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A drivers seat costume. Who would ever think of that . Its pretty funny. Thanks for starting your morning with us. A whole lot more ahead on c cnns saturday morning, which starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Im randi kaye. Im victor blackwell. 8 00 here on the east coast. Thank you for starting your day with us. We start with the Lance Armstrong bombshell, usa today reporting that he will admit to doping monday in an interview with oprah. Oprah will go to armstrongs home in texas to get the details. He has denied using drugs in the past. So his admission could have serious consequences. This morning i spoke with the man who broke the story, brent strattenborg. Hes supposed to make this admission monday when the show tapes. Oprah winfrey is coming to his home in austin, texas, taping an interview monday. And that is supposed to air next thursday as to why is he doing this now, the evidence came out against him, a massive file of evidence came out against him in october. In the three months since then, he has been keeping a pretty low profile. And i think he has been deciding what to do about it. He has kind of cornered himself, because for manyiers now, he strenuously denied these doping allegations. And with aall the evidence thats come out against him, its hard to deny it anymore. And hes making a calculated decision for himself personally. Also i think its a business decision for him because its affecting his charity, live strong. All of his sponsors have fired him. Joining us now to talk more about this, nick valencia. Good morning. Good morning. Lets say this is true, he comes clean and admits to doping. Legal ramifications . At the it has the potential to be very damaging for Lance Armstrong. There have been reports from usa today and others that he has reached the statute of limitations for testimony he gave in 2005. Having said that, there is a libel lawsuit, this counter lawsuit, the usdoj could attach themselves to this. If they do, thats potential for major criminal charges against Lance Armstrong. I was in austin when he was last out in public at the live strong event. The live strong reporters loved Lance Armstrong and they told me we support him whether he doped or not. What does this mean, though, for the organization . Theres a legion of fans, as he referenced, that look up to him aas a hero, an icon. Even if it does come out that, as is reported, comes clean to oprah in this interview. A lot of people will still have his back, victor. A lot of people still see him as a cancer survivor, as a hero. They dont care that he doped. But there are sour that is say live strong has forced him into this confession. Nobody will be able to forget he really went on the attack. Yeah. When he was accused, he came out swinging. A lot of people think what he did in terms of bullying the people that accused him of this alleged doping was worse than the actual act itself. He would vilify people, and a lot of people are still angry about him. He filed counter lawsuits against the usada, the u. S. Antidoping agency. As well as a report from the times, he won a lot of money trying to defend his name and people are looking to get that money back. If he was doing it, if, you have to wonder why he went on the attack like that. And now this confession. More on the deadly flu outbreak sweeping the country. So far this season 20 children have died. Cdc reports that 47 states are reporting widespread flu activity. Earlier, i spoke with jeffrey oiler of Piedmont Hospital here in atlanta about what he is seeing in his offices. Were seeing about 20 to 25 more patients in our Emergency Department daily. We had 30 positive influenza screens in the month of november, ticked up to 80 in december. And were on track in january as well. One of the signs of the cold or flu is sneezing. Its also one of the easiest ways to spread the illness. Exactly how does the sneeze spread those nasty germs . I took a ride on a new york city subway to find out. Fair warning, you are definitely going to want to wash your hands after this one. We asked dr. Len horowitz to ride the rails with us and help us understand the power of a single cough or sneeze. All it takes is one good achoo to send 30,000 droplets barreling in your direction at 100,000 miles an hour. They can quickly make dozens of commuters within a few feet very sick. If someone used their hand to cover their sneeze, look out. Theyll leave germs behind. Say i come along to grab ahold of this pole, im going to pick up those germs without even knowing it. Then i come over here and touch the seat, im going to leave those germs behind for the next unsuspecting commuter and it spreads from there. Reporter germs are so hardy, they can stay alive overnight. Up to 24 hours. Someone tomorrow morning gets on the subway, touches it, touches their face, introduces it into their body and theyve got it. That could mean hundreds, thousands of people end up sick. I carry my hand san advertisadvertise sanitizer in my purse. When youre touching your face, youre essentially smearing the germ on to your face. Any opening, nose, mouth, eyes, is a place where the germ can get into your body, start to incubate and cause infection. Reporter say the person who sneezed stops at the metro station to buy a subway card. He will leave those germs right here. Germcovered hand to open an office door or office refrigerator. Maybe theyre even sharing your computer. Yuck. In a world where germs are the enemy, its time to suit up for battle and keep your soap handy. And we are always suited up for battle here. Yes. We have purell on everything single desk in our newsroom. It wait for somebody else to open a door. Can you get that for me . Its gross. The idea that the germs stay for eight hours, thats the scary part. They can live on a subway pole, car, whatever it is you touch, depending how you commute. Its yeah, you dont really want to think about it. Just wash your hands a lot. The 66,000 u. S. Troops in afghanistan may be headed home sooner than expected. Afghan President Hamid karzai met with president obama yesterday and he and mr. Obama agreed to a complete transition of combat operations by