right now on first look, round two. the latest winter storm hammers the midwest with snow and ice as it moves east followed by a whopper of a storm this week end. heroin bust. police arrest four in a heroin dealing raid in their connection to phillip seymour hoffman and his with drawing $1,200 from an atm. defying john paul. the soon to be sainted pope's notes were supposed to be destroyed but now will be published. plus, the olympic games are set to begin. swallowing a tiny pill sure beats the alternative. >> and who lead the list as the butt of jay leno's jokes.

good morning. it's nice to see you. the seemingly endless winter is not over. a new storm bringing snow and ice is moving in right now across 32 states. 118 million americans are in the cross hairs. many of which are still digging out from a storm earlier this week. more people are under watches and warnings for this storm than all of last winter. it has buried parts of the midwest inasmuch as 10 inches of snow. cities like philadelphia, new york and boston. but with trees there still covered in snow, today's snow could lead to widespread power outages and the travel delays are piling up. this southwest jet landed in kansas city safely but ran into a snow bank while taxiing to the gate. the airlines says no one on board was hurt. already this morning 2,000 flights have been canceled. more than 1200 already delayed. let's get to bill karins. bill, it is definitely going to be a problem out there this

morning. >> it's going to be a little bit worse than monday. this one is peeking before people hit the roads. a good chance you'll get plowed in. a lot of parents have to get to work. let me show you what we've been dealing with overnight. pennsylvania is an icy mess from pittsburgh all the way down to philadelphia. temperatures have been around 28 to 32 degrees. a lot of freezing rain. that's been a big problem there with northern virginia to northern maryland. further to the north we have what we call a front end thump. 2 to 3 inches around new york city to northern jersey. it's falling from hartford, new haven, soon to boston and providence. plenty cold for albany. the new york through way will be slippery and covered in snow. how much snow are we talking? a lot of the ohio valley has already fallen, but the areas in new england, this is all going to happen from now until about midnight tonight especially from

albany to boston. the heaviest snows, cat skills, boston. snowfall totals a plowable snow from providence to hartford north wards. a lot of sleet and ice. a lot of people in new jersey and pennsylvania, we'll start worrying about power outages throughout the day. there are thousands of people from arkansas and kentucky without power. >> thank you, bill. >> turning to the investigation into the death of actor phillip seymour hoffman. overnight, four people were arrested in a heroin bust. investigators now looking into whether those suspects could have provided drugs to the late actor. cops confirm heroin was found inside the lower east side apartment where they were taken into custody. >> also new this morning, an emerging time line leading up to hoffman's death. we're learning the oscar-winning actor made six atm withdrawals totaling $1200 near his new york apartment on saturday night. sources tell nbc news he was talking to two men wearing

messenger bags. the next morning his body was found surrounded by bags of heroin. many thought it could have been caused by synthetic morphine but the heroin nound hoffman's apartment did not contain the power full additive, fentanol. >> there's new fuel this morning in the debate over obamacare. congressional analysts saying the affordable care act could lead to millions of job losses. up to 2.5 million jobs by 2024. that's according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office. the cbo predicts american workers will cut back on their hours or leave the nation's work force entirely. the group previously predicted it would lead to a loss of 800,000 jobs. house speaker john boehner saying in a statement, the middle class is getting squeezed many this economy and this report confirms that obamacare is making it worse. the white house pushed back saying the possible reduction

would be voluntary. >> this is not businesses cutting back on jobs. this is people having new choices they didn't used to have. those are two completely different things in terms of the impact it has on people. >> the wide ranging report predicted the federal budget deficit would fall to $514 billion. that's down from last year's 680 billion and the lowest since president obama took office. alleged police corruption rocks the florida criminal justice system potentially leading to scores of appeals from convicted criminals. crime lab analyst joseph graves is accused of stealing and reselling narcotics used to bust and convict suspects. he launched his own enterprise by replacing evidence with nonprescription pills. authorities are hoping his work on 2600 cases will not force the courts to toss out several convictions and prison sentences. he faces 12 counts of theft, drug trafficking, and evidence tampering. okay. so it's known among the professionals as creationism versus evolution.

it's a debate as old as time. how did we get here? bill nye the science guy going head to head tuesday with the founder of the creation museum in kentucky. ken hamm believes the earth is 6,000 years old and that the bible tells the factual account, but nye says he and the science community believe the big bang theory created the earth billions of years ago sparking evolution. >> the bottom line is that as a christian, i have a foundation that as a christian i would ask bill a question. what would change your mind? you said even if you came to faith you would never give up believing in billions of years. >> we would need one piece of evidence. we would need the fossil that swam from one layer to another. we would need evidence that the universe is not expanding. we would need evidence that the stars appear to be far away but they're not. let's go ahead and get the latest in sports from my good friend richard lui. i'm not going to ask you that

