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Senators lindsey graham and john barrasso, introducing legislation today to allow states to opt out of mainly parts of the law. carl cameron is on that, live en d.c. good morning, busy week on the issue. what is the state of play as the senate gets under way? >> reporter: the state of play is increased momentum for republicans and their repeal and replace efforts because of yesterdays decision in the florida federal case, and, with 27 states to essentially overat the end of the year the overhaul...

Everyone should go down. >> reporter: now there are facebook pages calling for protests in countries across the region, including syria. which has a reputation as a brutal police state. and the problem is, governments can read facebook, too and other forms of social media, and can even use them for misinformation. so, activists warn people to be careful. but this really is a fascinating phenomenon here, think of it as a tea party movement in the middle east. run in poor societies where people ar...

Internet is so driving the organization for this, how are they doing that, jim. >> reporter: a lot of people have cell phones, and more so and the computers, but this is the interesting thing, bill. this is a new phenomenon in protest and up rising an revolutions and word spreads not by posters or meetings or back alley conversations it spreads at speed of the internet, by e-mail, twitter, and cell phone messaging. >> you are seeing brush fire effect in the middle east and revolutions are poppin...

Companies are pushing the rate increases through now before the july 1st deadline. martha: before they have to explain why they are doing it. >> reporter: exactly. martha: tough stuff, anita, thank you very much, in l.a. bill: mother nature, shes at it again, in a big way, too, another storm causing problems in the plains and the midwest and en route back to the northeast and thousands of flights delayed already, and st. louis, they are told if you dont have to leave the house, dont do it. stay ...

>> martha, it is like a perfect storm of factors here in california. and, for some people, rates are about to go through the roof. first of all, california is a state with no rate regulation. and also home to the largest insurance companies in the nation. and home to the largest market of uninsured people and blue shield is about to raise the rates a whopping 59% on march 1st because of rising health care costs on their end and health experts say something else is going on here, too. listen: >> ...

Said, yes, there will be. >> there will be a vote, a question of whether or not it happens. bill: thank you, carl, see you later, okay? martha: "fox news alert." out of egypt. protesters have been flooding central cairo for one of the biggest anti-hosni mubarak demonstrations we have seen in the whole process as of yet. organizers are predicting that there would be 1 million people there today, and were now at 5:00 into the evening and the numbers seem to be in the quarter of a million range, fr...

Martha? martha: so, these rate hikes are not affecting customers, but doctors, not customers, but doctors as well. >> reporter: customers and doctors. doctors health care costs are going up, too. take for example, dr. mark white, a popular, well-known podiatrist in century city and his health care costs went up over 20% and he had had trouble meeting his overhead and now they are taking mostly cash only. listen: >> these insurance companies are paying us less and charging us more and paying us l...

You heard it, the snow expected to fall from new mexico basically all the way across the united states up to maine, its more than 2000 miles of land across the united states. this is so bizarre. bill: it is. martha: you will either be covered by snow or ice. bill: after the winter weve already had. emergencies in effect for so many states, including illinois, which is waiting on the big one at the moment. >> this time we may be potentially dealing with a storm of historic portions as has been re...

Snow in the midwest and st. louis, we dont get huge snows, we get run-of-the-mill snows and can use a 12 inch ruler to measure it and this storm, well pull the crocodile dundee and that is night ruler, that is a ruler, right there! 24-inch ruler and in some cases what we will need in missouri. bill: you are waiting on it, arent you and you have a little on the ground but the tough stuff hasnt hit yet? >> reporter: yeah. we have a half inch, maybe, an inch of new snow and it is a combination of t...

Holy cow! all right, maria, thank you very much, well be hearing more from you! throughout the next 24 hours! good grief! dont know where to go to run away. bill: in dallas, one of the spots hit hard by the snow, snow and ice in texas forcing the airport in dallas to close. back open now, were told at this point, right. >> the airport closed down. martha: a big airport. bill: and live out to where the super bowl is coming on sunday and, dan is live outside the stadium in arlington. you look cold...