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Denver, a couple of slushy inches for you south of billing. grand junction, amazing as we are in the month of may but, you know, it is the rockies and we're watching the storm moving eastward. severe threat today across the mid atlantic region and from the ohio valley to the central plains including oklahoma city where we had that severe weather outbreak on monday. we'll watch for that, for the potential of hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and unfortunately, more tornadoes. keep an eye on it. back to you. >> the health care bill may not be the great savings tool that democrats promised because...

Boehner, steve, said you can't have the federal government involved and have it cost less. that just flies in the face of reality. >> well, that's basic common sense. the irony is peter orszag's defense, the o.m.b. director defense of this is this is money that congress wants to spend, not necessarily money that congress will spend. who thinks that congress isn't going to spend this money? i understand that there are sometimes things that are authorized that are not, we don't actually see congress pay for in the end. but the reality of it is congress is going to spend this money and it's going...

Will cost $115 billion more than previously estimate which brought some i told you so's from republicans. >> here was one of the democrats primarily arguments and now we are learning that it won't lower the deficit. but you won't hear a word about it from the people who made that argument day in and day out for more than a year. >> reporter: the original estimates were it would lower the deficit by $148 billion. the cbo say other parts of the program may cost more as well. megyn: those numbers were touted to such an extents, what changed. why did they come out with this revised estimate now? >...

Six, seven weeks after the thing passes, now we get cbo numbers saying wait a minute, it's going to cost $115 billion more than we thought and that will wipe out the savings which was supposed to reduce the deficit. >> but this is not necessarily the cbo flip-flopping, right? i mean, the white house gives them these numbers and they say, score this thing in three or four days, now they've had time to sit down and look at it and break down every aspect to it so this is natural, right, that they learn more about the bohemeth that it is. >> they're saying it's going to be an extra $10 to $20 bill...

Out. on its face this doesn't look good because you're breaking the pledge of not costing more than a trillion dollars. the other thing that got a lot of folks onboard with this was health care reform would lower the budget deficit overall in the next ten years by about $143 billion. that was the estimate if this bill was passed. if this $115 billion goes onto that it almost wipes out all of the savings that were supposed to occur towards the deficit. it's something that a lot of fiscally conservative democrats and republicans are having a problem with today. >> nbc's luke russert on the hill....