began six weeks ago, business has exploded, and tax revenue is exceeding expectations by tens of millions of dollars. your new day starts now. wow, it s early, but doesn t it feel good to wake up without an alarm. ah, yes. i take a little schal. you made it this saturday. glad you did, i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. pleasure to have you. 6:00 here on the east coast. it s new day saturday. we re definitely going to get to the conversation of what s happening in arizona. so many people are talking about that. this morning, we have to start with the breaking news overnight. right. the powerful images coming out of ukraine. even though there is now a peace deal, they re calling it fragile. because the fighting doesn t seem to be over, look at this. okay, what you re looking at
they may have reached a verdict. today, the u.s. men s hockey team plays in sochi. but they play russia, but this may remind you of another olympics game. it s described as a miracle. the 1980 team captain mike eruzione will be here live to take us back to that miracle on ice. your new day continues now. take a nice big breath, valentine is over. the pressure is off. now you just get to go buy chocolate for 50% off. oh, the reese s cups. that s your chocolate of choice? that s my heart. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 7:00 here on the east coast. it s new day saturday. come on, winter, i mean it just does not end. old man winter is busy. he s got things to do and he s making it known to us, right? especially you folks in the midwest and northeast. there s more snow coming for you today.
if he s productive on the field, make gg stops at third base, they ll most likely keep him. and the fans will most likely somewhat welcome him back. joe carter, thank you. you know rapper dmx says that he is considering a deal to jump into the ring and fight george zimmerman who as you know was acquitted of murder in trayvon martin s death. okay. you can imagine, this is creating an awful lot of buzz and controversy. some people are calling it a shameless exploitation at the expense of trayvon s family. next hour, the man behind this event, boxing promoter david feldman is going to join us live to take on questions about the fight. tweet us, what do you want to know? what are your questions? stay with us here on new day saturday. also coming up, how clint eastwood made one man s day in a pretty big way. saved his life during a volunteer thing. plus, a hijacking plot to terrorize the olympics is thwarted. our own mike brooks, analyst, he
vast security effort that s being coordinated and a secret command center. we also got a tour of that. law enforcement officers from 100 different state, local and federal agencies are working together. this is a place where they can share information and intelligence in real time. they re also monitoring a vast network of cameras in real time. so, erin, they will have every angle of the super bowl covered. thank you very much, alexandra. you re going to see a lot more of alexandra s video. she has a special report on new day saturday. joining me is tim clemente. tim, let me ask you about this because the super bowl obviously taking place in new york city, a central target for many who would do harm to the u.s., around the world. i was told today that this is a bigger risk event for new york city than new year s eve, which of course is seen by everyone around the world with thousands and thousands of people in times
wood horse and being combustible expect scandals, conflicts, arguments. so saddle up, it could be a wild ride this new year. christi. thank you very much. even my identification cans got a note we re celebrating the chinese new year apparently in atlanta. they re supposed to wear red to school on monday. it s the year of scandal and and the wooden horse? i ve got to look it up. i ve got to look it up. we ll have a lot to talk about apparently. we will. seahawks fans swooping in, broncos fans charging into new jersey and new york. it is super bowl time. and andy scholes is live in the middle of it all. andy, good morning. hey, good morning, victor. i m here on super bowl boulevard. this is basically an nfl fan s dream world. we ll have a preview of the big game when new day saturday returns. orbiting the moon in 1971.