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Snow Plows Come Out; Comic Legacy; Mending Fences; Risky Business?; East Coast Blizzard; Tsunami Disease
Aired January 24, 2005 - 05:30 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: To the Forecast Center now.
Rob Marciano in for Chad, but we're going to hear from him soon.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, we will. He went out in this storm yesterday, did a great job reporting live from Philadelphia, where they had upwards of about a foot of snow. We'll go over some of the numbers, more impressive as you go eastward to the land of pilgrims.
(WEATHER REPORT)
MARCIANO: You know New York is a pretty place when it's covered in white.
COSTELLO: Yes, it's really -- it is actually beautiful. But the weirdest sight that I saw on Saturday when the snow was really coming down, there was somebody cross-country skiing down Park Avenue.
MARCIANO: You don't get to do that too often.
COSTELLO: No, it was really strange.
And Logan Airport, I just want to make sure, because earlier we had it opening again at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, but you had an update, now it's opening at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time?
MARCIANO: Yes, 13Z minus 5 so that's 8:00 right now, so, yes.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Rob.
MARCIANO: Thank you. All right -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Despite more than a foot of snow falling in some areas of New York City, driving in the Big Apple should be fairly easy this morning.
As CNN's Alina Cho reports, cleanup crews have been working overtime to clear the streets before the morning rush.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Angelo Bruno has worked for New York's Sanitation Department for a little less than half of his 54 years.
ANGELO BRUNO, SANITATION WORKER: I was very blessed, I passed the test and I got called in April of 1979.
CHO (on camera): And you've been here ever since?
BRUNO: And I've been there ever since.
CHO (voice-over): Born and raised in Brooklyn, Bruno spends most of his workdays collecting trash. But at times like these, the Sanitation Department goes into emergency mode. Bruno's trash truck turns into a snow plow.
CHO (on camera): Hard to maneuver?
BRUNO: Not really once you get the knack of it.
CHO: Well you've been on the job for 26 years, I think you've gotten the knack of it.
BRUNO: I think I've got the knack of it now, yes, I do.
CHO (voice-over): During his 12 hour shift, Bruno plows what he calls the primary routes first, major thoroughfares and avenues. Then he moves on to the secondary routes, smaller streets that are harder to get to.
BRUNO: But it happened on a weekend, so it gives us a little bit more time. So when it comes Monday morning, people could get dressed and come to work.
CHO: This latest storm, not a problem, he says. The blizzard of '96 was different.
BRUNO: We worked for 30 days solid straight.
CHO: Bruno says it comes with the territory. The man who picks up after movie stars and regular New Yorkers says when he sees a nice clean street...
BRUNO: I know at the end of the day I did a good job. I went to work, I did a good job, you know. We're a valuable source, you need us, not only for the snow, for everything else. We make things move.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: They certainly do. And it was strange seeing the garbage trucks like refinagled into snow plows, but it's very strange, but it worked.
That was CNN's Alina Cho reporting.
City officials in New York say residents can help out with the clean up by not shoveling the snow from their sidewalks and walks out onto the streets. And good luck with that, city officials.
Switching gears now to a sadder subject. Johnny Carson had pretty much dropped out of sight since its final "Tonight Show" appearance, but all you had to do was watch TV or movies to see his thumbprint on today's entertainers.
CNN's Brooke Anderson has more on his career and the legacy he leaves behind.
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ED MCMAHON, JOHNNY CARSON SIDEKICK: Here's Johnny!
BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 30 years, Johnny Carson entertained us as the host of "The Tonight Show." The beloved comedian also helped and inspired many of today's most successful entertainers, including funnyman Ray Romano.
RAY ROMANO, ACTOR: I feel like he is a big factor in me having any success at all here. I mean he was an inspiration for me even to get into standup.
ANDERSON: Romano's sentiments were matched by a number of Carson's longtime friends and contemporaries, including Joan Rivers.
JOAN RIVERS, COMEDIAN: We all started on his show. I mean that was the era of Cosby. Bill Cosby started on his show and George Carlin started on his show and I started and David Brenner and Seinfeld. I mean there was a whole group of us that all came up first time ever out on the Carson show, and that was terrific and amazing. Jay Leno, Gary Shandling, I mean every solid comedian today.
ANDERSON: Another late night mainstay, David Letterman, also remembers the impact Carson had on his career saying -- quote -- "we will not see the likes of him again. He gave me a shot on his show and in doing so, he gave me a career. A night doesn't go by that I don't ask myself, what would Johnny have done?"
JOHNNY CARSON, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": You're the kind of crowd that would sneak into the Oval Office and pop a paper bag.
(LAUGHTER)
ANDERSON: Fans, too, are feeling the loss of the comic giant.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's really sad to see somebody that was such a professional person that had really true family values pass away.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The few times I got to stay up late, got to watch him on TV. I think he's really a big part of history.
