if we were over where the first is, we'd have massachusetts. and they have some evidence that we can't enforce this colorado well, it doesn't help. go ahead. sent meee but if you 35 feet fufort back and asked me to make my argument from there -- >> i'd hear you. >> i would suggest you'd receive differently. if the state were permitted to stand the front of you like a normal lawyer, i would suggest that would be a significant difference. what we have here is -- denying the difference. i am asking you, we've now heard characterizations of the record, i didn't mean to characterize it. i want you to explain what it is your point offrom view or lack there of that means constitution intervenes to prevent massachusetts from doing it. >> so the constitutional narrow tailroing test under the time, place and manner test requires that the law not restrict substantially more speech than necessary to serve the government's interest. restrictive, how long does it take? enter the buffer zone until you reach the clinic entrance. >> if you're walking nonstop, i

and that record he claims was not made by massachusetts for this particular buffer zone. >> and did massachusetts, did the attorney for the state of massachusetts come back on that point. >> yes, and she was probed by the justices as well. they wanted to know, for example, why 35 feet? in fact justice kagan said at one point in the argument she was a little hung up on how large that is. and the massachusetts attorney said look, the legislature looked at other buffer zones that had been upheld by courts, 50 feet, 36 feet, 15 neat. and then decided that 35 is what was going to work here. and she also pushed back on whether too much speech is curbed. for example, in the record and massachusetts attorney feels they made-- the legislature made a very thorough record of the problems here, miss mccullen without brought the challenge has said that she was able to speak with and deter roughly 80 women from the time the law went into effect 2007 until today. and that's not curbing speech. >> woodruff: and i gather they even got into, the justices did, talking about what exactly is the distance. >> it was a

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president of massachusetts senate. 1915 to 1917 governor of the state of massachusetts.nd went on to be vice president in 1921 and president in 1923. i've never seen anything like that where somebody had that many jobs leading up to president. >> and he almost never lost. >> how did he do it? >> he told one running for politics is my hobby. one was the republican party and democratic party were different. if you helped the others, they helped you. he was in the party. it was a club. it wasn't to be entirely looked down upon the way we learn in school. he climbed the greasy pole of massachusetts politics. it wasn't just that. there is some good in the party. they train you and help you work efficiently. but it's also his incredible personal perseverance and that's what i try to get at in the chapter about his time in new hampshire mass. that was the county seat. after college he looked around and couldn't afford lawsuit. kind of bugged his father about it. couldn't afford it so he went to read the law. you could clerk and pass the bar that way with a firm of two men who l

the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. well, i deeply respect my friend and colleague from oregon. i have a slightly different perspective on this because i think the bill before us today is the least that can be done and get the bill passed. it's got a number of items do i support like specialty crops. we've been working on for sometime. i'm pleased there will be or beganics have an opportunity -- organics have an opportunity to get crop insurance. this bill, as i say, takes allegedly the savings from rect payments that have been opposed for years but takes the savings and plows them back in to an enriched crop insurance program. it cuts $6 billion for conservation. yes, there are some improvements in terms of administration, but at the end of the day cuts $6 billion when land and water is under pressure and needs it the most. this is short sided. it's very likely go

just north of that massachusetts avenue is closed between 34th and end street. that is in the southeast section of the city. it shouldn't cause too many delays. route five, quite nicely. the ridge in your outs -- the virginia routes move along quite nicely as well. 95 all the way across. you're good to go. 66 moves in from center but without delay towards the beltway. the dulles toll road is also having very light traffic. 270 in maryland, live shot there shows us things are moving without delay. for now, back over to you. >> a d.c. woman got a package that she never expected. >> we will tell you what showed up at her house that had her going straight to the police. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first, we were protecting networks. then, we were protecting the transfer of data. and today it's evolved to infrastructure... ♪ ...finance... and military missions. we're constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber battle, wherever it takes us. that's the value of performance. northro

