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Isn t piling up as quickly at this point. it is windy. it s coming down and that s continuing out here right now. if we take a look at some of our maps, what do we have? 28 degrees here in new york. but that s where you are seeing the freezing rain. we are right on that freezing rain line. so there is rain just to the south. there is snow just to the north there are areas seeing really heavy snow right now new york city stucked in the middle of it. wind gusts 30 miles per hour. spots getting up to 35 miles per hour in atlantic city. these winds have been picking up a little bit just in the last couple of minutes. you get a really good gust. and that s when it starts to lower our visibility. so winds still going to be an issue, a big issue here, maybe folk as little bit further inland seeing heavy snow at this point. for now out here it s just the sleet which actually makes it more uncomfortable out here on the plaza, guys. steve: all right. on the plaza where it is sleeting. adam, than ....
Repeal and replace obamacare. first of all pointing out yes, the cbo numbers do say that a lot of people will lose insurance. it also says that the deficit will come down big time, a lot more, perhaps, than expected. and the president before the report even came out said look, the media only focuses on the positive effects of obamacare but doesn t focus on what he called the victims of obamacare. saying people lost their plans. people lost their doctors. of the president also noting that the etna ceo recently pointed out the current law is in a, quote, death spiral. so the president says he has a plan to fix it let s take a look at what the cbo is saying about what that republican plan would do. basically saying that before obamacare, you could see on the far left there, there were 57 million people without insurance, thought about 27 million people who do not have insurance. red line shows that over the next 10 years about 24 million more people will lose insurance according to the cb ....
He put together a group of what he called victims of obamacare to say, wait a second, he blamed the media said the media is only doing positive stories of the people who have been covered by obamacare. he said, final. but they re not pointing out the people who have lost their doctor or who have lost their plans and have not pointed out that the ceo at etna has said that obamacare current law is in a death spiral. so the president said something needs to be done. so he and the house republican leaders have this plan, the congressional budget office came out. here is their verdict. they say 14 million more people will be uninsured by 2018. 24 million uninsured by 2026 that because of lifting the mandates under obamacare. premiums will go up. interestingly some good news for the president. premiums will go up less than they are going up now already under existing law. obamacare. remember, they have been spiking anyway. as you say, the deficit would come down big time under the ....
Strike on a senior al qaeda leader in syria. and the justice department now has six more days to provide proof to back up that wiretapping claim against the obama administration. saying it is about the broader surveillance activity during the 2016 election. the house intel committee may subpoena the agency if it fails to comply by the new deadline. so we will see if that happens. that s a look at your headlines. steve: we will, heather, thank you. heather: i ll be back. brian: coming up straight ahead, 12 minutes after the hour. obamacare architect calling the obamacare a scam. huge political advantage and basically call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting this thing to pass. brian: a former ceo official joins us next with his reaction. steve: plus, can t read? no problem. you can always be a teacher. not kidding. ....
Would sty senator manchin who i admire a great deal is just because we save money, just because we spend less doesn t mean we are providing less services. in fact, the exact opposite is true. what we have done is what the governors have asked us to do. governors from both parties give the states more control over their own medicaid so they can drive their own efficiencies. everybody wins if we do it properly. steve: i know you are a budget hawk you love the fact in 10 years you save $234 billion. that s real money, that s great. you are also a politician. you know the politics of the headlines that say 14 million americans no healthcare thanks to the republicans. that s not good. but i think the people who are on obamacare, who are really the target here, right. and keep in mind. i was one of them. i was on exchanges when i was a member of the house. the focuses on obamacare know what the problem is the problem is they have affordable health insurance. they have completely unaffordab ....