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winter snow this region. snow and sleet and freezing rain in the south as well. this is "meamerican morning." >> hey there. good morning to you all. glad you could be here with us at the top of the morning on this january 24th. i'm t.j. holmes. >> you know, last week we were saying, oh, wow, poor international falls, we're getting their temperature. today it's warmer in international falls than many parts of the northeast. we'll keep people posted. supposedly it's going to get warmer from here on out. fingers crossed. first this hour, new developments in an amazing story rebrought you last week. police tracking down the accused fake mom suspected of posing as a nurse and snashing little krl la carlina white. white last week was reunited with her biological mother and father in new york. she discovered her own true identity after 23 years of living a lie. the suspect's name is ann pettway. she was picked up in connecticut yesterday. reportedly has a long rap sheet. facebook was involved. also, more on what went on for the past two decades in a live report in the next hour. meanwhile, the accused tucson shooter jared loughner will be in a phoenix courtroom today. he will be there for an arraignment hearing. he will face more charges many anticipate. right now facing three charges of attempted murder for shooting the congresswoman and two of her aides. but of course accused of killing six others. we do expect more charges. this is a legal case that's certainly could take a lot of time, even years, many of the legal experts are saying. >> gabrielle giffords' new doctors are surprised by the progress she's making. she was transferred friday to memorial herman texas medical center but she's been in the icu since she got there because of a fluid build-up on her brain. doctors are draining it. she's expected to remain in the houston facility for up to six months. the state of the union coming up tomorrow night for the pt. a lot of focus on the way people are going to be sitting. the president, however, expected to focus on jobs and the economy and trying to get everybody involved in this recovery. >> he's also expected to call on congress to be more civil. but he was clear this weekend that tomorrow night's address in the next two years will be focused on the economy. >> i'm focused on making sure that the economy is work for everybody, for the entire american family. how do we make sure that people have good jobs with good benefits? how do we make sure that somebody who has a good idea can suddenly start a business? how are we going to make sure that we have the most innovative dynamic economy in the world? and how do we make sure that our kids are able to compete with workers anywhere in the world? now, to do that we're going to have to out-innovate, out-build, we're going to have to out-compete, we're going to have to out-educate other countries. that's our challenge. >> jim acosta joins us this morning live in washington. good morning. we heard the president at the end of that sound bite saying the number one challenge is trying to get this economy going. what is his number one challenge just in his message tomorrow night? >> and do it all on the cheap at the sameime because we're all broke, right? you know, t.j. and kiran, this is a guessing game you hear every year on the days before the president's state of the union address people in washington trying to predict what the president is going to talk about in his speech. it's expected president obama will call for national unity. it's a theme you heard a lot coming out of this white house in the wake of tucson shootings. over the weekend president obama, as you mentioned, gave a bit of a preview in that weekly address. he talked about the need for new investments to create jobs. republicans, they don't want to hear any new calls for new government spending. they made that clear on the sunday talk shows. >> what the people have said is, enough. we've got to shrink government. we've got to cut spending. we need to really look to the private sector to grow job. >> right. so you know, the president is going to talk a lot about investments. we're hearing the republicans using the words cut and grow. you know the other thing on tuesday is the seating chart. not something we typically focus on but this year members in congress and the house and senate will not be sitting in their usual spots with the parties sitting on separate sides of the aisles. roughly 60 democrats and republicans have lined upstate dates as they're calling them for tuesday night. you will see democrats and republicans sitting together for the address. we will talk about these political odd couples in the making coming up at 7:00. >> date night at the state of the union. interesting stuff. jim, thanks so much. you can also see the president's state of the union address live tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern time. cnn's coverage begins at 7:00. take you to detroit now. listen to this. the a man just walks into a police precinct and opens fire and four detroit police officers were hit. again, this gunman, no one can explain right now why he went in and did what he did. didn't necessarily say anything, just walked in and opened fire. four police officers hit. all expected to survive. the gunman was shot and kill. among those shot was a female police officer shot in the chest. she did have on a bullet proof vest. expected to be okay. the chief of police there not talking about maybe changing their policy when it comes to security. >> in light of what happened in tucson, arizona, obviously, with congresswoman giffords, and then with this incident, of course we have to take a step back and reassess security procedures at each one of our facilities. we want to still maintain a community policing format. we want to engage our public. but by the same token, incidents like this are very sobering. >> again, i mentioned the female police officer who was shot in the chest, another two were grazed in the head by bullets, and another one shot in the back. that is considered to be the worst injury out of the four. that officer did have surgery and, again, the prognosis for that officer is good. >> she's lucky wearing a bullet proof vest. saved her life. shootout in front of a walmart 15 miles west of seattle. two people were killed and two sheriff's deputies wounded yesterday. police say that one of the dead was a man who opened fire on them. both deputies were shot in the torso. they are recovering atta coma general hospital. new leaked documents could cause so problems for palestinian leaders. these documents show that palestinian negotiators made more concessions than were publicly released. more concessions to israel than many people thought during those peace talks back in 2008. there were 1700 classified documents obtained by al jazeera, that arab network. palestinians reportedly agreed to give up much of east jerusalem. again, this was not mentioned publicly. the chief palestinian negotiator calling thing document a bunch of lies. we're going tv more on this, the implications with our zain vergee, later this hour. check out the waves on california's half-moon bay. look at the surfers. that's hilarious. they look like tiny little people. pretty amazing to see them like that and pretty dangerous. probably the most skilled surfers. over the weekend one was critically injured when caught by a massive wave and nearly drowned. he was rescued and revived onshore. boy, you have to be pretty much of a daredevil to try to go for those waves. >> yeah. and these guys -- these are the best surfers in the world, this maverick competition. i know rob marciano, we check in with him now, is familiar with this thing. they get 24 hours notice. they wait for the conditions to be just perfect at half-moon bay. they give them 24 hours notice, rob, to show up and compete. these are 50-foot waves. and you have to be something either wrong with you, but this is some serious stuff for these guys. fascinating event. >> it is. and that's some of the most startling video i've had yet to see coming out of maverick. when you think about how much water in a ten foot wave and how that can crush and kill you. you look at those waves, mind boggling. >> they live for that. they love it. >> you can can be an adrenaline junkie but that takes it to a whole other level. good morning. no surfing on the east coast. cool air again. temperatures that are, well, pretty mind boggling as well. minus 11 right now in syracuse. that does not include the windchill. we're talking about temperatures that are 12 below zero in albany, new york. the capital. six degrees currently in the big apple. nine degrees in philadelphia. even the buildings and the concrete that hold on to the heat a little bit better not going a very good job of it this morning. factor in the wind and the windchills are zero in new york city. minus 24 in albany. minus 20 in syracuse. that will get you frostbite to exposed skin in 20 minutes or less in that area. dangerous cold in cleveland and buffalo, montreal and boston. be aware if you live in those areas. cover up the skin. temperatures though will rebound into the lower 20s. eventually in new york city, 53 expected in atlanta. a little bit of moisture heading through the lower great lakes. not a whole lot of action. maybe a little bit of freezing drizzle and snow mixing in from chicago over to detroit. no advisories for the bigger cities. watching the storm develop across the south. rain and maybe snow mixing in across the deep south. sleet and snow eventually through the rest of the week. typically when it's in place, some sort of winter precip will mix in as well. we'll talk about those details later on in the broadcast. >> all right. >> guys in. >> potential for a big mess. that's for sure. thanks, rob. green bay packers are on their way to the super bowl. they punched their ticket to dallas with a 21-14 win over the afternoon rival chicago bears on sunday. packers rode their defense to the nfc championship. great play as well. like man took an interception back for a touchdown. the bears had to use -- that was his first interception and first touchdown. so happy. the bears had to use their first, second and third string quarterback. they led the bear on two touchdown drives that came up short in the end. and the packers prevailed. >> a lot of criticism this morn for jay cutler, the bears starting quarterback. they have people saying you've got to super bowl on the line. get your butt in the game. i don't care how your knee feels. >> teammates were supporting him. he's tough. never xwlcomplains. if he wasn't playing, he's hurt. >> a lot of jets fans are hurting this morning, aren't they, fellas? >> all is quiet here in the studio this morning. >> yeah, they tried. this was not much of a game. a lot of people probably went to sleep on it maybe in the first half. 24-0 or 24-3 at half. but at some point it was 24-3. the jets put a comeback against the testeelers in the second ha but that was not enough. pittsburgh converted a couple of critical first downs if steelers are headed back to the super bowl. a familiar place for them. eighth super bowl. they've won six. this is the third super bowl in the last six years for them. so very familiar place for them. we're going to talk more about what we saw last night. two storied franchises. the packers and the steelers going head to head. legendary new york sports anchor len berman will join us later for a look ahead at super bowl xlv. ought on tape, car chase ending with a state trooper throwing a punch at a woman. he's defending what he did though. we're going to hear why police say it came to blows. also, it's a new year, so a new outlook possibly on employment. christine romans is going to be along in a moment to tell us if there's good news for our nation's businesses. angry birds pumped from its perch by the 14-year-old. puzzle game with the simple graphics. programmed by a 14-year-old that's now knocking off angry birds. 