Surprising numbers in a drop in childhood obesity. What could be a healthier point towards a healthier americans. Its not all good news, especially for older women. Im john berman, welcome to early start. Im christian romans, its wednesday, halfway through the week. Lets begin with our top story. It is drum roll, please the weather, arctic chill. Cold air, millions of americans waking up to face another bitterly cold morning. The arctic blast dropping temperatures on the midwest and east 20 degrees below normal. Record lows in some cases. And of course, it wouldnt be cold without some snow to go along with it. The latest freeze is not as deep as the one in january. Thats cold comfort for those of us who want spring to get here. What is it, 22 days, indra . Until spring comes . Hi there. Its actually worse than yesterday. Were talking temperatures again. Currently, 5 below. Minneapolis, 10 below. Duluth, 12 below. New york city, 12 below, duluth, 35 below with the windchill. It is miser
Who cares . Well get to the Seinfeld Story in a moment. But i want to begin with janet mock. She wrote about her life as a transgender woman in the book redefining realness, my path to womanhood, identity, love and so much more. Janet rejoins me now. I brought you back on the show. Cards on the table. I have spent an infuriating 24 hours. And i want you to explain why ive had to go through this. Because let me start from this premise. I have always been 100 supportive of all gay rights, gay marriage rights, transgender rights. In fact, i want equality for everyone. In america and around the world. Thats always been my position. Anyone that watches this show knows thats exactly what ive always stood for. I had you on the show. You wrote a powerful book. I did nothing but laud your courage. I said you were a fantastic person to be out there center stage, selling the message that theres no need to stigmatize transgender people. I called you a woman throughout the interview. I never disput
there was a lot of information about his addiction. the spiraling out of control. there was all of this ugly innuendo about secret life and what was really happening with him. and so much of it is false. the man joining us is a very good friend of hoffman. his name is david barr katz. he is the man who found his friend after he had overdosed. he also just settled a landmark lawsuit against the national enquirer about allegations stemming with his relationship with hoffman. we will tell you about it. he will set the record straight about his friend. what his life was about. how his life ended. and wait until you hear about this story with the inquirenq and what the enquirer is going to have to do to make good. it is is an amazing story. an incredibleinnuendo. i was shocked and elated.
on the show. thank you. tomorrow morning on new day the man who found philip seymour hoffman s body his friend david barr katz, close friend and colleague remembers him. that s tomorrow morning beginning at 6:00 a.m. coming next, switching political parties is one thing. writing a tell all book about where your party went wrong and naming names is another. charlie crist is with me in the chair.
actors of our generation. and if he couldn t get the help that s necessary to kind of work his way through this, with all the things that are available, methadone, all these really good rehabilitation programs, i know people that were heroin addicts in the 1970s that have led perfectly responsible lives. so you can deal with this and you can get over it. and it s a tragedy that this has happened. but all this talk about loosening up on drugs, i don t know. i think maybe we d better rethink that. this is really really dangerous stuff. if we re in an era in which we re trying to convince people not to smoke cigarettes, don t know if we should be encouraging them to kind of this libertarian fashion just to be using any drugs that they want. rudy giuliani, always good to talk to you. thank you very much for coming on the show. thank you. tomorrow morning on new day the man who found philip seymour hoffman s body his friend david barr katz, close friend and colleague remembers him. th