Vaccinations are cancelled today. They are also going to be cancelled tomorrow. Based on what were seeing right now, we believe that tomorrow getting around the city will be difficult. It will be icy. It will be treacherous. We do not want seniors especially out in those conditions. There is some promising news when it comes to testing. The white house announcing it has awarded a massive contract to an Australian Company by the name of alume which makes athome covid test kit that tests with 95 accuratery in, get this, 125 minutes. And a critical meeting at the white house to discuss the financial crisis connected to this pandemic. Ten republican senators will discuss their counteroffer to his 1. 9 trillion relief plan but their proposals price tag is less than a third of the administrations package, and well talk much more on how soon struggling americans can get what they need from all of this. First to new york we go where cnn anchor and National Correspondent erica hill reports. The winter storm is wreaking havoc on Vaccination Efforts. You just want to relax your arm just like that. Reporter new month, same old problem. Its supply, supply and supply. If weve got vaccines that are sitting in a warehouse shelf, i mean, they need to be in somebodys arm. Reporter a massive noreaster forcing new york and new jersey to reschedule appointments. Its not safe out there today. Reporter but not at bostons fenway park. Im surprised by how emotional it was walking in here this morning. The new Mass Evacuation site can eventually process more than 1,200 people a day. Just under 2 of the u. S. Population is now fully vaccinated. Johnson oimp jansons onedose vaccine which shows a slightly lower Efficacy Rate of 72 in the u. S. Could seek Emergency Use Authorization in the coming days. I dont think we should be put aback by the fact that there was a difference in the initial number of any kind of efficacy because theres a lot more protection than just preventing getting infected. We want to get people out of the hospital, and we dont want people to die. Reporter hospitalizations dropping below 100,000 over the weekend for the first time in two months as january became the deadliest month yet for covid. Masks mandatory for travelers across the country starting at midnight as more transmissible variants spread. Cdc has been working on multiple fronts to adapt and understand these variants. The variant first detected in the uk now identified in at least 32 states. The mutations discovered in south africa and brazil also now in the u. S. This is the broader race right now. How fast can we vaccinate people and how fast will the virus mutate and take on the capacity to potentially evade our vaccine . Reporter those variants prompting renewed calls to use every available dose now. The single most important thing weve got to do is get people vaccinated. Reporter its possible one dose would provide some benefit but we really dont have any data to prove that at this point. Reporter as experts warn of a long road ahead. This is going to be a long, long battle, not a yearlong battle but a decades long battle. Reporter brooke, you mentioned some promising news when it comes to testing. Its a rapid athome test that takes 15 minutes, 59 accuracy. If it sounds familiar it should. It was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the fda back in december, but this new contract announced today will really allow them to boost production so right now about 100,000 tests a month are set to be shipped to the u. S. , the test kits starting this month through july. This new contract were told could bring that up to 19 million test kits per month being shipped here by the end of the year. Good. Roll them out. Erica hill. Thank you so much. I want to talk vaccines here with dr. Michelle mcmurray heat. Doctor, good to see you. Welcome back. Good to see you. I want to start with this push today for the second doses of the vaccine to be delayed so that they can maximize the number of people who actually just get that first dose. Obviously people still need the second dose of the vaccine but do you think placing the higher importance on the first dose is the smarter move . You know, brooke, at this point. I think it is. The variants have made everything much more important, the variants in the u. S. From the uk and the brazil and South African variant coming out strong. This means were in a race against time, and we have to get as many people vaccinated as be po. We do not know for sure sitting here today what the ideal timing and separation is between the first and second dose for either the pfizer or the moderna vaccine. We just know what was tested in the initial clinical trials, but it does seem to suggest that we have a little bit of play there, but its still important for people to get two doses of the vaccine eventually, but at this point we just need to spread it to as many people as possible. And i know understandably were all thinking of ourselves and our loved ones here in the u. S. , but dr. Fauci also just reiterated, you know, the vaccinations must be a world wide push. He says if we dont get a global effort without a doubt this thing is not going to go away and youre going have it continue to come back to your point with forms of mutants, mutations. You are the vaccine expert, doc. How do you balance increasing the supply here in the u. S. Which we so badly need but also making an impact globally . Well, we must do both at the same time. Unfortunately, with Infectious Diseases no one is safe until everyone is safe, and so we have to have a multipronged approach and im so happy to see that the Biden Administration has rejoined the w. H. O. , has reinvested in our global efforts to try to stop this. As we see this week, you know, the variants that are so threatening