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well, he says he had good reason. you're about to see part of it here. you see the officer there repeatedly striking the driver of this vehicle who is that 58-year-old woman i just mentioned. this is in utah. the trooper broke the window and started striking her because of this. you see this. it was supposed to be a routine traffic stop. catch somebody for speeding. that person took off, led the officer oss on a high speed cha. finally cornered the person, the driver, he said he had to do that to get her to stop. right now that officer is on administrative leave. getting a bad manicure may be a crime. one woman called 911 over it. this florida woman called the cops at least four times because she was not happy with the lengths of her nails. she was sobbing in a news conference but claims the woman giving her the manicure manhandled her. when the cops showed up she still kept calling. listen. >> they're not doing anything. >> if you don't like what he's saying -- >> she had a nail clip in her right hand and she was talking with it and at that time she hit my top lip. >> police say even if there was a confrontation it was not an emergency and one call was more than enough. we'll move right on from that one. i wasn't familiar with this but a lot of people are. angry birds. popular. it was the most popular iphone app, no more. there's something else out there. another app a i believe they're both free. >> yeah, angry birds did charge at some point and then it was free for a while, too. it changes. >> it has been knocked out by another app. got to top spot last week. something called bubble ball. a lot of people are talking about bubble ball because it was designed by a 14-year-old kid from utah. very simple game but clearly these are fairly will spl to put together. i think he used the public library. now he's got the most popular app. >> these are the innovators and the gamers. he's going to own his own tech company some day. christine romance is here "minding your business" this morning. may be a turning point when it comes to hiring which is something we want to hear. we want 2011 be the year of the jobs. >> rising demand. companies are not going to start hiring until they see their demand hiring. a new survey from the nabe, national association of business economics, this is the group that really looks at businesses and their conditions, found that 42% of companies plan to boost jobs in the next six months. that compares to only 29% last year, folks, and only 7% of companies said they plan to layoff. the difference between the hiring and the firing is the biggest it's been since 1998. so that tells you that something is changing in the psyche of companies that they've got all that money under the mattress but demand is starting to rise more than half of these companies and eventually they will have to start hiring and hope to do it in the next six months. what about that tax bill that was pushed through congress in december. we heard that that was going to add to jobs and help the situation. well, more than half of companies say, in fact, they think that is going to boost their sales. nearly one out of two business essay that tax cut deal is going to boost their sales, especially companies like miners, factories, agriculture products, those sorts of things. most companies say that in itself will probably not cause them to hire. it's rising demand that will cause them to hire. but one in two companies say it should help boost their sales and, of course, that would be good news if that were true. so we're seeing maybe the turning point. don't get me wrong. hiring is not as robust as it should be. 9.4% unemployment rate is still too high. we've been looking at all these surveys, you guys, trying to find out what's going to be that key to turn things. this is one more piece of evidence that things are starting to turn for companies. >> sometimes simple optimism can drive things. as long as people feel good about what's coming. >> absolutely. only 7% of companies saying they're going to lay people off i think is really good news. something has to happen and turn in the economy to cause them to hire. but when you've got the mass layoffs over, that at least is a foundation. >> unfortunately no more people to layoff. >> that is true as well. >> bare bones. >> thank you, this morning. we have seen over time convenience store clerks often have to keep a little something behind the counter to ward off would-be robbers. usually that's a gun. well, not this time. listen to this one clerk describe what they had to use. >> i got a knife, and i went the money out of the cash register. i said, what did you say? he repeated it. the third time he repeated it i hit him in the head with a hammer. i expected him to drop, but i -- but he didn't. he must have had -- i hope he's got a headache. >> this is the one convenience store we don't have the surveillance footage from. this would have been great. yes, he hit him in the head with a hammer. he actually used the handle of the hammer. he didn't go down but he did run out. so far police don't have a suspect. >> best part he said, i said to him, what did he say, when he repeated it the third time, out came the hammer. that was rubberized. driving blind, a blanket of thick fog shuts down a major highway. interstate 5, notorious area this time of year when the fog hits, you literally can't see. a trail of wreckage left behind when the clouds lifted. also this morning, it's one of the biggest health concerns for our children in this country, but could it be helped by you simply letting your child sleep longer? it's 21 minutes past the hour. our points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel. we're like forget florida, we're going on a safari. so we're on the serengeti, and seth finds a really big bone. we're talking huge. they dig it up, put it in the natural history museum and we get to name it. sethasauraus. really. your points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel? means better vacations. that's incredible. believe it...with chase sapphire preferred your points are worth 25% more on travel when booked through ultimate rewards. it was certainly a close call on a highway in ontario. check out the video. a car with a dash cam captured the whole thing. a tractor trailer crashing through the guardrail. there you see it happen. losing control and dumping about 30 tons of sand. it happened friday morning. several other vehicles were involved. there it is in slow motion. can you imagine that thing coming at you. no one was hurt but the truck driver was blamed for the accident. he's been charged with reckless driving. there it is one more time. >> overwhelmed. >> just missing that other big rig. >> speaking of poor driving conditions. nobody would have seen that thing coming if they were in california. take a look here. this happens certainly so often. they're used to this there. but thick fog out there. that really just blinds drivers. you can't see a thing. it was blamed for causing a least 15-car accident, two big rigs involved in this thing. it shut down part of i-5 that goes through the center of california. you see some of the clean-up that had to be taking place there. cars were pinned under trucks in this case. but again, this all blamed -- look at that. there's the shot we've been looking for that you see how bad it was. you really can't see a thing booking down the highway at 60 plus miles an hour. this sometimes is the result. one major injury we know about in this accident. much better luck on the high north of denver where a crew used to picking up other people's garbage, in some cases, road kill, instead found a duffel bag with 10 grand in it. they didn't take it and run. they called their boss and turn it in. >> we had fun with it for a few minutes. joke and, ah, you can take half, i'll take half. that was just for fun. we definitely knew what we needed to do. >> my girlfriend was kind of shocked that we gave it back. we wanted a new bedroom is it, but, you know. >> they did the right thing. hopefully they'll get a reward. no one knows how the bag got there. the state police are getting closer to finding out whose it is. >> uh-huh. 27 minutes past the hour here now. talking about your health. number one killer in this country. heart disease. and now a new study says possibly you can help prevent heart disease by doing something as simple as getting the right kind of air filter. researchers in canada put hepa filters in 25 homes. supposed to get the smallest particles in the air. after they put them in these homes they tested the folks days later. what they found is they had reduced inflammation, improved function in cells and lined blood vessels. air quality improved as well. fewer harmful particles were in the air and might have had health results here. you may want to let your kids sleep in. it will help them keep off the pounds. researchers studied 400 kids and found that letting them sleep more on holidays and weekends improved their metabolism and body mass index and other studies about increasing their attention and their focus in school as well when they get a good night's sleep. >> some schools have later schedules even to let the kids sleep in. maybe we're on to something. still ahead this morning, rudy giuliani needs sarah palin to make up her mind before he makes up his mind. we'll explain. also, caught on tape. a small boat spun around in rough waves and foreign waters. a cruise ship came to the rescue. one passenger recorded all of it. we'll show you more of the dramatic video just ahead. ♪ ooh, ah la, la, la ♪ ♪ ooh, ah la, la, la ♪ ♪ ooh, ah la, la, la ♪ ♪ ooh, ah la, la, la ♪ ♪ ooh, ah la, la, la ♪ ♪ [ dance beat ] [ male announcer ] join theladders.com. we don't just post the $100k+ jobs. we give you the tools and guidance you need to be irresistible. at usaa, this is our executive committee. this is our advisory board. our field research team. and our product development staff. we know military lives are different. we've been there. that's why our commitment to serve the financial needs of our military, veterans, and their families is without equal. and why, we'll always be there for you... both here... and here. usaa. for insurance, banking, investments, retirement and advice. we know what it means to serve. let us serve you. good morning. it is 31 minutes past the hour right now. looking at a shot in minneapo s minneapolis, minnesota. 13 degrees. a little later it will be 27 degrees in minnesota where we are, the windchills and the negative degrees. and we're looking at, i think, five or seven degrees right now in new york city. >> not something -- i don't know if i've ever been in weather like that, my entire life. >> you had a five-block walk this morning. how was it? >> i got in a car this morning. >> you didn't want to chance it. frostbite, you know? >> you never know. welcome back to you all. give you an update on the stories we're keeping a close eye on. one is a story everybody was talking about in the country this past week. that's the story of this 19-day-old who was take from a hospital in 1987 being he unite with her real family after all these years. now the person suspected of taking her has been arrested, expected in court today. the woman is the one believed to have raised the child all these years. her name is ann pettway. expected to face charges today in court. she's dazzling her doctors in texas. