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Millions Brace for Massive Blizzard; More Than 4,600 Flight Canceled Today and Saturday; Conservative Magazine Goes after Trump. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired January 22, 2016 - 07:00   ET

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CUOMO: Washington, D.C., area could get the worst of it. It's already taken a beating from very little precipitation. Yes, they're good and bad reasons for that, but we know that as much as 30 inches of snow could be on the ground there. There's no chance there's going to be none. Air travel's already feeling this. More than 4,600 flights cancelled ahead of the storm.

[07:00:17] You've got to be safe. You've got to know what's going on, and we're going to give it to you, the way only CNN can.

Let's begin our coverage with Paolo Sandoval in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Paolo, the snow and ice already there. Howl's it impacting the area?

PAOLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Chris, I can tell you that we have already seen at least three of those stages of precipitation. I woke up this morning at about 3:30, 3:45, looked out the window. It was basically raining.

Just like that, we began to see snow. And as you can see out here, boy, did it start to accumulate. Only about maybe, if I go down, you only see about, perhaps about an inch and a half or so here in this park.

But it's not the snow. It's the potential for ice that has people concerned here. We know that officials here in Charlotte have been working around the clock to treat the streets. They've been brining the streets. It's basically a combination of salt and water. They've been pouring it throughout the highways and against some of the streets here in downtown.

So we really have not seen what is a tremendous impact. We've seen people coming out to really take it all in so far. But nonetheless, officials are watching it very closely. They encourage people. They don't have to make their way out here in some of the southern states. Simply stay home.

I can tell you that schools have cancelled classes for today. They will make up the day on Monday. And of course, what everybody wants to know will it affect the main event in town this weekend? Which will be, of course, Sunday's championship game here with the Panthers. I can tell you, there was a pep rally that was scheduled to happen here today. Not going to happen anymore. CAMEROTA: Yes. It looks sort of empty behind you there, Paolo.

Thanks so much for that.

Well, it is also the calm before the storm in the nation's capital. They could get close to three feet of snow. CNN's Chris Frates is live in Washington.

Chris, are they ready?

CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn.

From what's forecasted to be the epicenter of this massive storm barreling toward the East Coast.

And yesterday, officials here tried to prepare the public and say that they were, in fact, ready after a dusting of snow on Wednesday night left just than an inch of snow on the ground, but snarled traffic and brought the city to a standstill.

President Obama was even caught up in this traffic a short trip from Joint Base Andrews to the White House, usually 20 or 30 minutes. Took the president an hour to get home. Us regular folks, five, six hours to get home. Some just abandoning their cars and walking. And yesterday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser apologized, saying that they didn't have enough salt trucks on the road.

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MURIEL BOWSER, MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C.: We are very sorry for inadequate response. We believe that we did not provide adequate resources at a time where it could make a difference. We should have been out earlier with more resources.

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FRATES: So D.C. mayor there trying to reassure everybody that they were, in fact, ready for this storm. D.C., Maryland, Virginia, all issued a state of emergency. That gets them federal help if they need it, including the National Guard.

Now, the city government and the federal government shutting down early today at noon. City schools closed all day. That's an effort to keep cars off the road. They want to start getting those salt trucks early. You'll see behind me here that they had 39,000 tons of salt ready to go. They're filled to capacity here in salt domes across the city. They want to get that down. They want to prevent the disaster they had Wednesday night, Michaela.

PEREIRA: What it sounds like, they're going use every grain of that salt on those roadways. Chris, thanks so much for that. We'll check back with you later.

Meanwhile, if you have a plane to catch this morning, check your flight. That storm is already snarling air travel. We're told some 5,000 flights have already been cancelled for today and Saturday.

Meanwhile, for train travel, Amtrak is modifying their service along the northeast corridor.

CNN correspondent Rene Marsh is at Washington Reagan National Airport and the crowd just grows behind you.

RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. I call this crunch time because that's exactly what it is. These -- all of these passengers lined up, long lines here at the ticket counter. They are trying to get out before this storm. And really, this is their last chance, because as the day continues to go on, we're going to see those cancellations continue to stack up.

I want to put on your screen the hardest hit airports at this hour. Charlotte is topping the list. Raleigh, also having a very tough time. Of course, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. airports, as well as Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport.

