longer interview. >> if it's the sunday after the super bowl it'll be "meet the press." we'll see you next week. good monday morning, right now on "first look," the northeast braces for another winter wallop. this same storm slammed chicago with up to 15 inches of snow, closing schools and forcing the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights. super bowl stunner. a super comeback for the patriots and the seahawks catching heat for giving up a touchdown. plus a gun-wielding toddler wounds both his parents. "american sniper" sets a super bowl record and the advertiser winners and losers from last night's game. good morning, happy monday to you. i'm betty nguyen. here we go again. a wicked snowstorm slamming parts of the u.s. right now the northeast facing snow, sleet and freezing rain. millions bracing for a messy monday commute.

in the midwest, look at this. chicago buried under snow. at midway airport, 18 1/2 inches of it. the forecast is forcing schools to cancel classes and leaving more than 8,000 without power. in toledo, a snow emergency. visibility was down to just a few feet. officials issued a travel ban for parts of ohio. in nebraska the roads, they were treacherous there. over seven inches of icy snow and wind causing these two tractor trailers right here to slam into each other. and at airports, travel is up in the air. more than 2,000 flights canceled across the country. the hardest-hit airport, o'hare international with over 1300. let's get the latest from this. meteorologist bill karins is here tracking this massive storm. >> already the biggest snowstorm in chicago. the winds have died off. we're not looking at blizzard conditions. detroit, 14 1/2 inches.

that's the most snow they've had in one single day in the last 40 years, so, yes, this was a historic storm and now the worst of it is smack in the middle of new england. all through upstate new york northern half of pennsylvania. the green shows you the rain and the rain has moved into southern portions of new york city ranging currently in brooklyn and will turn over to rain in manhattan so a lot of the three inches will be washed away by midmorning. different story, southern new england, plenty cold enough for all snow from the albany area over to boston hartford should be mostly all snow but it will change to sleet and could have an extended period of freezing rain north of new york city. new york city picked up a quick 3 or 4 inches. the highest, a foot is possible from the mass pike through worcester north pwards and freezing rain, southern portions

of new england, the pink shown here and could see a quarter to a half an inch. back to the sunset and temperatures plunge. then the temperatures will drop to the single digits so shovel everything today because you'll be chipping ice tomorrow. >> there is a major showdown in the nation's capital today. the president is expected to reveal his ten-year budget plan. it would give a bump to the poor and middle class, but it will also unbalance the debt, challenging the gop-led congress. tracie potts in live in washington this morning. tracie, how bitter could this get, and is there any common ground here? >> reporter: well it's going to be contentious. the chair wants to look for common ground and we're going to be looking for the details within the hour more and then later today as this budget comes out. president obama's $4 trillion budget. federal workers would get a bigger raise than before. plus, he wants to spend nearly

half a trillion on infrastructure, roads, bridges and public transit. $10 billion plus on clean energy. >> really important stuff. >> reporter: and nearly half a billion for free community college just to start. we'd pay almost 60 times that in three years when more students sign on. >> we can afford to make these investments. since i took office we cut our deficits by about two-thirds. >> reporter: the deficit, how upside down the budget is, and the debt, the total amount we owe, would remain relatively stable, experts say, but still unbalanced. that's likely to cause a rift here, plus a 14% corporate tax on overseas profits. and an even bigger tax on future foreign earnings. but republicans are talking compromise. >> we want to go and see if there's common ground. and so we want to look and we want to work with this administration to see if we can find common ground on certain aspects of tax reform, and we want to exhaust that possibility. >> reporter: this budget gives the middle class a break, a second tax credit for two-parent working families, expanding tax

breaks to adults with no children, and expanding the child care tax credit. republican leaders say they're open to that. >> nbc's tracie potts there. watch savannah's full interview with president obama this morning on "today." the patriots are the new super bowl champs. and had a dramatic victory to capture the first tight until ten years. nbc's sarah dallof is there. gloria riviera. >> reporter: a lot of people questioning that last play but so many excited fans a huge night for tom brady, the first to lead his team to six super bowls, now a fourth championship and a third mvp on his resume.

after all the buildup. all the excite. . >> super bowl xlix under way. >> reporter: super bowl xlix kicked off in glendale arizona under a sunny sky, 64,000 fans cheering from the stands. more than 100 million watching on tv. and the game didn't disappoint, coming down to the final seconds. >> it's still not on the ground. still not on the ground. well, look at that. >> reporter: with an amazing catch. >> play clock at five. pass is intercepted at the goal line! >> reporter: and a goal line play call that will be talked about for years to come. >> i can't believe the call. >> i mean, you would think, you know, they would try to punch it in with marshawn lynch. we made them pay. >> we gave ourselves a chance to win the ball game. they made a play to win at the end. credit to them.