one. we'll stick to sports. >> they are interesting characters, no doubt, veronica. >> that's true. >> i have a new development. dolphins ritchie incognito's suspension lifted tuesday. he allegedly bullied his teammate. now incognito saying this in a tweet, i support jonathan martin 100% returning to football. incognito becoming a free agent in march. soccer star david beckham is buying a new miami major league soccer team. he has a couple of bucks there. it will be the 22nd club starting in 2015 or later. beckham got to buy the team below the $25 million market rate. college basketball unranked ohio state against ranked iowa. aaron kraft led with 17 points. puts a dent in iowa's big ten title hopes, 76-69. snowboarder shaun white had a minor wrist injury in practice

in sochi. the two-time olympic gold medalist, he remains happy about one thing. his hair. >> no, i love it. it's so much better. i used to kind of have to like put it back in some way so it wouldn't fly in my face while i'm doing my tricks. now i'm faster. >> he's getting old. 27 years old. doesn't like long hair. those bizarre twin toilets drawing attention last month, they're at it. this shot with two fully geared up skiers on tuesday. there was a caption in russian underneath that pic. loosely translated it says, foreign athletes love to pose on strange toilets in sochi. they are unique, are they not. not everybody watches super bowl. last night on jimmy kimmel he found a bunch of them. >> how do you think tom brady did last night? >> i thought tom brady was great. tom brady killed it last night actually. he threw real well to the seattle receivers. >> did you think it was heartwarming when the seahawks let that kid play during the

fourth quarter? >> absolutely. >> especially without a helmet. it was just -- >> it was great. and barry bonds field goal at the half was super as well. the "tonight show's" jay leno got in on the act as well. he offered up what might be the first post super bowl commercial. >> malcolm smith, you and the seattle seahawks just won the super bowl. what are you going to do next? >> i'm going to disneyland! ♪ why dreams come true >> of course he's a defensive player and he as well was the super bowl mvp. >> yikes. all right. thanks, richard. a major sex trafficking bust including 45 pimps. plus, a pill that might just save you from that frightening colonoscopy. you're watching "first look" on msnbc.

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good morning and welcome back. it is time now to get down to business. 30 year u.s. olympic and paralympic sponsor at&t is the

first major advertiser to protest russia's antilbgt laws. the nasty winter weather is having an impact on the economy. flightaware.com reports that 39,000 flights were canceled in january, the most since hurricane sandy hit the east coast in 2012. also, storms are driving up prices for road salt as many communities and regions are running out of supplies. and colon exams may never be the same. the fda has just approved a high tech pillcam that contains two color cameras for colon examinations. patients would simply swallow the pill. as it makes its journey through the human body. the $500 pill is made by given imaging. and some stories making news now. after more than two years, congress passed a $956 billion farm bill that will extend crop insurance for farmers and create new subsidies for rice and peanut growers.

the bill is being criticized by some for cutting $8 billion in funding for food stamps. however that translates to 1% of the program's spending. president obama is expected to sign the bill on friday. >> pope john paul ii's most personal and private notes will be published in a book today even though his last will and testament requested they be burned. the cardinal who was entrusted with these notes said he did not have the courage to follow the pope's orders to burn them. instead, he is making them available for the world to read. the cardinal says he plans to use the money from the book to build a museum honoring john paul. a super bowl sex trafficking crackdown by law enforcement led to the recovery of 16 teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 17. an fbi spokesman said many of the victims, mostly girls, are kept in the sex trade by abusive pimps. the crack down lead to the arrest of 45 pimps in the days leading up to the super bowl. the olympic torch is set to

arrive in sochi today marking the end of the longest torch relay. we'll have exclusive coverage of the nbc winter games beginning with snowboarding, freestyle skiing and of course figure skating. all happening thursday night at 8:00, 7:00 central. well, the slug fest between harry reed and john mccain continues. we have scrambled politics coming up. emily's just starting out... and on a budget.

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it is time now for your hump day edition of scrambled politics. voters in new hampshire could soon have the choice not to choose anyone. a bill in the state legislature wants to add none of the above to local, state and federal ballots. currently nevada is the only state with that option. in one corner senator harry reed, in the other, senator john mccain. ding, ding, ding, ding. two men often at odds on policy came together to call attention to brain injuries in boxing. both were amateur boxers as young men and apparently that fighting spirit has not gone away. >> we are friends. we have so much respect for each other. it was just a month or two ago we ran into each other by the elevators and he said [ bleep ]. and i said i wouldn't expect less. any day.

davis just landed an all-star backer. emmitt smith has donated $10,000. part went to her texas campaign and another to the group supporting democrats in the state. and the movement to send justin bieber back to canada now has a powerful supporter. virginia senator mark warner is offering to sign the online petition calling for the pop star's deportation. >> anybody ask about the petition to deport justin bieber? >> about the what? >> the petition to deport justin bieber. >> no, but as a dad, you know -- >> as a dad with daughters. >> yeah. as a dad with three daughters is there someplace i can sign? >> apparently he isn't the only one. in case you're wondering, that petition now nearing 250,000 signatures. still, no official response from the white house. and no one said that he is

