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Climate could change dramatically. and by this time next year, president obama will have to compete for attention with the likely 2016 presidential contenders as the race for the white house takes off. clearly, this will be a significant moment for president obama. cnn anchor jake tapper is up on capitol hill right now. what are we learning about the president's speech. >> wolf, good evening. we're told the president and his team have been making late tweaks within the last couple hours. we should expect some surprises in the state of the union address. a senior official tells us that is mr. o...

Or is that even their role? >> they will continue to be meeting with white house and administration officials to make sure that things are fixed by the time people are able to exercise benefits with new policies. they are also going to be pressing to see if they can work separately from the website, separate from healthcare.gov, maybe with the irs or social security administration to verify that they are indeed citizens or have social security numbers and if they are eligible for benefits. they qualify from an income perspective, you'll see quite a bit of that. >> the other thing we're waiting...

Cleaner, this is specific to merkel. why? i'm going to presume that there's some information that led them to do this. well, maybe we need to know what that information is, as difficult as it might be to reveal. but we need to know what the hell has been going on here. >> i think it's just republicans coming out suddenly and defending these programs. at the very beginning of the snowden revelations, there was a hard, hard push from the white house that has completely vanished. and people like mike rogers is on his own now. >> dafna linzer, carl bernstein, great. thanks so much. under cover o...

Had the chamber of commerce saying he likes this idea that at least both sides are cobbling together something that will move a lot of these folks to citizenship, and the chamber endorses that. >> well, you know, i believe that the people of arizona strongly believe that they need to get in the back of the line and do it the way that everybody else has done it. bottom line, neil, we know we need a work force, there could be work series saturday but not citizenship. i think the majority of the people do not support that, and it's going to be a hard push. i don't think any of it's going to happe...

Get our first pictures here this afternoon. we've had reports from point pleasant beach where the beach was essentially taken and spread through the town and then we've heard from atlantic city and seen where the boardwalk was ripped up and so forth. in the middle is long beach island and i haven't seen any reports from long beach island. what happened there is they were on the side of the storm where the water was pushed from the ocean in across the shoreline. farther south, down into maryland and delaware, much of the coast where they had some damage, they didn't have that hard push of water...