we know that the massachusetts plans, the massachusetts plan worked in the end. and now we know, as a nation, that our experience with the first three months of this policy as a country, our first three months looks a lot like what those first three months looked like in new england seven years ago, on that much smaller scale. everybody was very worried, when the first month's number came out on obamacare and showed that only 100,000 people had enrolled for health insurance. but by the end of the second month, nationwide, by the end of november, it was up to 365,000 people. now, we just got the new data for december, and it turns out that as went massachusetts, so goes the nation. we're now up to 2.1 million people enrolled. and that is just for people who have signed up for new health insurance using one of the exchanges. in addition to that, nationwide, another 3.9 million people have gotten new coverage thanks to obamacare. not through the exchanges, but, instead, through the expansion of existing insurance programs like medicaid or s-chip, which is the progra

one of them is massachusetts. i wonder if you could chat about whether you think the way they're approaching cost control in massachusetts is an example of what you would like to see in other states. >> very good. you have firsthand knowledge of that as the head of blue cross blue shield of massachusetts. >> thank you, governor. and it is a good question. i would first say i'm always a bit cautious about recommending massachusetts solutions. one of the statements in the report is that each state is different and each market is different. having said that, many of the recommendations mirror some of the actions that our state has taken in massachusetts. our state cost containment law was only recently passed. it's already created a climate in massachusetts that mirror a lot of the recommendations in this report. more collaboration among government and the private sect sector. a sense of shared commitment in the state that we need to lower cost while we improve quality. and as a consequence, we are seeing costs come

i think the massachusetts experience is instructive. while i have the podium one or two other comments i would like to make. i do believe that if individual states adopted the vast majority of these recommendations, the health care costs would come down and there is some passing reference to the affordable care act but my view is that the evolution of the affordable care act makes the recommendations of this report more relevant codes as the affordable care act has evolved we have watched as states have made individual decisions to perhaps take a different path whether they have adopted to expand medicaid or not, whether they have adopted economic changes so some of the national standardization anticipated in the affordable care act has not come to pass at the same level which i think is but a much greater focus on states as the locus of accountability for health care which is exactly the kind of premise of this report. does that get to the question you asked? >> many of these recommendations sound like they will need additional control

i'm always a bit cautious about recommending massachusetts solutions. in thethe statements report is that each state is different and each market is different. many of the recommendations mirror some of the actions that are state has taken in massachusetts. our state cost-containment law was recently passed. it has created a climate in massachusetts that mirror a lot of the recommendations of this report. more collaboration among the private and public sector, shared commitment in the state that we need to lower costs and improve quality. we are seeing costs come down. hasher key recommendation been widespread acceptance of changing the way we pay for care. whiche-for-service system the report and other experts identified as being fundamentally inflationary is being changed in massachusetts and physicians and hospitals are voluntarily adopting and agreeing with health plans like ours at blue cross blue shield and others to accept what we call global payments that include incentives for quality and incentives to control cost by independent studies expert

first, michelle millner hanover, massachusetts. just southeast of boston. michelle? >> reporter: scott, blizzard warnings were in effect in parts of massachusetts throughout -- until this afternoon. now, the heavy snow that wrecked last night's commute for millions in the mid-atlantic made driving treacherous for much of the day here in new england. first came the snow, up to 18 inches south of boston. bitter cold followed. windchills made it feel like ten below zero. getting around took patience and nerve. a.a.a. received 50% more service calls than usual. this ambulance slipped off the road while on call in stoughton, massachusetts. >> how we doing? >> reporter: jackson long's toeing company has taken more than 40 calls since last night. >> it doesn't take much. especially if you have ice under the snow. anything is going to slide on it. even a big truck like this. you have to be very careful driving on it. >> reporter: at least seven people were killed in weather-related accidents. a 20-mile trip took two hours last night on parts of new york's long island. >> as

massachusetts could get 22". planes and airports are grounded because of the bad weather. this is a picture from our camera at sfo yesterday with 50 eastbound flights canceled and self more delayed. marcy will have a report from massachusetts on the storm in a few minutes. >> >> a district judge in oakland will hear a request by the family of 13-year-old jahi mcmath to order children's hospital oakland to install tubes so she can be moved to another facility. jahi mcmath was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy and is still on a ventilator. the hospital has refused to insert a feeding tube which is required to move jahi mcmath to a facility in new york which has agreed to care for the girl. also, a superior court judge will preside over a mandatory settlement conference between jahi mcmath's family and children's hospital oakland today the on monday, a superior court judge extended a retraining order preventing the hospital from removing kid dead from a ventilator until tuesday, january 7th. >> in hawaii the mother of a three-year-old girl declared brain dead after a

