we have brooke baldwin who is in new orleans. we're going to check in with her a little later on. >> what are you so nervous about? >> and the amazing -- >> deborah harry is here asking who anderson is. >> hey, i'm anderson cooper. how are you? >> hi. >> kathy griffin. >> hi, take a seat, stand right in the middle. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. i'm a fan of yours. i'm glad you are back and performing. how did it feel to perform here tonight? >> wonderful. >> so exciting. >> you sounded fantastic. >> it's an incredible, i mean, my god. there's no spectacle like this. >> yeah. and you'll get a new album. >> we have a new album coming out in march, and it's all new material. so i'm very excited about that. >> that's cool. >> and i wish we could have actually played more

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks so much for watching. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> making headlines and prompting conversations all day, our exclusive interview with president obama. and now for the very first time this hour you can see the whole thing in its entirety right here. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >> i can't wait and the american people, more importantly, cannot wait. >> the national lead, the lead exclusive with president obama. his first interview since the state of the union. the

i'm brooke baldwin. tonight, thousands remain stranded here in atlanta and across the south as snow and ice catch the southern states unprepared, at least ten storm related deaths reported thus far. the city of atlanta here brought to an absolute standstill, with some drivers stuck in their cars. just imagine, more than 17 hours. moving an infuriating 1-mile-per-hour. >> good evening. i'm don lemon in new york. six states have declared a state of emergency in this the second day of this paralyzing storm. this is in birmingham, alabama. a man helpless from preventing a sliding car from hitting his. this is a cnn special, "frozen, state of the south." >> we begin with the warning signs. they were there. the experts called it. there's a storm coming. the big question, how did it come to this? we were talking about atlanta. this is a major city. this is the ninth biggest metropolis in the u.s., crippled by a mere 2.5 inches of snow. to kick off the special, here is cnn's marten savage. >> the polar blast tha

i'm brooke baldwin live here in new orleans. keep in mind, the party is still rolling on. you just saw the party end in manhattan. we're here in new orleans where we are just about, looking at the clock, 28 minutes away from midnight from a new year here. what you're looking at right now, this is the honey island swamp band. enjoy a little of the music here. take a listen. ♪ ♪ >> if you know new orleans, you know that music is so much part of the soul of the city. you see some of these umbrellas behind me, let me tell you, it's cold for this time of year in new orleans, but it's hot, hot, hot when you feel just the passion among this crowd. people here from really actually all over the world enjoying what will be the fleur de lis drop. we'll take that live for you. if you can hear the band. huge screen here. you feel the energy in this crowd. there will be fireworks in 25 minutes. stay with me as we ring in the new year in new orleans. baby yr. the fleur-de-lis drop. so much else to cover for you in the next half hour. let me take you to my friend, susan hendricks, liv

i'm brooke baldwin. we will get into the nasty nor'easter affecting millions of people, but first, news just in to us here at cnn. we have just gotten, i have it right here, this is the final coroner's report on the death of fast and furious actor paul walker. the car he was riding in, i'm going to quote this here, traveling at an unsafe speed, approximately 100-plus miles per hour. our digital reporter, alan duke, is live for us in los angeles. and alan, i know you have been looking through this, as have i. what more are you learning? >> interesting to say that he -- that walker was in a defensive position, as if he war bracing for an impact, it suggests. and the other interesting thing is something that we speculated on in the days and weeks after his death, when we looked at video. and that is that it seems that they -- walker and rodas, did not live very long after the impact. that there was very little indication they had been breathing the fumes of the smoke, did not make it into their lungs in a s

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you at this hour. it's not clear if a 12-year-old boy will face adult changes for what happened at the school campus in new mexico yesterday morning. cnn is not naming him, but in all of seconds he allegedly terrorized the middle school and shot two students and surrender and he may have told others to stay away. >> preliminary information that possibly some of the students were warned by the individual, the suspect prior to the shooting not to go to school. we have not corroborated that yet. we do not have a definitive answer. we will be looking into that. >> the 11-year-old boy hit in the face remains in critical condition. as for the 13-year-old girl, kendall sanders seen in a couple of facebook photos is recovering after being hit in her shoulder. here she is. he are learning more about those hurt, we are hearing about those who helped. let's go to stephanie live in roswell. there is a news conference set for next hour and we will take that, but tell me about the

