and the pros and cons of the affordable care act - politics aside. >> diplomacy should be the first option in solving ukraine's crisis. that's what john kerry emphasised. speaking from paris, john kerry called for a withdrawal of troops from the border. they have no intention of invading ukraine. ukrainians should be the ones to decide their own future. >> president obama and the united states believe firmly that diplomacy has a critical role to play in helping the people of ukraine achieve their goal in living in dignity and a stable, peaceful unified democracy. the united states and international community stands in support of ukraine's sovereignty and ukraine's territorial integrity. we'll continue to support the people of ukraine's right to choose their own future. it's not up to us to make any decision or any agreement regarding federalisation. we talked about it. it's up to ukrainians. >> any real progress in ukraine must include a pull-back of the very large russian force that is currently massing along the borders. tonight i raised with the foreign minister our strong concern about the forces. we blef the forces are -- believe the forces are creating a climate of fear and intimidation in ukraine. >> john kerry called for free and fair elections in ukraine, scheduled for may, 25th. >> nadine barber is in paris. if russia and ukraine are closer to a solution? >> john kerry outlined a number of objectives shared with sergei lavrov, including free and fair elections, monitored by the community, and steps to protect the minority groups in ukraine. it's clear that the u.s. and russia have a different vision of how a democratic ukraine, what it would look like. russia wants to see a federal system, that's something sergei lavrov has made clear. he wants to see greater autonomy for the various regions, that will be good for the parts of eastern and southern ukraine where there are many russian speakers and strong ties with russia. on the other hand, the united states and its western allies are very keen to see the may presidential elections followed by parliamentary elections, but they are happy to see the current players, people who were formally in the opposition against president viktor yanukovych taking part and they see that as the democratic way that is coming through ukraine. however, it's not clear whether russia will talk to the people in kiev. so far they have rejected them as illegitimate and what they want to see is a recognition from the u.s. that they have problems with dealing with those individuals. they want to see more respect shown to the russian speaking parts of ukraine. the u.s. has been stressing that they talked with russia about how to pull back the tens of thousands of russians troops that have gathered. there's no word from john kerry about how it may happen. >> richard white, director from the center for political analysis from the hudson institute. >> what do you make of this meeting. how encouraging do you thing it is. >> well, i'm somewhat encouraged. i don't see an agreement coming on how to deal with crimea. i think the american position as russians who open will not gave back to ukraine, therewon't be an opportunity there. to avoid russian potential against the rest of ukraine, i think both the russians and the americans agree on the need to allow more autonomy. they allow the community language rights and rights to choose local independence. >> let's talk about that. what you are talking about is the federal solution bounced around. an idea presented by russia, about the russian speaking areas of ukraine, basically allows freedom, independence and control over local affairs. >> is that the idea in getting attraction here. >> the american experts know ukraine better than i. it's a centralized system, too much authority, and the government took actions with some russian areas, infrin ging on language, providing an excuse for the russians. you would want to guarantee russians the right to use their language in ukraine. the fear is that russia will lose this as an opportunity. basically it could cultivate leaders and establish the basis for detachment from the territories. >> so do you think there's the appetite in kiev for this. it's a concern. the idea of allowing the cities to have more authority may fracture the country. >> in principle people in ukraine accept the rite of autonomy and it looks like the russians and americans are trying to work out a deal over their heads, forcing a compromise on them, which they'll be uncomfortable with. >> secretary of state john kerry made it clear that he is respecting the people of ukraine, and went out of his way to make it clear that the ukrainian people would have the voice and the vote over what to do with ukraine. do you think those were words. >> i am sure that's the u.s. policy. i'm worried how the ukrainians will read it. i mean, they feel disappointed by the western response so far. we might know more and understand better what is going to happen in a couple of days with the n.a.t.o. foreign minister's meeting. >> let's talk about that briefly. what do you see