Were trying to get chains on every vehicle, get plows on every vehicle that could carry a plow. Even president obama getting a crippled by a small snow last night. Were surrounding this story from all angles. Lets start with nbc meteorologist bill karins. How is this looking right now . Just about as bad as we expected, maybe even worse now for a few southern cities that dont deal with this weather. Torn detoday, ice storm friday, and even the possibility of coastal flooding. The storm still in two pieces. One has with brought snow it kansas and nebraska. The other thing strong storm the enhanced risk of severe storms goes from mobile back to new orleans. Much of the new orleans area will get hit after dak. Its hard to determine if there are tornadoes with the storms or not. It will start earlier towards houston and the shreveport area. Our latest total snow for the entire event. Whats been changed overnight is the snow totals have increased in areas like memphis, when memphis can get three to six inches of snow, thats a big deal for a southern city. The other thing that has changed is through the carolina a including the charlotte area. That could be probably the worst spot. Of course the bulls eye tuns to be up here in areas of western virginia and Northern Virginia and portions of. Did c. Let moo go through some. Ski citis, 6, 11 inches. Not a lot of snow in charlotte and raleigh in is where the ice will be covering the treefs, power lines falling. This is where you should be prepared for a couple of days without power. All snow once you get to greensboro, where youll be digging out o for a full were still thinking as two feet as a possibility here. Once you get west into the mountains, thats where it going to be drifting and blowing all over the place. Southern new englands looking in the clear. Nothing from newbury to hartford. Thats a sneeze. Youre fine with that. New york are is the first flakes wouldnt even fall until 48 had hours from now. Philadelphia is still looking bat a foolt and baltimore right around two feet. And the other story will be the winds. The wind gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour could knockpower out even for coastal areas. This storm has it out. Tornadoes, ice storm, blizzard, coastal flooding in huge waves. Winds. Everything. You tweeted last night about the president as modeor cade running into this weather. Oup the lead are of the free world no match for an inch of snow in the dmv. President obama is a victim to the ineptitude of the dvm region when it comes o it snow. He landed at 7 450. Took him an hour it get to the white house. Thatsbecause the roads here, our eno the local leaders were looking ahead to the storm this weekend. Now where i am right now in the northeast d. C. , littin me no if trucks are going to come in and out this morning, theyre going to start to treat these roads. Wuf, jose, it was hellacious. 6, 7hour route it o. I read one story of a guy who said i got to turn around and go back to work and i as j. F. K. Once said, its a torn with kwo tr expect a disaster this weekend. The city, they dont know what theyre doing. I can say that as a life long resident. My advice, dont drive here on saturday. You saw when a half inch did last night. If two feet hit, youll have to send for me because im going to be stranded here. What ruare you saying, cal . Im from new york city. Im okay with lukes con stat mocking. Lets pit up the traffic map from last night. This was making its rounds on twitter. This is after an inch of snow. Its completely roo dick louse. It ridiculous. I had much 95 completely jammed last night in is the major thoroughfare that feeds into d. C. From live in the surrounding suburbs. That will be a nightmare this weekend. It was really just this layer. Average cute about four hours. I was following and dro a mitchell, who was having a nightmare getting home. Also, the schools are out. It didnt even real snow last night. The Fairfax Public School calling out and saying they dont expect Road Conditions to improve any time soon. One of the hardest areas could be the area around new jersey bhap is Chris Christie going to do . I wassing i guess New Hampshire is not going to get any snow but new jersey looks like a foot of snow p snow around trenton. You think of Chris Harper Mercer right now. He nad him inremember a year before Hurricane Sandy back in 2011, there was irene. Thats when Chris Christie went on television and told everybody get the health off the beach. He wore the fleece jacket and got all the pictures from central control. It kind of made Chris Christie famous. Hes planning to be camped out where he is and preting going. He has events scheduled throughout the day on saturday. Meanwhile woor hes got that reputation for handling this a foot of snow in tronton and possibly more in other areas. Will chris p he leave new jersey and deal with the potential fallout from this story . One of the things that Chris Christie has been saying and doing in New Hampshire, he has been attacking marco rubio for missing votes in the stat. If new jersey gets a foot of snow plus and Chris Christie is up there itso well is what Chris Christie doo sides in the next 24 to 48 hours. Still, he has not announced anything, right . No. The events are still scheduled. Hard to see in keeping them but other o New Hampshire, hes made that his makeorbreak state. Thats a good point. Thank you very much. Good seeing you all this morning. From the cold m zero again on a conservative base. This is a new poll opening his widest lead to day in New Hampshire. Our political team, msnbcs Peter Alexander along with casey hunt and Steve Kornacki. Good morning, jose. With their friendship giving way of a significant you have drm still on the other side. Reporter donald trump weighing in on his number one target. Were