alabama wins its second national title in three years. 21-0. we will have much more on the bcs title game coming up in sports. for now, back to you. >> thank you very much, fred. >>> here is a look at the stories making news early today in america. nothing stealthy about an atm heist inside a florida nail salon. a tree of robbery suspects broke in to use their car to smash in the door. they escaped with stolen property. no arrests have been made. >>> security cameras are rolling at a new jersey store when a deer smashed through the glass doors of a goodwill store. after the animal regained its footing, quickly made an exit through the same way it came in. >>> while most of the nation misses winter snowfall, cordova, alaska is buried under more than ten feet of the white stuff. officials have determined it a disaster area. the national guard has arrived to dig out homes and businesses. dozens of troops have a tough job ahead. 82 inches of snow fell in december and 56 inches have already accumulated in the first eight days of january. yikes. >>>

you are the executive director of the greater birmingham ministry's in alabama birmingham alabama, okay. which is advocating overturn of hb 56. what is this bill? >> hb 56 is alabama's new anti-immigrant law that burdens families, breaks up families, forces the split up of families, burdens taxpayers and makes law enforcement take on the extra job of checking out people at traffic stops. >> stephen: okay. i mean you say burdens, splits, what it does is, is that it removes illegal immigrants from your state. it is tough on crime s it not? >> this law-- . >> stephen: is it a crime to be an illegal immigrant? >> it is-- . >> stephen: is it a crime. >> if a federal crime-- not a state crime. >> stephen: oh so, we don't want the feds marching into alabama. they did that 150 years ago, it didn't work out too well. >> the part is that alabama should not be joining one of those states that has its own state immigrant law. we don't need 50 immigrant laws across the united states of america. we need one comprehensive law that is just and fair for everyone. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: we tal

jeremy shelly's kick makes it 3-0, alabama. alabama trying for another field goal with lsu defensive tackle michael brockers, big mitt up on it. alabama went into the half up 9-0, again on field goals and field goals only, holding lsu to 43 yards and one first down. after the half, mays upset on the sideline. he wants to play in that game. the teammates getting the job done on the field. bell for 26 yards. that sets up another field goal. mccarron went 23 for 34, 234 yards. on the other side of the ball, lsu could not figure out alabama's defense. lsu quarterback jordan jefferson was terrible last night, tried to get rid of it. his receiver looking upfield, desperation pass, interception, that turned into another field goal. 15-0. fourth quarter, jefferson takes himself 18 yards for first down. why do we show you this play? it was first and only time lsu crossed midfield on offense all night. didn't do much. few plays late, stripped by daunte hightower. alabama recovers the fumble to set up a final scoring drive. richardson bou

this time, it was all alabama. jeremy shelly hit three field goals in first half and tied with five in the game. crimson tied up 9-0 at the break. jordan jefferson was picked off in the third. listen to this stat. tigers offense crossed the 50 yard line just once the entire game and when they did, this happened on fourth and long. the tide swarmed jefferson dominating performance by the top ranked defense held lsu to 92 yards. for a while, it looked like alabama would win with field goals. only touchdown of the game and it sealed the victory. crimson rolled the tigers 21-0, second bcs title in three years. >>> finally, the dallas mavericks may not be playing like champions but they were honored like ones yesterday at the white house. the mavs celebrated their title with president obama. dirk novitsky gave the president a number 23 mavericks jersey. he's a diehard bulls fan and joked where michael jordan got that iconic number. >> i was actually -- i was 23 before jordan. >> you were? >> i was. he got the number fro

