But lets get right to the breaking news on the Oscar Nominations. Lincoln snagging the most. Life of pi right behind. Chris connelly is here. Lets start with is the snubs. Les miserables directed itself, Katherine Bigelow doesnt have to wear heels. The story was rebellion, rebellion in fans, in the house of philadelphia. A movie started life in a log cabin and just kept on going. Oh, wow. Impressive. Fantastic. Right there, lot more coming up. Well turn now to the deadly flu outbreak. Lets take a look. 12 nominations in all including best actor for daniel daylewis. Supporting actress for sally field. Best director for Steven Spielberg. Hugh jackman, best actress. Anne hathaway for best supporting actress. Thanks. Reporter the biggest shock came in best director, argos ben affleck and Kathryn Bigelo were were passed over. Life of pi still sliced 11 nominations. Alan arkin and Phillip Seymour hoffman. Best actress includes the youngest actress, ever. And its oldest ever em manuelle. Turn
Im Marci Gonzalez in for diana perez. And im john muller. We begin with big changes to obamacare. Thousands of americans will get to keep their plans at least for a bit longer. Tahman bradley has the details and Quick Reaction from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter marci and john, these changes would affect as many as 1. 5 million people. Up the new guidelines those people will get to keep their old plans for two more years even if those plans dont meet the requirements of the new law. The new set of regulations helps insurance customers but it also helps democrats facing a political problem in this falls midterm elections. Thats why republicans quickly criticized the president. A spokesman for john boehner said the president is rewriting laws around the election calendar, but the white house says the decision was not political. Without this change, john and marci, there would have been a wave of cancellations of Health Care Plans before the november election. All right, Tahma
Bindi irwin, what its like following in her fathers footsteps and the news shes only sharing right here. Good day, america. I am the champion and youre going to hear me roar and good morning, america. Lara is off today. Great to have amy robach. And, boy, big news on federal health care this morning. Another extension announced by the white house. Theyre saying anyone who likes their Health Care Plan can keep it for two more years. This is one of the topics you talked to the first lady about. I saw her yesterday at a womens conference in miami. So we talked about health care, in particular, though, she talked about persuading young people to sign up now before the deadline and reminding people that the deadline to sign up is the end of this month. Well hear from her just in a moment. Also coming up here, an investigation ahead youll want to stick around for. Its about dry cleaning. The very dirty secrets you should know before you take in your clothes the next time. I, for one, will be
Yeah despite being snubbed at the Oscar Nominations ben affleck took home best directors of the Critics Choice Awards. I would like to thank the academy. Jack assures me is he going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency. Reporter on cbs this morning. The only way youre allowed to have that as your signature is if your name is boing boing boing boing boing boing. Captioning funded by cbs well come to cbs this morning. Hospitals from the Pacific Northwest to texas to new england are full of flu patients. And this morning, some areas are starting to run low on flu vaccine. Michelle miller is in boston inside a Neighborhood Health clinic. Michelle good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie, norah and our viewers in the west. The west coast may not have been hit hard by the flu but here in boston it is a health care emergency. City official this is weekend will open up Health Clinics like this and offer free flu shots. The hope is to ease some of
Kansas. Wichita, 14 inches. Thats the most theyve seen in more than 50 years. Inches piling up in omaha and st. Louis. 1,000 plows are working in kansas alone, but its doing little to keep drivers from being stranded. Actually, you saw a plow itself getting toppled over. Even the plows are having trouble staying on top of things. Hundreds of flights have been scrubbed. Bill karins will have more for us a little later in weather. Right now, we want to turn to politics. Were now just one week from the automatic cuts that will slash 85 billion from government spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the sequester will cost 750,000 jobs and lower Economic Growth by 0. 6 . Dont forget we were negative in gdp in the last quarter. It could mean longer lines at the airport, less funding for teachers, and cuts at the pentagon that Officials Say could hurt national security. Still, the white house and republicans remained lock in a stalemate over how to deal with the sequester. Yester