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Paul Walker Autopsy Report Released; Winter Wallop; Doctor Missing

Aired January 03, 2014 - 15:00   ET

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ALEXANDRA STEELE, CNN METEOROLOGIST: We could see an historic subzero stretch below zero from Sunday to Wednesday. And what's most dramatic is this temperature drop we're going to see, between Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Minneapolis, high temperature Monday, Brooke, 14 below, low, straight air temperature, 27.

And you won't believe when I show you the temperature drops from Boston and to New York. How about a 35-degree drop?

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Ooh.

I will tell you what days those are going to happen. Unbelievable, even colder than what we have got right now.

BALDWIN: OK. We will talk. Let's talk here about Boston.

Let's go to our correspondent there, Margaret Conley, who is surrounded by shovelers and snow and people's cars. I don't know how they're going to get them out there.

Tell me how much snow you're seeing.

MARGARET CONLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, we have seen up to two feet of snow in parts of Massachusetts.

You can see people shoveling. They have been out since the early hours this morning, all the way down the street, shoveling piece by piece. You can see them all the way down on this side as well. When we talked to the Department of Transportation earlier this morning, there were 3,399 snow plows on the street. They have the capacity of having 4,000.

That compares to about 1,000 yesterday. You can see how much snowfall has come down. But the big issue right now is the windchill. There's a windchill advisory until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. But it's also -- there's been declared a holiday today, or there's no school in Boston, as we can see from Josh here. This is how he's been spending his day.

BALDWIN: Oh. So cute.

CONLEY: And we also have some -- we also have some very, very friendly neighbors. Carly (ph), we will show you a picture here, brought over some chocolate chip cookies and some hot chocolate from her aunt Helen. We can't show you the actual cookies because we have actually finished them all. BALDWIN: Eaten them all?

CONLEY: Yes, exactly. And the last part of good news here in Boston is that Logan seems to be up and running again. The flights, they had stopped until noon again, but we have seen them taking off and landing from where we are -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: Margaret, do me a favor. Have your photojournalist go back over to the little guy and his puppy. Keep sledding. If there's snow, if he doesn't have to be in school, let's just continue to show this just because it's fun and we love Boston. Margaret, thank you.

We will stay on that picture, and we will show you a couple other pictures as well, including New York City, specifically, that the blizzard warning in Long Island has gone away, but not the snow, as you will see with my friend Brian Stelter, our media correspondent, who is braving the elements for us today.

And , Brian Stelter, how is this covering snow? How is this going for you?

BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: This has been great today. You know, I'm a little chilly. I'm on my fourth pair of socks today. But I have no complaints.

BALDWIN: Wow.

STELTER: The sun is out. I did say something on air earlier that I was wrong about. I said it was too cold to sled. And I was wrong. We stumbled upon a school where there were dozens of children and parents out sledding. You know, it's not necessarily the best conditions for sledding.

BALDWIN: Look at everyone.

STELTER: Because you do have the wind gusts that pick up 10, 15, sometimes 40 miles per hour with these gusts. It does blow the snow around. You know, I live in Manhattan. I don't get to go sledding, so I couldn't resist. I had to hop on once or twice out there.

Two times is pretty much as long as I was going to go, given how cold it is, but -- and my form wasn't very good.

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BALDWIN: Where is the Brian Stelter on a sled video? Do we have this?

STELTER: Well, maybe. It may be coming. Actually, it would save me a lot of embarrassment if we don't have it.

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BALDWIN: Oh, here you are. Here you go, with the microphone in hand.

(CROSSTALK) STELTER: You see my form is not the best. I did take a spill. I'm going to have to practice. Maybe I will have to buy my own sled.

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BALDWIN: Look at that little girl. She was coming to your aid.

STELTER: She did. She picked it up, carried it back up to her dad, and, you know, maybe in February or March, we will get another one of these storms and I can try again.

BALDWIN: All right, Brian Stelter, nice work. Good talking to you today.

Speaking of all these different parts and then getting around, maybe not necessarily on a sled, but if you would like to hop on an airport, let's talk about the airports, air traffic, New York airports. You have JFK. We can tell you at this hour two runways are open. La Guardia slowly moving passengers in and out.

