guiliani. he was great company in the nice cold night. >> here we are on the way to work. >> she would fall back and hit her head after that. >> have a safe day everybody. see you back here tomorrow. bill: millions of ordered to stay indoors as a winter storm slams the northeast. that was the scene overnight at plymouth massachusetts. there are millions in the danger zone but the snow totals falling short of the historic predictions made by officals. we'll talk about that. and we'll talk about what's still happening out there. martha: you walked to work with

a hot baked potato in your hands to stay warm. there was a travel ban that brought one of the largest cities to stand still. it was a ghost town overnight. while the big apple did get spared, others cities not so lucky. bill: long island, new york 20 inches. eastern connecticut 20 inches. team fox coverage on the storm. david lee miller is live in boston. david lee how are things overnight. what's expected for today? >> reporter: the snow is falling faster than the snow plows can remove it. you can take a look and see for yourself what's going on here. there are plows going down this street every few minutes but still there are mounds and mounds of snow that have to be removed. you can barely see the black top

despite the fact they have been plowing this area for the past several hours. we were told nearly a foot of snow is blanketing the city of boston. let me do my unscientific test here. we can determine how much snow there is. this lamppost is going to be drifting snow, but this is not an area that's been plowed. that's 14 inches of snow right here and it's continuing to fall at a good clip of 2-4 inches an hour. there has been coastal flooding, coastal areas of experience, mild to moderate flooding, particularly hard hit nantucket. we are told there has been flooding there and also a serious power outage affecting the entire island of nantucket. the electricity is off. in fact there are more than

20,000 people in the state of massachusetts who do not have powrl now because of this storm. restoring the electricity. authorities say will take days. one of the complications, there are very high wind gusts in some instances exceeding hurricane force winds. it makes it next to impossible to get the repair crews up in those buck totes repair the downed power lines. over my showed early off in the disstance the building you see is the public library built in the city of boston. a perfect day to curl up with a good book, but the library like every other building in this city is closed. bill: hang in there david we'll check in throughout the morning and the evening with you. martha: eastern long island, some folks could see 2 feet of snow before it's all over. rick leaven than is in

uniondale, new york. how's it going out there? >> it feels similar this morning at 9:00 a.m. as it did last night hat 10:00 p.m. the wind is still blowing. it's 20 degree but it feels like 4 degree. the. the national weather service says the storm did shift further east. but there are parts of long island that are buried and continue to get hit with snow, as much as 20-26 inches. whiteout conditions you can see with the wind swirling and the heavy snow coming down. maybe not as bad as people thought which means less snow to shovel and plow, but the roads are still in bad shape out here. they have lifted the travel ban for most of new york, all of new jersey and parts of connecticut.

parts of eastern long island. there is still going through this travel ban. we heard from the governor a short time ago about why people still need to be careful. >> while the roads are open, that is not to say that unless you need to be on the roads you should be on the roads. the roads are still dangerous. and they are passable. but there is a level of ice under the snow in many areas and if you don't have to travel today you really don't want to be traveling today. >> if you need to travel, the bridges and tunnels have reopened. most of the trains are going to begin running again. airports never closed. but there have been so many flight cancellations they are only expecting minimal activity at the airport. a teenager in hunting tong, long island was killed when he was

tubing and the tube hit a light pole and that teen was killed. still danger out here for people. martha: terrible, terrible, rick. thank you so much. bill: it was the first time the new york city subway system shut down because of snow. this morning the commute returning to normal. a driving ban overnight left the city empty. it was a strange sight in manhattan. the subways and buses back up and running after the mayor's unprecedented decision to shut down transit in the city. martha: it may take longer to get the airports going again. 7,700 flights were canceled pretty far in advance. many of them into and out of the major airport hubs.

airlines trying to get ahead of the storms. they tbroinld the airlines in advance. the passengers just had to roll with the punches. >> i'm tired and frustrated but it's out of everybody's control. i'm trying to stay positive and hopefully i'll get home to denver kind of soon. martha: most major airlines are waiving any rebooking fees. bill: like that. this is the image a nasa satellite photo showing how massive the cloud cover is blanketing the west coast. but here in new york, we were told it will be the blizzard of the century -- martha: the top five in history. bill: turned out it was the snowstorm of the week. martha: it turned out it twawls

a snowstorm. bill: but other places got hammered. massachusetts has a state of emergency. we got lucky but we were told was going to be a lot worse than this and the place shut down. the people. new york did what the mayor told them to do. martha: the subways were shut down. so people who wanted to get to work had to walk to work in the snow. bill: it was 2 1/2 miles. i hit a deli at 38th street. terror in tripoli. terrorists opened fire on hotel staff. at least 8 people are dead. witnesses say staffers tried to escape through the hotel's back door wet a car bomb explode in the parking lot. what happened here, gregg?

>> reporter: we have been tracking with it our sources on the ground if it's a dangerous and murky part of the ground. but our sources say this thing is over, it's done, by the was very dangerous and bloody. the latest we are told is that a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of the hotel first. this an iconic big hotel on the seaside in tripoli libya to distract security. 2 or 3 gunmen entered the lobby sprayed the place with business and worked their way up. these two guys or three cornered on the 21st floor. they had suicide belts on. they blew themselves up. there was reports of the one hostage at that time when the authorities cornered them. the numbers as many as nine

people killed including embassy staffers -- i'm sorry -- hotel staffers as well as possibly foreigners. there has been reports some americans staying at that hotel who were evacuated but we haven't confirmed that yet. bill: do we know the affiliation of the attackers? >> reporter: thormts were reporting something on the week, a chapter of isis in libya was claiming responsibility. there were other reports saying this was done in retribution for the american seizing last year of a suspect said to be involved with the u.s. embassy bombings in southern africa back in 1998. but now talking to our contact it seems to be infighting. the prime minister of the faction that runs the eastern side of libya an islamist faction, was set to be staying in that hotel on the 25th floor. apawrnltly these guys were going

after him. there had been another prime minister seized from that hotel two years ago. there was another faction on the other side of libya becauses in benghazi -- based in benghazi and they are running things or there. that prime minister is over there. there are dead bodies around and another sign of instability. martha: there are new questions on the release of this dangerous terrorist, an admitted al qaeda sleeper agent. was he set free as part of:negotiations. bill: we know who was responsible for the drone that crashed into the white house. but there are questions about potential holes in our security. martha: new reports that we may have a culprit in deflate-gate.

