trafficking. they were stopped trying to take more than 30 haitian children out of the country. they say it s all a terrible misunderstanding. president obama s $3.8 trillion budget will be arriving on capitol hill in just two hours. it s projected to put us deeper in the red. the white house, though, is saying it is showing some fiscal discipline just like every family has been forced to do in the recession. we re live at the white house and also speaking to the president s chief of the budget this morning. we begin with the obama administration turning up the heat on iran. a missile intercept test off the coast of california did not exactly go according to plan, but the timing may be significant. the white house has been beefing up patriot missile defense systems in the middle east for months now fearing that iran may launch a strike against israel. barbra star is live at the pentagon this morning. was it still a message for tehran? absolutely. the test failed to rada
called a shocking report on what went wrong in the incident. and a story generating an awful lot of buzz on cnn.com, new york city s tip for safer use of heroin pamphlet. critics are calling it a how-to guide for shooting heroin. plus your comments, all that coming up. the deep freeze that just won t loosen its grip on the midwest and deep south, here s a look at oma nebraska where they ve gotten 21 inches of snow on the ground. that s the most in january since they ve been keeping records. they also say the average temperature so far in 2010, 3 degrees in omaha. then the mississippi river in illinois is freezing over and it s snowing in chicago. forecasters calling for six or more inches by tomorrow. rob marciano is in memphis, tennessee, and the sub freezing temperatures there have had deadly consequences formorning, reporter: good morning. this cold, not unprecedented, what is unusual is the extended time, the number of days, the streak of this cold that just refuses
dangerous explosives. plus we re learning how much the government knew. the latest from the president s vacation spot in honolulu just ahead. and before he tried to allegedly blow up a plane in the sky, umar abdulmutallab spent time on american soil. a grim end to what has been the worst year for the u.s. in afghanistan. the taliban taking credit for an attack on a u.s. military outpost that killed eight cia officers. how did a suicide bomber slip inside? was it an inside job? cnn drawing on our global resources, live in kabul this morning. first new detachls this morning showing just how much the government knew before the flight 253 terror plot. a government official telling cnn that washington agencies knew extremists in yemen were plotting and mentioned someone called, quote, the nigerian. they even had a partial name. umar farouk, as in umar farouk abdulmutallab. another source confirms he bought a one-way particularity from ghana to nigeria, he was scheduled to fl
on, just when it seemed it might finally be over. plus, what iraqi militants saw when they tapped into our eyes in the sky. new information about how they hacked into u.s. drones. is one of the most effective weapons in hunting down al qaeda still exposed? but first, a lot riding on president obama s appearance in copenhagen now. he s in denmark and could speak this hour on efforts to salvage an agreement on global warming but there is no guarantee he ll have a deal to sign when the conference ends today. talks have been stalled for days. china is in a standoff with the united states and there is still no answer on who she pay for new environmental rules. this morning we re tapping into the global resources of cnn. our ed henry is traveling with the president in copenhagen, and he joins us now live. ed, a busy morning for the president. what s the state of play right now? reporter: well, good morning, john. this story is moving fast, amid signs these climate talks could
looked at by skeptics and are now being used to cast doubt on all of the science surrounding global warming. skeptics claiming that some scientists were manipulating data to further their cause. we ll be looking into all of this this morning and i ll be talking exclusively with the interim director. right now, back to you. john, great to have you over there, because we re digging into this deeper here at cnn. it s a network-wide initiative. just to get the bottom of it and find out from people sitting at home, what does this exactly mean and what does it mean for the future of climate change, and any legislation to make sure that we are protecting our climate. especially at at time now where the climate change conference is beginning in copenhagen. a lot of the world paying very close attention to this controversy and the issue in general. our president headed there next week. that e-mail scandal may overshadow what we ve been talking about, this big u.n. conference on