massachusetts has made it possible to enlist massachusetts citizens in the effort to find lower-cost, better health care. i think that is critically welcome. issued focus them on that . if you get the market to move, then the government will move, to. >> some of the transparency issues. >> one of the relatively unknown secrets of the massachusetts story, before we do what alan themmended is we've visit reform. the business case for reform. as you are doing the convening to instruct the staff to build the business case, -- it would be really important. >> you are governor for the day. >> after i get done scratching my head out -- figuring out how to distinguish myself from the great things these other governors have done, i would look at the points that have been made today about the importance of spending of education and the importance of children improving health. moreaid covers now half or kids. i would try to convene the group to how we can use medicaid to help get an education. instead of focusing medicaid payments on payment rates for different kinds of services, i would think a

eventually the state of massachusetts did pass a specific law aimed at protecting those people.2000, massachusetts republican governor signed a new law that said even though can you protest outside a clinic that provides abortion services, you cannot get closer than 18 feet to the entrance. that's why you see those yellow lines painted on the ground around some clinics in massachusetts. they can state their case, they can say whatever they want, they just can't physically approach the people entering a clinic. in 2007, the buffer zone law in massachusetts which was enacted after those two young women were shot and killed. it was strengthened to 35 feet. it is that 2007 law from massachusetts, the 35 foot buffer zone is awaiting word on its fate in the supreme court. the court ruled in favor of colorado's version of this law. this year, everyone expects the rule's going to rule against the massachusetts buffer zone or at least they're going to weaken it. the court has heard the oral arguments in the massachusetts case already, they're expected to rule on it in june. if they do ru

the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minute. mr. mcgovern: i want to thank chairman lucas and ranking member peterson for all their hard work on this very difficult bill. i admire their tenacity and i admire their passion on issues dealing with agriculture. there are some good things in this bill, to be sure. but there are some things that i simply cannot accept. i think as we discuss this farm bill that we should remind ourselves of a few simple facts. facts like this, hunger exists in the united states of america. not a single congressional district in this country is hunger free. our food banks, our food pantries, the people on the frontlines in the fight against hunger simply cannot do any more. they are stretched to the limits. one final fact, this bill will make hunger worse in america not better. if this bill passes, thousands and thousands of low-income americans will see their already meager food benefits shrink, f

the gentleman from massachusetts has two minutes remaining. the gentleman from minnesota is ecognized. mr. peterson: mr. speaker, i know that members want to get out of here and get on planes and so forth so we'll yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time? mr. peterson: well, mr. speaker -- go ahead. you going to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes to close. mr. mcgovern: mau, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, first of all let me say that -- thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, first of all let me say that i'm grateful to mr. peterson and chairman lucas. i appreciate their dedication on these issues. it's good to be on the agriculture committee and proud to serve with them as well as with other members on each side of the aisle. unfortunately, i cannot support this bill. mr. speaker, let me speak to my fellow democrats. last night we sat in this chamber and we listened to the president give his state of the union address. and when he talked about raisi

you know, today's hearing centers around the state of massachusetts. this is brought to the forefront by 77-year-old grandmother, she wants to talk about reproductive health care facilities that established buffer zones that prevented her from approaching women contemplating getting an abortion and 35 feet is what they want people to stay back from at clinics. the zones are called buffer zones, marked by a yellow line. if a protester steps over, they're asked to move back. supporters say it's necessary as people entering and exiting the clinics have been subjected to taunts, even spit on, at times. they cite safety concerns after two receptionists in 2004 were shot and killed at a massachusetts clinic the abortion clinics representatives are free to speak but sidewalk counselors are not. >> it's not their messages can't be seen and heard, but it does protect women and administrative staff and doctors. >> a little bit from both side there's. sure to come up today the knack 2000 the supreme court upheld the buffer law in colorado. since then, chief justi