Now keep in mind, here's what we're expecting as far as air travel. At peak of all of this, some of these airports in the northeast, operations will completely stop. Including here at Reagan National Airport. That might be the scenario at some point Saturday.

No planes going in or out, and it is simply because of those unfavorable conditions. When you talk about low visibility and strong winds, less than ideal for air travel.

When will things get back to normal? It's unclear. Usually takes about 48 to 72 hours, but for things to really get back to the usual schedule, could take a little bit longer this time around.

Back to you.

[07:05:17] Rene, keep us informed, please. So what do we know? The blizzard's going to pack a big punch? Who's going to get the worst of it? We have CNN meteorologist Chad Everett Myers joining us now with the latest forecast and totals.

This is, as we said earlier, Chad, the mistake here is saying, "I hear this all the time." It's just another one of those. Not this time.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: No, this is this isn't hype. There's no reason for us to hype this storm. What I'm telling you today is what I actually believe will happen to the dot. Now, I may be five inches too low, five inches too high in some spots, but that's just how models go. That's how forecasts go.

Winter storm warning for over 75 million people, and now the police are warning all the way from D.C., all the way to New York City and Long Island. There's 29 million people in a blizzard warning.

A blizzard doesn't just mean heavy snow. It means heavy snow, lots of wind, low visibility, from three hours or more. And so you really now can pile up snow. And that's what I'm worried about for New York City is that, if we get a band here where you can get three inches of snow an hour, for four hours, all of the sudden, that's a foot, bam, in less than four hours, and that's how heavy the snow can be. Almost like lake affect snow, because while there's an ocean to the east, it'll be ocean effect snow.

There's the low right now. It's icing in Charlotte, Asheville, North Carolina. The parts of Virginia will be an ice storm mess, but it's the snow that'll be two feet deep in D.C. in Baltimore, maybe even Philadelphia. Further out to the west of Philadelphia is where the heaviest snow will be. And then New York City right here in the bullseye, as the storm pulls out.

If the storm pulls out soon enough, then we only get about eight inches here in New York City, if it lingers. If it's a linger longer storm, all of a sudden that eight inches could easily double.

There is your bullseye, D.C., but you know it, this is going to stretch all along the I-95. And the tides are high. We could see some flooding. We certainly will see winds to 50 miles per hour -- guys.

CAMEROTA: OK. You've given us a lot to talk about, Chad. Because this blizzard warning has been issued for New York City. How is the city preparing, given all the uncertainty that Chad just talked about? Joining us now is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Mr. Mayor, thanks so much for being here.

MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO, NEW YORK CITY: Yes.

CAMEROTA: OK. Chad says he's worried about New York. He also said that the model shows somewhere between eight inches and two feet of snow here. So how do you prepare?

DE BLASIO: New York City has a huge capacity for these situations. We have 1,800 snow plows, almost 600 salt spreaders. Everyone's on high alert right now. We take this very, very seriously. And the most important thing is for people in New York City to recognize, Saturday and Sunday, don't go anywhere. Don't assume you're going to be traveling. Stay indoors. Let our sanitation department get out there and clear the streets, because they're going to have a lot to do.

CAMEROTA: Even with all those resources that you just talked about, the last big storm, there were some neighborhoods that felt forgotten. The Upper East Side said that their -- their roads weren't plowed.

DE BLASIO: Everyone -- no, everyone's treated the same. What we have, sometimes we have problems for sanitation garage, but we found a way to fix those quickly.

We have a very, very strong -- certainly, full-court press, and look, we've seen, when we full the full force of what we have, that we can handle a storm like this. But the important thing is for people to recognize stay off the roads for your own safety but also so we can keep them clear.

CAMEROTA: I mean, not only that, Chad was talking about how the winds, 40 miles per hour, which makes plowing almost futile. Because as you plow, the snow blows back onto the road. So cars can get stuck if you're out there.

DE BLASIO: That's the thing, and that's what we've seen in past storms. That folks go out, little overconfident, and that's bad for them. That's bad for their safety, but it also makes it very hard for the folks that we send out to clear the roads to do their work.

