plus for a limited time, get a free security camera call 1800 xfinity or visit comcast.com/xfinityhome. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here. wherever you are watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. up first in the united states the northeast gets hit by a one-two punch. millions of americans are dealing with snow sleet, even blizzard-like conditions. massachusetts is getting pounded for the second time in a week. parts of the state could get hit with another 14 inches of no. earlier the storm pummelled the midwest, areas including cleveland are still under a winter storm warning. a toledo ohio police officer

died while shoveling snow. heavy snow is causing major problems for driver. in nebraska two people died in car dozens on slick roads, and the storm is snarling air travel all across the united states. more than 3500 flights were canceled today. that according to flightaware.com. in boston it's snowing now 1 to 2 inches an hour in areas around the city. it could get up to a foot of additional snow it's making driving conditions pretty treacherous. brian todd is driving just north of the city what's it like up there, brian? >> reporter: wolf it's very treacherous, and it gets worse just about every hour. what's interesting about this storm is even though it's less volume than last week's storm -- last week they had over two feet -- this week maybe it's between 10 and 14 inches predicted overall. we're in a moving vehicle on a side road just off the

interestate, off interstate 93 south. we're going to pull over and show you from my camera go out the dash camera we're going to pull over and show you what some of the road crews and motorists are up against, as we pull over here. you can see out my dash cam, there's a depot where they're stage staging from vehicle from. this is a staging area. one of the things they are running into. visibility is really back. the vblt we're told is worse. we've been talking to road crews all day. they say visibility is a lot worse than it was, even though there's less this week than last. another issue, where to put the snow? there's really nowhere to go on the roads. if you get stuck, if you get in

a jam and think you're going to get stranded there's really no place to get pulled over. this is what the police are telling us they don't want people to do. we also just ran into someone who was trying to avoid someone coming in couldn't avoid them ran into a snowbank instead. there's just nowhere to go. if you think you need to pull over there's nowhere to go. they're telling people if you think you are having problems on the road get completely off the interstate. it will complicate matters for the snowplow crews. massachusetts state officials, wolf tell us they have 3,000 vehicles on the right right now, spreaders, but as you can see, it's still coming down at a rate faster than they this clear it. that's a problem as we head into the even are you familiar hours.

>> assist there's more snow on the way. brian, be careful. as brian just said massachusetts this week is getting a lot more snow on the heels of last week's history storm. peter, boston already has declared a snow emergency. what's it like now coming on the heels you what you went there on a week ago. it'sing a challenge. visibility has been awful simply because of the rate of snow. >> are you telling people to stay off the roads? i know schools are closed today. what's the latest on that front?

>> right, across the state, most schools have taken the day off. take advantage of public transportation. this morning as commute really want that bad. i think a lot of people decided to take a snow day, maybe recovering from staying up late watching the super bowl but nonetheless, we hope this afternoon come the commute, it's not a disaster only because i think the number of vehicles on the road will not be your normal afternoon commute. >> a quick question. did you get most of last week's cleanup done? >> not 100%. we're still working late into yesterday afternoon making every effort to get ready for this

snow. i know the city of boston is scrambling because they're planning on have been a duck boat parade through the downtown of boston. >> boston is strong as we all know. let's see what they can do. congratulations on the patriots super bowl win, by the way. >> okay. i'll take all the credit. >> it's not just the need getting hid heart. martin savidge is joining us from his hometown of cleveland, how how. give us an update. >> as a matter of fact it should be improving. the storm is actually proving away from us. it's been here dumped about 8 to 10 inches but it's the wind that's proven to be brutal. wind that's blastic directly out of the east.

e difficult by the drifting and made different by the fact it's still snowing. with temperatures this cold the salt is not as effective as it usually is. aarons are open but many flights delayed or canceled and on top of that just getting around on the streets, even on foot is extremely difficult. we thought it was going to stop but around noon that is parent is not the case. the snow is still coming down the wind is still blowing. it's still a very difficult day here in the midwest, especially in northeast ohio. >> the good news is the folks in cleveland, lieu the foix in my hometown of buffalo know how to deal with. still ahead, new reports

that the united states may start arming ukrainian rebels. that i can a look at this. the airport of donestsk our nick peyton walsh is on the scene. later. republican presidential hopeful mike huckabee making head lines again, we're going to talk about that what's going on in iowa getting closer to the iowa caucuses. a lot of politics happens here in the united states.