the end of 2014. President obama is considering keeping some troops, possibly 3,000 to 9,000 in place after 2014 for counterterrorism and training, but only if they get immunity from prosecution and karzai signaled he may be willing to do that. New information on the prosecution scandal that rocked the secret service last year. Three soldiers will be punished, forfeiting part of their salary and will have more than a month of extra work. Several secret Service Agents and officials were accused of bringing prostitutes to their Colombian Hotel room prior to president obama coming there. Project that could add an unknown number of jobs. That project . Building a death star. Yeah, like as in the star wars movie. It received more than the administration does not support blowing up planets. Thats the end of it. Of course, thats what you build a death star for. The white house also bulked at the 850 quadrillion price tag. We have more ahead this hour. Here is whats coming up. Imagine a rapist going free because of one employees incompetence. Multiply that by 800. Well explain. What will the white house decide when it comes to gun control . All morning long, well put the proposals and the pushback in focus. He is being called the next phenom of mixed martial arts and is only 13. The albanian bear joins us live. Ive always had to keep my eye on her. But, i didnt always watch out for myself. 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Change your number. Turn it up. Androgel 1. 62 . In washington and cities and towns across the country, guns right now are the hot topic. Everyone is looking for a way to prevent attacks like the one in newtown and the 30 gunrelated wh homicides that happen in america every day. Were focusing on that debate this morning. Joining me now is john lott jr. , gun rights expert and author of the book more guns, less crime. Its not just the title of your book, john. Its good to have you with us. Thank you. You argue that more concealed weapons actually does lead to less crime. I take it youre squarely behind the nras suggestion at having armed guards at every school. Are you . No. I think its more complicated than that. The problem is that when you have a uniformed arm guard theyll be the first target often thats there. It will be a costly proposal and its fairly limited in terms of what it can do. There are cases where armed guards have slowed attacks and allowed people to escape. But in terms of cost benefit its not the best solution. I think the best solution is to go back to where we were in the country prior to the end of 95, when we allowed permit holders to be able to go and carry concealed handguns on school proper property. Theres some states that allow that now. The states allowed concealed carry back in 95 and earlier, allowed it at that time. We have a lot of information on how well that worked. Theres not one problem that i know of or that anybody has been able to show with any of those people carrying permits at that time. I think there would be a lot of people who question your assertion that there are no problems with people who carry permits aat that time. Im glad im having you on give an example. Ive seen other interviews where you have been on. Right. And not been able to finish a sentence. I want you to tell me why more guns equals less crime. Well, every place that there has been a ban for guns, whether it be in d. C. Or chicago in the United States or around the world, island nations even, when you ban guns, weve seen increases in murder rates all the time. You look at these multiplevictim public shootings. With just one exception, since at least 1950, every single one has occurred where guns are banned. Take the oaurora, colorado, shooting from last july. There were seven movie theaters within the killers apartment showing the batman movie. He didnt go to the closest theater to his home. He didnt go to the theater that had the largest auditorium. Instead he went to th single auditorium that posted signs banning concealed weapons. You see that time after time. Here is my question, john. What youre giving me is post hac, after, therefore, because of. Fact a, guns are banned. Fact b, a shooting happened. What youre not giving me is the direct correlation between the strict laws and the complete tie to the shooting. Do you know have you spoken with gyms holmes . Do you know he went to that theater because of the gun ban or because he could park close to the back door, or because he could go through one set of double doors instead of three . How do you draw the direct correlation . Youre just giving me two facts and saying, look, it must make sense. Draw the correlation for me. Sure. Take the columbine shooting. Dylan klebold was strongly against the carry law there. The state speaker of the house there said at the time that klebold was writing state legislatures, opposed of the concealed carry there. He was particularly upset that they would allow concealed carry on school campuses. The very day of the columbine attack, the very day that the concealed carry law was scheduled for final passage. I need you to give me the direct correlation. You havent even used the word because in your list of these facts. What im asking you when you say where guns are banned there is an increase in crime. In many places, that is true. Unfortunately for you in australia and the u. K. Where gun laws are strict, the gun laws have decreased year to year recently. Thats not true. You can go to the home office in the uncht k. And youll see immediately after the 97 ban on handguns, the murder rate soared there. And that was 1997 . Its 2013. January 97, right. If you go and look, you can graph it out. I have it on my website. You can go to the home Office Documents yourself and see that there was immediate huge increase there and its still higher now than it was before the ban was put into place. You look at d. C. And chicago. I mean, d. C. , before its ban, ranked about 20th in terms of top cities in murder rates. After the ban went into effect, d. C. Was number one or number two. Was in the top four twothirds of the time. Immediately after the ban and, more importantly, the gun lock laws were eliminated in d. C. , d. C. s murder rate has