Dickey tells us what is in store. Good morning, john and diana. Tracking a large storm system that will drift its way east as we head through the day. Two areas of heavy snow expected. Today into tonight from chicago into the ohio valley. Overnight through thursday night, some heavy snow across Northern Virginia into the midatlantic. Accumulations through today, a stripe of 6 to 12 inches from the twin cities toward chicago. With heavy snow again in central and Northern Virginia through thursday morning. John and diana, back to you. Our extreme weather team is tracking the storms every move. Theyll bring you the latest on good morning america. New developments now on north Koreas Nuclear program. China, the norths closest ally, has joined the u. S. In agreeing to new sanctions over last months nuclear test. The u. N. Security Council Meets later today. Secretary of state john kerry has tough words for iran over its nuclear program. Traveling in the region, he says time is running out f
The issue of paying down the debt. Theyre determined to protect the wealthiest of the wealthy. How much more money are they going to steal from the government . Im for no more. Still with half the cuts aimed at the pentagon, there are still some lawmakers ready to deal. I stand ready to put everything on the table to prevent what could be in the words of the departing secretary of defense a devastating blow to our ability to defend this nation. But as of today, the cuts will be the law of the land until congress and the white house are willing to compromise. Now, the most noticeable change is that federal agencies will have to notify workers with 30 days notice that theyre going to be furloughed. That could give members of congress a little more leeway to come up with plan to reverse these cuts before they do too much damage to the economy. Annemarie . Susan mcginnis in washington, thank you. Military leaders are warning of the dire consequences the budget cuts will have on this nation
Table and now asking for new revenue. Woodward says the white house is trying to shut him down. The white house says thats just not true. Now the exchange is becoming heated. Veteran Journalist Bob Woodward isnt backing down in his criticism of the obama white house. On fox news thursday night, woodward again described a testy phone call last month with the president s economic adviser, gene sperling. It was a half hour in which he was shouting at me. Reporter all week, woodward has complained that sperling crossed the line, in suggesting via email that woodward would regret reporting that president obama moved the goalpost in the sequester fight. He said that im going to regret, you know, thats thats that goes into the coded, you know, you better watch out. Reporter the white house denies there was any kind of threat thursday, pointing to a leaked email that sperling sent to woodward after they talked. Quote, i apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today, but as a friend,
Friday, january 15th, tgif. Im shiba russell. The main stage at the sixth Republican Debate had seven podiums. But the biggest moments were between number one and number two. Donald trump and ted cruz sparred over constitutional eligibility, in rather personal terms, marking an end to their friendly competition. Donald said that he had had his lawyers look at this from every which way. And there was no issue there. There was nothing to this birther issue. Now since september, the constitution hasnt changed. But the poll numbers have. But i would note that the birther theories that donald has been relying on, some of the more extreme ones, insist that you must not only be born on u. S. Soil, but have two parents born on u. S. Soil under that theory, not only would i be disqualified, marco rubio would be disqualified, bobby jindal would be disqualified, and interestingly enough, donald j. Trump would be disqualified. Because because donalds mother was born in scotland. She was naturalize