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the kingdom is now strengthening its borders, trying to keep out smugglers f we have an exclusive report from the saudi/yemen border. >> reporter: saudi border police on the gun. right next to yemen. we're racing alongside the border fence. it's rare access. yemen is falling apart. and saudi arabia is on the front line of the fallout. we just spotted a group of smugglers right over there. they're walking towards the border. we just raced up here along the border fence with these gun trucks to try to catch them. no one knows who they are, terrorists gun runners, drug meals. earlier in the day -- so you have a great view right back along the border.

>> commanders take us to see how they're crossing the border. >> you can see people crossing the river there. >> saudis saying they are spenting almost $3 billion building new border roads. their biggest fear terrorists slipping into the kingdom. >> in recent weeks, iranian-backed tribesmen have taken control of yemen 'capital creating instability that al qaeda is employeding. high in the hills, the terrain is so torturous that there isn't even a fence. it's not just this border with yemen snaking through the mountains that the saudis are trying to secure. to the north the border with iraq has come under attack from isis.

more people keep coming. the camera operates and tells the patrol where to go. they move in arrest the suspect. that man was picked up just down there where that van is coming around the bend in the road. the border police are telling you in the last three months alone they picked up more than 42,000 people and the problem is those people could be just anyone. smugglers or even terrorists. they just brought us down to the one guy they captured that we saw on camera there. he tells me he's poor you sneaking into saudi to work illegally for the past 20 years, but recently because of the security improvements it's become much harder. late in the afternoon we've come to another base and they told us they captured some smugglers, some cat smugglers. these are children it turns out

the judgest is ten, the second time he's been caught smuggling in the stimulant of cat. >> he says he gets $50 a trip from drug barons. >> so what do you do with them? >> the answer is send him back to yemen. it turns out, though their tiny haul is a drop in the ocean. >> look at this pile of cat right here. huge. in the past three months he tells me along the 500-mile border more than half a million tons seized. street value close to $100 million. back on the chase with the gun trucks is the fleeing men are caught. they say they are poor yemenis, on the way to earn money, or some say saudi jail is better than freedom in yemen. how do you know if any of these men aren't connected with some terrorist group?

he tell me they get fingerprinted. if they have a record the police will know right away. as the sun sets off to a nearby police station. minutes later, more young drug mules are apprehended. this day, this night, toech, next week the desert kingdom threatened at its borders. nic robertson, cnn on the saudi/yemen border. >> thank you very much. excellent opportunity to get rare access to that very, very sensitive border especially with what's going on in yemen right now. from one very sensitive area to another, when we come back nick peyton walsh is in a very is dangerous part of -- the u.s. now considering arming ukrainian

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intensified in eastern ukraine in recent weeks. so has the rhetoric between the united states and russia. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry heads to kiev later this week.

meanwhile, the increased fighting has decimated several towns in the east. our own nick paton walsh is joining us now, in a dangerous part of ukraine. first, nick tell us where you are and what you've been through. i understand parts of that area including the airport have basically been leveled. >> reporter: well we have just come back near the airport, an area not accessed by the west media since its destruction. i was there in that airport seven, eight months ago, we saw the fighting begin for it. to go back today and see quite haz what happened. it was held for a long time, but the shells has torn that building to shred. we saw the bod why is of some ukrainian soldiers who the separatists claim were left behind in the past couple weeks. it's desperately terrifying

place to stan. all around you, seven or ace, simply while we were there. they are still get, and more such a sad sight, wolf because that building had been a symbol of hope for eastern ukraine. it was build for a football championship the european cusp of 2012. now it's in absolute shall receipts. frankly many are wonder, given the level of viewants when they -- wolf? >> i know wonderful rebel leaders, nick says he wants to have a 100,000-man army ready to fight. you've spoken to experts there on all sides. how realistic is that goal? >> well i think it's hyperbole, really. it's about the separatists trying to sound more confidence.