>> reporter: final score, 28-24. >> are you ready? >> reporter: it wasn't all about football, however. halftime is traditionally the motion viewed musical event of the year and katy perry didn't disappoint, roaring her way through the 12-minute set. joined by surprise guest missy elliott and rocker lenny kravitz. a game that set new records and sent patriots fans home happy. and for fans making their way home today, it is not going to be easy. airport officials are advising people to arrive at least three hours before their flights and be sure to check those cancellations and delays with those storms in the midwest and east, betty. it's going to be a nasty trip home. back to you. >> a lot much snags out there. okay thank you very much for that. you know there's still no word on the medical condition of bobbi christina brown. the 21-year-old was found unresponsive in her bathtub on

saturday. she was taken to an atlanta hospital. our sister network e! reporting she's on a ventilator. but so far hospital officials are not confirming that. bobbi kristina's father, singer bobby brown, has been at her bedside and through his attorney is asking that everyone respect her privacy. meanwhile, officials have released this audio recording of the emergency responder's call to dispatch. >> engine 7, rescue 4 responder. echo level response. possible cardiac arrest. 21-year-old female in a bathtub, face down. >> the timing of this incident is drawing sharp comparisons to that of her mother, whitney houston, who was found unresponsive in a hotel bathtub and died nearly three years ago. police tell nbc news no drugs were found in the initial search of bobbi kristina's home. let's get down to business. good morning. >> good morning. stocks are starting off with a new slate coming off their second straight down month a

number of disappointing earnings report. crude rose sharply friday. look for data on the consumer and manufacturing. toyota chrysler and honda recalling 2 million older cars because the air bags can deploy while you're driving. no deaths or injuries have been reported. the recall includes the odyssey viper and corolla. mcdonald's wants you to show them some love. random customers will be asked for food with nothing but affection sinceuch as hugging their kids or calling their mom. betty, back over to you. >> we can all afford that. thank you. in sports the super bowl wasn't the only competition going on in arizona yesterday. the pga phoenix open. brooks koepka closed with a final round 5 under 66 for a one-shot victory and his first pga tour title. the falcons, they are under investigation by the nfl. according to espn, the league is looking into atlanta for allegedly piping artificial

noise into the georgia dome for the past two seasons. the falcons' game ops department is accused of creating this noise plan. if proven true, they could face fines and possibly a loss of a draft pick. here's some of today's headlines following yesterday's super bowl stunner. "the boston herald," supernatural! mvp brady's stunnin last pick give pats the title. and "the seattle times," "deflated." stunning goal line pick denies the seahawks a super bowl repeat. check out the celebrities who were at the university of phoenix stadium from steven tyler to sir paul mccartney, even kevin hart and will ferrell who had more on their mind than just the big game. >> turn down for what? >> don't do that. do you know what it means? >> will, stop. >> turn down for what? >> stop. >> you have no idea what it means. >> what are you talking about? >> what does the what mean?

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welcome back. 14 minutes past the hour. the japanese government is vowing to pursue and punish the isis terrorist behind the beheading of a second japanese national kenji goto. japan has since evacuated its syrian embassy. no word on the fate of the jordanian pilot being held captive but the jordanian government renewed its offer to swap a female suicide bomber for his return. a couplinge couple is recovering after being shot by their son. the toddler's father says he took the handgun out of his mother's purse and fired one shot.

>> like if i was to get up and shake your hand and sit back down. all of a sudden i heard a gun go off. the next thing you know, my girlfriend was bleeding then i sat down. i realized i was shot too. i was more worried about my girlfriend than her -- than myself or anything else that was going on, and my son at that because i didn't know if he had shot himself or not. after that he was, like, shocked himself. he was crying. i don't know. it was all traumatizing. >> the bullet hit justin reynolds in the rear, then exited his hip and struck the boy's mother in the right shoulder. police are investigating the incident as an accident. and we couldn't talk about the super bowl without bringing up those ads. they made us laugh, they made us cry. but some of them like this one from nationwide just made us scratch our heads. >> i never learned to fly or travel the world with my best friend, and i won't ever get married. i couldn't grow up because i died from an accident.

>> well, nationwide released this statement saying "the sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance. while some did not care for the ad, we hope it served to begin a dialogue to make safe happen for children everywhere." boy, did it. there were over 22,000 tweets about the ad. most people calling it a debbie downer. so much so that someone started this twitter handle #nationwidekills. and an espn reporter tweeted, "no one in the nationwide advertising meeting put up their hand and went, let's sleep on this!" president obama goes beer tasting. scrambled politics is next. s simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com no more calling around. no more hassles.

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honest we've never seen them in the same place. just saying. as if the two chris matthews didn't confuse you enough there's this with his dallas cowboys not playing sunday chris christie was in london cheering on a different kind of football team the arsenal soccer club. one of his possible opponents in the primary, rand paul released this paper football with rand 2016 written on it. hmm. on the democratic side rupert murdoch tweeted joe biden actively preparing to run against hillary. prior to the game savannah guthrie spoke to the president and they tasted a honey ale and played either or. >> football or basketball? >> i'm still a basketball guy but i love football. >> offense or defense? >> always offense. >> wings or chicks and guac?