coming out of the meeting. do you think it will solve the crisis? >> well, there are multiple layers of crisis. i think the media concern is that russia will take over more parts of ukraine. and i think the focus is on preventing that, and n.a.t.o.'s decision about how to continue to provide reassurance to ukraine and other countries near russia might have an impact. so that is, i think, the immediate crisis. the longer term problem of how to deal with the countries outside the alliance and therefore not fully protected is something n.a.t.o. has to address in the rest of the year. >> how should n.a.t.o. handle ukraine, that's a big question they are facing. richard white with the hudson institute, thank you for your time. >> the pentagon sent their top commander back to europe. he will cut short his trip to meet with n.a.t.o. in brussels. it is concerned about russia's lack of transparency over the troop movements. with crimea under russian control, ukrainian soldiers are asked to leave. we have more on that from sevastopol. >> they didn't think it would end like this. packing hastily and leaving crimea. the deputy commander tried to keep spirits high. the russian flag flies here. russian soldiers are on watch and ukrainians have to leave. >> they have lived here a decade. >> unlike the russian system, ukrainians served in one place for a long time. they settled here, bought property and had to leave everything, even their property behind. >> the soldiers fought hard to stay. soon after they took over the bases. the ukrainians faced unarmed and demanded they return. the russians fired in the air. after negotiations ukrainians were allowed to return to their jobs. the stopped off lasting two weeks. then the russians overran the base. they kidnapped his commander. trying to get him to switch sides. >> he is refused, released. >> many in the ukrainian military were reluctant to leave crimea, saying it was a great place to live. ukraine's equivalent. >> the ukrainian ships here fly the russian flags, and the sailors forced to choose between russia and ukrainians. >> the men say changing sides would be dishonorable. they'll be joining the commander. >> translation: as for the brigade, we'll rebuild. moscow was not built in a day. >> mikhail says it's been a difficult time. he marched alongside russian forces and many were friends, but he is not bitter. >> translation: i am not angry at anyone. they are military men, we are military men. and we have to face the same orders. >> mikhail and families face an uncertainly future. washington's governor says crews are making progress in the search for victims. resources are poring into oso. hundreds are involved in the recovering. >> we are joined from derrington. what is the latest tonight? governor jay inslee is the head of the national guard. he took an overhead view in a helicopter. they took a look at the recovery effort. more than 620 people have been down on the ground since last saturday. clearing the debris. although the official death toll is 18, crews discovered several unidentified victims, some not intact. a special fatality team flew in from colorado to assist in the identification efforts. >> we have a search team out in mud up to their armpits, they'd been there for a week looking for victims. we had a team that worked with the medical examiner to process them. we had the helicopter flying remains to that station for processing. >> we lost the signal. it is important to note that the death toll rose slightly, 18 people killed from the landslide in washington statement >> in early morning, earthquake rocked the park. it was felt in montana and border towns. no reports of damage. few visitors go to yellowstone this time of year. >> a warning about the trigger by the falt line. it could cause more damage than the famous and fierce st. andray us fault, running along the southern metropolitan california outskirts. >> it is morning in australia and a new day for the search for flight 370. four new objects have been found. nearly 100,000 square miles were searched for debris. objects that have been pulled from the indian ocean turned out not to be from the plane. an australian team dropped buoys so ships can further investigate. it's been three weeks since the malaysia airlines flight disappeared. >> i must stress that we can't confirm the ornalin of the objects, however the details of these in association with a gps buoy have been passed on to our rescue coordination centre. from our perspective this was the most visibility we had of objects in the water, giving us promising leads. >> until something is found family members are clipping to hope. others are angry as week pass by without signs of loved ones. several dozen chinese relatives are in malaysia demanding answers from the government. >> across the capital it was a day of prayers and vig ills for those on board flight mh370. people released balloons with name cards of passengers and crew members, hoping it would bring relief to the grieving families. >> it may be three weeks, we are not giving up hope that we can find the missing mh370. the