nato and the western ukraine, they've got a love the of russian army actually fighting within that are ranks. but to resource that from military age males within the population has hollowed out by the vile -- million stroke is very, very few in number. land often in civilian areas, like we saw on friday but alexander zakharchenko is increasingly angry in his rhetoric. blaming for not adequately resourced people to talk to them in minsk. but the real concern is that the violence hay escalated, one key village being encircled, artillery landing the whole time people sheltering

underground. and the broader ambition they're telling me is to move across the entire region. they claim significant amounts of territory. the fear is where does it actually stop wolf? >> be careful over there. nick paton walsh on the scene for us in ukraine. still ahead, we'll get into american politics. the more controversial comments on same-sex marriage raising questions about mike huckabee's strategy. is he going to run for president? is he trying to sell books? what's going on? the full discussion, coming up.

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is also a former fox news host stirred up emotions with a statement when he was asked about same-sex marriage. he was on cnn with our own dana baisch on "state of the union" he referred to it as a lifestyle and also made they comparisons. >> people can be my friends who have lifestyles that are not necessarily my lifestyles. i don't shut people out of my circle our out of my life because they have a different point of view. i don't drink alcohol, but gosh a lot of my friends, maybe most of them do. i don't use profanity, but believe me i've got a lot of friends who do. some people really like classical music and ballet and opera, it's not my cup of tea. i'd like to think there's room in american for people who have different points of view without screaming, shouting and wanting to shut their businesses down. >> let's bring in our political strategist anna navarrein anavarreonavarro,

and gloria borger. he won the way caucuses back in 2008 obviously has a strong following. what's the strategy now? >> there's a short-it were strategy to try to win the iowa caucuses again, and when you -- when you look at polls that have been taken in iowa recently 37% of people said they he reflected their values. that's a short-term strategy but when you look at a larger strategy if he were by some chance but come the nominee, look at where the american public is right now. 74% of democrats you nour for gay marriage. 58% of independent voters are. if you're a republican candidate, and you've got to appeal to those independent voters to win a general election you have to talk very difficultly about being gay as a lifestyle choice?

that is not something that independents or democrats would go to at all. >> i don't know if you saw the interview -- >> i did. >> for him this is a religious issue, a biblical issue and basically makes the points his views on marriage equality same-sex marriage are the exact view that is president obama had back in 2008 when he was running for presidents. we know that president obama has changed his views dramatically over the past six years. >> i think he's making a valid point. we don't need to shut them out from the debate. we don't need to shut them out from their lives. it is a biblical issue for some people. some people are not going to change their minds on it. i think that part of the interview, those are valid, legitimate points. the problem comes when he starts making these types of compare so that and calling it a lifestyle choice. that comes across as very offensive to many homosexual and

paem who, like me who have gay friends and understand it's not a lifestyle choice. i use profanity, that's my lifestyle choice i drink, that's my lifestyle choice. being heterosexual is not a lifestyle choice. it is what i am. i think that's what most gay people feel they are, and where he runs into trouble. but this has been a consistent approach by mike huckabee. we have seen him picking a fight with beyonce and jay-z, and now we see him doing this and we're talking about him. so it's not a bad short-term approach as sglorgloria mentioned. >> jeb bush has said and warned the republican party a being perceived as anti-gay even though he didn't endorse gay marriage, but said it's an issue you could to the states but he

warned if the party wants to win, it could be negative about families it can't be negative about gay marriage, either. i think huckabee's strategy is geared toward iowa south carolina but not the general election. >> anna hold on many. gloria just said she thought that mike huckabee's chances of winning were minute i school. that was the word she used. do you agree that huckabee's chances of winning are minute i school? >> i think he would do well in iowa. i think he's got a track record there. he's got appeal and he's got a folksy approach. i expect him to be spending a lot of time in iowa. i wouldn't be sprys if he does quite well in iowa. the question is what is his long-term strategy and does he have the ability to sustain a campaign for the long term?