ROMANO: He had the humanity, the warmth and he could also be biting and cutting and funny. So, we're going to miss him, yes. We lost a great guy.
CARSON: I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight.
ANDERSON: Brooke Anderson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: And we still want to hear from you this morning, what is your favorite Johnny Carson memory? Send us your e-mails, DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
And be sure to tune in tonight for a very special "LARRY KING LIVE," longtime friend and sidekick Ed McMahon joins Larry with stories and thoughts about Johnny Carson.
Ukraine's new president makes the obligatory visit to Moscow, but his heart and his intentions are clearly elsewhere. Our Ryan Chilcote has that in four minutes.
And got the stomach for playing the stock market? Ali Velshi tests your risk tolerance coming up in eight minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday morning.
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COSTELLO: First stop, Moscow. Inaugurated yesterday as Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko is arriving in Moscow at this hour. He'll meet with the Russian leader who backed his opponent in the Ukrainian election.
CNN's Ryan Chilcote reports live from the Russian capital today.
Hello -- Ryan.
RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, Ukraine is the most recent eastern European country -- the most eastern of the European countries, really, to publicly pursue integration with the West, to say that it wants to join NATO, that it wants to join the E.U.
And the Ukrainian president is coming here on his first full day in office as the Ukrainian president to Moscow, really, to the East, to a part of the world that Ukraine, basically, for the last millennium, has identified itself with, to say look, does not have to happen our movement towards the West at the expense of Ukrainian- Russian relations. And he is expected to pursue a very constructive dialog with the Russians here today.
Remember that during the so-called "Orange Revolution" that brought Viktor Yushchenko into power and led to his inauguration just yesterday in Kiev, the Russians talked a lot about their fears that some countries were trying to draw new lines of division in Europe. Well I think Viktor Yushchenko is here today to say it doesn't have to be that way -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Ryan, I just wanted to follow up on the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko and if there was anything new to that or if he would -- he probably won't bring that up with Putin today.
CHILCOTE: No, he is highly unlikely to bring that up with the Russian president today. And in fact, he has never actually accused the Russian -- publicly accused the Russians of being behind that poisoning. He has suggested that perhaps members of Ukraine's own security services were behind it, but the Ukrainian president himself has never said that the Russians were behind it. However, some of the people in his team have kind of hinted at that.
But in terms of his health, his team says that he is healthy, despite the fact that his face was very disfigured back in September by that dioxin poisoning. And they say that he just needs to continue his medication that will lead to the recovery of his face. But in terms of his general health that he's feeling OK now -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Ryan Chilcote, live in Moscow today, thank you.
Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:40 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
A suicide car bombing in Baghdad wounds at least 12 people, most of them police officers. The attack happened at a police checkpoint near the headquarters of the interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's political party.
He tugged at his tie, rocked back on his heels and became a TV legend. Emphysema has claimed the life of Johnny Carson. He was 79. Carson hosted "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years.
In money news, you can get some credit for shopping at Wal-Mart. The world's biggest retailer is teaming up with Discover Financial Services. They plan to issue a new credit card to Wal-Mart customers.
In culture, noted writer William Safire offers up his final op-ed column for "The New York Times" today. Safire has written more than 3,000 columns for "The Times" over the past 30 years, but he'll still write his popular "On Language" column that appears Sundays in "The Times."
In sports, Tiger is back. Woods captured his first stroke play title in 16 months with a three-shot win at the Buick Invitational. Weather forced Tiger and the others to play more than 30 holes on the final day.
To the Forecast Center now and, Rob, good morning.
MARCIANO: Good morning.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.
Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.
Investing in your retirement, it can be risky business on a roller-coaster stock market. Some people get motion sickness, others get an adrenaline rush, but just how much risk are you willing to take? There is a way to find out.
More from DAYBREAK contributor Ali Velshi.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think about retirement all of the time.
ALI VELSHI, CNN DAYBREAK CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Do you have a financial strategy?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trying to meet with a retirement planner, talk with my wife, try to predict what you can't predict about the future.
VELSHI: He's right, you can't predict the future, but you can figure out your risk tolerance. It's a gauge of how comfortable you are making investments, not which stocks to buy.
PRAN TIKU, PEAK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: People spend too much time trying to figure out what stock to buy. Most important answer is how much of your assets should be in stocks or bonds or cash or the combination of all three.
VELSHI: Financial advisor Pran Tiku devised a simple test that tells you your risk tolerance and matches it with the right mix of investments. It's four basic multiple-choice questions. You get a different number of points depending on your answer.
So let's get started.
First question, how old are you? Under 45, give yourself five points; between 45 and 65 years old, three points and over 65, one point.
Question two, when do you expect to begin making withdrawals from your portfolio? If you'll need the money in more than seven years, that's five points. In less than seven years, three points. And if you're already using the money, that's worth one point.