fallen by 52 in four years. Thats a huge drop. And it started right when we have to wrap up because were low on time but its great to have this conversation sometimes without the emotion and i like that you bring the facts. I agree. And just the logic. However, youre giving me fact a, fact b and not drawing the direct correlation. Youre asking everyone to make that jump that crime stats are based on the laws in that community. But i know this conversation will continue. I thank you for coming on. Thank you very much. Next hour, the other side of the debate, well talk to a reverend about gun control and whether the clergy should play a role in this political discussion. Into a scooter that talks to the cloud . Or turn 30million artifacts. Into a hightech masterpiece . Whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. Whatever your business challenge, are you flo . Yes. Is this the thing you gave my husband . Well, yeah, yes. The name your price tool. 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Certainly the story of junior seau, very sad story, of course. You may recall he committed suicide last may. His family agreed to have his brain tested. Longtime football player, 43 years old. It turns out that he has whats called cte, which is something that, you know, caused him a lot of pain over the years and alzheimerslike symptoms, depression, forgetfulness, aggression. All kind of things like that. It all comes down to getting hit in the head. It came to his job. He gets hit in the head as a player on this team so many time s. Over his career, the blows to the head have, indeed, cause this had brain disease, played pro football for 20 years before his suicide. His family donated his brain to science. Hopefully, well learn more about this disease and how it relates to blows to the head. Yeah. And hes not the only one. Yeah. Theres a lawsuit against the nfl brought by other players because of this very thing. Lets go to baseball and drug testing. Players have now agreed to inseason random testing for hgh. I mean, first this is the First American pro u. S. League to test for human fwroeth hormone. For years season after season the players said no. But now theyve given in. They were doing it during the off season . Yes. Its a blood test that will take place before the games and see whats in their system. We know that the announcement of the hall of famers, not having roger clemens, barry bonds or sammy sosa, because of the doping, has really put a black eye on that sport. And hopefully, this will clear up something. Well see. And tiger woods, boy oh, boy, making headlines again. He wont be playing in a golf tournament, by the way, in qatar. Apparently he was demanding big money, 3 million. Thats what he asks for when he its his appearance fee. The folks and fans there just said uhuh, not worth the price tag there. Yeah. And they didnt buy it. They didnt buy in. Here is why. He demands 3 million. The prize for winning this was 2. 5. Yeah. So you could play all day and not win as much money or go home with as much money as tiger because he just showed up. Im sure they would maybe have given him a little less money. Who knows . He could have had this beautiful tournament to play in. He once made like 17 million for doing Something Like this. High demand, i guess, when they want you. Good work if you can get it. Yeah. Hundreds of rape cases in new york city are being reviewed all because of the work of one lab tech. What that worker is accused of doing. But first, a chicago chef is creating a stir with customers over his creative food art, using unexpected tools in the kitchen to create progressive american cuisine. Gary tuchman explains in this weeks start small, think big. Reporter known for creating food art at his world famous restaurant in chicago. He uses Laboratory Equipment in the kitchen and lab tools. Constant evolution and expression of creativity. 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So far, 20 children have died and state reports show that dozens of adults have also died. Officials also add its not too late to get the flu shot, which can help prevent or lessen the flus effects. Bombshell report about Lance Armstrong. Last week it came out that the cyclist may admit to doping. But now usa today is reporting that it will go down monday with oprah. Usa today says the announcement is both a personal and business decision he has been cornered into because of all the evidence against him. Bp has settled with as many as 100,000 plaintiffs who claim they were sickened or hurt by the 2010 gulf oil disaster. A federal judge in new orleans signed off on the deal yesterday. The medical settlement covers cleanup workers and residents who live near the spill zone. Bp Spokesman Says the company is, quote, pleased with the settlement. The body of a Million Dollar Lottery Winner will now be exhumed for testing after it was proven that he died from cyanide poisoning. So far, no arrests have been made. An attorney defending an alleged rapist in steubenville, ohio, is asking the court to move a trial to another location. He also wants to postpone the trial and close it to the public. He says its because of the publicity of the case, possible threats to witnesses and the safety of the defendants. Two High School Football players are accused of raping a 16yearold girl after a night of partying. More than 800 rape cases in new york city are being scrutinized by the medical examiners office. A Lab Technician may have mishandled critical dna evidence. Lets bring in cnn legal contributor paul cowan to talk about this. Good morning to you. Good morning. This sounds like a real mess. There is talk that this lab tech, who hasnt been identified, overlooked evidence, botched chemical tests, possibly even cross contaminated nearly a dozen rape kits. Isnt there some type of protocol to prevent one tech from causing such confusion . Well, its a major scandal, randi. You know, the new york m. E. s office prides itself in technology, involved with identifying thousands of remains from 9 11 using dna technology. Now this particular Lab Technician handled some 800 cases that are being looked at over a tenyear period and theyre discovering a lot of errors in her