i'm brooke baldwin. not a single state in the u.s. has escaped this brutal and let me add deadly cold. all 50 states plummeting to below freezing. yes, hawaii, i am even talking to you. the deep freeze is blamed for at least 15 deaths so far. some killed on icy roads. others simply froze to death. the snow, the icy conditions still grounding thousands of flights and quite literally stopping trains on their tracks. case in point, just outside chicago, more than 500 passengers spent the entire night stuck inside three amtrak trains, stranded some 15 hours. we'll be talking to one of those passengers by the way coming up. because of this, huge snow and ice drifts blanketing the tracks. this video shot by one of the passengers onboard the train. he talked to cnn this morning. >> initially, they were going to try and push it with other trains. going to send in a rescue train. a whole bunch of different strategies. it was just -- well, we're going to try that and then we wait for two, three hours. they gave us

i'm brooke baldwin. just a heads up, as we begin the hour, a short time from now, we're watching and waiting for this police news conference on a shooting this morning inside a middle school. this happened in new mexico. a suspect in custody, but it's still not clear yet as to whether or not that suspect is a student or not. meantime, two children rushed to the hospital. the school quickly went on lockdown. miguel marquez is tracking the developments for us right now. miguel, what do we know? oh, he lost his ear piece. let's move along. as soon as we see miguel, we'll ask him as we wait for that news conference. oh, here we go. i hear you, miguel, go ahead. >> reporter: what we know happened so far is that 8:00 a.m. in roswell, new mexico, a student walked into that school. we believe it was with a shotgun and shot two other students, critically injuring them. a 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were both air lifted from roswell to lubbock, texas, to a level one trauma center, where they are listed

i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> a whole new lane of trouble is opening up for new jersey governor chris christie. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." while his bridge gate scandal remains prime headline bait, governor christie is being hit from a different direction with another investigation. did he misuse hurricane sandy relief money to promote himself? or are democrats smelling blood seeking to chum up the waters? also in politics, the woman pundits love to put up against christie, hillary clinton. a new book claims she kept a list of people she considered benedict

i'm brooke baldwin. happy new year. thank you for being with my on this thursday. get ready, bundle up, stay off the roads, stay in your homes if you can, because that's really the plea in a lot of cities today as the first major winter storm of the year is upon us, and forecasters say this nor'easter is no joke. look at the pictures, in the northeast, boston is under a snow emergency. and just in, logan airport will stop all flights later tonight. to new york, we go. salt trucks are out and about because blizzard like conditions are also expected to disrupt travel there and bring dangerous windchills and in the midwest, a foot of snow has already fallen, and temperatures are steadily dropping there as well. the first nor'easter of 2014 is hours away, and it's coming in with a bang. cnn is on top of all the storm with live team coverage here. you have margaret conley in boston where the mayor says his team is ready. sunlinis in washington, d.c. airport, monitoring hundreds of flight cancellations there. ted rowlands, very cold, already in the thick of things in chi

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks if are joining me here. i want to begin with a killer out of san diego and a murder mystery that has deepened. take a look at this young woman. her name is elona flint seen with salvatore belvedere shot to death christmas eve after he picked her up from work at a mall. they looked for her fiance and sal's big brother to him the worst had happened to the two people he loved most, but he couldn't be found. he had disappeared and that led to rumors of a possible love triangle and jealous rage. a passer smelled anodor emanating from a car. they confirmed it is the body of gianni belvedere. casey, a news conference has just wrapped. what did police reveal? >> the police released more information about a person of interest. a person they called a suspicious male who was seen the night of the first two killings very near this scene. here's the description of this person of interest. >> the person of interest we are looking for is an unknown race male, 5'10" to 6 feet tall. they have u

i'm brooke baldwin. we have shown you pictures and videos of the catastrophe that has been the winter storm in the south. take a look at this picture. home depot, think about being one of these people. they opened 26 doors in georgia and alabama for people who were stuck. either on highways or ran out of gas or cooperate get home because the roads were so impassible. many sought refuge in different parts of home depot stores. these people are some of the lucky ones. some didn't make it out of their cars last night. we have some of their stories coming up for you here. it is a nightmare. no one saw it coming. thousands of people in georgia and alabama are trapped in their cars after this winter storm that hit the region a little over 24 hours ago. in atlanta specifically, the situation is especially bad. it began when you had schools and businesses and government agencies just like this like somebody blew a whistle and everyone said go home. you had all the traffic on the roads as the snow started falling