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is still in the intensive care unit in houston but doctors say she is showing surprising results after being shot in the head. she's facing six months of grueling rehabilitation. he accused shooter is expected back in court today and could face murder charges. tomorrow night is the night for president obama. state of the union address, you will be able to see that live right here on cnn. he is going to be talking of course about the economy and jobs. maybe a little bit about civility. so much attention has been on civility since the shooting of gabrielle giffords and so much has been on the seating arrangement as well. that's right. cnn's going to start coverage 7:00. the actual address starts at 9:00. state of the union is shaping up to be a really strange cross between the odd couple and the dating game in some cases. republicans and democrats pairing offer and pledging to sit together. one democratic senator even joked about republican seating partner saying i'm bridging the popcorn and he's bringing a coke with two straws. they usually sit on opposite sides of the floor. tomorrow night the odd couples will be seated in the yellow section in between. there are more than 25 of them so far. liberal new york senator chuck schumer will be sitting with staunch conservative tom coburn of oklahoma. john mccain will be sitting with new mexico democrat tom udal. he's the one who -- it's mark udol, isn't it? >> mark, not tom. >> didn't mean to rename you. sorry, senator. arizona republican says it's no big deal. >> yeah. i'm going to sit with tom and hopefully i think mark may be sitting where i usually sit and, look, this whole thing is a good idea. i think it's going to -- the fact is it's a good thing to do. why not? the udols, for example, have been close friends of me and family for many, many years. so let's sit together. and finally could i just mention it might be nice, maybe cut back a little bit on all the jumping up and down, which i think frankly distracts from any president's speech when it's interrupted every 30 seconds by people jumping up and down because the president isn't speaking to congress. he's speaking to the american people. >> so he is actually sitting by tom udol. mark is the one who originally proposed this idea in the congress. there you go. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says this is really not something he's going to be doing. he's sitting where he always plans to sit. says the american people is more interested in the actual accomplishments bipartisan or not than the seating arrangements. he was one of the most high profile republicans to come out and say he was, in fact, going to be voting for the democrat, president obama, or then senator obama back in 2008. but colin powell says he's not so sure about who he's going to vote for this time around. take a listen. >> i will always vote as i have throughout my life, for the person i think is best qualified to be president of the united states. and i don't adhere to a single party line. so i'm not committed to barack obama, i'm not committed to a republican candidate. i will see who emerges. right now i do not see on the republican side any one individual who i think is going to emerge at the top of the pile. so it's going to be an interesting 2011 and a very interesting early 2012, as the primaries begin and they separate themselves. but i am not committed to any candidate until i see all the candidates. and finally see who the two candidates are who are going for this position. >> he went on to tell our candy crowley that obama has addressed campaign promises but still has a way to do. rudy giuliani is talking once again about the possibility that he'll run this time. on an interview on "piers morgan tonight" tonight he says he is more likely to run in 201 if sarah palin does, too. >> would you be more tempted to run if she wasn't? >> maybe the opposite. >> really? >> yeah. maybe the opposite because my one chance, if i have a chance, is that -- i'm considered a moderate republican. >> yeah. >> so the more republicans in which i can show a contrast, probably the better chance that i have. >> you've become the acceptable face of the republican party? >> i don't know if i'm acceptable, but the question is, the way i got elected mayor of new york city was not being acceptable. my slogan was, you can't do any worse. things were so bad, you need me. >> you can see more of piers morgan's interview tonight with former new york mayor rudy giuliani 9:00 eastern only on "piers morgan tonight." a drama, at see a cruise ship carrying three american citizens lost power and sent spinning off the coast of cuba. they shot video of the rescue. you can hear the high winds and see the swells. witnesses say it was clear the crew of the small ship had been through a lot. >> their boat was pretty well wrecked. there was a lot of gas cans and just everything was just thrown amok all over their boat. i think they had been tossed and turned for white a while out there. >> three boaters also had to deal with waves made by the huge oeg ocean liner but they did eventually make it on board along with their cat, unexpected cruise. i'm sure they were so grateful. >> the cat. well, he was fitness guru before people were talking about fitness. jack lalanne has died at 96 years old. there he is. told by the public now or at least coming out of his camp that he died of respiratory failure do to pneumonia. at his age he was still working out and eating right, according to his family, up until the day he died. he is the one who is giving credit for really founding the modern fitness movement. he was trying to get america and americans to get them going, get them moving and dealing with their personal health even before it became a huge national issue, before it became all the craze. also had a workout show on tv for some two decades. jack lalanne, dead at the age of 96. [ male announcer ] sometimes after surgery straining should be avoided. colace capsules stool softener helps ease straining to make going easier. try colace capsules for effective comfortable relief from occasional constipation. save $3 right now. go to getconstipationrelief.com. 41 minutes past the hour. time a take a look at the other stories across the world. classified documents leaked to al jazeera, may be the latest roadblock to peace in the middle east. >> zain vergee is keep an eye on that. zain, good morning to you. this, from these documents at least, if they are to be believed, palestinian leaders were given a little more behind the scenes than they were saying publicly. >> this is a huge deal, guys. it is the biggest leak of documents in mideast history. we're talking about something like almost 1700 documents and memos since 1999 about the mideast crisis. the headline here is basically telling us that palestinians were willing to give up most of the control of east jerusalem to the israelis. that has been a major red line in the public discussions that they've been having about this. they also said they're willing to compromise on refrigeratugee has also been a major stumbling block. the documents also say the israelis rejected any offers of compromise the palestinians made. they also reportedly say that it shows that the united states was not handling the situation in an even-handed manner and was also extremely tough, along with the israelis on the palestinians. one memo, guys, that i picked out was from 1999. it reads like this. heed the advice of the rolling stones, you can't always get what you want. you can finish that, right? >> of course. but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. >> right, right. bravo, kiran. >> this is fantastic. i would ask you about something else, though. gordon brown, he would like british investigators to check about whether or not he actually is tied in some way or perhaps his voice mill was hacked? big scandal going on there. >> yeah. yeah, huge scandal here in england. gordon brown is saying that he believes his phone conversations may have been hacked when he was the prime minister. he wants police and he said he told them ages ago to look into it. you know, there are actresses as well as other politicians and members of royal family effected by this scandal. basically there's a newspaper here called "news of the world" and they are alleged to have gotten some of their stories by hacking into people like ellie mcpherson, the model, sienna miller, the actress. and prince william as well. there was only one rogue reporter and now we're learning it could have been a lot more wide spread. making headlines here in this country and really putting the ethics of journalism in the spotlight. >> all right. zain vergee for thus morning. thanks so much. good to see you. you can catch zain every morning on her new show "world one" at 5:00 eastern here on cnn. still coming this morning. weather problems in the northeast and also down south. we'll tell you exactly what those issues will be. rob will join us in just a moment. also when dogs fly. some people take their pets everywhere. and that even means paragliding. [ male announcer ] in the event of a collision, the smartest thing you could do is cut the fuel supply... ♪ ...unlock the doors, and turn on the hazard lights. or better yet, get a car that automatically does it for you. ♪ ♪ welcome back. 47 minutes past the hour. this video had a lot of people talking, animal lovers were not too happy with this. >> i haven't seen it yit. >> let's check it out. t.j. a can watch it along with us. i-reporter sent in this video of look likes two people just paragliding in an tell. with her fiance over hawaii. closer look, yes, she brought her dog along. the dog looks thrilled. she said he goes paragliding every day and wanted to include the dog. people are so weird. i know. >> okay. what part of people is this just animal abuse, the animal not enjoying it, the way the animal appears to be locked in, dangling. >> he's happy as heck to be on solid ground. that's why his tail is grounding. they had to make a harness in paris for the dog. animals, the animals are happy to sit at home and sleep throughout some of people's extreme adventures. >> people are really into their pets. they wanted to take the pet along. >> yeah. next trip, bungee jumping, right, the dog? >> don't send us that video. let's check in with rob marciano in atlanta for us where we are always, it's another week, it's another storm. >> that's right. haven't you noticed how dogs hang their head outside the window when drou drive down the highway. these dogs want to fly, baby. you've got to let them up there. >> some people go, the reason i taught him how to surf is he wanted to love to surf board. there's no dog who expressed some sort of interest in paragliding since that is impossible. >> maybe not. speaking of surfing, it is just startling stuff. you know this maverick wave competition just off of half-moon bay, california. monstrous wave overs the weekend. huge nlg. they didn't have many swells this year. partly because of la nina. they got on them this weekend and the waves were monstrous there. startling video. there was one surfer who was injured. you look at the size of the waves and think, only one? my goodness. that is probably something that's going to happen more often than that. cold air across parts of the northeast today. that is the highlight as far as what we're looking at for temperatures. minus 12 in albany. you factor in the wind and the windchills in some cases i found as low as minus 49 in parts of maine. right now feel like minus 22 in boston. feels like minus 24 in albany. a balmy zero is the windchill in the big apple. there are going to be spots downtown on wall street where the winds will be humming higher. feel colder than that. wintry precip heading across the lower great lakes. shouldn't amount to a whole lot. should be a slick go across indiana and illinois. and then some rain heading across parts of the gulf of mexico. this is going to be developing over the next day or two. it will bring beneficial rain across parts of the south easter. at one point we thought it might be a wintry mess across the southeast. maybe the back side will get some snow. this will head up towards the northeast and you will probably get sleet and snow towards thursday. iron out the details in the coming days. t.j., kiran, back up to you. >> all right. you're right, when you say iron out the details, wildly different models right now on what this could do. it's kind of scary. >> give us a dayer -- 24 or 28-hour forecast. but three and four days out is tough. >> we have to figure out whether to book hotel rooms to try to get in here in the middle of the night. this morning's top stories including the accused fake mom in custody. what we now know about the woman accused of snatching little carlina white 23 years ago. and the state of the union. sometimes just makes strange seat mates. wheel explain if this is just a stunt or is this a serious gesture that could lead to more civility in washington. it's ten