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martha: a tragic ending to a misses georgia couple.

they were responding to a craigs list ad for a vehicle. their bodies were found near a lake. >> their bodies were not in the lake, only the automobile was in the water. it's not the south outcome we hoped for. martha: the suspect has turned himself in to police. they say he was the last person to speak to the couple. he's charged with making false statement to investigators. bill: new questions on the release of a dangerous al qaeda terrorist. the house armed services committee is investigating the administration's policy on prisoner releases. >> it's part of a troubling trend where it looks like the president is trying to release as many people as possible to make it easier for him to keep his political promises to close

guantanamo. as he's releasing people the danger to our country is going up and that has lots folks on capitol hill very concerned. bill: you scene letter to that man right there max thornberry, your colleague. what are the recommendations? >> when it comes to hostage negotiations the fbi is in charge. the fbi is in charge if the hostages are in afghanistan. you have the department of defense, special operations, a big cia contingent. there needs to be somebody in charge within the department of defense so there is one person one point of contact you don't let people fall through the cracks and we have to make sure we have a consistent, coherent

policy. it's confusing right now. bill: let's take it a piece at a time. why is it this way? who is in chang and where is the charge looking? >> that's what we are trying to find out. that's why we wrote the letter. who made the decision to say an islamic combatant is sent back to the battlefield while we have marines and soldiers on the battlefield? is it a department of defense decision? we want one more islamic terrorist to fight or was it a department of justice decision where eric holder is complicit with obama's non-policy on hostage negotiations and trade. bill: the state department is suggesting that there was never a deal on the table to swap for these two americans or this american couple. up clearly don't believe that.

why not? >> there are people corroborating our belief that there was a deal on the table. the qataris have been in contact with our government last year talking about the release of al-marri. so you put things like that together and it's hard to not believe that there was some type of negotiation that there was quid pro quo. here is what the administration does. they say we didn't trade him directly for people. meaning there wasn't some east berlin west berlin white knights remembers where you have people walking across the border at the same time. just because there is an interest needary that you -- an interest.we think the administration is hiding behind semantics and

equivocating. bill: why do you think if you are right about this, why do you think this is the policy? >> i think you a separation from reality in what we are doing fighting islamic terror around the world. i think the one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. i think we have a very left-leaning president and administration who is getting the upper hand when it comes to what should we do when islamic tear rights kidnap americans. they are taking the lead on this when in reality the people who can do it the best are the department fence people who have boots on the ground and do not want to see islam its released when we are fighting the war on terror. martha: lawmakers and congress are moving closer to defying the white house to the threat posed

by iran. a new pose in the senate for sanctions against the regime despite president obama's opposition.

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martha: president obama arriving in saudi arabia this morning greeted by the new king. he will in the country for about 4 hours. ed henry is live if you india. a shortstop for the president in saudi arabia today. report prr no doubt about it -- >> reporter: no doubt about it. the white house was burned after the president did not go to

france for the rally. there is big to be done with the new king salman. the late king abdullah expressed frustrations president obama was not showing leadership. it's perpetual there are crises in the middle east. there are a whole series of them that seemed to be exploding at the same time. >> clearly as you say there is so much chaos in the region and these two leaders so important to what the response is to that chaos. what do we expect? >> reporter: what we expect is if you look at the arabia tonight middle of the powder keg. it border to the north iraq. right above iraq to the northwest, syria. where isis is gaining steam. when you go to the southern border of saudi arabia of yemen.

iran by the way just east of saudi arabia across the persian gulf. you just mentioned a moment ago democrats and republicans thinking about sanctions against iran. the bottom line is this is a tense situation and the president is trying some important diplomacy to diffuse the situation. bill: the white house full steam ahead on amnesty for immigrants. the white house on an all-out p.r. blitz to sell it to the american people. martha: while new england gets slammed, snow totals falling way short of the historic predictions. where do these forecasts go wrong? >> the storm in general i think it's fair to say was less destructive than predicted so

far. but there were variances in what the storm actually did.

martha: mass gunmen storming a hotel in tripoli and opening fire. killing 8 people before taking hostages there. the 8 rifts detonated a car bomb in the parking lot. security officials say they have that situation now under control, they believe but no word on who these gunmen gunmen were or where they are now. bill: the blizzard of 2015 turned to be something like just another storm. the 2 feet of snow did not pan out. but on long island, connecticut massachusetts, they are getting

hammered, but not here in the city. when you get the nor'easter you get the system that pauses, stalls and churns the moisture. long island hammered. massachusetts, long island, connecticut, maybe 2-3 feet of snow for some when it's all over. but new jersey and new york the historical storm did not happen. why not? >> reporter: this is just the beginning of a big siege of cold and snow that we have been predicting for a couple weeks. bill: two specific questions now, joe. sometimes when you get a hurricane, before it makes landfall it toggled to the east or west just a little bit or just so much it maybe saves your town or saves your house. is that what happened here when you shift 50-75 miles east of

new york? >> reporter: yes and know. a hurricane is a well developed system coming at you. so it's a matter of pin pointing the -- pinpointing the track. this storm came out of the ohio valley and had to redevelop. what's going on off the shoarl and we don't have a lot of data. we are arrogant to believe computer models are going the to hit these things and they can make mistakes. the factths this is occurring around new york city, people go, look at this, they can't hit a weather forecast. but 50 miles northeast of the city everybody will be digging out for three days. bill: tuesday morning. sunday afternoon the new york mayor says this will likely be

one of the largest blizzard in the history of new york city. believe they have 5-6 inches in snow in central park. the problem is the next time they talk like this, will people listen? >> reporter: i can't be responsible for what people will do. >> reporter: do you as a forecaster worry about that? >> reporter: no, i don't. what i worry about fist nailing the forecast. you have to fight from the ground you stand on at the time. every weather situation is unique. you have to look at it and evaluate it as best you can. this is a southeastern new england storm. 15-minute. i'm not saying i was right about new york city. i felt new york city was going get close to 20 inches of snow. but every weather situation is unique in and of itself so you have to study each one as they

come along and match it up against things you have seen before. bring in the computer models, link the evidence and try to predict an answer. i have been emailing people at fox saying january 26 to february 10 is going to be storm after storm every three days and a lot of cold weather. bill: the weather authority out of pennsylvania said, quote we blew it. do you agree with that? >> reporter: i think in general the storm was overplayed in new york. but if you want to go 50 miles east people will say it's a great forecast. let's remember. two days before there was only an inch or two being predicted. it turned out more than that. bill: thank you joe. 34 minutes past the hour. martha: the white house is launching a big p.r. pitch to sell the president's amnesty for

