New Cosby Accuser Goes Public
BERMAN: Happening now, reaction to the case surrounding the death of Eric Garner. The New York City grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who tried to arrest Garner using the chokehold. This ended in Garner's death. The grand jury's announcement sparked protests overnight. In New York, marchers virtually shut down Midtown Manhattan for a time last night.</s>ROMANS: Breaking this morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just finished his state of the union address to members of parliament. Putin rattling saying to defend our freedom, we have enough power, strength and bravery. The Russian president is also putting a statesmanlike loss on his aggressive triumphs toward Ukraine. Putin said every nation has a right to choose its partners. Russia will always respect that and the same goes for Ukraine, our brotherly nation.</s>BERMAN: The maker of the air bags that federal regulators called defective went before a congressional committee. Takata officials defended the company's decision that rejected regulators' demands that the company expand the recall from coast to coast. The move sets up a possible legal showdown. Takata's senior vice president said there is not enough scientific evidence to expand an existing regional recall to make it nationwide. The air bags in question have been found to explode occasionally with too much force which hurls debris, which acts like shrapnel when it hit the drivers.</s>ROMANS: Three new accusers have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby. The famous attorney, Gloria Allred joined the women at a news conference where Allred proposed a settlement for the alleged victims. One of these women, Beth Ferrier, spoke exclusively to CNN tonight about what happened to her after her alleged abuse.</s>BETH FERRIER: My life ended the day I met Bill Cosby.</s>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Why do you say that?</s>FERRIER: Because he is as a powerful and I'm a Christian, he is as powerful or more powerful than God and you don't mess with God.</s>ROMANS: Allred propose Cosby place $100 million into a fund for all alleged victims.</s>BERMAN: We have some video that is heart stopping. This is out of Australia. Look at that. A baby stroller falling on train tracks. Officials say the stroller began to roll down inclined in an platform and the man believed to be the child's grandfather looked away. The stroller crashes to the ground and then you can see those men jumping on the tracks to help. The little girl who was in the stroller is being treated at a hospital for facial wounds. Lucky though.</s>ROMANS: I'm glad everything turned out OK. All right, Indra Petersons has an early start on your forecast this morning. Hi, Indra.</s>INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning. If you were in the mid-Atlantic or the northeast, it has been raining for days, but finally today we are going to get just a little bit of breather, high pressure building in. So temperatures into the southeast actually warming up. Clear skies into the northeast. You got lake-effect snow, barely anything out there. Temperatures are a little bit milder. So maybe New York City about 43 for your high today. But again, all thanks to the high pressure building and some nicest day of the week. By the time we get to the weekend, notice the next system coming in and it is a soggy weekend for so many of us. We will look at it day by day. Not to the weekend yet. We are looking to the Midwest and back through Texas looking for some of those showers. Heavy amounts of rain in through tomorrow places like Louisville, Nashville and Memphis getting more of that bull's- eye. But notice all these moisture even filling into the mid-Atlantic and northeast. By the time we get through Saturday, we will see hot spots. Boston and New York City through D.C., we will look at a soggy mess. Not a change, mild weather in D.C. in 40s and 50s, but also rain on Saturday so that mixed bag for you. Meanwhile out west, we are still talking about the systems here. The first one pulling out of here, moisture pulling into the four corners so they kind of get a breather for a day. But another system is behind it labeled it number two making its way in so more heavy rainfall is expected into California by the time we get to the weekend.</s>ROMANS: All right, thanks, Indra.</s>BERMAN: All right, gas has fallen below $2 a gallon. Where and how long will it take you to get there? That's an early start on your money coming up next.