because they were protesting the alabama law. the governor there, robert bentley gave a statement saying and i'm quoting here, i have to say that 2011 turned out to be a pretty good year in terms of reducing unemployment, but we still have work to do, and remember, parts of the alabama law were put on hold by a federal judge, other parts were allowed to go into effect. right now the feds are suing alabama, but it certainly appears over the past five, six or seven months that the numbers in alabama really have checked down at a faster rate than the surrounding states, megyn. megyn: trace, thank you. president obama and newt gingrich have found something they agree on. both calling 2012 a choice election. are they right? we'll debate. plus, the tapes don't lie but maybe this guy does, shocking new audio recordings between the captain of the shipwreck costa condoria and the port authority in the moments after the disaster in italy. moments of pure terror for jet passengers when their plane suddenly takes a violent nose dive. >> the

southeast alabama as well. this is all part of the system that brought all that rain, wind, and even snow and rice across the pacific northwest last week. it's got a lot of tropical pacific moisture with it and obviously the heat in the atmosphere made this a pretty unusual event, i'll tell you that, kyra, for january, and the folks in alabama are certainly hurting this morning. >> we'll keep following the story and all the developments, rob. thanks so much. >>> eight days to go into florida votes in its republican presidential primary, and after newt gingrich's come from behind double digit win in south carolina, better believe he's the new prime target. >> he was a leader for four years as speaker of the house, and at the end of four years, it was proven that he was a failed leader, and he had to resign in disgrace. >> newt is the guy that, you know, that in my opinion is a very high-risk candidate. not only is he wrong on the government mandated health insurance, which he supported for 20 years, he's wrong o

he was running for the alabama agriculture commissioner. this will refresh your memory. >> keep you in the dark, they do whatever they want with all that money and they don't give a rip about alabama. >> remember that line, they don't give a rip about alabama. over 2 million youtube views for this ad. now, dale peterson did not win in the gop primary in 2010, but, now, he has a very politically active wife. kathy peterson, she gives a rip about alabama. >> hi, folks. i'm kathy peterson. it's time to replace the professional office career politicians with business-minded people who give a rip about alabama. >> i love these guys. these are a fun, to me, a straight talk ago proech to political ads. >> pretty intense. i feel like somebody is going to jump out and handcuff somebody. you're being fooled by the theatrics because once they get into office, they become career politicians too. >> i'm an idealist. i try to believe that people sometimes are really going to be exactly what they say whenever they get into office. i still, even though i'v

you're looking at mississippi, alabama, and georgia. and alabama is getting hammered right now with terrible weather. we've got tornado warnings in effect for the next 25 minutes in talladega. take cover. get to your shelter and make sure you have supply on hand. birmingham hit. wide spread damage in tuscaloosa as well. remember ma rob marciano is hard at work on this. >> very scary pictures there. >>> soledad o'brien joins us with a look at what's ahead on "starting point." >> tuscaloosa was hit so hard the last time. we wish them the best of look. "starting point," with us this morning as we start heading to florida, wrapping up south carolina we're going to talk to two of newt gingrich's biggest such porters, rick tyler, senior adviser to one of his pacs, and congressman rooney who is backing mitt romney this morning. plus, ran a piece in news week which took notice, called president obama's critics dumb. we will ask him why andrew sullivan is wrong. >>> then the story of one texas school district. they have decided the way to fix th

we were traveling by car from alabama--from troy, alabama, to buffalo, where two of my brothers--two of my mother's brothers lived. and my mother prepared food--cooked all type of food because there was no--there was not a place for us to stay. she prepared fried chicken, cakes and pies, sandwiches that we--there was not anyplace for us to eat as we traveled through alabama, through tennessee, through kentucky. c-span: and in this picture, you're 11? >> guest: i'm 11 years old there in--i--in 1951. during those years, i--i had all of my hair and i was a few pounds lighter. c-span: as you went north to buffalo, what changes occurred? >> guest: well, as you t--crossed the state line and--and left tennessee and kentucky and--and--ohio was different. you could go and use any rest room facility. you could get something to eat in a restaurant at a lunch counter. and when i went to buffalo, i saw black people and white people living side by side, eating in the restaurants and lunch counters in the department stores. so that--that was an education for me. c-span: in the famous 1963 march in