Question three, once you start making withdrawals, what percent do you expect to withdrawal each year? If you think you'll need only a small amount, say less than 2 percent, that's five points. Between 2 and 7 percent a year, three points. And more than 7 percent of your portfolio, that's one point.
Final question, given a choice of the following portfolio, which one would you choose? A portfolio that returned 10 percent a year but had a high amount of risk, that's five points. A moderately risky portfolio returning about 7 percent a year, that's three points. Or a portfolio that carried a low rate of risk but returned only 5 percent, that's just a point.
And that's it, add it up and see what you have. Tiku says a score between 16 and 20 gives you a high-risk tolerance, a portfolio that's 80 percent stocks and 20 percent bonds. A score between 10 and 15 means moderate risk tolerance, your portfolio might be 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds. And if your total is between 4 and 9, you're conservative and probably will hold more bonds than stocks.
Once you know your risk tolerance, you can begin to create an investment plan that will take you from here to here.
Ali Velshi, CNN, New York.
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COSTELLO: Still to come, doctors in Asia fear an explosion in tsunami-ravaged areas, an explosion of deaths or people stricken with debilitating infections. Atika Shubert visits "Tetanus City."
From New York, this is DAYBREAK for Monday, January 24.
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COSTELLO: Could be a messy morning commute for many of you in the northeast. I think it will be a messy morning commute. This weekend's massive blizzard has left more than two feet of snow in some spots. People also grappling with gusty winds, icy roads. How are they making out?
Well, let's visit New Hampshire and the WOKQ Waking Crew, Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier serve the Portsmouth and Manchester areas.
Good morning.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH AND MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH AND MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good morning -- Carol.
COSTELLO: OK, we're looking for inches, how many inches?
ERICSON: Manchester checks in with 15 inches of snow. Along the seacoast of New Hampshire, a little bit, a little bit worse. This was really more of a coastal event. The cape and the islands of Massachusetts got hit real nasty. Seacoast New Hampshire, depending upon where you were, 18 to about 24 inches along the coastline.
CARRIER: And depending on which snow drift you actually measured as well.
ERICSON: And it's blowing all over the place, even still this morning.
COSTELLO: I bet it is. Is a state of emergency still in effect?
ERICSON: A state of emergency is in effect for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The state of New Hampshire is doing OK at the moment. Manchester Airport managed to stay open, although not an awful lot of flights. Logan in Boston is shut down. Amtrak for the whole northeast corridor is running on a reduced schedule this morning. But we're getting through it all. Lots of school closing and delays this morning, but everyone's in a good mood because the Patriots won.
COSTELLO: You're not kidding, what a great game. They just like stomped on the Steelers.
CARRIER: That was a lovely slaughter, wasn't it? The biggest loss they have suffered all season long, I tell you. Yes, 41-20. I mean come on, you had no chance.
ERICSON: Somebody's a fan, do you think -- Carol?
COSTELLO: I think so. You know I really actually wanted the Steelers to win, but as "The New York Times," the headline says, Beautiful Mind Trumps a Steele Chin,...
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: ... which means that Belichick just outsmarted Cowher.
CARRIER: Well you know just watching Roethlisberger, though, he just -- the team itself, they did not have a rhythm. They could not get into a rhythm and maybe that was Belichick. Maybe the defense was just really reading each play.
COSTELLO: Well you know that terrible call by Bill Cowher where it was fourth and one and they went for it, didn't get it.
ERICSON: Yes.
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: Bettis fumbled the ball.
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: The Patriots recovered and went back. I think we're seeing it right here. Went back for a touchdown. That was bad.
CARRIER: Did you see...
COSTELLO: I mean because the Patriots were only up by three.
CARRIER: I know. I know. It was fantastic. It was a great game. It was a great game. You know they are a tough team. They were a tough team mentally. They are a very physical team and Patriots just met that challenge.
COSTELLO: They certainly did.
ERICSON: And on the plus side, the everyone staying home to watch the game on TV helped the public works crews get the roads cleared because nobody was out.
CARRIER: That too. That too. Yes, absolutely.
COSTELLO: Absolutely. Danielle and Mark, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning. ERICSON: Thank you.
COSTELLO: We appreciate it.
We're going to take a short break. We'll be back with much more on DAYBREAK.
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COSTELLO: You're e-mails are quite enjoyable this morning. I was just reading a couple.
But first, before I read them back to you, we have "Health Headlines" for you this morning.
There could be another use for Viagra. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the impotence drug might also treat a potentially deadly heart condition. Tests show Viagra blocked and even reversed abnormal heart growth in mice. Similar tests are planned on people.
No ruling yet on the Morning After pill, the FDA has delayed a decision on whether to OK over-the-counter sales of the anti-pregnancy drug called Plan B. That's prompted a women's group to sue. Barr Pharmaceuticals wants to sell the pill without a prescription to females aged 16 and older.
President Bush plans to boost global AIDS funding, but critics say it's still not enough. Administration sources say the president will propose more than $3 billion for the next year to fight the spread of AIDS. But AIDS activists say he should commit more than twice that.
