they have an allowance. it works both ways. >> sign up on that. >> these guys are doing it at such a young age is brilliant. >> congratulations again. >> thank you very much. >> time for the newsroom with carol costello. >> good morning. we ended in a high note for me as well. newsroom starts now. >> happening now, the newsroom, snow emergency. a literal wall of lake effect snow blanketing buffalo and parts of the city getting a year's worth of snow in just days. the big chill and full effect for the rest of the country too. nationwide recall, up to 20 million cars coast to coast targeted by the government. what you need to know, straight ahead. terror investigations. jerusalem on edge and what they

are finding out about the cnn ax attack. live in the newsroom. good morning. i'm carol costello. breaking records in america's snow belt. this is near buffalo, new york. smothered by a staggering amount of snow. six feet of snow has fallen since yesterday. five people have died including a motorist swallowed by a snow drift up to 15 feet. roads are impassible. they were stranded on a bus for more than 24 hours before state troopers managed to rescue them early this morning. i will talk to one of the assistant coaches in a few minutes. comfort for those at home. crashing through doors and windows on the roofs and power

lines. er this wind winter hearty regi. >> they are worse than the blizzard of 77. the snowfall is that heavy. it's probably heavier than anything that we have seen in over 40 years. >> unbelievable. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray is standing in the elements and it looks so cold. >> it is cold. temperatures in the teens and it feels like the single digits. we are not in blizzard-like conditions as we were earlier this morning. the sun is out and it's not going to help much because temperatures are not going to get above freezing. all that you see here is going to stay right here.

this bulldozer is taking the snow and pushing it and making these huge piles you can see. we have one right here. they are as high as the street sign. once they pile it up, there is nowhere for it to go. they are filling it up in the dump trucks and carrying it off elsewhere to get it out of the street so they can manage this until the next wave comes. that's going to happen later tonight through tomorrow. we are in a little bit of a break. the band is to the north. you know this has proven deadly. we saw a man who has been helping people in stranded cars all night. he wanted to get back to the votes. there still people trapped in their cars and it is a mess. take a look at this. paralyzing parts of western new york. buffalo in a state of emergency. the governor deploys the national guard for help. >> this is a very serious storm.

>> up to six feet of snow and climbing. the first responders carrying patients on foot. the snow so deep in some places, snowmobiles can't operate. >> heavier than anything we have seen in over 40 years. >> from the sky, a wall of white. on the ground -- the snow is piling so high so fast, it comes crashing into this home. >> it's horendous. it really it. we will make history. >> the snowfall up to five inches an hour, crippling emergency personnel at a firehouse in the heart of the storm. a mother delivers her baby girl. >> we could not get her to the hospital. she is born and safe and healthy. >>a know 81-year-old man died after they were unable to get him to the hospital in time. one of three people dying from cardiac arrest while shoveling. they were scrambling to dig

themselves out. the near white out conditions causing deadly car accident and leaving the niagara university basketball team stranded along the i-90 corridor. they were rescued nearly 24 hours later. luckily they were rescued. you see the best in people when things like this happen. we see neighbors helping neighbors this this community. we got stuck yesterday. our crew, we had four guys come out with shovels and people helping neighbors and shovel their driveways. unfortunately this has been deadly, but we have seen people helping everyone out. unfortunately this is not over yet. people compareing it to the blizzard of 77 and it's not over. >> i can't believe that mountain of snow. that's going to take two years to melt. that's incredible. we will get back to you later in the newsroom. roads were impassible, but it

doesn't think to capture it as well as this does. the image comes from the new york state police. maybe the only people moving for quite sometime. 100 miles of the roadway was shut down because of white out conditions. 150 vehicles at least including get this, some of the snow plows. they too got stuck in the snow. one of the vehicles that got stuck is a bus load of college basketball players. for much of the 24-hour ordeal, twitter was the only connection. they had come from a game in pittsburgh and trying to get home. they were two miles outside. the food and water ran out, but the sense of humor lived on. niagara university coach for the women's basketball team. good morning.