work. Of course, juries look at this stuff as the Gold Standard of guilt or innocence, dna. If you now establish that there are problems, its going to cause issues in court. Yeah. Lets talk about dna. It certainly has testing dna certainly has become better over the years. I mean, you were a prosecutor and you also worked defense. Put into context how much lawyers may rely on dna evidence. Its been used so often to either convict or exonerate someone. Yes. Its particularly used in rape cases where sometimes the man and the woman theres a dispute about whether the rape actually occurred. And, of course, semen can be used, blood can be used to link the rapist to his victim. And some of these cases that the new york m. E. s office are looking at are, in fact, rape cases. You started out with the question, how can we prevent this from happening. I think you need strong regulation of these labs. Were looking at this story. Its now shocking because its happening in new york with a huge medical examiners office. In researching this, its happened in texas. Its happened in virginia. Its happened in north carolina. In the famous o. J. Simpson case, there was an allegation that dna samples had been mixed up. And that probably contributed to the acquittal in that case. This has to be regulated carefully. You need topquality Lab Assistants and their work has to be regulated. She worked for ten years and only now are these errors being discovered. Theres talk now of using low copy number dna which is transmitted only by touch. Whats this about . Would this be more of a safeguard . No, i dont think low copy dna would solve the problem. Low copy dna techniques would allow you to save a sample, even if you have a microscopic or very small amount of Sample Available because of result of contamination by human error you can still test adequate ly. In this case, what the technician is accused of doing is missing samples completely. For instance, she would be given a garment that had either blood or semen on it and wouldnt find anything on it. Which is exactly what shes supposed to be trained to find. Exactly. And when they retested a couple of these documents these items of garment, they found dna samples that, in fact, identified rapists. Now, fortunately, one of the guys was already incarcerated, a sex offender. The other was somebody who already had been convicted. So no innocent person, says the m. E. s office, has been affected by this. But its something to look at. Jurors will look at it now and say, hey, do we have to worry about this dna evidence . Absolutely. Its the Gold Standard and maybe the Gold Standard is losing its luster. Well see what happens with this one. Paul cowan, thank you so much. Enjoy your saturday. Okay. Thank you. You, too, randi. Thank you. President obama nominates new cabinet members. The academy nominates great performers. In case you missed it all, here is a look back now at the week that was. Former senator chuck hagel may need those war survivor skills. His leadership of our military would be historic. This is an inyourface nomination by the president. Two nightmarish incidents are now under investigation. Fuel leak is always a serious matter. What a beautiful woman. I think the media has been unfair to him. Beautiful woman, few ugly plane problems and key cabinet picks like chuck hagel. I came to admire his courage, his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasnt popular. Turns out hes not too popular with some. Chuck hagel, if confirmed to be secretary of defense, would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of israel in our nations history. Profoundly wrong on some of the Biggest National security threats confronting the United States today. Mechanical problems keep rolling in for boeings 787 dreamliner. More like a nightmare. Three of boeings brand new planes suffered a slue of issues. Fire and leaking fuel. Error message related to the planes braking system. All these little glitches that boeing says they are, or is there Something Else thats happening . Reporter nope. Boeing says just growing pains. But airlines are growing impatient. They have a quality problem. And this quality problem should be resolved. Reporter speaking of problems. Wow, i tell you quarterbacks, you get all the goodlooking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow whoa reporter thats legendary sportscaster Brent Musberger oozing over the 23yearold girlfriend of the alabama quarterback. Musberger, chill out, baby. Some thought it was creepy, but not the beautiful woman herself. The fact that he said we were beautiful and gorgeous, i dont see why any woman wouldnt be flattered by that. Reporter while were talking sports, this years hall of famers for baseball are no one. Well, three who died will get in. But barry bonds, roger clemens, sammy sosa all shut out of cooperstown this year. Lets face it. You cant be linked to doping and expect enshrinement, right . Academy awards were announced, lincoln leads the pack with 12 nods, twilight in second with 11. Yeah, just kidding. Thats razzie nominations. Twilight for worst everything. At least they got recognized for something. And thats the week that was. They call him punch a baby for a reason. Well introduce you to a World Champion fighter. You will not believe how old he is. My husband and i cant stop eating em whats. That. On your head . Can curlers tomato basil, potato with bacon. Weve got a lot of empty cans. 