minutes until the top of the hour. ♪ [ folk pop ] [ man ] ♪ if you got worries then you're like me ♪ ♪ don't worry now i won't hurt you ♪ ♪ and if you got worries then you're like me ♪ ♪ don't worry now i won't desert you ♪ ♪ [ continues ] [ announcer ] when it comes to the things you care about, leave nothing to chance. travelers. insurance for auto and home. call or click now for an agent or quote. wrigley is now the third major sponsor to jump ship on the controversial mtv show called "skin." they're they want to government to investigate the show. a statement from wrigley says they're suspending advertising during "skins" because it was, quote, never intended to endorse content that offended consumers. taco bell pulled their ad and gm put it on the do not buy list. do you have a thing or two to learn from chinese mothers? you may have heard, last week it was all the rage, a book and a study put out last week saying that some of the practices of chinese mothers, you know, a little stricter and sometimes the kids are performing a little better. alina cho is here. this controversy just will not go away. >> as a result, this is a best-selling book. i know you spoke to the author. she said the book is about her own evolution as a mother that is not why this book is getting attention, you know by now. we have heard from the author amy. we heard from experts and parents. what about the young adults who have just lived through this, raidsed by so-called tiger mothers. we talked to a group of asian-american 20 and 30 somethings who spoke candidly about the reali weities of growing up in an asian-american househo household. even though all of them found that some of her parenting style is over the top, they all agree that her emphasis on the value of education is spot on. >> obviously no asian kid cannot get good grades. that's just an expectation that you're going to get straight as and we're going to do real, really well in school. you've got to play the by anna and violin. i was a veola so maybe i was a failure. and chinese school every sunday. two hours, got to do it. >> i went to korean school every weekend and i also play the piano. david hung also told us education was so important that his father even up rooted the entire family without any job security, moving from florida to virginia because he read that fairfax county public schools were among the best in the nation. kenneth lynn's family also moved to a better school district, in a neighborhood slightly out of their means which meant his father worked three jobs. that put enormous pressure on him to succeed. >> if you don't succeed then you are hurting and letting down your family. >> bringing shame? >> not just bringing shame. your parents are so invested in you and your succeed and when you don't succeed, it injuries them. i think even children pick up that kind of energy and start feeling responsibility. >> that's for sure. a responsibility that sometimes means giving up that thing you really want to do in life. michelle chi a's case it was school sports. watch. >> your mother made you quit the lacrosse team. >> she did, yes. >> why? >> because she thought that i need to study for my s.a.t.s by mun j my junior year and i wasn't able to play lacrosse for one season. >> how did that make you feel sfl very upset. >> you did it. >> i did it because i had to respect my parents. >> respect is very, very big. michelle said sports was the reward for doing well in school and to doing well in piano and violin competitions. while all of them felt pressure to succeed they emphasized how deeply their parents loved them and how that pressure they felt was really about respecting their parents and wanting to do well to show them that they could. you know, what's interesting is that amy says in her book, my western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice instruments for 30 minutes a day. chinese mother, the first hour is the easy part, it's hours two and three that's tough. all of them laughed as a result. she says toward the end of the book that western parenting is about building self-esteem while chinese parenting is about not letting up. >> she said that building self-esteem, what we do is by telling people that you did a good job, even when you didn't. it is actually worse because once they hit the real world and realize they're not doing well, it's too late. >> that's right. you know, i have an interesting story. i was asking my mother about this because i obviously a lot about my childhood i don't remember. and i said, when did i start reading. she said, oh, you started reading in kindergarten and you were one of the only ones in the class so you became the teacher's assistant. you taught other students how to read. i said why -- what do you think it is about the way that i was raised that, you know, maybe i progressed faster than the other kids in class. she paused and said, well, you know, you're just smarter and better. i thought, you know what, that is another aspect of asian parenting. you know, sometimes it's, no, you're not good enough, practice harder, or sometimes it is sort of helping them along by saying you did do well. so there are different ways to do it. the end result is often the same though. >> all right. alina, i love it when you do your mom's little accent. thank you this morning. this story is not going away. appreciate it. top stories coming your way. wrench? wrench. basic. preferred. at meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free roadside assistance with preferred or supreme. my money. my choice. my meineke. good morning. she's accused of kidnapping a baby 23 years ago. today the fake mom is in custody and expected in court on this and expected in court on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello to you all. top of the hour here now. glad you could be with us. i'm t.j. holmes. >> glad you're with us. the applause breaks will look different this round of the state out union this year. tomorrow night president is going to speak and lawmakers are blurring party lines in the audience. many of them at least agreeing to sit next to someone on the other side of the aisle. is it just another empty gesture or are they serious about bringing more civility to walk? did you catch football's final four yesterday? we know who is going to the super bowl but a lot of the talk today is about one quarterback who was crying and another quarterback who quit. wooets we'll explain that with veteran sports anchor man lynn berman. the story who had so many talking last week. a baby taken 19 days old, reunite with her family. now the woman who raised that child is under arrest. we're talking about carlina white. someone snatched her from a new york hospital in 1987, see the picture there on the left of the child. she was raised by another family, not her real family, in connecticut. >> now that woman who raised carlina white, ann pettway, is under arrest, picked up in connecticut yesterday on different charges. susan candiotti joins us now. are police saying she's the kad kidd napper of carlina white? >> they say she is. she will be appearing in court here in new york city today. you know, cnn exclusively broke the news of ann pettway's surrender to the fbi on sunday. she faces those federal kidnapping charges today. whether she's cooperating is not clear. what is clear is that the search for her picked up steam saturday when an employee at a pawn shop in bridgeport, connecticut, recognized her from media reports. she showed up there to try to pawn some jewelry. she didn't like the price and left after just a few minutes. cops were called to the store and police told me they confirmed it was really her. >> they were able to obtain some video of surveillance from the store and they -- based on what they observed and the photographs we had of her, they confirmed the fact that it was her in question. >> and she came in by herself? >> she came in by herself, yes. and she turned around and she left, you know, on foot. the clerk advised the detectives that he didn't observe her get into a car. he immediately jumped on a telephone and called the police department, made them aware of his sightings. >> and then the very next day, on sunday, yesterday, she turned herself in to the fbi. >> but getting hooked up with the police, facebook was involved? >> yes, exactly. we don't know all of the details. a law enforcement source tells us that she contacted the bridgeport police via facebook. and then after that, she turned herself in to the fbi there in bridgeport, connecticut. that's right. >> and as you said, facing federal kidnapping charges. >> that's right. exactly. we -- she will be appearing in court. we don't know yet whether she has a lawyer or whether one will be assigned to her. but she'll be there. whether she says something in court, we don't know. we will be there to watch all of this. still waiting to hear from her family, any reaction. we know that in the past the birth mother of carlina white has said in reports after their reunion that she would like to really face the person who snatched her baby to find out why did you do this? maybe we'll get some answers now. >> all right. susan candiotti on this story and has been from the beginning here. appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you. she's only been there for a few days by gabrielle giffords is already surprising her new doctors. she was transferred friday to memorial herman texas medical center but she's been in the icu since she got there because doctorsing are draining fluid from her brain and she can't start rehab until that is completed. she is expected to remain in the houston facility for up to six months. the man accused of shooting gabrielle giffords will be in court today for arraignment in phoenix that's supposed to happen this afternoon. right now he's facing three charges, indicted on three charges of attempted murder. again, he's accused of killing six people. will m. legal experts expect more charges to come, including those murder charges. also new this morning. israel out with a report on a bloody flotilla raid that caused a crisis in may. commission saying that the deadly raid on an aid boat for gaza was, quote, regrettable but legal. the report says israeli troops were attacked and they acted professionally to enforce the lockade. one survivor of the raid called the report, quote, a whitewash and a, quote, sick joke. 50-year-old ambulance just went on the auction block and was sold for $132,000. but this is not just any ambulance. it was reportedly the one used to transport j.f. kennedy after his assassination back in the '60s. now, i say supposedly. it went for $132,000. but many suspect it could have gone for a lot more but there were doubts raised about the authenticity and whether or not the former president actually ever was carried in that ambulance. the police in detroit say that he just walked into their precinct and started shooting. four officers were hit. all are expected to survive. the suspect was eventually shot and killed by police. a female cop was shot in the chest but wearing a bullet proof vest. the city's police chief is now calling for more security at all detroit precinct houses. also, two people are dead after a wild shootout in front of a walmart. this happened yesterday afternoon in a walmart just outside of seattle. also two sheriff's deputy were wounded. recovering and expected to be just fine. a cop tried to question a man acting suspiciously, according to a call that came in to police. they tried to question him. he turned around and opened fire. cops rushed fire, killed him and also another woman who was out side is believed to be an acquaintance of that suspect. ontario, a car dash cam captured the whole thing. left of your screen. a tractor trailer came crashing through the guardrail. there you see it losing control and dumping about 30 tons of sand. happened friday morning. there were several other vehicles involved. no one was injured in this this pretty amazing when you see the video. barely missing the other big rig on the other side of the road. the truck driver blamed the accident on poor driving conditions, but he has been charged with careless