comcastnbcuniversal. >>> hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with new jersey, chris christie's people claims that kristi tried to bully her. a top associate calls that claim, in a word, offensive. the mayor of hoboken is sticking to her guns. that's zimmer on the right side of your screen in the white coat. she said christie sent her a message through her lieutenant governor that she had to support a development christie wanted if she wanted hoboken sheriff sandy relief funds. here is that strong reaction. a solid denial from the chris christie camp. >> mayor zimmer's version of our conversation is not only false, but is illogical and does not with stand scrutiny when all of the facts are examined. any suggestion, any suggestion that sandy funds were tied to the approval of any project in new jersey is completely false. >> that was the lieutenant governor just this morning, but the big picture here as governor christie's ambitions matched against this growing cloud of controversy and began with the charge that christie aides took reven

newsroom continues right yow with brooke baldwin. >> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour. great to be with ow this friday. so, the president offered his answer today not only to us americans, but to people all-around the world who have rightly come to fear that the u.s. government knows way too much about us and can learn even more if it wants to. he didn't quite say it. other things reveal if they make a phone call. the super secret national security agency. a big moment this morning over at the justice department. the president is laying out changes designed to ensure that mass surveillance only gets used against the bad guys, the terrorists and the like. not against us. the president also signalled that he personally shares our worries that yes, he said he gets it. >> i would not be where i am today were it not for the courage of dissidents like dr. king who were spied upon by their own government. as president, a president who looks at intelligence every morning, i also can't help but be reminded that america must be vigilant in the face of threats. >>

i'm brooke baldwin. we are following those reports of that shooting at purdue university in indiana. the news at this hour, as i can tell you directly from the purdue university twitter site, this is the update -- no ongoing threat to campus. resume normal operations. ee, that's the electrical engineering building will remain closed. check purdue.edu for updates. still no word as far as anyone that has actually been hurt, but you can take a look at some of the video that we've been watching from some of our affiliates out of indiana. and we have video of a man believed to be the suspect. appears there handcuffed, getting patted down. the shooting apparently happened in this electrical engineering building. again, that's the latest, we have no ongoing threat. 13 minutes ago, tweeted from purdue university. no reports of injuries. one person is in custody. joining me now in studio, hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks. and jean casarez, cnn legal correspondent in new york. mike brooks, first to you. no

i'm brooke baldwin. happy new year. thank you for being with my on this thursday. get ready, bundle up, stay off the roads, stay in your homes if you can, because that's really the plea in a lot of cities today as the first major winter storm of the year is upon us, and forecasters say this nor'easter is no joke. look at the pictures, in the northeast, boston is under a snow emergency. and just in,

i'm brooke baldwin. just a heads up, as we begin the hour, a short time from now, we're watching and waiting for this police news conference on a shooting this morning inside a middle school. this happened in new mexico. a suspect in custody, but it's still not clear yet as to whether or not that suspect is a student or not. meantime, two children rushed to the hospital. the school quickly went on lockdown. miguel marquez is tracking the developments for us right now. miguel, what do we know? oh, he lost his ear piece. let's move

i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with terror threats for the sochi olympics. coming from beyond the grave. these two men in this chilling new video are believed to be the bombers behind the deadly blast in the city last month that killed dozen of people. in this just released video, they are promising something similar for the and cnn just learned the u.s. i

"newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. not a single state in the u.s. has escaped this brutal and let me add deadly cold. all 50 states plummeting to below freezing. yes, hawaii, i am even talking to you. the deep freeze is blamed for at least 15 deaths so far. some killed on icy roads. others simply froze to death. the snow, the icy conditions still grounding thousands of flights and quite literally stopping trains on their tracks. case in point, just outside chicago, more than 500 passengers spent the

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you at this hour. it's not clear if a 12-year-old boy will face adult changes for what happened at the school campus in new mexico yesterday morning. cnn is not naming him, but in all of seconds he allegedly terrorized the middle school and shot two students and surrender and he may have told others to stay away. >> preliminary information that possibly se

i'm brooke baldwin. we will get into the nasty nor'easter affecting millions of people, but first, news just in to us here at cnn. we have just gotten, i have it right here, this is the final coroner's report on the death of fast and furious actor paul walker. the car he was riding in, i'm going to quote this here, traveling at an unsafe speed, approximately 100-plus miles per hour. our digital reporter, alan duke, is live for us in los angeles. and alan, i know you have been looking through this, as have i. what more are you learning? >> interesting to say that he -- thatal