5 million immigrants. the white house touting this postcard. this is the greetings from california. $11 billion increase they say as a result of executive action and gdp. this shows you texas. you can click on any state on the map and it will show you the gdp increase. they say $8.2 billion in economic life blood increase will happen in texas as a result of this amnesty program. let's talk about it a bit. robert hoops and eve snyder. gentlemen, welcome. great to have you here this morning. pete, let me start with you. you see the flash cards and claims of check development.

what do you make of it? >> i think this is trash tag leadership at its worse. we are a nation of immigrants. but this is leading in the from behind. i have a set of flash cards on the constitution i want to give to my 8-year-old nephew. i think i need to send them to constitutional law professor barack obama who need a refresher course. this isn't in the constitution. barack obama had two full years with control of congress and he could have pushed this through by the wasn't a priority. martha: they believe it will help u.s. worker wages go up by $170 a year by 2024. that's a long time away. i just want to pull up a quote from the president's book back in 2006 from "the audacity of hope." he says it's the huge influx of

low-skilled workers provide economy as a whole,, it also threatened to depress further the wages of fellow americans and put strains on the overburdened safety net. >> getting these folks out of the shadow economy into the mainstream economy the u.s. chamber commerce is for that, the business round table is for that and american labor unions are for that. having these folks pay taxes w-2, unemployment insurance. all add i think to the benefit of the entire workforce. other part of this that's often overlooked. each one of these 5 million workers has to go through a national security check and criminal background check. these are all things reasonable people can support and they are in fact fundamental element of the bipartisan legislation that

passed the senate two years ago pant house of representatives refused to act on. >> if i could override the president's vetoes i could get the economy and the country humming. but i'm not in the constitution. president obama said 25 times he couldn't take this kind of action bates was illegal and unconstitutional. it wasn't a priority for him. he's trying to do it by fiat now. it's wrong, it's not the way to lead. martha: why didn't the president do this sooner when he had the opportunity when he had both houses prior to the republican takeover. why didn't he do it then? >> one the affordable care act the other is we were experiencing the worst economic meltdown since the depression. congress and the president can only do so many thing at once.

>> if this was up a big economic boom, why didn't he do it then. >> i didn't interrupt you let me finish, please. now this is part of the challenge for republicans. they are looking backward. they are angry, they are taking their marbles and they want to go home because the president has done something many folks in the republican party agree with. they are having a process discussion instead of a substance discussion. they cared about workers pat the ebb trilevel of the american workforce. there they would be for raising the minimal wage and raising sick leave for families. er in opposed to all of these things. >> the president had all the power, paul the control of congress. this simply wasn't a pryer for him. he said he thought it would depress the economy. if the economy were in such sham

shambles and it had all these great benefits, why didn't he do it then? martha: one the things your side said about this, would you like to close off the border and secure the border. i think if that were part of this package robert, perhaps republicans would be more open to sought things you are suggesting. why is that such a roadblock in this process? >> this is where this rhetorical jive from the republican party continues to flow. the president has supported 2 million illegal immigrants more than any other president. he built 160 miles of wall and there are 220,000 border agents all deployed by the president. >> my claim is he's doing a tremendous amount.

it's one the three legs of this policy. and again the chamber of commerce -- martha: is there area in this discussion for some sort of meeting of the mind? but a lot of people will shake their heads and say why can't that be figured out in terms of a truly secured border is a major issue here. but thank you very much. always good to have you both here. bill: there is a new twist in deflate-gate. fox sports says there is video evidence of what happened. it shows who was handling the footballs in question. martha: president obama warning law makers to hold off on the sanctions on iran. will sanctions work or not against tehran when we come back.

martha: brand-new information on the so-called deflate-gate scandal. a new report says game balls were allegedly taken from the locker room on their way to the field. it's believed ball boy act alone and is a quote person of interest. it comes as the patriots try to shake off this whole thing ahead of the super bowl. the patriots owner bob craft is demanding an apology from the nfl. he says he's 100% it will happen. who is the ball boy? bill: you asked a good question

on the commercial break. i saw something going out on behalf after spokesperson for the nfl that suggested the investigation will go on for weeks. which means they will play the big game but we won't have an answer. martha: would you like to see the video of the ball boy? i wonder when we'll see it if ever. and who told him to do it. all right. bill: 15 minutes away from the start of a senate hearing. republican lawmakers and some democrats moving ahead despite threats of a veto. is the senate about to change the game on iran for the white house? >> i think the president has

exerted all the political influence he has. he's backed a number democrats away from the legislation. i think its future is uncertain even as to when the senate might bring it up. the president is doingering he can to make sure if it does pass he has enough votes to make sure they can't override a veto. he made considerable political progress. i think it's bad news for the negotiations with iran but that's a didn't subject. bill: you have got chuck schumer from new york. robert menendez, a democrat from new jersey. i don't know if they get the 67 votes and overcomma veto threat or not. what is the president sow concerned about in terms of changing negotiations with iran. >> his argument is the senate passes this legislation really

only restating the president's only position on the subject. the president believes that could collapse the talks with iran. i have to say i don't think that's true. but if it is true it shows what a bad deal this is. the iranians can't be trusted to stay at the table for this, i don't think there is a basis for an agreement. that's something i think will give political cover for the iranians. i think they look at this confusion with the senate and the white house, they will just ask for more concessions from the administration. >> if the senate continues to movant talks break down, what happens. what is the possible scenario? >> whether these talks quote-unquote succeed or not there are only one of two possible he area yoas. if this deal is signed, it will help facilitate iran and legitimize iran's capability to

enrich iranian which is a long pole in the even if the or any nuclear weapons program. i think we are headed on a path to iran getting nuclear weapons whether this sanctions bill passes or not given the administration's unwillingness to do anything further. bill: what is day ran thinking when they -- what is tehran thinking when they hear about this debate between the white house and congress? >> i think the dominance of the administration -- if that's where we are heading their ability to prevent there is bill from becoming law says to iran the president is willing to pay a higher and higher price to get this deal. they will ask for more concessions. this is proof you can't run foreign policy in congress. you don't like the president's foreign policy. you are not going to execute 530

