with the public, trying to get some help. i ll talk to her sister live, just ahead. southern california continues to get slammed with to referenceal rains. we re going to dig a little deeper on this bleak winter forecast for you. that s next. itis pain. and a choice. take tylenol now, and maybe up to 8 in a day. or.choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. enjoy the flight. with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it s the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter. and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual action listerine® whitening® rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. you don t think christmas puts some people on edge? take a look at this with me. a group of singer show up at a mall to sing the end of the gloria chorus. the crowd of shoppers make some noises in the mall for the creaking of the floors and mass evacuation ensues. mass evacuation. let s just listen for a moment. so you can t hear it, but they re saying, you know, the mall is closed, everyone s standing around. what do they do? then they all run out at once. everyone s okay, no one s hurt. it just goes to show, you put a bunch of people in an enclosed space, and sometimes crazy things happen. just a flash mob, just a flash mob. the weather is major news today especially out west. bonnie schneider is here. it s been a rough go for the last few days for them. that s right. four days of steady rain. this is the rainiest season, but this has been tremendous. five inches of rain in the los angeles area, and it s still raining. it s getting heavier to the south, like in san diego, that s where we have heavy rain. naturally flooding has been a huge problem. take a look at this video. in california you can see that truck. now, this person made it out okay. they called from their cell phone and was rescued. the force of moving water is nothing to be reckoned with. it s incredible. obviously if you re trying to drive on a road that looks like it s starting to flood, turn around. but if you re caught, the first thing to do is roll down the windows in case you have to crawl out. you can climb on top the car, but the best thing is to avoid the situation completely. the force of moving wart could be 500 inching of pressure per feet as it rises. we re seeing it across nevada. with that said, las vegas 1 to 3 inches of rain in the forecast. we re watching for advisories there. where it s cold enough, we have a lot of snow. we re measuring it by the foot now the advisories persist all the way into parts of colorado, but a lot of trouble driving on snow-covered roads and icy roads, too, even experienced driver, you can t fight mother natu nature, so a lot of trouble when the snow has been so strong. how much more can we expect? quite a bit. 4 inches into san diego, as we watch this event unfold. this is some good news, depends on how you look at it. the storm system will eventually start to dry out. we have sunshine in the forecast for thursday. but then it pulls offshore by the end of the weekend. it may mean a white christmas for many folks. the probably is sunday is a busy travel day, so we ll likely get strong wind and substantial snow, and then wind, of course, bringing down colder temperatures for the great lakes and maybe once again here in the south. we ll be monitoring that. one last mention for temperatures, you have to see these highs, yesterday in texas you ll see wichita falls climbed up to 84 degrees. dallas, texas, not listed here was 79 today, brooke, the average is 56, down to 47 christmas day. big changes. how about that? i will take that warm any day of the week. bonnie schneider, thanks very much. just getting information in my ear. the floor of the senate, we re just now hearing the number has been nearing the magic number being 60. that is the number they need to open debate here, block any kind of filibuster. we ll bring dana in after the break. more on that momentarily. also this, american women are having more c-sections nowadays according to a new medical study. we re going to walk you through some of these numbers. what do they mean? and what happened to this beautiful dancer? she s also very, very smart, many, many degrees as well. beautiful dancer, last seen over a week ago, leaving her las vegas apartment. that is what police and relatives want to know, where is she? what happened. there she is, good enough to join me from las vegas. up next. so, during sign then drive i can get a cc for just my signature? that s right, right now you can take home a volkswagen for just your signature. like the cc, or the tiguan. huh. yeah, plus every vw includes scheduled carefree maintenance. really? that s great. there you go. oh, that guy s pretty good too. yeah, he s ok. [ male announcer ] it s amazing what you can do with a pen. sign then drive is back. for a limited time get any 2011 volkswagen for practically just your signature. before we talk about what s happening in las vegas, this is a live picture. we now have a final vote on the procedure vote to get to the official vote. i want to bring in cnn s dana bash. correct me if i m wrong, 67-28, so they were above that magic number by seven, seven senators? reporter: that s right. what s important about that 67 number is that is the number that s a frankly strong number, from what we expected based on the discussions, at least ten republican senators to vote yes. that appears to have happened. that s why this vote occurred. we ll have more debate potential some amendments, nonbinding amendments, ades that won t change the treaty, in the next 24 hours with a final vote expected tomorrow. dana bash, that s the two thirds they would need to pass this thing. dana, thank you. moving on to this story. she s beautiful, she s brilliant, she s a rising star as a dancer in the las vegas strip, and she simply vanished. in just a moment, i m going to ask the sister of debcembe debb norare has three college degrees, and debbie chased her dream of becoming a dancer. she spent two years as a washington redskins cheerleader after that she landed a spot in the fantasy show at the luxor. then it was december 12th debbie disappeared without a trace. she just didn t show up to work. so now, i want to bring in celeste, her sister. she s in las vegas to help get the word out, help cooperate with police in the search. as debbie s sister, in your gut, do you think your sister is okay, or do you think something is very, very wrong here? um, i have to believe that she s okay. i have to believe that. i have to believe that she s okay. i have to mentally believe that she is okay. to continue on. here is what please said a couple hours ago. she may have left on her own. however we re treating this seriously. at this point we re going to look at every aspect of the investigation aspect into this investigation as if there was foul play, but a this point we haven t found any indication of foul play. so at this point, celeste, no indication of foul play, they re scratching their heads over what happened to debbie. she has multiple college degrees, leaves her career behind in baltimore, moving to las vegas, follows her dream, but suddenly isn t showing up at her shows. is this typical or atypical of your sister? no. no. she she was dedicated, and she loved her job. this was a