seeing the washington establishment abalancedoning mub yof and upifying behind donald trump. Mr. Trumps pitch is hes deal maker. Sarah palin stumping for trump go many her oldest son was april rsed in alaska monday for Domestic Violence against his girl friend. But my son like many others, they come back bitten, they come back bitten from the attack. Cruz securing his own reality tv star power with an endorsement from duck dynasty. Whe they put a duck and put him if a pot and make those establishments candidates have struggled to find that opening. They have outspent trump and cruz 141 on the airwaves right now. And now joining this debate is j. F. K. s grandson. Hes diving in. A in ittho that ted cruz is taking up my grandfather as mantle, absurd. Steechl, lets talk about the strategy which p bip cruz to paint trump a member of one is how effective will it be in iowa. The imp immediate impair by tore fwrorp there is a large pea party, ivan jel ka, grass roots, anty establishment whatever you want to call it faction in iowa that cruz has really tapped into and trump has also tapped into as well. Theres the least the potential in the way phrase but the bigger problem for cruz is whuch get outside of iowa. Iowa is the only state right now where donald trump is not clearly had guch right over to New Hampshire, go do so one of the things powerle trump in those states is he has within the Republican Party a broader base, a broader coalition that hes put than ted cruz. Ted cruz has been aiming his message squarely, solely, simply. Donald trump has also tapped into republicans who describe them services as moderate, who describe them services as liberal, as nonreligious. Donald trump has build a pardoner coalition so its hard to to hurt him. Its harder to hurt him with that label when hes built a rower collision to beginwhich is shore up iowa. If youre ted cruz and you dont win iowa at this point, ilt pretty much over for you. Casey, theres a new poll out of New Hampshire where cruz is first and second. What do you make cruzs serge there. It can be a place for them if you combine the numbers from people pliek jeb bush, like Chris Harper Mercer, like john jop, you come out at a highers will flo o does the aim p state have a history of also supporting some conservatives . That was a place that backed pat buchanan. There he is, aconservative weve seen it in a fight for control offer the state party. So there is an element of the Republican Party that certainly it would not be out of character for them to back ted cruz. At the end of the day, though, theres likely more people on the more establishment side. Its just a question of whether or not theyre going to unite or be splint terd among the rest of the field. Lets talk about that New Hampshire establishment group. How important is it for someone like bujeb bush to come in relatively strong and if he doesnt, it doesnt seem like he has a lot of place to plant flag in the future. If youre not going to win one of those first two states, you got do something prit oo impressive. Theres a big difference if youre like jeb bush or marco rubio and youre playing towards second in New Hampshire. If its donald trump, and youre in the mid teens, as you seep, fwrrks are if u grrks tw and i think back to John Huntsman four years ago meech came in sort of a close third i guess coup say. He was near 16, 17 . Huntsman said i got my ticket to ride, im going to south caroli carolina. I know all these historical rules are made to be broken, especially in the year of donald trump but history says you have got to put a win on the board in one of those first two votes. You lose the medias attention, you lose the partys interest and the confident of your fen o and, steve, to think of the boat load of money that candidates and their sooup packs have been putting into places like New Hampshire and the go who has youutthe least is way ahead. Its an amazing time, you are know . Its trump butch it crew. Of the s word coming up a lot recently. Socialism. Is this exactly the kind of fight bern oo sanders right now . Theres a little bit of a list opinion its while Hillary Clinton herself, her campaign, has not yet been using the word socialism, its clear that message has been set out to many of her surrogates. I pent some time yesterday with senator mccass request that republicans might, if. Do you think they would use a hammer and cicyl pe. Thats what they do. Someone said the republican attack a machines has chain saws for and. The point i have tried to make is bernie has not those chain saws. Mccaskell also talk to me a le about fwrovlgs warning that Bernie Sanders wouldnt be ail to win thos as a selfdeclared socialist mope say, this is something that risk alienating some of Bernie Sanders supporters and pits had your against the liberal base of her party for some days. I think it shows you are you concerned about him. The other thing, we saw a statement from the sanders come pain, stating that he voted against the war in iraq. That ish resurfacing in this democratic primary. Bernie sanders also out with a new ad feet why aring simon and gahrunkel. Thank you voch e very much. Still to come this how, to he rev frfrm and more water deliveries come to help residents. And british investigators called the death of a russian spy valid and a real lead are. Next. Right under this tree. man some things are Worth Holding onto. Theyre hugging the tree. man thats why we got a subaru. Or was it that tree . man the twentysixteen subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. To folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain. Shoots and burns its way into your day, i hear you. To everyone with this pain that makes ordinary tasks extraordinarily painful, i hear you. Make sure your doctor hears you too i hear you because i was there when