sara palin responded dear peta, chill, at least trig did not eat the dog. >>> the first major storm of2015, bringing severe weather to much of the eastern half of the country. just as millions of travelers are headed home for the holidays. in all 55 million people in 28 states faced winter storm watches, warnings, advisories this weekend. in mississippi, rain and strong winds destroyed several mobile homes bringing down trees, knocking out power lines, a possible tornado hitting jasper county in southeastern part of the state. >> it was just like -- a train is coming, yes, that is the way it was. just like a train coming. and it was hitting the house. >> reporter: the same storm system bringing snow to texas. in the northeast, sleet and snow made for wet and slippery conditions. in new york, plows cleared the road. too late for several cars stuck in the icy mess. snow covered roads in massachusetts caused several accidents, emergency crews coming to the rescue. >> the roads were almost completely dry. they were just starting to get wet. and i spun out of control. so, be careful if you

sara palin just one of those at the freedom summit today. robert costa is taking your calls and questions for about the next 45 minutes or so. so you can go ahead and start calling in. we'll later in the program be showing you some live shots from that event as attendees start to gather this morning. bob, i've got to ask you about this tweet that you sent out talking about perhaps some intel you picked up at the marriott as you were getting ready for this event out there in des moines. guest: the thing to understand about the caucus is des moines isn't that big of a city and the mare yot downtown is the watering hole, it is the hot spot if you're a politico, a journalist a presidential candidate you meet in this marriott bar, it was the place in 2012. so far 2016 it seems to be the place again in this race. and you had newt gingrich there, rick santorum wearing an air force one jacket from the reagan lay bri sara palin coming in. chuck lautner who helped san tax reform in 2012. the former senator jim demint. it -- an all-star cast if you wan

everyone from sara palin to madonna kicking off campaign season by paying tribute to the man who just this week called an undocumented woman a, quote, deportable. not that it was any surprise considering what he said about dreamer students in the past. >> for every one who is a valedictorian there's another hundred out there that they weigh 130 pounds and they've got cavs the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling pounds of marijuana across the desert. >> yep, to steve king dreamers are basically drug mules, and he isn't just extreme on immigration. take a look at some of his other greatest hits. >> i think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at the rest of this constitution and that includes that "i" word that we don't want to say. if you add watergate and iran/contra together and multiply it by tens you get in the zone of what benghazi is. >> immigration, benghazi and impeachment, oh my. if the gop were serious about reaching new voters in 2016 they'd run as far as they could from steve king but the fact that they're running to him, it shows they're all too willing

as well as 2008 vice presidential nominee sara palin. the freedom summit this saturday on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org >> larry horg began was sworn in as maryland's 62nd governor and discussed fiscal responsibility and government reform and tax fairness. this is 25 minutes. >> good afternoon. it it is a tremendous honor for me to be here today and i want to personally thank my friend governor hogan, his wife and the rest of their wonderful family for allowing me to share this day with all of you. it's a huge day for their family and great day for the state of maryland. when i look at the state of maryland from the state of new jersey all i see is potential. i see a beautiful state from the mountains in western maryland to the beaches in ocean city. i see a place with the kind of natural resources that most other states can only dream of having access to. i mean, we do. but other states can only dream of having access to. i see some of the hardest working best educated people in our entire nation who are filled with the desire to

sara -- sarah palin and others saying drill baby drill. that's actually happened. and now we've got an abundance it's brought down gasoline prices, and what is the democrat reaction to prices of gasoline going down? well, that means we need to add some taxes to gasoline. really? i loved hearing the president say we need to do infrastructure . except dag gum it i remember him talking about that repeatedly when he first became president, and that's why he said we had to have this massive $900 billion because we are going to build infrastructure. what did he do? he got the $900 billion from a democratic house and senate and the only fraction of it went to infrastructure. we were toldhey were g to go to shovel ready jobs, and then we find out some years later, there was no such thing as the shovel ready jobs. they did send it to people like solyndra and others that lived high off the hog for a while and went broke. i'm sure they are getting some other grant somewhere else. which brings us to another story reported as a bombshell, story by richard poll lock. i.r.s. has

a feud between pita and sara palin gets nastier and even more personal.e joins us live today, tuesday, january 6th, 2015. >>> good morning everyone. welcome to "today" on a chilly tuesday morning. 21 degrees outside and that is headed down. >> 60 in new york city sunday. 21 today, getting colder. snow on the way. wipe that smile off your face. >> exactly. >> really do. let's show you what's going on right now. again, we've got another arctic high and we've got reinforcing cold air behind that. we are going to be watching this strong high pressure build in. we've got windchill washrnings stretching all the way into the northeast today. right now, it feels like 16 below in minneapolis, zero in cleveland. new york city, it feels like nine. and then tomorrow morning, record lows. we're going to get to minus 14 in minneapolis tomorrow morning. cleveland at seven. as we move into the northeast, it will be 24 in new york city, 16 in charleston. thursday, even colder. nine below in chicago. that's an air temperature. 10 below in indianapolis. plus, we've got this