Ridge parkway, you are 20inch snowfall totals all day long. Because its going to be cold enough there. Boston, long island, especially eastern long island, south of toms river, new jersey, all the way down to wilmington and east of annapolis, thats an allrain snow, not cold enough to make any significant snow there. But 20 degrees tomorrow morning here, if we get a little bit of rain, thats going to make even more problems, chris. What do you see as the shredding snowman, snowball factor so far, with the snow density . Reporter so far were at about 8 to 10 inches per 1 inch of water. I think later today, we could get all the way down to 7, which means right here where im standing tomorrow morning, there will be 15 inches of snow on the ground. That wasnt the most helpful answer, but thank you very much for the accumulation score. Well be back with you in a little bit. This massive noreaster is forcing lots of schools to close. A lot of them made the decision yesterday, especially in major u. S. Cities. The city of philadelphia declaring a snow emergency as the storm makes getting around very, very treacherous. Cnns ryan young live in philly, where they could get more than a foot of snow. Hows it feel . Reporter well, good morning, chris. So far, were dealing with so far the ice needles at this point. The snow you can see behind us on this side, that accumulated mostly overnight. At this point, its really almost a rain event. In fact, all the cars that have gone by have been slushing through this mess. The snowplows, not even having to put down the plow as they push through the area. Youre really just dealing with water. Thats whats really left here at this point. Just this sloppy mess. Cars have been out. Theres a guy riding by on a bicycle in the last hour and a half. People are not worried about the actual snow at this point in this area. Of course, schools are closed. Weve seen delays at the airport. 2,000 pieces of equipment on the roadways. So far as they drive by, theyve been splashing us with more water than ice. Poppy . All right, ryan young, thank you very much. Try to stay warm out there. Youve got snow, sleet, whiteout conditions creating quite a headache for anyone trying to drive. Hazardous road conditions, i know youre with a safe driver, obviously, but what does it look like . Are there any cars around . Reporter good morning, poppy. You mentioned the cars around. Its 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. This is primetime for rush hour. Any other day but today, you would see the new jersey turnpike, a ghost town. There are speed restrictions in place. 35 Miles Per Hour is the max. I have not seen many cars actually heeding that warning. In fact, a short time ago, i saw a jack knifed tractortrailer on the opposite side of the turnpike. You know, there is a state of emergency in effect here in new jersey. Really, the urgency here is to really keep people off the roads. Many heeding that advice, though the ones we do see, certainly going a lot faster than 35 Miles Per Hour. Chris . They have a very cool silhouette shot of you, alisyn, that has your face laid over the actual road. Its like youre the spirit of the highway. Reporter its amazing how i can do that, huh . You did. Youve got a lot of different tools in the box. Keep us informed of whats going on out there. Well have much more on the winter storm throughout the snow. Its going to mean Different Things in different areas. And well give you all the coverage, all morning long. Lets turn to politics. Republican leaders are frin dame control right now because the cbo, the Congressional Budget Office, came out with its scoring of this Health Care Replacement plan and it was blistering. 24 million americans will be uninsured over the next ten years if this plan goes into effect. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty live in capitol hill with more. Now, of course, removing the individual mandate means a lot of people wont choose, perhaps, to get insurance. That goes into this number, as well. But many were taken by surprise, why . Reporter thats right, chris, because frankly, republicans leaders were not expecting such a tough report. And certainly, this bill already was facing a very tough slog ahead. But these new numbers certainly are devastating, potentially to the fate of the bills chances up here in congress. Now, Republican Leaders in the white house, they are shifting now into damage control mode, essentially trying to downplay the impact of this explosive new report on capitol hill. The Congressional Budget Office projecting 14 million americans could lose their coverage next year, with 24 Million People uninsured by 2026 under the Republican Health care plan to replace obamacare. We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. Reporter the white house denouncing the findings. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want. Reporter their strategy, attacking the Nonpartisan Office throughout the week, even before seeing the numbers. If the cbo was right about obamacare to begin, there would be 8 million more people on obamacare today than there actually are. Sometimes we ask them to do stuff theyre not capable of doing. Reporter but the report does provide some good news for the gop. The cbo also predicting their legislation would reduce federal deficits by 337 billion over a decade. And though premiums are expected to increase by up to 20 over the next two years, the cbo anticipates theyll actually drop by an average of 10 by 2026. Something the cbo may have gotten right in this report, its that the premiums are actually going to come down in cost. Reporter but the hardest hit by those higher premiums, older, lower income americans, shattering this promise by thencandidate trump. Weve got to take care of people that cant take care of themselves. Reporter the report complicating the gops alreadytroubled efforts to pass their bill. House Speaker Paul Ryan trying to put a positive spin on what they call unreliable numbers. Im excited about this analysis. And yeah, i think they sort of overestimate the uninsured number, just like they overestimated who would be insured by obamacare. But i do believe that if were not going to force people to buy something they dont want to buy, they wont buy it. Reporter but some Senate Republicans using this report as new ammunition against their own colleagues, demanding changes to the bill. I dont think its good news, even if its half right. I think the responsible thing would be to look at the cbo report and can we find ways to deal with the issue they have raised . Reporter now, there are a lot of moving parts on all of this, this week. Today, President Trump has a phone call scheduled with speaker ryan and the House Majority leader. Vice president pence will also but here on capitol hill, later today. Hell be meeting with Senate Republicans at a time when many moderate republicans simply are not onboard with this plan, just yet. Then on thursday, you have the house budget committee, who will begin marking up its portion of this bill. The goal of all of this, chris and poppy, is to have a full house vote on this bill, potentially as early as next week. All right. Sunlen, thank you very much. If it were easy, anybody could do it. This is going to be hard. Lets see if the man who calls himself the great negotiator, donald trump, can get it done. Lets bring in our panel of experts, cnn political analyst, Patrick Healey. Cnn political commentator and senior columnist at the daily beast, matt lewis. And cnn political analyst and reporter for the washington post, abby phillips. So, brother healey, we start with you. The first line of attack is attack the cbo. How effective will that be, in fairness of fact, it was a mixed bag nanlts of tin the analysis its not a perfect institution. But the man running it is an appointee of price. How much heat with they give the cbo and get away with it . A lot of heat. President trump and the white house have the bully pulpit like no others in terms of going on the attack. And the reality is that President Trump wasnt elected arguing dollars and cents and numbers and facts and figures and all of these details. He focused on repeal and replace obamacare. Repeal and replace obamacare. If they continue that mantra, they can at least know a lot of the republican base, a lot of the folks who are going to be voting in 2018, who members in the house need to be concerned about, they just want that law repealed and replaced. Thats what they want. And the issue is more in the senate. Thats where you get into much stickier, you know, area, because in part, a lot of members, some of the republican members, dont have these same concerns politically. And you know, what tom cotton said, he said, were going to lose the house if you guys vote for the bill the way it is. The thing is, the president cant argue with these numbers. Lets take a look at what the cbo says. 14 million more people uninsured. 24 million more people uninsured by 2026. Premiums will go up over the next two years. Then theyll come down, matt lewis, but theyre only going to come down for younger, healthier people. Theyre going to go way up, way up for people this is a stunning analysis. A 64yearold making about 24,000 a year under this analysis would pay half of their income, 14 plus thousand for health insurance. You cant argue with those numbers. Thats the issue. Its unbelievable. And hes right. Theyre going to attack the messenger. Thats what you do in politics. You want to discredit the cbo, because these numbers are damning. I also agree, i dont think this hurts him with the conservative base, because hes going to do to the cbo what he said to the fake media and the failing New York Times and all that. This is his guy. Those are details that people may not appreciate, who arent following this closely. A laundry list of tweets here where trump was lauding the cbo, for years. Consistency the 64yearold gets that bill. A lot of these people are people who voted for donald trump, right . In iowa and i think thats the point. I think republicans would actually be better off if this thing fails rather than pushing it through. And i think youre right about the senate. Thats where things really become different. Will tom cotton . Is it politically palatable to pass a bill that covers less people . Thats why they keep saying access. Donate sleep on the house. You have a real Division Going on there. Abby, lets bring you in and put in some of the numbers that go into this coverage bogeyman that people are afraid of. Before obamacare, you had an estimate of about 41 million were without coverage. After obamacare, 28. 