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Covering the storm outside of washington, d.c. in potomac, maryland. start with shannon first. >> suzanne, winter meets spring here in potomac, maryland. weve been keeping track of just how much snow has been falling. i have my handy ruler right there, suzanne. take a look and see where we are right now. it looks like, suzanne, just above four inches. just a short while ago it was at three inches. that will give you a sense of how much snow is falling. were right here on interstate 270. this is ...

Weather weary the morning rush. shannon travis is following that from potomac, maryland. good morning. >> christine, good morning. the beauty of spring meet winters wrath here in potomac, maryland. its basically been coming down pretty steady. ever since we got here weve been kind of doing this unscientific test. christine of how much snow is gathering using my finger as a ruler. were guessing about three inches right now. because my finger sticks down pretty deep up in there. again, this is the...

This is definitely about three inches. my finger goes all the way down in there. just to give you a sense of how fast and heavy its coming down, were on i-270. this is a main artery into d.c. commuters from as west as west virginia, as north as pennsylvania, use this to get into d.c. just want to show you, weve been monitoring it the whole time. right now were still moving a little bit steady but we have been seeing a number of brake lights suggesting that there is definitely a slowdown at least...

From 4 to 8 inches of snow in this area. and just about now everyone is saying including us enough already. >> youve been battling with that sign all morning and we appreciate it. thanks, susan. >> lets go now to the atlantic coast which has gotten particularly hard hit this season. shannon travis is live in potomac, maryland. >> reporter: spring team meet win trs wrath, right? its been coming down pretty hard here since weve been here for the past few hours. i went and got my ruler just to take...

Was 300,000 pending claims, 300,000 to what would be projected to be a million waiting in line for the claims to be processed and takes on average, 270 days for a climb to be processed. if youre in l.a., thats 619 days and if youre in new york city, youre probably waiting two years to hear back on a successful completion. its dysfunctional bureaucracy, stuck, not able to deliver to the needs of the 21st century veterans and generations. >> alisyn: its really shocking. this is the very organizati...

You the party of austerity that this is going to hurt people who depend on the programs and two, they say that rather than spur growth it is going to hurt growth. >> well, we have 49 different job training programs spread across nine different government agencies. lots of bureaucracies. they dont work. we propose to consolidate the programs in a flexible grants that go back to the states to actually get people into jobs and into training so they can get back to work. so we get rid of the bureauc...

Its grown to all-time high with 47 million recipients in tess. ryan argued his cuts would be only a hig minor change. >> with our reforms food stamps would have brown by 250% in the last ten years instead of 270% like they did grow. >> of course, repealing obamacare is unlikely to get through the senate. but ryans move could focus attention on the criticism and the skepticism about the plan. recent polls show more than half of people asked want to repeal all or part of obamacare. bret? >> bret: ...

But sounds reasonable to me. why not? to be continued. >> megyn: a report last week about the salary, the hefty salary paid to the white house calligraphers and some people are asking, how much is it? yeah, three of them. why cant we get rid of them? 270? >> i expect theres a font for calligraphy out there. >> megyn: are people upset if its written in the regular handwriting that we have. it doesnt have to be the fancy president obama. this is my calligraphy impression. (laughter) . >> reporter:...

You the party of austerity that this is going to hurt people who depend on the programs and two, they say that rather than spur growth it is going to hurt growth. >> well, we have 49 different job training programs spread across nine different government agencies. lots of bureaucracies. they dont work. we propose to consolidate the programs in a flexible grants that go back to the states to actually get people into jobs and into training so they can get back to work. so we get rid of the bureauc...

You the party of austerity that this is going to hurt people who depend on the programs and two, they say that rather than spur growth it is going to hurt growth. >> well, we have 49 different job training programs spread across nine different government agencies. lots of bureaucracies. they dont work. we propose to consolidate the programs in a flexible grants that go back to the states to actually get people into jobs and into training so they can get back to work. so we get rid of the bureauc...