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I mean, you do not stop. Youre quick. Youre a National Boxing champion. Youre a seventime north american championship, junior Olympic Boxing champion. Im looking at you take on your instructor there. So, tell me, as we look at this, why fighting . What do you like about it so much . And how did you get so good at it . Well, my dad said when i was a little baby, i used to punch a lot. Well, after i tried two sports, i didnt really like depending on if he messed up, the whole team messed up. But boxing, if you mess up, its your fault. But if you win, you know youre the person that won. You look so brave, though. You really take these people on, even the adults. What are you thinking about when youre in that ring and when youre fighting . When im in the ring, i usually feel two things. I have to feel mentally and physically able to compete. But also if you compete and youre like not able to like physically prepare, i still try to fight. And your dad teaches you the moves. His father taught him the boxing moves and your dad is very much on your mind in the ring as well, right . Yeah. Is there a lot of pressure . It kind of is. Because when he comes, i have to like win it, but at the same time i want to win myself. I also want to make him proud of what im doing for most of my life, which is boxing, wrestling, jujitsu. Youve already accomplished so much, as we said, winning so many championships. Do you see yourself continuing fighting or do you want to try another sport . Actually, i actually want to continue boxing and stuff. I kind of like it. I like it better than other sports. What do your friends think of what you do . They think its amazing how i box. A lot of people like football and team sports. But individual sports, people just think its amazing how youre the only person thats like trying to win. Yeah. So when theres a fight in the schoolyard, are you the one who settles it . Do you even have time for school with all that youre doing . Usually i dont like to fight in school. Its not the right thing to do. But certain time or situation, ill fight, honestly. I try to like avoid it till i try to go into the ring. Thats the only time im fighting. How do you Balance School work with everything youre doing . Theres probably a lot of kids who say, hey, i want to do Something Like that, but who has the time . I need to study. I do my homework sometimes at school, sometimes during my lunch period. I go home. I eat. I do my homework and after im done with that, i go to training. Thats a lot of work. Yeah. And a lot of dedication. Reshat mati, we will continue to follow your career. Thank you. Thank you. The Golden Globes are tomorrow night. The hosts of the show, tina fey, amy poehler, theyre bringing something new, an official drinking game. Well explain. [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make it worth watching. The new 2013 lexus ls. An entirely new pursuit. When traveling to other cities and countries, the best way to get a real taste of the place is through the local food. Cnn ireport has now teamed up with travel leisure magazine to create a global list of 100 places to eat like a local. Here is cnns anna coren in beijing with a sample. Reporter hi, im anna coren in beijing. When i want to eat like a local, i come here. Follow me. Got corn cakes here and some brown sugar rolls here. Reporter what are we going to order . Well be ordering noodles and some reporter sounds good. Looks good. She has owned this place for 30 years, which is quite extraordinary. And shes sitting down with us now. I want to ask her about this food, what is so special about this food. Translator my restaurant is famo famous. Our food is made with care and it really has the old beijing flavor. Translator the for bidden city had a dish called stewed pork. Ordinary citizens changed the recipe over time and started usiuse ing intestines and organs. Reporter this is the dish if you want to come here, heart, intestines and liver. Im assured by the chef its very nutritious, very good for you. This place is known for pigs liver, chickens heart, cow intestines. So if you want to be a tourist, go to the places in the guide book. If you want to be a local, eat like a local, come here. Ireporters, here is your chance to help create a food lovers map of the world. Go to ireport. Com 100places. Send us a photo of your favorite restaurant and dish and why its special and how you discovered the place. The definitive list of 100 places of how to eat like a local will be in march and some ireporters will be on that lit. Stay tuned to see if you will be one of them. Well be back. And cut very good. People are always asking me how we make these geico adverts. So were taking you behind the scenes. This coffee cup, for example, is computer animated. Its not real. Geicos Customer Satisfaction is quite real though. 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You have a problem. I have a problem . You say more inappropriate things in appropriate things. Blood has been spilled. This moment now, now, now. Ive got a lot of catching up to do on movies. The oscars are still more than a month away. Weve got another big show coming up this weekend, the Golden Globes, hollywoods second biggest night of the year. Earlier, i spoke with entertainment correspondent nischelle turner, about the nominations. Everybody will look to see how top nominee lincoln will fair at the Golden Globes. Steven spielberg drama is going in with seven nominations, the clear frontrunner for best picture in the drama category, up against django unchained, life of pi zero dark thirty and ags argo. Lets talk about the best actors in the drama category. Is Daniel Day Lewis also is he a lock this year . You know, its hard to say that anyone is a lock, because i think, especially in the best actor categories, there were so many strong performances this year that, to me, anyone could win and they would be justified. But Daniel Day Lewis is up for the movie lincoln. He is up against richard gere for arbitrage, john hawkes for the sessions Joaquin Phoenix in the master. That performance that he did was phenomen phenomenal. And Denzel Washington in flight, which i think is his best performance ever. I never thought i would say that after seeing him in malcolm x. And Denzel Washington is, well, denzel. He gets better and sbert and better with each performance. Exactly. In zero dark thirty apparently Jessica Chastain is phenomenal. Yes. You need to spend an entire day at the movie theater. I know. She is. Voters had very difficult decisions to make. Looking at Jessica Chastain for zero dark thirty. Theres also helen mirren for hitchcock, and naomi watts for the impossible. And also rachel weisz for deep blue sea. Listen why tina says she thinks theyre a perfect fit for this show. Okay. Well, we decided to host because the Golden Globes seem like theyre pretty fun. Yeah. Weve been to them before and its a very kind of sloppy loud party and that seemed like our kind of thing. Who doesnt love a sloppy, loud party, right . You know, theyre going to actually help us have a sloppy, loud party at home with a drinking game for the show. Can i tell you how excited i am to see these ladies host the Golden Globes . This, i think, is going to be so much fun. Yeah, everyone is talking about what we can expect from them. They are have kicked off this drinking game. Here are some of the rules. First of all, any time an actress cries during a speech, have a drink. Any time you see a person actively not listening to someone on stage, take a drink. Yes. Any time someone says i didnt prepare anything, drink there are going to be people, i bet you, that are doing this at home. I do think that the ladies would tell you if youre following these rules, wear lots of layers but also drink responsibly. Good morning, everyone. Im randi kaye. Im victor blackwell. Its 9 00 on the east coast. 