step higher. she got a solo act in this particular production, which was definitely a step higher towards a dancer s career. she wouldn t have left this for the world. she was doing well, moving along in the show. we have to take here about her ex-boyfriend. his name apparently some aspire rapper. she appeared in this music video with him for one of his songs. i know you were in court today, apparently he was not. here s the music video today regarding this arrest from a couple months ago, where she was charged with battery, domestic violence coercion, apparently this stems from where he tossed her cell phone. here s what the police officer wrote after she picked it up, the iphone she stated griffith ran towards her push her down on the ground, while on the floor he ticked her, pulled her hair and attempted to take the iphone again. did debbie ever tell you about that, celeste, that incident? no, she didn t. i didn t find that out until i got here to vegas. i wasn t aware. did she ever talk to you about blue, about any of his tendencies to act like that? no. when me and my sister talked, it was more about my kids and my family. she knew how i felt about domestic violence and things like that, so i think it was more of she was ashamed if speaking was going on. i m not sure if there was or not. she didn t talk about it. i went to court. she didn t talk to me about it. it was more my mother, and my mother didn t really foe about it, either. this arrest report says she told the police officer she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend s child. is that true? um, apparently she was pregnant. i found out about that when i got here, too. how close are you with your sister? close. um, we try to talk as much as possible. there s definitely an hour three hours difference between atlanta and here in vegas, and she works evenings and i work daytime, and of course my kids. so as much as we can, when we do talk, it s briefly, but we do talk, and we talk about the kids and things that are really important. you talk, you also text. apparently she texted your mother earlier this month, and she wrote this in case there s ever an emergency with me, contact blue griffin, mott my best friend. celeste, what does that mean? that s not exactly what the text message said. there was more to that text message. to me that text message is irrelevant. i m letting the investigators handle that. they re following all possible leads and things of that nature. that text message, the way it was technically written could mean various things. so, you know, they re working hard, following leads, talking to the people they need to talk to, to get more information to her whereabouts and bringing her home. did she write more is it you re you re just saying the text should not be relevant in this case? there was more to that text message. the text message just didn t make any sense. it was more of a it felt as though, i guess, she was in a quick hurry, and she texted really quickly, as some of us do. tlmp more words in there. it just wasn t that. where it doesn t make any sense. it could be like, you know, just contact if something happens out here, in case of an emergency, in a good way or not. the investigators are handling that. i won t press you on that. we ll move on. here s another question. your sister s car was found in this parking lot not too far from her apartment on the las vegas strip in this abandoned parking lot. were there any clues, anything found in her car, celeste? i ve been to the area. it wasn t a parking lot. it was an abandoned lot, with what seemed to be an abandoned home and buildings of that sort. it s not a very good area. the car was strategically, to my knowledge, and to my gut placed there so that it wouldn t be found. there was a small makeup bag apparently found in the car, but that s about it. what do you mean by that, that it was placed there? you don t think your sister drove the car there? no. no. it was placed behind a wall so you couldn t see it if you were driving by. you say you want to believe your sister is okay. do you think someone else may be involved in her disappearance? it s not that i want to believe. i have to believe. right now i don t know if someone is involved in the case or in what s going on. i don t know. i have to believe she s okay, i have to believe she will be found. i have to believe in the investigators. they re doing a great job with what they re doing. they re gathering as much as possible, working with me and everybody else that is handling the case to bring her home to her family and bring her home, period. we wish you well. we hope, we ll stay positive that that happens. still so many questions here in this investigation. celeste, you re a good sister to be out there to try to help police. celeste flores-narvaez, thank you. thank you. c-sections are hitting a record in this country? 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[ woman ] ask your rheumatologist about simponi®. just one dose, once a month. i m hugh jidette. as president, i promise your taxes will help build roads, bridges and schools. oh not here, overseas. i ll keep using your taxes to pay over one hundred billion dollars a year in interest to foreign lenders, helping their economy. hurting ours. i m hugh jidette, let s keep borrowing. oweno, let s not. with a plan we can stop sending billions to foreign lenders, grow our economy and meet our needs. visit oweno.com to stop hugh jidette. all right. ladies, listen to this. if you re planning on having a baby, it s becoming more and more likely you ll give birth by c-section. elizabeth cohen has brand-new numbs from the cdc. my mommy girl froends and i talk about this. we were once in a group of five women, and only one person had had a advantagible delivery. really? why? it s pretty amazing. these new cdc numbers say that 1 out of every 3 babies is born by c-section. that is a huge increase. a 16% increase over and that s huge. what do women need to know? let me talk a bit about why it s happening. there s a bunch of reasons, but one of them is doctors don t like getting sued. so when things start looking like things aren t going well, obstetricians saying they re much more quick to go and do a c-section. but that s a serious surgery. it is, but a complication with a vangen birth can be deadly for a baby and can mean a lawsuit and mean bad things. they tell me they re much more quick to move into that operating room than they used to be. there s a couple things, one, if you want that vaginal birth, and some women don t care. if you really want a vaginal birth, choose a dr. with a low c-section rate. ask them how committed they are to vaginal births. and those numbers are available? i asked my doctor, and he knew. if they don t know, that tells you something. they should be proud of that rate. the second thing, when you re in the delivery room, the baby is being born, a lot going on, but when they say it s time for a c-section, you can ask, is this an emergency like you need a c-section where this baby will possibly die. there are cases, or is this a situation, where maybe we can try to push for another half hour and see how it goes. be empowered, even though you may be about to experience crazy pain, ask good questions. this is an incredibly hard situation to be an empowered