Thats it for us. Thanks for watching. Early start begins right now. Bracing for the big one. Two winter storms about to merge into a monster blizzard for parts of the northeast. American spy secrets exposed . Iran claims it has hacked into a captured u. S. Drone. We have a live report. And, john t is high drama on capitol hit. President obamas big pick for cia director up for con fir make in a few hours. But will members of his own party derail it . I dont know. Lots of drama. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im zoraida sambolinment. Im john berman. Its thursday, february 7th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets get started. Up first, brace yourselves, bundle up, buy a shovel. This will be a big one. At this moment a blaizzard watc is in effects for new england. A storm is headed that way and could be historihistoric. It could drop two feet of snow in some places and it all starts tomorrow. You told us this was coming yesterday, you were on top of this one. Were trying. Boston could riva
Do we lose season Ticket Holders . Do we lose sweet holders . Do we lose sponsorships . Thats so petty at this stage. I regret i let people down. I regret that people love us might not love us any more. Im sad for that and im sorry for that but im not scared of that. Thats again how you do it. Thats how you do it. Beautiful shot of the empire state building. Gorgeous morning. Thats how you do it, man. Thats how you do it. You know what . The nfl and other owners need to look at this guy. You hear a lot about ray rice. Ray rice, obviously exposes so much that the nfl doesnt want us to know about. That we havent been paying attention to. We talk about ray rays. What about greg hardy. Greg hardy is a carolina franchise panthers player. Hes a pro bowl defensive lineman. Because 13 million a year. This summer he was convicted of two counts of Domestic Violence. The court found that after a night of heavy drinking the 64, 280 pound nfl star threw a woman down on a sofa, full guns, then choke
But it was a great labor of love to learn more about them. People often ask me, how did you pick these hundred people . One of the great one of the things the was the most fun about the book was reading about these hundred people. I recently analyst to a 250 people. I contacted friends and others that did not know out of the blue from historians, journalists, like our first, and ask them for their recommendations of people. And then made a point of trying to identify people, some of the more famous and many of whom were not well known. There are three kinds of people in the book and the three categories of people. One group of them are organizers and activists, people like eugene debs and the socialist party, the early 1900s. People like alice paul, the great suffrage leader it was probably more responsible than anyone else for women getting the right to vote and a leader of the Womens Suffrage Movement in the early 1900s. She was also an advocate of civil disobedience. She and others
Getting the skills that they need. It makes no sense. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to have to cut it there with the questions im sorry because, again, michelle has to go on piers morgan i think you guys are going to be a little nice we are the questions than pix ers is. Before we close it out, i just want to make a couple of notes. Firstly, id really like to thank a old and dear friend for making this incredible event possible, and thats leslie cohen who anthony briefly mentioned. Also anybody that has any stake in education and if they want to get involved, its completely up to them, studentsfirst. Org is doing, according to many critics and others, is doing all types of interesting work. Also most importantly, the book i see theres a lady right h a question before, she has two or three books. The book has received incredible reviews. If you have any stake in education or if education means anything to you personally, your kids, your family, future of the country, according to man
President hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. The reason plus how officials are responding. Stewart 33. And that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. A lot of news coming out of daytona today. We will take you there, as well. But we begin with our top political headlines. There could be a deal in the senate on guns. A Bipartisan Panel may Reach Agreement on tougher background checks for gun buyers. The Washington Post reports the talks led by two democrats and two republicans are expected to earn more gop spurt in the coming days. The nras president said the president has done nothing serious to reduce the threat of gun violence. Even in his state of the Union Address where he laid out his second term agenda, president obama made not one mention, not one word of the need to improve security for our schools. Why . Because theyre not serious about taking steps that actually work. And ann and mitt romney will sit down for their First T