my dad suffered with diabetic nerve pain. If you have diabetes and burning, shooting pain in your feet or hands, dont suffer in silence step on up and ask your doctor about diabetic nerve pain. Tell em cedric sent you. Bis committed to truth on the label. When we say real meat is the first ingredient, it is always number one. We leave out poultry byproduct meal, corn, wheat and soy. And, we own where our dry food is made 100 . Can other brands say all that . For grainfree nutrition you can trust, does your food go beyond . Learn more at beyondpetfood. Com light piano today i saw a giant. It had no arms, but it welcomed me. crow cawing it had no heart, but it was alive. train wheels on tracks it had no mouth, but it spoke to me. It said, rocky mountaineer all aboard amazing. Now the latest on the flint, michigan water crisis. Michigans governor releasing emails on the crisis. What are we learning from these emails . Reporter good morning, jose. These are the emails the governor promised to realso a in his state of the state. Theyre general rahal ply favorable to him and not so favorable to hmm of his staff. Aand in another one here p he rerefers to the protesters here as an anty everything crowd. So the governor ends up looking quite good p good. There are only about seven emails about him directly. Asked for daily reports. It seemed like it was going. And at the same time hes dealing with what sort of pileon from president obama. Obama weighed in with a more emogsal pon norkts just a political tone. He said if i were a mr. Speaker we talked to plooms remarks. Take a listen to what she said. Every time i got a tram po i no, its not my fault but this nfrm and thats what bothers me the most. What would it take for you to come back to flint and make it your home again . At this point i dont know. I really dont know. Jose, you hear there 28 million, lots of funding and aids coming to this town. Those 1 p 100plus kids were lead poisoning how do you fix that . Its just a tragedy. Our own bill kneel oo has a live report on the twists, the turns and the possible roll of the russian president. Plus were just home away from our opening day on broad street. What a bd day yesterday was was. Anything green is better than that red disaster. To help pay for her kids ice time. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time. And 2 back at the grocery store. Even before she got 3 back on gas, all with no hoops to jump through. Katie used her bankamericard cash rewards credit card to stay warm and toasty during the heat of competition. Thats the comfort of rewarding connections. Apply online or at a bank of america near you. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and university partnerships, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in utica, where a new kind of workforce is being trained. And in albany, the nanotechnology capital of the world. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today at business. Ny. Gov. A bombshell report out this morning points the finger at russian president Vladimir Putin in the death of a spy. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, jose. Vladimir putin as we know was a former spy and hes a money with a grudge. Thats according to a british judge today who accused him of probably approving the murder of another former russian spy, a defederal courtor here in london. Its a report and an allegation is that threaten to rehis o, alex solve his own murder. He told British Police he had been spoiled by two hugssaccused the russian state of who aring the hit angd nouchltit was probably approvedalso by president putin. He was a former russian spy with supposive ool gagss. Ewitched sides to work for bittish intelligence. The report says two runs, Dmitry Medvedev and and jay the taef con tad plobium, a a roy i dont active wro he took they weeks to die dey. They left a trail of blownium cruz but need thinks were the kill percent gr zbrnch one of the men is now a lawmaker. The killing may be solved. The culprits are still three p free. Russia has called this report political and totally roo jbd its conclusions. The British Government says this is stage monday sterd urban and keep p deeply establish gr the murder case almost certainlyly end here with no one ever likely to face trial for linkio fwrork to put in people as etea, can you . Its not an easy to get thing. Not hat all. And theres plenty of evidence that these didnt quite know what they were dealing with. 97 of the worlds blownium kams from one Nuclear Reactor in russia. So there is a clear link between the actor and them, one of them poured the lieu tonium down the sake. Had described it. His coffin was ethe postmortem in his death been so the emost vord and it remaps the only recorded case of blownium murder in the world mope say. New developments on war streak. Here as a look at the dow in the first 6 pintthis are for this is the central bank is basically telling the world its still kmilted to policies that will help stabilize markets in europe. Lets look at this as con at the time for the Early Morning action. We still have a stock market here on the home front in the u. S. Thats had the o worst start to a year. Those losses have raised about 2 trillion off the values of s p 500 Large Cap Companies in the u. S. Oil continues to slide long of the calf drap and theyve been indicating a slowdown in growth. Thats been bearing negative. Some traders are wondering if weve soon enough down side Market Action to set ourselves up for a turn around or is this just the begin, europe is holding on it sm gains for now but its about whether or not, jose, that advance lates in a bill down about 10 so far this year. Its going to be a big deal to see whether theres any kind of accountability in todays trade. Talk to me about the price of oil. How bad is it droppi