patient, which is why it s important to choose the doctor or the but it s important to ask, do i really need it or can we wait a little longer? thank you, elizabeth. should the man who was convicted in the pan am bombing over lockerbie, should he have been released? a new report says no way. i ll be talking with the senator leading that report. that is ahead. the spiderman musical has not officially opened and already there have been four accidents. this latest one caught on camera. we will share that with you, next. time for trending today. a lot of peel are talking about something i might have slept there. sorry my sleep is important, but you sent me some picture. we re talking about the lunar eclipse. please share. shoot me a message on twitter, tell me what you saw, what you thought or what you did, and i ll try to read a couple here on air. before that, let s go straight to los angeles, where showbiz news is trending. brooke, it wasn t a lunar eclipse, but some people in new york were looking up in a certain theater seeing something indeed shocking as well. yeah. shocking and really disturbing. it was last night on broadway during that super-expensive musical adaptation of spiderman, at $65 million the most expensive production ever mounted on broadway. big bucks. the shown is known for the thrilling special effects that spiderman does on stage what he does everywhere, right? she lynx his web, flies around. well, watch what happened during last night s performance. [ screaming ] okay. you can just barely see what happens. it s difficult to see, but the actor, there he is being wheeled away. the actor playing spider man dove to the stage only to have his safety heartness fail. 31-year-old christopher tierney hit the stage. the show stopped immediately. ambulance took him away. he listed in serious condition. the guy who shot this video says that tierney free fell about 20 feet. show is not even officially open. last night s performance was a preview. i don t want to say this spider man musical is cursed, but it s not the first injury or technical problem to get in the way of the show s broadway opening. the company did discuss new safety protocols with the appropriate organizations. those protocols will be enacted. the show has been approved to continue tomorrow evening. how about that i saw the 60 minutes piece. it looks amazing, but still that many accidents? i don t know. we wish them well. before i left you go. i m a huge 30 rock fan tracy morgan with surprising news? yeah, even for a comedian, book, a kidney transplant is no joke. tracy morgan is recovering nicely, i m happy to say from a kidney transplant he received earlier this month. morgan is taking time off to rest and recover, so he s going to miss taping a couple episodes, but the actor s representative tells us that he s doing well, plans to get back to work after the holidays, and he s not letting this procedure slow him down. he s been out and about, even went to a knicks game last friday. 30 rock writers will explain his absence in the scripts that morgan will miss. those are shows that are scheduled to air in the spring. and tracy morgan is a diabetic. he told an interviewer only recently that he began taking the disease seriously. after this procedure hopefully he will comply with doctors orders. we wish him well. brooke anderson, good to see you from l.a. today. you too. there is this new report from an al qaeda group. they have apparently contemplated poisoning some food here in the u.s.? we re talking restaurants, buffets. we ll get a live report. that s ahead. also gloria borger has all the political news making headlines. we ll be right back. well welcome back too the newsroom. gloria borger joins us from the cnn political ticker. gloria, we talked a lot about the potential redistricting here in the midterms. we know there are political consequences of the new system. there are huge political consequences. let me show you this map, brooke. there are eight states that will gain seats in the house. they are the states of arizona, florida, georgia, nevada, south carolina, texas, and washington state. now, obama won three of those states in 2008 florida, washington, nevada. those states are very much still going to be in play in 2012. but if you look at the rest of the states, you would have to say those trend republican. so if you look at the news, you say, okay, this was a very good census for republicans, particularly since they re the ones that have to determine redistricting. they ve made a lot of gains in governorships. they ve made a lot of gains in state legislatures. that s good. there s one big butt here. and that is that these states that made gains are because of minority largely hispanic populations. and so the question really is, going to 2012, could that turn out the be a plus for the democrats given immigration reform. don t forget, they did bring the dream act to a vote in the lame duck session. they didn t get it. a lot of republicans on the record voting against it. i guarantee you that immigration is going to be a huge wedge issue as we head to the presidential. another huge issue also today s big, big story out of capitol hill. the starr treaty. not only did they get the 60 votes. they got the 67. they got to 67. i m waiting to see. i know dana bash is doing great reporting on this. i m waiting to see whether in the end they cut a deal waiting to get john mccain. there are a lot of people going to the lame duck session that said barack obama wasn t going to get much. turns out he got a lot more than many people in the white house thought he was going to get. you have to say, out of this lame duck session, barack obama was a huge winner. he got democrats in his liberal base very upset. people voted for bipartisanship and working things out in washington in the midterm elections. it s very clear that obama did not take a lot of time in listening to them and saying, you know what? i heard you, we re getting a lot done. does that mean i don t know what it means for the next session, though, brooke. i tell you that. big win for the president. the tax issue. now the starr treaty. gloria borger, you re right. thank you so much. we ll get another political update for you in half an hour. jump online. cnnpolitics.com. more stories on the ticker and also there on twitter go at political ticker. the new report out today says this convicted pan am bomber should not should not have been released back home to libya and claims he was too ill to stay in prison. robert menendez about his investigation. what he found next. sounds like you need to name your price. no gobbledy-gook? never. do i still get all the dagnabbit coverage i need? sure. we give you a quote and you can adjust your price up and down to find something that works for you. this thing is okey-mcsmokey skiddly-doo. great! i think. diggity. oh! still not sure. the name your price tool. only from progressive. call or click today. if you have gout, high uric acid can lead to more attacks. to help reduce attacks, lower your uric acid. uloric lowers uric acid levels in adults with gout. it s not for the treatment of high uric acid without a history of gout. uloric reduces uric acid to help you reach a healthy level. 