driving. seven minutes past the hour. rob marciano keeping an eye on the issues happening south of the northeast once again being targeted. >> cold air in place. the northeast really in it, especially upstate new york and northern parts of new england. some of the windchills are frightening. six degrees is what it currently is. temperature measured in the shade, without windchill included, in new york city. you go to syracuse and new york, minus 12. minus 11 inial b albany. minus 12 in portland. the winds, it feels like minus four in new york city. feels like minus 23 in boston. i have found some windchills, minus 31 in portland, by the way. minus 49 in parts of central maine. this is dangerous stuff. certainly you want to keep your skin covered up as you head out the door. here's the national map. storm is developing across parts of the south that will bring heavy rains through parts of texas and louisiana and through georgia and alabama and mississippi. and maybe some wintry precip with that number as it heads up the east coast. more on that in 30 minutes. t.j., kyra, back up to you. stay warm. >> we'll try. >> thanks. jets fans for the next year have to wait while steelers fans are making super bowl plans. they beat the jets. afc championship game. led 24-0 in the first half before the jets staged a second half comeback. scored 19 unanswered points. unfortunately fell short. pittsburgh will be playing in the third super bowl in the last six years. meanwhile, the packers will meet them in the big game. they beat the chicago bears, 21-14. packers looked in control of this game and the bears made a bit of a run. it got competitive. then it kind of put it out of way with that touchdown you just saw there. so much being talked about in this game is the bears quarterback, jay cutler, went out in the third quarter with a knee injury. some are calling it a mysterious knee injury. and he is just getting dogged by so many other players around the nfl, saying, hey, you've got the super bowl on the line, you do everything you can do to get in that game. even pointed out they didn't see a lot of trainers tending to him on the sideline. that's just a side thing. i they are making it to the super bowl. we will be talking about the football season with lin in a few minutes. president obama, the big speech planned for tomorrow night. it's not expected to cover a lot of ground. instead, it's going to be single focused on one critical issue that could make or break his presidency. we'll have a preview. also, one big issue will be on spending and how much of it to cut. republicans are making it clear, where they stand on the issue. and the surf was dangerous in 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jim acosta who is keeping an eye on things for news washington. jim, good morning. not a lot of surprise that this is the thing the president is going to focus on. >> that's right. from all indications, president obama will be striking a centrist tone at this state of the union. in the wake of the tucson tragedy, national unity will be the dominant theme. one idea that has caught on a bipartisan seating arrangement. check this out. members of congress in both the house and the senate won't be sitting in their usual spots. at least not all of them. with the parties on separate sides of the aisle. instead, roughly 60 democrats and republicans will be sitting side by side and folks in washington have dubbed these pairings state dates. check out the political odd couples we're talking about here. new york democrat chuck schumer and oklahoma republican tom coburn. illinois democrat tick durbin said he's looking forward to sheeting f. next to mark kirk. there are many more. >> more important than the appearance of sitting together is what we do together. the american people are more interested in actual accomplishments on a bipartisan basis here in the next six to nine months than they are the seating arrangement at the state of the union. >> my new senate republican colleague from illinois mark kirk and i are going to sit together. i bringing the popcorn, he's bringing a coke with two straws. i'm just kidding, of course. >> it's getting a little icky, eyes. but not everybody on capitol hill is into this idea. republican congressman paul brown has called this a democratic attempt to silence republicans and the symbolism you might guess is only going to go so far because republicans and democrats are already locking horns over spend ppg the president is expected to call for investments to create jobs, but republicans hear investments and think new government spending. their motto for tomorrow night is cut and grow. kiran and t.j.? >> all right, we'll have to see how it goes down with the seating. it will make for some interesting viewing. >> absolutely. >> -- of the state of the union. yeah, whether that boils down into any long-term bipartisan progress, a different story. >> it's a good start. >> good start, exactly. thanks, jim. >> you accept that, christine, it's a good start. it's symbol iic, you know. >> a good start or a false start. >> it's a start. >> it's a start. you're right. they have to go way beyond symbolism for some of the big issues happening over the next year. the president likely to be talking about something in his state of the union that his critics are going to call new stimulus, new spending. and you're going to see a big fight along there. the white house is sort of pivoted, switched the focus to u.s. competitiveness and republicans see that as a thin veil for more spending. here's what we're expecting the president likely to see he would like to see more investments or spending in. infrastructure, education, research and development. what you are going to hear from republicans is that that's just all a new way of saying more spending, more spending, more spending. the president will say, no, no, no, targeted budget cuts and targeted spending the grow the economy and grow jobs. this is how dick durbin, a liberal senator, and mitch mcconnell, republican leader in congress, this is what they said. listen. >> this part of the sim husband, but we're sensitive to the deficit. i was part of the president's deficit commission. they said be careful. don't start the serious spending cuts. the deficit reduction until we're clearly out of the recession in 2013. maybe it will be sooner. but that warning is something we shouldn't forget. >> any time they want to spend they call it investment. so i think you will hear the president talk about investing a lot tuesday night. this is not a time to be looking at pumping up government spending in very many areas. >> so they can sit next to each other but they still have very different views of where we should be going from here. some think we need to be making really important spending decisions. right now to make sure the economy gets back on its feet so the u.s. can compete on a global playing field, there are others who say, no, no, no, we have got to cut our way out, got to undo some of the things we've done over the past couple of years. huge differences. president likely to layout this case for more spending, more targeted spending, more competition to make the u.s. more competitive and, thus, grow jobs. we'll see how it comes down. >> all right, christine romans for us. thanks. >> thanks. coming up next on "american morning" the steelers and the packers. that's going to be a good game. going to the super bowl. len berman is going to join us on how they got there and what we can expect. also this morning. when dogs fly. does this look like doggy abuse to you? it's 18 minutes past the hour. 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>> yes. >> we're talking with legendary new york sportscaster, len berman. is is this the match-up that nfl wants? >> these two storied franchises. >> absolutely. the team who won the most super bowls, pittsburgh. and green bay who started it all, vince lombardi. there's a play about him right now. the two biggest names. obviously from the new york area, the disappointed the jets, failed once again for the 40 something consecutive year. but i think the two best teams made the game. i think it's fitting it's in big "d" because it's in defense that got them there. >> they say the best part, can i just show this? i love when linemen get, you know, the ball accidentally. >> yes. 338-pounder? >> this is d.j. at the goal line. this is what happened in the fourth quarter, the steelers. let's show the video real quick. why doesn't it work when i say it. let's go to the videotape. >> 338 pounds. he makes this interception. he runs towards the end zone. refrigerator perry played for the bears nathey call this guy freezer. nearly defrosted here because he held the ball out and nearly fumbled it. when will these guys learn? i guess big fat guys never get to carry the ball. >> i wondered if he held it out because he was saying, please, someone carry this out. >> just because he had oxygen on the 150sidelines. >> come players don't have to work out, huh? >> that's not the way it works. defense. clearly green bay, aaron rogers had an off day for quarterback for the packers. he's the newman. >> if he had an off day, bears quarterback didn't have a full day. >> right. >> is it fair, the criticism he's getting now? >> i know. >> it's hard to know a guy's body. it's hard to play a w. a knee injury. a lot of people giving it to him right now saying, hey, the super bowl is on the line group get out there on crutches if you had to. >> i heard some tweets from anonymo anonymous, not so anonymous athletes. it's hard. it's hard to challenge a guy's heart long distance. that's what social media has come to. other players become like fans calling talk radio. the bears were down to their third string quarterback. that's a big problem, you know, in that situation like that. so clearly, the better team won there. >> so poor jay cutler. he had some of his guys defending him like urlacher, i would never question his toughness. >> that's a tough thing to do long distance. but you know, the bears, what surprised a little bit is how quickly the fans turned on them. watching at home, they were booing very early in that game. i mean, i always thought that, you know, the great teams, their fans would be behind them. but bears fans turned very quickly on their franchise. >> they are serious fan there's. they didn't look good at the beginning of their game. >> green bay is favored slightly. it's a good thing i don't bet and set the odds. i thought pittsburgh was stronger. but green bay has won three straight on the road. on a roll. the giants won those three straight on the road and they went on to win the super bowl. so i guess green bay is the slight favorite. but i wouldn't discount pittsburgh. i like what they're doing. >> could this be the last super bowl we see in a while? >> amazing? >> a bluff that the possibility of some sort of lockout because of negotiations breaking down? >> the contract's up. we'll know in a few months. to me the nfl is having its most successful season. ratings are through the roof. all other sports, ratings decline. the nfl is doing gang busters this year. billions of dollars on the table. if these guys can't decide how to carve it up in a pockets on both their houses. >> too much money. everybody is saying it will get done because there's so much money out there. still, you listen to both sides. it sounds like it's a done deal. >> they're t not going to have them take off just yet here. >> yeah, we're going to talk about other things. len is famous for spanning the world segment that many remember. the next story is in honor of you. we're going to start off being in northern california. the players there -- players, see, i'm still on sports. surfers are playing in the water. hospitalized, one of them in serious condition. he was injured catching a massive 25-foot wave. this is in half-moon bay. this is the weekend. authorities say he was surfing where the maverick surf contest is held. popular winter destination where the top wave surfers. 24 hours' notice. dozens of them got tackled in what they consider the most dangerous waves mother nature has ever concocted. >> wow. they were wearing helmets? >> no they should? >> skateboarders do it. they should. >> these waves weren't even the biggest. 