i'm brooke baldwin. we are following those reports of that shooting at purdue university in indiana. the news at this hour, as i can tell you directly from the purdue university twitter site, this is the update -- no ongoing threat to campus. resume normal operations. ee, that's the electrical engineering building will remain closed. check purdue.edu for updates. still no word as far as anyone that has actually been hurt, but

i'm brooke baldwin. not exactly a happy friday for a lot of people in west virginia. more than 300,000 people can't use their tap water to bathe, drink, cook, or wash. this is happening in west virginia because of a chemical leak. it infiltrated a nearby water treatment plant in charleston. this is so serious the u.s. attorney is investigating here. look at the map. nine counties in the southwestern part of the state are currently affected. even president obama is stepping in, declaring the incident a federal emergency. let me take you back to yesterda w

newsroom continues right yow with brooke baldwin. >> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour. great to be with ow this friday. so, the president offered his answer today not only to us americans, but to people all-around the world who have rightly come to fear that the u.s. government knows way too much about us and can learn even more if it wants to. he didn't quite say it. ot

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> wolf, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks if are joining me here. i want to begin with a killer out of san diego and a murder mystery that has deepened. take a look at this young woman. her name is elona flint seen with salvare

i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for joining us on this monday. the centers for disease control on board. the royal caribbean news ships scrambling to identify the mystery illness that struck down more than 600 people including 49 members of the crew. their symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea. >> i just walked out and they said if you are not sick, you have to leaveig

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> hi, there. i'm brooke baldwin and we are live outside world headquarters in atlanta. beautiful blue skies, but it's cold, cold, cold in atlanta. tonight's low is 5 degrees. just perspective. i was born and raised in atlanta and the last time the city hit single digits, it was a decade ago. it was solid like a sheet.

. >> i'm brooke baldwin. good afternoon to a lot of you on the east coast. my goodness. i think the word that comes to mind is mess. that's putting it nicely. >> i think it was apocalyptic. >> these are pictures we continue to see in the metro atlanta area. this is the story of the day. a lot of people outside the georgia area are shaking their heads wondering how this could happen with 2 inches of snow. let me tell you, people within atlanta are shaking their heads, wondering the compacted same thing up. just heard from the governor and the mayor specifically. and we'll play a part of your interview with mayor kasim reed. you were tough and rightly so. there is a lot that comes to blame deflection when it comes to city and state. first, chad myers is on the phone. we sent you to new orleans because of the icy cold conditions there. little did we know the story would be back here, cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i want you to respond to the city officials and statewide officials who constantly say, nope, they got it wrong. the meteorologists got it wrong. the national

eastern in "the situation room," newsroom continues right now with brook baldwin. >> good to be with all of you on this monday. i'm brooke baldwin, stay with me, because any moment the southwest airlines jet that randed at the wrong airport, is set to take off. you heard me right, the wrong airport. let me explain how this happened u passengers on this flight, it was headed from chicago's midway airport to branson airport in southwest missouri, they experience this bumpy landing. suddenly they realize they had landed in missouri, but the wrong place. >> it was a really rough landing, we were all moving pretty close to the seats when we were landing because the run way was

i'm brooke baldwin. bone chilling cold doesn't come close to describing what many of you would feel if you stepped outside your door right now. look at this. you can feel the freeze. this is lake michigan, a time collapse showing the effects of this thing called a polar vortex. this is the weather nerdy phrase. a swirly mass of air like an arctic cyclone. the temperature is colder than the south pole. cnn is live in chicago for us where let me tell you. look at the wind and the flags behind you. it's 12 below right now. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling a little chilly, brooke. it is 12 below, but you look at the flags and the wind chill drops down to 25 below zero. very unsafe. normally in chicago on michigan avenue, the bridge would be packed with people walking up and down. you see a couple of brave souls who are out and about, but for the most part everyone is inside. a lot of folks told their employees to stay home. it's not just uncomfortable, but dangerous. frostbite can set in depending how col

i'm brooke baldwin. not exactly a happy friday for a lot of people in west virginia. more than 300,000 people can't use their tap water to bathe, drink, cook, or wash. this is happening in west virginia because of a chemical leak. it infiltrated a nearby water treatment plant in charleston. this is so serious the u.s. attorney is investigating here. look at the map. nine counties in the southwestern part of the state are currently affected. even president obama is stepping in, declaring the incident a federal emergency. let me take you back to yesterday when this began when the leak 13i8ed into the elk river and made its way downstream. it came from the 48,000 gallon tank at the chemical storage facility. this is a mile away from the west virginia american water company and it set off anodor that has been described as black licorice when authorities knew something was wrong. the big problem is that officials say they can't tell how much leaked into the water system. until they can figure that out, folks