andrew dreyfus presidency of blue cross-blue shield of massachusetts. and glen steele president and ceo of geisinger health system. then we have bob restuccia and medicare -- reischauer a former director of the budget office said urban institute. rob restuccia with community catalyst. several other members who were not able to meet with us today includes simon stevens from united health, j. cowan with optimum, mike davis with general mills, john hanna and very former executive director of the colorado department of health care policy and financing and lloyd dean with dignity health. finally i would like to say a special thanks to our two major funders. first kaiser permanente and special appreciation to george halverson. and second to the robert wood johnson foundation which is represented by andy. now i would like to turn the program over to governor bill ritter who outlined the role of states in health care cost control and the huge number of policy leaders available to states to both enhance quality and reduce the cost of rate increases over time in

i will wrap it up here in massachusetts. anthony and nor a i think i will go to my happy place. >> i think we all should go there. >> causing travel chaos across the country. trains and highways are also running slightly. that follows widespread delays yesterday. michelle miller is in new york at la guardia airport. >> good morning. even airports in the west are feeling the ripple effect of these weather delays. there have been 75 flight cancellations at lax alone. here the line is around the corner as passengers hope that they will catch two dozen on time flights that the boards say are still on time. that as jfk was shut down for more than two hours. airlines canceled more than 800 flights in new york city alone. >> by thursday night, more than 1,000 flights were either canceled or delayed out of new york's three airports. that was nothing compare with boston's logan airport. terminals were empty and it is expected flights will not resume until friday afternoon. across the country, more than 2,000 flights were canceled and

he was the junior senator from massachusetts. serving from 1953 until 1960, where he engaged in the debates of the day on during his presidency. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> it is so great to be around this table once again today. because we have had some wonderful breakfast with the ambassadors from all over the world. i think that in due course we will have a chance to visit with all in the conversations go beyond breakfasts and they continue on until everything going on in the world better interacts. congress, the administration, those in washington and those in leadership. i am excited about this idea, and of course, my friend john shaw has inspired me to have a new chapter in my life after the senate and continuing to think about the rest of the world and ways in which those that offer service might be more effective. and also more humane. the latest at the outset that this is an exciting day to talk about a new book about john f. kennedy. and his pathway to the presidency. and we were called this very

the massachusetts emergency management agency, peter judge, thank you. we want to ask you to stick with us, for continuing coverage of this winter storm. in just a few minutes we'll speak by phone with the mayor of philadelphia. again, that's still ahead. >>> they have already made millions off their television show and they sell a host of products from t-shirts to stuffed dolls and even chia pets. now the stars of "duck dynasty" are brarcnching out into the firearms arena. >>> also the family trying to keep this little girl on life support gets an ally. i'll talk to the late terri schiavo's brother about the foundation set up in her name and how they're trying to make a difference in the life of jahi mcmath. that's our question for you, the life support debate. should jahi mcmath's family, not a judge or a hospital, have the final say over what happens to this young girl? weigh in on twitter and facebook. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of g

so a real mess here on massachusetts avenue in southeast. barbara, back to you ithe studio. >> all right, thank you, megan. >>> and new this morning, dozens of people who lived in a northwest d.c. apartment may have to find someplace else to stay this weekend. their building caught on fire. three people were hurt in the fire on mount pleasant street. doctors expect all of them to survive. firefighters still don't know what caused this blaze. >>> prince george's county firefighters battled a fire inside a laurel townhouse for the second time in less than 48 hours. take a look at these pictures. we're told the fire inside the home along compton avenue started before 3:00 this morn g morning. crews were able to quickly put it out. firefighters battled a large fire at the same complex on wednesday night. that fire destroyed three units. the cause of both fires is under investigation today. >>> taking a look outside right now. we're in for a weekend warm-up, believe it or not, after a week of bitter cold. storm 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins u

massachusetts, colorado, montana have buffer zones around the clinics. zones are marked bay yellow line, and protesters step over them, they are asked to move back. supporters of the buffer zone say they're necessary as demonstrators have at times blocked entrances to clinics and subjected people coming in and out to verbal and physical taunting. >> but what it does do is protect women and the administrative staff and doctors from that kind of in your face harassment that's really damaging. >> but others including the mccullen say buffer zones violate their right to free speech. >> massachusetts is picking sides in one of the most divisive issues in our country today. they're saying, abortion clinic representatives are free to speaking but sidewalk counselors are not. >> now, what will come up today is the fact that in 2000 the supreme court did uphold the buffer law in the state of colorado. since then changes at high court. roberts and alito replaced members who leaned in favor of the production. they could swing votes in favor of protesters pursuing f