it's looking more and more like the republican primary will be a long-term process. >> and scott walker in the new poll is up on top. he did well a week ago at that event in iowa. >> and what you see now, again we can't say it enough is that there is a split in the republican peter between the social conservatives and so-called establishment. with mitt romney now out of it you've got a fight between jeb bush and chris christie. jeb bush i think you'll see also talk when his traditional values and try and let the american public know he was more conservative as the governor of florida than we remember and i think he just hired romney's former iowa strategist to work for him, perhaps even run his campaign. >> only a few months away from that first republican presidential debate in iowa as well. guys we've got to leave it

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held for about ten years, but jordan is demanding proof that their pilot is still alive. joining us is a columnest for "bloomberg view." and peterer bergen. jordan is saying we'll do the swap but we want proof of life. >> isis has not been negotiating in good faith for any of them. when they asked for money for james foley, it wasn't serious. the $200 million wasn't serious. so unfortunately i don't think they're negotiating in good faith about this. >> you don't think they're willing to make the exchange. >> there's no evidence that the pilot is alive. >> jordan will not move this woman to the border for possible exchange unless they first have hard roof of life evidence.

you agree? >> absolutely. and we have the video of what they believe was the jordanian intel gen agency -- they claimed to have killed another official right as these negotiations are going on. the message to the jordanians is clear, in other words, they're raising the stakes. not backing off their policy. >> this pilot, this jordanian f-16 fighter pilot is a hero in jordan right now. he comes from a very distinguished family. the king abdullah and others know -- who by the way is coming to washington later this week everyone apparently knows who this pilot is. i'm told by officials who are pretty knowledgeable that if they kill -- in isis kills this jordanian pilot, then all hell is going to break loose that's correct jordan is really going to retaliate against isis in

ways that are not necessarily typical of the way jordan behaves. have you heard that? >> i haven't. the jordanians they have a way -- clearly first off, they have a way into isis that other countries have not had so far. one of the things about hostage negotiations you're gathering intelligence their location their interests, and they may put that to good use. >> what do you think? >> i'm hear that jordan would be very, very not only angry, but they would be very vindictive, they will seek revenge and isis will pay a price. >> it's interesting, that phrase "pay a price" was used by both jordanian and japanese officials. both of these conditions are being put to the test. both of them have mixed feeling about being involved. it's not uniform in these societies, but now that this issue has come to the front of

both of these culture, they have to make a decision. both governments are pledging to double down, but that's the beginning, not the end of the debate though they'll have to start to think about what that means. they don't have the interests in that yet. are they willing to commit the resources of going against isis? what does that mean for the militaries? that's what they'll be poring over in the coming weeks. >> peter, you've had heard all this buzz coming from u.s. officials, others that what eye says is suffering, losing a lot of their commander, they lost cobanco khobani, is all that buzz justified? >> it's all true but then look at the flip side. we have the head of special operations command say at a conference yesterday that there have been 19,000 foreign fighters coming in also relike estimates there are 1,000

recruits coming in every month. and 1,000 fighters keep coming in that's sort of a draw. if you look at the situation in syria, yes, they may have loss kobani but that's a very small town. it's a hard picture to draw in syria, but they are maintaining grown or perhaps even gaining ground in syria. we've seen elements, groups in libya who killed the american contractor in tripoli last week. >> is isis losing or on the defense? >> it's clear the obama administration feels that the successes have been significant. they feel that isis has suffered -- yes, there's a gap between the political people in the white house and the military intelligence people on the ground who believe that isis is

expandsing in sinai, in libya, in many other cunning around the world. the president with an interview with fareed zakaria said we have to tame a limitedsh and not play whack amole with countries around the world. the fear is we'll be neglecting these other areas t. seth rogin and peter bergen, thank you very much. ice at issue is the president's refusal to use the phrase "islamic fa nat sim," "islamic extremism. we'll get that when we come back.

