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Dangerous Freeze Slams the South; U.S. Senate Majority Leader Changing Tactics in DHS Funding Fight; Egypt Calls for Unified Arab Force Against ISIS

Aired February 24, 2015 - 06:00   ET

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY, with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Tuesday, February 24th, just before 6:00 in the East.

An American Airlines jet slides off a taxiway after landing at Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport. Thankfully, none of the 63 passengers and 5 crew members were injured. But more than 1,000 flights have now been canceled at the Dallas airport in just the last 24 hours. Hundreds of serious accidents on roadways across the region, like this big rig still dangling off part of a highway. That's what you see right there. They don't know how to fix it yet. The police say the driver of the truck lost traction, slid off the road.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: What a mess, the southeast now in the bull's eye of this crippling ice storm. Cities like Atlanta and Charlotte also expected to have treacherous commute this morning. More than 175 million people bracing for frigid and dangerously cold temperatures.

So we begin our team coverage with CNN's Martin Savidge. He's in Stephenville, Texas, for us.

How is it there -- Martin.

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning to you, Alisyn, and it is going to be, for the second day in a row, another very dangerous commute for Texans.

Take a look just over my right shoulder. You might be able to see the glimmer, that is black ice, so it's all too common. Temperatures about 25 degrees, factor in the wind it feels like 16, and it is the cold that is causing all kinds of trouble.

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SAVIDGE (voice-over): Breaking overnight, investigators say treacherous icy conditions may have caused this American Airlines Boeing 737 to skid off the taxiway. All 68 passengers and crew forced to evacuate from the emergency exit at the back of the plane. More than 1,000 flights cancelled from Dallas's international airport where up to two inches of sleet and freezing rain fell on Monday. Drivers losing control, paralyzed by ice blanketing the roadways.

NINO ARZON, DALLAS DRIVER: There's a path that the cars have made, and I just kind of followed those paths.

SAVIDGE: Officials closing all Dallas independent school districts as the police department says they've responded to hundreds of ice accidents.

KRUNEL PATEL, DRIVER: I know that once, you know, your car gets out of control you cannot control it.

SAVIDGE: Take a look at this big rig hanging precariously off a bridge in a busy Dallas interstate after hitting an icy patch. The driver making it out alive, but police say they'll have to use a crane to remove the 18-wheeler.

Meanwhile, the deadly roadways actually bring the community together. Dozens of good Samaritans with SUVs and four-wheel drives scoured the icy roads overnight looking for stranded motorists and hauling them to safety.

JOE TOREZ, DALLAS GOOD SAMARITAN: Not very many people do it these days and it's kind of one of those deals where you just want to get out and help random people.

SAVIDGE: This is dangerous levels of snow and ice --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hang on.

SAVIDGE: -- continue to accumulate across the country. Winter storm warnings and watches stretch now nearly 3,000 miles from California to the Carolinas.

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SAVIDGE: The good news is for Texans, it's going to get a little bit better today, but it won't last long. There is already a winter weather advisory in effect for Dallas in this area for tonight into tomorrow -- Chris.

CUOMO: And Martin, we heard in your piece so well, you know, the conditions that they're dealing with in the northeast will be handled very differently down where you are right now.

Thank you for the reporting.

Let's bring in meteorologist Chad Myers. Same animal, but in a different environment, it can do a lot more damage.

So what do we see, Chad?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, the weather department here already has hotels booked for tonight. We don't plan on going home today because it is going to slick in Atlanta, in Charlotte, in Chattanooga. The areas that don't really have a lot of snow equipment for one thing. And it's 32 and raining right now in Atlanta. It's the icy patches, that's the problem. You're driving along,

you're doing fine, you see a bridge and oh boy, is it a mess. Two to four inches of snow with the first storm today. A little bit of ice in Atlanta, but not much here, it's tonight that the next storm comes in. It's back out to the west, it's still in Dallas, so another round for Martin there. Right into Atlanta all the way to Raleigh and probably even into Hampton Roads.

