said, what did they do? i was promoted to the education committee. snl takes on qanon congresswoman marjorie taylor greene as things heat up between her and a colleague on the hill. the question is, what will republican leader kevin mccarthy say to her when they meet this week? plus, a group of republican senators head to the white house today to pitch president biden on their much smaller counter offer to his covid relief proposal. the question, is it a nonstarter? and a massive winter storm moves east, expected to affect more than 100 million americans with a brutal mix of snow, rain, and high winds. the question is, how bad will it get? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that s really cold just looking outside. i am kasie hunt on this monday, february 1st. we will start, as always, with the news. a group of ten republican senators will meet with president biden at the white house today to discuss their countero
coming up, i will talk to the governor, republican jim justice, about how that state is getting the job done. but getting shots in arms on the east coast today, may have to waist. a massive winter storm is blanketing a third of the country right now. look at that. it s bringing snow, rain, high winds to some 75 million americans as far south as kentucky. folks, it s expected to get worse throughout the day. we will get an update where things stand in the weather department in a few moments. first, white house covid-19 response team briefing should start any moment. mike memoli covering the white house for us. erin mclaughlin has reporting on new frustrations surrounding the rollout. mike, president biden starting february off focused on his covid relief plan. we know he is going to be meeting with ten republican senators this afternoon. they are proposing a slimmed down relief bill. what do we know about their plan? what do we know about how the two sides might try to merge
plus, new details about novak djokovic s health before his trip to australia, as he waits to learn whether he can defend his grand slam title. details in a live report from sydney. and russia helps the president of kazakhstan restore order amid signs he is making a power grab following deadly anti-government protests. and we begin in the united states, where the rampant spread of the omicron variant is hurting health care and education. in chicago, a standoff after the teachers union voted to teach remotely while the city wants in-person learning. on saturday, the mayor of chicago rejected a new proposal from the teachers union. but as they battle it out, classes have been canceled, meaning many kids are now stuck at home. meanwhile, a record number of children under age 5 are in hospitals, infected with the coronavirus. and the numbers you see there represent the number of kids under the age of 5 per 100,000 in the population who are hospitalized. and with the faciliti
a peaceful planet. we re not thinking of anything else. they re trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. [ applause ] in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. a novel titled on the road became a best-seller. when kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. i was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line
when i tell people my story, they don t believe it. i guess i wouldn t believe the story if someone else were telling it, but i m telling it. and it s true. every word of it. it started when i was born. 56 years ago. but the real story began when i was 19 years old when i went to college. it was 1980. it was the first day of school at sullivan county community college up in the catskills about 110 miles from where i grew up. so i drove up there alone. i at least had this really old car. it was a volvo and it was a 1970 volvo. had like 130,000 miles on it. the car was burgundy and the hood was green. actually, the car was called the old bitch. but the old bitch got me there. sullivan was a community college. this wasn t some longstanding institution of higher learning. all these station wagons are dropping kids off. i was nervous. i just got to the school. i didn t know anybody. i was a freshman. i was never the captain of the football team in high school. so i was never rea