6 00 am out west. Thanks for starting your day with us. We begin with the deadly flu epidemic that has gripped the nation. 47 states to be exact. New information from the cdc shows that just three states, california, hawaii, and mississippi, are the only places where the flu is not widespread. Our chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay gupta, has some tips now on recognizing the bug and how to get through it. Randi, its the worst flu season in years. Weve been talking about it all week. Emergency rooms in many places overflowing. Its a fastmoving story. Here is what you need to know. The flu strikes fast and symptoms, much more severe than a common cold. You feel fine one day and then the next, a sudden fever, sore throat, headache and tightness in the chest. Over 200,000 people every year are hospitalized with influenza and anywhere from three to nearly 50,000 people will die each year. Reporter flu cases are at epidemic proportions in areas of the country. Its the most weve seen this time of year in a decade. They may get more complications from this particular h3n2 strain, which may make them ill for a longer period of time. The active strain is h3n2, tends to produce stronger symptoms, appears earlier in the season. And it is highly contagious. When someone coughs or sneezes, these tiny droplets are released into the air. You can breathe them in. But they can also live on surfaces. They can stay on these surfaces for eight hours. Say your coworker is sick. You come over, use their keyboard. You have the germs on your hand. You touch your nose or mouth, now youre infected. And the problem escalates if you spend several hours in tight quarters, like on an airplane. At highest risk, passengers two rows in front or behind the infected person. Best way to kill those germs is to wash your hands and do it often and use real soap and real water. The problem is that most people dont actually wash their hands long enough. My best advice, actually sing the happy birthday song twice while youre washing your hands. Its not quick to get rid of these viruses. Another key to prevention is getting the flu shot. Getting vaccinated reduces your risk of getting the flu by around 60 . Another benefit to getting your flu shot is if you do get sick, your symptoms wont last as long, it wont be as severe as compared to those who werent vaccinated. Back to you. Thanks, sanjay, very much. Disgraced psycyclist Lance Armstrong may be ready to come clean. Usa today is reporting that he plans to fess up to doping in an interview with oprah next week. I spoke exclusively to the man who broke the story, brent schotenboer. Oprah winfrey is coming to his house in texas, theyre going to tape an interview and that will air next thursday. As to why he is doing this now, the evidence came out against him, massive file of evidence came out against him in october. In the three months since then, he has been keeping a pretty low profile. And i think he has been deciding what to do about it. He has kind of cornered himself because for many years now he strenuously denied these doping allegations. And with all the evidence thats come out against him, its hard to deny it anymore. And hes making a calculated decision for himself, personally, its also a business decision for him because its affecting his charity, live strong. All his sponsors have fired him. I think when he goes out in public now, hes getting a different reception than one he used to get. If he did dope and lied about it for many years. And so this is really a personal decision for him and also a calculated business decision for him. The New York Times has said that he would admit to doping so that he could, again, race competitively, professionally as a cycler. How likely is that . Not very likely any time soon, according to the World Antidoping Agency code. Somebody who has a lifetime ban for doping, they could get their lifetime ban reduced to no less than eight years if they meet a heavy burden and that burden is for that person to provide substantial assistance to antidoping officials about cheating in sports and cheating in psycycling and helping the antidoping officials to catch other cheaters. And he would have to do that. He would have to provide a lot of testimony about that, if he wanted to get his ban reduced. The rule book says no less than eight years. Right now hes 41. So eight years from now, he would be 49. And i dont know how interested he would be in compete iing at t age. But possibly because its Lance Armstrong and depending what kind of information he provides them, the governing bodies in International Sports make some kind of agreement to go outside the rule book and cut that ban down to less than eight years. And if he, indeed, admits to doping, well have to see if there are legal ramifications, as we discussed with brent, to that admission. Theres new information on the secret Service Prostitution scandal. This is the one that captured the headlines when president obama headed down to colombia for an official visit last april. Cnn pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence has more. Reporter well, randi, victor, the prostitution scandal that embarrassed the u. S. Secret service and the u. S. Government just wont go away. After an investigation, three