Poppy Harlow is there with the update and the long lines -- Poppy.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Long lines.

Hey, Brooke. I thought I was the lucky one on this assignment because somehow I didn't end up in feet of snow, but I think Stelter is having more fun, frankly, out there than we are in here.

BALDWIN: I think so.

HARLOW: Because, look, I think he might have gotten the better assignment on this one.

But I want to show you the line and then we're going to talk to some folks. This is actually a huge improvement. This is the line at American Airlines in the terminal, stretches all the way down and around. Folks have been waiting in line for hours. But guess how much worse it was? All the way down here, past the food court, around the corner. That was this morning.

Things are better. But the number of flights canceled, come with me. We're going to talk to Mohammed (ph). He's trying to get back to Kansas City. The number of flights cancels, 2,465 today alone. That's more than were canceled yesterday.

Mohammed, my friend, you're trying desperately to get back to Kansas. And?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And it got canceled.

HARLOW: Oh.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The only flight that's possible right now is after three days, after Sunday, to Dallas.

HARLOW: Three days. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I have to stay the night in Dallas there, and get up in the morning to get to Wichita, Kansas, which is -- I'm trying to get there.

HARLOW: And, by the way, his father is coming from overseas to try to meet the family. You're traveling with your sisters. You're (AUDIO GAP) this morning (AUDIO GAP) three hours. Do you think you will have any luck getting on something before the weekend is over? And if not, what do you do? Because I know the airlines aren't paying for hotels.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If they're not paying for hotels, then I have to pay out of my pocket, and hopefully, hopefully I'm going to get there (AUDIO GAP) thinking about people who don't have money, but hopefully I'm good with that. I can call my dad and tell him that I'm going to be late.

HARLOW: Yes, puts it all in perspective. Good luck. We hope you get out of here today or tomorrow at the latest -- Brooke, back to you, but tons and tons of cancellations here. And people, their spirits are high. They're dealing with it the best they can.

BALDWIN: And, Poppy, thank you. You make a great point.

People wondering, why aren't the airlines helping? It's because it's the weather. The airlines can't control the weather. You have to put yourselves up in a hotel. Good point. Poppy Harlow for us in La Guardia.

Let's move Midwest. Just outside of Chicago to Naperville we go to Ted Rowlands, who from what I'm told, from our weather people, my friend, you're experiencing one degree. It's one degree outside where you are.

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, and you know what, Brooke, it feels great because earlier, this morning when we got here, it was 10 degrees below zero. Anything above zero is feeling good.

In fact, you look around here, people are actually walking around. They don't think it's very cold because it has been so cold, or at least this morning it was, and it will be so cold on Monday. Boy, what is coming is going to be horrific. We're talking about 15 below zero for lows, and highs negative six, schools closed, as we mentioned earlier in Minnesota, the entire state, and everybody here is going to enjoy the rest of today and tomorrow as it warms up a little bit and then hunker down and wait for Monday.

BALDWIN: Yes, looks like the cars are moving behind you. That's good news for folks on the roads there in Naperville. Ted, thank you very much. Thanks to all of you who are out and about in the snow for all of us to tell the stories.

Let me switch gears and talk about this developing story here, the Los Angeles County coroner releasing its full autopsy today on Paul Walker. The report paints a grim picture of the actor's death, the actor from "Fast and Furious."

Among the most striking details, the fact that Walker's car was traveling more than 100 miles per hour when it crashed.

CNN digital reporter Alan Duke joins me from Los Angeles.

Alan, first off, a lot of people have this question. Is there any indication Paul Walker or the driver was under any kind of influence of drugs or alcohol?

ALAN DUKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No, no drugs or alcohol detected, according to the autopsy report. You can rule that out.

It was speed, more than 100 miles per hour, on a quiet, wide street, that was -- what was 45 miles per hour speed zone, but just beyond the crash, it turned into 15 miles per hour. They were going over 100 miles per hour when they lost control for an unknown reason. They're not saying how they lost control, at least in this report.

And then they spun around, hit a light post, hit a tree, burst into flames. What we are finding is that it was a very powerful crash. At that speed, hitting those objects, the car was just destroyed.