missing flight. we will find them, i hope we will not give up. >> we all feel unhappy and distressed. it must be worse for them. this is just to give them encouragement and, you know, true to support them. >> a new ship fitted with a black box detector and an underwater drone joined the search. >> well, still ahead - some states are demanding people on food stamps be tested op drugs. does the approach make sense, we look at the cost and concerns surrounding it. gm announces another recall. this as the c.e.o. prepares to link car makers to faulty parks. >> and we look at the affordable care act, what it does and doesn't do for americans - nas in the week ahead, coming up. >> the polls are closed in turkey's elections, the prime minister's party is expected to win big. the leading akp party is ahead in most cities, leading with the vote. the votes are counted. the prime minister recep tayyip erdogan says the election is likely to affirm his lij mass si. he's been facing corruption and wrongdoing allegations. >> we explain why the prime minister is enjoying so much support. >> the prime minister's core supporters, which tend to be religious conservative turks don't care about media freedom or the pervasiveness of corruption. they care about bread and butter economic issues. for them, the prime minister has delivered on the economy, has delivered on social welfare. >> help us to understand how much discontent there is in turkey. we see the images, the protests, the rallies, do you get the anger it is widespread across the country. >> it is a polarized society. there are divisions between those that like the prime minister and those who despite the prime minister, i think that the results would be polarization will continue, and perhaps intensify i think the strong results, if they hold out, the prime minister is likely to become autoaccuratic and concentrate power in his hands, introduce media restrictions, including on facebook. i think the autoaccuratic tensies may intensify following the results in his favour. final results are yet to be announced. an historic day in paris. the first female mayor in france was elected. despite success, her party struggled at the polls. >> egyptians will head to the ballot box in may. it comes days after general abdul fatah al-sisi resigns from the army, announcing he'd like to run for president. he was overthrown in july after mass protests. gunshots there, university student in cairo is dead and others hurt after clashes between protesters and police. demonstrators supported students who were arrested or suspended for supporting ousted president mohamed morsi. >> it's 92 days that al jazeera journalist was held. they are accused of spreading false news and belonging to a terrorist group. al jazeera rejects the charges and calls for their release. the trial was adjourned but picks up tomorrow. >> two spanish journalists are free after being held in syria for six months. it was an emotional reunion. a rogue al qaeda group kidnapped them as they tried to leave syria. it's unknown if they escaped or the kidnappers released them. >> millions across the states depend on food stamps. georgia has 2 million people on food stamps and is requiring drug tests for anything using narcotics, florida, utah, missouri have louse in place. in florida 4,000 people took tests 108 failed the test, costing $45,780 there. meantime in utah 466 people were tested in a mandatory screening. 12 failed the test, but it cost the government $25,000. so according to the national conference of the state legislatures 10 states passed legislation. they are on your screen. >> states across the country in audits found little waste in food stamps and welfare. when it comes to drug tests the fact of the matter is there's a minuscule percentage of people across the country with substance abuse problems and use drugs or take food stamps or welfare. it's not really a problem. if it were, if there was an overlap between drug users and public assistance users, it doesn't make sense to kick out vulnerable people, it would be better to use the public assistance system to get people treatment they need. >> taking away benefits from drug users does not make their problems go away. >> a recall for general motors, all the 2014 chevy silverado, as well as other vehicles. they have a transmission, cooler line problem. it involves 400,000 vehicles. gm will be under the microscope in washington. the house and senate are probing another problem, a decade-long silence over ignition switches linked to crashes and 12 deaths. general motors c.e.o. mary barra will face tough questioning. lawmakers have been combing through many pages relating to the issue, and from the road traffic safety group. we want to know how executives can say they knew nothing about the ignition problems, and why they waited a decade to respond. concigarettes -- congress is wondering what the national safety group knew about it. >> a memo released on saturday indicated that a formal investigation was declined after receiving field reports. the report reveals that the ignition provider told them in 2002 that the system did not meet automakers expectation. >> general motors says mary barra and others knew nothing about the switches until january 31st of this year, yet the company did not issue a recall of 2600 vehicles until february 10th. two weeks later it recalled an additional 745 vehicles, and on friday it hadded 824,000, bringing the total to more than 2 million. barr re released this statement about the latest recall. trying to lokate several thousands switches in a population. 