Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront breaking news for you. Lance armstrong comes clean. After more than a decade of denials, lies and cheating, seventime Tour De France winner, olympic bronze medalist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong told Oprah Winfrey the truth. Did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance . Yes. Yes or no. Was one of those banned substances epo . Yes. Did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance . Yes. Did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone or Human Growth Hormone . Yes. Yes or no, in all seven of your Tour De France victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope . Yes. In your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the Tour De France without doping . Seven times in a row. Not in my opinion. For months, even longer, armstrong has been feeling the effects of the latest and biggest u. S. Antidoping investigation. This one found him guilty of usin
I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Lance armstrongs lies. Now that america has seen his confession, will the truth set him free . Hostage crisis in the desert. Americans still believed to be among the captives after a risky rescue attempt fails to free all of them. Power struggle in the northeast. Trees and power lines affected by snow, we have so much to talk about this morning. Boy, what a night. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im zoraida sambolin. And im john berman. Friday, january 18th. And, man, what a moment ma. For years, Lance Armstrong cheated, Lance Armstrong lied. But last night in big public fashion he came clean. In a gripping, surreal interview with oprah, he told oprah point blank he doped to win each of his seven consecutive Tour De France titles. He systematically died about doping and ruthlessly attacked his accusers. The 90minute interview began by cutting to the chase. Simple yes or no questions. Lets start with the questions
Called her a liar after she testified he was doping. New developments in the attempted rescue of hostages in algeria. Including americans. Well have details in leave report ahead this morning. Wall street rising, s p closes at a fiveyear high. Whats behind the big boost. The mystery behind manti teo and his emergenimaginary girlfriend. Ray kelly will join us, Janet Robinson, newtown connecticut superintendent of schools and actress angie harmon. Friday, january 18th. Starting point begins right now. Lance armstrong comes clean after years of lying. He admits he used performance enhancing drugs to win all seven of his Tour De France titles. He admitted he consistently lied about doping and recklessly attacks his accusers, the interview on own began with a series of yes or no questions. Lets start with the questions that people around the world have been waiting for you to answer. And for now, id like a yes or a no, okay . This whole conversation, we have a lot of time, will be about the
Along with dozens of others from places like britain and france remain unclear. After algerian troops and helicopters stormed this natural gas facility. It appears it was a bloody rescue attempt that went terribly wrong. This morning, the algerian government said that its raid is now over. But the situation is still not resolved. The area is so remote and communications so difficult no one is really clear what is happening. The british Prime Minister spoke just moments ago. There is no justification for this hostagetaking and well continue to do everything we can to hunt the people down. Reporter what we doe know prior to the raid, some hostages were forced to wear explosives around their necks. And at least five americans who may have been elsewhere on the complex managed to escape along with at least one irish worker from belfast. I cant describe how happy i am. Reporter he called his family immediately after he was in a safe area. Telling them how he left to safety from a jeep after
If you have been driving a around looking for the flu shot and you have my had any luck you should stop. I will tell you when and where they are giving them out. An attempted kidnapping and san jose has turned out to be a hoax. We will have the tell straight ahead. Lance armstrong comes clean to Oprah Winfrey. As he anticipated this interview broadcast. Will hear what he had to say later. Lets focus our attention on our Current Conditions in the east bay. Hayward is 37 s out the door. We are below freezing in fremont. Sunnyvale is coming in at 37 degrees. It is up to 30s for santa clara. As we head into the afternoon it will be warmer and sunnier perry ed if you liked yesterdays you will like today. We will keep the sunshine around and the extended forecast will be dry into the middle of next week. We are still going well for the drive or around the area. We are not tracking any hot spots. We are not looking at the metering lights to just yet. If there is a problem on the peninsula of