Here comes the storm developing out of Texas, spreading the rain, snow and ice across Dallas, through Little Rock and Memphis, all the way through and very close to Atlanta, all the northern suburbs getting a lot of snow. It could be four to six inches in Atlanta and Georgia's mountains sort of just north of the city and probably six to eight in the mountains here around Knoxville, and into Raleigh and Winston- Salem, the upstate there of South Carolina getting snow as well.

I know this isn't a big deal for Detroit. If you're up in Detroit you're going, just be quiet, it's two to four inches, we get that every day. I get that, but for down here where we have like 10 plows per 100,000 people, it is a big deal -- Chris.

CUOMO: All right, Chad. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We'll be checking in with you all morning because as those conditions shift we're just going to hear some potential horror stories down there.

MYERS: You bet.

CUOMO: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. Let's talk politics, all eyes on Capitol Hill this morning. Lawmakers have just three days to end the gridlock threatening a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The impasse over the president's immigration plan could put 30,000 government workers on furlough.

CNN's senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta joins us with more.

What's the latest, Jim?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Alisyn, you've heard about the fiscal cliff. Now we have the Homeland Security cliff. If Congress does not pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security by Friday at midnight, that department will shut down and here are some of the impacts that we're going to be talking about here.

It's going to be pretty widespread. We're talking about 30,000 employees of the department being furloughed, that means they cannot report to work. 100,000 workers in that department with no pay. They won't be happy about that. And the impacts across the board, border security, the TSA workers at the airport and Secret Service, who protect the president, they will all be impacted.

And that's why you heard the president over here at the White House talking to the nation's governor saying there will be an economic impact as well. Here's what he had to say. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Unless Congress acts, one week from now more than 100,000 DHS employees, Border Patrol, port inspectors, TSA agents will show up to work without getting paid.

Now they all work in your states. These are folks who if they don't have a paycheck are not going to be able to spend that money in your states. It will have a direct impact on your economy and it will have a direct impact on America's national security because their hard work helps to keep us safe.

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ACOSTA: Now here's the latest state of play up on Capitol Hill. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has come up with a way -- with a bill, rather, for the Senate that would essentially strip the immigration language out of the Department of Homeland Security funding bill. Remember, Republicans wanted that in there to protest the president's executive action. That language would be stripped out. The Senate would then approve that.

But the trick here, Alisyn, is that it would have to go back to the House and of course the conventional wisdom here in Washington is that it will have to go to the brink for members of the House to vote on this without that immigration language attached to it.

So, you know, we've seen this every so often, you know, before it was the entire budget that was being -- you know, subject to brinkmanship. Now it's just one department of the federal government. So I guess that's progress -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: I guess do. They do seem to like this 11th hour debate and bringing the country to the brink.

ACOSTA: They do.

CAMEROTA: So we're sort of getting used to it on that level.

Jim Acosta, thanks so much. We'll check back through the show.

So let's figure out what all of this means. We want to bring in CNN political commentator, Republican consultant and Sirius XM host, Margaret Hoover, and CNN political analyst and editor-in-chief of the "Daily Beast," John Avlon.

Great to see you guys this morning.

JOHN AVLON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Good morning.

MARGARET HOOVER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Good morning.

CAMEROTA: OK. Let's -- there are two big battles actually that we need to talk about. So there's the DHS funding and there is the AUMF -- I'm sorry for the alphabet soup this morning but --

CUOMO: You're allowed to. They're comfortable with that.

CAMEROTA: They're comfortable with that. I know. So let's start with the president's war proposal, the -- what he's trying to run by Congress to get the authorization, the AUMF.

Margaret, at first the thinking was that Republicans would try to block some of this because they often try to block what the president does. But now it sounds as though his biggest obstacle might be the Democrats.

What's going on?

HOOVER: Look, I don't think anybody is going to block this. I mean, Congress has been really begging for the opportunity to weigh in here. I mean, this is their constitutional responsibility. They -- it is up to them to declare war. And they've insisted that they have the authority, not the president, to do it.

