here in winston, salem coming down now for about four hours. see it's covered most of the sidewalks and here in the streets most of the people heeded the warning and went home early. several inches of snow now in the foothills and mountains of the state while near the triangle they are dealing with more ice and snow than they are -- more ice than they are with snow. more than 200 flights cancelled throughout the state. all the major airports reporting. when you total it all up more than 200 flights cancelled in north carolina because of this as you mentioned be the governor declaring a state of emergency mostly due to the threat of ice and the issues that could bring with bringing down power lines. also, brutal cold temperatures that we're just not used to here in north carolina. the traffic hazard. here in winston salem reports of fender benders mainly dealing with sleet and snow. greta. >> looks bad. any way chad, thank you. new england rotten luck for them. they have not even dug themselves out from the last snow storm and they where to get

jimmy is in winston-salem, north carolina. you are on the air jimmy. caller: i will tell you what really galls me about this. these senators and congressmen nobody talks about their retirement. instead of talking about these men who are standing out there and getting shot at and having their arms and legs shot off having brain tumors and different things -- i am 100% disabled from vietnam. i did not retire. the commissaries are not that cheap. what they need to do is cut all the congressmen's pay. the same pay the military is making, cut it to that. let them see how this is working. these people in washington are no better than anybody else. they are making almost $180,000 a year, free vacation. everything else is free to them. why don't we just have a committee that will take survey on this and change their pay back to the paid military is getting now, and the current military status -- in the current military status? host: christina writes in "the hill" that senators on the armed services committee are open to the recommendations of the blue-ribbon p

winston-salem, north carolina, the drive, the draw, the dish. 70-34. the cavaliers are now 26-1. smith center, saint bonaventure at gw, total domination by the colonials. outscored, shot them, hitting 10 threes. joe mcdonald led the team. george washington wins. the nationals, everybody is in camp the first exhibition game next thursday, the season opener in washington april 6 against the mets. the nats are the odds on favorite to make it to the world series, one of the vegas favorites, and there is no question, but the strength of the pitching staff has everybody talking. bryce harper has come into camp and lit up the twitter world. >> i just started laughing light, where is my ring? you will have to face scherzer, zim? good luck. tim: come on, bryce, get some wins first. richmond upset vcu in double overtime, and virginia tech lost to duke in overtime. virginia tech, just 2-13 in conference, they take down duke. leon: that is a good showing. tim: he said worrying, i thought he was getting married. leon: a rare and possibly record-breaking catch. leon: a jaw-dropping image caugh

you know there is a regional headquarters in winston salem where the foundations had to be reinforced because the weight of the paperwork is damaging the building? and what happened when the scandal burst onto the front pages? a bipartisan group of congressmen and senators took to the floor and declared victory because they passed a bill that said that the top 400 senior executives at the veterans administration could be fired if they did not perform. it is not that that is not important, it is that it should have happened a long time ago and it is not enough to fundamentally reform a system. we cannot unlock the potential of every american in this nation until we get the leviathan the federal government off the backs of this economy. and i believe it takes leadership, and citizenship, in order that that would happen. and finally, we must restore american leadership in the world. the world is a more dangerous and a more tragic place when america is not leading. i have had the great privilege of traveling the world and i know most of the world leaders on the world stage today. and i kn

. >> i went to winston-salem state university. going to talk about diversity. i would hope that you would mention the diversity within the black committee itself the easy caribbean people people that are straight black american from all across the globe that are black that come to hbc you. nationalist leaders attended lincoln university. the motivation for the freedom at ghana, but i also was wondering you, you spoke about what i wanted to talk about the impact of the hbc you and the committee that may have may be denied communities access to jobs and income otherwise and how hbcus are such a great help to the black committee, especially throughout the south. how can an alumni network be built how should an alumni network be built to help filter the endowment that you spoke of. >> collar, thanks. >> well i figured the gist of that and clearly our alarms are very, very supportive committed to our university, and i would say that most hbcus. so we are going to depend greatly significantly greatly significantly on our alarms as we build this endowment and no that