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growing out of muslim communities in certain parts of the world that have perverted the religion, have embraced anilistic violent, almost medieval interpretation of islam, and they're doing damage in a lot of countries around the world. but it is absolutely true that i reject a notion that somehow that creates a religious war, because the overwhelming majority of muslims reject that interpretation of islam. they don't even recognize it as being islam, and i think that for us to be successful in fighting this scourge, it's very important for us to align ourselves with the 99.9% muslims who are looking for the same thing we are looking for -- order, peace, prosperity.

and so you know i don't quibble with they disagree with the president. listen to what some had to say. >> i'm a big critic of the president not using islamic extremists terrorism. he's the obama world leader that doesn't, by the way. >> they have embraced the religious doctrine that requires them compelled by god to purify their religion to kill all moderate muslims or people who don't agree with them within the faith to destroy every other religion and when our president doesn't acknowledge that this is a religious-driven war, it's going to be very hard to win it. >> even some democrats are baffled by the president's word. >> well i'm upset that the president and the white house, whether it's today or yesterday

or tomorrow is not actually saying this is a war that the islamic extremists are posing against the united states and against the west and we recognize who our enemy is and come up with a strategy to defeat that enemy. >> all right. let's bring in michael smerconish. he's the host of "summermerconish" that hosts here on cnn on saturday morning. also karen finney is joining us. what do you think about the president refusal to call it radical islam? >> i wish he would do it. i'm not entirely satisfied with what i heard from lindsey graham. to me that suggests that we, too, are acting through faith. what faith would it be? i don't want to call it a religious war that we're involved with but i think trarns

transparency would be required. >> karen, you support the president's position right? >> i do. i understand where he comes from. we had a group of religious leaders yesterday talking about their concerns about their depiction of muslims and the islamic state in this context. and, you know kareem abdul jabbar said it the best. that he is to people that are muslims, what we see what terrorists are doing, it's not just a perversion they don't recognize it as their religion. when what they are doing, they are terrorists right, they are extremists and terrorists and i think what we do when we do that we create a wedge between those muslims and followers of islam who are peace loving want to be a part of the communities where they live but feel that

there's sort of this blanket, i think, put over the whole religion even though people are trying to say they are extremists. i think a lot of people within the faith feel very prejudiced against. >> michael, what do you say to that? >> i say to that that when there's crime in the united states, we want to know who did it and why did they do it what was the motivation? will we have mass killings in the united states? always a part of the story is to report on exactly what the motivation was and it feels to me dishonest by omission if we don't explain what exactly the motivation is in these instances. i think something else that i would offer to karen, which is it puts pressure on the 99.9% who are not acting in a perversion of the islamic faith to make that clear. i mean it makes them have some skin in the game and calls upon them to say, hey, they don't speak for us and we certainly don't act according zeely. >> michael, here's the problem i have with that. by that comment, you're assuming

that the 99.9% doesn't feel already some degree of responsibility and why should they? i mean i am a christian. the kkk considers themselves a christian organization. i don't consider themselves a christian organization. i don't consider them following the teachings of jesus in any shape or form. when we talk about islam -- look, many, many muslim leaders have come forward numerous times to denounce that activity and it doesn't get as much attention as maybe the extremists. maybe we need to have a better balance in that. >> go ahead, michael. >> i think we would be kreecreating an exception. for all incidents of crime and mass killings we'll tell you the particular story. but when it comes to this particular of sphere of mayhem we won't tell you the whole story. i don't think that islam -- this perversion of islam is deserving of that exclusion. >> i guess what i'm saying

those of us who don't know much about the islamic faith, we see it as a perversion of islam. the people who are in the faith are saying it's not actually a perversion, it's not even part of our faith. i feel to some degree that we need to trust the people who actually know the religion and know the faith and maybe come up with a different kind of label. >> what do you say to congresswoman gabbard of hawaii she says you have to define your enemy. and the first step in winning a war, if you're going against isis or anyone else you have to define who they are. otherwise, you're not going to know who you are fighting. >> again, i think there might be a different definition that we could come up with that does not engage sort of the religion of islam, again, from those who are in the faith who say, this isn't us. this isn't a representation of our faith. you know i worked with a group of young people who are muslim wanting to run for office and

the level of racism that they faced and prejudice because these were kids that wanted to serve their country. >> all right. last word very quickly, michael. >> david cameron came to the white house last month and on this issue i prefer his approach to it than president obama's. he called it out for what it is. >> all right. the debate over whether to use the phrase radical islam clearly will continue. thanks guys very very much. that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. in "the situation room" for our international viewers. amanpour is up next. brooke baldwin will start right after a quick break. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum

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