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[ male announcer ] if you have gout, ask your doctor about uloric. there are new reports that an al qaeda food has contemplated spreading poison in food here in the united states. brian todd has the details. we re talking, what, buffets? restaurants in the states? sounds a little hard to believe, brooke, but, yes, that s what we re talking ant. cnn has learned that associates in al qaeda have contemplated an unconventional but deadly tactic to attack the u.s. that is spreading poison on salad bars and buffets an american hotels and restaurants. now, u.s. officials have south to downplay the threat. they said it was more a discussion about tactics than an actual plot. they say associates contemplating putting liasin and sigh unite in to food supplies. u.s. officials did meet through regular channels with representatives of the hotel and restaurant industries to discuss the possibility that those industries might be a target. and to discuss ways to possibly counter the threat. now in a statement, a spokesman said, quote, we re not going to comment on specific terrorist planning. al qaeda has demonstrated the willingness to carry out attacks in well over a decade. propaganda in the last year have made similar reference. he said we get reports of the kinds of attacks that terrorists like to carry out that frequently are beyond their means. terrorism experts are saying it wouldn t be that hard to basically spray some of the cyanide an other poisons in to salad bars and buffets in the united states. important to note that al qaeda and the arabian peninsula is in the same group that provides two toner cartridge bombs in an attempt to throw below up two cargo planes. they re behind the group behind the failed attempt to blow up a flight from amsterdam to detroit last christmas. those are the other other attempted plots as well. and, you know, they have targeted our commercial planes? now we ve seen cargo. an now, the potential, as you say, for our food. they said this is a threat. this is not an imminent threat. this is information. it was a discussion of a tactic they say came into the threat screen months ago. not too recently, months ago. restaurant to guard about this kind of traffic and chatter tall time anyway to see if there s a plot. this is more a discussion about tactics than an actual plot. frightening none theless. now at the top of the hour, watch this. the russians are waiting will our senate today take action to cut nuclear arms by a whole lot? their weapons and ours. and why are lawmakers even arguing about this? i m brooke baldwin, the news is no now. from the finance industry to the burlesque stage, now the star dancer goes missing in las vegas. one of the flame is missing. everybody looks very worried right now. what was in the message she sent to her mother the days before she disappeared and where is the exboyfriend? not like her to go missing and take a small vacation. her sister joins me live in the newsroom. waiting with great optimism for the future. arlen has been in office since kennedy was president. today, he says good-bye. this state not looking so golden. the weather wreaking havoc in california. the news is now. a lot of news happening right now. rapid fire and this. live picture inside the senate. ten republicans are reporting the newest incarnation of the stark arm control deal with russia. if this treaty passes in a final senate vote, we will see the resumption of both country s nuclear arsenals ratifying reagan air policies is one of the president s top foreign policy categories. the police sound the all-clear in rome. that s after the bomb squad responded to the suspicious device early this morning. on a seat on a passenger train. it was dangerous, the cylinder filled with gun powder but police say they could not have exploded. it was a dud in other words. no word on who may have placed it there or why. next, look carefully with me. i can t get over that picture. that s a truck the truck is stuck in rapidly rising water. an extreme case of high-water blues as record-breaking rainfall refuses to let up. it s southern california. the entire los angeles area is drenched with people there nervously watching out for flash floods, for mud slides. the same storm system, by the way, is pounding the sierra nevada and higher elevations with several feet of snow. the snow even more, rain and snow in the california forecast. next, why in the world are people lining up for hours at london s international rail station. well, it s not just there. most said they look there as well. frigid temperatures, snow, ice, they re combining for slow hi highway traffic to a crawl. rail traffic is a near stand still. look at the lines. one third of the scheduled lines to take off. there this is the year toyota motors would like to start over again. more fallout from the trouble that cost the company millions for inn penalties for the way it handled a string of recalls. the u.s. government has fined toyota an additional $32 million in civil penalties, raising the total fines to nearly $49 million. the department of transportation said toyota failed to give adequate details. more action moving north pakistan. series of strikes killed 57 people on friday. that s a record for a single day there. the official says his country wants more control over the drone program saying it would save lives. the search and rescue vessel trying to locate wreckage from that national guard helicopter that went down in the water off of san juan, puerto rico. it happened late monday. one person was killed. investigators are trying to figure out what happened. next, a bill that would provide free medical coverage for 9/11 emergency workers may be stalled for this session. the bill would cover workers exposed to toxins and other fumes while cleaning up the site of the world trade center on 9/11 and beyond. oklahoma senator tom coburn will use procedural measures to block it. in fact, coburn says advocates are trying to rush the legislation through congress wout consideration of spending cuts to offset that cost. next check out the rare joint appearance. this is the reverend billy graham. he came out to greet special guests at his library. the bushes were in charlotte for a book signing at the graham library and fans who lined up got to see them and the 92-year-old evangelical leader. next, the results are in. the u.s. population has grown to more than 308 million people. so that is the biggest growth taking place in the south in the western states than ten years ago. that s good news for republicans. they typically do well in the elections in those regions. eight states will see the representation grow in congress all thanks to the new numbers, the new figures. next on this date 22 years ago, the word the lockerbie became synonymous with terrorism and grief. 259 people died aboard pan am flight 103. most of them americans when a bomb exploded onboard. in addition to that number, 11 people in the town of lockerbie died when the wreckage smashed the there on to the ground. one man has been convicted of a crime related to that bombing. areleased from prison last year on humanitarian grounds. he wasn t expected to survive more than three months because he has end stage cancer. well, that man is still very much so alive. 