The good news is, and I think CNN's doing a service here. Telling people in advance, look, don't have any illusions about Saturday and Sunday. It's going to be really bad. Get ready. Get your supplies today. Stay indoors, stay safe.

CAMEROTA: What are you doing about coastal flooding? That, of course, has been a big problem, certainly during Hurricane Sandy. Staten Island could face some coastal flooding. Download Manhattan, where the subways flooded during the hurricane, what are you going to do about that?

DE BLASIO: Look, thankfully, this does not seem anywhere as bad as Sandy, but we have made a lot of progress with Sandy with a lot of help from the federal government. A lot of the major areas that bore the brunt of Sandy have been reinforced, sand dunes and other measures put in place to really protect those communities permanently.

So, and we have temporary measures we'll put in place, as well. So we're much better positioned than we were a few years ago with Sandy.

CAMEROTA: Things are going to start at about midnight tonight. What are you doing at this hour to prepare?

DE BLASIO: We have our teams now working on emergency basis. All of our agencies. NYPD, fire department, of course, sanitation department, emergency management. So everyone's already in ready mode. Personnel are coming in. They know they're going to be doing long shifts. We have plenty of vehicles, plenty of people to handle this.

CAMEROTA: New Jersey mayor -- I'm sorry, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is running for president, as you know. He has said that he is going to stay on the campaign trail. Let me play for you what he just said about the storm.

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[07:10:09] GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The lieutenant governor's there. And she's handling things on the ground there. And if I needed to go back, I would, but at this point, it's too speculative to know.

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CAMEROTA: What do you think? Does he need to come back?

DE BLASIO: I think he needs to come back. You know, look, a day or two ago it might have been a question mark. Right now, it's not a question mark any more. And obviously, we are being warned that it could even be worse. We find this out with each storm. Sometimes it's less than we expected. Sometimes it's more. So, for any governor, it's time to come home.

CAMEROTA: And why is that? I mean, he has a cell phone. Why can't he just sort of dictate orders from wherever he is?

DE BLASIO: You can, but there's nothing like feeling what the people of your city or the people of your state are going through. Last big storm we had, I toured all over the city. You see what's happening on the ground. You see where there has to be changes made or people need extra help. It's very important just to be at the front and understand what's going on.

CAMEROTA: Particularly since he was the face, in some ways, of Hurricane Sandy.

DE BLASIO: I mean, he did good work. But I think he should remember those lessons. And look, this is more important than politics. This is protecting people. Making sure that everything's being done that can be done.

And again, I remind you, we're looking at projection that's bad enough. But we have to be ready for the possibility it could be worse.

CAMEROTA: Let's talk about politics.

DE BLASIO: All right. You have come out and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Our latest polls show that Bernie Sanders is surging in Iowa and New Hampshire. And at the moment, beating her in some polls. Are you concerned about her campaign?

DE BLASIO: I think she's doing well. I really do. Look, I think she has a very powerful message, talking about what we have to do to restore the middle class in America, which is really what -- if you look at all the polling, all the discussions, this is what the American people want to talk about. How are we going to get back on our feet economically? How are we going to reverse the decades in which middle-class people were falling behind?

And she has a vision of the kinds of things we need, how we raise wages and benefits, how we tax the wealthy in a more fair manner that allows us to do more as a nation.

She is expressing that vision. That's what people want. They also know she can get it done. And this is, I think, one of the crucial parts about Hillary Clinton. No one doubts her capacity either on domestic issues or international issues.

Whether you care most about restoring the middle class or whether you care about fighting terrorism, she's perfectly capable on both fronts.

I think in the end, Democrats and Americans in general want a more progressive president going forward and a president who can get things done. And she fits the bill.

CAMEROTA: What about the point that some people have made, including Vice President Joe Biden, that when it comes to economic incomes, income inequality issues, it's Bernie Sanders who has owned that who is more authentically the champion of that?

DE BLASIO: I was surprised by the vice president's comments, because I remember the years 1993 and 1994 when Hillary Clinton took on the health insurance companies, when she was fighting for healthcare reform, when it was often a very lonely battle. She was vilified; she was attacked. Millions and millions of dollars of advertising thrown at her. She never flinched.

