columbus circle as you d normally see at this hour. i don t know whether it s smart enough to look out their high-rise windows and say forget about it. also i heard as i was walking over the subway grates. one of those wonderful announcements. to me, i actually could decipher it and it was the trains are really running slowly. so everybody obviously knows what the deal is in new york city. so i usually bring my president s ruler out. there s not a whole lot of point because i m in a plowed area. i did dip over there and i was up to milliard fillmore. we re expecting 15 inches in new york city. here s what i don t get, carol. why are the kids going to school? they didn t cancel school today. i am like my kids are canceled up in connecticut. we re expecting a lot of snow up there, too. and i will tell you this. you know new york city. you lived here. and you know it s not normal for some stranger to walk up to you and say, hi. can i give you a free cup of hot
of snow. 18 states under a winter storm warning. people in new jersey are rushing to stock up on supplies. some say they re ready. i mean, we re all post sandy at this point, post snowstorms. i m a little tired of it. if we are not all prepared at this point for how many storms we have had, shame on everyone. we could all live off our pantry thats point. across the southeast, more snow falling turning roads to skating rinks, trees coated in heavy ice. well, those trees are now falling onto power lines knocking out power. 700,000 homes and businesses in the dark. at least ten deaths have been blamed on the storm. it may be near impossible to escape. 5100 flights are cancelled this morning. one of the hardest hit area, north carolina, now called the new atlanta after drivers ign e ignored warnings and got stuck on the highways for hours. trying to get home.
n in addition again them. especially mcconnel. he responded to this. could this hurt mcconnel and other republicans in the midt m midterms? sure, absolutely. both of these men as i said have primary opponents. mitch mcconnel looks at this point he s at greatest risk from the democrat in the fall than the primary opponent. they know full well things turn very quickly in republican party politics. they did it because they sort of were taking the long view that having even the risk of the economy blowing up because of a bad vote in the senate would have been bad. now wait a second. they did it for the good of the country you? that makes me feel good. they did. if you ask them, they did. i have to say that at a time i m glad you stopped this conversation and pointed that out carol.