2.2 million. is impractical. we are going to provide the customers with the peace of mind and get the new vehicles into all the vehicles. general motors is foaling the heat. the justice department is examining whether general motors is criminally liable for failing to expose the problems. >> all this amid concerns, protecting the automaker from civil suits. >> fek rival samsung and apple are headed to court, they have accused each other of stealing designs and features. ale is a tap, it allows someone searching from a phone number. to tap on the results to call the number tore put the address on the map. they copied the slide. sam song fired back saying apple is stopping the system. >> the deadline is fast approaching. we'll look at how it fared, its failures and successors and what to look at. that's what to look out in our sunday special. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories this half hour. john kerry met with his russian counterpart in paris, talking to sergei lavrov for four hours. little has been resolved. john kerry says ukraine should decide its own feature, calling for free and fair elections. >> a mudslide in washington - the governor says crews are making progress in the search for victims. heavy equipment and people are involved in the recovery in oso. drier weather should help. >> it's time for the sunday night segment "the week ahead". tomorrow is the deadline to dane up for the affordable care act. tomorrow we look at how it's going and who has signed up. >> all i know about obamacare is what i have seen on saturday "saturday night live." >> many americans are confused. >> it's complicated. it varies from state to state. the disastrous roll out of healthcare.gough made it worse. >> we dropped the ball. we'll fix it. >> there are pros and cons. it protects people who fall ill from being dropped by their provider, and those with pre-existing cans cannot be denied coverage. there are no life-time limits. low-income americans are eligible for medicaid, tax credits and rebates. children can stay on their parent's plans until the age of 26. >> one thing it does not do is control health care. many see that as a problem. >> nationwide premiums rise. how much of that is because of obamacare is a subject of heated debate. up to 30 million americans lost their health insurance because policies did not meet the law's requirements of the opponents called that a broken promise. but the administration says those plans were substandard and in some cases offering little coverage for a lot of money. companies with 50 more more employees must provide a benefit. americans who don't sign up will be fined income. the fines will increase every year. it's part of a 10 year plan. the measure rolled out are the key parts of the law. it will be several years before the full impact can be measured. >> the white house calls obamacare a work in progress. it extended it for a few wicks. it's one more sign the law is not ready and the glitches could have an impact on the elections. some democrats are call are for reforms, a group of senators proposing bills to modify obamacare. joining me to discuss this is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. and zack cooper. thank you both for being here. >> i'll start with you. when we look at the affordable care act, how do you think it's going so far? >> it's been an impressive recovery from computer glitches. >> six months ago. >> people are confusing data points around how many people have enrolled in the aca exchanges, because people who have signed up and selected a plan have not necessarily paid, and people who have paid and actually have coverage are not necessarily people who were uninsured. most of the survey data indicates that it's an minority of people that signed up and were uninsured. the impact may not be as great as people think. >> it's a critical point. the complaint is that obamacare was not necessarily sweeping up people that was uninsured. >> we won't know yet. >> there's studies indicating the numbers are not what was hoped for. >> it's too hard to tem. >> what we saw in massachusetts was behavior the deadline. we'll get to about 7 million. and the insurance companies say it's not 80%, it puts us in the 5-7 million sign up. it's a remarkable recovery. considering where we were, it's a remarkable turn around. >> explain to us what we are talking about. a lot of people are confused by obamacare. there's a difference in terms of who signed up on the website and those paying the premium. there's a big disconnect. >> it's important. if you haven't paid the first month's premium, the