It has been almost a month since the earthquake and tsunamis devastated south Asia. The death toll has climbed to more than 220,000. But thanks to the world's quick response, a massive outbreak of disease has not happened.
But as CNN's Atika Shubert reports from Indonesia, the threat is still there.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hamdami (ph) used to sell peanuts. Now he picks through the wreckage collecting aluminum, iron and copper wire, about $3 worth a day. He clambers through the wreckage with nothing but rubber slippers on his feet, oblivious to the risk of disease.
His protection, garlic rubbed on his hands and feet, that and his faith in God, he says, will save him. It's been several days of this work and lifting dead bodies, too, but nothing has happened to me, and I don't think it will. This is a test from God. He is saying if you survive the tsunami, you have no need to be afraid of anything else, he says.
Garlic or no garlic, Hamdami is in more danger than he thinks.
(on camera): This is the perfect breeding ground for tetanus bacteria. It takes about 30 to 60 days for symptoms to show, and it's been about a month since the tsunami struck. Doctors now fear an explosion of cases.
(voice-over): Aid workers call this "Tetanus City" a makeshift hospital ward overflowing with patients stricken with the classic signs of tetanus, lock jaw and debilitating muscle spasms.
DR. YIM CHIK FOO, SINGAPORE: So this is the best (ph) case we have here.
SHUBERT: This patient can no longer breathe on his own. Meals force fed through his clenched jaws. Untreated, tetanus kills roughly a quarter of those infected. The only cure is the body's own defenses.
FOO: The only thing we can do is wait. And what we are trying to do is prevent all the complications, the respiratory failure, the (INAUDIBLE) VT. And in the meantime, we're trying to feed them and prevent them from getting any worse.
SHUBERT: Most contracted tetanus in the tsunamis rolling black waters, suffering deep cuts and gashes that became infected with mud. But the next residents of tetanus city may be people like Hamdami hoping to scrape together a living but risking death by disease.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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COSTELLO: In the next hour of DAYBREAK, does gloomy weather have you feeling blue? Well one scientist says he has a mathematical equation to explain why January 24 is the most depressing day of the year. That makes me depressed just thinking about it.
And we'll tell you what's moving the markets this morning. A high stakes game in the business world with suspicion of espionage and military secrets between the U.S. and China.
You are watching DAYBREAK.
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COSTELLO: Johnny Carson's career spanned more than his 30 years on "The Tonight Show." But it's those years that I think we all remember best. Whether it's the Carnac routine was so funny or an appearance by an animal act. What was your most memorable Carson moment? We're asking you for your opinion of that this morning. DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We have some to read right now.
And, Rob, we've been getting a lot of them.
MARCIANO: Yes, and some of them are pretty funny. A lot of them you go, yes, I remember that one, too, so.
COSTELLO: Exactly. Go ahead and read some that you have.
MARCIANO: All right, I've got a short one here that I can read through.
My favorite Johnny Carson moment was when he imitated Willie Nelson by singing "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" with Julio Iglesias. And that's from Houston, Texas. I think I remember that bit.
What do you have -- Carol?
COSTELLO: This is from Charlie (ph) from Kent, Washington. He says my most memorable moment was the George Gobel tuxedo and brown shoes comment with Dean Martin and Bob Hope on the show. I distinctly remember falling off my chair from laughing so hard.
MARCIANO: I've got one involving Dolly Parton again. I'm just reading. When Dolly Parton was on the show, she made a comment that she had been offered money from "Playboy" to do a pictorial, and she declined. And Johnny said, well hey, I'll give a month's pay just to take a peek.
COSTELLO: You know, but he delivers the lines so much more funny than we can.
MARCIANO: Yes, and more classy, too, I must say.
COSTELLO: We got a lot of this. This is from Bret (ph). He's from Wyoming. He says my favorite Carson moment was the Ed Ames tomahawk toss. As I remember, it had the longest sustained laugh at over three minutes. Lots of people saying the same thing this morning.
MARCIANO: Nice.
COSTELLO: It's very nice.
Let me read just one more because...
MARCIANO: OK.
COSTELLO: ... some people wrote in with quite eloquent comments. This is from Neal Armstrong (ph). I don't think it's the astronaut, but he's from Mooresville, North Carolina. I married my wife the day after Carson's final show. Needless to say that the entire wedding party spent the day before celebrating at a local hotel. However, at 11:35, everyone got together to watch the final Carson. We probably celebrated that as much as my upcoming wedding. Whenever people ask me how long I've been married, I tell them as long as Johnny Carson has been off the air.
MARCIANO: Wow, that's a good one.
COSTELLO: Thank you for your comments this morning. MARCIANO: I remember that show. The way he sat on that stool and gave his goodbye speech was classy again.
COSTELLO: And he had tears in his eyes and Bette Midler was there.