. >> devastaciÓn en alabama, tornados cientos de viviendas afectadas. asÍ cayÓ el arquitecto, autoridades en mÉxico revelan detalles de la operaciÓn en la que fue abatido el capo. >> chÁvez tendrÍa menos de un aÑo de vida, segÚn un informe de prensa europea. el cÁncer habrÍa hecho metÁstasis. ♪ >> Éste es noticiero univisiÓn, ediciÓn nocturna. >> buenas noches, bienvenidos a nuestro nuevo estudio que desde hoy es una casa que sigue siendo la suya. mÁs adelante, hablaremos de cÓmo llegamos tracy, y como seguiremos creciendo con ustedes. se refiriÓ a la que considera una amenaza en venezuela, nicaragua y cuba contra los estados unidos. tambiÉn se hablÓ del dream act y de las deportaciones. seguimos cada detalle de este debate. >> buenas noches, se notaba que estÁbamos en la florida, porque el debate de esta noche estuvo cargado de temas de interÉs hispana, hablaron de cuba, centroamÉrica, también inglÉs como idioma oficial. el dream act y muchos temas de polÍtica taller, pero el debate comenzÓ con un juego cruzado. ambos se acu

steve osunsami, abc news, center point, alabama. >> steve will report live from alabama later today on "good morning america." >>> well, the first of three public memorials for legendary head coach from penn state joe paterno takes place today. smaller tributes are cropping up as well. like the impromtu shrine near his statue on campus. >>> divers have recovered two more bodies. the number of dead is now 15. on top of that, at least 17 people are still missing. including a retired minnesota couple barbara and jerry heil. the cruise line is offering a 30% discount on future cruises to the people that were on board. >>> time for the weather across the nation. a quieter and milder day across the country. one severe patch in texas, oklahoma, and louisiana. light snow in buffalo and rochester. a new storm in the pacific northwest brings more rain and a flood threat. >> it will be 45 in seattle. 59 in sacramento, 66 in l.a. dallas, 62, miami, 81. in the east, 10 to 15 degrees above normal. seasonal ever where else. >> the goal is to get where it's yellow not blue on the map, right? >> amen.

the ones in alabama have been the strongest and the worst. oak grove is one of those places we're hearing has had sections of the town destroyed. just northeast of birmingham, alabama, is where some of the worst was. here's what the radar looks like. you can see tornado warnings out there. those are the bad storms just northeast of birmingham about two hours ago. prayers to all those people as they go through another disasters. remember, tuscaloosa was hit so hard spring last year. as far as the west goes f you watched the football game last night, you saw the miserable conditions in california. although, the rain is needed. it did ruin a lot of people's sundays. we're finally getting heavy snow at the highest of elevations. you notice the green on the map. a wet ride this morning. that will shift to the south. everyone areas like l.a. have rain in the forecast later today. try to work your way, but not a lot. i'll give you any updates on the horrible news out of alabama later if we get any. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> also coming up, change

discrimianción, ahora es parte de la criminalización de los inmigrantes indocumentados en arizona y alabama. >>> es que algo nos enseñó el señor marthin luther king que luchando se gana. >>> hace unos días marchó por a las calles de alabama, los inmigrantes recibieron el apoyo de activistas que lucharon con él hace 40 años. >>> es una lástima que la ley que criminaliza a los inmigrantes en alabama reúan a las dos comunidades, dijo esta activista. >>> la lucha del doctor marthin luther king continúa, ahora hay 14 estados que proponen leyes para restringir el derecho al voto, una de las principales luchas del doctor marthin luther king que pueden dejar a 5 millones de personas sin poder votar. >>> fiscales de denver y baltimore, revisan miles de casos de deportación para dar mayor atención a los procesos contra inmigrantes delincuentes, quienes no lo son, podrían permanecer en el país. >>> al regresar de la pausa, le diremos a quién decidió apoyar jon hutsman después de abandonar la campaña republicana. >>a>además, las imágenes del presidente de el salvador, mauricio funes