the tech geek in chief. while president obama was visiting a school in maryland he borrowed a student's ipad. just one problem, he didn't find out until later that the ipad was recording. when he did, he gave viewers a tour of the classroom. his secret service agent and the press core. oh, thanks, mr. president. that's going to do it for your morning dish of scrambled politics. ipad is on. joining me now for your "first look" at politics, ed o'keefe. good morning. >> good morning, veronica. >> let's start with a bit of a fact checker on this cbo report and the numbers of jobs lost. republican politicians have taken these numbers and they've kind of twisted them out of context. help us cut through the spin here and tell us what this report actually means. >> well, the big headline isn't that about 2, 2.5 million jobs are going to be lost, it's that 2, 2.5 million workers are going to remove themselves from the

labor force that the cbo believes simply because they can get health insurance through medicare, medicaid, some other way. there's this realization by people and by government estimates that, you know, a good chunk of people now are going to simply stop looking for work because they realize now that they can have health care insurance. over the long term it looks as if about 89% of the country will eventually have health care insurance. that's in about the next 10 to 15 years. that's on par with the goal of the law. while they won't hit the 7 million goal in march, remember, they wanted to have 7 million people enrolled, they'll hit about 6 million. in the coming years they'll have 24 million people enrolled by 2017. that's basically on par with where the government wanted to be. >> regardless though, you know the cbo number is out there. how did democrats get around this knowing that it may very well cause problems in 2016? >> it's going to cause a lot of problems. what this does is basically validate the concerns that republicans have been raising for months.

we tried asking a few democratic senators about it and they kept claiming they hadn't seen it. that's a good way to dodge the question. you can envision the types of ads that will run. they'll say government estimates say that 2.5 million people will stop looking for work because of obama care, it's jean sheheen's fault, mark beggage's fault, the type of democratic senators running for re-election. this is exactly the kind of thing that democrats have feared. it will be a big problem this next election year. >> they should focus on the success of the health care law instead. ed o'keefe with the washington post, nice to see you, sir. >> great to be with you. take care. coming up, bill karins and richard lui join us for first buzz including new evidence that the infamous twin toilets in sochi may not be such a strange occurrence. it's all next. ♪

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kids like christie are why i teach. definitely presidential material. a born leader with executive experience. >> this is -- you're reading off of note cards. did chris christie's people get to you? >> yes. he closed off two lanes of the lunch line. i wouldn't endorse him and a week later the class goldfish turned up dead. i could be next. so who is jay leno's -- exactly, right. question for you guys, who is jay leno's biggest target over 22 years, 43,000 jokes? you see him right there, former

president bill clinton who has the dubious honor of being honored in 4,706 jokes. surprisingly o.j. simpson topping the list with 795 jokes. >> who's counting these jokes? >> that's a good question. >> joke counter. time now for first buzz. i don't know if you guys have noticed. there seems to be a problem with accommodations at the sochi winter olympics. so much so that journalists and athletes have been tweeting about it. i wanted to read some of these tweets because they are hysterical. check out this photo here, this tweet from kevin bishop. the reception has no floor but it does have this welcoming picture. >> no floor? >> no floor. >> what? >> apparently people are going to the owner's hotel room. stacy st. clair says my hotel has no water. the front desk says do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous.

this is real. this is really happening. >> and it goes on. >> this person, greg, saying people have asked me what surprised me the most here in sochi. it is this. without question, it is this. and that basically is a photo of a toilet saying please do not put anything in it. they want you to put your toilet paper in that little receptacle right there. my goodness. my goodness. >> the chemicals can't handle i guess the paper. that happens in some places. >> what did they do for the -- >> $51 billion is what they have spent. >> i know. >> on what? not on the dorms. that's for sure. >> yeah. >> i think, richard, you're going to continue with the toilet? >> that's a great segue. since you were showing a picture of a toilet, i'll show another picture of a toilet. the skiers fully geared up in the double toilets. there's also -- perhaps this is common there. there's a quintuplet toilets at

a college. >> you have some news. >> i'm still waiting. we went the whole show. i thought there would be cake or flowers. national weather person's day. >> don't tell me now. it's too late ♪ happy national weather person's day to you ♪ >> happy anchor day you're getting nothing. >> stay tuned. "way too early" starts right now. there are rumors circulating of a justin bieber sex tape. >> oooohhh. >> yeah, the sex tape is being marketed as hot girl on girl action. >> all right. we cannot confirm that sex tape thingy, but we can confirm an american politician has signed onto the official deport justin bieber petition. so who is it? and in russia, the olympic venues look great but some of the accommodations may not be up to standards to warnings not to use the water to three-legged dogs running wild through sochi. is this all part ever the

russian charm. obamacare can cost russian jobs. each side reaches different conclusions. let the cherry picking begin. this is "way too early." hey, everybody. good morning. welcome to "way too early." i'm thomas roberts. it is wednesday, february the 5th. this is the show where the accommodations are just adequate enough to put you right back to sleep. we've got mints. we've got cold coffee here, water, everything we need to get you through. stick around. gentleman wa want to start with the snow and commuters should expect a treacherous ride to work as the second snowstorm of the week sweeps through. some areas could see a foot of snow and other areas could see freezing rain and ice. the storm has caused big problems across the west. one of the hardest hit states is kansas. they're digging out from 12 inches of snow. state offices will bese