to us today are coming from the uk and from south africa and from brazil, and so all of these hot spots across the globe must be addressed if we want the u. S. Population to be truly protected, so its important to do both. We also have to use every tool at our disposal. There were some very promising data last week from regeneron showing their Antibody Cocktails are not a vaccine, a therapeutic, can actually act as a shortterm vaccine and prevent people from getting severe infections of covid, perhaps bridging them to that availability of that vaccination that everyone is aiming for so we have to work broadly and doing everything that we can do to try to stop this spread. Good, good. We need all the help we can get. The dean of Brown University school of Public Health told the New York Times and i want to quote him back for you. He said i dont actually care bin nexts. I care about hospitalizations and death and longterm comp kagsz, and so hes essentially agreeing with other Health Experts who are saying, you know, that the key to eliminating this pandemic is ensuring that people when they get infected that they dont wind up in the hospital. Dr. Mcmurray heat, help us understand how the vaccines will get us to a place where cases dont even really matter. Well, you know, if we think about it, brooke, the difference between how we respond to covid and how we respond to influenza every year is not just the fact that covid is more transmissible, which is it is, but its also because it produces devastating consequences, serious hospitalizations and the sequella we see with stroke and with Heart Ailments that follow and sometimes lagat initial infection. That is what makes covid so vexing and troublesome so any tool we have that stops those serious effects is good in my book, so vaccines that perhaps give you change a serious infection to a mild infection is something we should all be applauding because we just want to avoid people getting seriously ill from taking up the complete capacity of our icu beds, from really taxing the ability and the strength of our Health Care Workforce and also having such a high viral tighter that they are passing it on to more and more people so if we can limit the impact of code of in one individual, were moving in the right direction. Doctor, thank you for your expertise and just also your sense of calm. Thank you. Take care. The powerful noreaster that is bearing down on the northeast right now could end up being one of the top five heaviest snowfalls New York City has ever seen. More snow will likely fall today than has fallen in the past five februarys combined, and thats just new york. Washington, d. C. , the baltimore area, they just saw the most snow they have seen in nearly two years and more than ten inches blanketed chicago over the weekend, the largest snowfall in the city since 2015. Bill we are is our cnn climate correspondent. Hes out and about in New York City. So, bill, how many inches so far, my friend . Reporter i dont know what weve got so far, brooke. The forecast is 18 to 24. Were getting about an inch, inch half to two an hour. The alltime record in 2016 27. 5 inches. This does not look like global warm. How does Climate Change fit into this . This is exactly what happened. Three of the ten driest winters happened in the last 20 years so were not getting as much winter, getting mild winters, but when the storms come they are powerful. Six of the ten biggest in history have happened in the last 20 years and we have records here that go back 150 years so if you do the math we should be getting a storm like this every 15 years. Were getting them much more frequently as the oceans warm up. All the warm ocean Energy Meeting the cold air coming down from the arctic. Bam, you get all that Atmospheric Energy which krooets scenes like this, and new yorkers are hardy. Were getting through it. They are making snowmen. The trash trucks have the plows on trying to keep the streets clear. State of emergency declared in new york today so no school and the biggest blow, as you just talked about, is what this does to the Vaccination Problems in the city. Yeah. I know so many people waiting so long and today was the day. Nope. Not today. Maybe each not tomorrow. Bill weir, thank you in new york with your snowman, thank you. Pretty soon President Biden will meet with ten republican senators at the white house over the gops much smaller covid relief proposal. Will the president incorporate any of their suggestions, or will democrats just decide to push this thint alone . 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Vice president harris and President Biden will meet with ten republican senators at the white house, and he will be discussing a much less expensive counteroffer to this administrations white house covid relief bill, so lets go to cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins who is there at the white house. Kaitlan, other than the obvious price tag, what are the key differences between these two plans, and what is it that the that the Biden Administration says that they absolutely wont accept . Well, the price tag is a big difference given how big the numbers are and how far apart they are. Thats something that the white house focused on today, but even when you look inside these packages you can see some differences, though theres similarities in what they are laying out in the proposals and allotments for different areas are pretty different and one of them is the stimulus checks that, of course, we have seen laid out, the 1,400 checks in the proposal from the white house but what the republicans are suggesting are narrow concerns, heard some concerns over Centrist Democrats over what that look like and who exactly it would be that would qualify for them but what this group of republicans