For Health Care Coverage under president obamas Affordable Health care act before the deadline. Those are some of our top stories on this february 16th president s day. Announcer from abc news this is world news now. Great to be here with you. We begin this half hour with the latest snowstorm to slam the northeast followed by bonechilling cold. Now even more snow is on the way. The dangerous snow and ice is moving in from the south where high winds have already damaged homes in virginia and a state of emergency has been declared in mississippi. Abcs rob marciano is in boston where the snow just keeps coming. Reporter yet another big storm barrelling through new england. Theres a little bit of deja vu all over again in this. This would be our fourth major storm in the past three weeks. Reporter adding even more snow to a record snow pack. Snow drifts up to six feet high on top of this warehouse in seabrook New Hampshire, causing its roof to collapse. Thankfully no one was hurt. The deep
Announcer s from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning on this president s day. Im mara schiavocampo. And im ryan smith. We are in for reena and t. J. I was excited to see the eddie murphy part of that, and let me just say the will farrell part was a little better. What blew me away, kanye wests performance. Im confused and frightened. We have to talk about that. Confused and frightened. Wow. Speaking of frightened, we begin with the brutal weather slamming the northeast. As fast as one storm moves out another blows in. Temperatures are plummeting below zero in boston this morning where another foot of snow led to treacherous whiteout conditions and this massive pileup. More than 20 cars collided on a slick highway. High winds knocked out power to tens of thousands ahead of the new storm expected to dump snow and ice as far as arkansas. We get the latest from abcs gloria riveria. Reporter bostons mayor speechless as the snow continues to fall on his city. I dont know what to s
Were going to begin with the deadly storm marching across the country a. Triple threat bringing snow, wind and rain across new england and the system is already complicating Holiday Plans for millions of americans. Lets get to bill karins for the latest. Bill, if youre heading out the door, whether youre in the east or west, what might you see . Airports. Thats the thing well be watching. Everyone in the west is fine, on any trains. Its the airports across the country that the Ripple Effect from delays in the east will cause. The huge storm is now near new orleans, a huge plume of rain coming up the eastern seaboard. Enough cold air for a little bit of snow and ice in the appalachians, and also up into new england. As far as the airports go today, some of the bigger hubs that will have problems, atlanta, of course, a huge one. Charlotte, raleigh, major delays. Minor delays late today in d. C. , especially dulles and pittsburgh. As we go into wednesday, huge delays at the bigger airport
More fallout from reports the u. S. Spied on the germanys chancellor. Claims say president obama knew about the nsa phone tap and approved it. The u. S. Says its not true. There are reports the eavesdropping started in 2002 before Angela Merkel was lected. This morning elected. This morning the senator called on the nsa to come clean on nsa programs. I think the revelations from snowden and the secrets that have been revealed are damaging our bilateral relationships with germany, with mexico, with the other countries where the suggestion is that we have listened in. I think we have repair work to do, and i think we have hard questions we need to ask of the nsa about what is happening in the program. A much different view from the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. Congressman peter king says america should stop apologising for the nsa. The reality is the nsa saved thousands of lives not just in the United States, but throughout french and germany and europe. The french
Pacquiao. The Islamic State group is beheaded another hostage, this time 44yearold aid worker david haines from the u. K. Well have more on his killing in a moment. But lets bring you up to date with the political goings on in this. The secretary of state is in france where president Francis Hollande is holding a summit on monday. The aim is to coordinate 20 countries willing to fight Islamic State. Australia is sending fighter jets and 600 troops to the United Arab Emirates to help the international coalition. The Islamic State has released a video, showing one of their men beheading the 44yearold british father of two, david haines. He was kidnapped in syria last year, and the death follows the beheading of u. S. Journalist Steven Sotloff this month. He was taken in 2013. And the death of another u. S. Journalist james foley, kidnapped in 2012. The u. S. President barack obama has condemned what he described as a barbaric murder saying appear we are off to erbil in iraq in a moment.