as you might expect this time of year. but there are records being set. the road the recovery, congresswoman gabrielle giffords now at a rehab hospital. what do the months ahead hold for her. massive mafia arrest. the suspects have names like johnny pizza. could this be the end of the american mob? the truth about tiger moms, why does a new book about child rearing continue to spark intense debate? good morning, everyone. i'm alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. check out this number, 22 below zero. that's from austin, minnesota. this weekend, that will be cold temperatures to the northeast include boston. temperatures won't get as low as international falls, minnesota. that city reported a record breaking negative 46 degrees. the last time it was that cold was 1954. that reached 41 degrees below zero. how do you even go out, right? for more, let's go to meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill. >> this saturday morning, it is brutally cold outside. so many areas of the country are seeing temperatures well below average. our inkred credibly cold and wintry temperatures continue east of the rockies. the jet stream is cold allowing all the arctic polar air to roll down through the great lakes. this has finally arrived on the east coast, too. these are high temperatures today. this is as warm as it's going to get. only 5 in minneapolis. 18 in chicago. this doesn't even factor in the wheelchair. the cold air is more or less going from the northern plains straight to the east coast. look at the overnight low temperatures. 4 in chicago. everywhere in the pinkish color is where we're going to be in the single digits to near negative zero numbers. notice portions of ohio, northern new england, atlanta getting down to 25 we have freeze warnings in effect for florida. areas near st. louis will get a little bit of snow. that's a minor system. talk about great, warm conditions, you have to go to california. that's where temperatures continue to be beautiful. if you want to go on vacation, southern california is the place to be. back to you. >> thank you very much, bill karins. we have live pictures from the white house this morning ahead of a big week for president obama. he is huddled with advisers this weekend working on his state of the union address. this president used today's weekly address to talk about jobs and the economy. >> leading the world in innovation, opening new markets to american products, that's how we'll create jobs today. that's how we'll make america more competitive tomorrow and that's how we're going to win the future. >> let's bring in nbc white house correspondent alex viquero. >> morning, alex. >> one of the cliches that you hear in washington is that good politics even request policy and good policy equals good politics. 15 million americans are out of work and the president is once again focusing on the economy. you know, you can draw a distinction now between the president's first two years and the second two years as he gears up not incidentally for his re-election campaign. it was announced this week. some key personnel will be establishing a campaign office in chicago and he will be formally declaring within the next two years. but the first two years, the focus was on legislation. the next two years on implementation, on some of the things that the president put into effect, including the health care law, the financial reform law and some other initiatives that the obama administration was able to accomplish with much controversy during the first two years. also, recovery was a buzz word in the first two years. now competitiveness, the new buzz word, the connect in that end going to new york. appointing the chairman of the board of general electric to this new president competitiveness council. he's named bill daley, a former commerce secretary, former wall street executive, to be the chief of staff in the structure just behind me here in the west wing. john berazzo is a republican senator in the west wing. republicans are still focusing on one of the issues that brought them to power in the house of representatives and enhanced their minority status in the kneed senate and that is health care. of course, last week, the house repealed the president's health care reform law signed into law just last april. they're moving on to the senate now where prospects are much bleaker. here is what john berazzo had to say. >> thanks to the vote in the house of representatives, we are now one step closer to victory in the health care fight policy that puts americans first, not washington. our job won't be done until we repeal and replace this bad law. >> well, a lot of critics are going to say that's lip service. they're not likely to bring up a repeal of health care which they fought so hard just eight months ago to pass that of congress. and meanwhile, you're right, the president in the residence today in washington, in the white house, tuesday night, that big state of the union address, alex. >> okay. mike, we'll see you next hour. thank you. >> okay. tomorrow on meet the press, an exclusive with white house majority leader eric cantor. he and david gregory will dus how republics will exercise their new majority. