since he got into office. what about her in terms of confirmation? is there anything in her past that could come up, david? sorry. i didn t know who that was to. there s nothing i m aware of that could come up. as you know, in these confirmation hearings, things present themselves that have not been in the public record. there s no immediate confirmation that she s not confirmable. he ll see as the hours develop if something does emerge. abby, you heard anything? reporter: not that i ve heard of at the moment. as david just mentioned, this is the beginning of that process. what i will say is picking a veteran of the agency is an important thing that the president decided to do today. you just mentioned, he s been attacking the intelligence agencies since the very beginning of his administration. there is a huge issue of whoever leads the cia needs to be able to keep the morale up in that building. i think by choosing someone who is already there, who is a
end of last year this change was going to happen and pompeo was going to be the guy. there were reports he was talking to a lot of people, getting himself ready. what s going to be very different is the public facing aspect. he has to be the diplomat in chief. pompeo is reasonably well prepared for this. he had a lot of time in congress before taking on the cia job. the president gets someone who is closer to his own views and beliefs on virtually every issue. rex tillerson was on the opposite side from the president. he wanted to stay in the paris climate accord, in the transpacific partnership. he wanted to afr vovoid a meltd between saudi arabia and qatar. time and again he was on the other side of the fence. now the president gets someone much more in line with his own thinking. it s interesting, david chalian, we re getting reporting in house that on friday the president approached tillerson about this.
russia, she s saying we re not saying so yet. why does this white house go so far to be quiet about this country and this man, vladimir putin. russia helped the president. russia has long invested in donald trump. he s invested in the russians. i think that s the simplest answer that is oftentimes the correct one. you believe on some level this is a quid pro quo, or do you think trump just believes the issue has been so politicized, he can t go after russia now because it will expose he should have been doing it all along. whether he was working with him wittingly or unwittingly before the election is irreleva irrelevant. the end result is the same, e s drawn us close to an adversary. he can t attribute an attack in the middle of the town square to the russians. he can t impose sanctions, can t say a bad thing about a brutal dictator. whether he worked with him or not, it s hurting america and hurting our ability to have a
need to prevent a drought from happening. back to you. wow. that s unbelievable. that would be a lot of water and it still wouldn t be enough. thank you very much. for more, let s bring in caitlin roth with wtfx in philadelphia. you just heard domtalking, and i mentioned, too, what s happening in oregon tonight. that ice storm on top of, what, 8, 9 inches of snow? that s right. we had a record amount of snow for seattle last night. we have the ice issue in portland, and then the rain and flooding in the bay area. so we ll zoom in, showing a lot of rain moving into northern california. we re happy to see them get rain, but it s too much too soon on such dry land. that s why we have the flooding concerns. persistent onshore flow, eureka, redding, the higher elevations in the mountains, heavy snow. we have winter storm warnings in effect for the mountains for
coming down right now. in some spots, a total accumulation map will pick up 1 foot of snow. the next map is farther to the south. it is the ice issue. at least .75 of an inch of ice in some spots. last i heard, almost 1/2 million people without power from maryland to new york and new jersey, because of the power lines being weighed down by the ice. the ice has been falling all night long. it is getting heavy. the trees are getting heavy. it wants to bring the power lines down. it is going to take some time to get the power lines back up, carol. chad meyers, many thanks. we were hoping to go to ted rowlands but as a sign of how nasty the weather is, he is bogged down in a nightmare morning commute. here is ted s report on the brutal winter.