>> good morning. >> have you thawed out? >> i have. i'm in a warm home. my husband is home and i live a little further down the 90 east. i haven't made it to my house yet, but the players are safe. we are looking forward to sleep and some food. >> we are glad everyone made it out safe. you are driving home on the bus and at some point you get stuck on the interstate. how did that happen? >> we were smooth sailing and a little windy from pittsburgh and buffalo. the sports information director hard to benefit. we are on google maps five miles away. all of a sent highway 90 came to a halt. that was about 2:00 a.m. and the

next time we saw the snow outside was 4:00 a.m. this morning. we are at a stand still for a good 26 hours. it was a journey. >> what's it like to be on a bus, trapped in the snow for 26 hours with a bunch of other people? >> it was actually to put it in perspective, social media kept us going and twitter and all the different news stations and what not. the players were having fun with it. like i said, they put it into perspective and there were a lot of other people in vehicles alone running out of gas and going to cardiac arrest. we were warm and had a lot of gas and had a bus driver that was cool, calm, and collected and keeping the bus going and keeping the windshields clean so we were treed go.

>> you were luckier than most. >> we didn't have anxiety and that was when we were feeling like we were going to be on the bus for 24 hours. it was okay. we like each other so that was a bonus. >> it's not like you guys are not used to snow. what's different about this storm in your mind? >> there was a lot of snow in a short amount of time. it kept piling up and piling up. there was no way for us to get through in a bus to get through it as well. it was a lot in a short amount of time. >> i'm glad you and your team is safe. thank you very much for joining us and you are anxious to get to bed. i would be exhausted. thank you very much for talking with us this morning. we appreciate it. let's head over to the center center. it's not over yet. >> not even close.

the difference is it's so much snow in a shored period of time. the air is so cold. the colder it is outside, that would give you an inch of rain and you multiply it for where you typically get one inch of rain. they are not just exceeding records for the region. but 76 inches of snow is the record for all time. that is what we are breaking with just this storm. this is the concern. once again, it also has to do with the wind direction over the lake. now the wind will be shifting. buffalo was not being hit the hardest. it will get more of that snow and even that will start to clear out. it's about that wind direction and some places will be seeing sunshine and others will see snow. look at the difference alone. three miles away.

42 inches of snow. that is how quickly things can change and why people are being caught off guard. it has to do with the cold air. we broke records this morning. shattering the record for the morning lows. we are talking about highs and temperatures that we typically see in january. in january, not november. since the 70s in november. unbelievable. this is the first and things are calming down. the second brings more snow with the great lakes and the third round of air. >> me the whole winter won't be like this. >> it's not looking good. >> sop it. thanks so much. we'll be right back.

>> today there major fear that is a deadly synagogue attack can trigger a religious war between jews and muslims. rabbis, 3 three were killed and seven others wounded. two palestinians are with a gun and meat cleavers tor blame for the massacre and both were killed by police. one of the victims is from kansas. friends and family remember him as a gentle man with a calling. >> it's beyond horrific for them to live and die to the end in jerusalem in prayer. the prayer garments, that's the

way we want it to happen. he was a very gentle man. >> israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed a serious response and ordered them to demolish the attacker's homes. the palestinians behind the attacker being celebrated. there was dancing in the streets. let's bring in the global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. good morning. >> good morning. >> glad to have you here. you lived in the region and the majority have been suicide bombings. this was personal, inside a synagogue. is this a tipping point? >> what it could be is an example that other angry israeli arabs and palestinians can follow. unfortunately it is very simple to carry out. they used kitchen and farming

instruments and a hand gun. that is hard to try to keep from coming out of the west bank and being used in violence. they fear the attacks and what it does is possibly usher in an era of israeliisraelis. you mentioned the used bombing campaign. that was about years ago when it was at the second palestinian up rising. i remember living there. yes, huh to be on your guard, but you knew certain points to be extra on your guard like going into a shopping mall. now israelis are going to have to look behind their backs all the time. >> the israeli program is urging israelis not to take matters into their own hands even if your blood is boiling. what's his fear? >> his fear is that there will

be horrible tit for tat attacks. this was blamed on the alleged killing of a palestinian bus driver. they say that that man hanged himself and the tensions are such and that can lead to violence. every from here on out. they both go to pray at the old city. the israelis at the sacred wall and the muslims to the dome of the rock. they are right next to each other and keep bringing them into proximity. >> we will talk to a former ambassador. thank you for your insight. we appreciate it. >> still to come, is your car