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." check your local listings. first lady michelle obama will join others today for the funeral of sargent shiver. sargent shiver passed away on tuesday after a battle with alzheimer's disease. he was 95 years old. doctors in houston say they expect congresswoman gabrielle giffords to keep them busy as she begins the next phase of her recovery. today marks two weeks since she was shot in the head outside a tucson, arizona, grocery store. janet has the latest from houston. good morning, janet. >> reporter: alex, good morning. she already started her rehabilitation at the texas medical center here after an emotional sendoff on friday. >> it was a farewell for now, not a good-bye. hundreds lined the streets of tucson as gabrielle giffords was taken by ambulance to the airport for a flight to the next chapter in her recovery. with her husband, astronaut mark kelly at her side, giffords was flown on a private plane to houston, then transferred by a medical helicopter to memorial herman hospital. the fight now moves here. giffords is already being evaluated in the intensive care unit where she could stay a week or more until the drain or shunt in her head is removed. doctors say she has some movement in her right leg, but none in her right arm. she hasn't spoken yet, but might be trying to form words. >> the evaluation is quite comprehensive. we ask questions, review records, we perform examinations and see what the person can and cannot do. >> how do you feel? >> reporter: later, giffords will be moved to the nearby rehab facility as they expect it to last four to six months. giffords will stay in a standard room like every other patient, cared for by doctors and patients who will coordinate every from artwork to muscle therapy. >> she will keep us busy and we will keep her busy, as well. >> a new chapter as doctors strive for what they call a new normal for giffords, which may not include a complete recovery. it's a long, grueling process. the results uncertain. what the progress she's made so far, all agree gabby giffords is up for the challenge. to drive that point home, a candlelight vigil last night in houston, both a show of support and a welcome to town. her temporary home before her eventual return to tucson. it is a long and difficult process ahead. but here in texas, giffords will have the advantage of being close to her as though fraught husband, mark kelly, who is training nearby at the johnson space center. alex, back to you. >> i bet that will be a help. thank you so much. from the dakotas to maine, it is bitter cold. new york central park is in single digits right now. and our poor, dear friend jeff rossen is reporting for us live. you feel it, huh? >> anything for you, alex. you really can feel it. and the wind isn't that bad right now, which is helping, but i imagine which the wind gusts up later on, it is going to be biting. 15 degrees is the real temperature here. the windchill is 4. behind me, you have a good deal of runners, thousands of them in central park who are volunteering to be out here this morning for a half marathon. but it is down right dangerous if you stand out in this too long without wearing the proper layers. but it's even worse in places like international falls, minnesota, where yesterday they set a 1954 record and beat that record, negative 46 degrees, if you can even imagine that. there was an example that we saw of somebody taking a cup of water and throwing it into the air. it instantly turned into snow and showered down looking like a snow shower. it was literally that cold out. this is the coldest air of the northeast so far this season. remember, they're looking at five snowstorms, as well, alex. and they say another snowstorm is coming in, perhaps a big snow event for wednesday, which i know my daughter, sky ler, who is 4 1/2 years old at home right now will absolutely love. so hi, sweetheart. yes, more snow coming in. daddy will take you out to play if he actually is home if not stuck in a snow bank somewhere as we all usually are, alex. >> we're going to push fo for you to be home with skyler because that sounds like fun. hi, skyler, have a good saturday. thanks, jeff. a woman who became the subject of a popular youtube video is threatening to sue, but does she have a case? massive mob bust. the suspects have nicknames like tony bagels and vinnie carwash. and the uproar over the tiger mom. many have taken issue with her parenting philosophy. but some are also wondering, is she really on to something? i love winter. with my subaru forester and its all-wheel drive... ... handling even the toughest conditions... is just another day at the beach. we removed the alcohol and made it less 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thoughts on that? >> the security guard might have had an "s" on his chest, but that didn't stand for superman. he had no duty to go down there primarily because she quickly got up and scurried away. she was not hurt. >> she goes in and she's out. >> embarrassment has a way to do that. there was no obligation on the part of the security guard here. >> is there a responsibility in terms of the mall, are they required to help her out in a situation like this? >> i think what she's going to argue is the mall was negligent in not having a protective railing around the fountain. this the was a death trap. i think that's what they're going to argue. in any lawsuit, certain elements