50-foot waves. these are only the 20s. >> i hear you. >> looking out for family pet. >> no. >> people are crazy about their pets. is this pet abuse? i don't know if you've seen this video yet. i-reporter sent this to us. they're paragliding with their dog just dangling there. again, this is an i-report. you take a closer look there and the dog is just dangling on the bott bottom. a lot of people thought this was cute and, oh, that take the dog everywhere. it's part of the family. some look at this and say, wait a minute. you're not supposed to treat your animal like this. >> whenever i showed an animal clip on spanning the world, the first call is to peta the just keep showing it. it's always nice to get mail to hear from people. >> you know what, i think the dog would like a tennis ball more than paragliding. >> len, you a sports.com? >> free daily e-mail. join the party. it's cool that you guys are going to sit with the fox people and watch the state of the union address tonight. that's very nice that you guys are all getting together. >> me and bill hemmer, we already worked it out. >> very cool. together. >> thanks, len. >> great to see you. >> nice seeing you guys. thanks. coming up here, we'll give you an update on the remarkable recovery of gabrielle giffords even though her rehab can't get started just yet. we'll explain why. and this is what len was referring to, who is going to be sitting next to whom at tomorrow's state of the union address. it's date night in the congress. john will join us about this. hello there. bottom of the hour here on this "american morning." appreciate you all staying with us. it is going to be cold in the a lot of places. not just your normal cold. this is below zero type of cold. another storm system going to be really hitting the northeast and dropping temperatures in a major way. also expecting another storm system in the south this week that could be bringing more snow. caught on tape, a car chase. 58-year-old woman, the officer is now under investigation. broke through the driver's side window and punched her five times. police say the woman was speeding and that he had to ram the car to stop her and that she refused to open the window. the fake mom is in custody. we're talking about ann pettway. there she is. she is the woman accuse of taking carlina white from the hospital in 1987. white and her real mom were just reunited last week. you saw that story. but the fake mom now in custody. taken into custody in connecticut. expected to make a court appearance today. tucson shooting suspect jared loughner will be in federal court in phoenix this afternoon for an arraignment hearing. he could be hit with more charges including murder. right now he's only formally charge with three counts of attempted murder. now i want to give you another update on congresswoman gabrielle giffords' condition. she movtd from tucson over to houston to go to rehab but not being allowed to start that rehab just yet. >> she's made enormous strides but one thing they're dealing with is fluid on the brain. the congresswoman is on the icu because of that. elizabeth cohen was there for giffords' arrival. when we talk about the fluid on the brain. how soon will they know if this is something that's going to resolve snits. >> we were told, kiran, on friday at the beginning of this week, if they're going to start checking and seeing how that fluid is doing and if they can take the drain out of her head. she's got a drain that drains the fluid from inside her head to it outside. look at what i mean by this fluid. over here would be a normal brain where there's some fluid. over here you can see there's an over abundance of fluid. that pink is swelling. it's putting a lot of pressure on the brain. you have to drain that fluid. and as long as that drain is in her head, she has to stay in the intensive care unit. she can get a little bit of physical therapy but can't begin her true rehab this that dram comes out. >> forgive my ignorance here. you speak of it as a drain. how exactly is this taking place? how do you exactly drain the brain? >> you know it's actually a lot simpler than it sounds. it's literally a drain. it is a tube that's placed in her head. it goes into -- let me bring that up again. it goes into this fluid and brings it to outside her body. and so this is -- what you've got is a tube going from outside to inside the brain. now, as you can guess, this is not a great situation. you don't want to have this in there for too long. it's not unusual for someone to need it after her injury, but you can introduce infection relatively easily. so they really want to get that drain out of there. that's what they're aiming for. now, if there's still too much fluid they do something that's quite interesting. what they do is they take what's called the shunt. so they take kind of a drain and they drain it internally in her body and the fluid instead of going outside would stay inside her body and go to her abdomen. so again, if there's too much fluid to take that drain out entirely, instead of draining it outside her body, they'll set it up so it drains inside her body. and some people walk around with those shunts for the rest of their lives. >> and it sounds gruesome, of course. i mean, this is not something easy to recover from at all. but they're still noting her remarkable progress and noting some new things she's able to do, elizabeth. >> right. they say she is way stronger, kiran, than they thought she was. for example, and way more aware, too. she noticed, for example, that one of her nurses in arizona, as she was coming back from arizona to texas, they noticed that she was looking at a ring that one of her nurses was wearing. the nurse took off the ring and she held her nurse's ring and she twisted it around and she looked at it. when the nurse went to take back the ring she held it. she didn't want to give it back. they said that showed a certain amount of coordination in her arm and showed she had a sense of humor about keeping this ring. they've really been impressed with the strength on the left side of her body. her right side not as much. they've been impressed with the strength on her left side and one of the doctors told a little story about that when i was there a couple days ago. let's take a listen. >> at one point her leg dangling off the bed. we asked her to bring her leg up. after a couple of seconds she brought her leg up without any further delay. >> so that doctor told me he didn't think that she would be able to take a leg that was dangling on the bedside and lift it up on top of the bed. he was impressed by that. kiran, t.j.? >> so much of what she's done over the past two weeks has been impressive. certainly wishing her the best as she continues her rehab. thank you so much. mark kelly, her husband, gabrielle giffords' husband, wants to stay by her side, even if that means giving up his side by the first lady at the state of the union. yes, an invitation has been extended to mark kelly to be at the state of the union, in the first lady's box. in all likelihood, he will not make it because he wants to stay next to his wife in texas. meanwhile, the intern daniel hernandez, sounds like he's going to be going to the state of the union. telling the arizona newspaper he's sitting in the first lady's box. trying to confirm this with the white house. he's reporting his doing so. hers the one in the picture there. you have seen so much about since that shooting he was there, applying pressure to her wound. a lot of people crediting him with keeping her alive. >> he also got the standing ovation when the president spoke at that memorial service as well. it is capitol hill craze right now. pairing off for the state of the union address. sitting by your member from the other side of the aisle. our john avalon is going to be sitting next to me live in just a moment to talk about it. is it just political posturing or true fresh start in terms of working together in congress. we'll talking about it coming up. 40 minutes past the hour. they're calling it date night in washington. member ofrs congress pairing off with a colleague from the opposite party to sit next to you at the state of the union. 59 lawmakers have agreed to cross the aisle and sit together. kirsten gillibrand is going to be sitting with john thune. they joke it's the good hair pairing. illinois senators dick durbin and mark kirk and tom udall and john mccain. the big question is whether or not these seating arrangements will turn into any long-lasting bipartisanship or whether this is just a show. joining me now to talk about it the cnn contributor john avalon who has written a lot about the need for more civility in politics. is this real bipartisanship or just, you know, dog and pony show. >> you can call this photo-op by partisansh partisanship. it's a step in the right direction. they should be applauded for taking this symbolic step. >> not everyone is on board. the leader in the senate, mick mcconne -- mitch mcconnell said he's not going to do it. they're more interesting in accomplishments than seating arrangements. does he have a point? >> sure. the style and issue at the end of the day, it's the substance. if mcconnell are going to say i'm not even going to indulge in this, what is to make them think they're going to have good faith in building on real legislation. the real question is if president obama as expected tries to reach out on some policy issues, are they going to meet him halfway or is there still going to be a wing in the republican party addicted to the no obama strategy? that will be a misreading of where the american public is. new gallop poll shows that they want the president and republicans to find a way to work together. that's a pretty clear message. it's incumbent on both of them to realize that and follow through on. >> it's interesting you say that because some republicans say, look, we are not going to say yes to new spending in any way, shape, or form, regardless of how we want to put it, if we want to say it's for reinvesting in our nation, if it's for investing in innovation. and in fact, george's paul braun said it's a democratic trap and a ruse because it would stop republicans from being able to express some reservations about the substance of the president's speech. >> let's consider the source here. this congressman was the first congressman with less than a week after president obama's election in 2008 to calm paompa president to hitler and dictator. >> why do we love the hitler reference? >> we don't. we have seen that and it is a symbol of bush derangement syndrome on the left and obama derangement syndrome on the right. when they effort to reach across the aisle as a trap, i discount the source. he's clearly out of touch with what the change the american people want to make. we got to follow through on the real substance of this and it's going to be a real question. there are things the president can't propose, like infrom structure bank, republicans should be able to get behind but it will take courage. but it's out of what they've been conditioned to do. >> they liken 72% agreeing that they like the display of bipartisan ship according to a research poll. but they also -- they also say, okay, fine, this could be a good first step. but we want to see further action. >> absolutely. look, that's what this is about. at the end of the day, this -- this state of the union address is the super bowl for policy walks. this is the opportunity to put policy ideas ahead and set national agenda. it's all about the substance and the follow through. the photo-op bipartisanship is not enough. they need to find the common ground they can find on policy legislation and then build on it. that's the opportunity. that's the obligation. >> i just want to ask you one other quick question. >> sure. >> rudy giuliani, you were his speech writer for many years. he asked whether or not he was going to throw his hat in the ring for president by piers morgan. he said it depends on what sarah palin does in a way. meaning he wants to differentiate himself as a more