Latest in Investigation Into Downed Helicopters; Key Taliban Commander Killed in Afghanistan
GEN. WILLIAM CALDWELL, MULTINATIONAL FORCE SPOKESMAN: It does appear that they were all the result of some kind of anti Iraqi ground fire that did bring us</s>T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR, CNN SUNDAY MORNING: The latest in the investigation as to four U.S. helicopters downed in Iraq over the past two weeks. CNN's Arwa Damon is in Baghdad with a live report. She is coming up in just about eight minutes.</s>MELISSA LONG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From Afghanistan this morning reports that a key Taliban commander is dead, killed by a NATO air strike, according to NATO a precision attack was launched on the Taliban leader in an area that had been over run by the Taliban on Friday.</s>HOLMES: An Amber Alert this morning for a Pennsylvania toddler. Police are searching for 23-month-old Ina Page. Reporting missing from her bed in a Braddock, Pennsylvania yesterday morning. Below freezing weather. is adding to the urgency in this search.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All those birds have been killed.</s>LONG: Health officials in Britain hope this mass slaughter will end an outbreak of avian flu at a turkey farm south of London. The question now is how the dreaded h5n1 virus infected the flock inside a sealed building. Authorities have quarantined the property, but say the public is not at risk.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last year he weighed 265 pounds; he decided to make himself suffer for eating the wrong things. So before every meal he downed a shot of hot sauce.</s>LONG: So what happened to his waistline? The answer just might amaze you. We'll get the low down on "House Call" with Sanjay Gupta. Our doctor coming up in about 30 minutes.</s>HOLMES: That is a pretty good punishment a shot of hot sauce. From the CNN Center in Atlanta this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. Good morning to you all, I'm T.J. Holmes.</s>LONG: Good morning, I'm Melissa Long in this morning for Betty. It is February 4th. Want to show you some live pictures right there from Lansing, Michigan, and Boston, Massachusetts. Bean Town on the right.</s>HOLMES: Yes, winter weather hitting areas in the north this weekend. Today's forecast just minutes away. But first we do want to tell you about the latest on the aftermath of those deadly storms in Florida. Forecasters now say a tornado battered the area with winds around 165 miles per hour. Twenty people were killed all of them in Lake County. Officials had feared even more bodies might be found. Florida Senator Bill Nelson says at least 1500 homes were badly damaged or destroyed. President Bush designated four Florida counties as federal disaster areas so they're now eligible for millions of dollars in aid. For the very latest from Florida now, we want to Lady Lake with CNN's Susan Roesgen is standing by for us. Good morning Susan.</s>SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning T.J. we're really seeing a lot of activity now at the Lady Lake Church of God, what was the Lady Lake Church of God. But as the pastor says, a church is not the building it's the people. The people have come out today for the first church service since the tornado came through. Right behind me here on the ground a group of guys just came. That was, with a little bit of blue tarp that you see, the carport of the church at the front entrance where people came in. And then just to the right of that, the white piece that you see there, that is actually the steeple. The steeple toppled down onto this church when the tornado came through very early Friday morning. Now, the pastor says that in the past his church had been used as a shelter. It was built, he says, to withstand 150-mile-an-hour winds. The National Weather Service now says that the wind that came through with the tornado early Friday was at least 165 miles an hour. So this is the rubble of the Lady Lake Church of God, but the pastor this morning at 10:45 here local time plans to preach from right in the middle of the rubble. Then behind me you can see they've set up folding chairs for the congregation, about 200 people in the congregation. They expect more people from the community as well. That big tent in the distance, right behind the folding chairs, if you look up, there's a big colorful tent. I guess, T.J., you could say this is sort of an ecumenical service because those are Seventh- day Adventist who come down from the area, they're serving food to folks in the neighborhood. I just got a cup of hot coffee from those folks. They say they always come out whenever there's a need in this community. Yesterday a Mormon Church group was here helping to clear the debris. So really a lot of people have come together here T.J. for the first church service at a devastated church in this area where the pastor is going to talking I think to a very appreciative congregation this morning and to other people as well as Florida Governor Charlie Christian will be here to see what the pastor has to say.</s>HOLMES: In the midst of all that, still a lot to be thankful for. Don't need the building to have church service this morning. Susan thank you so much.