16 months later, his name is abdel mused el-meghrati. joining me now, senator robert menend menendez. the whole report, justice undone: the release of the lockerbie bomber. and he was released on compassionate grounds. he had cancer. wasn t expected to live past three months. based upon this report at least today, do you think he was as sick as scottish doctors said he feel fee fee feels. he was convicted and his appeal was denied and the bottom line is is that as our report listed medical cancer experts that there s no way that a three-month progress know sils cou prognosis that could have been given. he would only live three months. even the scottish experts that were used would not commit to a three-month period. that s what was necessary to get a release. it was unjustified, manipulated, in order to have him freed to qaddafi who made it his number one priority. libya and can dhaqaddafi used pl pressure to get him released. instead of sitting in jail, he sits in a villa in manila. it s justice undone. scottish doctors who determined he had three months to live. and that s all the part of his release because he had prostate cancer. part of the report you say these were doctors who were, quote, clearly involved in political intergovernmental discussions and cnn has been doing our digging on this as well. what written evidence do you have that says doctors were link in those political talks? there are a series of interviews that my investigator who went to scotland as well as great britain and other documents that came out in some of the discovery that was had that had the prison doctor who is a general doctor. and el megrahi s assigned doctor from the prison, a practitioner, not a cancer expert. who sat in meetings in which libyan officials made it very clear to scottish officials that, in fact, having el megrahi die in a scottish prison would be real problems for great britain and for scotland. so that had nothing to do with the medical progress know sils. that had everything to do with sending a clear message that libya, which has a history of retaliating against countries who don t do what they want them to do, use the commercial interests to ultimately force the issue. and to get their way. senator since the british government had a big contract pending with bp, they use that at their leverage. i want to let you know and let everyone know, cnn, we did our own reporting where we reached out to the uk and the scottish government. i m curious since you heard from the report today, have you heard back from either government? we have not. and, of course, we don t expect them to agree with our report. but i think if you look at the facts in the report, the fact that all of the medical testimony said no way could he be expected to live three months, he s lived 16 months. all of the commercial transactions with bp for a $900 million deal was on the road to being executed and hit a land mine with that release. once he was released, it was ultimately approved. the british government had powers even as he was in a xotdish jail because they have power still with scotland on any international relations question, on any national in the united kingdom not to have let him go. there are plenty of facts to substantiate the reports. robert menendez of new jersey. thank you for talking to me after. justice undone. inappreciate you today. thank you. thank you. i have to believe that she is okay. i have to mentally believe that she is okay. a missing dancer s sister speaks out. what happened to the beautiful young woman whose star was just beginning to shine on the las vegas strip? also, after half a century of the halls of congress, arlen specter bidding farewell to his own colleagues today. our own joe johns has a couple of arlen specter yarns to share with us. looking forward to that. yes! yes, yes, yes! [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. and with 25% off our best selling jewelry, together we ll find the perfect gift, right down to the wire. that s why only zales is the diamond store. a beautiful las vegas show girl totally vanishes. she is not your typical show girl. she has three degrees. finance, international business, and law. she left that whole high-powered career behind in baltimore to live out her dream in las vegas of becoming a dancer. in fact, she s living that dream. she s been living that dream in the luxor hotel in a show they call fantasy. suddenly days ago, she disappears wout a trace. and debbie s sister is in las vegas to help search for her sister. at this point, she says she told me she pretty much is running on faith. here she is. i have to believe that she s okay. i have to believe that she s okay. i have to mentally believe that she s okay. battery, domestic violence, coerci coercion. this whole incident stems from he tossed debbie s iphone. the arrest report after she picked it up, your sister, the iphone. she stated griffith ran toward her, pushed her to the ground. and then kicked her, pulled her hair, and attempted to take the iphone again. did debbie tell you about that incident? no, she didn t. i didn t find that out until i got here to vegas. i wasn t aware. did she talk about blue, some of the tendencies to act like that? when me and my sister talked, it was more about the kids and the family. she knew about domestic violence. it was more she was ashamed if there was something going on. i went to court yeah, she didn t talk to me about it. it was more of my mother and my mother didn t know about that either. this arrest report states she told the police officer she was pregnant with her exboyfriend s child. is that true? apparently, she was pregnant. i found out about that when i got here too. she texted your mother earlier this month. she wrote this if there s ever an emergency with me, contact blue griffin not my best friend. what does that mean? that s not what the text message said. more to the text message. i m letting the investigators handle that. they re following all possible leads and things of that nature. that message the way it was written could mean various things. so they re working hard, following leads to talk to the people they need to talk to to get more information as to her whereabouts and bringing her home. you say you want to believe your cyster is okay. could someone else be involve in the disappearance? not that i want to believe, i have to believe. i have an idea that someone else is involve in the case or knows what s going on. i don t know. i have to believe she s okay. i have to believe that she will be found. just to follow up here, las vegas police did meet with reporters this afternoon. they say right now there s no indication of foul play in the disappearance of debbie flores. but you can imagine that i ear out there, following every possible lead in that case. here s one for you. talk about worlds colliding. what would prompt senate majority leader harry reid to conjure up images of lady gaga in that meat dress? remember that? and lindsey lohan at the betty ford clinic? i m stumped. the answers will be reveal in political pop with joe johns. you know we re talking about questions that aren t getting answered. joe johns covered many of these men and women in politics countless times including arlen specter. he said his good-byes today. saying good-bye and thank you to his colleague a lot of kind things being said. but my question to you, joe johns, is is it all warm and