moderate republican voice. >> sure. >> is he going to do it again? >> he said he's going to keep the door open. i do think it's interest that there is an opening in the field. that centrist republican tradition that used to be so strong right now is not represented by anybody obvious in the political field that's considering a run for 2012. i think that's what rudy was responding to. he's right, there is an opening in the field if that location. >> latest straw poll, new hampshire, romney topped the back. >> 35%. sarah palin came in at 7%. >> great to talk to you. >> always. >> you will be watching the state of the union tonight to see if the seating arrangements will then perhaps bud into a new found bipartisanshibipartisansh. >> we hope so. >> thanks so much. you can watch the president's state of the union address tonight. our special coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. meanwhile, weather you need to be paying attention to. one part of the country getting bitter cold. another part of the country going to see some rain, possibly snow. rob marciano up next. it's a quarter tell the top of the hour. seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we've gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. good morning. atlanta, georgia. beautiful shot. thank you for panning over to us, for us there in downtown atlanta. looking at the skyline. sun starting to come up. it is going to be a beautiful 53 degrees there today. right now it's about 34. more rough weather could be on the way for the south. well, meantime, rob marciano is letting us know where this storm is tracking. we're a little bit worried about this cold system coming up hitting the northeast and whether or not it's going to be a ton of snow or rain. in the south, it's rain. what's going on? >> at this point, guys. you're kind of used to it. this winter -- >> we need a break. >> you know, you get another six inches of snow, it's no big deal. that may happen. the more immediate concern is the bitterly cold temperatures that are in place right now across the northeastern quarter of the cornry. six degrees in new york. nine degrees in philadelphia. minus two in boston. minus 11 in albany. you factor in the wind and it gets more dangerous. feels like minus 23, feels like 31 degrees below zero in portland, maine. other spots are 40 to 49 degrees below zero. that will get you frostbite in a matter of minutes. minus 20 in albany. this little kind of warm front, not a whole lot of precip is heading towards the northeast. this isn't going to do much. this is ushering in another little chunk of cold air for the upper midwest after a brief warm-up for them yesterday and today. this is the rain maker that's going to be developing across the upper texas coastline. for the most part, beneficial rains. i think it will bring in enough gulf warmth to where it will all be rain across the gulf states. the back side of this may bring in a little bit of snow as it gets off the carolina coast and up towards the northeast. speaking of carolina coast. check out this video coming in to us from over the weekend. a novelty snowstorm on the beaches of north carolina. this is where they saw 7 1/2 inches of snow. the sun came up over the horizon. to not only sandy dunes but snow-covered dunes as well. the outer banks seeing similar numbers. traveling today, 60-minute delays in cleveland, chicago, houston, detroit, and the west coast, cooling down after the santa ana winds were blowing over the weekend. t.j. and kiran, back up to you. >> all right. tanks thanks so much, reporteob. teachers holding parents more accountable for how involved they are in the kids education. we're going to are in their kids' education. whether this would work or lead to more finger pointing. >> what now from the airline? 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>> yes. she turned around and left on foot. the clerk advised the detectives that he didn't observe her get in a car. he made the police department aware of his sightings. >> the next day, sunday, yesterday, pettway turned herself in. >> she did this by reaching out through facebook. this is bizarre as well. >> yeah. we learned from a law enforcement source she reached out to police on the bridgeport facebook page and then turned herself into the fbi. >> any reaction from the real family or the fake family? >> not yet. of course, we have been reaching out to them. perhaps they will be in court today. the birth mother has said she really would like to get some answers from the woman who is accused of stealing her baby. maybe now she will get some answers. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much. >> you bet. i'll take you to a walmart where two people were killed, just outside of seattle, 15 miles outside of seattle, two people were killed after police were called because a man was acting strangely. they got there, tried to question him, he turns around and opens fire. two sheriff's deputies were injured and another young woman was killed in the parking that police believe was tied to the suspect. police in detroit say a gunman walked into their precinct and started shooting. four officers were hit. everyone is expected to survive. the suspect was shot and killed. a female officer was shot in the chest saved from injury by a bullet proof vest. >> in light of what happened in tucson, arizona, with congresswoman giffords and with this incident, of course, we have to take a step back and reassess security procedure at each one of our facilities. we want to engage our public, but incidents like this are very sobering. >> a police commander shot in the back. he had surgery and his prognosis is good. the famed fitness guru jack lalanne is dead at the age of 96. died of respiratory failure because of pneumonia. this is a man many of you will know from so many stunts he pulled throughout his life. at one point doing 1,000 push p push-ups in 20 minutes. he did these stunts into his later years. he was the founder of the modern fitness movement. he was talking about moving and eating right before everyone was into it. jack lalanne, 96 years old. >> they say he started the fitness craze when doctors were telling people lifting weights were bad for your heart. >> he started it all. he was in great shape into your 90s. 94-year-old zsa zsa gabor is back home after having her right leg amputated. her husband is putting their mansion up for sale to pay for medical bills. the home once belonged to elvis presley. the state of the uniyoon is going to be like a middle school assembly. this is the odd couple and the dating game. 50 members of the house and senate onboard by doing a simple bipartisan gesture of democrats and republicans sitting together. a few of if faces who have a date. dick durbin and mark curt. don't they make a cute couple? >> my new senate republican colleague from illinois mark curt and i are sitting together. i'm bringing the popcorn, he is bringing a coke with two straws. we are just kidding, of course. >> 72% of americans do favor this type of seating arrangement. folks on twitter are saying that is all fine and good, but actually work together to get something done. the next stop, dallas for the green bay packers and the pittsburgh steelers. they have a date in the big "d." it is on february 9th? >> which sunday is it? >> the 6th. >> the 6th? man, time flies. the packers punch their super bowl ticket with 21-14 over the chicago bears. as for the steelers, the jets didn't look like they showed up for the first half of the game. the jets had a big comeback in the second half, it was not enough. the steelers held on 24-19 for the victory and afc title. checking the calendar. >> making sure we have the date right. we'll get back to the bears. maybe they would have a better chance if they star quarterback was in the game. he didn't play the fourth quarter because of a knee injury. a lot of people, some in the media, but some players, nfl players are questioning his toughness. they said, hey, this is a shot at the super bowl on the line and you are not getting in the game. one of those criticizing was jaguars running back maurice jones-drew. when the going gets tough, quit. all i'm saying is he can finish the game on a hurt knee. i played the whole on one. darnell docket said if i'm on chicago team, jay cutler has to wait until me and the team shower get dressed and leave before he comes in the locker room. nobody knows what is going on with his body and i don't know if it is right to question his heart. >> they are already very depressed because of the loss. poor guy. the camera never blinks, what about quarterback mark sanchez picked his nose and used his teammate as a kleenex. >> backup quarterback is kind of a junk job sometimes. it is. hey, it comes with the job. be a star and you won't get that. a live picture out of d.c. a water main break. do we still have that picture up? there it is. this might not look so bad. two vehicles involved in this car accident. i believe there was an injury involved. this is shutting down the inner loop. this is in maryland in particular. the loop is a big deal on a rush hour. what looks like a minor deal is going to be a big deal for a lot of people trying to get to work. >> they say the water is freezing on the highway because it is so cold there as well. it is running on to the beltway and freezing there. this is in prince george's county. i guess you are happy at a couple of the high schools there, two-hour delay because of the water main break. on top of snow days. amazing video out of ontario. a car with a dash-cam caught this. a tractor trailer losing control, happened on friday morning. no one was hurt the truck driver is blaming the accident on poor driving. he barely misses another big rig. he has been charged with reckless driving. rob marciano is keeping an eye on the weather. more stormy weather is making its way south and up the east coast. >> morning, guys. sub freezing temperatures are the big story. along with the beltway freeze issue. 13 below in syracuse, new york. it is minus two in boston. you factor in the wind and the windchills are frightening. minus 27 in syracuse, eight degrees below zero is what it feels like in new york city with the wind. cover up the skin as you head out the door. a little bit of moisture heading into the cold, but dry air. i'm not worried about that. what i'm more concerned is what is developing in parts of the south. heavy rain in the upper texas coastline into louisiana today developing into a major rain and then snowstorm for parts of the southeast and eventually the northeast as well. another shot of cold air dropping in from canada after a brief warmup yesterday and today across the upper midwest. we will try to give you some details of what this thing is going to do across the northeast. rain, sleet, or snow, maybe all of them. >> nice grab bag. thanks, rob. he is a high-profile republican who supported senator obama in the last presidential lks. this time around he is not so sure if he is going to support him again. 11 minutes past the hour. seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with the farmers that grow our sweet potatoes and merchants that sell our product. we've gone from being in 5 stores to 7,500. booming is using points to make connections that grow your business. oh, bayer aspirin? 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if you believe the poll out of new hampshire he would be. the new hampshire republican party straw poll, he came in at 35%. behind him congressman ron paul, tim pawlenty and sarah palin and minnesota congresswoman michee e bachma bachmann. rudy giuliani, he talked about his presidential ambitions. on piers morgan tonight. he is more likely to run in 2012 if sarah palin makes a bid. >> would you be more tempted to run if she wasn't? >> maybe the opposite. >> really? >> yeah. because my one chance if i have a chance is that i'm considered a moderate republican. >> yeah. >> so the more republicans in which i can show a contrast, the better chance i have. >> you become the acceptable face of the republican party. >> i don't know if i'm acceptable, but the question is way i got elected the mayor of new york city is, my slogan was, you can't do any worse. things are so bad, you need me. >> that is a great slogan. can't get any worse, pick me. >> we'll see what else he has to say about his ambitions in 2012. piers morgan right here at 9:00 eastern. more trouble for "skins." this new mtv show that people are calling child porn. she was considered a royal outcast. can fergie check her mail to see if an invitation to the royal wedding is going to arrive? 