time to make any sweeping change is right now. this is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. republicans racing the political clock to push through a health care replacement bill have a message. republicans unified. we are unified. we are really excited about the unified vote. but the fight over health care is exposing divisions within the republican party. between small government conservatives, swing state moderates and a president who ran as a populist and is governing as a nationalist. this week, two key house committees approved a plan to overhaul the affordable care act, but not before conservatives rushed out to pan the bill both in the house this is just obamacare with a different label. it appears to be the largest welfare program ever proposed by republicans in the history of our country. and in the senate. the bill as written is not going to pass the senate. simply would not pass the senate. it s dead on arriva
morning as we are bracing for the storm coming our way. take a look at this one. it is the calm before the sun. this is a look of the sunrising in the state s capital. beautiful now. the northeast is bracing for a massive blizzard that could wallop the region with over a foot of snow. the storm is blowing in from the midwest where millions are under winter weather watches and warnings. strong winds and heavy snow creating dangerous road conditions, causing some drivers to slide in the ditches. the snow didn t stop this game in minneapolis. at some points the play was paused until the ground crew could blow snow off the field lines. despite the cold players wore shorts while dedicated fans cheered in all that snow. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the storm for us. what is the latest? where is it now? what can we expect? a little night snow for illinois and indiana. as the two storms merge, that s when we are going to deal with the nor easter and could get stranded
is right now. this is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. republicans racing the political clock to push through a health care replacement bill have a message. republicans unified. we are unified. we are really excited about the unified vote. but the fight over health care is exposing divisions within the republican party. between small government conservatives, swing state moderates and a president who ran as a populist and is governing as a nationalist. this week, two key house committees approved a plan to overhaul the affordable care act, but not before conservatives rushed out to pan the bill both in the house this is just obamacare with a different label. it appears to be the largest welfare program ever proposed by republicans in the history of our country. and in the senate. the bill as written is not going to pass the senate. simply would not pass the tax credits are a government giftaway and they want obamacar
blizzard that could wallop the region with over a foot of snow. the storm is blowing in from the midwest where millions are under winter weather watches and warnings. strong winds and heavy snow creating dangerous road conditions, causing some drivers to slide in the ditches. the snow didn t stop this game in minneapolis. at some points the play was paused until the ground crew could blow off show. despite the cold players wore shorts while dedicated fans cheered in all that snow. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the storm for us. where is this storm, what can we expect? it s going to combine, two storms forming into one forming our nor easter and blizzard tomorrow. snow over illinois, snow over areas of indiana today, going to combine with this storm off the southeast coast, we ll send up with this massive snow over the next 48 hours. 1 to 3 inches over the ohio valley today. then the bigger stuff into the east. we re going to start doing the heavy snow later toni
the tracks. don t start on the tracks till you re sure you can get all the way across and she just got caught in traffic, apparently wasn t paying real close attention. reporter: the fire department rescued her from the car and rushed her to the hospital where she would later die. the intersection is busy and congested, an accident some say waiting to happen. traffic at this intersection will back way up and then people will try and sneak across and hope they clear the intersection and then in this case the gal was just sitting there. in traffic all the time i see people stop to the tracks all the time and i just wonder why are they doing that? reporter: the crash destroyed one of the guardrails that s supposed to prevent cars from driving onto the tracks when the train is approaching. southbound trains were stopped for several hours during the accident investigation and clean-up stranding countless passengers during their evening commute. caltrain said they will work