Take a look at this. Teenagers trapped on the ice. Clinging to life on the tree. The rescue you need to stick around to watch. Among guests this morning. Former ohio congressman steve la tourette, newly sworn in congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Mike dewine, tim ferriss and steve rinella. I have one word for you. Squirrel. Its true. We have squirrel. Friday, january 4th. Starting point begins right now. Our starting point this morning. In just hours, the brand spanking new 113th congress will vote on a nearly 10 billion aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims. This after the outrage over Speaker Boehner canceling the initial vote early this week. Athena jones live in our washington bureau. Expected to be an easy one today, dana . It looks like it will be passed. About 9. 7 billion in Borrowing Authority for the National Flood insurance program. That program will run out of money as soon as next week. Thats right around the corner, and the house is expected to come in this morning. Past tha
I wouldnt want to do anything more. You know wolf blitzer will talk about that in the situation room which stards now. Thanks very much. Happening now a possible fix for the looming debt crisis without the political mudslinging. Why some are suggesting the answer could lie in a special 1 trillion platinum coin. A longtime friend of Hillary Clinton speaking out about her health and the recent political attacks. My interview with James Carville ahead. And new york citys criminal system might be clogged for years to come because of massive flood damage from Superstorm Sandy. Well explain. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. 24 hours and bipartisanship ushered in with a Brand New Congress already seems to be shifting just weeks before the next major battle over the debt ceiling republican lawmakers are making it clear they are ready to fight the president. Lets bring in our National Political correspondent on capitol hill with the latest. It seems old habits die hard. Remember th
For more than a year, one after another in health care. Some are goodpaying jobs, some jobs are not and theyre not ladder jobs in health care, but you are seeing Health Care Growth there. Food services and drinking places apparently people were going out to dinner and celebrating in december, celebrating maybe the coming end of the world, because of the mayan calendar, but you saw people adding jobs in those areas. Dont we normally see it in december . Its the holiday season. We do and sometimes they go away in the beginning part of the year. Manufacturing you want to see jobs in areas with better pay, manufacturing and construction because of Hurricane Sandy, construction jobs grew as well. Wait a minute, the construction for Hurricane Sandy had already begun even though the aid package has to be voted on as we speak . Weve been talking to people who had a little bit of savings and were able to get work started because they knew they wanted to secure work crews and they wanted to prev
All right, thanks so much for joining us. That is all for early start. Im john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Starting point starts right now. Our starting point this morning its black smoke and that means no smoke. Black smoke billowing from the chimney at the Sistine Chapel. Happened minutes ago. That means cardinals have not yet picked a pope. But could we see white smoke a little bit later today . Were live in rome and at the vatican for you this morning. Then an intense manhunt is over. Police have a man in custody. Hes accused of murdering his grandparents. Right after they picked him up from prison. Well have developing details in just moments. Fire on the water. A tugboat hits a natural gas pipeline sending at least two to the hospital. Well have the details coming up. And imagine standing on a golf course, when an 18 foot hole opens up right beneath you. This really happened to a guy who was rescued by his friends. And better yet, he joins us live with the story. Its wednesd
Guaranteed. Duracell with duralock. Trusted everywhere. Can you believe he was almost president. He is totally devoid of any moral outlook at all. Its horrible. Now he is rehe vealed as someone who goes for the short money and someone who goes for the couple p change. And worse, somebody who it in bed with baby killers. Is al gore really in bed with baby killers . Welcome to the program, everybody. Im geraldo rivera. In 2013 has so far been a good year and a bad year for the former Vice President. First of all, he became a very rich man after selling his hard left cable channel current tv to aljazeera a for 500 million. That is where oreillys baby killer criticism comes from. In 2008 the arab news channel threw a televised Welcome Home Party for a terrorist. Sammy kuntar had been released from an israeli jail in a prisoner exchange. He is a very bad man who i interviewed shortly after the hideous crimes that put him behind bars in the first place. Watch. Naturally, we consider everybod