behind me? we have big fat flakes of snow falling. i think it is headed your way in new york. get ready. you can hardly see the dome behind me. yes, i m in washington. had hs secretary kathleen sebelius has received much of the blame for the rollout of health care but the washington examiner received emails sent by a hhs worker saying the problems ranch deeper. the hhs official involved in a non-profit involved in obamacare criticizing counterparts at white house. here is what he wrote. i think we need to come to jesus meeting with our friend in the white house. i think they are in disarray. i don t know who is in charge on health care. this comes as 11 million americans likely will see their health care rise because of obamacare with small businesses getting hit particularly hard. let s bring in bob cusack, managing editor of the hill. bob, good to see you in person for once. absolutely.
anita padilla is from fox 32 chicago, joining us with the latest there. i hear it s cold and i see the snow. reporter: yeah. we ve got the big, fat flakes and they re blowing sideways sometimes. i want to give you a picture of what s going ton right now here on the north side of the city. this is in one of the neighborhoods. you see all that swirling snow? that s what s coming down right now and if you look down at our tire tracks here, all of the tire tracks, all the streets on the side streets in chicago, you have to kind of make your way here in chicago because the plows don t come through side streets until a little later after they focus on the main roads and get those cleared away. it is a challenge for people that are going to be on the roadways today. if you have to fly into o hare or out of o hare airport, yesterday there were over 600 cancellations and delays. we expect there will president-elect obama be more coming today. we ll get an updated number in about an hour. at t
and when kenya smith left the navy after 14 years, show thought that two she thought that two masters degrees and military experience would help her get a job. two years later she s still looking. and a special welcome to the service men and women watching on the armed forces network. thanks for joining us. we re glad you re with us. and we begin with a major storm battering the northeast. right now around two million people are without power. four states have declared emergencies. new york, new jersey, connecticut, and massachusetts. want to take a live look now at new york city, columbus circle. a very dark columbus circle. new york, by the way, did not get the worst of it. here s what it looks like in massachusetts. officials predicted that downed trees were going to be a major problem. and take a look at that they were right. the storm is being blamed for three deaths so far, one of them in massachusetts. a man in pennsylvania was killed when a snow-covered tree f