MARCIANO: But he held it together nicely.
COSTELLO: Next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.
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Aired January 24, 2005 - 05:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: To the Forecast Center now.
Rob Marciano in for Chad, but we're going to hear from him soon.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, we will. He went out in this storm yesterday, did a great job reporting live from Philadelphia, where they had upwards of about a foot of snow. We'll go over some of the numbers, more impressive as you go eastward to the land of pilgrims.
(WEATHER REPORT)
MARCIANO: You know New York is a pretty place when it's covered in white.
COSTELLO: Yes, it's really -- it is actually beautiful. But the weirdest sight that I saw on Saturday when the snow was really coming down, there was somebody cross-country skiing down Park Avenue.
MARCIANO: You don't get to do that too often.
COSTELLO: No, it was really strange.
And Logan Airport, I just want to make sure, because earlier we had it opening again at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, but you had an update, now it's opening at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time?
MARCIANO: Yes, 13Z minus 5 so that's 8:00 right now, so, yes.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Rob.
MARCIANO: Thank you. All right -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Despite more than a foot of snow falling in some areas of New York City, driving in the Big Apple should be fairly easy this morning.
As CNN's Alina Cho reports, cleanup crews have been working overtime to clear the streets before the morning rush.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Angelo Bruno has worked for New York's Sanitation Department for a little less than half of his 54 years.
ANGELO BRUNO, SANITATION WORKER: I was very blessed, I passed the test and I got called in April of 1979.
CHO (on camera): And you've been here ever since?
BRUNO: And I've been there ever since.
CHO (voice-over): Born and raised in Brooklyn, Bruno spends most of his workdays collecting trash. But at times like these, the Sanitation Department goes into emergency mode. Bruno's trash truck turns into a snow plow.
CHO (on camera): Hard to maneuver?
BRUNO: Not really once you get the knack of it.
CHO: Well you've been on the job for 26 years, I think you've gotten the knack of it.
BRUNO: I think I've got the knack of it now, yes, I do.
CHO (voice-over): During his 12 hour shift, Bruno plows what he calls the primary routes first, major thoroughfares and avenues. Then he moves on to the secondary routes, smaller streets that are harder to get to.
BRUNO: But it happened on a weekend, so it gives us a little bit more time. So when it comes Monday morning, people could get dressed and come to work.
CHO: This latest storm, not a problem, he says. The blizzard of '96 was different.
BRUNO: We worked for 30 days solid straight.
CHO: Bruno says it comes with the territory. The man who picks up after movie stars and regular New Yorkers says when he sees a nice clean street...
BRUNO: I know at the end of the day I did a good job. I went to work, I did a good job, you know. We're a valuable source, you need us, not only for the snow, for everything else. We make things move.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: They certainly do. And it was strange seeing the garbage trucks like refinagled into snow plows, but it's very strange, but it worked.
That was CNN's Alina Cho reporting.
City officials in New York say residents can help out with the clean up by not shoveling the snow from their sidewalks and walks out onto the streets. And good luck with that, city officials.
Switching gears now to a sadder subject. Johnny Carson had pretty much dropped out of sight since its final "Tonight Show" appearance, but all you had to do was watch TV or movies to see his thumbprint on today's entertainers.
CNN's Brooke Anderson has more on his career and the legacy he leaves behind.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED MCMAHON, JOHNNY CARSON SIDEKICK: Here's Johnny!
BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 30 years, Johnny Carson entertained us as the host of "The Tonight Show." The beloved comedian also helped and inspired many of today's most successful entertainers, including funnyman Ray Romano.
RAY ROMANO, ACTOR: I feel like he is a big factor in me having any success at all here. I mean he was an inspiration for me even to get into standup.
ANDERSON: Romano's sentiments were matched by a number of Carson's longtime friends and contemporaries, including Joan Rivers.
JOAN RIVERS, COMEDIAN: We all started on his show. I mean that was the era of Cosby. Bill Cosby started on his show and George Carlin started on his show and I started and David Brenner and Seinfeld. I mean there was a whole group of us that all came up first time ever out on the Carson show, and that was terrific and amazing. Jay Leno, Gary Shandling, I mean every solid comedian today.
ANDERSON: Another late night mainstay, David Letterman, also remembers the impact Carson had on his career saying -- quote -- "we will not see the likes of him again. He gave me a shot on his show and in doing so, he gave me a career. A night doesn't go by that I don't ask myself, what would Johnny have done?"
JOHNNY CARSON, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": You're the kind of crowd that would sneak into the Oval Office and pop a paper bag.
(LAUGHTER)
ANDERSON: Fans, too, are feeling the loss of the comic giant.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's really sad to see somebody that was such a professional person that had really true family values pass away.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The few times I got to stay up late, got to watch him on TV. I think he's really a big part of history.
ROMANO: He had the humanity, the warmth and he could also be biting and cutting and funny. So, we're going to miss him, yes. We lost a great guy.