being led by Susan Collins by putting this forward is saying there is a path to a Coronavirus Relief bill that could get bipartisan support. Its not the one that the white house has laid out so far. What were seeing hours ahead of this meeting thats thats expected to happen in the oval office shortly, brook, is the white house Tamping Down Expectations for whats going on out of that. You heard jen psaki saying this is not a forum for President Biden to make or accept any kind of offer from these republicans. Its justration the question of really where this is going to go, this pursuit of bipartisanship, so the white house is touting the support from people like West Virginias republican governor jim justice saying he could get behind a bigger Relief Package earlier. So far they have not gotten that from Congressional Republicans so thats going to be the big question, but i do think its notable that this is first group of lawmakers weve seen biden invite to the white house in front of cameras. Its a group of republicans who have put this counteroffer out there. It doesnt mean hes going take this offer though. Correct, and you also mentioned Centrist Democrats, so speaking of, West Virginia democratic senator snow manchin is a key player in getting this passed and last week the Vice President appeared in a local tv interview in charleston West Virginia to increase the pressure on Senator Manchin and Senator Manchin says, wait a second, he wasnt told about this, not to thrilled about it. What does the white house say about that . Yeah. Hes not happy about this at all. Did not get a heads up. He saw it as what you saw there, an attempt to put pressure on him to get behind this package when he, of course, is going to be a critical vote forey only ha thread right now so anything that he says is going to be something that the white house is listening to, so you did see jen psaki say theres been outreach from the white house to senator joe manchin. She didnt say whether or not thats coming from President Biden himself or what other official is reaching out to him but hes not only critical to what they are going to do on Coronavirus Relief but if they ever try to take another stab at it again down the road, any other proposals that the white house is going to have, what joe manchin says is going to be critical to that, so the white house not giving him a heads up apparently about what this interview will be. Did not respond kindly to that. The white house has said they are in touch with him. They are fielding his concerns. They now hoe important his vote is going to be to whatever it is that biden wants to get accomplished over the next four years. Kaitlan, thank you so much on all things covid relief. What about now, Marjorie Taylor greene. Cnn is learning the House Majority leader steny hoyer is telling Republican Leadership to strip the controversial congresswomans Committee Positions or the house will bring this to a vote on the house floor. This comes after the Georgia Republican tweeted over the weekend that she will never apologize or back down for her dangerous behavior and baseless Conspiracy Theories and oh, that she spoke with former President Trump than she is grateful for his support. So now you have the House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy in bit of a awkward position. Hes supposed to meet with the congresswoman this week to talk to her about her outrageous remarks and actions so lets start the conversation about. Ron brownstein and Franscesca Chambers are both with me. Ron, you know the deal. Shes under fire for antisemitic comments, for expressing support of democratic leaders, for bullying the Parkland Shooting Survivor and thats just the pg version of it all. Yet here she is out of this weekend she comes out more emboldened and says she will never apologize all because she has this, quote, great call with former President Trump. Yeah. What does that say to you . Look, put a point on it. I mean, they are putting the republicans placed her on the Education Committee after she has alleged that the School Massacres in parkland and sandy hook were staged to put forth gun control. The trump razed the barriers between the far right and white extremists and gave oxygen to white nationalists and in a variety of ways from very fine people and having Marjorie Taylor greene appear with him the night before the georgia runoff has tried to legitimize those movements and what youre seeing is a reluctance among the Republican Leadership in conference to draw a clear line against that kind of extremism, and as a result theres a lot of other previously whright leanin voters saying is this the coalition where i still belong . Given everything youve just said, if youre Kevin Mccarthy, franscesca, this is for you. If youre Kevin Mccarthy and know youre supposed to have this conversation with Marjorie Taylor greene, what do you do because, again, context is key. Last week he went down to florida maralago to kiss the proverbial ring of the former president. Is he really going to throw the Hammer Down On Greene who said she just had a great call with donald trump . Well, brooke, its also largely symbolic of what weve seen taking place in the Republican Party right now. They have an opportunity to have a break from formerly President Trump and move in a different direction which many republicans, including those in congress have said that they are looking forward to doing and now they have to make that choice. Do they want to follow Donald Trumps lead and continue to go in that direction after just having lost the white house . They dont have the house. They no longer have the senate or do they want to take the party in a different direction and this is largely falling on the shoulders of kevin mccart they week to make this decision. So, ron, what