I think what they don't like is the first draft sent over by the president, but Republicans are running the Congress. So Republicans are going to create this process. They're going to set the timeline. They're going to have the hearings, they're going to invite the generals to come testify about what the capabilities our military are, what the capabilities of our enemies are, and how we're going to address those.

I think the strategy -- the tactical strategy on the legislative side is to tease out what the president's strategy is going to be in order to defeat them and craft language that is actually going to empower the military to win here rather than to continue in this sort of gray space. This half-light of, are you we winning, are we committing, how are we going to get through this engagement.

CAMEROTA: Right. But, I mean, John, it sounds like Democrats don't even like the proposal that the president had put forward because they think that the time table is too long.

AVLON: Yes.

CAMEROTA: And that they don't want -- they want to further restrict the use of ground troops.

AVLON: Yes. I mean, surprise, surprise. Democrats, Republicans don't like this for different reasons. Democrats feel that it's too loose, that the president's provisions have too much of a capacity for mission creep and they know that Republicans actually want more empower. They don't -- Republicans don't want the next president to fight this war with a hand tied behind their back.

They want a longer timeline, some of them want boots on the ground, that's the exact opposite of what Democrats are concerned about, which is mission creep. And that's getting into another Iraq-type situation. So both parties kind of criticizing a Goldilocks AUMF proposal. And one says it's too hot, one says it's too cold. And that this is how the sausage gets made to mix a creepy breakfast metaphor. (LAUGHTER)

CUOMO: To --

HOOVER: Porridge sausage.

CUOMO: To cut through, you know, all of the magic that they love down there so well, anybody who thinks that that war is going to be won without the involvement of U.S. troops is kidding themselves. All you have to do is look at what's happening on the ground so it comes down to tactics. And we see that same thing at play with DHS.

Margaret, I don't get the urgency. To me it sounds fake. I know that they like this 11th hour thing, but you're not shutting down essential services. The 30,000 people who may lose their jobs are going to get backpay. Why play this game at all?

HOOVER: Look. I think what you actually have here is an opportunity to not play the game. Right? Mitch McConnell has basically found a way through the middle in order to force Democrats to go on the record and actually have to vote about the president's extra constitutional authority. Authority that he found that he didn't even think was in the constitution. And continue to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

I actually think nobody is going to take the argument you just made, Chris, which is why does it matter, don't fund it? I mean, everybody pretty uniformly is saying you don't budget like this. You don't run government like this.

CUOMO: I'm saying the opposite.

John, I'll put it to you. I'm saying, you know you're going to have to fund it. You know you must. You know whatever you do, you will have to undo. You learn the lessons as Republicans and you know you need this as Democrats. I don't get why they're playing this game at all.

AVLON: They can't help themselves, Chris. I mean, they're so used to government by crisis as a way of forcing anything resembling common ground. Because both parties, especially Republicans are terrified of the base, still, and what Mitch McConnell is doing here is trying to essentially pull out of a nosedive. I mean, you know, try not to go off the cliff. And so he's come up with a pretty clever gambit to separate the two bills.

Sort of verbally offense strategically but really they're playing defense so that he doesn't cause a shutdown, which he knows will cause massive political blow-back on Republicans disproportionately.

CUOMO: All right. So let me address you to the paper of record, "The New York Post." The cover today, OK. "Al About the Money." All right? Clever play on all about the money.

Why do we bring this up? John, if you're going to talk about tactics and what's going on, you

now have this big lawsuit. The supposition is very -- easy, the Reverend Sharpton who has become a dominant voice in the African- American political community, that he is about the money. That instead of complaining, he allowed Comcast to donate to his organization, that he gets a nice fat salary there so he doesn't complain about the lack of diversity.

And even Eric Garner, the guy our in Staten Island who lost his life many say for bad reasons.

CAMEROTA: For the chokehold.

CUOMO: For the chokehold, she says he's all about the money. How serious an allegation do you think this is for him as a political leader?

AVLON: Well, this is sort of part of the problem of Al Sharpton. Is he a civil rights leader, is he a television host? Is he an activist or is he see a grief hustler who specializes in shakedowns under those auspices? These are allegations that have been around for a while. And now they're apparently on tape.

