0 airport. we also want to show video that we took. 10:00 a.m. eastern when it's just coming down. you can see how difficult it is to deal with in the bronx. 11 inches, long island, nassau county, 4.7 inches, here in central park, 9.5 inches. laguardia reporting 706 cancel algss today. jfk, 328 cancellations and newark, 658. so, of course, we know that is going to spread into tomorrow, the valentine's day week end. so call ahead and bring your patience. >> call ahead, that's for sure. all right. laura, thank you very much. so as we were just talking about, this nasty weather has made a mess. airport, around 6,000 flights across the united states have been canceled so far. and more than 1500 are experiencing some kind of delay. a long weekend for presidents' day, we've got a lot of folks saying this is a nightmare. >> it's extremely frustrating. they gave a call. but it wasn't a human being that called me. i couldn't talk to them about it. the worst part about it was i couldn't reach them when i finally did receive them they gave me exactly the wrong information. >> it could be a day or two, they're saying before things get back to normal. rich is live at reagan national airport. hi, rich. >> reporter: hi, martha, passengers keep showing up but they're not going anywhere. both runways were closed here at dulles. and they just opened up the first runway of the day over of the last hour. there are passenger, waiting to get on later flights. the airlines are saying maybe later today they can start flying out of reagan national airport but not so, so far. when you look now what the cancellations are around the country. not just here in washington. 6400 cancellations. that's a record for 2014 nationwide. hartsfield-jackson, atlanta, and you head out to dca, laguardia, hundreds of cancellations nationwide here. and it does take days for the system to work out. even if they do open up the runways, airlines are going to have to bring the planes back in. a lot of them didn't fly them in because they didn't want to get stuck. for passengers here, well, they say, it's just a mess. >> we got here early like they asked us to so -- and when we got here, the flight had been canceled but they didn't notify us. >> i got here about 7:30, headed to houston but they rebookeded me for tomorrow morning so i'm waiting. >> 15 minutes after i got on the plane, they called my home to tell me that the plane was canceled here. >> reporter: plenty of lost productivity to the economy in this one. we don't have any numbers for the storm yet because it's still going on, a company called mass flight said all dlats we had last month cost passengers $2.5 billion, both in rebooking flights, loft productivity, all of that. it really does hit the economy when it takes days to work out of the this mess. >> rich, thank you very much. so you know where it's not that cold? sochi. forecasters predicting highs in the mid-60s at the winter olympics right now. currently under way, with all of the ski events sneend boarding. so weird, right, that it's so warm there and so awful and snowy here. it's not expected to cool down until saturday at the earliest. the events include slopestyle skiing still on schedule. so the weather's miserable and it's also turning deadly in some cases in britain because a man was killed and thousands more left without power as high winds at tiles gusting over 100 miles per hour battered western england and wales. much of that area is under severe flood warning. they have had a very difficult winter there. they had really heavy rains this month, following the wettest january that they have seen in nearly 250 years. tough times across the pond. and new on obamacare today, health and human supervises secretary kathleen sebelius insists that president obama was not aware of any of the problems with the website. prior to the launch, remember that? so there's a new report out that raises some questions about how that claim could possibly be true. the hill newspaper got ahold of the visit recordings and is reporting that kathleen sebelius met with the president 18 times in the year that led up to the rollout of obamacare. so what were they talking about is the question. tom bevan is executive editor of realtor policy. hi, tom. how are you doing? >> i'm doing fine. did they meet a lot, not meet a lot. hhs says, oh, yes, she goes there all the time. she has lots of meetings with white house officials but she kept claiming that the president had not been aware of these issues. how could this be the case? she met with valerie jarrett. what's going on? >> look, it seems unlikely, unless she didn't want to tell the president and kept it from him that things were going badly. she claims to have been surprised by how badly it was going. she testified she thought things were on track and things were going well. it's hard to speculate on that, martha, but it certainly seems somewhat implausible. >> we have that sound from kathleen sebelius talking about the new numbers that have just rolled out, too. i think the answer as to whether or not they met just is not relevant anymore because they feel like the website issues have been sorted out. and here's what kathleen sebelius had to say about that. >> this afternoon, with the benefit of a full month of january data, we're able to pants a more holistic picture of enrollment today and it's very, very encouraging news. >> it's holistic and it's very, very encouraging. what does that mean in terms of markers and how they're meeting their numbers on this, tom? >> kathleen sebelius reports 1.1 million people in the exchanges and state-based exchanges in the month of january which they're touting a great number. it's one of those things. it depends how you slice the data, obviously. health and human service they were representing that data the first three months. obviously, they didn't sign up anybody in the month of november. very few. in december, 1.8348 people. they're trying to paint a story that enrollments are surging and yet enrollments were down versus december, by 560,000 people. it looks like they're short of the target by the end of march and by how much. and what sort of story they'll be able to paint when that final deadline kicks in. >> and they need money -- i mean, they need to have money that has poured into the coffers to support this program. and none of this really answers that question in terms of how many of these people have actually paid, right? >> well, we don't know that. there are estimates that maybe 20% of the folks haven't actually paid. they just selected something online. the other problem, martha, that came out, they don't have the mix of people in these exchanges that they want. >> yeah. >> the benchmark that they were looking for, they wanted young people, people basically from 18 to 34 years old to represent about 30% to make the exchanges viable and moving forward. right now, that number's about 25%. in fact, you've got 1 in 3 people who have signed up for the exchanges thus far are over 55 years old. over half are over 45 years old. they're not getting the mix they want and that could be a big problem down the road. >> tom, we'll see. thanks a lot. >> thanks. so when president obama decides he wants something done he said he will go ahead and do it with executive power with his pen and his phone, he will get around congress. the question has been asked, how do you feel about that? results of a brand-new poll on fox news coming up. also this dramatic new video of the sun. isn't that cool to look at. it is all part of a big solar celebration that nasa's having. more of that when we come back. and lots of extra thrills for folks on one of the biggest roller coasts in the country. a nerve-racking ordeal. getting stuck way up high. and then it gets worse when a storm rolls in. 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all right. let's do it now. let's take a look at some of this, tim keane is one of them. has invested in kinder morgan which is say company that directly wants to build a pipeline that would be in competition with this and makes people say, oh, maybe that's the reason that he's opposed to keystone. >> well, the poster child for all of this is obama-supporter warren buffett who invested heavily in railroads to shipping oil out of the willason basin. and railroading oil skyrocketed from 10 million barrels to 150 to 10 million barrels. they feel very threatened. warren buffett is a big obama supporter, they lose a lot that this pipeline which is safer than rail goes through. >> this is cherry-picking because 230 republicans -- 254 members in total, in congress, support the pipeline, let me give you the number, took $37.3 million in career campaign contributions from oil and gas companies. if you want to talk about a couple cherry-picked democrats. i'm not here to defend democrats. overwhelmingly, republicans in the pockets of oil and gas, are the ones supporting this. >> we got to leave it there. we'll take a quick break. and we'll be right back.