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thank you for joining us this morning i am maria bartiromo it is tuesday february 18 your top stories right now 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, today rooting out waste fraud and abuse uncovering the truth of where washington is sending our money stunning revelations from elon musk in the doge team uncovering millions of people in the social security database after 150 years old receiving checks and benefits one person in the system said to be 360 years old receiving social security and at the treasury another $4.7 trillion in payments missing a tracking code that code links them to the budget item that they are supposed to be attached to making the money impossible to trace without the code, now the doge agency can be getting key access for an audit of the irs as several federal agencies look to clawback billions and biden era out-of-control spending epa administrator lee zeldin is here on that. he will join me shortly on the

out-of-control spending on climate change that he is looking to recover, tension taught in the middle east as iran pushes forward on the nuclear ambitions saying the u.s. and israel cannot do anything about it as secretary of state marco rubio leads talks in saudi arabia with russian officials discussing a potential summit between trump and bottomley put and an end to the war on ukraine i spoke with middle east envoy steve wycoff right before he left for those talks. >> i think the beginning is trust building is getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong and it should end that's what the president has directed us to do to negotiate a proper ending of this war. markets this morning are opening after holiday yesterday features indicating gains after the presidents' day holiday yesterday the dow industrials right now indicated again 56 points higher the nasdaq is up

86 of s&p 500 higher by 20 points right now after president trump announced he will implement reciprocal tariffs charging countries the same tariff that they impose on u.s. goods markets are doing well so far this year the dow industrial vote was 5% 2025 the nasdaq up about 4% as s&p 500 higher by 4% so far in 2025 european markets are mixed take a look at the eurozone with the s&p 100 is trading higher but the cac card is not a fact interaction in the dax index in germany lower by a fraction 19 points lower in asia overnight markets finish mostly higher take a look at the asian embassies were using the biggest mover overnight in hong kong the shanghai composite down by 1%, back home delta air lines confirming there were no fatalities after a stunning flip over the jet crash on the canadian tarmac look at the

plane completely on its back the faa joining the investigation we have the very latest details coming up, joining the conversation columnist and fox news contributor liz peek is here wealth advisor president chris mcmahon and fox business cheryl casone. "mornings with maria" is live right now. we kick it off with a hot topic of the hour. elon musk in the department of government efficiency revealing millions of people listed in the social security database are between the ages of 10159 with one person listed as old as 360 years old elon musk posted on x these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to false maybe twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting social security here is caroline

leva on hannity last night. >> president trump is directed elon musk and the doge team to identify fraud at the social security administration, their goal going into the social security administration is to identify three things the number one identify duplicate payments and them in payments that are going to disease people that are no longer living in number three protect the integrity of the system for hard-working americans have been paying into it their entire lives if you paid into the system honestly you will continue to receive your social security checks. maria: acting commissioner of the social security administration leaving her job this weekend after clash with elon musk and at the treasury doge from $4.7 trillion in payments missing a tracking code and it links them to the budget making that money impossible to

trace because there is no code the doge audit of the irs is it a minute despite backlash from democrats judges ruling to block the agency access to data is expected today, this means doge can gain access to critical taxpayer information in the mission to cut government waste the numbers are incredible, let's get into it. elon musk posted this graphic on x showing how many people and what age group they are accepting the social security checks. it could pretty incredible that you see agents 11 110 - 1193.6 million pretty pure 120-129 through half-million last time i checked know what an america that's 140 years old. >> if there is someone 140 years old they sure deserve social security payments and am all for it. there is to astonishing things.

number one the sloppiness and fraud and waste has gone on for so long. obviously this is not something that happened overnight it's incredible to me that people work in a government have such laziness that they never bothered to look at the numbers that apparently are pretty easy to find number two was incredible as anyone is objecting to this. as caroline leva pointed out this is not just about hauling in the illegal and fraudulent and wasteful payments it's about making sure if you are 60 years old that you will get social security payments from a healthy institution for the next many years. how could anyone object to this, i have no idea. maria: i think the democrats are objecting because they are embarrassed and they have been supposedly stewards of our economy and stewards of our government for how many years depending on who you're talking

about and this is been happening on their watch. >> the agency has been asleep at the wheel and i'm so glad you brought this up. it is the system why did this happen and elon musk posted about it. he said the logic flow diagram for the social security system looks insane all capital letters he wrote he says no other person actually knows how it works you need to get forensic accounting and programmers and people from doge and you need to get experts on technology and algorithms and accounting systems in their, why that has never happened at all the decades that you've had multiple thousands of reports about social security fraud about checks that kept going to somebody's residence after they passed away. come on i cannot believe were finally addressing this. maria: for so many years that's all you heard from politicians we have to get rid of fraud,

abuse and waste and they didn't go with look to see where the money was going. >> the idea that somehow the nameless bureaucrat could do a better job than elon musk is absurd where are the directors of social security bed this is the first thing you check in the first day are we paying anybody we should be its billions and billions of dollars and they talk about viability social security that the first thing you should have done instead of raising taxes and cutting benefits initiative a number when these people should be ashamed of themselves. maria: right now we have the debate on how to come up with offsets to actually afford president trump's agenda being money for the border and money for defense and are talking about cutting into mandatory spending. instead of going back and looking at where the money is which is what elon musk and doge are doing cutting the mandatory spending. it is outrageous.

