telling fans until game day that the seats weren t available. you be the judge on whether it s enough. the first option, a free ticket to next year s super bowl game. plus, a cash payment of $2,400 which the nfl says is triple the value of this year s ticket. the that s right. no, not enough. the second option, the second option, one free ticket to a future super bowl game of the fan s choosing. and next year s super bowl game if they want. as well as round trip airfare and hotel accommodations paid for by the nfl. at this option, you do not get the $2,400 cash payment. the problem, of course, with this, i would imagine, if you were one of those 400 ticketholders, going to the game because you were a steelers or packers fan, it doesn t matter if you get tickets. right. unless they make it to next year s super bowl. you wanted to go see the fall
creativity, online with the rest of the country, we can help each other deal with the snowmageddon. or snowpocalypse. or whatever less eloquent fame you have come up with look at that [ bleep ]. reporter: for this storm. i m jeremy hubbard in new york. today is groundhog day so punxsutawney phil will let us know whether they should expect six more weeks of winter. oh, look at that. he doesn t see his shadow, right? please bring on spring, phil. we need a little break. i have heard hem say in new york, come february it could be 70s, so perhaps the extreme of cold weather now could bring some warm weather later on. we need a little love here. we love you punxsutawney. when we come back, it s time for your skinny. we ll be right back.
oh, kim. by the way, i am also a packers fan. thank you for the support. it must be girls against guys here, appreciate that. i like it. in florida the weather service will determine today off a tornado touched down in st. petersberg. high wind and rains knocked out power to thousands. the wind damages dozens of homes and businesses, including a gas station in st. petersburg. a powerful wind gust left a woman trapped in her car. at least 20 workers are dead, six others injured, 16 more remain trapped following an explosion in a coal mine in colombia. this is the same mine where another blast killed 32 workers in 2007. when robert allen got a call from the white house inviting him to the state of the union, he thought it was a prank. but, hey, no joke.
princella smith, founder of chooseyourchairman.com. let s start with the president s decision to run his re-election campaign out of chicago. it s the first time in recent history for a re-election campaign to be run off the campus, so to speak. david, is this a smart move for the white house to do that? they re saying they don t want to duplicate white house duties. absolutely, it s a smart move. it s not just because of the reason that white house cites, it s also because what better place to understand what middle america cares about than middle america? when you have staff people living, working in chicago, a great city even though i m a packers fan and i m from wisconsin, i ll say it on the air. chicago is a great city. there is a real advantage in having certain number of strategists, staff, key personnel outside of the bubble, outside of the white house and outside of washington. i mean it is chicago. i mean that is the home turf of obama. it s not like you re saying you re
fall walls of the classroom. you have to have a little bit of fun, too. it has to be a unique experience. packers fan, i guess. an ugly scene at end of the clippers/blazers game. rookie blake griffin loses control of the ball. tries to dump it to the teammate, stolen by rudy fernandez. runs into his own teammate, then we have other action, three stooges style for the lay-up. the clipper placer actually made that pass. let s watch this sequence once more time. this, friends, is the nba in action right here. runs into his own guy. that s a fantastic nice assist, though. took it to the other team for the easy layup. coming up on morning joe, brian williams roundtable discussion with the national security team that served under george h.w. bush. brian with some tough questions about why we went in in the first gulf war and why we got out so quickly. when we come back here we