Skiers. Get in. Get in. Stuck in the water after their jet ski flipped over. The race against time to pull them to safety. Shut up and dance with me and ready for the big dance. The march madness teams about to go headtohead. Northwestern erupting in cheers making their first ncaa tournament ever. How the tv star mom of one of their players celebrated with, yes, the elaine dance, and the underdogs to watch that could bust your bracket. Good morning, america. Welcome back to michael, march madness is here. First game is tomorrow. Excitement for that and that michael is back. No one more excited than northwestern. Julia louisdreyfus is an alum and a mom of one of their players. Watching her son over the week. Shes a super fan. Shes a super fan and once they made the tournament the proud mama posted that video saying were going to the dance, boys. Never get tired of seeing that. Also all eyes are on that massive storm. Take a live look at Wrigley Field in chicago. The snow starting to come down right now, the roads messy there this morning. Theyre bracing for up to half a foot of snow today and another 6 inches tomorrow. It is all heading east. We have Team Coverage across the midwest and northeast. Ginger zee starts us off right here in times square. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, george. Its two storms that will come together in the northeast. That storm in chicago is why you see Winter Weather alerts. The advisories and even lakeeffect snow alert. As it moves east the blizzard warning coastal new jersey, long island, new york city involved, coastal connecticut for wind plus heavy snow. So there are a couple of things happening that developing low on the coast, the low thats going on right now in the midwest as those two combine and come together, ill tell you about snowfall totals in just moments but first we have to check it in chicago. Our alex perez is right there this morning where the snow is flying. Reporter hey, good morning, ginger. The snow started falling overnight. As you can see its quickly accumulating. Believe it or not it has not snowed significantly here in chicago since december. So, its going to be a rough day. Highway havoc in the midwaste. A late winter storm slamming millions from iowa to minnesota. Awful. Didnt expect it to get this bad. It is intense. So crazy. Reporter plummeting temperatures, freezing freeways sending cars sliding off the road into each other. The treacherous conditions causing this 24car pileup outside of minneapolis. Wind and waves from lake ontario along with freezing temperatures engulfed this New York House in ice. Surprisingly this isnt out of the ordinary. Delays in the twin cities as airlines scramble to deice planes stuck on the tarmac. The blast blowing across the region overnight dumping close to ten inches of snow from the dakotas to iowa. Another 24 inches expected in some areas by wednesday. But merciless is subfreezing temperatures disastrous near detroit. 65,000 people in the area still without power. And officials now say Carbon Monoxide poisoning from generators left two dead in this northern detroit home a mother and her two Young Children hospitalized. This morning across the northeast, 60 million residents are bracing for the winter wallop as it barrels their way. And the storm is headed east, chicago is not in the clear just yet. Round two, lakeeffect snow here tomorrow. Robin. All right. Take it easy there. Coming down there, alex. Thank you. That storm is gathering steam and millions bracing for what could be the biggest snowfall of 9 season up to two feet possible. Lets go to rob in philadelphia. Good morning, rob. Hey, good morning, robin. I am standing on top of 17,000 tons of salt, part of 50,000 tons at the ready here in this city of philadelphia. By the way, new york city has nearly 300 tons of salt ready to go because its been a mild winter, they have plenty of leftovers and will need it with this storm that will come in during the overnight hours on a weekday, heaviest during the morning rush and we had a bitterly cold weekend so the road temperatures are near freezing. This snow will stick. Today theyve already pretreated the roads. Later on today theyll take sanitation trucks and convert them to plow and salt trucks and work 12hour shifts, department of transportation tells me that, you know, they havent had much of a winter so his guys are ready to go champing at the bit and enthusiasm, robin, needed if this cranks up like we think it will. Robin. All right, rob, thank you very much. Arent you glad you came back for all this . Im as enthusiastic as those ready to shovel the snow. The weather is already causing travel headaches for millions of people out there and airlines have already canceled hundreds of flights and more delays and cancellations on the way and david kerley is at Reagan National airport with more. Good morning to you, david. Reporter good morning, michael. The cancellation plans tell the story, already hundreds of flights canceled. More tomorrow than today. But already today 750 flights have been canceled. Chicago airports are going to be the hardest hit. But let me show you about tomorrow. Nearly a thousand flights have been canceled for tomorrow. It is going to be a very difficult day to fly come tuesday if you want to try and get around the country. Now, of course, a lot of us will be driving and roads are going to be a problem from the midwest into the northeast and over the weekend as we watch a live picture from chicago. Crews here in the east coast were laying down treatment on the roads, michael, to help everybody prepare as the snow starts to move in. Its going to be a mess, michael. All right, david, thank you. Stay safe out there and, ginger, we have an idea of whats coming but when and where. There we go. This is the timing. The part Everybody Needs to pay close attention to because of the start time. Remember, its the two storms coming together. We showed you the chicago this morning. But that coastal storm, when that wraps up tonight, thats when washington, d. C. Starts to get into it. I95 corridor overnight so philadelphia to new york city between midnight and 00 a. M. , then the heaviest snow, rob mentioned it. That 8 30 in the morning. The closer you are to that rain snow line the more you could get, you could see 1 to 3inch snow totals per hour along some of these lines. Thats how it will add up quickly. Next question, when does it leave . Tomorrow night by 11 00 p. M. And even clear of boston still in vermont, New Hampshire and maine and heres what everybody wants to see, snow totals. We took the liberty of taking all the mods, seeing what we thought, new york city in the 10 to 15. 