more u. S. Army soldiers have now been disciplined for their part. All three received letters of reprimand. Two of the three also had to give up their pay for a couple of months and do extra duty. Again, this involved about a dozen u. S. Service members who admitted taking prostitutes back to their hotel rooms last april. This was just prior to a visit by president barack obama. Also implicated were three dea agents and about 13 u. S. Secret Service Agents, most of whom resigned or retired. Prostitution is legal in colombia. Ultimately the investigation found that there was no Security Risk to president obama himself, but it humiliated the very proud secret service and some of the other government workers, obviously, who have been caught up in this scandal. Randi, victor . Chris lawrence, thank you very much. The 66,000 u. S. Troops in afghanistan may be headed home sooner than expected. Afghan President Hamid karzai met with president obama in washington yesterday. He and mr. Obama agreed to a complete transition of combat operation operations by the end of 2014. President obama is considering keeping some troops, possibly between 3,000 to 9,000, in place after 2014 for counterterrorism and training but only if they get immunity from prosecution. Karzai signaled he may be willing to do that. Faith leaders talk gun control at the white house. Youll meet one of the men who sat down at the table with Vice President biden. Now count the number of buttons on your tablet. Isnt it time the automobile advanced . Introducing cue in the allnew cadillac xts. The simplicity of a tablet has come to your car. The allnew cadillac xts has arrived. And its bringing the future forward. You paid. Wow. Hmmm. Lets see if walmart can help you find the same look for less. Okay. See . Walmart has all these leading eyewear brands and styles. Rockstar really . Yeah. Oh, wow oh, black frame looks good on you. Yeah . You can get a complete pair starting at just 38. Really . and did you know that our glasses come with a free 12month replacement guarantee . 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Reverend, nice to see you. Take us behind closed doors, if you will, and give us the headlines. What did you, the Vice President and others discuss . Good morning, randi. Certainly, thank you for having me here. We had a wonderful opportunity to have a constructive conversation with our Vice President and his task force about the importance of having a very moral voice and imperative to address the spiraling and outofcontrol gun violence in our country. It was an amazing opportunity for a number of us faith leaders across this country from various different faith traditions and denominations to lift up our voices in concert and talk about the moral imperatives that are before us to address all the many forms of gun violence that continue to shatter and impact so many lives in our country. Did the Vice President ask for ideas and also im curious if he sent you back with a message to bring to your congregation. Well, certainly, there were a number of ideas that were talked about. I personally carried into the conversation a story of one of my young teenagers that i had to bury. At his funeral there were over 500 teenagers in the church during the funeral and i asked them how many had been to more than one funeral, more than two funerals, i got all the way up to ten funerals and over half of the young people wept with their hands in the air. It was an important moment because i believe in all of our bishops and clergy across the country believe that this tragic incident is an opportunity to unite all americans around Common Sense Solutions to address gun violence. And we were able to lift up a lot of the same strategies of universal background checks, assault weapons bans, Mental Health interventions, but also comprehensive and proven targeted strategies to address violence in cities all across this country. Let me ask you why there does appear to be divide among christians when it comes to gun contr control. A survey taken before the newtown shooting showed that white evangelical protestants were less likely to favor tighter gun laws than catholics. White main line protestants are religiously unaffiliated americans. Why do you think that is . Thank you for that question. Thats a wonderful question. We should not be surprised that many of our people of faith in this country who are all americans are very much passionate about the Second Amendment and gun rights. At the same time, we should not be surprised that there are just as many people of faith, if not more, who are all in favor of common sense gun laws and promoting a culture of peace and healing in our communities. And i believe that it is our time and our moment to look within ourselves and the principles of our faith to unite our country around a common, moral imperative to address the gun violence that is in our country. Even to those statistics that you just lifted up. Interestingly enough, the National Association of evangelicals have put out their most recent report that over 70 of evangelical leaders all support common sense gun law. It is an opportunity for us as leaders to go back to our congregations, communities across this country with our wonderful diversity and share that we have a moment to unite our country around common sense gun laws that saves lives. This may be the moment but certainly the nra is gearing up for a fight. Joe biden said maybe the president might take executive action here, executive order. Are you confident that something will change, that something will get done . Im not only confident, im filled with hope. Im filled with optimism. Many nra members agree with these common sense gun laws. It is a very small number of nra lobbyists, gun industry advocates who are really not representing the will of their own membership. So part of what is important for all of us people of faith, nra members, all of us, is to make sure that we do not let a small number of profiteering nra executives hijack this conversation and cause us to miss this moment, to make sure that our children can live in neighborhoods, schools free from the fear of gun violence. And i believe that were up for the challenge. Reverend