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Can you feel the excitement . Were just an hour and a half away from the Oscar Nominations, so whos in, who got snubbed . Were going to bring it to you all live. The action is right here coming up. Among our guests this morning, connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal will be joining us, new york congressman joseph crowley, dr. Sanjay gupta is with us, the dog whisperer, cesar milan and comedian jay thomas joins us as well. Its thursday, january 10th. Starting point begins right now. Good morning, welcome, everybody. Our starting point this morning, the majority of the United States now dealing with a severe and deadly bout of the flu. The cdc reporting that influenza cases are widespread across 41 states. More than 2200 people reported hospitalized. Here are the hardesthit states. Pennsylvania, south carolina. Each ....
Are very closely related. And when youre building these Information Technology companies, the market rewards you and you can make a lot of money. A lot of folks who are doing such extraordinary work in science dont have the same opportunity, and because of that, i think it would be a shame if a lot of folks were growing up trying to figure out what they want do dont choose to go into such critical work because of that. If by having these prizes we can give incentive and can kind of make some of these folks a little more wellknown as figures that some younger students want to grow up to be like, then were doing our job here. Thank you for joining the conversation this week on your money. Were here every saturday at 1 00 p. M. And sunday at 3 00 p. M. And weekdays at 3 30. Find me on facebook at facebook. Com ali velshi. Tweet me ali velshi. Tweet me ali velshi. Have a great weekend. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com hello. ....
Hello again, im fredricks whitfield. You are in the cnn newsroom. A look at our top story right now, all about daytona. Nascar Driver Jimmie Johnson takes the win there. Johnson won his second praise race in the daytona 500, becoming the tenth driver to win americas greatest race multiple times. We will go live to the Winners Circle in a moment. The pope led the people in prayer for the last time today at the vatican. An emotional crowd gathered to hear him speak but his resignation comes at a time when the vatican and the Catholic Church are in the middle of other controversies. More on that straight ahead. Just five days until forced spending cut go into effect. In this country, 85 billion in cuts will impact defense and social programs if congress and the president dont reach a budget deal. And oscars fever hi ....
Just this morning there was an assault at a weapons depot in crimea where armed men attacked a military base. We are going to try to understand it as it comes in. Officially thousands of Russian Troops have ousted Ukrainian Forces and taken complete control of crimea. Ukraine is in yellow, crimea in red. Crimea is so key to russia. Just ten miles separate russia from crimea, but theres a lot of history there, there have been famous battles there, crimeans have been at odds with russia. And the white house has been holding emergency meetings, and the u. S. Just one of the countries threatening to skip the g8 summit. We have the crisis covered around the world for you this morning, starting in ukraine. Diana . Reporter hi. Well, we hear from the Ukrainian Naval commander recently appointed because of the defection of th ....
A force of 20 to 25,000 iraqi troops. Being assembled, being trained to go to mosul. A lot of detail offered by the pentagon even the fact that Peshmerga Forces would help contain from the north and the west so isis fighters couldnt escape. The big question is still not decided, will it require a small number of u. S. Troops on the ground to help pick out those isis targets . For the iraqi forces to strike. So you might ask yourself why all this detail . Because we know the pentagon doesnt like to talk about future operations. Maybe a little psyop, nonetheless the pentagon saying this is the plan. Barbara, thats the plan thank you. And president obama marking the final day of a white house summit on extremism, saying that muslim nations have a particular challenge and responsibility to counter radical messages. Lets go now to cnns Michelle Kosinski live at the white hous ....