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. >> the feds are playing "hardball" and demanding they expand the recall and explain why they allegedly put profits ahead of human lives. the japanese manufacturer could face a criminal probe. >> i kept saying i can't believe how much force came out of this. >> he saw the autopsy report of his client for the first time today. what it revealed shocked him. tran died in october, a couple days after her air bag exploded during an accident at this intersection in orlando. >> i didn't know it tran sected her trachea and fractured three bones in the back of her neck. it goes to the amount of force and energy that is going through the bags. the scrap nell is being propelled. >> now federal safety regulators want the air bag's maker to

expand the recall nationwide. they could target 2o million vehicles. even though lives may be at stake, they don't want to do it. that's reason we are talking to you today. everyone needs to understand that they need to act. >> anyone getting a recall notice related to the air bags needs to get their car into a dealership the next day. >> that was reporter eric sandoval. i want to bring in the former adviser and now as a consultant specializing in crisis management. he is the author of what did jesus drive. welcome back. i am glad you are here. >> glad back with you. thank you. >> simple question. why won't they expand this recall? people are dying. at least five people have died

as a result of the air bags. >> the key is surviving a crisis is to put your customer safety and satisfaction first and they are obviously not doing that. that's very sad. if they have done the things that are alleged including destroying documents, the company is going down. that's sad because this company saved a lot of lives with their seatbelts. they are behaving badly a lly a behaving badly for those who bought their products. >> there will be a congressional hearing tomorrow and senator clair mccaskill wants to know what they are riding. should we expect to hear a lot of i plead the fifth? >> that would be suicide. hopefully they will be honest, but from what i have seen over the last few weeks, they will do a song and dance that is sad for

the automakers and the driving public. >> takata is saying that the air bags only malfunction in warm weather states, but people drive to cold locations and it is winter time. how can they think consumers will accept that argument? >> i take a different play on it. the national highway safety administration is acting strangely. it should be replaced, but let the automakers, predominantly honda with the air bags, let them do triage and get the customers in harm's way, get them to fix first. if that's in the southern united states, we should cesend the pas down first. we don't need to fix the vehicles in fargo or minnesota. eventually, yes, but do the triage and get the vehicles most

impacted by this fixed first. >> we are talking about a lot of cars because it affects ford, honda, chrysler and bmw. a lot of affected and if you recall them at the same time, i guess that would cause problems because there so many cars involved. is that what you are saying? >> somebody in phoenix may have to wait longer for a replacement part. somebody in fargo gets a replacement. let's do it smart. let's take care of the customers and put safety paramount, period. >> thanks for your insight. i appreciate it. here's what you need to do if your vehicle is involved in the recall. go to the fed's website. nh tsa.gov. enter your vin number and they will tell you if the recalled vehicle still needs to be prepared. it might take you a while to get on, but keep on trying because

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>> this just in for cnn. big changes for jet blue.

>> this is really interesting breaking this morning. investors have been pressuring to make more money and the company coming out and saying it's going to change the way it does business. the first checked bag flies for free. jet blue will be adding bag fees and is going to be adding more seats on the plane. jet blue is known as one of the comfortable airlines that gets good reviews for not charging for the first bag. having better leg room and having good audio visual stuff on the plane. it has been under pressure to raise money and it will save them about $400 million in operating income a year when it does this. adding more seats and start changing for bags. it will have a service from jfk to san francisco and jfk to lax. that will be a different pricing model and they are talking about the three fare bundles. it could be on the same flight and different prices, but what

services you are using. if you are just flying, maybe not. >> that's a different story. it could very well be that you pay more for the ticket on the front end and you get all of these. we will watch and see how this is going to fare with the people who love jet blue because of the com of the plane. the stock is down in the premarket. if the company said they are doing this because of the way to raise money, you have to wonder if they are saying it will irritate some. >> if it's losing money and needs to make up for the loss -- >> they have been making money for the first time in years and for reasons like this. adding more fees and finding ways to squeeze more money out of the flights. >> that's something because fuel costs are down. this would be the time when they give customers a break. but no. thanks so much. let's talk more about buffalo.

we have incredible images to show you from buffalo. this is a time lapse video. you can see the wall of clouds and snow as it rolled into the city during this massive storm. that's frightening, right? this video was shot from an office window near lake erie. buffalo got socked with six feet of snow in a short amount of time. it's not over yet. another two feet of snow could be on the ground by tomorrow night. it's just incredible. that's eight feet of snow on the ground. joining me by phone from buffalo is katie ryan. katie, welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. you work for the buffalo sabers and you are in that wall of snow as it fell over the city. tell us about that. >> i know. i am looking at the pictures and it's unbelievable. i can't believe i'm on the other side of that wall of snow. it would not stop yesterday.

