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The vote today. mitch mcconnell, senate minority leader out of kentucky, there on capitol hill. martha: very interesting. so in the next hour, we're going to have the other side of this. we'll get reaction from democrat anthony weiner and you can bet he'll have a fivey response, he usually does, to the words we heard from senator mcconnell. that's straight ahead. bill: you know it's a story when you're stuck in downtown chicago and you can go nowhere. martha: can you imagine? bill: wow! martha: we'll be right back.

This point. bill: 50 mile-an-hour winds. >> yes. it was amazing, the visibility, certainly was so bad we actually had to pull a number of plows off the roaded. >> snowplows couldn't even handle it. what about stranded motorists? we have had highway assistance, a combination of the national guard and psp and state patrol, working overnight and have been rescuing people and we have discovered a lot of stranded motorists throughout the day, as -- and we're making progress on the roads. bill: what is your sense of how desperate the motorists are. >> we had a few this morning in a very desperate si...

But a lot more snow expected still to come. lake-effect snow. it's almost impossible to predict how much of that is going to get over the course of time. schools are closed here in the city of chicago, that's something of a rarity. the last time they closed chicago public schools was in the last big snowstorm, in 1999, so an entire generation of chicago public school kids, this is their very first snow day. up north in lake county, a general emergency, county officials just won't want people on the roads period. if you're going to work, don't, they're telling people, if you absolutely have to ...

Bill: one thing we have here in the northeast, it has been snowing but it has been sunny. martha: right. bill: and hasn't been miserable every day. martha: no, it has -- >> my guess that that weather is changing now. martha: but when you get the ice, the ice was coated in ice on the way down the staircase. bill: could be a long february. we're awaiting a critical vote on repealing the overhaul of health care, the floor of the senate, mitch mcconnell who told us last hour he hopes his democratic colleagues in the senate will vote with him. will they? from the house side, anthony wiener is fired...

Republican out of kentucky, mitch mcconnell, leaders efforts to uproot the health care overhaul, senator mcconnell introduced a bill to repeal that, today, a vote expected in the senate. this will be one to watch. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is with me. thank you for your time. >> good morning. bill: democrats say you're wasting your time. the reason for this bill today is what? >> it's not a waste of time. we promised the american people we would try to repeal this job crushing washington takeover of our health care, and we're keeping that commitment. the house has voted to repeal ...