the billion dollar start ups in the united states. that is according to the national foundation for american policy. a non-partisan think tank. the atlanta falcons wait to see their fate on sunday. waking up in houston. probably with nightmares. we have andy scholes with the bleacher report. good morning. super bowl is finally here. half of the participants have arrived here in houston. patriots making the rare decision to travel to texas here today as opposed to making the trip on the sunday before the big game. the falcons on the other hand, arriving in houston yesterday afternoon. as you can see, the team all business as they were getting off the plane. no one was out trying to make any fashion statements like cam newton last year. we all remember the pants that cam was rocking when he got off the plane. those did not work out for him
major league baseball. one of its biggest young stars may have to sit out 50 games for breaking the rules. yes, the national league mvp now facing allegations of substance abuse in baseball. also, thousands in the streets in russia protesting against the government. now here at the top of the hour, let s start this morning. some of the headlines, the republican presidential debate in iowa. the new front-runner newt gingrich was the target of much of the night. his rivals lining up to take shots at him. mitt romney called him a career politician. rick perry called him out for marital infidelity. almost all criticized his recent comments when he called the palestinians a invented people. we ll have much more on this debate in a moment. also, american forces have left an air base in pakistan and taken their drone planes with them. pakistan told the u.s. to leave the base after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last month. today was the deadline pakist