BALDWIN: But he survived the crash, correct, briefly?

DUKE: Not very long.

BALDWIN: Briefly.

DUKE: This is what is really interesting in the autopsy report is there was very little evidence of soot in their throats or in their tracheas, indicating that they were not breathing very long after the fire started.

In fact, Rodas, his head injuries were so severe, I won't even go into graphic detail because it was really bad. He had a very bad head injury, and he died quickly. And Rodas died soon after the crash. They were both in pugilistic stances, according to the autopsy report. That's a defensive position, suggesting, perhaps, that they were braced for the crash.

It spun around, the car did. And it was a very a very high-powered crash. That's what killed them. Yes, the fire charred their bodies, but before the fire was going, they probably were very, very close to death.

BALDWIN: Yes, gruesome details in that autopsy report. Alan Duke, thank you.

Coming up next, a strange turn in the case of a missing medical student, a 30-year-old last seen in this hotel lobby surveillance video just about a month ago. Well, today, new information about Teleka Patrick has surfaced. A pastor and Grammy-nominated singer has come forward, claiming she was stalking him. We have that for you.

Also, just into CNN, we're getting new details of this agreement between the McMath family and the hospital that's been caring for this teenager. This is the story we have been following so closely. Doctors say this young woman is brain-dead. Family members have been fighting to move her to another hospital, keep her on this ventilator. We will tell you what's just happened in court today next.

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BALDWIN: A glimmer of some bright news in the heartbreaking saga of Jahi McMath. Her family and the California hospital where the 13- year-old became brain-dead have reached an agreement on how she can be moved.

Jahi went in for a tonsillectomy and removal of extra sinus tissue on December 9. Something went so terribly wrong, and the child has been breathing through a ventilator ever since the 12th of last month. The hospital has been calling to remove this ventilator since six medical experts confirmed Jahi is dead, but the family believes Jahi could recover, and they're trying to find a facility that would be willing to care for her.

Let's go to Casey Wian with this new development here today.

Casey, so we know attorneys from both sides have met. What came out of that?

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, as you mentioned, it is kind of a hopeful sign because these two sides have been so bitterly at odds throughout this entire heartbreaking ordeal.

The two sides did meet in Alameda Superior Court today in Oakland, and they reached an agreement after a judge told them to go off and try to work out a deal. They reached an agreement on how Jahi would be transferred if in fact she is transferred to a different facility.

They agreed that the coroner first must sign a document allowing for the release. They also said that and agreed that Jahi's mother must accept full responsibility for this transfer and acknowledge that there is a risk that she could go into cardiac arrest if in fact she is transferred.

The hospital says it will communicate with any facility that is willing to accept Jahi, but that facility must contact the hospital first. Now, there's another issue here in that if she is going to be moved, doctors say she needs a breathing tube, a more permanent breathing tube put in, and a feeding tube. They have not identified, the family yet has not identified a doctor or a facility that will allow that to happen.

They say they have one, but they haven't publicly said who it's going to be. Children's Hospital of Oakland said they will not do the procedures because it's unethical to operate on a dead body, and that's what they consider this young girl to be.

It's even more complicated than that, Brooke. There's another hearing in federal court that is going on any moment, where this federal judge is going to ask these two sides to also get together again and try to work out their differences. So there is some hope that they do have a protocol in place, but we still don't know if this transfer is actually going to happen, Brooke. BALDWIN: So many people are watching this young woman's -- really it's the family's battle. Keep us posted. Casey Wian, thank you very much.

WIAN: Will do.

BALDWIN: The case of a missing doctor in Michigan has taken yet another mysterious turn. CNN affiliate WOOD reports that a Grand Rapids pastor and Grammy-nominated gospel singer has filed a personal protection order against Teleka Patrick, claiming the young doctor was stalking him.

Take a look at this. This is surveillance video, this is from December 5, shows the last time Teleka Patrick was seen. Police say she was later dropped off at her car in a medical center parking lot. Her car, by the way, was later found abandoned in Indiana.

And CNN's Victor Blackwell has been following this one for me today.