must be satisfied. here, arguably, none of the elements of negligence are satisfied. most notably, she wasn't injured. she got up and walked off. >> thinking oh, my god, i hope nobody saw that. >> united states like walking blindfolded into the mall when really, it's on you. remove the blindfold. >> it's your fault. but is an attorney going to take a case, jonna, that they don't think they can do something with? >> oh, my god, for 15 minutes of fame, lots of airtime? i think she already has an attorney and there is not a whole lot there. i think she should embrace her youtubeness and try to use it for something better, like ted williams got a nice, big contract after he was exploited. >> maybe a funny commercial or something. >> for a cell phone or verizon, can you hear me now and you're under water. >> but here is a concern. the security guard who shared this video, tacky, perhaps, sensitive, perhaps, but this guy was fired, lost his job over this. what do you think about that? >> what i think is she might try to argue intentional inflexion of emotional distress. she's going to say that she was severely upset when this video was released by the security guard and all of america was laughing at her. i think very clearly the actions of the security guard was not appropriate. i think it is fine that he was fired. but his conduct does not rise to the level of extreme and outrageous. there wasn't a pattern of this. he wasn't filming on multiple occasions and he wasn't secretly filming on the rest room. there's just not a lawsuit. >> real quick, do you think he has a case if he wants to come back and sue the company for wrongful termination? >> you know, he might, but i'm sure somewhere in there contract it says you can't publicize anything you do on the job. so for that, he probably doesn't have much of a case, either. >> all right. well, ladies, thank you. it was fun talking about that. it was an interesting one. >> if you can't join them, beat them. google comes up with a plan to compete with groupon. plus suzanne somers will join us to talk about her plan to stay sexy forever. she's doing it, too, no question. do your lashes want volume or length? how about both? with covergirl lashblast fusion. a mascara for lashes that want it all... all at once. our biggest brush 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>> she's clearly trying to motivate her children to work harder and to do the best they can. psychologists are united in saying stress and name calling are not the way to do that. that may enforce compliance in the moment, but over the long-term, that's going to kill a child's natural curiosity and love of learning and it's going to do damage to the parent/child relationship. >> you write on the flip side that she's saying, we slather praise on kids for the lowest of tasks, drawing a ziggel. are westerners overpraisers? >> it's not that we praise too much. it's that we praise in the wrong way. american parents tend to use words like you're so gifted, your so tallaned, you're so artistic, whereas a smarter way to praise is to focus on effort and hard work and say, you worked really hard on that. i'm really proud of all you put into that. and then if a child does do poorly, they don't have to think, oh, well, i guess i'm not smart. they just think, well, next time i'll work harder. >> here is a study released in december. if we look at these numbers, it's super interesting. u.s. students are ranked 17th in the world in reading. china, number one. american kids, 23rd in science. china, number one. in math, american teams come in 31st. chinese student, number one. what is the take away here? >> clearly, the chinese are doing something right, at least in preparing their students to take tests. they have a lot of focus on memorization and practice and chinese students do work longer hours and may be working harder than american students. on the other hand, in china, a lot of people are looking to the west in terms of how do we produce innovators, entrepreneurs, creative people who are -- they're going to need to power their economy into the 21st century. >> you bring up creative. is there anything that shows a despaisparity between american- creativity, if you will, and chinese kreefbivety? >> well, that's the gap that the chinese are seeing. they have a student body and a workforce that is very skilled, but not necessarily coming up with those game changing ideas, which are still coming from america. so i think there's a correlation between the way we raise our kids, which might involve more free play and more inquiry and the kind of robust rigidity and the rigidity on the side of the chinese. >> i could talk about this all day, but we'll talk to you again about it, annie murphy-paul. thank you. >> thank you. later on today, we'll hear from one of the few reporters that was able to sit down with amy chua's daughters and get their take on all this controversy. was their tiger mom too hard on them? 