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. >> lori jane gliha on health care. and sheila macvicar on what mr. obama said and didn't say on problems. and on the night of problems, this is reality. >> i feel like 24 hours, at the restaurant five days a week every night i drive taxi. >> what it's like to work so hard and still fall short. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. we can't exactly say it's a comment from the heavens. but on washington's biggest night of the year just as president obama finished his state of the union address, a very severe, very rare storm, down in the beltway. beginning with the chaos down south. upper north you may not understand this but this is jackson, mississippi and this is when that part of the country gets snow and those vicious, vicious temperatures, it feels as cold as minus 30 with the wind chill not bad for a mid westerner, but this is beyond comprehension cold. in atlanta, the traffic came to a standstill. stand-still. meteorologists say it happens once every ten years. i think they would say it's been longer than that. state of pln