jeffrey sachs and carl bernstein onset here. ratulations, it's very impressive. >> thank you. good morning. >> you were not considered among your republican colleagues to be the most popular member of the class in the senate, i don't think that's an understatement. and so my question to you -- >> hold on -- wait, wait, wait -- carl, hold on, let me just start -- let me just say that i was elected to leadership as a 42-year-old senator to the number three leadership position in the united states senate. because of the fact that i was out there, yes, i mean i wasn't popular in the sense that i was taking on a lot of tough conservative issues, but i wasn't maybe popular, but i was respected enough to be in a position of leadership and reelected twice and was actually in position to take a higher leadership position. >> i don't think there's any question about that. my question goes back to among your colleagues in the senate, how many of the present republican senators do you think want to see you as the nominee? >> well, you know,

new york mayor michael bloomberg is 70 and carl bernstein is 68. >>> the silent half.e right back. ♪ ♪ the snow is snowin' ♪ the wind is blowin' ♪ but i can weather the storm ♪ what do i care how much it may storm? ♪ ♪ ♪ i've got my love to keep me warm ♪ >>> good morning. welcome back to 9news now. it is 5:45 on this valentine's day. howard's got a lot of different things happening in the weather to take us from cold to mild to cold again. >> sunday we may start to hear some rumblings about sunday. potential coastal storm. not saying definite but there's a little bit of agreement on a couple of models now that by sunday we could be talking maybe back to a little bit of wingtsry weather. that's -- wintry weather. that's just a possibility, not etched in snow. let's talk about today, though. it's going to be a decent day around here for your valentine's day. we start with the bus stop forecast where we've got lots of clouds out there. just an isolated sprinkle or even a flurry well to the north. temperatures are running in the 30s to around 40 this morning. sunrise 7:01