fuzzy? normally you say about a senator giving a farewell address, a closing argument. they tell me senator specter has mellowed over the years. and my belief is this is just him confronting his own mortality. that said, for the record, there was once a day when he was widely seen as a notorious grouch, one of the biggest grouches on the hill. one of the biggest grouches on the hill that had a nickname, which was? yes, it s still around there too. the nickname is snarling arlen. he could never resist a verbal battle or show he s simply the smartest lawyer in the room. was he the smartest lawyer in the room pretty smart guy? yeah. a pretty smart guy. it depends. hi goes way back. he was a staffer on the warren commission that investigated the murder of john f. kennedy. i don t know if it s murder or not, but a lot of people say he s the guy whoo! came up with the single bullet theory. one bullet injured governor connolly and the president. when the camera came on in the elections, he was a lot more polite in pennsylvania. i tune in on one of the campaign swings covering the re-election rates. talked to him on the campaign trail, felt nothing like covering him on the hill. it s like two different people. wasn t snarling arlen when you covered him in the p.a. not snarling arlen when i saw him in pennsylvania. but on the hill, i thought he was really tough to deal with. there s nothing wrong with the guy who gives it media trouble, right? i had trouble interviewing him, asking him questions at news conferences. you know, you would suddenly find yourself being interrogated even if you thought you asked a straightforward question. and it was. it was the prosecutor in him. he never gave that up. you flew past one piece of information. i want to ayetal size it. he s been on the hill since under the kennedy administration go ahead. in the kennedy administration, he was abc actually a staffer on the warren commission. that s different from being a senator. on the hill in recent semirecent years, he s switched par tis. how was that receive? it was on his undoing. no good choices. he knew he was going to have a tough race. he switched to being a democrat. think of the ad that was generated or you think would be generated, a guy in 2004 george bush saying what a nice senator this is. then suddenly he s a democrat. specter said publicly he did it to improve his chances of getting re-elected. still got beat. so it was the democrats that ended up killing his career. more than one republican i spoke to when he made that switch said they were glad to see him go, quite frankly. he was a storm in their side. away he goes. wish him well. we tease this. a lot of people heard from a lot of years, perry reed. what does he have to do with lady gaga and lindsay lohan. connect the dots, sir. this sort of surfaced over the weekend. he heard so much from members of the stark treaty that he hasn t had enough time to study the treaty that his office pulled out all of the things that happen in the administration and russia agreed to start. and this sort of shows you the way harry reid has been trying to buy into pop culture and linking it to politics. he said, among the things that happened, the chilean miners were trapped and released. lady gaga debuted in her meat dress, the 2010 baseball season began and ended. lebron james announced i m taking my talents to south beach. more here my favorite two, larry king announces retirement and conan returns to late night. that s really funny, joe johns. we love how you always we have the fascinating quirky stories and make us smarter every single day. we appreciate it. see you tomorrow. you bet. it lasted 3 1/2 hours. the question is big. did you see it? 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[ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. stuff we talk about because you re talking about it. you talked about the lunar eclipse. i want to read the tweets. you have been tweeting me a ton. one tweet it said this. the moon was directly above me and it was cloudy. oh. we have another one. yes, guys, boise, really clear. it was awesome. neighbors to be moon gazers. we got another one. last night, i went to a winter solstice party. we didn t get to watch the eclipse because it was way too cloudy. i saw many tents set up in yards watch parties. i enjoyed my sleep. i appreciate hearing about it through you. a ton of reports. one of the cooler and clearer a lot of you said it s cloudy clearer vid orioles. sheila hagler in grand bay, alabama. she braved the elements to get the images of the moon being hid be en by the shadows. next, shania twain is all over the news. her rep is confirming she s engaged to frederick tebo. he s a big shot in the nestle company. this is the interesting part. shania s fiance was married to the woman who is now married to she naya twain s exhurt? you follow me? the two couples, now they ve hooked up with each others e s exes. the canadian singer was divorced two years ago. going globe trekking, come along. one of our favorites. you didn t wake up in the middle of the night to watch the eclipse. when in doubt, i stay asleep, usually. amen, sister. frightening moments for a little bit of rome. they found it could be a box, but all is clear. they found a black box with wires hanging from it. the train conductor alerted authorities. the police are saying there s no detonator and no claim of responsibility. and europe is on edge right now. we had warnings of possible attacks in targets against the holidays. and there s been regular news of arrest arrests of police and individuals who are inspired by al qaeda. tense time right now. not just was of this. it s not going away. thousands of people are still stranded. not just london. not london. it s the airport in amsterdam, charles de gaulle in paris. and the train stations. europe has the train station that links the united kingdom to france and belgium as well. many people are trying to get to the continent any way they can. you re seeing scenes from heathrow. and people milling around, yes. they ve been given a bottle of water in some cases in two days. i d want a little bit more water. this is the headline today. hopefully, it s starting to ease. heathrow airport authorities are going to bus people to gatwick where they re almost back to normal. i read something ant a third of the flight, a third oh it was flights at heathrow are a go. but it looks like possibly more than that right now. a second runway was open two hours ago. excellent. but here s the other thing. is the question being asked today in europe, you know what? it s snowing. it s not the end of the world. how is it that the entire continent comes to a stand still. and they say this is unacceptable. it s the airport s fault. the airline s fault. the blame game. you are going to take measures in the future, tay say, so when it stows again, this isn t what happened. thank you for going globe trekking with us today. if you re in southern california, here s the alumn with this. maybe not know and a lot of rain and apparently it has not let up. a report from california ahead on that. and the senate goes to in debate on the stark treaty. is the final vote here imminent? live report from capitol hill. reporter roulette is next. [ beeping ] my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee i sing [ laughs ] oh, land where my fathers died land of the pilgrims pride from every mountainside let freedom ring welcome back to the newsroom. a nuclear treaty vote, a wipeout on the west coast. a offer? i want to play reporter roulette. the test vote is over. where do we stand now? stand in a place of basically waiting waiting for the final vote of approval. the drama seems to be gone in terms of whether or not the president will get the 2/3 majority needed. it seems as though he s going to get that. we have personally talked to or seen public statements for from at least ten republican senators that gives the president some some a majority for sure, a supermajority. the question now, brook, is how many more republicans. and does that potentially include the formal rival john mccain skeptical of the treaty, critical of the process. but in play? might there be amendments before they try to vote? yes, we do expect there to be in fact the person who s heading this up for the democrats, john kerry. there will be nine amendments. what s important to note that these amendments will not change the text and the terms of the treaty. what these amendments would do would simply be to effectively state u.s. policy. what we call a nonbinding sense of the senate. that s the best analogy. but the important thing is that if these pass, they won t change the treaty, but they could help assuage some republican concerns about the fact that the u.s. position when it comes to missile defense in europe and elsewhere. next, we have casey from ventura county, california with the rain not letting up five days in a row. casey? this 20 mile stretch of pacific highway north of malibu, california remains closed after a mud slide that brought down bolders according to caltrans as big as an suv. other issues, where a man was trap in the pickup truck and raging waters. a rescue crew got him out safely. crews like that have been deployed from southern california in the last couple of days. in higher elevations in the sierra nevada mountains, snow as much as 13 1/2 feet since friday. and we seen wind gusts as high as 150 miles per hour in the higher elevations. other problems include traffic snarls, accidents, power outages. we have not seen the worst of the storm yet. that s expected to hit southern california later tonight. brooke? thank you. and finally on reporter roulette, psp in florida, you re following the arrest of the pedophile author? what s the latest? he arrives in florida. flew in here to leapt and will be booked in the jail just before noon today. he sent a copy of the controversial book called the pentacostal guide here in florida. before he s booked into the jail, he took about five minutes. he fielded 35 different questions from reporters. he told us number one as an adult, he never had sex with a child. his book isn t a how-to guide to rape children. this is to help pedophiles rehabilitate themselves. he s going to fight the case. he ll get the chance tomorrow when he has the initial hearing in court at 1:00 in the afternoon. very willing to talk to reporters. let me follow up. is he going to get out of jail on bond tomorrow? maybe head back to colorado. very unlikely, brook. living in a house with three other adults, doesn t have a job. what about the defense? what do they say? he hasn t hired an attorney. he said, isn t this entrapment. the sheriff maintained this is a guy who sold a gook on amazon.com while they were offering that book for sale. he was peddling the book to anyone that wanted to buy it. they said that s not going to be be a defense. and for those people who want to hide under first amendment, you walk in a theater, you can t yell fire or bomb on an airplane. certain things you want to do. this is a florida law. might be different in other states. this is a law that you obtain materials, not pornography. but they say they believe their case is pretty locked tight. bottom line here no matter how disgusting the rest of us find his book, amazon.com pulled the book from the shelves. that s today s reporter roulette. did you hear what the mississippi governor hailey barber said about the civil rights era. it wasn t that bad. his words, not mine. he s clarifying them and they re making the political ticker. checking in with ed henry next. insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn t cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you re already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp. medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses. not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars. out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans. exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you ll get this free information kit. with all you need to enroll. put their trust in aarp medicare supplement insurance. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. the prices are competitive. i can keep my own doctor. and i don t need a referral to see a specialist. call now to get a free information kit. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. and the advantages don t end there. choose from a range of medicare supplement plans. that are all competitively priced. we have a plan for almost everyone, so you can find one that fits your needs and budget. with all medicare supplement plans, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. plus you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare. and best of all, these plans are. the only medicare supplement plans endorsed by aarp. when they told me these plans were endorsed by aarp. i had only one thing to say. sign me up. call the number on your screen now. and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. you ll get this free information kit. and guide to understanding medicare, to help you choose the plan that s right for you. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn t. and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. taking a look at the political ticker on the road. we join ed henry where he is. here s the thing, ed. a white house correspondent and the president is not there yet. how did you get in to already getting in? one of my colleagues in the media sent me an e-mail a short time ago that said i hate you for being there before the president with nothing to do. this shot shows i do have something to do. bottom line, we have plane tickets. the president is going get here sooner or later. we re trying to save the company some money. that s what it s about. we re trying to help everybody out. helping the company out, saving the big bucks. not buying it. not buying it a at all. give me your big work for the day and take the bayday off. after this, taking the day off. hailey barber in hot water. some of the strike was not so bad in the home state of mississippi. he put out a statement clarifying say, look, they accurately said there was community leadership in his hometown. they did not tolerate violence, rejected the kkk. but he s clarifying that the leadership also they were not saints. in his words, the citizens council was clearly their words and they were totally indefensible. a potential 2012 candidate trying to qualify. rick mendocino, she s gotten in the race. she s a long-shot candidate but putting out a series of action plans. number one, going after current chairman michael steele. she s proposing that republicans pull out of tampa. the aides are there to set up for the convention. should be an emergency audit of all of the expenditures. midnight tonight, government s going to run out of money. what does a public think of that? sounds like only 13% of the public in fall believe there s going be a crisis in the government shutdown. if it dragged on for weeks 3-3% of the company say it would be a crisis. 