Blizzard Coverage News Today

hello, welcome to "cnn newsroom." we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this videos from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three peo...

Going viral. judd apatow retweeted you. david cross -- david cross is one of my favorites. it was insane. rich eisen and at this point, 90% of me is kind of giddy about it. the other 10% is, like, am i going to get in trouble for this? because sort of in my own way, i call out the station. for me, it was in good fun. was there some truth to it? oh, absolutely. i think every reporter who has done this has wanted to say that, and i was tired enough to let it come out. >> im one of them. any chance...

Really just begun. >> and the other part of that fight is over on capitol hill. were hearing from republicans on capitol hill and its a different line. >> reporter: it is a different line because paul ryan and conservatives have been promising something different than what president trump has been promising. yes, they say we want to repeal and replace obamacare, they all ran on that. but when the rubber meets the road in this bill and as this c.b.o. score has illuminated, the president also said...

This bill is not about expanding coverage. it a quick and easy way to put a republican on the spot to ask does this bill reduce coverage or not. but thats what their defense is. take a look at house spouse e s ryan when he was pressed about it yesterday. >> im frankly encouraged. c.b.o. is telling us we stabilize the market, lower premiums, save money and of course theyre going to say if were going to stop forcing people they dont want to buy something theyre not going to buy it. thats why you h...

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For the white house, though, i think the strategy forward is blame it on paul ryan -- >> its ryancare, its not trumpcare. >> he said he doesnt want to call it trumpcare. aside from, that the things that conservatives in the house want are not the same thing that would make it pass in the senate. they want to get rid of essential health benefits and scale back the medicaid program where you have a large number of senators who represent states where theyve already done the medicaid expansion and t...

Are cutting the deficit. wh for some people, particularly older people who voted for trump, that their premiums are going to go up through the next cycle after that, i dont know how voters are going to respond when theyre losing coverage and paying more. >> what happens next? the bottom line -- chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are going to be for weeks slamming this thing. republicans are calling on tom account cotton, what are paul ryans and mitch mcconnells options here? >> and president trumps ...

Path across long island. but the snow continued to pile up. and visibility continued to drop. as the last of the rush hour commuter trains rolled into their stations, the long island railroad announced that fridays rush hour would run on a weekend schedule. people we spoke with were just hoping to make it back to new york. >> not bad actually. im impressed. the trains are running. hopefully it stays that way tomorrow, as well. >> my plan is to wake up early tomorrow, look out the window. see wha...

Path across long island. but the snow continued to pile up. and visibility continued to drop. as the last of the rush hour commuter trains rolled into their stations, the long island railroad announced that fridays rush hour would run on a weekend schedule. people we spoke with were just hoping to make it back to new york. >> not bad actually. im impressed. the trains are running. hopefully it stays that way tomorrow, as well. >> my plan is to wake up early tomorrow, look out the window. see wha...

Tomorrow. but some of the planes are making it in and out of new york. jfk actually, almost 25 planes in the air heading there. so if you are sitting there waiting for a plane, there is some hope, but it is probably a better chance of getting a hotel room than a plane. >> at this point, planes, trains and a lot of problems right now for am track which setrak which okay at this point. thank you, chad. more blizzard coverage coming up. and also, rumors reigning down on new yorks governor david p...