So, now, with the news here, does this help police find her?

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we reached out to Kalamazoo Police Department. Thus far, there's no indication that this latest revelation helps them find her, but it's a really bizarre story.

She's been missing now for almost a month. She was supposed to show up at work, didn't show up. There's this bizarre element of these YouTube videos we have seen where she's apparently, or at least it appears she's talking to a lover or a boyfriend. Here's a clip of a couple of those videos.

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TELEKA PATRICK, MISSING (singing): You walked into my life and stopped my tears. Everything's easy now.

It's me. Hi, baby. Good night.

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BLACKWELL: Her mother says that she knows of no romantic interests. Now we know from this personal protective order that quite possibly, those videos were directed toward Marvin Sapp.

BALDWIN: Wow.

BLACKWELL: Now, Marvin Sapp, for people who don't know the name, he's a big deal in the gospel music community. His concerts sell out. He's been nominated for Grammys 10 times.

I actually want to read from the protective order filed in September. He writes, speaking of Teleka Patrick: "She's moved from California to Michigan, joined my church, contacts my children, has been to my home. I have at least 400 pages of correspondence from her which I have never responded to."

Now, we have reached out to Sapp's church. They have no comment.

BALDWIN: What about anything with regard to Teleka Patrick, any issue of mental illness?

BLACKWELL: Yes. Well, you know, the station, our affiliate WOOD there in Grand Rapids, they reached out to her ex-husband. They were married between 2006 and 2011. He says that she was paranoid, that she was distressed, that she heard voices.

Now, he also said that, quite possibly, those voices were not from God, but may have led her to do something that was danger for at least herself in this case. Police have no idea if this is foul play. They have not ruled it out, though, but her family says they have no record of any diagnosis of mental illness, but her husband, at least ex- husband, says that there were voices that she heard.

BALDWIN: Bizarre.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

BALDWIN: Victor Blackwell, thank you.

BLACKWELL: We will stay on it.

BALDWIN: Thank you.

Coming up next: Facebook accused of mining your private messages for information, and selling that to advertisers, but some users are fed up. You know what they have done? Filed suit. How is Facebook responding? We will tell you coming up.

Plus, take a look at this. Wow. This is actress Jane Seymour, folks. She is 62 years young. Wow. That's all I have. Wow. I would love to look like that at 62. She wants to inspire others. She's revealing her health secrets, and I will be surrounded by beauty in this next segment because we will be discussing with model Emme and with housewife Cynthia Bailey coming up next.

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BALDWIN: Have you seen this magazine cover?

Actress Jane Seymour's tiny bikini is creating a big, big buzz. How often do you see a 62-year-old cover girl? Seymour rocked, if I may, a two-piece in the latest issue of "Closer Weekly," which wrote about how she maintains her age-defying figure. No shocker, she exercises, she maintains a healthy diet. She also revealed she used Botox, but quoting from the magazine here, she says: "I tried it and hated it. I will never do it again. For me, it doesn't work because I'm an actor and I need to be able to move every part of my face. I think I am being hired a lot because I haven't done all the stuff everyone else is doing."

With me now, two incredibly lovely ladies. We have actress and supermodel and author Emme is by my side here in studio. Model Cynthia Bailey from the reality show "Housewives" here in Atlanta, so nice to see you.

Hello. Let's begin here with this photo, because I should also maintain, the first question when you see this, you're thinking, hmm, Photoshop? What's going on when you look at this? They say they only did what they call industry standard corrections made.

With that said, can we just agree, Cynthia, I'm going to begin with you, she's obviously doing something right? She's 62 and on the cover of a magazine.

CYNTHIA BAILEY, MODEL: She looks amazing. Even if they did do a little tweaking here and there, she's 62 years old. they had to have something to work with where.

BALDWIN: Emme, what do you think?

EMME, SUPERMODEL: I have the same feeling. What was Photoshopped here? Industry standards, it really depends on how much was sucked in, but truly, there's a great body of work right there.

I love the article where she said, I love everything and I don't diet. Plus, obviously, she has a certain body type that's more ectomorphic -- a little more angular.

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BALDWIN: I wish some of us had the same.