That was a fight for income to address income inequality long before a lot of other people would take it on, and certainly, look, it's because of her efforts in '93 and '94 that we had the stage set to finally achieve what President Obama achieved with national healthcare reform.

So I think it's really important to remember the history. I give Bernie Sanders a lot of credit for the things he's talking about over the years. But she took on very powerful interests and showed her mettle decades ago. So it's important to recognize, if you see that kind of history of someone who fights for progressive change against very powerful interests. That's the kind of person you want in the White House.

CAMEROTA: And yet on those very issues, health care and the economy, let me just pull up the latest poll. This is P-11 in our system. This is the Democrat in Iowa, according to Iowa voters, who are best -- best able to handle these issues.

The economy, Sanders, I can turn, I can turn your attention to the screen in a second. It's 58 percent of the likely Democratic caucus goers. There you see it, versus her, 36 percent. Look at this, healthcare. He gets 51 percent to her 45 on foreign policy. She gets 65 to his 25.

So what is the disconnect? Why don't the voters there in Iowa know what you're saying about her history.

CUOMO: Well, first of all, there's still a lot of time on the clock in Iowa. We know that. Iowa changes right up to the last moment.

But look, I think on the issues, the more people who are hearing about her vision, which is a very sharp one. She's talked about the things we need to do is we help families, pay family leave, pay sick leave.

Basically, look, Hillary Clinton with her husband, President Clinton, of course, brought us family and medical leave long before anyone else was making that happen in this country and talking about it. They put it on the national agenda they achieved it. She's been working on these issues. She's going to continue to put this forward.

But what's going to happen, I believe, in Iowa and beyond, is people are going to say, great. Here's the vision we want, who's going to be best at getting it done? And they're going to recognize that Hillary has a history of achievement and effectiveness.

So in the beginning, I understand voters are looking at different issues, considering different things, but when they really start to think about who's going to be the president, who will achieve these progressive changes? I believe more and more voters will go to Hillary Clinton.

CAMEROTA: Mayor Bill de Blasio, best of luck over the next 27 hours.

DE BLASIO: We appreciate it.

CAMEROTA: Thanks so much for being here.

Let's get over to Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right. Breaking overnight, Jason Rezaian, the "Washington Post" reporter that was freed in an Iranian prisoner swap, heading home from a U.S. base in Landstuhl, Germany.

Two other freed American prisoner held in Iran are also back on U.S. soil. Saeed Abedini reunited with his family in Asheville, North Carolina, look at that hug. The pastor from Boise had spent more than three years in an Iranian prison. Also back home. Amir Hekmati, who landed in Michigan, the U.S. Marine was accused of spying five years ago.

CUOMO: All right, a former Oklahoma cop convicted of sexual assaulting African-American women on his beat will spend the rest of his life in prison. His name is Daniel Holtsclaw. He was sentenced to 263 years behind bars. The sentence coming after the judge denied a defense request for a new trial. Prosecutors say Holtsclaw preyed on women while working in one of Oklahoma's poorest neighborhoods.

CAMEROTA: Listen to this story: a tense rescue in L.A. after a grounds worker at a Los Angeles Zoo falls 15 to 20 feet into the gorilla enclosure. Fire crews lowered a basket to him. As you can see, it took about half hour to pull him to safety. He was hospitalized with a broken leg. Now, the zoo says the man was never in danger because all four gorillas in the enclosure were sleeping.

PEREIRA: Thank goodness.

CAMEROTA: In a separate area.

PEREIRA: Oh, my goodness.

A prominent conservative magazine comes out against Donald Trump while some prominent Republicans come out against Ted Cruz. So what voters, what are voters supposed to do with the caucuses just around the corner? We'll have more on that ahead.

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[07:20:37] CAMEROTA: Only ten days until the Iowa caucuses, a new CNN/ORC poll reveals a shake-up on both sides of the aisle. Among likely Republican caucus goers, Donald Trump now holds a commanding 11-point lead over Ted Cruz, 37 percent to 26 percent.

Marco Rubio is the only other candidate in double digits. But among Republicans who actually voted in the 2012 caucuses, the race is neck and neck with Ted Cruz at 30 percent and Donald Trump at 28 percent.