sweet old alabama, lynrd skynrd, keep listening. ♪ ♪ sweet home alabama ♪ where the skies are so blue ♪ sweet home alabama ♪ lord, i'm coming home to you ♪ oh, sweet home, baby, i can't hear you ♪ ♪ where the skies are so blue ♪ sweet home alabama ♪ oh, yeah. >> there you go, lynrd skynrd, sweet home, alabama. we are live with the bash on broadway. we are just about ten minutes away from new year's. but over my shoulder, there is a massive music note. that music note will be droppingment we're going to ring in the new year here. fireworks t whole shabang. but before we do that, i want to go back to new york. my friend gary tugman has been doing this for five years alock side his daughter. running in central park. gary, my hat is off to you, friend, ringing in the new year running. not me, but you. how are you? >> well, it's good to be. the reason we're not running now, we're having some technical problems with our signal. we're having a great time. my daughter, samantha, 14 years old, she's run with me for four years. she's 2011, i'm 2012, we're honored to get these numb

one lsu, two with alabama. i would say he's definitely worth all $4.6 million they pay him every single year. ladies? >> joe, i really nice for you to give us some perspective from some of the players. it's nice to see that. i was read that come the nfl draft, they're going to be having a field day with some of the players from both of these teams. >> reporter: when you look at the starting lineups on both lsu and alabama, i'm telling you, every single one has the ability b to play in the nfl. whether they do or not is yet to be seen, but they have the ability. it's incredible when you watch these two teams go at it. people don't appreciate when you see a low-scoring defensive battle but that's what we had last night, was two really good teams that are really well coached playing each other for all the marbles. >> all right. joe carter, thanks for joining us this morning. all that perspective. >> thank god. i'm serious. thank god he was here. i have no clue what was going on in that game. no idea. >>> city ahea

those two field goal kickers for alabama missed two of six field goals. had they made two of those, we might be in a different scenario. it's a rare opportunity that you get the the chance to play a team for a second time. so you know tomorrow night, the entire alabama team is looking for redemption, especially those two kickers. >> i'll be there tomorrow. so excited. thank you, sir. maybe i'll get to see you before the game. >> save you a spot. >>> let's preview the game. a rare, regular-season match that will decide the national championship of course and john is here, senior investigative reporter for "sports illustrated." author of "scorecasting." coming out this week. make sure you pick one up. this is the best sports segment i've ever done. ls beat alabama in november. should we expect another defensive battle tomorrow night do you think? >> i think we'll see some touchdowns in this game. it's interesting. as you said before, it's very rare we have a national championship game with a rematch. and you know, both teams have obviously had a long, long

there are tornado warnings in meridian and alabama. i'm sewer there are tornado sirens going off at this hour. the storm will weaken today. there's even a little bit of snow on the backside of it, wisconsin, and watch out for freezing drizzle today, pennsylvania and virginia. so it's a very active weather morning on this monday. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. well, we're going to watch the warm temperatures. i mean it's very strange to have a chance for thunderstorms in the ohio valley in the middle of january, but that's the case today. wet weather will finally give way to nicer weather late in memphis today later this afternoon. this is like our second or third tornado outbreak we've had in january, something that doesn't usually happen that often. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> coming up, changes in research in motion. >>> gas pump prices rise and warren buffett's exchange. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus the underdog film ste