>> that's tough. i'm going to go chips and guac. >> hillary clinton and joe biden? >> i love them both. good try. >> i had to try. >> a little bit of deja vu. the gop-led house rules committee will spend tonight, the evening of groundhog day, once again considering a bill to repeal the affordable health care act. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. all right, 21 past. i'm joined by msnbc reporter jane tim. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so we are learning and we have had the weekend to mull it over mitt romney has decided, hey, i'm not going to run for president next year. was this his decision or do you think maybe the gop top had something to do with this? >> i think the real winner was mitt romney has always been a numbers guy and the numbers didn't look good. we saw a poll out of iowa this weekend that i thought said it all where it said the voters knew mitt romney and made their opinion and while a fair amount liked him there was not enough

margin for him to rise over anybody. a lot of governors eyeing 2016 campaigns have sort of big ranges of people who were unsure about them and to me that says they have a lot of room to grow and to rise well above that sort of 40% mark that mitt romney was running around in the poll. >> as you know he did meet with jeb bush for that secret meeting that we all knew about. we didn't know exactly what they were discussing before making this announcement. any chance that romney could fall on the vip o vp run. >> i sort of doubt that. romney's statement saying you know, i'm not going to run. he says it's time for a new generation. time for someone whose name isn't known was a very quiet -- >> he won't consider for running for prp? >> you never know. >> you never know. speaking of you never know christie chris christie is in london. he meets with cameron today and so how is this for him, this overseas trip? is this playing well for him over here especially if he's possibly going to run in 2016?

>> for him he's saying it's just a trade mission talking to one of our top trading partners but an opportunity for him to tart talking foreign policy clout. he's a very -- domestic policy on lockdown for his team but needs to show he has a bit more breadth and on a broader scale. >> are you surprised he's over there? >> no. i mean i think we'll see a lot of republicans sort of showing up. we saw bobby jindal a couple weeks ago talking to a think tank. he doesn't have the angle that i think -- that governor christie does but i think we'll see a lot of people going over there, britain's our top ally the first place you start when trying to talk foreign policy and sort of builds that side out of you. >> it'll be interesting. we saw that tweet by rupert murdoch talk about joe biden actively thinking about running. could that play into the mix and would that be a big issue for

hillary clinton should she announce she'll run which a lot suspect she will? >> you know i think it's a really fascinating thick to look at these two characters. they have both sides. joe biden has this folksy down home look that is so fun to watch him but hillary is sort of this character. she's, you know she's the person who has to run to see what's going to happen so it's i think up to her. >> it's going to get interesting. that is for sure. despite whoever is in the race. it's definitely going to get interesting. thank you very much for joining us. another record breaking weekend at the box office. plus an epic battle on a special super bowl edition of "the tonight show" is next. oducing preferred rewards from bank of america the new banking rewards program that rewards our customers, every day. you'll get things like rewards bonuses on credit cards.... extra interest on a savings account... preferred pricing on merrill edge online trades and more...

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coming up on 28 minutes past the hour. now for entertainment news. box office juggernaut "american sniper" earned almost $32 million, giving it the highest super bowl week in box office ever. jimmy fallon was live super bowl sunday, duking it out with kevin hart and will ferrell in the super bowl of lip-sync battles which included a bit of a mishap for jimmy. ♪ let it go ♪ ♪ let it go ♪ ♪ that perfect girl is gone ♪ ♪ because i had the time of my life ♪ >> can we zoom in down here? can you see my knees? i just want to see. i ripped my pants. ♪ i am a champion ♪ ♪ and you're gonna hear me roar ♪ >> only jimmy can make

lip-syncing a contact sport. >> it didn't look comfortable. >> it looked like he was straining. >> i'm betty nguyen this is "first look." "way too early" starts right now with thomas roberts. ♪ a lot of mental toughness. our team has had it all year. we never doubted each other, so that's what it took. a great football team we beat and so happy for our team. >> there we have it. tom brady rallies the pats to go on and beat the seahawks. we have the best of the commercials and get ready for round two. the east coast will be battered by snow ice and rain this morning after a winter storm dumps historic snowfall on the midwest. and -- look who is the leader. wisconsin governor scott walker tops the gop field in the

all-important state of iowa. can he edge out jeb for the nomination? this is "way too early." we are live from phoenix. ♪ i've got the eye of the tiger dancing through the fire because i am a -- >> i'm thomas roberts live in phoenix after somewhat of an all-nighter. it is monday february 2nd. welcome to "way too early" and happy groundhog day to all of you out there. we want to get to the very latest about what happened last night. last night's big game and the key moments because it was drama filled up until the very end so we'll pick it up at the end of the second quarter, seattle trailing by a touchdown. the seahawks cap a drive that begin with only 30 seconds left to play in the half. with an 11-yard touchdown right there pass from russell wilson to chris matthews tying it up at 14. chris