insurance cover doesn't activate. if you get sick and go to the doctor, unless you pay the premium, you don't have coverage, the bill will not be covered by the insurance company. paying the premium is important. if people signed up, and there has been stories of people that have paid the premium, but the record is lost, and they've had problems when they needed coverage and care of getting the bills pay. >> there are givens and issues, but overall, if we look at the big picture, the administration is transcending some of that. >> let's talk about enrolment. it's different state to state. looking at the numbers, the administration said they wanted 7 million people to sign up during the first registration period. there has been more than 6 million. even then, it's a surprise for a lot of people to hear that the website attracted 6 million to obamacare, was that a surprise. >> yes. that they recovered from serious technical glitches. there was testimony before congress, that the administration blt the systems for allowing people to pay for insurance plans. to get to where they are today to where they were before is great. what is the impact on the uninsured and what will be the cost of the plans. if we talk of the long-term goals, it is that obamacare will expand coverage for 30 million people, not 6 million, not 3 million. to get to 30 million people, you have to show the cost of the plans is going down over time. it's not necessarily what we see or the indications. >> are we too focussed on the numbers, whether it's 6 million or 7 million signed up. . >> i think the reason we care about the numbers is it's what we can observe. the number that i care about or what the premium increases will be. if they are in the 5-7 or 5-8 range, it means it's doing what it should be. if it's in the 10-15%, we have room to worry, because we don't have the people we need in the market. one of the pushes is you weren't going to get young people signed up. the website was not working. if i can't log on, why should i enrol. we don't know whether or not they have come in. >> let's talk about the young people, we are not clear on the numbers. only a quarter of people that enrolled for obamacare are people between the ages of 18-34, they would like it to be closer to 40%. what does that mean for everything else enrolling with the insurance plans? >> there's two or three points to make. it's not worth it's young versus old, but healthy versus sick. if you sign up young people, you are not actually building a sustainable insurance market. what are the insurance prices going be next year over this year. they'll improve on the 25% personnel that you mentioned in terms of proportion of young people. are they the right young people or the right older people? is the mix appropriate. if you talk to insurers, they are concerned. they expect to see double digit increases and some are higher. >> double digit increases on premiums for people that have not enrolled in obamacare. whether they enrolled or not on the exchanges, or healthcare.gov, that the prices of plans will be 20% higher, which was a substantial increase over 2013. >> let's talk about the states with different experiences over the new law. there's so many different aspects. 27 states allow the federal government to run health care exchanges. 16 in washington d.c. seven states, a hybrid of the two approaches. what is interesting is in some states it is working well, intags in the north-east, california as well. some of the southern states, why are we seeing the difference? >> let's look at connecticut, where they have done an extraordinary job. the first thing that jumped out is leadership. kevin got them to connecticut, he's doing an extraordinary job. the second thing is saying "look, we don't care about the policy", we want to after a portal that sells insurance. the third thing was a big key moving forward, they are pushing back on the federal government saying "we don't want the time lines changing. what you said we'll accept. we'll stop letting you change it and implement as well as you can. >> they have the it right. that's an issue. massachusetts has not got the websites working as well as they should have. >> when you look at the states, massachusetts, and maryland, what are they doing right. do they have people with a better command of setting up the systems. states that set up their open exchanges have a worse performance in terms of enrolment >> say that again, i'm getting lost. >> early in october a talking point is the reason why they are not setting up their exchanges, states like massachusetts, and maryland, democratic states have implemented the worst problems and the worst issues, it's ironic. massachusetts is the model of this whole plan. zack, are people in the states at a disadvantage? >> in the short term, yes. but the competition is good. >> why do you say that? >> certain states are doing a better job. >> if you life in connecticut, things are going smoothly. that's not a bad thing. that will lead to these states innovating, thinking about creative ways to get enrolled. one of the things we see are