kennedy's them was i will do more for massachusetts. it is somewhat ironic because in some sense kennedy was charging bowater with being is that really kind of senator he won the beat. that was what he thought a senator should do a saw that it was electorally a vulnerability. he pushed very are an affront. so when kennedy was elected, as far politician. the first thing he did was a symbol of very, very detailed economic plan for massachusetts and new england. he hired ted forstmann who came out of his top aides to assemble is very detailed economic plan. and there had been a steady in the boston federal reserve bank. they had a lot to draw from. plataea this massive document. kennedy in his first month in the senate gave 32-hour speeches on his economic agenda for massachusetts. he later turned this agenda into dozens of bills. he wrote a hundred 60 page book on his agenda for massachusetts. he actually put together a delegation of new england senators. they would meet twice a month to talk among the issues here research shows that

petitioners can and do protest abortion in massachusetts.aces. >> this is not a protest case. they don't want to protest. they want to talk to the women who are about to get abortions and try to talk them out of it. i think it distorts it to say what they want to do is protest abortion. if it was a protest, keeping them back 35 feet might not be so bad. they can scream and yell and hold up signs from that distance. what they can't do is talk the woman out of the abortion. it is a counseling case, not a protest case. >> i would say it is a congestion case. certainly they can have those conversations right in front of the abortion facility. they are moved back a few feet your >> 35 feet is a ways. from this bench to the end of the court. if you imagine the chief justice as where the door would be, as most of the width of the courtroom. it is pretty much this courtroom. that's a lot of space. >> as a factual matter, i did want to point out that in boston, the door is recessed. it is a private entrance. the 35 feet aren't from the door. it is on

get this, in parts of massachusetts it has been hit hard. they've got more than 20 inches of snow already. check out the map. you can see where the storm is right now. we'll follow it all morning long. every major city in the northeast is covered. that has forced cancellation of classes at schools across the region. >> kids are screaming in joy this morning. not everyone, though. this is the long island expressway which is normally one of the busiest highways in the country, packed any time of day or night. right now it is completely empty. the state of new york shut this road down and other major arteries as well. i have to tell you, the roads are not the only problem. today alone, about 1,500 flights have been canceled in addition to the thousands canceled in the past three days. folks, that could get worse. i have one other thing i can tell you, it is cold. it is really, really cold. we showed you 11 degrees with the wind chill below zero. i want to put up a map. this is what it feels like across the country. single digits in many spots,

the state of massachusetts more than 3,000.r by very high winds and all the snow coming down. it's going to be very, very difficult for a lot of people when they wake up tomorrow morning, natalie. >> we can understand. we can certainly appreciate it from your live shot there what they're going through. fred pleitgen live for us in boston. thanks. we will continue to bring you updates on the storm. for now we'll send you back to "march of the penguins." [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ and spend your time working hard to get to point "b". and "b" could be here... or even here. but for you, "b" is not the end. capella university will help take you further, because our competency-based curriculum is designed for your profession, to move you forward to where you want to be. your point "c". capella university. start your journey at capella.edu. >> winter's grip slowly wea

>> it did appear that the massachusetts law could possibly be struck down.never a state restricts speech on the public sidewalk, it has a high burden. some members of the court think that the court has met it. justice kagan said there's no way to know who's going to block doors. just as they arrive to clinics in a fragile state. but several of the justices said that they had problems with the buffer zone because number one, they think it's too big. number two, that it's not neutral about who gets to express an opinion. justice alito said that if a clinic volunteer goes up and says good morning to a woman entering the clinic, this clinic is safe, that would be allowed under this law because they're an employee of the clinic. but if somebody else walks up and says good morning, this clinic is not safe, that would violate the buffer zone law. for all those reasons it did appear, craig, that the supreme court is likely to strike this law down. now, massachusetts had an earlier so called bubble zone law, an eight-foot don't approach zone around people as they ent