. >>> 2 hispanas huyerno de alabama cuando el sentiemiento antiinmigrante tocó sus puertas una de ella estaba embarazada, aquí está el testimonio >>> hoy son miles de personas las que sufren las consecuencias de la ley antiinmigrante en alabama, que permite a la policía detener a cualquier persona que parezca indocumentado para daysi la situación era agobiante, y recibió una llamada del hospital >>> sonó el teléfono >>> qué les dijeron? >>> que no nos iban a atender porque no teníamos documentos que >>> qué les pasó? >>> qué le puedo decir, miedo, no teníamos otra salida más que irnos >>> su cuñada, quien trabajaba en una gasolinera, también comenzó a sentir la discriminación de primera mano, apenas pasó la ley, algunos clientes comenzaron a mostrarse agresivos, a tal punto que su jefe la defendió >>> por qué a ella le das trabajo? porque es hispana? >>> y me miró y dijo, ella es el mi esposa >>> oh, lo siento, pensé que era una empleadara él me tuvo que cubrir de esa manera >>> mireya trató de salir de alabama >>> voy al centro de ayuda al inmigrante, y me dij

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there appears to be some bad news coming from alabama. we got a report from the weather service that there appears to be a large tornado on the ground. there's been a lot of damage that's been doeb. done. now, this is the birmingham, alabama area. it appears it went through the gardendale area. now, that tornado, you can see the clear signature on it right there. when you see the bright reds surrounded by the yellows and the greens, that's actually the spinning motion of the storm. and there's beginning reports, you know, from the radar that there's debris ball. in other words, there's been enough destruction down by this tornado that it's picked up the houses and threw it up into the sky. now the radar beam shoots out. and that's what we're looking at. if you know anyone that's in the springville area, give them a call. i know it's four something in the morning there, but they have a nighttime tornado, a large one, it appears, heading right over top of them. it looks like it's right over the top just north of interstate 59. we're going t

we do have reports that we have had two fatalities in alabama. jon: it's up to three now, that's the latest information? >> that is unconfirmed. we cannot confirm that, the other fatalities, but we do know we have several in the state. jon: a 16-year-old in clay outside birmingham and an 82-year-old man in ecgrove. when we look at some of these pictures you can understand why. these are absolutely fierce storms. did you have the kind of warning you would have liked to have had? >> well, we've been coordinating with the national weather service on this since last friday, and you know, yesterday, the governor worked with some of his key cabinet members to make sure the state agencies were ready. we've been communicating with our local government here in the state. fortunately as the sun rose in alabama we were not facing the catastrophic devastation that we faced last spring, however, any fatality is one too many, and when homes are destroyed, then that's relative to those individuals that own those homes. so we'll be out there assisting every pers

the state of alabama. it's trying to recover after three powerful tornadoes tore through that state. it's 150 mile an hour winds. they were clocked in yefr son county. in tuscaloosa, a 400-wide path of destruction. 140 mile per hour winds uprooted two dozen pine trees a at 8 p.m., alabama restores power to 55,000 customers. my goodness, a disaster area there. reynolds wolf is live in clay, alabama with more. what can you tell us? >> i can tell you, i heard when you mentioned about one of the tornado having a path of 400 yards wide. this community near clay, alabama, the one that came through was as wide as a football field, about a hundred yards. this was one of the edges. went through part of this house. it's a little over 24 hours ago it was standing tall and you see the remains of it right now. the center part of the house in pretty good shape. in the foreground, a little bit of metal. mike cal way is the photojournalist. stay right there if you can, man. there are a lot of nails and stuff. this, i don'

in alabama and mississippi, around 70. sometimes in the spring you can get to be 80 degrees and then you really get the juice going. storms went across parts of birmingham, south of birmingham as well. the biggest storm headed into columbus, georgia. not rotating enough to put a tornado warning on it right now but still a very large storm. when you soo he this much red all the way down to the gulf coast and one storm just rolled right through atlanta metro airport slowing down the airplanes there. updates in a few minutes. >> thank you, chad. >>> focus shifts to florida and the race for the republican presidential nomination. all four candidates are on the campaign trail today. now, the primary in florida just eight days away. mitt romney stepping up his attacks on newt gingrich after a solid win by gingrich in south carolina over the weekend. romney is also now promising to release his tax returns tomorrow. >>> after cheating death and inspiring a nation with her fight for recovery, gabrielle giffords stepping down from c