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he repeated it. the third time he repeated it i hit him in the head with a hammer. he didn't drop but i hope he has a headache. >> he is still on the loose. the clerk said he did not hit him with the head of the hammer. he hit him with the handle. this video has a lot of people talking. animal lovers says this is ridiculous, extreme sports with your pet. tandem paragliding. yes, they have their dog strapped in. she goes paragliding and wanted to include the dog so they had a special harness made for the dog. he doesn't look excited there, but back on solid ground, he is excited. >> you take your kids along when you fly. new airline fees that has to do with your carry on and your kid. it is 24 minutes past the hour. 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situation. the one we saw in california where essentially a whole neighborhood was leveled because of a gas leak and explosion there. we are talking about what sounds like, again, we don't know for sure, it is possibly a gas leak. at least five homes on fire in the area. something is going on. >> they are trying to evacuate a senior center as well. temperatures are quite cold. in the single digits in some cases, maybe the low teens. we will keep our eye on fairport harbor. christine romans is here, another week, another airline fee. >> hold on to your wallet when you hold on to your baby. no. there is a list of new fees you could see in 2011. if you have achild under 2 you can take the baby on the plane and sit on your lap. imagine checking the baby like a bag fee. you bring the baby and have to pay something. the airline fees that could be next. an infant fee. ryan air already does this in europe. in-person check in fee if you don't check in with your hand held device, do it at the airport, you have a fee for that. a credit card fee to make the purchase this is something european airlines are doing or internet convenience fee so if you don't get the credit card fee you get an internet convenience fee. how about a checked bag fee that is not $15 or $25. but $15 and another fee on top of it of how many pounds it is. paying for the weight of your bag. these are things that could be coming to an airline near you. i will say in fairness to the airlines they check the baby gear without charging you. at least in my experience. the whole problem is rising fuel prices. the cost of all kinds of commodities are up. they will try to recoupe this, fees on one hand, or higher food prices. the crb index of 19 commodities, coffee to cocoa to soybean oil, up sharply, up 23%. sugar prices, guys, they are up 90% in the past six months. wheat prices are up 95% in the last six months. oil prices up 20% in the last six months. all of this means that food companies, restaurants, airlines, everyone trying to figure out at what point they can pass these prices on to the consumer. so far they haven't been able to do it because we are so picky after the recession. bottom line takeaway for you, as you prepare your family budget you can count on spending more for a lot of things you are using every day. >> i have noticed food prices going up. >> there is no way they can absorb wheat prices going up 95%. this becomes a food security issue especially for poor countries. you are going to be talking about food prices and food shock. >> you gave us some good news about the employment situation but we have other things we need to worry about as well. >> people are starting to feel it. need a job to afford the sugar. >> there you go. >> drink your coffee black. half a cup. at the bottom of the hour on this "american morning." we are keeping our eye on a weather situation. a couple of stops to tell you about. one is hitting the south, in the over the northeast. in places it will feel like below zero. this is dangerous weather and two deaths are reportedly linked to this weather. the south could be seeing another storm. a car chase ending with a utah state trooper punching a woman in the head. a 58-year-old woman. he broke the driver's side window and hit her five times. video shows they had to ram the car and stop her. she refused to open the window. >> it was the story everybody is talking about last week. the fake mom is in custody. carlina white was taken in 1987 at 19 days old. she was able to link up with her real family. now her fake mom, ann pettway is in custody. she will be in court today to face charges. tucson shooting suspect jared loughner will be in federal court in phoenix for his arraignment hearing. so far he has only been charged with three counts of attempted murder. the congresswoman he is accused of shooting, gabrielle giffords, she was transferred to houston to rehab, but doctors will not let her do that rehab full time just yet. >> she is still in the icu this morning. elizabeth cohen joins us. she is still in intensive care because of the fluid on the brain. >> let me show you what that looks like. all of us have some amount of fluid in our brain. when you have an injury like she had, the fluid can build up. that pink, that is swelling and it puts pressure on the brain and that is not a good thing. so she has a drain that comes out of her brain to outside the body to drain the fluid. as long as she has the drain in her head she can't get out of the icu. she can't do full rehab until that drain comes out. >> there were so many little tidbits and updates about something new she was doing. what is she able to do these days? >> they are surprised at her strength on her left side. one of her doctors named gerard francisco. >> at one point her leg was dangling and we asked her to bring her leg up. after a couple of seconds she brought her left leg up without any further delay. >> the fact she could lift the leg up was surprising to them. she doesn't have the strength to stand on her own. she cannot quite speak. >> when she does get into the rehab full time the rigorous rehab, how long do they estimate the road to recovery is? >> they estimate that road to recovery is four to six months. that is an estimate. it could be shorter. it could be longer. i have spoken to people who have injuries similar to the congresswoman and they say it has gone on for years and years. every month they do rehab and physical therapy and it gets better. >> everyone is wishing her the best hoping she makes progress. >> her husband the astronaut mark kelly, he wants to stay by her side, even if that means giving up a coveted spot at the state of the union address. he was invited to sit next to the first lady in her box. you are used do seeing so many people sitting there. he would like to stay by his wife's side and will not make it there. the internal will make it. daniel hernandez, he is the one holding her hand as gabrielle giffords was leaving the scene. he applied pressure to the wound and a lot of people are giving him credit for keeping her alive until the paramedics got there. he, in fact, has been invited to the state of the union. >> how about the controversy after the battle hymn of the tiger mom. amy chua saying asian moms know how to raise children to be smarter. we talked to some children who were raised by their asian parents about how it shapes them and whether or not it is the best way to parent. lena cho is going to share that with us. you are used to your child showing up at home with a report card. what if a child bring home a report card for you. yeah. up with state is proposing the parent gets a grade. is it a good idea? it is 36 minutes past the hour. we have an update on the breaking news out of ohio. fairport harbor, the village. they were worried about needing to evacuate 3,000 people because of multiple fires and the severe smell of gas. one of our producers spoke to the lake county sheriff. all fires are believed to have been put out and the gas to the village is off. no reports of injuries, but no clear indication of what caused the fires in the first place. parents, listen up. your kid comes home with a report card and get all "a"s, as a parent maybe you are just sats factory. florida introduced a bill to have the teachers grade the parents. what do perry's principles say about this? joining us steve perry, founder of the capital prep magnet school. i know you pr loving this one, steve. let's go back to the basic premise here, how much of what happens with a child outside of the classroom has an impact on their performance in the classroom? >> what we know is that what happens in the classroom is what impacts the child's learning. now would it be nice if more parents knew more about how to help their children? of course. there is nothing in any teacher's training that would put them in a position to effectively judge the parenting of one of their student's parents. so why would we even consider that? >> what they are trying to do is here is get an assessment if something is not going right at home that correlates with what is happening with the grades in the classroom. thereby they can make a better assessment. >> they are not trying to do that. what they are trying to do is create more of a sfir. more of a cleavage obetween parents who don't come into school and those who come in and feel like they shouldn't be there. if they have the at least bit of interest in engaging parents she would form an opportunity for parents and teachers to come together not grade them. if getting a bad grade was impetus for people doing things right i would have an entire school of kids getting "a"s. >> the parents are not going to get sent to study hall. the parents communication, child's attendance, child's homework and test prep, child's physical preparation for school. you don't think the legislator is interested, necessarily, but they are trying to help them help the child. i know you are not a big advocate of anything other than an excellent teacher, but sometimes other people think what happens outside the classroom, whether the child is well fed, whether they go to sleep on time, affect what is happening in the classroom. >> t.j., i am a big proponent of solid proponent. in fact, anybody who is not taking care of your kids, i hope you have a horrible day, i hope your car doesn't stop. that doesn't the fact that i am hired to train teachers to educate children. that's what we do. that's our job. if it is too hard for you, find another job. we have the responsibility to make sure that we educate parents to the ways in which they can be more helpful to their children, but not to grade them. >> wait a minute -- >> hold on. we have parents who are immigrants who don't feel it is their responsibility to come into a school. the countries from which they come the school has got it. the school is responsible. is their children supposed to send home a bad gade for the parents. >> isn't part of your success is you know what is going on in your kid's life outside of the classroom and can help the child better the situation. that is what they seem to be trying to do in florida? >> no. they are trying to get you and i on television talking about something that has nothing to do with dietsching and learning. if they want to improve what is going on in the classroom, put more effective teachers in the classroom, better principals in the schools. design schools that are more likely to be successful than to waste our time having conversations about people who are not the biggest impact. >> parents are not the biggest impact? >> parents are important, but if your child gets a "d" on a test, is it your faultd? >> maybe you didn't get them up on time, maybe didn't get a new breakfast, possibly, yes, it is the parents' fault. >> no. different children learn differently, if i'm responsible for my child learning 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