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"The Teaser” is a preview of the guests we have lined up for the next day – so that you know when to tune in (and when to set your alarm!). Guests and times are always subject to change.
Here’s the lineup for tomorrow:
6:30AM: $1,200 a month for health insurance. $120,000 a year for medications. We’ve got health care horror stories from two people, Kelly Culver and Arnold Gee, stuck in financial fights to save their lives.
7:30AM: Using the internet to commit terror – how are we stopping future “Jihad Janes”? Former CIA Covert Operations Officer Mike Baker joins us.
7:50AM: Will a soda tax really work? Dr. Steven Lamm will discuss a new study that shows it just might.
8:30AM: Another “accidental overdose" – is actor Corey Haim's death part of a wider trend? Dr. Joseph Lee, an adolescent addiction specialist, will tell us how drug use has changed in recent years.
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The Teaser
"The Teaser” is a preview of the guests we have lined up for the next day – so that you know when to tune in (and when to set your alarm!). Guests and times are always subject to change.
Here’s the lineup for tomorrow:
6:30AM: Handout or helping hand? Do unemployment checks discourage people from finding work? What if the checks keep rolling in for nearly two years? You’re paying $10 billion a month to finance it, this morning we’re asking Peter Morici and Christine Romans if it’s worth it.
7:10AM: Women – new targets for terror recruitment? Joining us to discuss the arrest of “Jihad Jane” is Karen Greenberg, Director of the NYU Center on Law and Security and Former FBI Assistant Director Thomas Fuentes.
7:30AM: First there were Rep. Charlie Rangel’s tax problems, now there are reports that resigned Rep. Eric Massa is under investigation for groping multiple male staffers. Nancy Pelosi promised a clean House, so how will these latest allegations impact the Democratic Party? Craig Crawford from CQ and Chris Cillizza from the Washington Post join us to discuss.
8:30AM: Former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien has hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers, but he himself is only following one person: Sarah Killen, a 19-year-old student from Michigan. With his pick – she jumped from 3 followers, to close to 20,000. She’ll tell us why she thinks she was chosen, and what she’s done with the spotlight.
Got questions for any of our guests?
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NAACP to honor Van Jones
Van Jones is back in the spotlight. You may remember him – he was President Obama's green jobs czar, but not for long. He resigned under pressure last fall, but he's about to make headlines again. Our Suzanne Malveaux has the report.
Hank Paulson doesn't do "second-guessing"
Washington, DC - For a man who long championed free markets, the irony of being known as the architect of the greatest government intervention into markets in history sits just fine with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Paulson says he'd rather be the architect of the bailouts than the Treasury Secretary who presided over the second Great Depression.
"The president in his state of the union address captured the mood of the country when he said Republicans hate these, Democrats hate these, I hate them, and just let me tell you I hated them," Paulson says. "But they were much better than the alternative and you know what they worked. Because we needed working with imperfect tools and authorities…we were able to cobble together enough to prevent the system from collapsing and avoid disaster."
Round II of storm blast sparks resolve
(CNN) - East Coasters are greeting the latest winter storm to roar from the nation's midsection Wednesday with dismay and delight. Following a record-setting weekend blizzard in Washington, the storm is expected to dump more snow - and, for the likes of Richard Bahar, more misery. Bahar's tutoring business had to cancel classes for the week, which has meant refunds and rescheduling. "It's a total mess," Bahar said Wednesday morning. "Most of my business colleagues are sitting at home all week."
But for many students such as Hadass Kogan, the snow days are a welcome respite from the rigors of graduate school. "It's been really refreshing to get time off," said Kogan, a second-year student at George Washington University Law School. "I still have plenty of schoolwork to catch up on."
The winter storm barreled in from the Midwest, where it kept cars off streets and planes off runways in cities such as Chicago, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. It moved into Washington on Tuesday night and swooped toward New York. The storm is expected to dump up to 10 inches of snow in Washington, up to 20 inches in New York and up to 22 inches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Washington, D.C. has spent the past few days digging itself out from a record snowfall over the weekend. By Tuesday night, some city streets were again impassable. "The Potomac River is frozen, the George Washington Parkway a sheet of snowy ice," Bahar said. "It looks more like St. Petersburg, Russia."
Read the full story here.
Note to a project we first reported on earlier this week
We told you about a research project that used a half million dollars in stimulus money to study binge-drinking patterns that lead to risky decision-making. The project is being funded by the National Institutes of Health and involves research at nightclubs in the Bay Area of Northern California.
In our report we said that the workers – old enough to go to a nightclub but young enough to blend in – were paid to go into the clubs and observe the people drinking there. Soon after that report aired, the principal investigator of the study wrote to CNN telling us we got some of it wrong. She says that the researchers will not be going into the clubs themselves... rather they will be interviewing patrons outside the clubs as they enter or leave. She says the researchers, who should have researching or interviewing experience, are likely to be young people, because the job will involve working late at night.
She and the National Institutes of Health strongly defend the study, saying it will save lives by reducing the number of accidents among young people, the leading cause of death for those aged between the ages of 15 and 34. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
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