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bill: the dow down 300 points at the open. some disappointing corporal earning and weak economic news -- corporate earnings and weak economic earnings. martha: some say the united states is falling behind as commercial drones make gain and the government has to catch up. the man whose drone went over the white house fence said he didn't mean tolet it go over the fence. he says he was playing with that at 3:00 in the morning. is the secret service buying

that explanation? >> reporter: i'm thinking really? 3:00 a.m.? really? given their own admission the investigation continues. i think it was a good bet the secret service is none too pleased even if the explanation holds water. i have a picture of what the man was fly a quad copter. because it was so small just 2 feet in diameter, it would have been difficult to detect had it not been fourth sharp eyes and ears of the officers on duties. they are combing the grounds here to make sure nothing else happened at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the investigation continues as the secret service reviews all other investigative leads. this case will be presented to the u.s. attorney's office for

the district of columbia for a determination regarding prosecution. translation. if you fly your drone around the white house and kraisht on white house property, you can be in a lot of trouble martha. martha: whether you are playing the in the middle of the night or not. the president says he wants more rules on this. what's the holdup on that? >> technology always novels faster than regulation. the faa has been weighing a number of regulations. for now the rules that are in place like the ones that say you can't fly one pawrp the airport or around the white house that's the best wee have now. bill: many are not out of the woods yet but it takes a lot to shut down fork city. that's what happened. did the city overreact and who is getting the most out of this storm? martha: kentucky senator rand paul joins us next.

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martha: blizzard conditions blasting parts of the northeast hammering parts of the region with heavy snow and ice today. the brunt of the storm is new england, folks. that is where this thing is really doing some damage. new york city, surrounding areas seemed to escape the worst of it. welcome, everybody, brand new hour of "america's newsroom" this morning. glad to have you with us. i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. the storm is not over. snow is still falling. plenty ever problems out there. coastal flooding and thousands without power in the state of massachusetts. new york and new jersey lifting their travel bans about 7:00 a.m. today. resuming mass transit on a limited schedule. the subway system in new york was shut down first time ever as a result of snow. martha: here is a look at times square new york city waking up to a winter wonderland. it is pretty out there and getting around still a little difficult, not so bad. john roberts live in new york city. john how is it going out there?

>> reporter: martha, pretty indeed if you like winter storms. traffic beginning to move in sixth avenue and downtown new york city. the city comes back to life. not because of amount of snow but unprecedented closures. vast new york area rail system came back online about 9:00 this morning. by noon they hope to have it back up to what is called sunday service. that 60% service. may get full service in new york and new jersey by the end of the day today. we'll see how that goes. a lot of federal inspections have to happen before putting trains on the line. travel ban has been lifted with a lot of businesses taking a snow day. not likely a lot of traffic out on the road. much different situation in eastern long island where snow conditions. blizzard conditions linger in some areas. a lot of snow out there. more than a foot 1/2 in some areas. the government is moving snowplows from elsewhere to suffolk county on long island to deal with the situation. further up in northeast boston, massachusetts, snow continues there. 12 inches of snow in downtown

boston. farther inland, martha, they have 25 inches and counting. it is expected to keep snowing for a few more hours. >> the storm not nearly as bad thought here in new york city but unprecedented measures are taken and asking people whether or not we overdid it? >> reporter: new york city the amount of snow is proportional to the amount of hype that precedes it. they took unprecedented step of closing the new york city subway system for very first time because of snow. but this morning governor andrew cuomo defended those actions. >> if you tally it up i don't know this was not the most prudent course of action in any event because at the end of the day, it may have brought us back to full operating capacity sooner. but i do not criticize weather forecasters. i learned. >> reporter: that's is reference back to november of last year

when they had all that snow in buffalo and the governor criticized the national weather service, turns out wrongly because the service accurately predicted the amount of snow they would get there in buffalo. a snow day for a lot of people in new york, martha. curl up with a good book, movie and we'll see you tomorrow on the streets. martha: john, sound great, thank you. bill: that storm is having a ripple effect in a significant way. 7,000 flights canceled before the storm. many airlines want to keep their planes far away from the east coast. that leaves travelers stranded in airports from coast to coast. >> my flight to newark at 10:00 a.m. was canceled and they put me on a noon flight. when i arrived here i saw an email said that was canceled. >> train to newark. i've been flying 12 hours. bill: doug mckelway live at reagan national outside of washington. doug, good morning to you. what do we expect in terms of getting back to regular service for the airlines? >> reporter: bill, probably a few more days until things are

fully back to service although they're making great progress already. we'll look at some delays we've seen just today. we are talking about 1194 derace. in terms of cancellations, just today alone 4962. that is just today. over three-day period, yesterday, today and tomorrow, we'll look at 1700 flight cancellations. that sound like a huge number but when you consider there are 600,000 scheduled flights over that time it is not as big as you might think. that is only 3% of the flights nationwide were canceled. not as bad as it could have been. this is due in large part to the airlines proactive nature of canceling these flights well in advance. here is gene mcdina of airlines for america. >> we started proactively canceling as early as saturday. that makes customers time to make other plans and arrangements. it takes time to get everybody cycled through. people just forgo travel and not an urgent trip and storm hitting

east coast they forefoe the trip. may be a day or two to get everybody accommodated. >> reporter: it is easier for proactive cancellations when you have a gigantic storm forecast well in advance than summer pop-up thunderstorms which result in immediate cancellations that which inconvenience some passengers. bill: what about all the stranded passengers, what's to be expected? >> reporter: well, you know, you mentioned stranded passengers here in d.c. look how quiet it is here at reagan national airport. yesterday we spent a considerable portion of the day looking for stranded passengers, we couldn't find any. i know you had a few up in new york, they were few and far between. far departure from what we saw in the old days. this is due in part to the proactive nature of it airlines making preemptive cancellations. due in part to the fact that passengers are getting much more savvy. they have the apps and twitter feed. they get text messages from airlines. they have iphones and know what's happening. they know in large part not to show up at the airport in

advance with the cancellations. bill: great point. we'll check in later. doug mckelway at reagan national. martha: a lot of folks second-guessing the decision to shut down the city of new york becoming more and more of a nanny city ahead of the storm. the whole place went into panic mode. new yorkers cleared store shelves out. you would think nobody had anything in their pantry. they would all starve to death if they didn't go to the store. travel ban left streets empty. mayor bill de blasio explained his decision this way. >> this will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of new york city. i'm asking everyone to understand that and prepare accordingly. this will not be like other snowstorms. it is going to be by all indications worse and people have to be ready. martha: expect to see that whole thing with the signer on "saturday night live" most likely this weekend. he was hilarious doing a great job but very funny. chris stirewalt joins me. here is the big picture. not just for new york but for the whole nation.

