hannity suggesting he had knowledge about trump s plans before, during and after the attack on the capitol. law enforcement is stepping up protection ahead of the january 6 anniversary of the insurrection. merrick garland will speak about the capitol riot investigation. so far more than 725 defendants have been charged. new york governor kathy hochul will impose a two-term limit for statewide elected leaders. she delivers the state of the state as she prepares to run for full-term member. cuomo was in his third term when he resigned. the company has stopped running support for older devices. all non-android blackberries paper weights. at its peak blackberry had 80 million users. i miss mine. i know, a crack berry. powerball fever is
president in chief, president obama. here is what he had to say in 2008 shortly after he was elected. i m still clinging to my blackberry. they re going to pry it out of my hands. there may be a more critical reason why the president cannot leave his blackberry behind. brianna keilar is in washington to tell us why. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. they did not pry that blackberry out of the president s hands when he came into the white house. but yesterday he actually said while he was pitching the affordable care act to young people that it s for security reasons that he doesn t have an iphone and that he still has a blackberry. that said, he has been very loyal to the brand, which he came into the white house using. you could definitely say it was a crack berry for him and continues to be. it s pretty fascinating because of the fact that george w. bush didn t use e-mail and he certainly was president during the time of handheld mobile devices. he didn t have one. b
he wants the united states to stop treating him like a criminal. this just into us. a major announcement from blackberry. it is abandoning all plans to sell the company. the company ceo will also be stepping down. confusing, right? our chief business correspondent christine romans is in new york to explain this to us. this is the gdemise of the crack berry. the worker bees used it. in washington, on wall street. the close has slowly unbound, the stock down 20%. they have halted trading of the sta shares. the ceo is out. he had bet 100% on a new operating system and new blackberries to invigorate the company in the midst of all the competition out there. and it just didn t work. the company had been trying to find a buyer, really couldn t.
and now there is a new ceo that will take over. basically this is a company in the hands of private equity investors and we know what they do, if they can t sell it, they can t turn it around, they will break it apart and sell the pieces. so this is a company right now everyone is asking is my crack berry, is my blackberry going away. that is a distinct possibility. very recently the company appealed to the kus saying please be loyal, we re not dead yet. but what you re seeing here is another sign that this will be one of those companies that there will be a chapter written about it in every businessman you ll when you go to college because what they have gun, all t done, all the mistakes. the new ceo is a turn around guy, john chen, used to be ceo of siemens. so he has a lot of credibility. we ll see what he has up his sleeve. but no now bad news for users. christine romans live from
also, wow, two more contests within a fortnight. are you kidding? they are heading to florida. it s getting ugly. romney is calling gingrich a failed leader. but why? the mayor of the island where the cruise ship capsized is warning of an ecological time bomb. there may have been more passengers than originally thought that weren t on the roster. head s up football fans, super bowl sequel, giants and patriots meet again at this year s super bowl. we ll begin this hour with powerful and very dangerous weather sweeping across the southeast this morning. and if you didn t see pictures, here is what it looked like in arkansas, listen closely. the sound of really intense wind and rain in the dark, someone had the forethought to get pictures. a hot lot of people were sleepi multiple tornadoes r from illinois to alabama. reports of widespread damage, luckily no deaths. thousands waking up without power, indiana, kentucky, tennessee, mississippi, alabama all in harm s way rig