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we've got brooke baldwin in new orleans. we're going to check in with her a little bit later on. >> what are you so nervous about? debra harry is here. >> i'm anderson cooper. how are you? kathy griffin. >> take a seat. stand right in the middle. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. >> i am such a fan of yours. >> oh, thank you. >> i'm so glad you're back and performing. how did it feel to perform here? >> wonderful. exciting. >> you sound fantastic. >> it's incredible. i mean, my god. there's no spectacle like this. >> you have a new album. >> i have a new album coming out in march. it's all new material so i'm very excited about that, too. >> that's cool. >> and i wish we could have actually played more songs. but i understand time is short, right? >> i'm a terrible dancer. but when i first started dancing i thought i was rocking out to " "heart of glass." >> don't let us stop you from singing anything a cappella. ♪ ♪ i know he's there but i just had to call ♪ >> i'm going to be singing background. >> you were also

we have brooke baldwin who is in new orleans. we're going to check in with her a little later on. >> what are you so nervous about? >> and the amazing -- >> deborah harry is here asking who anderson is. >> hey, i'm anderson cooper. how are you? >> hi. >> kathy griffin. >> hi take a seat stand right in the middle. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. i'm a fan of yours. i'm glad you are back and performing. how did it feel to perform here tonight? >> wonderful. >> so exciting. >> you sounded fantastic. >> it's an incredible i mean my god. there's no spectacle like this. >> yeah. and you'll get a new album. >> we have a new album coming out in march, and it's all new material. so i'm very excited about that. >> that's cool. >> and i wish we could have actually played more songs, but i understand time is short. right? >> i'm a terrible dancer. >> are you? >> back in like when i first started danceing, i thought i was rocking out to "heart of glass." i thought i was a pretty good -- >> don't let it stop you from singing anything au

on wednesday you made your point further with cnn's brook baldwin. this goes back to 1993 when charles barclay made that statement that we are not role models. you have statistics that show that 70% of black youth born today are to unwed mothers. >> oh, but it didn't end there. charles barclay didn't like what you had to say, he was on brook's show terrance doesn't have a clue what my commercial is about. i'm the only guy in the history of civilization that ever got criticized for telling kids to listen to their parents. that's how you know a lot of these people are full of it. i told these kids to listen to their parents z. >> terrance, you've been going back and forth with mr. barkley on this issue for a couple of decades. what's going on? >> it goes back to what i just said. he does not get the fact we are all role models. particularly if you're a high profile person you have to be a role model. i'm not talking off the top of my head here. as i pointed out in the cnn.com piece i've dealt with black youth for decades here in the atlanta area. earli

i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for joining us on this monday. the centers for disease control on board. the royal caribbean news ships scrambling to identify the mystery illness that struck down more than 600 people including 49 members of the crew. their symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea. >> i just walked out and they said if you are not sick, you have to leave right now. this is spreading faster than we can stop it. >> the crews are making calls and cutting the trip short. they are two days early and expected to dock on wednesday. the medical correspondent, you feel for the people who took the time off from work and now they are sick with a mystery illness. still a mystery? >> i suppose you can call it a mystery, but doctors say it's norovirus that happens with some regularity on cruise ships. the gastro intestinal illness. i won't go through the details. >> that's one characteristic of norovirus. >> so on a cruise, i have only been on one, but tight quarters. how do you prevent it or at least slow the spread. can you? >> you can wash your ha

i'm brooke baldwin. a killer is soing terror across india. seven could haves. the killer left her mark alongside the bodies. you see this? you can't quite make it out. i am here to tell you, this is a tiger paw. this is the body of one of the tiger's victims. a woman killed 11 days ago. local police have called in hunters. they have put them on cherry pickers. giving them orders to kill should they see this tiger. residents have gotten so scared that many are staying indoors. the tiger is believed to have fled a nature reserve about 70 miles away. 2014 is just over two weeks old and we couldn't help but notice how ordinary places that most of us wouldn't think twice about have been scenes of extraordinary acts of violence. the latest case overnight. a grocery store. >> we live in that world. there is not a day that goes by anymore where we are not learning of a school shooting or at a business or unfortunately we hope this would never come to our hometown and here it is. >> that's the backdrop. this is it. martin's super market in indiana. a 22-year-old man nam