One word of caution here is that the organization that's pushed this, James O'Keefe's group.

CUOMO: Yes.

AVLON: It is -- has a lot of baggage of their own. So you've got to take that with a grain of salt with regard to selectively editing videos to pursuit political and fundraising purposes of their own. That said, this builds on a body of concern about Al Sharpton going back decades. So this is today's "New York Post" is the opening volley in yet another chapter of questions around Sharpton's money trail.

CAMEROTA: John Avlon, Margaret Hoover. Always great to see you, guys. Thanks so much for the discussions.

HOOVER: Thanks, guys. Good morning.

CUOMO: And James O'Keefe is definitely someone who's identified with the right. Eric Garner's daughter is and she's the one who said that Al is all about the money.

CAMEROTA: She was caught on tape not knowing she was being videotaped. So she wouldn't so she wouldn't have said.

CUOMO: Sometimes that's when you're the most (INAUDIBLE).

CAMEROTA: Well, there you go.

CUOMO: All right. A lot of news this morning.

New for you this morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin calls all- out war in Ukraine unlikely. And he says he's all for the week-old ceasefire that hasn't been a ceasefire at all.

As of this morning, Kiev says it's still can't pull back its heavy weapons as required by the truce because pro-Russian rebels are also still fighting.

CAMEROTA: Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald admitting he was wrong when saying he served in the U.S. Special Forces. His claims were caught on camera last month at an event to find housing for homeless vets.

The secretary now apologizing, saying the remarks were spontaneous and he never intended to misrepresent his military service. McDonald served with the 82nd Airborne Division, which is not considered Special Forces.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: A new study finds that children with peanut allergies could actually benefit from eating peanuts. Researchers say children who are regularly fed small amounts of nuts for four years beginning at infancy could actually cut the risk of developing a peanut allergy by up to 86 percent. The study is published in the "New England Journal of Medicine."

Dr. Sanjay Gupta will join us this morning, we could talk more about it and find out a little bit more details.

CUOMO: You've got three kids. How much peanut fear do you live under?

CAMEROTA: I don't live under any because my kids don't have peanut allergies.

CUOMO: No, I'm just saying, what you can give them and where they can go and all that.

CAMEROTA: Well, yes, but mine just don't have the allergies so it's -- you mean like it could be the school.

CUOMO: Yes. Yes.

CAMEROTA: At the school they can't have any peanut products. But this is a game-changer, because it suggests that exposure makes you stronger.

PEREIRA: Yes.

CAMEROTA: This is also the thing about anti-bacterial. That the more bacteria, the more dirt you develop --

PEREIRA: With germs.

CUOMO: Right.

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CAMEROTA: I do believe that. This is very interesting. CUOMO: But here's what I still don't get, which is, what does that

mean? That we used to, you know, because our generation, I never heard of this when I went to school. Now I can't have my kids go anywhere if a peanut has touched them. You know? It's like the new bogeyman.

PEREIRA: The great thing --

CUOMO: But does that mean that we didn't eat a lot of foods?

PEREIRA: We ate a lot of peanut butter.

CUOMO: But we ate more foods with peanuts growing up?

CAMEROTA: We had a lot of germs.

CUOMO: That's what I don't get.

CAMEROTA: I speak for myself.

(LAUGHTER)

PEREIRA: Yes, great tolerance.

CAMEROTA: Let us know what you think about that. We'd love to hear your thoughts.

CUOMO: We're going to have Sanjay in on it.

CAMEROTA: Yes. Good. And Sanjay will be here, too.

Also Egypt's president calling on all Arab nations to unite in the fight against ISIS. But does the unified Arab force stand a chance at defeating the terror group and how?

CUOMO: We have a huge parent and partier alert. Eleven students rushed to the hospital on the campus of a big time university overdosing on a drug called Molly.

We will tell you the lies kids are being told and what parents are clueless about, especially at top colleges.

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CUOMO: New Defense Secretary Ash Carter convened an extraordinary war council meeting in Kuwait to review the strategy to defeat ISIS.