do you think Kevin Mccarthy does . You know, look, mccarthy has sublimated himself to trump from the beginning, and i have a hard time imagining that he will for example, after his initial comments of january 6th hes completely backed off and said were all responsible for for the attack on the capitol. I mean, its hard to imagine that mccarthy is willing to fundamentally break with trump because, you know, as i said to have before. Trump has addicted the entire party to the drug that he is pushing, and what i mean by that is that its not just trump. Its republicans up and down the ballot who are losing support in these white collar suburbs that they used to dominate and as a result pretty much all of them now need massive turnout from the trump base. He holds the power. So as a result they ever whats that . I do remember we talked about it about. Even the man is out of the white house, you know, he he does wield a lot of power, the trump base, the trump wing of the party yields a lot of power and this will be the harbinger of where we see the Republican Party go depending on what Kevin Mccarthy does. Franz kae k, theres a chance nothing happens to marblery Taylor Greene and there is a chaps that trump gets acquitted in the second upcoming Impeachment Trial. What kind of precedent does this set for future Office Holders in either party . Well, republicans, of course, are making this argument that it would set a bad precedent for someone no longer in office but there is precedent as democrats have said for this to have happened in the past. I want to come back to the question of where the gop is in this. This will play out in the senate as well. Do republican senators who also issue condemnation immediately after the attack on the capitol of former President Trump, do they break with him here . Do they vote with him . They signalled in their initial vote that that was not something that they planned to do. We saw Mitch Mcconnell voting with rand paul on this, and as we head towards the senate trial its possible that they could take a different vote but the early signs is they are continuing to go in this direction and even though former President Trump doesnt have a twitter account currently they are very concerned about the power he still wields. In the short term well see how the ultimatum that steppy hour has placed on Republican Leadership and well see where that goes and what happens with the congresswoman and what happens with the former president. Thank you both so much for all of that. Just days before President Trumps second Impeachment Trial and he has a new legal team, and its all because his previous lawyers didnt want to use his big lie about Election Fraud as a defense. Well talk about that next. Dad, im scared. Its only human to care for those we love. And also help light their way. Its why last year chevron invested billions of dollars to bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. Say hello to way more quality finds youll love on wayfair. Way more brands you trust. And way more dependability. So with wayfair youll always find your perfect match. Ugh, theres that cute guy from 12c. Go talk to him. Yeah, no. Plus its not even like hed be into me or whatever. This could be hi. You just moved in, right . I would love to tell you about all the great savings you can get for bundling your renters and Car Insurance with progressive. Oh, i was just oh, tammy. I found your retainer in the dryer. A major shakeup to former President Trumps legal team just days before his second Impeachment Trial is set to begin, and its all because trump just cant quit this baseless argument that there was widespread Election Fraud. Reminder. There was none of that. On saturday the former president s entire team quit because he wanted to argue the big lie strategy and his attorneys didnt agree with him and leading the defense against the alleged insurrection is Jeffrey Schoen and bill castor, he decided not to prosecute bill cosby in 2009. With me now is a former District Attorney and federal prosecutor. Elliott, were one week from the trial starting. Hes totally switched his legal team. How did the president argue he did not incite insurrection when he wants to make the very election for Election Fraud which led to the capitol insurrection . Right. His former lawyers had the good sense to get out, to jump ship and realize that this was a very bad legal representation for him to take on, and more overits not just that they had a disagreement, you know, just a simply disagreement among friends. Taking the Election Fraud argument before the u. S. Senate could have come with serious consequences for their law licenses because they would be making arguments to a tribunal to congress that they knew to be false, that they knew to be true or that had been disproven by dozens and dozens of courts and any sensible lawyer had to know that if youre going down that road you have to be prepared for the consequences, so we dont know what happened in the closed the private meetings with President Trump and his lawyers, but we can assume that the attorneys knew that they were taking themselves at risk. And they had to bounce. Yeah. Theres this there are mixed reports about whether or not trump would actually go to washington to testify. One cant imagine he would do such a thing but do you think thats in the realm of possibility and why . Anything is in the realm of possibilities. Weve lived through President Trump the past four years. True. He and his lawyers need to ask toss he want a political circus or does he want to be acquitted . This is a rare political proceeding where almost half the senators are on the record saying they are willing to acquit this individual if they just make the constitutional argument that a former sitting president cant be