On the issues, Donald Trump is seen as most trusted to handle the economy and illegal immigration. While Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio made gains on foreign policy, another key pole on the Republican side, a statistical tie between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump as the candidate who best represents Republican values.

Voters starting to decide: 49 percent say they have picked their candidate. That's a huge increase from last month.

Let's turn to the Democrats. In Iowa, Bernie Sanders opening up an eight-point lead over Hillary Clinton, 51 percent to 43 percent. But just like the Republicans, the outcome flips among those who actually voted in the last competitive caucus. Among Democrats who voted in 2008, Clinton holds a 17-point lead over Sanders on the issues. Sanders tops Clinton by a 22-point margin on the economy.

But on foreign policy, the former secretary of state dominates topping Sanders by 40 points. Bottom line: it all boils down to who turns out to vote in Iowa, Chris.

CUOMO: All right, this is a very unique situation we have heading into the caucuses. Let's discuss why. Big headline this morning. A conservative magazine, "National Review." You've probably heard of it. It's a big deal on that side of the aisle. Scathing editorial gets Donald Trump, labeling him, quote, "a menace to American conservatism."

Several GOP leaders expressed growing concern about Ted Cruz's candidacy. What is going on here? It seems like the Republicans are eating their own.

Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway runs a super PAC that supports Ted Cruz. As we have for our entire adult lives, I need you to help me understand what is going on here. Hopefully, we'll get Geoffrey Lord up. He's coming from Skype in his house. Good, pop him up on the screen behind us. Good. Pop him up here when he comes.

So "The National Review," let me just give you what the editorial says. "Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot on behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as Donald Trump himself."

Going after the front runner. Ten days into the Iowa caucus. Why are they doing this, and what do you think it'll mean?

KELLYANNE CONWAY, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: Well, Chris, "National Review" has been around for 60-plus years. It is one of the gold standards of the entire conservative movement founded by the late Bill Buckley Jr., and actually, this echoes the Sharon (ph) statement from, what, 60 years ago or so, 55 years ago, whereas as they want to lay down some real conservative principles and focus on principles, not politics, and focus on policies, not personalities.

And this is actually a collection of some pretty heavyweight voices. They have about 18 or 20 different writers. It's not just one editorialist opinion, and essentially, they're warning the voters that maybe you don't really know Donald Trump. Look, he supported Hillary Clinton. He's had these conservative apostasies on certain issues like abortion or guns over the years.

And Mr. Trump's response, I think, all along has been the same, which is "I'm an outsider. I'm going to shake up the system. I've changed my view on some important points. And that you can trust me to, as the outsider to come into the inside and make revolutionary changes that people in Washington are not able to do."

CUOMO: Apostasies, good work, because it plays to politics as religion, which is certainly how the conservatives see these types of beliefs. They're not just passing fancies. They're bedrock principles.

Geoffrey Lord, thank you for joining us this morning. The question so you is, do you think that this apparently scathing review could actually help Donald Trump?

GEOFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I do. You know, and I have to say, I have a number of friends on this list who signed this. I have my own piece of "The American Spectator" saying, and I wish I could see Kellyanne here. I can't. But I was advocating a Trump-Cruz ticket in 2016.

You know, one of the things that I must say I take with somewhat of a grain of salt, I love my friends at "The National Review," but four years ago, they were insisting that Mitt Romney was the guy. And here was a guy who was not very much of a Reagan fan, not very much of a conservative, and they were -- they were pushing him for all they were worth.

CONWAY: How'd that go?

LORD: So I'm a little -- a little amused at the notion that the same folks, some of the same folks were pushing Mitt Romney are now concerned about Donald Trump's conservativism.

CONWAY: All right. So you got this one coming out. Yes, there are writers involved, but you have something similar going on to Ted Cruz. You have big-name Republicans coming out and going after this guy who's got a real chance of winning Iowa, Texas senator. Why are the Republicans going after their own?

CONWAY: Sure, Chris.

Geoffrey, that's really funny, a Trump-Cruz, or a Cruz-Trump ticket. That would make the collective GOP establishment's head explode en masse. So...

CUOMO: How can it be that the top two contenders are a nightmare -- you know, just to use the analogy that you guys are practicing here -- in the party? I've never seen anything like this.