Michael Mcbride, pleasure to see you this morning. Thank you. Thank you, randi. God bless you. So how much can you really tell about a person from his or her handwriting . Well talk to one document examiner about what to look for the next time you read a letter. When lew splaped his fiscal philosophy, saying, quote, i describe budgets of tapestry. When its woven together, it amounts to the hopes and dreams of our nation. President obama announced the nomination of his white house chief of staff jack lew. But his bizarre signature, as you saw there, is whats really making some headlines. Take a look at this. Its sort of like a telephone cord or bunch of curly fries. If he gets that job, those squiggles will be on all of our bills. Here is a sample of what a new dollar bill will look like with lews signature in the bottom right corner there, which made all of us kind of think, what does your handwriting reveal and what is in a signature . Document examiner kurt bagget joins us from dallas. There is a bit of a delay. Just bear with us. Lets start with jack lew. Can you take anything away from just that line of squiggles . Oh, sure. You can see a lot. Tell us what you see. Well, almost nothing. Jack lew wants you to know nothing about what hes thinking or about what hes doing. You could almost see the j in the first letter. Alternative is that you see nothing else. It does reveal something. What it reveals, because of the circles, is that hes a methodical and deliberate thinker. So he doesnt want you to know. He doesnt display any of his personality in each letter because theres no letters there. What it does show you, however, is that he is a takeover king, kind of like you, victor. Oh and, of course, randi. Large beginning strokes indicate that he loves responsibility. As the end stroke is a little caution. But hes the kind of guy that spends a lot of time by himself. He is very happy with himself. He probably eats lunch at his desk every day. The end stroke in many of his signatures goes up, which is a contradiction of what we see in his signature because it indicates he wants to be the center of attention but he doesnt want to tell you anything about himself. You see a lot even though he doesnt show it. It doesnt even look like his name, though. I have to say. I think our signatures look a little more like our real name. I want you to take a look at my writing that we sent to you yesterday as an example. And then well do victors. Take a look here. This is what i sent you, kurt. Tell me what you can about my sloppy handwriting. I knew you were pretty but even prettier than your handwriting indicates. It shows that youre nice, average staff is 145. Genius is 139. On top of that, you analyze everything instantly. You cant stand slow thinkers, slow movers, dummies. Look at your large d in the dear curt. You are takeover queen, too, which is a contradiction. So is victor. You love responsibility. Youre going to be in charge one way or the other. You will take over. You have a little irritation going on when you were writing this and something happened to you when you were about 12 years old, which is trauma. I do not know what it is. You have an eternal quest for knowledge. You love to learn. You have an eternal quest for knowledge which probably means you learn a lot if you have time. You probably have a sugar problem because your handwriting from one word to the other leans to the right which means youre outgoing, caring, friendly, and then it goes back to the left, which means you go back into your shell, which means you have an emotional sugar problem. Wow i feel like i need some therapy after that analysis. No, youre great. I pronounce you in good Mental Health. Excellent. Thank you. So its my turn. Lets put up my letter to you, curt. Oh, this is bad. What does my handwriting say about me . Well, you have an injury across the shoulder, collar bone or neck. Did you play football . I didnt, but i did go back after i heard about your findings and starting searching and i did find a scar on my left shoulder, but go ahead. The big beginning letter in the d indicates that you, too, are takeover king, you see. And i forgot to tell randi, shes a control freak, too. He knows that already. Got it. You have a really big ego and you develop some caution but your writing is very large, victor, which indicates that you are a really fun guy. You would be fun at the party. Youre also a loner. You think you can do the job all by yourself and you dont trust anybody. You are super, super smart. You, too, are a control freak. You dont like to be forced to do something, victor. If somebody tries to force you to do thing s you do the opposite. And i think they call that defiance. I am enjoying this. I especially like the ego part. I wonder if we should have pretaped with this and edited some of the negative things out. Right. We have some Staff Members that also sent you some samples. One of our producers, harrison, he says our executive producer, nora, is probably the meanest on the team. I know you have a sample from her. We dont really believe that. We love nora. Take a look at noras sampling and tell us what you think. Shes the boss around here. I would not want nora after me if i did not want to get caught. She would make a great detective. She is not mean. She is sar castic sometimes. Very much so. She needs more physical activity. And nora, what is your little issue with organized religion . You are so smart, too. And you analyze everything instantly like these other two guys. And your very, very frustrated. You have a desire to acquire things. Youre a really good listener, contrast to what randi says about you. And i wont talk about your sex life, but, honey, it was dynamite, wasnt it . Oh, baby thank you so much. Im thrilled he didnt bring that up in our handwriting. Good thing we dont have a camera on you, nora, in the control room. Curt bagget, thank you very much. That was quite entertaining. Thank you. Whoa apparently were both trying to take over. I have a huge ego. You keep your ego in check. Im going to take over now. Im taking over. Geez. Oh, my gosh. Well, that was interesting, wasnt it . It was. It was fun. 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