Story. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. The massive late winter storm that swept up the northeast coast today grounding air and rail travel to a halt is still pounding parts of new england with blizzard conditions as we come on the air tonight. Millions are digging out from the storm that dumped blowing snow and sleet along the washington, d. C. To boston corridor from several inches in big coastal cities like philadelphia and new york to close to two feet in many inland cities. The storm packing winds up to 70 miles an hour, left hundreds without power and impacted the entire country as 6,000 flights, today, to, from and through the Miguel Almaguer is in massachusetts with the latest. Reporter tonight across new england, the white out and the wipe out. A blizzard wreaking havoc across eight states. Its really bad outside. Reporter 70 million caught in the cross hairs of this danger winter wallop six days before spring. Everyone wishes it was spring right. Thats what i wish. Reporter across much of the northeast. One week its warm. Next week, blizzard. Reporter the roads, railways and waterways crippled by blinding snow and whipping winds. Seen a couple of accidents. Ive only been walking for five minutes. Reporter from pounding waves and flooding along the northeast coast to the midatlantic states. This noreaster taking aim. Up to 30 inches of driving snow from pennsylvania to new jersey. This time lapse showing the snowfall in ute coastal cities where instead there was a sloppy mess of snow and sleet. D. C. Prepared for seven inches of snow but saw less than two. Philadelphia expected up to 14 but got six. New york prepared for up to 18 inches. So far just about seven have fallen. Massachusetts wasnt as lucky. An army of snow equipment scrambling to clear roads before they turned deadly. Too many spin outs to count. Even the snowplows having trouble. I advise anybody to stay home. If possible, stay home. Dont come out unless its an emergency. Roads are that bad . If its an emergency call us. Well come help you. Reporter in some areas the wind may be more treacherous than the snow. Hurricane gusts ripping across the region. In this bone chilling temperatures, this could be a killer cold for the nearly 150,000 who lost power or heat. The combination on the coast of high winds, wet snow and freezing rain could result in some significant power outages. Reporter with up to two feet snow are shut down in boston tomorrow. Tonight this storm was hit or miss. For those in the bulls eye, this is the misery of a direct hit. Tonight to give you some perspective, we have launched our drone over one neighborhood. What a white out all across this area. With more snow in the forecast when neighbors wake up, theyll have to dig out of several inches of snow just to make it outside of their front doors and once they do, lester, theyll have to dig out their cars. Meanwhile in pennsylvania, late tonight, there was an 80mile escort by the National Guard to get a nearly 2yearold child to the hospital for an emergency operation. What a day. Lester. What day. Just a few days until spring. Miguel almaguer, thanks. The most dramatic impact from this storm may be on travel both in the air and tracks. Amtrak suspended Train Service as the airline cancelled 6,000 flights today. Another 900 already cancelled fo tomorrow. Tom costello is tracking it for us. A major effort to get things moving. Reporter at new yorks big three, an all day effort to clear thousands of tons of snow with nearly every incoming and out going flight cancelled. The busiest air space in country last week and today emptied out. Chinese student was walking the airport terminal. How long have you been stuck in new york . Three days. Three days. How many more days until you can get out . Three days more. Reporter how rare is this . Outside curb check in empty. Inside, same story. No one at the airline kiosks, at the counters or the terminal. The gates to tsa, check point also closed. All waited out the storm here at charlotte, atlanta and outside the storm zone. The Ripple Effect stretching nationwide. Stuck at miami international, jean tried to flow north after a vacation in the caribbean. We had to get a hotel. Some people here cant afford hotels. Reporter in los angeles, sylvia waiting to fly east. Going to hang out at the beach. Reporter from planes to trains as amtrak worked to reopen its lines. Looks like ill be heading out on one tomorrow morning. Reporter by midday flights were starting to land again in washington while back at la guardia, the vargas family gave up choosing to drive 20 hours to miami. Maybe there they can catch a flight home. Not a lot of movement in northeast today. Take a look at the flight aware misery map. Gives you a realtime indication of whats going on. A lot of red, boston, new york, philly, washington recovering but chicago has struggled today. The airlines are hoping that tomorrow they can jump start operations. Back to you. Thanks. Al park. Some areas just got clobbered. Others were spared the worst. Break it down for us and whats next . Just like we told you yesterday. Difference of 100 miles east or west made all the difference. The storm started hugging the coast and if you follow on our map, i95, thats the line in red. It brought in warm air from the atlantic. Along the coast you see the rain. Behind and to the north and to the west of i95 all snow. This evening, boston youll have light snow. New york city and boston wind gusts 35 to 40 miles an hour. Well see snow showers throughout the region. As far as further accumulations, were basically looking at a few inches of snow in upstate new york. As you get into Northern New England you could see anywhere from eight to ten inches of know. Lester. Thank you. Shock waves are being felt from something of an earthquake by the nonpartisan office. It would result in 24 million fewer people insured. The white house is pushing back as millions of anxious americans wonder what to believe about what will happen to their health coverage. Here is peter alexander. Reporter less than 24 hours after an independent analysis dealt a punishing blow to the republican plan to replace obamacare, the white house is trying to resurrect it. This is it. If we dont get this through, the goal of repealing obamacare and instituting a system that will be patient centered will be unbelievably difficult. Reporter the strategy mocking the report itself. Good morning from washington where you can see according to the Congressional Budget Office its sunny and 74. Reporter the nonpartisan estimate that says 14 million more people will be uninsured next year undermines President Trumps promise of insurance for everybody. I think the president s goal is to make insurance available to thats what he intended to do. Reporter the white house says the bill is the first in a threepart process. Democrats say it only helps the rich and some republicans are skeptical. Why house members would want to vote for this bill and pay the political price for voting for this bill if its doomed a failure in the senate. Reporter the fight is raising questions about the relationship between paul ryan and the president. I