15 plus in that darker magenta area. Washington, d. C. Looks like its right on the cusp of like that 2 to 4 up to 6. Michael. Ill tell you what, george and i gave a look of abdominal plane. My flight tomorrow night for the winter games for Special Olympics is not going to happen. That doesnt look good. Hopefully on wednesday, all right, ginger, thank you. Turning now to President Trump facing new pressure to reveal evidence for those wiretapping allegations. Also facing new questions about why he chose to oust a highprofile u. S. Attorney. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega has much more on all that. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter robin, good morning to you. The president is facing a number of showdowns this week. First up wiretapping. It has been nine days since he made that claim that president Obama Wiretapped him and now the calls for him to prove it are growing louder by the day. The white house has yet to offer any evidence to back up that bombshell accusation of wiretapping. Top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have given the Justice Department until today to do just that. So far, many seem skeptical. From the top democrat on the panel. There are one of two possibilities, the president quite deliberately for some reason made it up or more disturbing the president really believes this. Reporter to a republican on the Senate Intelligence committee. George, i have not seen that evidence. Reporter senator john mccain callingen 0 the president to prove it. I have no reason to believe that the charge is true but i also believe that the president of the United States could clear this up in a minute. Reporter but the white house not backing down. Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway on sunday suggesting surveillance may have been even broader than wiretapping. What i can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now unfortunately. Do you believe there was an article that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways and microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera, so we know that that is just a fact of modern life. Reporter that is far from the only controversy facing President Trump this morning. This weekend an abrupt changing of the guard at the Justice Department. The attorney general requesting resignation letters from 46 federal prosecutors, all holdovers from the obama administration. But one of the most prominent, new yorks Preet Bharara refused tweeting over the weekend, i didnt resign. Moments ago i was fired. A sharp shift from november when then president elect trump personally asked him to stay on the job. We had a good meeting. I said i would absolutely consider staying on. Reporter the white house calls it a routine housecleaning in a new administration. And another looming showdown, this one on health care. The Congressional Budget Office as early as today could release findings that show millions of people who now have health care under obamacare could lose it but, george, before these findings are even out the white house is already pushing back. Thanks, cecilia. Joined by white house counselor Kellyanne Conway. Welcome back to gma. Pretty explosive with the bergen record. Any evidence at all that the cia techniques revealed by wikileaks were used against trump tower . The president is just happy that the investigation now includes this aspect that the house select intelligence committees and the house and senate are going to have this as part of their very tattenuated russia campaign. The articles from this past week where it is revealed that one can be surveilled in any number of techniques through microwave, cameras, televisions. I wasnt talking about anything specific. Do you know whether the trump tower was wiretapped and you answered with that. Why would you make a suggestion like that without any evidence. I wasnt making a suggestion about trump tower. Thats what you were asked. About i answered him about surveilling generally. But you have no evidence that that kind of surveillance was used against trump tower. I have no evidence but thats why there is an investigation in congress. Thats particularly what investigations are for and i would note director comey asked the department of justice to make a comment. He hasnt made a comment and i noticed yesterday congressman schiff said he would ask comey about had. You say you have no evidence for these. I have no evidence for these and that answer has nothing to do with what the president said last week. Lets move on to health care. The president is promising insurance to everyone. Were what itting the cbo report and i know the white house has questions about it. You said back . January right here on gma that those who are relying on coverage will not lose it. That promise stands. Yes, it does, in fact, there are 20 Million People just last year who decided they didnt want to access obamacare, in fact, 6. 