apple stores. where you set up shops to boy insurance. if i'm sitting there and am the governor of maryland, what are they doing. >> hopefully that drives innovation, and we see a market flourish. what are people in those states supposed to do, wait for the circumstances to improve? >> we have to be clear on what being at a disadvantage looks like. >> uninshurned getting on to the website buying insurance. >> we can absolutely sign up. what they haven't done is been quite as innovative. there's awareness, and there's between two firms. people know that this is happening. people in maryland may have to be active about going out. >> let's talk about what people think about obamacare. most americans, if you look at the polls, accepted the fact that obamacare seems to be here to stay. according to a keiser poll 18" say congress should repeal the affordable care act, but a large number, 59% say the law or work to improve it. that's key. work to improve it. there seems to be a lot of frustration with the law, but a lot of people think it can be saved and improved. what do you say to that? >> if you break up the numbers, the percentage is keep the law and make no modification. it was a broad thing, trying to make it work. that's where the center of the country is, it's an important lesson for republicans to realise. among republicans, as many said, work to improve the poll as repeal and replace with an alternative. the irony is that there is a real opportunity for market based health care reform utilizing the exchanges, but with a number of important reforms encouraging the innovation. you can drive costs down making an efficient product. the elephants in the room is spending. at the end of the day with the affordable care act, what it will do is expand insurance coverage, it needed to happen, it will not impact spending. it will not raise or lower it. it's going to materially raise it. not above what it was going to do. we'll be in the same trajectory as we would have been going in. >> that's not true. >> no. >> 250 billion a year in additional expense. >> because 30 million more are covered. most accept that the rate of spending will not change. how do we slow that down. it's politically challenging. people like what they get. they don't want this thing. you have two choices, one you can be in charge for health care. or you can have the government saying no. we'll have to go down one of the two paths. we don't have a party now. >> the big question for people at home is is this going to raise insurance rates. small companies are not implementing the law, how will it impact them. what do you say to that? >> it is increasing premiums, it's effective to people shopping for coverage on the run. >> not even when. we know the insurance premiums in 2014 are 41% higher than people. >> across the board. >> if you get insurance through the employer increases are smaller, but higher than usual. >> this is an area we'll have to agree to disagree. i think the statistics on rising premiums are misleading. it doesn't take into account catastrophic plans that are cheaper. some states are going up, some down. new york is an example of where they'll decrease. there are winners and losers in all policies. what you had before was cheap, bare-bones insurance that i could purchase as a young person. older people were priced out of the market. what the aca did is look, we'll have the young pay more in order for the old people to be guaranteed to come in and get coverage. they regulated standards so previously i could sell you a shoe. now it's minimum standards. if you get cancer and you have high amounts of spending you can't have a cap. we are paying more for a markedly better product. >> the good outweighs the bad. >> there are winners and losers, some will see increases, others will not. >> i disagree. >> this is why it's a controversial subject. >> thank you both for coming in. >> al jazeera america will have more on the approaching health care deadline. watch tomorrow at 8:30pm eastern 5:30 pacific for a special report "obamacare, what now." on tuesday - gm's c.e.o. will testify before congress over the recalls. wednesday, chicago's city council may vote to suspend its city council. on saturday afghanistan holds presidential elections >> more ahead including march madness. who will be making the trip to north texas? i'll tell you who needs the rain coat on the opening day of baseball. that is tomorrow. your forecast is >> brazil tightened security ahead of the world cup with a raid on a complex slums in rio de janeiro. it's known for having problems with drug gangs. a series of violent attacks led politicians to demand a tough response. drug dealers and criminals left the neighbourhood days ago. it's more of a public relations effort. >> translation: it's for show, if they wanted to help u give our kids an edu scpags not come in -- education and not come in with comes drown. >> police will set up pacification votes and hand over control to the army. they are expected to stay in the area until after the world cup finishes. the world cup kicks off in june, several matches