have we gone soft? when we were kid, you know, if you got a foot of snow it was called a snowy stay in the middle of the winter. i mean really. >> well, look, i don't know how it was where you grew up but where i grew up, in west virginia, yeah you got know, right? that was part of being in the winter and while you all were having the great cale riots of brooklyn of 2015 down here in washington we were prepared for it. i love the forecast. anywhere between one inch and one foot of snow. it was very hard to predict. it was very hard to predict. as a consequence everybody kicked it into overdrive here. a little after 5:00 this morning as i drove in on nearly deserted roads, the roads were so clean and so dry you could have changed a newborn baby on interstate 295. it was immaculate. i thank the federal government for slowing down so i could come in. martha: i understand canceling school on two days on tuesday.

let's forget it, two days. we know why it is. liability fear, every school every institution is in complete panic somebody will sue them if something happens on the way to school. everybody wants everyone to be safe. you make some great points about something you're calling a new secular religion in this country called risk avoidance and you're right. it is weird. >> it is a strong belief that secular religion of america today is strong belief nothing bad should happen to anybody or at least anybody who has a twitter account. as long as you have some voice in the wilderness if any harm should befall you there should be a person accountable and responsible. i find it funny that the federal government feels the need to delay its opening for two hours. these are peel on whom we rely on to run the federal government. they are the federal government and they can't get to work on their own? they need somebody they need them two hours. martha: for at least two days, forget it. forget it. but you make a great point about the things at that we worry

about and things we don't seem to worry about enough. >> well it's funny. we can freak out, we are told to freak out encouraged, listen to the mayor freak out. start sacrifices to the goddess juneau immediately. do everything you can, freak out. on the large, met at that things that crumbling society, actually threats like global jihad failing schools tattered families whatever it is, we're told, well it is complicated and the new normal and we got to live wit. that tells us something we have a priority problem. martha: you know what? it is such an interesting point. we have control of shutting things down in a snowstorm but we're supposed to think we have no control over larger issues like global jihad or failing school systems. i think it is something we all need to give a little thought to. thank you, chris, for giving us big picture and image of changing a newborn baby on the freeway of the we like that one too. thank you, sir. bill: new york 25 inches of snow long island. medford, massachusetts

22 inches. some people are getting it. martha: a light fluffy snow. it is no the situation we've had in the past where there were still leaves on the trees and branches crashing everywhere. so that, we have that to thank for not being too too terrible. bill: blizzard of the century maccallum. martha: of the week. bill: of the week. many people did heed the warnings. they were stocking up on essential items which apparently includes alcohol imagine that. drizzly, a alcohol delivery app get this reports deliveries in new york and boston were up 477% over a typical monday yesterday. that was the -- martha: what else are you going to do? bill: before 2:00 in the afternoon, which is about the same time the storm -- martha: subway, stay over and have a glass of wine. bill: holy cow. drink up. martha: then there is this. republican senator rand paul making it pretty clear what he thinks of about 2016 and what he thinks about mitt romney deciding he might want to run again for president. here he is.

>> kind of with them and romney on this one, no, no, no, no, never. martha: that was rand paul. he will join us live in just a moment of we'll talk more about what he really thinks coming up next. bill: not a lost likes for this. facebook goes down in a widespread outage overnight. social network denying they were hacked so what did happen? martha: say it isn't so. incredible tale of survival as a pilot forced to ditch his plane off the ocean off the coast of hawaii. you can't believe this whole thing. we'll show it to you after the break. stick around. great stuff. ♪ know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement.

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bill: so facebook, thank goodness, is back online after a major service disruption overnight. facebook denies it was hacked. it said the disruption was result of a technical change to made to its site. it comes after a hacking group known as the "lizard squad" claimed to knock several sites off-line including instagram and tinder. whoa. on facebook we have 10 million followers. 10 million. martha: they have to be able to get to us. it is crucially, crucially important. bill: everything is cool. martha: breathe a sigh of relief over that one. back up and running. now, president obama arrives in saudi arabia today the president will formally meet with the new saudi king, king

salman. he will pay his respects to their family after the death of king abdullah. very large u.s. delegation is there today to do just that and i am joined this morning by kentucky republican senator rand paul who is on both the foreign relations and homeland security committees, both very important posts given the state of the world. senator, good morning. good to have you with us today. >> good morning. glad to be here. martha: i'm curious about our thoughts about this meeting with king salman and what you think in terms of what the president needs to express to him given the incredible volatile situation in yemen and in some parts of the middle east given the isis factor? >> you know i hope he says to saudi arabia that we'd like them to help us and work with us instead of against us. i think a lot of the arms that saudi arabia and qatar have poured into the syrian war the syrian civil war have actually been hurting us. they have actually wound up in the hand of isis. so i hope the message to them is they need to be working against radical islam.