check out what one meteorologist had to endure during a live report in massachusetts. you can see it was a struggle for that meteorologist just to stand up straight during those powerful winds. we will have a live report from boston in a few minutes to see what it is like reyna. >> oh, my gosh. >> unbelievable. >> more than 100 million people are feeling the effects of this winter weather. >> here is what other states are dealing with right now. >> the first storm of the year bringing as much as 2 feet of snow to parts of the northeast. today the big day out -- big dig out is paired with the big freeze. >> worry about frostbite and hypothermia. >> parts of massachusetts reported wind gusts above 50 miles an hour. and wind chill's as low as -30 degrees. from maryland to maine, the storm leaving class is canceled, businesses closed, and overnight, three major highways outside of new york city closed to traffic as more than an inch of snow fell every hour in the region. >> i'm going sideways even at four-wheel-drive. taking it easy. andreacherous roads stressful airports,

in fact, we saw 21 inches already in boxford, massachusetts. much of the reason facing extreme cold with sustained winds of 30 miles an hour or more. windchills below zero. air travel is a nightmare. thousands of flights cancelled or delayed and highways impassible. many shutdown so that plows can do their work. blizzard conditions from the big apple all the way up to maine. cnn that the first winter storm of four-three 2014 covered like no other network can. we begin in boston with indra petersons. >> reporter: i don't know if you can see how the snow is blowing in my face. we got out of new york on one of the last flights to logan last night. down the street we have seen a good six inches or so in south boston. if your car is stuck in the snow it's not that hard to get out if you take out ahead of it. look how dry this snow is. we can literally kick it around and we were concerned we wouldn't get over this berm but we were able to drive through it. that is the good news digging your car out of the snow or walk through these berms or drive thr

these pictures from massachusetts. plows having a difficult time keep g up keeping up with this is forcing the plows to double back over areas they cleaned. people are doing their best to keep sidewalks. even the plows had to slow down for all of that. and that's a fresh coat all the way on the ground. chekted to improve on why we should watch out for dangerous scenes. this one, the weather is to blame for a road closure in arlington. you are looking at the live picture near south kent not far from kent gon city mall. a tree fell over and knocked down power lines. >> storm team 4 joining us now. they did a great job for the rest of the day. >> they are getting better on 50 miles per hour. a few of those trees did come down. for the most part and things have begun to improve. our feathered friends and indeed these are birds and don't forget to till it up. they are happy to be getting fed. we take a look at the view outside yesterday evening. i took this picture before sunset transforming the landscape into a winter wond

massachusetts, one of the highest places at just under two feet.en we're looking at a little bit less, no arc at the airport, we're talking about all the airport delays, 4.5 inches so far, five inches in new york, but there's still a little bit coming down. we still have a number of watches and warnings up for the region just for the fact of what's on the ground already is going to continue to blow through the morning, a little bit more coming down, but with the wind gusts, we're seeing philadelphia, a 30-mile per hour wind gust. that's going to continue to make those roads treacherous. i can drive in it, it's still not pleasant to try to do that. that line is getting closer to the coastline and already by the time we get to 8:00 or 9:00, a lot of this will be moving out quickly, could see a few peaks of sun by the end of the day. we already have another system on its heels. i'll have more of that coming up. this one has a chance of having blizzard conditions with it. >> secretary of state john kerry heads to the west bank meeting with palestinian

back here now live in southeast along massachusetts avenue, and obviously, the work continuing here, and yeah, if you are planning to come here tonight, it is not going to work. and now, imagine that you lived in the house right there. next to all of this work, and what does that guy have to say about this? well, actually, he has a very, very interesting perspective on this entire situation. and we will tell you about that coming up next hour at 6:00. reporting live in southeast, adam tuss, news4. >> always nice to hear the jackhammers all day and all night. >> yes, that is right. mass avenue is not the only place dealing with the water problems. pipes in schools across the region are breaking, and the buildings are at risk for losing the heat. we will tell you what news team 4 found when they went inside. >> and plus, a car burst into the flames after a crash, and we will tell you how this race to save a life came to a dramatic end. >>> i'm jim handly in a wet sochi, russia, and only a week before this calderon will be lit up for the games. we will take you on a tour of olympic park