CARSON: I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight.
ANDERSON: Brooke Anderson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: And we still want to hear from you this morning, what is your favorite Johnny Carson memory? Send us your e-mails, DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
And be sure to tune in tonight for a very special "LARRY KING LIVE," longtime friend and sidekick Ed McMahon joins Larry with stories and thoughts about Johnny Carson.
Ukraine's new president makes the obligatory visit to Moscow, but his heart and his intentions are clearly elsewhere. Our Ryan Chilcote has that in four minutes.
And got the stomach for playing the stock market? Ali Velshi tests your risk tolerance coming up in eight minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: First stop, Moscow. Inaugurated yesterday as Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko is arriving in Moscow at this hour. He'll meet with the Russian leader who backed his opponent in the Ukrainian election.
CNN's Ryan Chilcote reports live from the Russian capital today.
Hello -- Ryan.
RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, Ukraine is the most recent eastern European country -- the most eastern of the European countries, really, to publicly pursue integration with the West, to say that it wants to join NATO, that it wants to join the E.U.
And the Ukrainian president is coming here on his first full day in office as the Ukrainian president to Moscow, really, to the East, to a part of the world that Ukraine, basically, for the last millennium, has identified itself with, to say look, does not have to happen our movement towards the West at the expense of Ukrainian- Russian relations. And he is expected to pursue a very constructive dialog with the Russians here today.
Remember that during the so-called "Orange Revolution" that brought Viktor Yushchenko into power and led to his inauguration just yesterday in Kiev, the Russians talked a lot about their fears that some countries were trying to draw new lines of division in Europe. Well I think Viktor Yushchenko is here today to say it doesn't have to be that way -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Ryan, I just wanted to follow up on the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko and if there was anything new to that or if he would -- he probably won't bring that up with Putin today.
CHILCOTE: No, he is highly unlikely to bring that up with the Russian president today. And in fact, he has never actually accused the Russian -- publicly accused the Russians of being behind that poisoning. He has suggested that perhaps members of Ukraine's own security services were behind it, but the Ukrainian president himself has never said that the Russians were behind it. However, some of the people in his team have kind of hinted at that.
But in terms of his health, his team says that he is healthy, despite the fact that his face was very disfigured back in September by that dioxin poisoning. And they say that he just needs to continue his medication that will lead to the recovery of his face. But in terms of his general health that he's feeling OK now -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Ryan Chilcote, live in Moscow today, thank you.
Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:40 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
A suicide car bombing in Baghdad wounds at least 12 people, most of them police officers. The attack happened at a police checkpoint near the headquarters of the interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's political party.
He tugged at his tie, rocked back on his heels and became a TV legend. Emphysema has claimed the life of Johnny Carson. He was 79. Carson hosted "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years.
In money news, you can get some credit for shopping at Wal-Mart. The world's biggest retailer is teaming up with Discover Financial Services. They plan to issue a new credit card to Wal-Mart customers.
In culture, noted writer William Safire offers up his final op-ed column for "The New York Times" today. Safire has written more than 3,000 columns for "The Times" over the past 30 years, but he'll still write his popular "On Language" column that appears Sundays in "The Times."
In sports, Tiger is back. Woods captured his first stroke play title in 16 months with a three-shot win at the Buick Invitational. Weather forced Tiger and the others to play more than 30 holes on the final day.
To the Forecast Center now and, Rob, good morning.
MARCIANO: Good morning.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.
Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.
Investing in your retirement, it can be risky business on a roller-coaster stock market. Some people get motion sickness, others get an adrenaline rush, but just how much risk are you willing to take? There is a way to find out.
More from DAYBREAK contributor Ali Velshi.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think about retirement all of the time.
ALI VELSHI, CNN DAYBREAK CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Do you have a financial strategy?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trying to meet with a retirement planner, talk with my wife, try to predict what you can't predict about the future.
VELSHI: He's right, you can't predict the future, but you can figure out your risk tolerance. It's a gauge of how comfortable you are making investments, not which stocks to buy.
PRAN TIKU, PEAK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: People spend too much time trying to figure out what stock to buy. Most important answer is how much of your assets should be in stocks or bonds or cash or the combination of all three.
VELSHI: Financial advisor Pran Tiku devised a simple test that tells you your risk tolerance and matches it with the right mix of investments. It's four basic multiple-choice questions. You get a different number of points depending on your answer.
So let's get started.
First question, how old are you? Under 45, give yourself five points; between 45 and 65 years old, three points and over 65, one point.
Question two, when do you expect to begin making withdrawals from your portfolio? If you'll need the money in more than seven years, that's five points. In less than seven years, three points. And if you're already using the money, that's worth one point.
Question three, once you start making withdrawals, what percent do you expect to withdrawal each year? If you think you'll need only a small amount, say less than 2 percent, that's five points. Between 2 and 7 percent a year, three points. And more than 7 percent of your portfolio, that's one point.