they need to quit funding radical islamic schools in our country around the world and need to send ground troops in to help us fight isis. martha: it is such a complicated situation. i read this morning that a number of these groups, these radical islamic groups were rejoicing over the death of king abdullah in saudi arabia. but we also know that saudi arabia was not happy with our stand in syria. they obviously wanted to see us follow through on the belief that assad must go. so there is some tension in this relationship. how would you repair it? >> well i think that saudi arabia needs to realize that most of the radical islamists in the war there, the isis, are sunnis and we need to have people from the civilized world of sunni islam need to step up and that means saudi arabia. i think saudi arabia in 2013 600 million tons of weapons were poured into the syrian civil war and a lot of those were saudi weapons and a lot of those wound

up in the hand of isis. we're now back there fighting against weapons some of them were ours and some of them were our allies. so saudi arabia needs to step up to be on our side and not be provoking the situation. martha: some tough conversations need to be had interesting. let's turn our attention back here at home to some new polls that show how the gop race is shaping up. it seems that the summit in iowa has kicked this thing into high gear and reality. let's take a look how the gop taxes up those who are out there, you're on the list as well in terms of who may run for the republican nomination. undecided is the big winner. somebody named undecided got 45% of the vote. what does that tell? you. >> it tells you that people are just getting done with 2014 and haven't really got engaged in 2016 yet. some of that i think is justified. i've been saying all along, i'm here in the senate want to try to do something and i'm working very hard the first three or four months to bring something

passed to bring american profit and jobs home. so 2016 takes a little bit of a back seat to our day job of trying to get something done right now. martha: how do you see this race playing out as you look forward? a lot of folks are in and in in a big way. they have formed their leadership pacs. chris christie just did. that you see yourself on the list at 2%. what is your strategy if you decide to run? >> i think the more the merrier as far as i'm concerned. i think we have place in the party for moderates like christie, bush and romney. there will also be conservatives, hopefully from a conservatives point of view and allow moderates to divide up the moderate vote and it has been a while before since we had a conservative become the nominee. martha: what do you expect the pacs to form, when do you make affirmative decision? >> we're still doing a lot of traveling this spring, presenting a message we think is

unique. trying to let the republicans know that we thing the same old, same old will not win again the libertarian issues i put forward as well as being conservative the libertarian issues gives a edge brings in young people in, working class, people concerned with privacy and minorities concerned with minority rights and individual rights. think there are a lot of things that are different.ng that is different. the question is whether or not that will resonate. if i get involved i would not get involved just to do it. i will only get involved if we have a chance to win. martha: what about the fair act? you mentioned rife system that is something you're working on in the senate. >> one of the things affecting poor people, we've had a lot of protests across the country. they're not all about specific instances. they're about unhappiness with government in general. right now the rule stand that the government can take your property and then you have to prove that you're innocent. so right now under civil forfeiture, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent. think of a poor person who has some money they're not in a

bank and saved their money and maybe have $1,000, the government takes it. it costs more than that to get an attorney to try to prove that you're innocent. that shouldn't be the american way. so i want to end that. i want to say look, the government has to charge you and convict of you a crime in order to keep your stuff. if they don't charge you or convict they should give your stuff back. it involves hotels and involves growsry stores and involve as lot of poor people in the big city unhappy with government because they have their stuff taken without due process. martha: interesting topic. seems like a reasonable take on it. senator, thank you very much. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. bill: we are starting to see some amazing pictures out of massachusetts from the storm at least from the shoreline. stunning images we'll share with you in a moment. a shocking confession from disgraced cyclist lance armstrong. wait until you hear what he said. ♪

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bill: here we go, fox news alert. we mentioned this moment ago. dow of big in early trading off 300 points. disappointing corporate earnings and weak economic news. from the fox business network, stuart varney is here to explain what is happening. how are you, good morning we're 55 minutes into the day. what's doing? >> we're slowing. this economy is slowing down. a couple weeks ago the president goes off in the state of the union speech the recovery in place. not so fast, mr. president. it is not in place. all kinds of indicators. we're not spending much in the stores. businesses are not buying much. big capital equipment home prices slipping. month to month. actually down. and the price of gas is started to go up. so you got a lot of bad economic

news coupled with lousy profit reports from some very big-name companies, caterpillar among those. bill: everything you said is about us here in america, right? >> yes. bill: about americans and what's happening in europe is, are there concerns about greece again? >> oh, yeah. that is not really a factor in the stock market decline. bill: it's not? >> it's a factor in slowing in the u.s. economy. if everything else is slowing down, we take a mild hit. the big point here is though that consumers don't trust this recovery. they're not spending their money. look at december. retail sales were actually down in decent? that doesn't happen very often. bill: you make a great point when gas prices drop. you don't see spending on other side makes you shake your head. this makes you shake your head too. 2015 federal deficit projection according to cbo, on the screen $468 billion. fast forward 10 years from now, 2025. federal deficit projection, at a

trillion dollars. >> yes. bill: what does that mean? >> those numbers don't come from some interested parties. those are from the government's own bean counters. they are saying that the deficit this year will be the lowest in the obama presidency but then the moment he gets out of office, 2017, it starts going up. the major reason for this is obamacare. new figures suggest that obama care will be much more expensive than we thought. it will cost $50,000 per enrollee in obamacare over the next 10 years, instead of $30,000. bill: that's remarkable. >> it is. bill: that's stunning. >> uncovered $1.3 trillion worth of costs from obamacare that is going into our deficit projections. bill: i have to run quick lift those are very important. we're 18 trillion in debt right now? >> we are. bill: if we're right in 2025, we had a trillion dollars a year to our debt? >> yes. look as of now you're adding a half trillion a year to our

debt, as of now that is the lowest deficit in the obama presidency. you're starting from a half trillion dollars worth of debt and growing from there. bill: blows your mind. worse than a blizzard. stuart, thank you. see you at 11:00 a.m. eastern time on fox business. >> thanks, bill. bill: you got it. martha. martha: so some new roadblocks in the benghazi investigation. we'll tell you about the fight within the special committee that is bringing this investigation to a halt. bill: also this stunning video here. a pilot crash lands his plane in the pacific and the whole thing, from the beginning to the very end is caught on camera. and we will share this with you, with captain chuck nash in a moment.

bill: we mentioned this a moment ago. starting to get images in from around the boston massachusetts area. they are stunning from the storm. that is flooding.

