bowl. the olympic gold medalist timed the 40-yard dash and did it in sweatpants. world s fastest man. and finally 1.28 billion, that s how chicken wings americans will snack on tonight according to the national chicken council. that s four wings for every man, woman, and child in the country. i will do my best to do my part. ed: we will see as well whether saints fans will be watching the super bowl today, after the controversial call which lost them a chance at the super bowl. ed: a louisiana pastor and die hard saints fans says if the nfl isn t going to throw that flag, his church will. in fact he s passing out yellow penalty flags at his church service all morning long today. pete: had a that. ed: that man, reverend bill miller of christ episcopal church in covington, louisiana, joins us now. i see you have a lot of saints fans. how are people feeling that sunday morning in new orleans? i am sounded by the saints of god and new orleans saints fans,
welcome back to the van jones show. you guys always see me talking about political facts. if it was up to me, i d be talking about science fiction and superheroes. when i was a kid, true story. while the other kids were out playing sports, i was hiding in the bleachers playing comic books. i still wear superman stuff. i ve got my superman cufflinks on. look, when i heard that marvel was making a black panther movie, i predicted it was going to be huge. but who knew it was going to take over the whole world? so far this thing s made $655 million in the u.s. 1.28 billion around the world. and it s still going. saudi arabia s ending its 35-year ban on movies so the saudis can see it. it s the highest-grossing film ever made by a black director. and that director is the brilliant ryan coogler.
philadelphia, boston, new york city, all being affected. we have some estimates that there could be 500,000 trips just cancelled. that is $600 million in lost revenue because people are doing their business. that is a lot of money. gregg: a slowdown or shut down in the financial markets. you got that aspect. what about insurance companies? very interesting because basically insurance premiums have been going up wildly in the last few years. 5% just in the past year. 22% since 2007. so you can expect upon renewal even if nothing happened to your home, it is very likely that you could see a premium increase. it s been happening for years now. gregg: the front of the storm s impact will be felt on the national insurance program which is part of fema. they paid out $1.28 billion in
accessible or available to people. but i think, yeah, i think he was sort of an early indicator. this is likely where this debate is going. and look, it s an appropriate debate to have. this is what politics is about in america. i guess i just would hope it would haven t happened three hours after the shooting. bret: charles, i want to correct. you said i think jered weaver. it s jared loughner. getting ready for the angels. major apology on that one. to weaver and the weaver family. bret: i do want to put one thing in context before we introduce the friday lightning round. these are stats. the aurora shooting in context here. 1.28 billion movie tickets were sold in 2011. there weren t these problems. less than 1% of homicides involve five or more victims. the rate has remained below 1% for decades. that is in context if you are
now, but a million people are on the way to fill it up for america s biggest celebration. and 2012 arriving hour by hour around the world. live pictures here. happy new year. hon congress. just three days until the iowa caucuses. cnn s political editor paul steinhauser is in the thick of it live in des moines, iowa. whirlwind day ahead, i m sure, for you, right? no doubt about it, nonstop on the campaign trail. this is the end of december in iowa and it should be cold. let s start with newt gingerich. he was reaching out to voters stai restaurant and bus stop. we ve seen newt gingerich s numbers kind of collapse here. he was the front-runner, but that s not the case any more. he s telling voters, don t count me out. i would ask you to go tuesday night, take all your friends and help us win. i do think this is wide open, no matter what the news media does to try to create some stampede. newt beginning rip s numbers have been going down and rick santorum s numbers have