Now this morning Carter will meet with President Obama. This is the dynamic that had many worried under the last administration of the Defense secretary.

Let's go to Barbara Starr for more from the Pentagon.

What do we know?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Urgent meeting in Kuwait, Chris, urgent solutions, perhaps not. Perhaps not just yet from Ash Carter. He is expected to meet with President Obama later today after he lands here back in Washington. He had this big meeting with all of his generals in Kuwait. He told everybody, drop everything, come to Kuwait. He wanted to hear their ideas about what to do about ISIS and talk about his ideas.

But are there any new ideas? That's a big question mark. Carter came out and he said he'd learned things like ISIS is not invincible. Defeating ISIS will need a military and diplomatic solution. Perhaps not new just yet. But the big issue in front of Ash Carter now, just a week into the job, is will he have to recommend to President Obama, a small number of U.S. troops on the ground, in Iraq, to help the Iraqis in that big fight to retake Mosul.

That is expected to start in April or May. Perhaps if the Iraqis are ready. If that's true, Ash Carter and his top commanders need to get that option together for President Obama in the next several days. They need to start planning now for that, we are told. But that's of course unless the Iraqi forces aren't ready in April or May, as the Pentagon hopes.

So, you know, Ash Carter comes in with a lot of promise, a lot to deliver, but still, waiting to see what he really wants to do about all this and whether he can get it through the White House -- Chris.

CUOMO: Barbara Starr, thank you so much for the reporting. The big question facing the Defense secretary, really all of us, is why is this taking so long? And can an Arab-based army really get this done?

Let's discuss the realities. Bobby Ghosh, CNN global affairs analyst and managing editor of "Quartz" and Lieutenant Colonel James Reese, CNN global affairs analyst, former Delta Force commander and founder of Tiger Swann.

We were just discussing during the report there, since August 23rd this has been going on.

Military man, why is this taking so long? Let's look at the numbers, ISIS fighters, 20,000, 31,000, we don't really know. But that's an estimate, right? Iraqi soldiers, we know, 48,000, how many good, maybe a fraction of that. Shia militia, 100,000 to 120,000. Kurdish Peshmerga, 190,000.

Overwhelming superiority, not overwhelming results. Why?

LT. COL. JAMES REESE, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, Chris, I think there have been results.

CUOMO: Results but seven months.

REESE: It does. But this is -- this is a long -- this is a long game. We've done -- we've had a good air campaign so far. We've retreated ISIS. But remember, this is not our fight. We want the Arabs, we want the Iraqis, we want the Peshmerga to lead this thing.

I keep saying this, we need to be the consultants. We're the McKenzie of this aspect here. Help them along, coach, teach, mentor, keep them moving, give them the assets they don't have, ISR, you know, intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance aspects. The intel operations fusion. Get them better equipment. These are the things we need to do. We can't rush them. We've got to just keep moving them along.

CUOMO: All right. To the colonel's point, we're not rushing them. Take a look at this graphic, 80 percent of what's been done so far is by the United States. That's why there's all this pressure on the United States from the enemy because obviously the coalition, as a small C, the U.S. is all caps.

Bobby, the colonel, he has obvious military intelligence advantage. He knows the politics and the situation there, he's there. And yet I have to disagree with him because I don't get the sense of confidence that they are taking care of business on the ground at all.

And is this about capabilities as opposed to just performance?

BOBBY GHOSH, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: It's very much about capabilities. You can have half a dozen McKenzie if you like but if the company they're advising is not up to scratch, then it's not up to scratch. They're not going to become the next -- the Arab armies are not designed, were not built to fight any kind of war. They were built to fight against domestic, political opposition.

They were built to protect oppressive regimes from unarmed civilian protesters. They're very good at that. They're very, very good at beating up protesters. They're not good at fighting any kind of war. They haven't had the experience. If you look at the Iraqi army, which is the only one that has had recent experience in this -- of the group that we're talking about, their experience has not been very good.

CUOMO: True.

GHOSH: They essentially took a beating in the last three wars.

CUOMO: But they've never had the stewardship of the U.S. hand that they have right now. And I know that's what -- you've been teaching me about this, Colonel.

