it is the first significant snowfall of the season there. on the west coast blizzard conditions in the sierra nevada mountains, a whiteout shutting down more than 70 miles of interstate 80. portland, oregon looking at several inches through tonight. chad myers has the forecast. chad, who is getting the worst of it today? up state and also interior new england, but we are going to see slick spots around new york and boston, i-95 still going to see the potential for some slick roadways for today. otherwise just kind of a pretty landscape out there with the snow coming down. 3 inches in most of the areas here, a little less in central park. it was a slushy mess, raining, snowing, 33 degrees so it didn t really pile up all that much. but outer suburbs, some spots looking at 6 inches out your window this morning. not much more left. probably an inch or two and then it is just about done. next storm system coming onshore in the pacific, an awful lot of snow for the sierra. they w
top fox executive rupert murdoch under oath admitted election lies peddled on his network were simply a business decision, saying, quote, it is not red or blue, it is green. what else did murdoch admit? plus, when winning the battle does not end the danger. cnn treks across a booby tracked land littered with mines in ukraine. but first, the supreme court on the record. hear what the justices said about president biden s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, and whether biden even remotely has the authority to do so. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re starting today in the money lead in fate of president biden s plan to wipe out $400 billion, that s b with a billion now rests with the supreme court. justices today heard oral arguments in two cases challenging biden s plan. the biden administration argued yeah, they have the power to forgive financial loans in order to protect americans brought in by the covid pandemic. six republican states and
a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there s some anti-government sentiment. howard: it s a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they d eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn t given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted posted on social media where anyone could see it. so who, exactly, is responsible? more on this ahead with veteran national security reporter glenn greenwald. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ron desan us the just signed a 6-week ban on abortion in florida tweeting out a single picture after 11:00 at night. the governor s quiet move came as a ruling by a federal judge in texas again put
program that he was not timely in notifying the public about his stroke when it occurred just before the primary. nor was he forthcoming about his cardiomite yop thi. and i said he was refusing to debate his opponent in an effort to run out the clock by not agreeing to a debate until many pennsylvanians had already voted. i also defended an nbc reporter criticized noting he had trouble understanding her small talk. basically, i thought the coverage of fetterman was being determined by empathy alone, not objectivity when the facts demanded both. so now comes the news that the junior senator from pennsylvania admitted himself to walter reid medical center on wednesday night for treatment of clinical depression. his office released a statement while saying he experienced depression without tlout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks. he s receiving treatment on a voluntary basis after examining him, the doctors told us that john is getting the care he needs and will so
about his stroke. nor about his cardiomyopathy and need for a pacemaker and he was refusing to debate his opponent in an effort to run out the clock by not agreeing to a debate until many pennsylvanians had already voted. i defended an nbc reporter who was criticized for reporting that fetterman had trouble understanding her small talk before the interview. i thought the coverage was being determined by empathy alone, not objectivity when the facts demanded both. now comes the news from the junior senator admitted himself to walter read on wednesday night for treatment of clinical depression. his office released a statement saying while john was experienced depression on and off throughout his life, it only became severe in rekren weeks, he s receiving treatment on a voluntary basis. we re told that john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. this is fetterman s second hospital in as many weeks. he was recently admitted to george washington university