not the rose city which is winston-salem. what's going on? >> caller: i know the sector has taken a hit, but i like to know about quantum services. is it a buy? >> no. it's infrastructure. infrastructure is just no good right now. i just can't go for it. i'm just not going to go for it. too risky. just too risky. let's go to robert in new york. robert? >> caller: hey jim, how you doing? thanks for your love for the market. i want to know about arcadia health care. >> i think substance abuse and behavioral unfortunately is a very big growth market, and those guys are real players. a terrific story. let's go to phyllis in new jersey. phyllis? >> caller: hi jim. it's a pleasure to speak with you. an entertainer extraordinaire. >> thank you very much. >> caller: i've had a longtime stake in viacom and would appreciate on your thoughts to buy, sell hold. >> i'm going to have to say don't buy. time warner just put up a great number today. a beautiful number. jeff bukis just delivers and delivers. so why do we have to be in someone who does not deli

snowstorm for dallas, little rock, memphis, nashville all of the way up toward raleigh-durham and into winston-salem and eventually hampton roads. big snow numbers for the south. 4 to 6 inches north of atlanta. look from charlotte right on through raleigh, that could be a foot of snow even into the low country of north carolina. that's what we're worried about. doesn't take 4, 12 or 16 inches to make a mess in the south. we'll get even 2 to 4 and that will slow down atlanta to a crawl tomorrow. we saw what snowmageddon did. heavy snow will be north of atlanta but too close to call right now. >> a dusting in atlanta shuts that city down. >> i know. >> chad myers, thanks very much. it will be serious for a bunch. people down there. >> the temperatures alone are painful enough. >>> coming up for us, international intrigue. did israeli prime minister mislead the united nations when he says iran was dangerously close to building a nuclear bomb? we have newly released documents suggesting just that. details ahead. >>> also ahead, the clock is ticking. another countdown clock. just two days left before the

> a husband's frightful past time leads to screams heard around the world. [ screaming ] >> in winston-salemez family can never be sure what's around the corner, especially for this wife who's a regular target of her husband's hell-raising pranks. >> i would describe my husband's personality as -- he was not a prankster when we were dating, but after we got married it was like green light to pull all the pranks he wanted. >> i wanted to make sure we were locked in for life and then i could have a permanent victim. >> july 19th, 2012, the perez family is on the road with a long drive ahead of them. siblings caden and alana are in the back sleep. >> idle hands, you know how the saying goes, and my mind was idle. and i had my camera phone and i just had it ready to record. >> okay. so there's a truck getting towed and looks like it is coming at us and my wife is asleep. we are going to see if we can scare her. >> babe, wake up. there's a truck. [ screaming ] [ laughter ] >> i thought we were like going to crash head on and then i hear his smirky little laugh. and i was like oh, it's a prank. he

she's a professor of public health sciences at wake forest baptist medical center in winston-salem, north carolina. professor avis, thank you for joining us. what is different that was learned in this study that wasn't previously understood? >> i think one of the things that is different is that we were able to follow women for a longer period of time, so we did learn that there are women who experience hot flashes for at least 14 years, that up to 40% of our sample was still experiencing hot flashes night sweats after 14 years. >> and is it understood anymore why that is happening and how many women are experiencing it? >> well, in our sample, it's about 40% of our sample that's still experiencing hot flashes at that time. we will continue... we are continuing to follow women and we will know in a few years how much longer they might last and what that percentage is. but this is what we found at this time. >> and what about in terms of the why? >> well we do know that women who begin to get their hot flashes when they're younger and earlier before they reach menopause experience them a l

do you know that there is a regional headquarters in winston-salem where the foundations had to be reinforcedecause the weight of the paperwork on the bureaucrats desk is damaging the building? and what happened when the scandal burst onto the front pages? a bipartisan group of congressmen and senators took to the floor and declared victory because they passed a bill that said that the top 400 senior executives at the veterans administration could be fired if they did not perform. it is not that that is not important, it is that it should have happened a long time ago and it is not enough to fundamentally reform a system. we cannot unlock the potential of every american in this nation until we get the leviathan the federal government off the backs of this economy. and i believe it takes leadership, and citizenship, in order that that would happen. and finally, we must restore american leadership in the world. the world is a more dangerous and a more tragic place when america is not leading. i have had the great privilege of traveling the world and i know most of the world leaders on the world