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>> they'll go through a physical exam. they're test her neurologically to see her strength, her sensation, her ability to speak. >> is that as simple as, you know, the light checks that we all go through, the touching, seeing if there's reaction. is it that simple? it's more evaluative than that? >> that's part of it, yes. and they'll do a functional assessment, as well. >> and that means what, seeing how she responds to command, speaking? >> with the speaking, we don't know because, again, she has the training tube in. so it's going to be difficult to assess that. >> what is your best hope given the fact that doctors have spoken so honestly and openly about what has happened? you're familiar with this injury. what is the potential for recovery for her speech? >> it's difficult to say right now. hopefully because she's showing some signs of understanding, there's two components to speech, the expressive and receptive component. the receptive component appears to be a good sign. but we -- time will tell with the expressive. >> what about her ability to move around? they said -- and they were thrilled that she was able to stand up with assistance. her husband was there, mark kelly, other doctors and rehab therapists were able to stand her up that way. but that's a far cry from walking. how much work hag to go into that and what's the likelihood she'll be able to walk independently? >> the prognosis for walk sg whether or not someone has strength in what's called their hip flexors. so as long as she'll be able to bring her leg up against gravity, that's a good sign that she'll be able to walk. but the fact that she can stand is already a very positive thing. >> and how long might she be in rehab? we hear anywhere from one to two months, to four to six months. given her injuries, does that seem normal or could it go even longer than that? >> this component of the rehab, one to two months sounds like a reasonable course and from there she'll go to the home and continue with an aggressive outpatient rehab program or to the a lesser facility. >> thank you. new this morning, an arrest warrant has been issued for a woman raising a child after taking her from a hospital. authorities are trying to track down ann petway who is on parole. petway raised carlina white who always expected she was adopted because petway could never come up with her birth certificate. white finally met her birth mother this week after more than 23 years apart. our world view this morning begins with flooding crisis in australia. an official says an inland sea will surge across the middle of the country and threaten towns in its path for ten more days. and this comes after a month of flooding. in albania, at least three people were killed after clashes outside the home of the prime minister. a corruption scandal forced the deputy prime minister to resign. in canada, one person is dead and 40 others injured after a 40-car pileup in toronto pap tractor-trailer crashed into a ditch and a severe snow squall caused a whiteout and caused others to crash into that tractor-trailer. in italy, a company gave the italian deposit $34 million to renovate the coliseum. only 35% of it is now open to the public. just a short time ago, representatives m s from iran a others wrapped up final days of talks in turkey to discuss iran's near here program. the meeting ended without agreement. we have joined live from istanb istanbul, turkey. oli, why all the disagreements? why isn't there anything that they can come to terms and agree upon? >> both sides are very entrenched in their position. the iranians didn't want to give up any of their nuclear rights and the western powers wanted to talk about enrichment. so they made no headway here. each side blamed each other for the breakdown in the talks. catherine ash now says that the iranians had made unrealistic demands in precondition. the iranian negotiator said it was the other side that was making preconditions that were unacceptable to the iranians. he went on to say that the iranians have gone far beyond what was expected of them and this is all they can come up with. they went on to say they were demanding and barking orders at the iranians. so either side wasn't budgeting at all. we did speak to one of the iranians who said there will be more talks, but the venue and time hasn't been set. >> okay. ali, in a picturesque turkey, thank you. nbc news and the "wall street journal" unveiled polling on everything from the economy to the president's job performance. bill, good morning. >> hi, good morning. >> let's start with how the public feels right now. 35% of us think the nation is heading in the right direction while 56% of had i us think we're heading down the wrong track. in your experience, bill, how often does it seem like people think we're on the right track? >> it's been 88 months now that americans think we're headed on the wrong track. on 9/11, we had the highest right direction numbers we've seen in history or a healthy economy. so during the late 90s when the economy was booming, early 2000, that's when we were seeing a majority saying right direction. and we're a long, long way away from seeing that kind of economy and seeing that kind of number. >> what does it take to get us feeling like we're on the right track? >> as i said, it would take a sustained economic boom or some kind of national tragedy that brings the country together. so between those two, let's hope for the economic boom. >> absolutely. that's by far the preferable one. >> about the president's job approval, 53% approve of the performance. 