in rio. including the final. the government wants to show it's tough and ready for the task. rio is hosting the 2016 olympics. a lot of information there. we have to talk about march madness. what is going on with that. >> you know how we were talking about the brackets and billion dollars. we started off with 68 teams, now we are down to the final four. we have the young cats starting five freshman. florida is mature with four senior starters. yukon is back. everyone is jumping on wisconsin including aaron rodgers. >> after weeks of madness the last 14 are going to arlington. in the first the battle of the haves and have notes. the 8-time champions kentucky wildcats take on their opponent. >> this is like nothing else i have felt before. we played basketball our whole lives. we dreamed of going to the final four and accomplish that is something i can't put into words. >> florida is the low number one seed to make it into the final four. after the gaiters knocked off the cinderella run. they lean on the senior leadership, who finally advance to the elite eight after falling short in each of the last three years. >> i'm not sure that the four seniors, having gone through the experiences in the previous could have made the next step that they made. >> walking up the ladder, i was thinking of how i wanted to be able to do this again. i wanted to do whatever i can to help the team to research that ultimate goal that we set at the beginning of the year. >> looking to upset the gators, they are three removed from the national championship. a lot has changed for the huskies. long-time head coach jim calhoun stepped down leaving ken olly to run the huskies, who were ineligible for the tournament. >> they knew what it was about. the 2011 championship, being on top, going through what they went through, without them doing anything. it wasn't their fault. >> we played for each other and the ollie, and the whole university. it's great to see it pay off. >> buckle up. the semifinals will be played on saturday night. the last defeat was back on december 2nd against yukon. the gaiters looking for payback against the huskies. billy donavan will be seeking a third title. kentucky is the first team to start five since michigan did it in 1992 led by rose and company. action underway in arlington texas at atnt stadium, cowboys stadium. we'll be there covering all the action. but the other big news is sports opening night in major league baseball. dodgers in san diego take on the pat ras. it's scoreless in the second. i watched the opening ceremonies. comfortable, clear, 66 degrees. and the big day form, opening day with 13 games ontact. i hope all the whether can be like that. >> let's get confirmation on that. >> san diego they tied the warmest record low temperatures, 61 today. >> that was the lowest. >> that was the lowest. 61. >> how nice. >> i'd take that in a heart beat. >> set in 1914. back in the 1800s they were broken. it will cool down. as with everything there has to be balance. we have several things going on weather wise. we have been watching showers taper off in the west. that's good news for the mud slide, as we go further south, let's talk baseball. it will be soggy when we go to the cleveland indians. further south got you some sun yan. expect increasing cloud cover move in. looking to the north-east. a littliesy arrangement the higher elevations. the washington nationals. you'll see the sun breaking out as you interview out through the afternoon, and the boston red so, we expect partly sunny skies. temperatures will be cool. that is both coasts, wearing sweaters, on the waste coast where the winds pick up. we have gusty winds. in the central states there's a storm system where you can see the spin. it's bringing in the wintry weather, impacting the high elevations. that's the elevation. we are seeing the change over to snow. there'll be 2-4 accumulation above that. in the midwest we'll see what is beginning to be a blizzard tomorrow. it will track in, sucking in cold care from canada. arctic air. temperatures plummeting, blizzard going into effect. anywhere from 10 to 20 inches of snow. the higher elevation. still expecting to see 2-6 inches of snow stretching down to northern iowa. it will be a chill factor. that's where the primary area of rain is. snow will be in the mid west. for the rain in northern california, creeping south. we'll see rain reaching towards san diego. low temperatures overnight cold in the northern states. 30s on each coast and the highs tomorrow. they'll be warming up for the south. >> slowly warming up to the 50s. >> that's it for us. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us at al jazeera america. i'll be back with more news at 11:00 pm eastern. stay with us, we have a quick look at the top stories after this short >> you're watching al jazeera america. om-jonathan betz in new york with the fop store. john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met for four hours in paris. both agreed on a diplomatic solution. john kerry says they consider 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