bye. >> i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for watching. jake tapper is up next. >>> i don't know about you, but i'm pretty sure it's a tony sparano kind of thing. lovely bridge you got here. be a shame if anything happened to it. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." politics, new jersey governor chris christie denied causing gridlock on the world's busiest bridge out of political revenge, but text and e-mail show the man in the driver's seat a lot closer to it than we knew. what will he do? and what's the fallout for this would-be presidential hopeful? >>> the sports lead. it was a bombshell report you saw right here on "the lead." colleges that make millions off their sports programs giving passing grades to athletes who couldn't even read their commitment letters.

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for tuning in. we'll be back at the same time tomorrow, same time, same place. go to the brooke blog, c. in cnn.com/brooke. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> justin bieber. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >>> the politics lead. you want answers on the bridgegate scandal, you can get in line behind the lawmakers with subpoenas. those are engraved invitations but you have no choice but to rsvp. new york city mayor bill de blasio raises taxes on the wealthy but cuomo says

i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead with jake tapper" starts now, a special show from new jersey. >> new jersey governor chris christie using the power of his office to defend himself against accusations that he abused the power of his office. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead" in trenton, new jersey. the politics lead. usually the state of the state address does not attract this much attention but when you talk about the man who is the whole's show 2016 front-runner, it's an event. chris christie, under multiple examinations. >>> the cop is in court for allegedly gunning down a man for killing a man for texting in a theater. >>> and the world lead. he has the blood of hundreds of people on his hands and khalid sheikh mohammed is now speaking out about spreading islam through violence. what is behind his supposed reversal? good afternoon. i'm jake tapper. we're coming to you live from where chris christie is giving the most closely watched state of the state address of his career, perhaps in new jersey histor

. >>> tonight at 11:00 eastern, "frozen: state of the south," coverage with brooke baldwin and don lemon. and at 11:30, justin bieber's wild ride. that's all for us tonight. "ac360" starts right now. >>> still frozen. the south wakes up to ice again this morning. are they ready this time after a day of chaos on the roads, several people killed, thousands stranded? we're tracking the cleanup this morning. also, when will it finally warm up? >>> judgment day for amanda knox, awaiting a third verdict in her former roommate's murder. could the freed american be forced to return to an italian jail cell? we're live. >>> and this is not made up, folks. justin bieber arrested again, accused of the assault of a

i'm brooke baldwin. jake tapper, fresh off his interview with the president of the united states live in waukesha, wisconsin. starts now. >>> the president of the united states spoke to only one show after his state of the union address. you happen to be watching it right now. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." president obama takes his show on the road and so do we. we sat down with the commander in chief for his first interview since his state of the union address. that's moments away. >>> the politics lead. the president in his backyard, congressman paul ryan's backyard, ryan, the man who now leads the pact. he will join us to react to my new exclusive interview with the president. also in national news, if the government gets its way, the surviving boston terror suspect will get the death penalty for his crime. the death penalty has been put on the table for dzhokhar tsarnaev. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we're coming to you live from waukesha, wisconsin, where

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for tuning in. we'll be back at the same time tomorrow, same time, same place. go to the brooke blog, c. in cnn.com/brooke. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> justin bieber. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >>> the politics lead. you want answers on the bridgegate scandal, you can get in line behind the lawmakers with subpoenas. those are engraved invitations but you have no choice but to rsvp. new york city mayor bill de blasio raises taxes on the wealthy but cuomo says to put it on the state's tab. what gives? >>> and the national lead. at the time, it was the biggest heist of cash ever pulled off on american soil. maybe you remember it from a movie i like to call "good fellas." but now 30 years later, mobsters have been arrested for it. how did they get caught after all of this time. >>> good afternoon, everybody. i'm jake tapper with "the lead." our country was distracted by the canadian pop star and the stock market took a nose-dive, dropping 170 points before the "closing be