5 million of them paid a penalty and that ends under obamacare under the repeal and replace. People no longer pay the penalty, the taxes, the mandates. You had other people asking for an undue hardship waiver which i assume they were granted. Prompted they could keep their plan and doctor were told a big lie and premiums are spiraling out of control. Five states and 1,021 counties in this country where you can only access one insurance provider. Thats not a choice. And so and its actually in a downward spiral. Unsustainable and unaffordable. I think the people who receive health care through medicaid, people who receive it through employers which is many people in this country, theyll continue to have it as theyre used to it now but trying to equalize the tax treatment for the farmers and Small Business owners and mechanics who cannot pool together to Access Health insurance. You mentioned medicaid. There will be pretty big cutbacks, over 370 million in cutbacks under the president s bill in the tex ten years. Youll receive tax candidates f if youre on medicaid now. If you are on it you can expect to continue to receive your Health Insurance through medicaid and youll get tax credits that allow you to buy insurance that may be more customary for you. I dont think certain people are looking for Maternity Care of a certain age or gender, for example, so with more competition and more choices in the market which we currently just lack, you will have an opportunity to buy care that fits you. I was talking to republican senator tom cotton of arkansas yesterday on this week. Hes lobbying against this bill right now warning house members to the to walk the maplank sayi this theyll lose the house if im not thinking about the next election but the millions who dont have care and coverage and want to and need it and were expecting it through obamacare. The other thing i would note senator cotton also said that theres major carpentry work to be done so he was hopeful that something can pass and the president this entire last week, george, has been inviting people into the white house, working the phone, doing what leaders do, listening, negotiating, being a decision maker, being a deal maker and he is taking all those inputs. If people have ideas how to improve the bill he is listening to that, he and the Vice President are doing that i noted the Democratic Party comes up with no ideas. Its resist, obstruct, theyre not even coming up with anything that might be workable to try to they said theyre willing to fix obamacare if its not repealed. At least theyre admitting that it needs a major fix. How do you plug awe the shows and patchwork something thats not worked for many americans. Certainly there are people on the exchange that are happy and can continue doing that. The five principals he laid out, make sure there is a smooth transition for those already on the he can change but millions and millions of others, some of them have an insurance card and literally cant use it. Thats the worst of all possible outcomes youre told we checked the box with you, you have Health Insurance coverage but you dont have care because you cant afford the premiums and you cant afford the deductible. Kellyanne conway, thanks very much. Thanks. The white house on that Preet Bharara firing offering no explanation for the president s change of heart from november to today saying this was routine resignation of all u. S. Attorney. Nothing more than that. All right. Now to a frightening moment at the white house. A man accused of jumping a fence armed with pepper spray is due to appear in court this afternoon. The president praising the secret service but the incident is raising security questions. Abcs mary bruce is there at the white house. Has more for us. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. The intruder said he wanted to meet the president but instead hes being held in federal custody without bail. It was just after midnight here on friday when 26yearold Jonathan Tran jumped the white house fence and approached the south portico door, not far from the first familys residence where the president was home at the time. When he was discovered, tran told officers he was a friend of the president s and he had an appointment. They discovered he was carrying a book by the president , a letter mentioning Russian Hackers and two cans of mace. Tran is now charged with illegal entry while carrying a dangerous weapon. His hearing set for later today. He could face up to ten years in prison. Robin. Mary, weve been seeing a series of these fence jumpers in recent years so what is being done to prevent this. Reporter there is a redesign here in the works. The plan in part raise the white house perimeter fence from its current eight feet up to 13 feet hoping they can once and for all put an end to fence jumpers. All right, mary, thank you. You know, ginger is standing by with more on the blizzard but first lets take a look at an amazing rescue in a warmer spot of the world. Take a look at this video. Shot from the deck of a massive cruise ship, incredibly close call with a Carnival Cruise ship in port canaveral. Canaveral carnival, get it. Nearly hit two jet skiers. They fell into the water but luckily for them patrolling the harbor they got to them and pulled them aboard. You can hear the people yelling get out. Get into the boat. And they barely got out of the way. Take a look again, the two skiers being saved turned upside down underwater until their rescuer and they called him their hero. How about those high wins that were dealing with . To make it a blizzard you we get into the storm on tuesday, especially. Look at the gusts, 2 00 p. M. On tuesday, with the snow flying, gust of 51 Miles Per Hour in new york. New haven connecticut, 62. Watch as this wraps up close to boston. 67mile an hour gusts coastal flooding with this, too, advisories are up. Storm surge 3 feet. Local weather up next. Reporter good morning everybody, ginger talked about the conditions needed for a blizzard, we wont hit that criteria in philadelphia, but