that is a neighborhood. that is not good. sit you it, massachusetts some other images from around the area. this is just beginning of what we expect to be the visual damage from this storm. we talked about it missing new york city. we were told we were going to get hammered t did not happen. other people in the eastern long island and massachusetts rhode island, connecticut, up in maine, new hampshire and vermont. if you get a storm like this and you're on the ocean it is a double-whammy. martha: everything we sort supposed to get arced up and hit them hard. how about this house special committee on benghazi holding a hearing this hour on capitol hill. we learn behind the scenes drama is slowing down the investigation with both democrats and republicans at an impasse over the potential witnesses that they will interview. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been digging into this. she joins us live from washington. what is this conflict all about,

catherine? >> reporter: well, thank you martha. this morning we have this hearing, it's a status hearing with two witnesses, one from the state department and the second from the cia and the hearsing has really become a flashpoint for democrats and republicans on the select committee and bottom line it for you democrats want veto power over witnesses and more say while republicans who are in the majority are not willing to relinquish more control. we are expecting and you see the hearing just started to hear heated testimony. a republican source on the committee says the state department has already shown reluctance to produce witnesses on the ground during the 2012 terrorist attack and have first-hand knowledge of the assault that killed ambassador chris stevens and foreign service officer sean smith and ty woods and glen doherty who died in a mortar strike on the cia annex. mortars need advanced training an accuracy to hit the annex as

they did that night. >> that leads to the question how serious this really is? >> reporter: democrats took unusual step releasing letters on eve of the hearing which portray republicans as secretive and downplaying allegations that the white house tried to cover up the 2012 terrorist attack. ranking democrat elijah cummings accuses republicans with holding information from the members. spokesman for republican trey gowdy, democrats released letters they sought to further politicize the committee's work. chairman gowdy the committee, the only committee with the ability to investigate all aspects of attack must have power to subpoena witnesses including ben rhodes who coached then ambassador susan rice for five national tv appearances where she blamed a video not terrorists for the attack. >> i would suspect some, i would not say who, i it would not be

fair to mr. cummings, will come voluntarily but they're coming whether it is voluntarily or not. inures to their benefit i would argue for you to come voluntarily. >> reporter: we just received new information from our producer chad pergram on capitol hill that the committee received 15,000 thank you pages of documents. significantly these pages of documents have never been released to congress in the past. republicans will see this as more evidence that they need to pursue the benghazi select committee and we'll see what the democrats have to say in response martha. martha: interesting. we'll see what is in there. catherine, thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. bill: the coast guard watch this recording video of a pilot ditching his single-engine plane in the ocean after running out of fuel. it happened 250 miles off the coast of maui. he flew from california to hawaii. that was the plan. you can see the plane's propeller stop and pilot deploys special parachute made for the plane. the parachute slows the plane

down so it hits water on its belly, perfect, instead of crashing nose first. that allow as pilot time to get out safely. he hops on to the wing of the plane of the as the plane starts sinking and climb into an inflatable raft where he waits to get picked up by a cruise ship and now is in good condition. this was picture-perfect. captain chuck nash retired navy captain, fox news military analyst. we saw this morning and said wow, he is lucky. where do you start? >> well, anything you can walk away from, right? here's the situation. when he realized that he wasn't going to make hawaii which a little back of the envelope tells me was probably at about 100 miles west of california about 900 miles east of hawaii, he notified the coast guard, kept drilling towards hawaii because he was past of no return, i.e., he was already past halfway where he could turn around and go back to

california. so he elected to continue. he called coast guard. sent somebody out. based on imagery we're looking at that is probably out after c-130, where they put the flir, forward-looking infrared on the aircraft started tracking him. they had contact or saw a cruise ship. probably contact ad cruise ship on radio and knowing that he wasn't going to make hawaii, he probably could have gotten closer to hawaii, but you never pass up the opportunity especially with a serious when you can pop the chute. bill: do you just talk this up to a bad plan on behalf of the pilot? >> no. there could have been several things that went wrong. first off, the maximum range of that aircraft is only about 800 miles and he was on a 2,000-mile trip which the aircraft was configured with long-range tanks to ferry the aircraft. he was really on his way all the way to australia. so he could have run into headwind that he want planning on, or one of those installed

auxiliary fuel tanks could have had a transfer failure, in which case he had fuel trapped in a tank and he knew he was not going to make hawaii. bill: wow. these parachutes, standard equipment on this cirrus aircraft? >> yes, cirrus, was as best of my knowledge was the first to install this in production aircraft. other general aviation manufacturers have followed suit. they pumped that out 51 times the parachute has been deployed and saved about 104 people who would have otherwise perished. bill: no kidding? >> yeah, when you thing, bill, if they run the video again you see the airplane really noses down and then all of a sudden comes back as the parachute gets full inflation. the problem with the cirrus is and where it has not been successful is mostly when people pull it too late because the aircraft has to do that nose down, because it is out of airspeed now right?

it has to get stablized under the parachute. but if you deploy it in time it will save your life. bill: 51 times the parachute's been deployed and saved 100 lives? >> 104 according to the company statistics. bill: it is a light aircraft, right? that is one of the reasons why you can have a parachute. >> it is four-place airplane. cirrus is building a jet and they will have their jet with a parachute. bill: fascinating. great guest. thank you captain chuck nash out of washington. appreciate it. martha: that is very cool. so i would do it again says disgraced cyclist lance armstrong admitting he would cheat again speaking out about his doping scandal. armstrong telling the bbc, quote, i would want to change the man that did those things but not the decision but the way he acted. hmmm, what do you think about that? he was banned of cycling and stripped of all of his winds two years ago after he confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.

bill: i remember when he did interview. he said everybody is doing it, so what did you expect me too do? kind of reflected in that comment too. 20 minutes before the hour. the coast guard on rescue of a baby. why an eight-month-old infant had to be airlifted off a cruise ship and how that baby is doing today. martha: and is big brother watching you while you are out there on the road? a disturbing new report that the government might be spying on your car. much. ♪

bill: so the big blizzard certainly found its way in massachusetts. the maim images we're getting out of boston and towns south of boston massachusetts, will stop you in your tracks. this is downtown boston, what is that? copley square where david lee miller's position is? we talked with david an hour

ago. these towns are right on the atlantic ocean and nor'easter and pattern for system like this it churns off the coast and keeps on kicking moisture and wind from the north-northeast. as it turns hour by hour and now almost day by day you are going to see a lot more images out of boston and the coast of massachusetts and the eastern end of long island where they have taken quite a shot. as we say in new york city, we missed it and we dodged it. other people clearly have not. more coming up on that momentarily. martha: stunning new report that the justice department has been building a database that tracks the movements of millions of cars around the nation. according to these documents in "the wall street journal" today the drug enforcement agency uses the intelligence to fight drug trafficking by seizing cars and cash and other assets of the doj defends this policy saying quote, it is not new, that the dea uses license plate reader program to arrest criminals and stop the flow of drugs in areas of high trafficking intensity.

