i'm going to talk with republican strategist sarah fagan how to fix it. with much of the northeast still feeling the devastation of hurricane sandy, we are now being pounded by a nor'easter. many of the very same areas battered by sandy are getting hit again. meteorologist todd gross is track the storm for us. good evening, todd. >> good evening, larry. and this one actually has a name. is named by the weather channel. it's winter storm athena. and the heaviest snow from this storm, and yes, i did say snow and not rain-s from waterbury, connecticut southward all the way to the suburbs of atlantic city. just west of atlantic city all the way through new york. now, the new york metro area is getting hit extremely hard this evening. it's like a blizzard outside. and that is a big problem. let me show you why by taking a look at some video that i actually shot just prior to sunset. it's the trees. the snow on the leaves of course brings down branches and renews all over again in terms of the power outages. let's look at other factors, a list of things to worr

fagan bomb transportation policy analyst for reason foundation and he began by telling me what he makes of shelving these fourteen million dollars body scanners. it's hard to know what to make of it so they took these scanners out of some of the busiest airports and have basically shelled them for the time and are looking at putting them into smaller airports so it's good that they're getting them out of the bigger airports but it's unfortunate that they're really putting them anywhere in my opinion and what exactly is the reason behind moving these security scanners as if they're too invasive or is there some other kind of problem with them so what has happened is they've gone ahead and gotten some new equipment in that are that is less invasive the screeners are actually less invasive in the bigger airports but the issue is they have so many of these scanners and as you mentioned a very high price they feel like they want to go ahead and make some use of them so that the idea is if they move them to the smaller airports then fewer passengers will be affected but of course if you're fl

they picked up kevin fagan. they say he broke into her home twice once on monday and gone tuesday. things were ransacked but it's not clear if anything was taken. >>> cal tran delays linger through the night after a train slammed into a car on the tracks in redwood city. a woman and child were able to get out of the car before the crash so therefore no one was injured. sky 7 was over the scene after it happened. they say a car accidentally turned on to the tracks around 6:00 tonight and maple street in redwood city. caltrain is still experiencing delays up to 30 minutes tonight. >> one by one, police are tracking down suspects in a muni bus burning by a mob celebrating the giants victory last month. investigators they arrested a 19-year-old nicolas hudson from daly city. police wants you to to take a good look of other suspects. one man accused of using a skateboard. this is man is being charged. here are the photos i want to show you. this man is accused of using a skateboard to smash out the bus windows. there you see it as it happens. here is one more person police nto talk to.

we welcome in tara fagan. julian epstein, a former congressional leader. good to have you both with us. sarah, i'll begin with you. evidence of what we're seeing on wall street. the markets not waiting around for a deal. it's seen this movie before. are we going to get a deal or not? >> it has seen this movie before, you are right, scott. i think we will get a mini deal. it is likely that lawmakers will walk right up to the cliff, right up to the christmas holiday. they will put together some patch work deal and punt the bulk of the work until next spring. probably with some specific dead linings. >> julie en, i don't be know if that will be acceptable or not to the market. you can see how we've been sliding almost daily as we worry about what's happening with the cliff. the president seems to be sticking to his guns and so, too, is the senate majority leader harry reed. social security is not even on the table. can we get a deal without entitlements on the table? >> we can't get a long-term deal without them being on the table. i think sara is right. you

cn cnbc contributor sara fagan says it doesn't address the problems. good to have you both with us.r joining us. seth, president obama's plan is advocating tax increases but almost no net spending cuts. how do you resolve this crisis without cutting spending significantly? >> well, i don't think that's true at all. there's substantial spending cuts. i mean, first of all, we've already cut spending by $1.5 trillion as part of the first part of this deficit reduction framework. also in his offer is another $400 billion in cuts, targeted cuts to health care programs. i really think that we shouldn't, like you said, take the knife to fundamental programs like medicare and social security. the president's plan is the plan he presented to the american people and won the election on. certainly, the plans they would cut or fundamentally restructure medicare, those proposals -- >> i don't think that's what we're talking about, seth. >> does that do anything to the debt? >> that's a great question, maria. that's the biggest challenge with this proposal that the president put out. he's actuall

. >>> hello from new york, i'm chris hayes here with tony kushner, claudia fagan, chief medical officercook county in chicago, illinois. and professor of political science at yale university. there was a whole lot of news this week about the affordable care act. and i think one of the things we can agree on about the election was it was in many ways, it ended up being, whether explicitly or implicitly a referendum on the affordable care act. this was the signature domestic achievement of the president. it was the precipitating event of the conservative backlash in the country as the tea party. and its fate was determined on election day inso far as whether it would stand or fall. and in reelecting president obama we're now going to have the act in some form. and the reason i wanted to keep you around for this conversation, tony, is because your film changed the way that i think of the affordable care act. i'm a supporter of the affordable care act and i think the outcome is really going to increase the net like joy of human beings in the country. but i'm serious, by a significant amount