listen to letters like karen from lewisville to know that americans deserve better than what obamacare has given them. karen was paying $325 a month for her health insurance and now she said her premium spiked to almost $550 a month with a deductible well in access of $6,000. i cannot afford this karen wrote, but i do not have a choice. it scares me to think what the will happen if i do get sick. that is karen's story and it is hardly unique. every member in this body should be striving for something better than the pain of obamacare. and we can't. by passing a balanced budget that is about the future we can leave obamacare's higher cost and broken promises where they belong; in the past. and start fresh with real health reform. that is just one of many renes for senators to support the balanced budget before us. it is as a budget that recognizes seriously fiscal and economic challenges recognizing the country and works to address them in a common sense way. americans know washington can't tax away the challenges con fronting us. and americans know washington cannot ignore away the pro

chill temperatures below 0 in new england buffalo new york and the upper great lakes and 15 in lewisville kentucky and raleigh, north carolina feels like 19. temperatures today still below average across places like new york city cleveland and up into chicago. and look at the west. 80s for la and the city of phoenix. by next week, much of the lower 48 is going to be looking at mild temperatures. 40s in new york city and chicagos could be in the 50s on monday and stay that warm as far north as fargo. tuesday we will be in the 60s across the plains and in chicago they could make it into the low 50 and the big concern is the areas with heavy snow on the ground like parts of new england flooding could be a concern. it will be a localized concern but we will track that over the next several days >> when do they get into the country wide thing of 70s and 80s? >> reporter: and push for mid-april. -- i -- we could see another blast of cold air across the country still. don't put the coats away just yet. >> just the facts. i know you have to report it. i was thinking maybe another two weeks not mi

going in tom's river even if they didn't have the advantage of putting it in a narrative >> jim in lewisville, kentucky, thanks for holding. you are on booktv with dan fagin. >> caller: good afternoon. first i would like to congratulate and the tucson festival of books for wonderful work. i think it important all of the authors pointed out that science can't be removed from public policy. and the role is very important. i could not help but notice the smiles in referencing whether or not we could get our representatives to hear us. and i am wondering what did you find were the most affective actions that public could take to try to get policy to cleanup the environment? >> right. well that is a big question isn't it? and there are lots of different ways to answer it. lots of things happened in tom's river at various points. there were protest led by green peace, some creative and even hu hilarious. there were meetings some of substance and some chaotic. each of those happen and played a role in the secret history of tom's river. what they all have in common is the idea of an engaged idea and