tried or face judgment. Look, that argument is wrong or if not wrong theres dispute about it among legal scholars. Go with that and stay away from the craziness and Conspiracy Theories but the president loves a Jerry Maguire i cant quit you with the craziness and thats where we are. I dont know if its Jerry Maguire. I dont. I know what it is. If trump is acquitted, lets play this forward. If he is acquitted, is there in the realm of possibility some other repercussion that would then prevent him from running for office ever again . No. Theres talk. I think senator tim kaine has put out the idea of kcensuring the president. Its merely a statement on the United States that we disprove. Could they write it in, section 3, article 3, if Censured Cannot Run ever. Weve never seen it before and it would have to be litigated. A serious constitutional question. The simple fact is they should have they should have just convicted him and had they convicted him there would be a clear path to removing him from office and now legal scholars in congress are having to go down the road of these unproven legal theories for the first time ever. The simple fact is that there was a basis for convicting and removing the president and frankly, there was as basis to do it a year ago and congress, the two houses of congress failed to the senate did, the house didnt. I dont know if the solution after that failure is to start going down the road of these untested legal theories just, you know, for the sheer thrill i guess of trying to prevent donald trump from running for office again. A week from tomorrow it begins. Elliott williams. Well talk again. Thank you. Thank you. Here in new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is responding to reports that Top Health Officials are quitting over friction over his response to the pandemic. Thats next. So get relief fast. Only Tylenol Rapid release gels have laserdrilled holes. They release Medicine Fast for fast pain relief. Tylenol rapid release gels. Wanna build a Gaming Business that breaks the internet . The that means Workingfast Fo Night and day. F. And delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind. Your books are all set. So you can finally give john some attention. Trusted experts. Guaranteed accurate books. Intuit quickbooks live. 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From what inside senior Health Officials told us morale plummeted to levels no one could remember. Past emergencies had always caused folks inside the Health Department to rally because they were suddenly called upon to show their expertise, and in this case they were sidelined and disrespected by staffers and aides to the governor, they said, and so in in that context we had these nine resignations of people that are not just anyone at the Health Department but it goes all the way up to the Deputy Commissioner for Public Health, the director of their office of Communicable Disease control, the state epidemiologist. I mean, these are people that are, you know, in charge of the Public Health response for the state, and so this was a concerning development that we learned about that hadnt been report elsewhere, and we now the that this was something that, you know, they needed to respond to. The other big nugget from your piece, david, is that you report that had Governor Cuomo designated the Greater New York Hospital Association as this Regional Vaccine hub. Its a trade group with a multimillion Dollar Lobbying Arm that has actually been a major donor to the governors causes, but Governor Cuomo on the flip side, you know, hes defending the move. He said they had the necessary cold Storage Capacity saved for the vaccine, that Health Care Workers were the first to be vaccinated. What do you say to that . This is one of the things that came out. So the reporting really started with a question which warnings you know, how did the first month and six weeks of the Vaccine Rollout go . If you were in new york at that time you remember there were real slowness getting the doses into arms and people are wondering why are certain hospitals slow and whats going on with the rollout so we started to look into it. One thing that the governor did that surprised a lot of state Health Officials and local Health Officials was in december to designate these hubs in different regions around the state to be to be centered in Hospital Systems so you had, you know, a university excuse me, a medical system up in albany and you had long island and Greater New York Hospital Association take care of the New York City region and that it was a departure from the planning that had gone the planning that had been done at the state and local level around Pandemic Response. Theres been, you know, year, of sort of plans have been drawn up and updated each year really in the wake of 9 11 and bioterrorism threats and say what would we need to do if we needed to do a mass inoculation level, if we needed to respond to an Anthrax Attack which is one of the early things they tested and they had a way of doing that. It was using this network of state and local and Public Health departments so it came as a surprise that the hospitals would be running this, not so much running it but coordinating it at the local level and so Greater New York, which has a very Good Relationship with the governor was tasked with doing New York City, and, you know, the aides to the governor say that this pandemic really wiped away all the plans that were there before and the governor, you know, the mike tyson line, you know, that everyone has a plan until i punch them in the face and i think that was really the attitude that this pandemic required a different response even if state and local officials were working on plans, you know, in the summer and through the early fall that