0 destination. the birth control debate, supreme court taking up another challenge to obama care. should employers be forced to provide birth control to employees? the debate is already raging. your new day starts right now. good morning. it is wednesday, november 27, 6:00 in the east. and we hope you have many reasons to be thankful this holiday season, but the weather ain t one of them. a massive nor easter on about as heavy a travel day as we have the day before thanksgiving. just take a look at the size of the storm. it s stretching from georgia all the way up to maine and is expected to get worse before it gets better. we re talking several major airport hubs including new york city, the new york city area, all in the path of the storm. from the mid-atlantic all the way to new england, some of the nation s most heavily traveled highways are also in harm s way. you re about to experience the power and reach of cnn flexing our muscles. we re covering the massive storm and
0 and today we expect 2.4 million, more than a half a million travelers. we have worked with the airlines and airports and are staffed appropriately at the airports to get the volume of people through. triple-a spokesman says 43 million people are going to be traveling this holiday weekend, 91% by car but the others will have to deal with the airports across the country as they fly wherever they re going. steve centanni at reagan national where they have loud music. by the way, the president of the united states was able to fly back to washington before the rotten weather here. he had been busy. he had been out in hollywood. he had three fund-raisers, 19 hours telling hollywood good job out there. started in seattle, san francisco and then over to los angeles. remember when he was too busy wanting to focus on the website healthcare.gov getting it functioning, but apparently this trip was apologize, i said things that didn t turn out to be true. we ll have to correct it. he did
0 are going bankrupt just because they get sick and anybody who is gentleman to keep on pushing against that, they will meet my resistance because i m willing to fix any problems there are, but i m not going to abandon people to make sure they have health insurance in this country. that is not something we will do. i like that. i agree. meanwhile, new polling shows support for professional republicans surging over if botched rollout of obama care. according to a cnn research poll, americans now give republican law makers a slight edge over their democrat colleagues at next year s mid-term elections were held today. that s a 10-point swing from october when democrats were up 50 to 41% and mark halperin, of course, polling is terrible, especially in light of the botched rollout. but more and more you are going to hear about people who can get health care who couldn t and the option otherwise without this law is that we have the health care prices that we have been dealing with for ye
0 just how are businesses trying to get people into their stores thanksgiving evening? well, betty, they re opening, and they re opening earlier than they even did last year. even though just over half of americans say in this latest survey that, yes, they ll get out at some point this weekend and shop, more people than last year plan to stay home. reporter: despite the campers and they started last week, fewer americans plan to shop this weekend compared to last year. i don t shop on thanksgiving. i dedicate that to family. reporter: many large retailers plan to open on thanksgiving day. macy s, target, and sears, along with wal-mart, as early as 8:00 p.m. trying to get a jump on this yoer s shopping season. it s one week shorter this year. you re not going to get the intensity you have on black friday, so they actually might be diluting themselves more by creating this. reporter: in a new deloitte survey half say they ll shop on-line. only one in eight plan to hit the sto
apologies to cp 3 for the accidental kick. check down the thunder fan knocking down the half-court shot to win $20,000! if this looks familiar because it is. cameron rodriguez is the third oklahoma city fan to win big money this year with a shot from midcourt. two fans did it at the end of last season and cameron brought home the big money last night. look! you never get tired of these celebration. i love it! is it easy at half-court in oklahoma city? maybe it s something in the air there in oklahoma city. maybe they are just good, right? it has to be something else. andy, thank you so much. coming up, new video inside the storm as dozens ripped apart homes and communities and lives. indra petersons is live as victims continue to pick up the piece. [ male announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance in sync? try align. it s the number one ge recommended probiotic