am not going to defend donald trump not now, not in the future. Reporter that reportedly ryans response to his access hollywood scandal last fall. The timing of the release could deepen any divide. Breitbart is taking aim at the Health Care Plan dubbing it ryancare. Republicans have built this up as such a big deal. They made it too big to fail. The problem they have when something is thought of as too big to fail and its in danger of failing, youve got a problem. Republican Lindsey Graham is warning the fbi had better respond to the request for any information that backs up President Trumps wiretapping claims. The white house tonight says its extremely confident those allegations directed at president obama will be proven. Lester. Peter, thank you. While the debate rages in washington, many across the country are trying to calculate the personal impact of the proposed plan. We went to arizona. A state that voted for President Trump and now some fear the gops answer to obamacare could cost them their coverage. We have more. You still hear a bit of congestion. For a lot of people this could be a life or death situation. Yes, it could be. Reporter at the Health Center in mesa, arizona, fear about the republican plan to freeze the expansion of medicaid. For our patients that anticipate losing their benefits, they are really scared. Reporter arizona was one of 31 states under obamacare. More than 400,000 people in the state gained coverage including working mom. If you were to get sick, hospital bills are through the roof. If i didnt have insurance when i had him, god knows where id be. Reporter many seeking change after spiked dramatically and Health Insurance companies fled the market. Kim, a Small Business owner if phoenix met with President Trump yesterday. We have a lot of people in arizona paying a big penalty . Yes. Not only with the premiums go up and the cancellation letters keep coming, but my deductibles will go up. Reporter the republican plan would mean higher cost for many needing to buy insurance especially those older and low income. The plan replaces direct subsidies to buy insurance with tax credits and those tax credits would average 71 less than the current subsidies for someone in arizona who is 60 years old making 40,000 according to the keiser family foundation. For some patients in this red state, the future of their health care is uncertain. Nbc news, mesa, arizona. Lets turn now to the heated moments in our nations capital. The marine corps top brass took incoming fire from senators over the nude photo scandal rocking the military and faced tough questions about how something so shocking could happen under their commend. We have details. Reporter reporter the countrys most powerful marines under fire on capitol hill. Denigrating female marines who will give their life to this country in the way they have with no response from leadership. I can tell you your answers today are unsatisfactory. Reporter testifying why he didnt know about nude photos circulating online without their consent. 30,000 member group, marines united. They say roughly 500 members accessed the images. We havent just fact with all marines are marines. Reporter facing a skeptical audience. When you say to us its got to be different, that rings hallow. I dont have a good answer for you. Im not going to sit here and duck around this thing. Im not. Im responsible. Reporter senators calling for more discipline. Fear of degrading a fellow marine needs to be increased when that fellow marine is a woman trying to serve the country. Reporter calling for my to speak out. Victim blaming and the excuse that some are giving boys will be boys need to stop. Reporter its necessary and non negotiable. Turning overseas where north korea is threatening merciless attacks over joint u. S. Military exercises with north korea. A warning as Rex Tillerson is set to arrive there for a fourday tour. Andrea mitchell has late details from tokyo. Reporter tonight with fighter jets taking off on joint military exercises with south korea north korea is issuing stark warnings that they will unleash attacks if those ships stray into north korean territory. The navy calling these routine military drills. The purpose of the exercise is to reenforce our alliance with the south korean republic. Reporter all of this as secretary of state Rex Tillerson is said to arrive in japan tomorrow. Tensions rising quickly. In addition to a new Missile Defense system. All after the young kim jongun firing missiles into the sea of japan. Calling them a test run to hit american bases nearby. 50,000 u. S. Troops are based in japan. 28,000 more in south korea. The white house is working on a north korea strategy including those military steps and Cyber Attacks to try to sabotage north koreas missile launches as this is shaping up as the first major Foreign Policy test for the new administration. Lester. Thank you. Still ahead, trouble getting a mortgage or car loan . Help is on the way. The big change that could send your credit score climbing to new heights. Now the accidental stars are breaking their silence about this infamous interruption. Thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. 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An unjection™. Finally tonight, youve probably seen it by now. The viral video thats been viewed over 84 million times and counting. People just cant stop laughing at these kids interrupting their dad at the worst possible moment. Now the family is speaking out about what you didnt see behind the scenes. Reporter tonight Professor Robert kelly says he wont go near his phone. Put them in airplane mode. Ive turned off twitter alerts and facebook alerts. Im not going near youtube. Reporter the viral fall out from that video. Kelly, in his home office, trying to explain south korean politics live on the bbc when his daughter comes in and then his son, then his frantic wife spawning copy cats from italy to the tonight show. Today the professor was bravely back on camera trying to explain how it went down. Ive been doing tv for a while. Most of the time he locks the door. Reporter 4yearold marions adorable swagger. Kelly said she was in a great mood after her birthday after school. Once my son came in in the little roller then there was nothing i could do. Reporter the family wasnt prepared for worldwide fame. Calm down. Most are interested in this fading to a manageable level. Reporter marion might have other plans. Now she wants to talk to you. Want me bring her in . This is my life, man. Reporter his expertise may pay the bills but a moment with marion. What did you do for your birthday at school, honey . I dont know, man. Reporter priceless. Nbc news. I feel a Reality Tv Show in their future. Thats going to do it for us on this tuesday night. Im lester holt. For all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. Vanessa grimaldi there did seem to be like a little bit of tension. Weve had our struggles. I think were just taking that approach. Can they last . Will they wed . So many questions for nick and vanessa. Im liz hernandez. Add to that the mystery of vanessas
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