it's craze tow think that my house is three miles away from the arena. for them to get no snow and we have 6 is unbelievable. >> you are in your house and the snow is almost up to the top of your garage? >> yes. yesterday it was around 1:30. i had to get to my shovel. the snow was getting higher and higher and i tried to go out the front door through my gate in my front yard. i'm like about 5'8". the snow is up to my chest area. i can't get through my gate. i go back up to my front porch and i jump over the side of my front porch and thread through to my garage to get the shovel out.

i had to push the snow away with my happeneds to get to my shovel. >> i feel for you. >> the sabers still played their game last night. and some fans actually showed up which i found amazing. >> and they did. you know what, it was so funny. i was watching the game at home. for the fans that were there, the announcers were like these hearty buffalo fans, nothing can keep them away. it's so true. the game-based bash, anybody there, our team president was taking tickets at the gate. not enough people could take it in. that was neat though. >> thank you very much for sharing your story, katy. good luck. that's all i can say. >> thank you so much. >> katy ryan. the bill for the controversial

pip line dies in the senate for now. republicans say the fight is just beginning. >> carol, the fight is just beginning. republicans are going to control congress next year, but it could be the end of the road for the democrats who led this charge. mary landrieu could not convince one more of her fellow democrats to help her along. more on that after the break.

>> democrats blocked the pipeline bill giving a blow to one of their own in the process. it needed the support to 60 senators missed the mark by just one vote. the defeat is especially low stinging for mary landrieu, the louisiana democrat who is facing

an uphill battle to go back to washington after 18 years in the senate. she hoped to use the bill's pass to show she has power in congress. the attempts were not enough. >> there is no blame. only joy in the fight. we never talk about quitting. we don't talk about whining. after the game is over and this is not a game, it was very serious. when i played ball, whether you won or lot of that day, you shook the opponent's hand and went to fight another day. >> her fight is much harder now because if the democrats pulled the money, they are not helping her anymore. she is alone on an island. >> this was a tough loss for her politically. the substance of what she was trying to do, approve the keystone pipeline. she was pleading with every one of the democratic colleagues. i talked to many of them that

she cornered on the floor and corners of the hall ways of the capital. she was so close. one vote short of getting this passed. she couldn't find that one last democrat to do it. she is going to go back to louisiana and fight to keep her seat in this run off on december 6th. it was already an uphill climb to come back without a victory. this wouldn't directly affect louisiana. because louisiana is an energy-important state, it would indirectly affect the state. did not have that victory. she has been in run offs before. i covered them before in louisiana. she has been far behind. she has been able to pull it off. they are very powerful there. i wouldn't count her out, but it will be difficult. >> the keystone pipeline itself, congress is likely to vote on that next year when republicans control both houses and it's

likely to pass. >> absolutely. pass big time. republicans are either going to have 53 or 54 votes in the senate. all of them support the keystone pipeline. the democrats who do support it, ten voted yes are coming back and in the house, there is going to be a very big republican majority who will pass as they always have. the white house was breathing sigh of relief that they didn't have to veto something that the fellow democrat really wanted, but it will be short lived because it will be in their lap and probably very early next year and republicans are promising to do so and it doesn't look like the majority. it might be with the trading and negotiating, it might be something that is going to be in the mix for democrats and

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button on one of bill cosby's latest projects. netflix was expected to launch a new comedy special starring cosby the day after thanksgiving. now they are not. he is developing a new sitcom and the network has not said whether they plan to cancel or postpone that project. janice dickinson is the latest accuser to come forward with allegations against cosby. in an interview, dickinson claims the comedian sauled her after the two had dinner in 1982 in lake tahoe. >> in my room, he had given me wine and a pill. the next morning i woke up and i was not wearing my pajamas. i remember before i passed out that i had been sexually assaulted by this man. the last thing i remember was bill cosby in a patch work robe,

dropping his robe and getting on top of me. >> this morning, the attorney is firing back against the allegations. in a letter to the rep, they said her new story that she was sexually assaulted is a defamatory fabrication. they said there is an interview where dickinson clachls he blew her off because she wouldn't sleep with him. more than a dozen other women made similar claims against cosby. he denied the allegations. let's bring in jean casarez. it keeps getting uglier and uglier. >> it does and i found that article from the new york observer and she had came out with a salacious article. and she says in the article bill cosby told her she could sing and she believed it until she