Final question, given a choice of the following portfolio, which one would you choose? A portfolio that returned 10 percent a year but had a high amount of risk, that's five points. A moderately risky portfolio returning about 7 percent a year, that's three points. Or a portfolio that carried a low rate of risk but returned only 5 percent, that's just a point.
And that's it, add it up and see what you have. Tiku says a score between 16 and 20 gives you a high-risk tolerance, a portfolio that's 80 percent stocks and 20 percent bonds. A score between 10 and 15 means moderate risk tolerance, your portfolio might be 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds. And if your total is between 4 and 9, you're conservative and probably will hold more bonds than stocks.
Once you know your risk tolerance, you can begin to create an investment plan that will take you from here to here.
Ali Velshi, CNN, New York.
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COSTELLO: Still to come, doctors in Asia fear an explosion in tsunami-ravaged areas, an explosion of deaths or people stricken with debilitating infections. Atika Shubert visits "Tetanus City."
From New York, this is DAYBREAK for Monday, January 24.
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COSTELLO: Could be a messy morning commute for many of you in the northeast. I think it will be a messy morning commute. This weekend's massive blizzard has left more than two feet of snow in some spots. People also grappling with gusty winds, icy roads. How are they making out?
Well, let's visit New Hampshire and the WOKQ Waking Crew, Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier serve the Portsmouth and Manchester areas.
Good morning.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH AND MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH AND MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good morning -- Carol.
COSTELLO: OK, we're looking for inches, how many inches?
ERICSON: Manchester checks in with 15 inches of snow. Along the seacoast of New Hampshire, a little bit, a little bit worse. This was really more of a coastal event. The cape and the islands of Massachusetts got hit real nasty. Seacoast New Hampshire, depending upon where you were, 18 to about 24 inches along the coastline.
CARRIER: And depending on which snow drift you actually measured as well.
ERICSON: And it's blowing all over the place, even still this morning.
COSTELLO: I bet it is. Is a state of emergency still in effect?
ERICSON: A state of emergency is in effect for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The state of New Hampshire is doing OK at the moment. Manchester Airport managed to stay open, although not an awful lot of flights. Logan in Boston is shut down. Amtrak for the whole northeast corridor is running on a reduced schedule this morning. But we're getting through it all. Lots of school closing and delays this morning, but everyone's in a good mood because the Patriots won.
COSTELLO: You're not kidding, what a great game. They just like stomped on the Steelers.
CARRIER: That was a lovely slaughter, wasn't it? The biggest loss they have suffered all season long, I tell you. Yes, 41-20. I mean come on, you had no chance.
ERICSON: Somebody's a fan, do you think -- Carol?
COSTELLO: I think so. You know I really actually wanted the Steelers to win, but as "The New York Times," the headline says, Beautiful Mind Trumps a Steele Chin,...
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: ... which means that Belichick just outsmarted Cowher.
CARRIER: Well you know just watching Roethlisberger, though, he just -- the team itself, they did not have a rhythm. They could not get into a rhythm and maybe that was Belichick. Maybe the defense was just really reading each play.
COSTELLO: Well you know that terrible call by Bill Cowher where it was fourth and one and they went for it, didn't get it.
ERICSON: Yes.
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: Bettis fumbled the ball.
CARRIER: No.
COSTELLO: The Patriots recovered and went back. I think we're seeing it right here. Went back for a touchdown. That was bad.
CARRIER: Did you see...
COSTELLO: I mean because the Patriots were only up by three.
CARRIER: I know. I know. It was fantastic. It was a great game. It was a great game. You know they are a tough team. They were a tough team mentally. They are a very physical team and Patriots just met that challenge.
COSTELLO: They certainly did.
ERICSON: And on the plus side, the everyone staying home to watch the game on TV helped the public works crews get the roads cleared because nobody was out.
CARRIER: That too. That too. Yes, absolutely.
COSTELLO: Absolutely. Danielle and Mark, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning. ERICSON: Thank you.
COSTELLO: We appreciate it.
We're going to take a short break. We'll be back with much more on DAYBREAK.
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COSTELLO: You're e-mails are quite enjoyable this morning. I was just reading a couple.
But first, before I read them back to you, we have "Health Headlines" for you this morning.
There could be another use for Viagra. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the impotence drug might also treat a potentially deadly heart condition. Tests show Viagra blocked and even reversed abnormal heart growth in mice. Similar tests are planned on people.
No ruling yet on the Morning After pill, the FDA has delayed a decision on whether to OK over-the-counter sales of the anti-pregnancy drug called Plan B. That's prompted a women's group to sue. Barr Pharmaceuticals wants to sell the pill without a prescription to females aged 16 and older.
President Bush plans to boost global AIDS funding, but critics say it's still not enough. Administration sources say the president will propose more than $3 billion for the next year to fight the spread of AIDS. But AIDS activists say he should commit more than twice that.
