Disney Donates Cut Of "Black Panther" Profits.
ROMANS: All 680 public schools in West Virginia closed for a fourth day by an ongoing teachers' strike. The walkout affecting more than 227,000 students. Teachers hit picket lines last week demanding higher wages and better benefits. West Virginia Ranks 48 in the nation for teacher -- average teacher pay. Governor Jim Justice signed legislation last week raising teacher pay but teachers say it just does not address other concerns like rising health care costs.</s>BRIGGS: A terrifying ordeal for passengers and crew members on a Southwest Airlines flight. Now, the plane had just taken off from Salt Lake City when passengers heard a loud explosion.</s>ROMANS: Oh, my.</s>BRIGGS: An engine on fire.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've got shooting flames out the side of the engine and it's crazy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I kind of just got really, really, really scared and I started crying, and I just started praying and holding my sister's hand.</s>BRIGGS: Wow.</s>ROMANS: Oh.</s>BRIGGS: Passengers say the pilot remained calm as he completed an emergency landing. Another jet was brought in and passengers were flown to</s>LAX. ROMANS: All right. The search is on for a killer who shot a North Carolina man as he was broadcasting on Facebook live. A warning some of you may find this video we're about to show disturbing. Fifty-five-year-old Prentis Robinson was killed in Wingate, about 25 miles southeast of Charlotte. The video shows him being approached by a man asking him "you on live" before shots are fired. CNN affiliate WSOC says Douglas Colson has been identified as a suspect. The incident, once again, raising questions about violent content on Facebook live.</s>BRIGGS: All right. More than 200 rivers near flood stage this morning from Texas to the Great Lakes and more rain headed to hard-hit areas. Here's meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Dave and Christine, good morning to you both. Yes, you know, this is going to be a very serious situation for a lot of people. As we know, upwards of 200-plus river gauges that are reporting flooding as of this hour. The vast majority are in the minor flood stage levels but you notice a good number in the moderate and then certainly, about a dozen or so in the major flood stage, really stretching from the Gulf Coast all the way towards the Great Lakes. And that's precisely where we have a frontal boundary draped across this region. Could see additional change of showers. Unfortunately, the bullseye for the heaviest rainfall across parts of east Texas on into, say, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of southern Tennessee. Really, the areas that have been hardest hit in the past week so some of these regions could see another round of, say, three, four, maybe five inches of rainfall. And again, several million people underneath flood watches and flood warnings this morning as a result of what's happening. And look at the uniform nature of this incredible temperature trend. Up to 60 in Chicago. Lower 60s also down around portions of Arkansas. Middle 60s into the southern U.S. and about 60 around the northeast as well. So this is a trend we think will last a couple of more days and then finally, a little cooler as we push to the weekend.</s>ROMANS: All right, thank you. Let's get a check on "CNN Money" this morning. Right now, U.S. futures are down a little bit but global stocks had a great performance set by the tone on Wall Street yesterday. A big rally for U.S. stocks yesterday, up nearly 400 points for the Dow. For now, investors stopped worrying about rising interest rates, but the tiniest rate news moves stocks here and we may get more today. New Fed chief Jerome Powell will testify before Congress. Apple stock jumped two percent, nearly an all-time high. Warren Buffett said his company bought more Apple shares than any other this year. And, you know, big tech moves markets. Three tech stocks have fueled nearly half of the S&P 500's rise this year -- Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix if you're keeping score. About three-quarters of those big losses in the Dow that we had last -- this month -- have been erased. So, the market's been clawing back. New home sales hit a 5-month low in January, falling for the second month in a row. New homes are just a small slice of the entire housing market. Existing homes is bigger. Those sales also dropped in January, the sharpest annual drop in three years. Homebuyers face some problems here. Low supply, rising prices that is sidelining many first-time homebuyers and experts worry two factors will slow things down this year in housing -- rising mortgage rates -- they're near a 4-year high right now -- and the new tax bill. It caps the mortgage interest deduction. All right, "BLACK PANTHER," have you seen it? It is raking in the big bucks at the box office -- $700 million worldwide. Just incredible. Disney is giving a cut of that back to children. Disney will donate $1 million of the profit to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The money will support its STEM programs for kids and teens. That is science, technology, engineering, and math. Disney's CEO Bob Iger says it's just thrilling to see how inspired young audiences were by the technology in the film. If there's something Disney knows, it's technology.</s>BRIGGS: Just incredible -- $700 million. For context, "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" made $773 million --</s>ROMANS: yes.</s>BRIGGS: -- in five months.</s>ROMANS: Wow, amazing. All right, thanks for joining us. I'm Christine Romans.</s>BRIGGS: I'm Dave Briggs. "NEW DAY" starts right now. We'll see you tomorrow.</s>TRUMP: I really believe I'd run into it even if I didn't have a weapon.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's ridiculous.</s>SANDERS: He was just stating he would have stepped in and hopefully, been able to help.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The proposal to raise to 21 is just common sense.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think he should be backing away from this issue.</s>TRUMP: By the way, bump stocks -- I don't care if Congress does it not. I'm writing it out myself, OK?</s>GOV. JOHN KASICH (R), OHIO: In this case, he deserves credit for this and I hope he'll keep it up.</s>TRUMP: I got to watch some deputy sheriffs. They weren't exactly Medal of Honor winners.</s>ROMANS: The school resource officer insisting he did nothing wrong as CNN learns new details about the gunman's troubled past.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember thinking he's going to kill someone and I can do nothing about it.</s>ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Tuesday, February 27th, 6:00 here in New York. So here's our "Starting Line."