41% do not. he's in better shape, president obama, than presidents reagan, clinton and bush when they were approaching re-election, so why do you think they keep saying he is so vulnerable next year in 2012? >> george bush was in a lot better shape in 2003. he had the same job approval, but he was coming off a historic election win. between polling and punditry elections breakout, we had one in november. there were democrats that lost 60 plus seats in the house. 700 legislative seats in the country. it was a massive rejection. and so the reason you're in trouble is the president's job approval is a good mixture of what happened in the lame duck session and a country, 75% of whom liked what he did and how he handled arizona. but traditionally, these are -- these kinds of lists are temporary and he will reset at some lower number in two months. and given those election results, that shows the rest of country in a difficult economy and that's a tough way to start a re-election. >> let's take a look at health care. this nation seems split right down the middle when it comes to the question of repeal. do you think republicans may be damaging themselves by pushing for repeal when everybody knows it is not going pass the senate, certainly not get past the president's bill. in the long run, could the gop end up losing by winning? >> well, sorry. the republicans said -- john boehner said, if you make me speaker, our first bill will be to repeal health care. most republicans who ran for the house of represents said the same thing. they did and delivered what they promised the american people when they ran for office. that's a good thing. and this health care issue is going to have lots of up and downs through the years. you have a right as a legislator to say what do you think is best for the country? what republicans think and what is going to the happen is if we create these exchanges, millions of people are going to lose their private coverage because their businesses will opt out of private coverage. and so whether it's today, next year, two or three years from now, republicans have every right to say, we think it's a bad idea and we think that we should keep our work to the american public and have the vote we promised. >> bill, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. an american student fighting her murder conviction in italy goes before the judge again today. we have a lite live report from italy on the case of amanda knox. also, we have a special celebrity in our studio, suzanne somers is here to tell us how we can be sexy forever. i am running over to that set. ] there's a new way to let go of some of the annoying symptoms menopause brings. it's one a day menopause formula. the only complete multivitamin with soy isoflavones to help address hot flashes and mild mood changes. one a day menopause formula. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. challenge the need for such heavy measures with olay. new regenerist micro-sculpting serum for firmer skin in 5 days. pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist. there are new developments today in the case of amanda knox, the american student convicted of murdering her roommate during a semester abroad in italy. this morning, a group of experts were sworn in by an italian court. they will be taking a look at the dna evidence used to convict knox. good morning, michelle. do knox's lawyers say what went wrong with the dna evidence? >> reporter: well, they say that the dna evidence was really nothing and nothing to get excited about in the first place. and prosecutors used it to really build their case. prosecutors did have other evidence, too, some of it circumstance couple assistantal. everybody has been talk about this dna evidence. what they had was a knife, but it came from amanda's boyfriend's apartment that was there in the drawer. they took it and they said, this matches. they found some dna on the blade from the victim, meredith kitch kihcher. and then there was dna on the handle that sproefd by was a match with amanda. the defense has said that evidence is not enough to really be a good sample. they said there was contamination. for example, the victim's bra, they didn't really find it until weeks later to test it for evidence and then they said that amanda's boyfriend's dna was on there. but the defense experts say that they have the evidence that that match supposedly could be sclooed excluded, anyway. basically what is happening now is that the the courts said, okay, we're going to have these independent experts retest this evidence, if possible, because remember, that sample originally was so minuscule that they may even dismantle the knife to look for evidence there. but the defense says, hey, this evidence isn't really dna evidence to begin with and they're hoping that this new analysis will figure that out once and for all, alex. >> complicated, yes, but you broke it down very well. thank you. news from the entertainment business world this morning, ivanka trump has announced that her and her husband are speccing their first child. kuschner publishes the new york observer. trump, the daughter of donald trump, she's a vice president at her father's real estate company. she go hosts celebrity apprentice and coowns a company. she has not said when she's due. if you're over 40 and in need of a body transformation, suzanne somers has a answer to that. she aim toes transfer more than just