live from winston-salem. good morning susan. >> good morning, sara. >> talk to me about results.ven by pricing, higher pricing on these cigarettes because overall, they're still in decline in terms of volume and sales, correct? >> sure, sara. reynolds american had a fantastic fourth quarter and a very strong year. as you said we met consensus, we grew our earnings 7.2% and we saw strong market share growth on all of our key focus brands. certainly, cigarette volumes are declining as they have been for decade, we saw a 2% volume decline in the fourth quarter. as we continue to grow our market share in a very competitive environment, we're very pleased with the balance of shared and profit growth. >> it looks like an industry at large, cigarette volume has been increasing 3% to 4%. you mentioned 2% in the quarter. is 3% to 4% the ballpark of what you're expecting into this year as well or are those losses at all? >> we have seen that in quite a few of the past several years. we saw that in '14. and that's what we're looking at in '15 as well. >> how is the tobacco consumer doing? y

the day he broke the record in an ncaa tournament game at winston-salem he was stunned by the number of his biggest rivals was running the venue for the ncaa that day. he left instructions with the security people that any ex-north carolina player who was there was to be allowed into the normally off-limits area so they could see their old coach and celebrate with him. that meant more to dean smith than the actual number of passing adolph rupp. >> john feinstein, written a lot about basketball and the acc, from the "washington post," joining us. appreciate that. >> my pleasure. >>> up next, al franken may not be the only "saturday night live" alum on capitol hill at least if another has his way. details after this. i'm out of the office right now, but will get back to you just as soon as i possibly can. your call is important to me. join princess cruises for exclusive discovery at sea experiences. enjoy cruises from $499 during our 50th anniversary sale. call your travel consultant or 1-800-princess. princess cruises. come back new. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or

host: j in winston-salem, north carolina. was calling in reference to john boehner and mr. mcconnell. these individuals have purposefully strategically blocked the president on everything he has tried to do. they apparently set aside time after the election to strategize to put him in a lock hold, so he could not do anything legislatively. this sounds to me like terrorism within our own government. host: wall street journal headline this morning, gop leaders appear out of sync. the story this morning about senator majority leader mcconnell. rick in sydney, ohio, a republican. caller: i just basically have a small statement. i am a proud veteran. i spent four years in supreme headquarters in your. i want people to realize, the internet is a globally distributed network. ww w stands for "world wide web." it does not stand for u.s. controlled or anything, so i feel like the government should not have anything to do with running the internet. the internet should be the way it is right now. i do not believe the government is letti

next is matt from winston-salem, north carolina.aller: i was white-collar worker, had great health insurance and lost my job. a year ago in january 2014, i was diagnosed with double pneumonia and each one and one flew -- h1n1 flu. i walked out of the hospital with a bill for $67,000. i'm on a payment plan with the hospital. -- six the $700. i'm on a payment plan with the hospital. i'm self-employed and i can get insurance that will cover that. host: of that bill, how much of you paid off and how much is still in the balance? caller: i'm paying $200 a month. when i see callers say, why my subsidizing this for other people? i am exley paying this off. -- i am actually paying this off. there is interest on that. other people are paying for that . it is not just the people showing up at the hospital that don't have health insurance. it can happen to anybody. host: good luck to you and thank you for the call. ray says everyone gets we paid for medicare -- medical care all are working years and still pay monthly premiums. this is from bur

mountains north of the city and six to eight in the mountains around knoxville, into raleigh and winston-salem, the upstate of south carolina getting snow as well. i know this isn't a big deal for detroit. if you're up in detroit you're going, be quiet, we get that every day. i get that but down here where we have ten plows per 100,000 people it is a big deal. chris? >> we'll check in with you all morning. as the conditions shift we'll hear some potential horror stories, thank you. >>> let's talk politics all eyes on capitol hill lawmakers have three days to end the gridlock tlertenning a partial shutdown of the department of homeland security. the impasse over the president's immigration plan could put 30,000 government workers on furlough cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta joins us with more. what's the latest jim? >> you've heard about the fiscal cliff. now we have the homeland security cliff. if congress does not pass funding for the department of homeland security by friday at midnight the department will shut down and here with some of the impacts we're going to be talking