hate 4th quarter alabama leads 21 -- late 4th quarter lap lap lead 21-0. >>> -- alabama leads 21 -0. >>> london fletcher will play in the pro bowl january 29th in honolulu. who will replace the injured bears line backer brian urlacher for the third straight year. redskins have had at least one pro bowler for 18 straight seasons. >>> the caps out west he against the kings with dale hunter -- out west against the kings with dale hunter. early 1st period mike knuble passes to marcus johansson. 94 seconds into the game, late 1st we are tied at 1-1. that's a look at sports. i'm dave feldman. thanks for watching. brian is back with more on the edge right after this. have a good night. ♪ i'm feelin', feelin' a sunny day ♪ ♪ sunny day ♪ i'm feelin', feelin' the taste i crave ♪ ♪ subway ♪ i'm makin' it, makin' it how i like ♪ ♪ it's meant to be ♪ i'm feelin' subway ♪ i'm feelin' subway today [ male announcer ] hey, capital area! are you feelin' subway®? then heat up your day with the big hot pastrami melt! it's fresh toasted and piled-high with pastrami, then topped wit

i'd say by wednesday, thursday and friday this week, this part of alabama. in terms of severity, what we had the last 24 to 48 hours, no, we will not see that again for quite some time. >> so much devastation, reynolds, thanks for the reporting. stay safe. we're following a lot more. isha is back with the "360" bulletin. >> two more bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the costa concordia cruise ship bringing the confirmed death toll to 15 with about 17 others still missing. meanwhile, the cruise line offering passengers booked on concordia sailings through late march a 30% discount or they can cancel without penalty. the governor of pennsylvania has ordered all state flags to fly at half staff in honor of legendary penn state football coach joe paterno who died on sunday. he will be buried wednesday in a private service and public memorial thursday and scheduled tuesday and wednesday on campus are public viewings. he died three months after being fired after accusations he failed to respond to allegation of child sexual abuse by a former assistant c

alabama won that game. crystal burger on bourbon street what we're seeing in the video is annulus fan passed out at crystal burger. some alabama fans messing with them, putting frempl fry containers down, taking pictures. there's even a point somebody sticks a finger up his nose. harmless stuff for a guy passed out. about three minutes into the video somebody takes it to the next level. a guy enters from the left side of the screen and proceeds to -- i don't know how to put this lightly -- take his junk out, his genitals, and place them all over this guy while people cheer. >> oh, my god. >> here is the thing the new orleans police department is investigating this incident, particularly the sex crimes unit is investigating. they are calling this a sexual battery case. if they find this guy, he could be labeled a sex offender if convicted. the suspect hasn't been identified, nor has the victim. the victim may not have to come forward or identified and charges could be brought by the state against the suspect

. >>> lo que pasa en alabama es una violación a los derechos hunos. >>> sobre lo que pasa en méxico, se han aumentado las torturas y abuso por rte de las fuerzas de seguridad . >>> los cuales no son investigados. >>> el gobierno mexicano rechazó el reporte, dice que sus fuers armadas siempre anteponen la seguridad de la población. >>> nuestra posición es que el departamento de estado no puede certificar prresos. >>> en cuba se denuncia la muerte de otro preso, después de una huelga de hambre. >>> eso quiere decir que cualquiera que cruza la línea puede quedar preso. >>> miles de personas opuestas al aborto, se congregaron en el capitolio en washington, conmemorando la decisión de la corte suprema de justicia, de impedir el aborto. >>> es momento de nuestra primera pausa y al regresar los estragos que varios tornados han causado en alabama. >>> gabrielle giffords vuelve al lugar donde trataron de matarlo. >>> además, una cámara de univisión llegó al interior de la estatua de cristo rey que visitará el papa, ya regresamos ♪. >>> al menos dos muertos y más de un centenar d