. >>> miss brooke baldwin down in new orleans. and are you there? just a little bit. >> reporter: i am, don lemon. i'm on new orleans time. >> where are you hanging out? are you in the corridor. >> reporter: not yet. we're in jackson square. pinch my arm, twist my arm. send me to new orleans for new years eve for the second year in a row. we just set the scene for you. the big show is at 9:00 eastern. behind me, the party will begin with a bunch of bands. it is a little, kind of ickey weatherwise but i've been here a whole week. knowing new orleans, they'll come out to party. this is sucre. awning thing about king cake. >> absolutely. i get a king cake every mardi gras. and i get one for the first time for the holidays. i got the baby on the first try. >> reporter: so here's the baby. the baby is in the center. you have the baby. and will you just explain? i was tweeting a lot this afternoon about king cakes. and people were like you're early, you're early. a few days early. i'm all about the sweet 365 days a year but in new orleans, when does it of

i'm brooke baldwin. now for "the lead" we go live to jake tapper in trenton, new jersey. jake? >>> welcome to trenton, new jersey, home for the scandal, state for the horrific weather. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the national lead, how far away is spring? almost two months exactly. snow is piling on to what is becoming a long hard winter. i can tell you, suppressing the shiver in my voice, it is brutal out here. the politics lead, governor chris christie. today is the first day of the rest of your administration. the governor and possible presidential hopeful ignoring the controversies currently plaguing his office and turning the page to his new term. >>> and the world lead. all eyes are on russia as authorities try to track down so-called black widows who may be part of a plan to attack the games. one congressman is in sochi right now who says the greatest threat to americans is much closer to home. >>> welcome to "the lead," coming to you live from trenton, new jersey, where the second inauguration of the chris christie took place behind me. i cannot ignore the reas

i'm brooke baldwin. tonight, thousands remain stranded here in atlanta and across the south as snow and ice catch the southern states unprepared, at least ten storm related deaths reported thus far. the city of atlanta here brought to an absolute standstill, with some drivers stuck in their cars. just imagine, more than 17

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks so much for watching. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> making headlines and prompting conversations all day, our exclusive interview with president obama. and now for the very first time this hour you can see the whole thing in its entirety right here. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >> i can't wait and the american people, more importantly, cannot wait. >> the national lead, the lead exclusive with president obama. his first interview since the state of the union. the commander in chief very frank about using his pen as a sword against congress. also talking about compromise with republicans on immigration, afghanistan, the nsa, why his policies still heroin and marijuana. and, of course, a few lighter moments including -- >> i think it's going to come down to the last play. >> like the rest of the america, the president will be in front of a tcv and watching the super bowl. i will try to pin down his call on who is going to disneyland after the final play. >>> and the sports lead. w

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. "the lead" starts right now. >>> is edward snowden permitting himself a smile somewhere in the single digit temps of russia? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >>> forced by nsa leak source edward snowden, today president obama is changing the privacy changes. the politics lead. two bushes in the office are plenty. i'm paraphrasing the woman one calls wife and the other one calls mom. first lady barbara bush not too keen on her son jeb running in 2016. >>> and the pop culture lead. you can blame "sex in the city" but is a risk of a shortened life span another? for one group of viewers it's kind of a mr. big deal. good afternoon, everyone. we're beginning with breaking news coming out of philadelphia after a week full of shootings, authorities tell cnn that at least two students are hurt after fires were shot at the high school in philly. they also tell us that the shots may have come from outside the school through a window. police are on the scene right now. we will, of course, mon

i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead with jake tapper" starts now. >>> water, water everywhere and not a drop safe to drink. don't shower in it, don't even wash a dish in it. your honor itting water into poison for hundreds and thousands of americans. are you one of them? could you be next time? the politics lead. she's been the subject of a thousand thrown under the bus jokes since chris christie canned her yesterday in her apparent role of creating a giant traffic starl. but just who is bridget anne kelly and when will we hear her side of the story. >>> and she blew the story on college athletes that can barely read. now she tells cnn she's getting death threats for daring to tell the truth. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead" coming to you from los angeles. it's not just a town, it's not just a county. it's more than 16% of west virginia's population that can't go near the water coming out of their taps right now. put yourself in the position of 300,000 people that can't even cook with the water

newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> hey, wolf. great to be back with you. we are watching not just one, but two big stories. the weather and much of the south and georgia totally shut down after the winter storm. stranding commuters and hundreds, maybe thousands of people spent the night in their cars. still on the road. you see the other picture on the screen. we are talking cruise ship again today. this one is a royal caribbean cruise ship that arrived in new jersey moments ago.