so what does everybody think about this whole program? lars larsen, syndicated radio show host at alpha media networks. leslie marshall syndicated radio show host and fox news contributor. welcome to you both. the news is the database is expanded to hunt for vehicles with other crimes other than drug receipted crimes including kidnappings, killings, rape suspects according to people familiar with this lars, let me start with you good thing, or bad thing. >> i'm ambivalent. while i think it is outrageous that the government keeps files on law-abiding citizens, completely understandable doing it for law enforcement purposes and in all likelihood would be found to be completely legal and completely constitutional. the idea you can take a picture of anybody's license plate in america, you can do that, i can do that. i'm sure fox news takes lots of pictures of every day of people who never gave permission for their pictures to be taken. that's legal. the problem is we have an

administration where the president gives lip service to the idea that we all love our civil liberties and he will do everything he can to protect them while at the same time the government is doing this but unless you were to outlaw the government doing it, and let me tell you what would happen next? private companies also gather this kind of data primarily to find deadbeats that don't make car payments on time to repo cars. if government were outlawedded doing it the private companies would gather data and sell to the government. i don't see a way around it. martha: you point out something that i think about a the lo we're literally drowning in data. everybody is collecting so much data across the country. and, leslie my only hope when i read these stories are we using it effective otherwise it is a big cya operation. >> i'm scared it is monday and i agreed almost 100% with lars for the first time ever because i'm ambivalent about this too. first of all here are some of the issues.

one is the scope, overreach of the government. but when we look at breaking it down do we want license plates to be tracked when we have amber alerts? absolutely. we want that information. we want it accessed quickly. another concern is, the nsa and the dea sharing information. the dea this is going again outside of the scope of just drug operations. and amber alerts and they're not doing anything with regard to national security or are they? these two agencies for years have been sharing information. but as lars said, and you just spoke to this, martha when right now, my cell phone is sitting not far from where i am on screen. and, somebody can track that. and hackers can track that. the cell phone company can track that. the police can track that. so our license plates, the dmv knows our information, our names, our addresses our height, our weight. has a picture of us. i'm not surprised but it is uncomfortable because of course

we feel it's a slippery slope. what will be next. martha: it is uncomfortable but it is the world that we live in. everybody has a ton of information on all of us and so you know i think, i'm not alone lars, in thinking that okay, you throw your hand up and say, it is all out there but i would love to know that we're connecting the dots when it comes to criminals when it comes to terrorists. are these agencies using all this information in an effective, connect the dots kind of way? or is it all just to have reams and reams of stuff to say we're doing the best we can? >> well two data points on that. one they probably aren't using it effectively because we still have these silos built around these various agencies. we'll find out somewhere down the line some terrorist is being hunted. we know where he is or one agency knows where he is but not sharing that with another agency. i have a feel we'll hear about. that second one remember nsa some boys and girls at nsa using databases to check up on significant others or

ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend, you remember when ha happened? martha: that's not fire. >> aassume all the data will be abused by people in government if not by the nsa say by the irs to go after groups. martha: unplug people if you want to be private. only way to do it. lars leslie, thank you very much. >> thanks, martha. bill: jon scott up next in "happening now." >> good morning bill here in new york city, the blizzard fizzled out but it remains a dangerous storm for massachusetts and maine. we'll take a look. some meteorologists are actually apologizing today for missed forecasts. is the u.s. falling behind europe in forecasting technology? should we speed up and expand new invests? america's asking today. a hearing fraught with tensions on benghazi today as we get 15,000 pages of new documents in connection with the terror attack of 2012. this as isis claims responsibility for a new attack on a luxury hotel in tripoli

that left at least five foreign nationals dead. we'll get into that. bill: thank you jon. see you at top of the hour. >> see you, bill. bill: fox news alert. don't look now america the dow is off nearly 400 points in early morning trading. a lot of, there is a lot of pressure on the markets. consumer spending is not where people thought it would be. gas prices seeming to go a bit higher right now. frankly earnings from a lot of big american companies are not coming in as expected. more on this in a moment here on "america's newsroom." american space taxi to the international space station now one step closer to reality. we have a date for the next great ride, maccallum. martha: all right. ♪

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bill: emotional day for the world as survivors of the holocaust mark 70 years since their liberation from nazi concentration camps. amy kellogg is on the story. she is live in london today with more. amy, hello. >> reporter: bill, unbelievably moving especially to see the state many of these survivors are in. they look quite strong and robust. 300 showing up for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz and for many it is the first time they went back. some have said bill, that the memories become more haunting and painful with age. for some of these people, they were returning to the death camp to try to seek solace in the company of other survivors, and many of them brought children and grandchildren along with them all part of making sure that the horrors of the holocaust are never forgotten. six million jews were killed during the holocaust. 1.1 million were killed at auschwitz. >> i asked myself, how did i

survive and how was it possible that human beings could turn into such beasts, worse than beasts educated cultured people. how was that possible? only yesterday. >> reporter: bill, susan pollack's mother was gassed by the nazis at auschwitz and her brother actually was tasked with the incredibly grim job of disposing of corpses. he survived but never gotten over the trauma. sop people bill, lost their parents and actually of course never had the chance to say good bi. bill: 70 years later might be last chance for some people to tell their story, amy. >> reporter: that is absolutely true. why this ceremony is so important. it is important for the survivors to tell their stories for therapeutic reasons. but more important probably for

humanity to hear the stories to keep the legacy alive. this is probably last time we'll see so many people together at a big decade ceremony at auschwitz. the stories of course they have been telling about watching friend get shot. being subjected to very sick and painful medical examinations at the camp. also finally some were forced on death marchs away from the camp as the allies, as the russians approached. of course auschwitz was liberated by red army soldiers 70 years ago. i think just the fact that these people showed up today bill, is such an incredible testimony to the strength of the human spirit and that they survived. bill? bill: having been there the size of auschwitz and auschwitz birkenau would blow your mind. it is much greater than it should have ever amy kellogg live in london on that story today. martha. >> as the big winter storm moves north we're starting to get a picture what is really going on

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