were different than the ones they ended up with. David, im listening to you so closely and im also wondering just with all of your reporting what are some of the things that the governor has done right in these months fighting the pandemic that you that you truly believe he deserves credit for . I mean, i think he deserves credit for setting up the testing. New york state does more testing than any other im not sure its more than any other state, but they do a vast amount of testing and thats helped the state stay, especially through the summer months, stay on top of the pandemic. You know, i think that this, you know, this effort to try and inoculate folks as quickly as possible. You know, the governor has a philosophy and has shown it in other places as well when you look at the mta and the l train renovations that you go you dont always go with the plans that the sort of bureaucrats come up with. You try to think outside the box and say is there a better way to do that . I think they felt that this hospitalbased system was a smarter more efficient way to do it, but it did result in sort of discord inside the department and a lot of instances in which folks at the Health Department were finding out about various rules around, you know, what was going to be happening with regard to the Pandemic Response in realtime at Press Conferences which is not necessary lit way we think Government Works in the state. David goodman, thanks so much. Asking the big questions. Appreciate you on whats happening with new york and Governor Cuomo. Thank you. A massive winter storm is slamming the east coast. We have the latest from the cnn Weather Center next. These days you need more than an education. So thats what we give you. Introducing Career Services for life. Learn more at phoenix. Edu its time for sleep numbers january sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem. And done. And now, save 1,000 on the sleep number 360 special Edition Smart bed. Plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. Ends monday. From the northwest to northeast, causing thousands of flights. Stopping efforts for americans to get vaccinated. New jerseys governor closed all six of its Covid Vaccine mega sites along with State Offices and new jersey transit. New yorks mayor says the storm is disrupting Vaccination Efforts there. He has canceled vaccinations for today and tomorrow, saying appointments can be rescheduled. In washington, as much as three inches has already fallen. Sleet and snow mix is covering the roads with ice. That city could see up to five inches, the most it has had in the last two years. And an update moments ago, amtrak is announcing suspended service from New York City to boston and albany, new york. With me now, cnn meteorologist tom sater. Tom, its a lot of snow, in a lot of places. Who gets the worst of it . What are the biggest concerns . Well, theres a lot of concerns right now still, brooke. The storm is still developing. Its still intensifying. Its a massive storm. Its pretty. Im sure its beautiful where you are. Its always beautiful until someone loses power and then that beauty vanishes. So far, so good on that front. Take a look at the radar. This is such a massive storm. If you start at the edge of your screen to the left, chicago, greatest snow in suction years, milwaukee got a foot. We had snow, i did here, in north georgia. Winds here are howling. Wraparound snow columbus, cleveland, even in detroit. Washington, d. C. Had their heaviest snow fall in two years. They could see a dusting to an inch. This is where it gets dangerous now. Well over a foot of snow for several states. Areas of maryland, West Virginia, pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, up into connecticut. Its still going to come down. Even into tonight just blinding conditions. Weve had some Blizzard Conditions with winds already, coastal new jersey, long island, coastal connecticut at 50 miles per hour. You could see this area of red, even in purple around New York City, this is where were going to see critical problems when it comes to just travel, either by road or by air. Youre going to have problems. Of course, when it comes to water if you live on the coastline. More on that in a minute. Take a look at these totals to come. Boston, 6 to 12. Look at this. You have to look at New York City. Records go back, brooke, 150 years. This could easily crack the top ten, possibly the top five. When you look at the snow totals inland, up to two feet or more. Here is the problem with the flooding. Coastal flooding has been occurring of the Coastal Jersey into areas of new york. Battery park could see highest water levels theyve seen since super storm sandy. If it gets to around high tide tonight athe sea wall and flood the boardwalk. This storm is still crank ing u. Temperatures will be cold enough to keep the snow on the ground for a while. It says something when you look at 150 years worth of records and we could get close to the top five snowfalls for New York City. Hang in there. We may have another one down the pike as we get into next weekend. Little too far for that one just yet. Hanging in. Have a huge window in my office, sitting in my snow boots all day, sitting at it. Its totally white. Extraordinary how thick and how fast its coming down for many more hours to come. Tom sater, thank you. Well tien in. Breaking coverage continue ons the future of the covid relief plan. President biden preparing to meet with ten republican senators who are pushing a much smaller rescue package. Those details ahead. So get relief fast. Only Tylenol Rapid release gels have laserdrilled holes. They release Medicine Fast for fast pain relief. Tylenol rapid release gels. Get exactly what you want on wayfair. They hi. 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