the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. first of all, let me just say that it is outrageous, absolutely outrageous, that the republican leadership has combined a major piece of anti-abortion legislation with the farm bill conference report into one single rule. restricting our ability to debate both of these important issues. there's an $8.6 billion cut to snap in this conference report. a cut that will only affect poor families, primarily the elderly and the disabled. besides being cruel canned heartless, this cut -- and heartless, this cut is also an unfunded mandate. if states, cities and towns want to prevent hunger from getting worse, they'll have to spend more money out of their own budgets. i know republican mie republican friendses are on a big hurry to go off on their retreat to some luxurious resort, but maybe we could have found another hour somewhere. madam speaker, i'm honored to serve on the agriculture committee. i was honored to serve on the conference committee for the farm bill. i want to thank chairman lu

the snow dumped up to two feet of snow in massachusetts. reports of wind gusts more than 50 miles an hour for the wind chill factor as low as 9 minus 0 degrees. >> we worry about hypothermia. >> three major highways just outside new york city where more than an inch of snow is going sideways. a second day of cancellations for air travelers from coast to coast, more than 2300 fliefts cancelled. in new york city, ten inches ever snow buried the city and central park is frozen over. even though the snow has stopped. >> it's deceptively cold. it's as cold as it's been all year and people sometimes think doesn't feel so bad but if you stay out there too long it will feel bad and it will be dangerous. so i don't want anyone to underestimate just how bitterly cold it is and it's going to get colder in a few hours. >> the storm has been blamed for at least 9 deaths across the united states in the last couple of days. >> finding shelter and a warm male could mean the difference between life and death to the homeless. on thursday night, volunteers of

blizzard warnings still in effect from massachusetts to new york. new york state is under a state of emergency. >> stay out of your cars to the maximum extent possible. if you don't need to go out, please don't go out. we want to make sure people are safe. we want them to be in a warm location. >> that big storm is also driving strong winds off the new england coast. the high tides every night and stretching into this morning, they are expected to cause flooding along the massachusetts coast. now the snow and the frigid cold to the northeast are shutting down schools, businesses, and government offices. massachusetts state buildings will be closed for the second straight day today. all public schools in new york city are closed. people are just being told stay indoors, avoid driving on the dangerous roads. and several major new york highways were shut down over night. new york state throughway the one that connects new york city to albany it was closed for the first time since super storm sandy. the throughway are both scheduled to reopen right abou

. >> the adams family gave to the massachusetts historical society a collection.e have never counted them individually, but probably 70,000+ documents over several generations, and probably about 300,000 pages. for abigail and john, which is the most important of the collection, there are about 1,170 letters they exchanged over the years. >> how frequently did they write to one another? >> it depended. when they were together -- for example, we do not have any letters after 1801 because after john leaves the white house, they're together almost all the time. for periods, for example, when there is fairly regular mail delivery between massachussetts and philadelphia, or later washington, d.c., they wrote at least once a week and sometimes twice a week. i almost like to think of it like phone calls. >> this program is an interactive one, which makes it more enjoyable for all of us, and we hope you take part. in about 15 minutes, we will be taking your telephone calls. we will put the phone numbers on the screen so you can phone in a question. there are two other way

. >> and a singhole shuts down parts of massachusetts avenue for ten days. >> and suspicious letters and those suspicious letters that we are going to talk about it, with but first a sus pitor story abo super bowl. chris? >> yes, we are just getting in information about this in the last few minutes. the fbi have been investigating a suspicious yellow and white powder mailed to five new jersey tels near the site of the super bowl, and now the fbi are saying that the initial tests have -- they will do some additional tests on the powder to be sure, but preliminary tests, again, show nothing, nothing poisonous, and hazardous materials team were out checking out the substance in the last few hours to determine what it is, and fbi and police officials in renaissance inn in ooet -- east rutherford, and others found at an eco know lodge. >>> and parts of massachusetts avenue is shutdown for what is called a washout. adam tuss, our transportation e reporter, is live to tell us what it will take to fix the problem, and what it will mean for the drivers. >> well, it is quite a scene, pat. firs

