Michael bloomberg, billionaire and former new york mayor, putting together a plan to potentially mount a thirdparty bid for president. All thatnust a moment. But we start with the massive winter storm with millions of americans waking up this morning, buried under several feet of snow. Abc news senior meteorologist rob marciano has all of the latest from new york city, which came within just onethent of an record. Good morning, rob, just how bad was it . Mentioned. For a 24hour total we did break that record. We didnt expect to see this much snow. The city has done a fair job of digging things out. In areas just to the west, check this a huge swath of incredibly heavy snow. Sheparartown, w wt virginia, 40. 5 inches of snow. Somer somerset, pennsylvania, 35. For the big cities, you literally shut it down, no place to put the snow. Look at what it looked like yesterday in times square, you never see it like this, people kind of walking the streets. There was a travel ban that has since b
Budget is finally set is state senator Rick Bertrand who represents sioux city. With us. Thanks for having me back. Good to be home. I s suppose back on the road ba and forth. Bacac on thehe road. Enof the condnd week. The family is starting to get acclimated were getting a rhythmhm. Lets talk about the numbers there. I mentioned the budget thats where we want to start this morning. Estimates continue to be less than was projected whenn t budget was put together. The Agriculture Community obviously is part of that. First thing on the budget is it is going to be a tight budgett year, but nothing that is happening this year is really not predictable. There was a five yearr plan put out there by the governor, the last three years as you know tim we have r rlly put some big things inlace with commercial property tax reform. The Medicaid Expansion and education reform. The one thing we didnt foresee at the end of the daye got to realize that agriculture still drives the state budget. And ag