</s>LONG: Now it is bitterly cold, and there's a lot of ice. A trail of traffic troubles from the Great Lakes into New England; in Michigan they have whiteout conditions that are blamed for huge traffic pileups yesterday. In New Hampshire, one person was killed in a chain reaction crash. As many as 100 vehicles slammed into each other after a car spun out of control. Let's find out a little bit more about that deep- freeze, find out whether or not we're gong to have a warm up of the conditions.</s>HOLMES: Possibly. Bonnie anything?</s>BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know not for a while. Actually I think tomorrow will be even be colder than today. Monday morning is going to be brutal for those of you that have to wait outside for a bus or a train. Let's look across the country. These are current temperatures. Right now it is negative 11 in Minneapolis, the high today? Negative 3. It's a dangerous situation because temperatures, even though many of them are negative numbers right now they feel so much worse. Look at these wind chill factors in Duluth, negative 45, in Minneapolis negative 28, even in Des Moines it is negative 19 and Chicago, lots of excitement in that city today, but it feels like it is negative 24. What does this mean? It means that if these temperatures are going to stay like this at least for the morning, you need to stay inside. If you have to venture outside for any reason, make sure every part of you is covered, your fingertips, your ear lobes, your nose. You can get frostbite so quickly when the weather is like this. We're looking at this bitter blast of arctic air because of the strong wind that is coming in. It's actually going to be cold all the way down through the south; many places across the southeast will be feeling the cold, not as dangerous as it will be to the north. Speaking of the south, as we go to Florida, all eyes on the Super Bowl forecast. For the first time ever, we may see rain for the Super Bowl. Here is the forecast; we will see temperatures in the upper 60s, breezy conditions and showers. Why the rain? Well a couple of reasons, a stationary front to the south over Cuba, that combined with another front dropping down right now over northern Florida, we also have high pressure building into the southeast. That's why we'll see clear skies across much of the southeast today. But with this front coming down and the high dropping down and the front to the south, we're getting a strong pressure gradient. We'll see breezy conditions with the winds coming in off the water that will enhance the moisture today in Miami. Just like we saw yesterday. In fact, right now we're looking at rain; it is coming down heavy and hard across south more Florida. Let's hope by the time the Super Bowl kicks off tonight we get that rain chance dwindling down. At least the morning will be wet. T.J., Melissa.</s>HOLMES: We sure do hope, Bonnie. Thank you. We'll be checking in with you plenty this morning, thank you so much.</s>LONG: A day after the bloody attack on a Baghdad market, another round of violence. New information from the military this morning about four U.S. helicopters lost in Iraq over the past couple of weeks. For more on this story, we check in with CNN's Arwa Damon, who is live from Baghdad. Arwa.</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning Melissa. It has been a very devastating day here in the capital. Before we get to the details of the violence Major General William Caldwell the spokesman for multinational courses here in Iraq just announced in a recent press conference that the four helicopters that crashed over the last few weeks in and around the capital were caused by some sort of ground fire. This does raise concerns amongst the U.S. military in terms of the insurgents' ability to shoot down their aircrafts. Meanwhile, Iraq's ministry of interior announcing one of the bloodiest weeks we've seen this year, a 1,000 Iraqis dead in violence in just seven days. That number though does include gunmen that were also killed in combat. Now today in the capital, just in the morning, at least 14 Iraqis were killed, dozens more wounded, in a number of attacks ranging from small arms fire to mortars to roadside bombs. Meanwhile, in the heart of Baghdad, in that marketplace that was hit by the suicide bomber yesterday, residents are trying to clear out the rubble, trying to salvage whatever they can and recover from what is the deadliest attack to have hit Iraq since the end of the war. Melissa.</s>LONG: Live from Baghdad, Arwa. Thank you.</s>ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Elaine Quijano live at the White House. Despite outright opposition from members of his own party to his troop increase plan, President Bush is holding firm to his decision. I'll have details, coming up.</s>HOLMES: And, also coming up, making history before they even step onto the field. A live report on today's historic Super Bowl that is coming your way in about ten minutes.</s>LONG: And the next generation of anti-wrinkle injections. In 20 minutes, "House Call" tell you about the latest version that does not require touchups.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's really a buyer beware situation with these products because they go through a different process of approval than drugs do.