. >> lisa desjardins, i'm going to question one of the top economic advisers, gene sperling on this new report and other issues coming up later this hour, as well. lisa, thanks very much for that. >>> meanwhile, new poll numbers may mean more bad news for the governor of new jersey, chris christie. we'll have the latest on that front when we come back. ♪

let's go to lisa desjardins.ell us what they're expecting the impact of the obamacare program, the affordable care act, what it means. >> reporter: this is significant, wolf. i just got back from the briefing on this report. this report estimates that the affect on the work force will be far more significant than we had previously seen. the congressional budget office has effectively said they think it will be double the hit to the number of people in the work force as they thought. specifically, wolf, the cbo estimates that by the year 2017, affordable care act will have the effect of taking out the equivalent of 2 million u.s. workers. now, want to say, first of all, that's not necessarily because they will be laid off. instead, cbo says those workers, most of them, will choose to leave their jobs, because they will be able to get health insurance outside of work through subsidized government health exchange. so these workers will have a choice that they don't have now, and that's what the white house is pointi

let's go to washington to lisa desjardins. that the job force will drop because people either will decide to work less, now that they have affordable health care coverage, or something else? >> right. it's amazing that you got that from that quote from the congressional budget office. that was the worst government speak i think i've seen in a long time. >> help us understand it. >> reporter: right. what are they talking about? what they are saying is they think two million americans in the next four years will leave their jobs mostly by their own choice because of obama care just like you were saying, brooke, because right now, they're dependent on those jobs for their health care. they may have a preexisting condition. maybe they had a bout with cancer. maybe they're older. they don't think they'll be able to get insurance under the old system because they have that condition. well, bobamacare takes away thoe preexisting conditions. now they can leave their job and still get insurance they should be able to afford. that's the

lisa desjardins is in baltimore, maryland on a snow plow. that's right. lisa?torm and many of the main roads have been working overnight on snow removal. they may have a budget problem. the city spokesman said their budget for snow removal is $2.7 million. so far they spent more than $5 million. it's a problem they will have to deal with after the storm is over. >> thank you very much for that. much more on the snow coming, but coming up here, we are following another story. a lot of people are talking about another danish zoo considering putting down a giraffe and put down after a lot of protests. another is considering during the same thing. we will talk to who leads us to a decision to euthanize an animal. on the day she arrived in london. someone set up a bogus hotspot, stole her identity and opened some credit cards in her name. but she's not worried. checking her credit report and score at experian.com allowed her to better address the issue... ...and move right in. experian. live credit confident.™ a steel cage: death match of midsize sedans. the volkswa

lisa desjardins on the hill. >> this has been one of the most dramatic last 45 minutes i have seen inhe senate for a long time and that's saying something. if we can pull up the picture, you are seeing they are still in a roll call vote that began almost an hour ago. it's taken that long because they could not get the 60 votes needed to pass the debt ceiling suspension bill. we have just learned in the past couple of minutes there is a lot of gathering. two key republicans. senators and republican leader mitch mcconnell switched votes to yes. that's what ted barrett is reporting. that is a stunning move are two conservatives who talk about the debt all the time. they talk about the debt ceiling. we did not want them to vote yes today. probably thinking about the markets and watching the vote and seeing that this debt ceiling suspension was poised to fail. it still appears it needs one more vote. those two leaders switching implies that they think there is a way out that they haven't gotten out of this yet. it is something we are watching a little bit breathlessly. when you think about