38% say it would be a major problem. the bottom line is it appears both parties are going to avoid a government shutdown. that s one of the reasons president obama is still in washington and they re going to have a continuing resolution likely to pass today to keep the government running at least until march, brooke. enjoy your pena cola at a. mohalo. and we had talked a bit about the bizarre hazing story. remember this, out of ohio. we talked about it yesterday. we talked to idaho, talked to the school setup. yesterday, could teenagers go to prison for life for something they did in high school? sonny hostin is on the case in a couple of minutes. and a shark-feeding frenzy like you rarely see. stay there. r.a. medicineelf-injee you take just once a month. taken with methotrexate, simponi® helps relieve the pain, stiffness and swelling of r.a. with one dose once a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi® can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi®, your doctor should test you for t.b. and assess your risk of infections, including fungal infections and hepatitis b. ask your doctor if you ve been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you re prone to infections, or develop symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough or sores. you should not start simponi® if you have an infection. 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ali bell shi explains. the internet comes to you through a pipe like this. right now, it s a fairly good sitesed pipe. and everything that goes through the pipe is equal. so if you re tweeting, it goes through that pipe. if you re watching if you re skyping with somebody, it goes through that pipe. if you re looking at pictures on facebook, it goes through that pipe. watching videos on youtube, goes through the same pipe. if you re streaming videos, it all goes through that pipe. it s all good. it gets through there and through to the other side. now, here s what some people are suggesting might happen. if there s a two-tiered system, it might be the big pipe if you have services that used a lot of that video. and a smaller pipe, let s be like this one. that s for things that used less. clearly it s a little harder to get some of the big bandwidth stuff to that pipe. if i wanted to surf the web and write e-mails. if we re going to do what we re doing these days, to watch more video and have richer content some people say you should have to pay for that. some say it s censorship and will kill innovation in this country. a lot of good arguments on both sides of this. ali velshi. fcc will have a fair share of legal challenges. get to that in a moment. also, reports of what happened in idaho to student athletes at this high school. they re disturbing. talking sexually depraved attacks on underclassmen. but could some of the older students involved here face life? life in prison. we ran out of time to go through this. yesterday, she s back on the case with that and more when we come back.g al guarantee. book a hotel with name your own price and if you can find a lower published price anywhere else we ll match it and pay you $25. book now and save up to 60% on hotels. only at priceline. before the break, ali velshi told us what net neutrality is about. legal challenges. following today s vote by the sec. sonny, dig down deeper to the possible legal issues involved. no question there are legal issues involved here, brooke. what s most fascinating is the legal issue is whether or not the sec has the legal authority to implement these rules. the commissioners themselves say they expect legal challenges to their authority. so both sides are definitely bracing for a legal showdown here. there s no question this will go to court. so, when it goes to court, sonny, who may be bringing it? who will be bringing these challenges. i think we ll see various groups from public interest groups. but most importantly from the internet service providers that don t want the government involved in their field. don t want the government involved in their industry. i mean, interestingly enough, you know, i ve been speaking to a couple of people in the telecom industry and lawyers have been retained to take part in this legal battle. so no question in my mind that the internet service provider will be the first to the courthouse steps. what may happen, sonny, in congress with this? well, i will say some republican members of congress right away cried the new rule. an excessive display of governmental regulation. the republican leader mitch mcconnell said his colleague will push back next year. so we know the house is a republican house going forward. we re going to see some pushing back from the republicans certainlily on this. okay, sonny. i want to move on to this case. i got a lot of us talking here. a case out of idaho. the case out of hazing at a high school there. this goes way beyond a student saying mean things to another student smacking someone around trying to get to a club. these allegations, look at the charges, rough stuff. for people who don t know the story, sonny, what are the charges we re talking about. this is a terrible story. the term hazing doesn t do it jus tils. the allegations that are five teen basketball players and they forcibly allegedly penetrated fellow members of their basketball team, battered them, and restrained the victims, not only in the school locker room, but over the school bus over a three-month period. they re looking at a range of charges, brooke, from false imprisonment to battery. but i think most importantly, a felony charge of the forcible sexual penetration using a foreign object. these are serious charges. hazing, i don t think the term does it justice. i agree. what could they fail in idaho specifically? talking a couple of years in prison if convicted or way beyond that? sure, as some of these are misdemeanors, certainly. but the felony charge carries a life sentence. again, that is that forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object. in idaho, life sentence. these kids could very well spend their lives in prison. now, the school says and i spoke with the superintendent yesterday, all of this came to light, i think september when you know the schools were going over the anti-bullying policies with students. i ll read you what the school said. in the kourms of the review and the emphasis of these policies, the students came forward to report incidents of harassment, intimidati intimidation, and bullying. police say some of these young people are still coming forward, some of the alleged victims. might this turn out the be bigger than the school thought? i think there s no question it could even be bigger. the investigation is ongoing. these victims are coming forward. that s typical in a case like this when a victim learns that he or she is not the only one. there s strength in num