It has been almost a month since the earthquake and tsunamis devastated south Asia. The death toll has climbed to more than 220,000. But thanks to the world's quick response, a massive outbreak of disease has not happened.
But as CNN's Atika Shubert reports from Indonesia, the threat is still there.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hamdami (ph) used to sell peanuts. Now he picks through the wreckage collecting aluminum, iron and copper wire, about $3 worth a day. He clambers through the wreckage with nothing but rubber slippers on his feet, oblivious to the risk of disease.
His protection, garlic rubbed on his hands and feet, that and his faith in God, he says, will save him. It's been several days of this work and lifting dead bodies, too, but nothing has happened to me, and I don't think it will. This is a test from God. He is saying if you survive the tsunami, you have no need to be afraid of anything else, he says.
Garlic or no garlic, Hamdami is in more danger than he thinks.
(on camera): This is the perfect breeding ground for tetanus bacteria. It takes about 30 to 60 days for symptoms to show, and it's been about a month since the tsunami struck. Doctors now fear an explosion of cases.
(voice-over): Aid workers call this "Tetanus City" a makeshift hospital ward overflowing with patients stricken with the classic signs of tetanus, lock jaw and debilitating muscle spasms.
DR. YIM CHIK FOO, SINGAPORE: So this is the best (ph) case we have here.
SHUBERT: This patient can no longer breathe on his own. Meals force fed through his clenched jaws. Untreated, tetanus kills roughly a quarter of those infected. The only cure is the body's own defenses.
FOO: The only thing we can do is wait. And what we are trying to do is prevent all the complications, the respiratory failure, the (INAUDIBLE) VT. And in the meantime, we're trying to feed them and prevent them from getting any worse.
SHUBERT: Most contracted tetanus in the tsunamis rolling black waters, suffering deep cuts and gashes that became infected with mud. But the next residents of tetanus city may be people like Hamdami hoping to scrape together a living but risking death by disease.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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COSTELLO: In the next hour of DAYBREAK, does gloomy weather have you feeling blue? Well one scientist says he has a mathematical equation to explain why January 24 is the most depressing day of the year. That makes me depressed just thinking about it.
And we'll tell you what's moving the markets this morning. A high stakes game in the business world with suspicion of espionage and military secrets between the U.S. and China.
You are watching DAYBREAK.
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COSTELLO: Johnny Carson's career spanned more than his 30 years on "The Tonight Show." But it's those years that I think we all remember best. Whether it's the Carnac routine was so funny or an appearance by an animal act. What was your most memorable Carson moment? We're asking you for your opinion of that this morning. DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We have some to read right now.
And, Rob, we've been getting a lot of them.
MARCIANO: Yes, and some of them are pretty funny. A lot of them you go, yes, I remember that one, too, so.
COSTELLO: Exactly. Go ahead and read some that you have.
MARCIANO: All right, I've got a short one here that I can read through.
My favorite Johnny Carson moment was when he imitated Willie Nelson by singing "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" with Julio Iglesias. And that's from Houston, Texas. I think I remember that bit.
What do you have -- Carol?
COSTELLO: This is from Charlie (ph) from Kent, Washington. He says my most memorable moment was the George Gobel tuxedo and brown shoes comment with Dean Martin and Bob Hope on the show. I distinctly remember falling off my chair from laughing so hard.
MARCIANO: I've got one involving Dolly Parton again. I'm just reading. When Dolly Parton was on the show, she made a comment that she had been offered money from "Playboy" to do a pictorial, and she declined. And Johnny said, well hey, I'll give a month's pay just to take a peek.
COSTELLO: You know, but he delivers the lines so much more funny than we can.
MARCIANO: Yes, and more classy, too, I must say.
COSTELLO: We got a lot of this. This is from Bret (ph). He's from Wyoming. He says my favorite Carson moment was the Ed Ames tomahawk toss. As I remember, it had the longest sustained laugh at over three minutes. Lots of people saying the same thing this morning.
MARCIANO: Nice.
COSTELLO: It's very nice.
Let me read just one more because...
MARCIANO: OK.
COSTELLO: ... some people wrote in with quite eloquent comments. This is from Neal Armstrong (ph). I don't think it's the astronaut, but he's from Mooresville, North Carolina. I married my wife the day after Carson's final show. Needless to say that the entire wedding party spent the day before celebrating at a local hotel. However, at 11:35, everyone got together to watch the final Carson. We probably celebrated that as much as my upcoming wedding. Whenever people ask me how long I've been married, I tell them as long as Johnny Carson has been off the air.
MARCIANO: Wow, that's a good one.
COSTELLO: Thank you for your comments this morning. MARCIANO: I remember that show. The way he sat on that stool and gave his goodbye speech was classy again.
COSTELLO: And he had tears in his eyes and Bette Midler was there.
MARCIANO: But he held it together nicely.
COSTELLO: Next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.
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