5 million without coverage. Thats an important note. The idea that the aca was a panacea for our Health Problems is false. They still have big problems. It needed fixing. Now you have 52 million. The numbers are daunting, abby. But can anybody be surprised . If youre cutting the amount of money that the individual gets, whether you call it a subsidy or tax credit, if you cut the amount of money that goes into medicaid, whether you pass it on to the states or not, youre going to have less people getting covered, because the money wont be there. Thats right pip mean, this bill is designed to sort of thread this needle between being too expensive and doing what its supposed to do, which is stabilize the insurance market. And what has happened is that it doesnt provide snuff tax credits to incentivize people sufficiently, to get insurance. And it also makes it perhaps prohibitively expensive for Older Americans to afford insurance under the plan. And maybe it accomplishes 337 billion in deficit savings over a decade, but some of that deficit savings comes from the fact that the government will be outlaying less money to cover people under medicaid and cover people, pay for some of these tax credits. Theres a little bit of a feedback loop here. Its worth saying, though, the white house is saying, this doesnt take into consideration all the other stuff were going to be doing down the road. The problem is that no one really knows what to paycheckma that other stuff, because theres no paper, no text, no documentation. Paul ryan was asked that, this is part one of basically a threestep plan. And part of it is going to be buying insurance over state lines and what price is going to come out with an hhs. I just wonder, patrick, is it too early to call this a win for democrats. They have a plan, right now, obamacare, which aetna, big insurer, calls a death spiral, which humana pulled out from. Do democrats have the answer . No, day dont. To matts point, the best thing for republicans may be to let obamacare stay in place and two years from now, the degree to which the premiums are further up, the exchanges to say the bugs in the system are becoming even more apparent. But this is sort of classic Opposition Party politics. Youre not going to have the democrats sort of coming forward with their own bill, their own sort of like fixit bill right now. Where they need to get into place, if they get into the senate and democrats can start trying to build some sort of coalition with the Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski and may be able to show what they can do. Especially in those states that are depending on that Medicaid Expansion that they dont want to have to answer to those right. Ohio, rob portman could come through. Coming up for us, President Trumps budget director, Mick Mulvaney will join us in our 8 00 hour, hell react to all of these numbers. And well test this idea of whether the aca is in a death spiral or not. The economics dont create such a clear picture. Mr. Mulvaney is the perfect guy to make the case for this plan that were seeing right now and against the aca, well test it. Tomorrow night, you get to join wolf blitzer and dana bash. A live town hall with the man of the moment. The job of redoing all this health care stuff, secretary tom price, hhs. Hes going to have a town hall. Hell get to address peoples concerns tomorrow night, 9 00 p. M. Eastern, only on cnn. So the white house trying to walk back President Trumps baseless wiretapping claim. They now say, when we said wiretapping, we didnt mean wiretapping. What is going on with this . When can you trust what comes out of the white house . Next. 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The Justice Department is requesting more time to determine what, if any, evidence supports President Trumps wiretap claim. The new deadline is set for next monday. The same day the House Intel Committee is distinction to hold its first public hearing into russias election meddling. Now, it appears the administration is mow trying to walk back the president s allegations. Cnns joe johns live at the white house with more on this. What do we know now, joe . Well, chris, this appears to be just the beginning of an attempt to walk back that sensational claim made by the president on twitter. This morning, were learning that when the president wrote he was wiretapped, he didnt necessarily mean wiretapped. And when he said president obama did it, he didnt mean that, eithe either. Any comments on the wiretapping . Reporter the Trump Administration looking to buy time, failing to meet a congressional deadline to present evidence to back up the president s unsubstantiated claim that former president Obama Wiretapped the phones at trump tower during the campaign. The House Intelligence Committee agreeing to give the Justice Department until next mondays hearing to provide proof, suggesting that they may subpoena the administration if their questions go unanswered. This as the white house is now offering a new explanation for the president s baseless claim. He doesnt really think that president obama went up and tapped his phone, personally. Reporter the press secretarys comments run in contrary to