EMME: But she cuts her food in half. She doesn't eat a whole portion of whatever it might be. She does still have her pasta, she does have her fruits and vegetables, but she doesn't deny herself. She just watches her portions.

BALDWIN: You have Jane Seymour. We know Kim Basinger recently signed a modeling contract. Do you think, Cynthia Bailey, do you think America's perception of what is beauty and age is evolving?

BAILEY: I really hope so.

I think we often make the mistake of thinking that younger means looking better. And that's not necessarily true. I mean, I'm 46 years old.

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BALDWIN: Forty-six, and just off a red-eye from Vegas, might I add. And she looks like this.

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EMME: She looks fabulous.

BALDWIN: Looks like this.

BAILEY: And I can give a lot of these 20-, 30-year-olds a run for their money. BALDWIN: Why do you think it's changing, though? Why?

BAILEY: Because I think older -- you know, when you take care of yourself, we're just more relatable. The reality is we're all going to get older. We're all going to get older. And I think that you have to just embrace that.

And, you know, Jane Seymour, this is like ownership. She's owning this, and when you have that kind of confidence to be on a magazine, the cover of a magazine, you know, we all respond to it.

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BALDWIN: Go ahead.

I read where you said social media is influencing our perception. How do you mean, Emme?

EMME: I think there's a lot of business being run through social media. I see -- I think they're taking a look at the metrics just as a baseline bottom, you know, bottom numbers here.

Who is saying what? What are they wanting? What are they needing? I know that a lot of metrics are coming through Twitter, Facebook, how many likes. The discussions, I think a lot of corporations are starting to go, there's a lot of people, a lot of women discussing what they like and what they don't like. We don't want them to have one day during the year to say we're not going to buy any feminine products, we're not going to buy any dresses, we're not going to buy. If we don't listen...

BALDWIN: But let me push back just a little bit. Emme, I will start with you, because when you look at this, it's almost like she has this smoking 28-year-old body with her face.

Her face is lovely as well, but it's not like she's -- she's thin. She is what one would believe would be on the cover of one of these magazines, your quintessential notion of beauty and thinness. Do you think our perceptions really have evolved?

EMME: Great question, really great question, Brooke, because do we want to have other 62-, 63-, 65-year-old women judge themselves to this cover? Absolutely not.

BALDWIN: And 34-year-old women? Myself.

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EMME: But we have to take into consideration once again what God has given her. She is an ectomorph. It's more of an angular body type. She never really had grandiose curves nor has she been very tall. So, she's working what she's gotten to the best of her ability.

BAILEY: Exactly.

(CROSSTALK) BAILEY: You have to realize as well this woman has looked good her whole life. This is just a lot of genetics.

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EMME: But we don't need women in their 60s on the cover of magazines. That's -- once again, we're on this same page of, what do we want to show on the covers of magazines? Do we want to have a nation of women saying, oh, dear God, do I have to go to that extent to be celebrated in my 60s? Absolutely not, but bravo for Jane.

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BALDWIN: I say bravo. I say bravo to her as well.

Let me just end with you. How do you do this?

BAILEY: It takes a village. But a lot of it is genetics, I won't lie.

BALDWIN: Yes.

BAILEY: And, you know, I make an effort to really try to take care of myself. And, you know...

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EMME: I love that you own your hair.

BAILEY: Oh, thank you, thank you.

BALDWIN: Really?

EMME: Well, this is actually a wig, but I do own it. But I like to change it up. I do like to change it up.

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EMME: I embrace getting older. I'm 46. I'm always screaming, I'm 46, I'm 46. And I think I look better at 46 than I did at 26.

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BALDWIN: That's awesome. Cynthia Bailey and Emme, thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate it. Happy new year to all -- both of you.

EMME: Happy new year.

BALDWIN: Coming up next, are you tired of your cell phone carrier? One is offering you $450 to switch, but there's a catch. We will explain that.

Also, let's look outside, shall we? Nice snowplow ready to roll in New York City. The weather there and really across the Northeast is having an impact on flights, as you can imagine. That affects the entire country. We will show you exactly how backed up flights are coming up next. You're watching CNN.

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