REESE: Right.

CUOMO: Which is why I understand. But you know this is the opposition to it, huge numbers, not huge results, why do you think that the shield force of 40,000, of different Arab Peninsula fighters, that the Arab community in general, you know, put up the map of the Arab nation coalition, that's going to meet. Why do you think they can get it done?

REESE: For one, you know, the capabilities are out there. I'm not saying that the Peninsula Shield is the force of choice. What I'm saying is there's capability out there. What happens is one of the sticking points just becomes a senior level hierarchy, decision- making, it's slow. There's some great soldiers, the Iraqis have some great tactical

capability. The Kuwaitis, the Saudis, the Emiratis. So what we have to do is -- I mean, right now I could take a green beret special forces team and they can take an Iraqi battalion and leave that thing right away and do some damage.

CUOMO: But we don't want our men and women on the ground, although as you know I've said from the beginning I think it's going to happen.

REESE: Right.

CUOMO: But we don't want it.

REESE: But at that level, that's where we need it. That's the type of level, and that's what the president is talking about. That type of level will be on the ground supporting them.

CUOMO: So you lead them.

REESE: Kind of this push --

CUOMO: They go in, they start getting whooped, then what's going to happen?

REESE: Yes, but again, when you have 12 Green Berets on the ground, they bring a lot of combat power and a lot of confidence to these soldiers to bring these things in. So --

GHOSH: I'm skeptical, I have to say. As Colonel Reese knows, if you're a soldier, you have to believe -- at some level, you have to believe in the cause. You have to believe that your top political leadership has your back. You have to believe that you're fighting for your nation. These armies, that's not how they're set up. That's not what they're even asked to believe.

CUOMO: Right.

GHOSH: All they're being told is protect the emir, protect the sheikh, protect the king.

CUOMO: Fear --

GHOSH: That's all --

CUOMO: Fear of your ruler is not always enough. And you know what it is.

GHOSH: That's right.

CUOMO: We take for granted the United States, the commitment of our fighting men and women.

GHOSH: Correct.

CUOMO: You know, not everybody has that. A point that we've been making here. Hearts and minds. More mind-

boggling than ISIS' ability to survive on the ground against superior forces, numerically anyway, is that they seem to be winning the hearts and minds when you look at radicalization.

These girls in the UK, being tricked or whatever, sold into going over there, I think is a big deal. I think it could happen here, Bobby. Am I -- is that false panic? Are we safe here from having our young people lured to be with these savages?

GHOSH: It's important to know that there's a conduit. This is not happening -- these young people are not simply being attracted by the idea of getting on the plane and flying off there with some romantic notions. They're getting in touch with or are -- some people are getting in touch with them online.

We've been hearing about this woman Aqsa Mahmood who is the sort of recruiter-in-chief of young women to the cause of ISIS. There is a network that is being created by ISIS to draw these women out.

Now one of the good things is if there's a network, it means it can be broken. And we have to be smarter about identifying the threat and breaking down these networks. And then there's some fundamental questions to be asked about our own system. How is it that three women who are not adults, who are minors, were able to get on a plane and leave the country.

CUOMO: What is Turkey doing.

GHOSH: What is Turkey doing to prevent them.

CUOMO: Yes.

GHOSH: Turkey for months has been saying well, we're becoming smarter in our borders. We are cutting people off. How did these girls get past all of that security? It's just to me that the security is not all that.

CUOMO: And the commitment to it maybe.

Bobby Ghosh, thank you very much.

Colonel, thank you for helping us along to understand what's going on, on the ground because it's very confusing.

And you know, Mich, I say savages because they're chopping people's heads off but at the same time there's a sophistication of cause on the part of the enemy because they're being very successful with young people and recruiting.

PEREIRA: Yes. Despite the numbers, too. It's really important to look at that.

Chris, thank you. Great conversation there.

Back here at home, a crisis is unfolding on a college campus in Connecticut. Eleven students overdosing on a club drug Molly. We're going to take a closer look. Is it one school's problem or is there something much bigger going on here?

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