CONWAY: Never. Chris, and what's happened this year is the establishment is having a very difficult time proving their so-called electability. They've always counted on these three magic words: I can win, you can't win. And it's always who can never win in terms of the establishment. It's the less funded, lesser known conservative to the right of senator candidates. You can't win. You can't win in the general elections.

The nominee people like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Bob Dole, the guy they nominated who could win, did any of those people win? And so I think this time the voters are saying, "I won't be cowed. I won't be told who to vote for, what to do. Who can win, who can't win."

And in the case of Cruz and some of these big names, as you say, Bob Dole, Governor Terry Branstad in Iowa whose son is for big corn, runs the ethanol industry, so of course he's against Ted Cruz, who's against the ethanol federal subsidies.

These big names, I think there's -- as you know full well, jealousy makes people do and say crazy things. And I think people, a lot of senators have looked in the mirror for decades, every morning, and they see the next president of the United States. Who's this guy, Ted Cruz, 45 years old, actually may become the next president of the United States?

CUOMO: Do you think that his playing rough with people and their ideologically and saying these people are not conservative. Do you think it's coming back to haunt him a little bit? Because at the end of the day, it is a little bit of a camaraderie game?

CONWAY: I think it's exactly why the voters have him in first or second in Iowa. Chris, it's because Ted Cruz, give him this credit, he went to Washington. He did exactly what he said he was going to do in the campaign trail when he ran for Senate in Texas.

What happens is you get to Washington and others are saying, "Shh, we don't have to actually do that when we get here. We just say we're going to do that." and so the idea that he's trying to keep his own promises to his constituents and dare think some of his colleagues should do the same thing, has really aliened some of them.

CUOMO: Despite everything that's going on, I want each of your take on this quick proposition. You know, there's been -- it's getting a little ugly in there. That's the nature of the game. Would Senator Cruz be open to a Cruz-Trump ticket?

CONWAY: Sure. Especially in that order, why not?

CUOMO: All right.

CONWAY: I don't know. I can't speak for him, but I can tell you that voters would be open to that.

CUOMO: All right. Kellyanne is always a little bit too quick for me, Geoffrey. She always like comes right around, kind of gets me right when I think I got something out of her.

Let me ask you this. Do you think Donald Trump, despite all this nasty stuff you've seen about Ted Cruz right now, he's saying other people say it, not him. But he's certainly echoing it. Would he be open to a Trump-Cruz ticket still?

LORD: I think Donald Trump, I can't speak for Donald Trump, but I do think that Donald Trump wants to win. I think he will assess the situation, and if he feels that's the best way to win, I think he probably would do it.

CUOMO: You should run.

CONWAY: Sure. I mean, Bush -- excuse me, Ronald Reagan chose George Herbert Walker Bush, and they really battled it out, but they were ideologically different. It was trying to show the balanced ticket. A Trump-Cruz or Cruz-Trump ticket would actually just stay to the grass roots. We're now not the wing of the party; we are the core of the party.

CUOMO: Well, what we've never seen before, and I think we all agree, we've never seen a party go after its own two top leaders ten days out from Iowa. This is a race like no other, to be sure.

Kellyanne, thank you very much.

Geoffrey, appreciate you rolling out of bed and getting her finally. Appreciate it.

So Monday night, the best thing we can do is allow Iowa's voters to have direct access to the candidates and talk about what's going on in their lives. They will get Monday night. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley. Face to face with voters. Town hall from CNN. In Des Moines, I'm going to moderate it. Next Monday night, 9 p.m. Eastern, again, this is where you watch at CNN. And next Monday and Tuesday, we'll bring you NEW DAY from there. We'll talk to Iowans about what's going on. Fifty percent of the people making Iowa. Still don't know who they're going to vote.

PEREIRA: That's incredible. Who's going to moderate again?

CUOMO: Your boy.

PEREIRA: All right, all right.

As for the Democrats, new polling shows that Hillary Clinton is trailing Bernie Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire. Can she stop the Sanders surge? Her senior advisor joins us next to weigh in.

Obviously, we're following the very latest for you on the winter storm. Where is this headed? How strong is it going to be? We'll have the latest up-to-the-minute results for you.

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