your thighs. sexy forever, how to fight that after 40 examines the role of toxins from all those processed foods we eat shapinger your body. i'm joined now by the book's author, actress ewe january somers. thanks for being here. you've written so many books telling women what they need to do to stay fit. what is different about this one? >> i think the most interesting thing is the effect of the toxic burden. the more toxins you're exposed to or ingest, the more fat you need. then hormones start to decline and become imbalanced. and the brain is programmed if a woman is no longer reproductive, the brain knows that those bones are going to get brittle so let's pad them up. that's another thing. but food intolerances. i was writing about my husband who has a fluten intolerance and my granddaughter who is allergic to everything. this is august of this year and i thought, that's me. i'm bloated like i'm nine months pregnant and i'm thin. what did i eat? i gave up eggs. took the test. in the two weeks it took to get the results back, i love tep pounds just by giving up eggs, changing nothing else. and that bad weight that is up in here that we gain as we get older, so i look around the room and i go, oh, you're gluten intolerant, oh, you have a thyroid problem. so women go on a diet and they lose the weight and then it comes back. this is how to keep it off forever if you understand and also gut problems are a big issue, also. >> does this also mean, then, organic food is the way you need to go? >> if you can afford it, absolutely. but if you can't, i give a list of the least brave food and the most brave food and how to wash it to get the toxins off. 80,000 toxins we're supposed to on a morning basis. toxins are everywhere and i don't know if you read the president's panel on cancer this year. i did. it's 240 pages, written by conservative doctors and scientists. it said conclusively that we are getting cancer and other diseases from the chemicals. i don't know why that wasn't talked about. to me, it was a huge thing. you have to connect dots. >> there's a certain amount of common sense to what ur use saying. >> isn't there? >> absolutely. >> when did we ever think it was a good idea to spray poison on our food? our parents grew up eating organ it food, although they didn't know it. so it's kind of a cockamamie idea to go, well, we're get more yield per acre, we'll get bigger, more beautiful fruit, but at our peril. >> is that your secret to looking so great? you're like the hottest grandmother on the planet. >> 64 years old. six children and six grandchildren. >> you can fit into your clothes as chrissy from "three's company." >> i take hormones. i started 15 years ago. it's the greatest thing i've ever done. i call it filling the tank. why were you thin when with you were young? because you had balanced hormones. why could you sleep eight hours a night? because you had balanced owe hormones. i don't know why it's so controversial, but it's natural and there are studies which i now have posted on my website. there's there's another website, sexy forever.com which is like a coaching assist. but i put the studies on my website because 700,000 danish women, 400,000 -- there are a lot of women and have never been one reported case of cancer. >> is that what you say to somebody, to a doctor or critics that say -- >> i've got the studies. they say there are no studies. i say yes, they are. european humans are the same as american humans. and there are studies out of the united states. they're not patentable. our fda doesn't approve nonpatentble drugs. that's as simple as it is. are they going after me because i talk about things that can't -- >> be regulated necessarily? >> no, they're regulated. compounding pharmacies have standards and they are overseen by the fda. so really, everything about them is up to par. but i'll tell you, when you come of age -- i put my husband on hormones 15 years ago. my husband and i are both on hormone replacement. it makes marriages so great. you lose your sex drive when you lose your sex hormones and when you put the hormones back, it all comes back and it's wonderful. >> last question, how much of this is your mental approach to things, not saying i'm of a certain age, that's it, we're done. >> well, i think on hormones, you feel so good that aging is not an issue. we're all going to age. i'm telling you from where i'm sitting here at 64, it's the best i've ever felt, honest to god, and my brain is working better than it's ever worked. and my bones, i can do a hand stand in yoga. i'm in great shape and great health even though i had cancer once. i feel like the second half of my life is even more productive than the first half. >> oh, my gosh. i'm so happy talking to you, i feel like, yes! >> i see you all the time because you have amazing hair and i'm always trying to figure out what is in your system that makes this kind of hair. >> my grandmother. >> when women are losing hair they have a lot of gla acids so gla sxlumts are good for that. and great eyes. my husband always says you have great eyes. we always watch you. >> thank you. and i love this the book. i'm a big fan. suzanne somers, "sexy forever." >> thank you. more on the massive mafia crackdown. how long is it going to take them to crack this? 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