didn't want to be with him and he blew her off. so some inconsistent facts. but let's look at all of these women that have come out. their stories are basically the same, that bill cosby allegedly gave them alcohol, gave them a pill and then they don't remember anything until they come to and believe they were sexually assaulted. the only thing bill cosby has come out saying this in 2005 was the "national enquirer" and he apologized to his wife camille but also said people were trying to take advantage of him and exploit him because of his success. for bill cosby it has been a week of allegations from women who say they were sexual assaulted in the past by the comedian. many claim they were drugged. >> i never saw any drugs but i would wake up completely confused, half dressed an knowing that my body had been

touched without my permission. >> bowman says she went to cosby's new york apartment alone and that cosby flew her all around the country as he performed at various venues. she says the advances were unwelcome. also speaking out, joan tarshis. >> we went up to his bungalow afterwards, he made me a drink and very shortly after that i just -- i passed out. i woke up or came to very groggily with him removing my underwear. >> reporter: tarshis says in 1969 she voluntarily saw cosby again when he invited her to a performance. after accepting drinks at his hotel and in a limo, she says she woke up the next morning with him in his bed. ironically, cosby released a comedy album that same year titled "it's true, it's true." joking about that very issue. >> you know what? you know anything about spanish fly? no, tell me about it.

well, there's this girl, crazy mary, you put some in her drink, man, she's -- >> reporter: but with all the allegations and even after andrea konstan went to police saying cosby medicated her and fondled her in 2004, the district attorney of montgomery county pennsylvania at the time, bruce castor, said there would be no charges. constant and cosby settled a civil suit out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2006. also in 2005, tamara green on the "today" show with a similar story. >> he had gone from helping me to groping me and kissing me and touching me and handling me. >> reporter: in 2005, cosby spoke out for the first and only time, telling the "national enquirer" "i am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status." now nine years later, cosby's attorney, john schmidt, has responded to it all with this statement. "over the last several weeks,

decade-old discredited allegations against mr. cosby have resurfaced. the fact that they are being repeated does not make them true." >> let's talk a bit more about janice dickinson's allegations. you said there were some discrepancies, cosby's lawyers have responded to her allegations. is there a danger that cosby's attorneys could sue dickinson? >> such an interesting question. you're talking about libel, that she is intentionally saying? ing that is false. well, he's a public figure so that takes it to another level but it's got to be false and she's got to know that it's false and she's intentionally saying it and that will be interesting to watch to see if something like that happens. there are some inconsistencies about what she said but she was very authentic. >> she's emotionally distraught. >> she says regrets and resentment, that this is the biggest one she has that she didn't go forward with this.

>> jean casarez, many thanks. i appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, is college worth the cost? one university president says yes but he says colleges must help students out. we'll talk about that next. ♪

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s. all this week, we've been looking at how expensive college is getting. 40 million students carrying around about $29,000 in debt. the average cost for an in-state public college is about $22,000 a year. private school is double that. our next guest says you don't need an ivy league education, though a public university is fabulous, too. a college degree in any university will earn you one million dollars more in your lifetime than a high school diploma. ronald burkeman is head of cleveland state university, he joins us now. good morning, sir. >> thank you very much. >> there seems to be a lot of anti-college sentiment in the country right now. why is that? >> i think there may be some anti-college confusion. we've gone through a tremendous sorting through of the economy and people are trying to find the right trajectory and the right path into careers and i think that there is a re-examination of what those

best paths into years are. >> we hear a lot about college graduates now being forced to work in the fast food industry. even michael bloomberg, the former new york city mayor, he advised that becoming a plumber could be a better payoff than heading to college because you make a lot of money when you become a plumber and you don't carry the debt. >> and i think no one is saying that college is for everyone. i don't think that that is really the presumptiontor assumption. but i think what we are saying, i think that what is true is that we are operating in an economy, a global economy where as you said college is -- provides a tremendous return on investment for an individual both financially and in terms of the style of living that they're able to maintain. and it also is a wonderful dividend for our nation. we are completing against nations that are producing more baccalaureate graduates than we are in an economy that is

largely driven by an intelligence quotient. >> and you they a college education is so important that cleveland sate is giving a 2% rebate and $200 to students who stay on track for graduation. why? >> that's right. because i think the most effective way to reduce costs -- and we are committed to reducing costs -- is to lessen the time to graduation. so we've put in a whole series of operational measures, allowing students to register for the entire year at the begin of this semester, allowing students to sequence courses in a way that helps them move through, reducing the number of credits needed for graduation and, yes, providing an incentive for students who take 30 credits in terms of helping them with tuition and helping them with the increasing costs of books and it's working. in one year, we've