0 the team s made up of many guys who could ball back in the day and ended up on reality tv like cliff robinson and kenny anderson. and doug christie, who recently announced he and his wife were aproducing porn og pi. happening now, 2014, a reset back from vacation. president obama atems to jump start his second term. his showdown could be less than one hour away. the pope and politics when pope francis, washington listens. and basketball party. dennis rodman heads back to north korea to help kim jong-un celebrate his birthday. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president obama now back here in washington determined to hit the reset button and make 2014 the political success 2013 was not. but are republicans in congress on board? the first test possibly only minutes away. a key vote on extending long-term unemployment benefits and the outcome could be raiser close. let s bring in our white house correspondent brianna keilar over at the white house with all the la
0 it is a good album. doesn t break new ground for beyonce but there are a lot of really good songs on here. i think we will be hearing it on radio, seeing it on the web for months to come. thank you so much. i got to cut you off there. we appreciate it. that s it for the lead. i m jake tapper. i ll be back in two hours on outfront at 7:00 p.m. eastern. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a stunning ruling. an nsa surveillance program deemed unconstitutional. the fallout potentially huge so what happens next? veterans outrage, cuts to their benefits inside the bipartisan spending bill. is congress trying to balance the budget on the military s back? and research coming out this hour, questions whether multi vitamins are really good for you and it actually raises the possibility they may be bad for you. should you stop taking multi vitamins? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. just within the last few hours, a federal ju
party. so what does all this mean for north korea and indeed for the united states? experts worry that it could lead to greater instability and a power struggle within the regime. that of course never good in an already-unpredictable nuclear-armed nation. also worth remembering while merrill newman, an american korean war vet who was seized in north korea back in october was released this weekend and came home to california, kenneth bey, another american, is still being held. he is a christian missionary of course who has been held for more than one year now. any instability in north korea, of course, jon and jenna, makes it much harder for diplomats here to work to get kenneth bey home. jon: pretty string situation there. reporter: always is. jon: jonathan hunt. thank you. jenna: back at home, the disis grad former mayor of san diego is back in the spotlight. bob filner will be sentenced for sexually harassing women at campaign events or city hall.
0 problems but now the story is shifting to cost. remember the administration obamacare would reduce costs. certainly there will be winners and losers here. if you can t get your own doctor or hospital, those losers will be awfully loud. jon: well here is one of the consequences apparently of obamacare. the financial times has a story out today suggesting that many of the, the majority of insurance plans being sold on the new health care exchanges in places like new york, texas and california, for example, will not offer patients access to memorial sloane kettering in manhattan or m.d. anderson cancer center in houston, two top cancer centers or cedars-sinai in los angeles, one of the top researching and teaching hospitals in the country. i guess there is a reason they are the top hospital. they come with a price tag and obamacare is generally not going to let people get coverage that will allow them to access those hospitals. yeah, these are some of the top cancer hospitals and th
you. we ll go ahead and check back with you a bit. we have much more to come on paul walker s death. stay with cnn throughout the morning as we get more information on his passing. we ll bring it back to you. now switching gears to north korea. the u.s. is trying to free an 85-year-old american. meryl newman was held in that country since pulled off a plane in october. they are releasing video showing him apologizing for the korean war. he s a korean war veteran. they re also holding an american, kenneth bey. all of this happening as vice president joe biden heads to asia. karl, good morning. newman is 85 years old. what do we know about his health at this point and how he s doing? george, there is some good news here. meryl newman was been able to