in place forings some areas, including southern massachusetts.s much as two feet of snow is expected very >> 18-24 inches. it is still 18-44 inches of shoveling. >> a storm impacting 22 states and 100 million people started yesterday in the midwest. >> this is bad. country,ts across the another day of cancellations and delays. >> i had no idea when we got here. this new you're starting off with some frustration and a lot of bitterly cold cleanup. i woke up in the got to wonder to see what it looks like. >> you may have to wait a while, snow and strong winds unwilling to let up until this afternoon. marcy gonzalez, abc news in cohasset, massachusetts. >> all the snow they got creating such a problem, even folks in our area that everyone was wanting to travel to the northeast today. >> a lot of people so a lot of time for the holidays and the new year. the skid to john gonzalez who is live at reagan national airport this morning for more on airport delays. john, they still try to clear snow off the tarmac? >> they really are. is going to take some

yeah, i'm surprised at how much we look to be following the massachusetts example.think we're really properly in the third month there. i believe that is 17% on the mass graph. we're ahead of that. in massachusetts you had political consensus around it. you had ads from the red sox. you had an ability to not just to sign up, but there wasn't this political friction. there's a caveat here. in all of this when we're talking about mass and nationally, we're using young people as a stand in for healthy people. if it turns out the people who are signing up are young, 24% of them are young, but they're the fraction of the young people who are not healthy, then this sort of normal calculations we're making here don't hold. i do want to say that is a caution. this is really about healthy people, not just young people. i think this is going a lot better than i expected it to be going given the roll out. if these are not the young people we're looking for, all bets are off. >> one last point, ezra. i think this bears repeating. you wrote about this a year ago, i think. you ta

i grew up in massachusetts where whittier was from. i had whittier rammed down my throat and didn't like him much. when the library of america called me to do the book on whittier, i thought, all right. i reread him and he was marvelous. i was too young for him. besides being a good poet. he was a wonderful man in many ways and was a long time abolitionist. he was more than antislavery. he wanted slavery enended. he didn't the president in a gradual way. i was interested in literary figures whom we know as literary fill your and their history. >> we come to history from a similar literary place. my graduate degree is in american literature, and i live on man tuck et largely because i like mobby dick. [laughter] and he does. >> i wrote a little book about that. and -- >> i'm a fan. and -- like wise. continuing and i was actually named for nathaniel haw thorn. wasn't it said that his biography of franklin piers was the greatest work of fiction he had ever written. >> yeah, it was said that. and he dedicated. when he dedicated a book to f

massachusetts is already gotten nearly 2 feet of snow. the blizzard conditions are expected from boston to parts of new york state. and as if that weren't enough, adriana diaz report, the sub zero cold moves in later. >> here it comes, the first major winter storm of the year began hitting the northeast hard thursday afternoon and won't let up until midday friday. >> strengthening overnight tonight and the heart of the storm that we'll be tracking. blizzard conditions are possible. up toward eastern massachusetts and the coast of new hampshire. >> and this blizzard is bringing heavy snow. >> over a foot in greater boston. in new york city, a half a foot. >> massachusetts governor told state workers to stay at home friday and urged private employers to do the same. >> it helps us help you if people stay off the roads as much as possible. >> new york city's new mayor on the job for just two days has prepared the city's street fleet. >> as soon as we have at least 2 inches of snow, they will deploy 1700 trucks equipped with snowplows. >> thi

it might not if we can base it on massachusetts, be as bad as i might have anticipated. >> okay. jonas, weigh in re. >> that's good f, because we don't know how people are going to think. some people aren't in the labor force as the numberf people out who took themselves out they might be like, well, i can get a job, a crummy job has health care. i won't say in general. this doesn't mean the plan is good. but the actual effect from employers, let's say the government mandated that a company had to pay $500 of your health care costs. of your housing costs. are they going to fire everybody because of that? no, they will take it out of your other compensation. that's what we will see, pay raises won't go up to counter additional halth care costs. unless the total compensation doesn't go down the labor costs of the employer isn't going to down over the years. so there probably won't be a whole lot of firing going on because of this. >> jonas, to your point, cfos are saying, hey the costs will go up. we're not ing to pay them. if it goes no profits, they will push tse costs out on to