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maria: welcome back futures indicated higher aftermarket holiday yesterday markets were closed for presidents' day, stocks are trading up dow industrial 49, the nasdaq is up 83 and the s&p 500 poised to open up 20 points after a pretty

good performance year-to-date stocks are green in 2025 with the dow industrial 4.7% the s&p of 3.96% and the nasdaq up 3.7% in 2025 so far this year the wall street journal is saying some investors fear market gains are outpacing typical measures of underlying value after strong economic growth powered s&p 500 record highs in a two year bull market senior equity strategist linda pistol, thank you for being here we know it's not just economic growth powering this market but expectations for president trump and his cabinet to make policy changes what do you expect in what you outlook for the year. >> good morning thank you for having me we have federated hermes are bullish for this year as you suggested is a strong start to the year when we have 7000 year in target for the s&p 500 which is good and ways to go

but we think there should be more volatility as we make our way to the next number of months and as you said we watch washington, d.c. and how they try to put together all the plans that they are suggesting it'll be very interesting headline news to pull things back and what other news do we have the meantime as we wait for the next quarter earnings. maria: fundamentals look good and could be getting better because of policy changes. why are people buying gold so much it is typically a hedge when you're expecting things could turn ugly you were to buy tangible items like gold gold is up seven weeks in a row as investors are watching president trump's tariff plans and hedging their bets, your thoughts on gold. >> you said the word is tariffs and what that might mean for the geopolitical relationship around the world and some of the historical friends and what that might mean for inflation it's an uncertainty play the stock market is near record high and

gold is reaching record highs, that is a nervous play we just haven't had any volatility it's been going straight up with nothing else to do whether we worry and honestly their downside risks ahead in the next number of months that might make you worried. what's the saying stocks climb a wall of worry what are the things you're worried about the future you see what's going on with the yields of the federal reserve is in no rush to cut rates, governor michelle bowman says she wants more progress on inflation before cutting rates further the yield on the ten year up five basis points at 4.51% the president of the philadelphia fed says he favors holding rates steady and the central bank policy is restrictive, tell us where the worry is? >> as you know scott bessent and team are worried about the ten

year yield afford half% that's where we have the tenure finishing the year that is not bad and if they don't reduce interest rates maybe they don't see any need trendy reason they need to and the economy continues to be growing which it is and that could be fine. inflation is slowing and a more slow pace that is okay we still think the inflation numbers from last week showed the pc the preferred measure is moving in this direction it is slowing down and it is all okay what we need to worry about is what is happening with earnings you can worry about inflation and we don't think inflation is going to surge from here we think of the ten year yield were to meander toward 5% that would be a buying opportunity that what else can we worry about we can worry about appointment in the employment figures look good. it's all things study as you go and while things are steady i guess we can worry but we feel

good about their needs outlook for the rest of the year. maria: chris mcmahon jump and wire yields up so much this morning. >> i think linda is right you said stocks climb a wall of worry that's her clients worry about they say you have enough to evidence and when i have enough what can take it away for me and a lot of times they flee to gold and those other types of things but i think the capital market has optimism, i was thinking about as i sat here and talk to myself what happens if we see the market hit all-time highs and we get 7000 and s&p what does that mean for 2025 what is the longer-term outlook were pretty optimistic but we see really significant downward pressure started in the first quarter of 2026 torture. maria: why. >> it cyclical as you know as some point people said i had enough and when they see all-time records for 18 months there is an appetite people start to flee the market was a normal reaction and is not tied to anything that other than it's

time to catch powder and put my powder in the drive-in. maria: because of evaluations are the areas you want to be invested and if we do in fact see valuation worries his hit some of these groups? >> we think the most obvious place to invest his large caps typical we like large-cap but large caps typical has been ignored for the tech stocks and are looking better. what are the best things that we see coming out in recent months is that the manufacturing sector is up over 50 and an expansion zone it hadn't been there for over two years and you're actually seeing growth around the world as well. valuations are there in earnings growth looks good in the broadening of earnings which was looked out for is starting to show itself. in early cyclical you see employment go up that's where we think the next good way will come from.

maria: we will be watching all of that, great to have you. thank you. linda joining us, elon musk and doge look into social security spending and find millions of people receiving checks with the ages listed as 150 years old or higher and they are receiving benefits, your money house budget committee member buddy carter is here raking down the wasteful spending which is been exposed to spending from the biden and obama administration you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. stay with us. ♪ at harbor freight, we do business differently from the other guys.

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maria: welcome back the department of a government efficiency revealed $4.7 trillion in treasury payments are almost impossible to trace the treasury access symbol which links any payment going out to a budget line item was left blank according to the agency. doge set up x accounts for the irs and securities exchange commission asking for insights on finding and fixing waste fraud and abuse elon musk alleging rampant fraud at the social security administration he found millions of people listed in the database who are collecting social security checks between the age 10159 years old with one person listed

as old as 360 years old receiving benefits, chairwoman joni ernst issuing a bill for two perks for former president to cut expenses for travel and staff she's looking to call back more than $400 million in the fund said to help presidential candidates who lost campaigns during the 2024 campaign former vice president mike pence pulled in more than $1 million in independent candidate jill stein pulled in $380,000 joining me now georgia congressman buddy carter congressman it's great to see you, thank you for being here you're on the house budget committee it's astonishing what's been revealed i googled the oldest person in america is 114 years old. she is the oldest person in the social security administration we have people listed as 360 years old, 159 years old et

cetera receiving social security benefits. what a waste of money. >> there's no question about it. this is exactly what doge was intended to do and what we wanted them to do i applaud what elon musk is doing i know the democrats are coming after him we had a hearing and energy and commerce and they were like president elon musk that's ridiculous this is taxpayers money it's democrats republicans and all of our money and we should be looking at it and using 21st century technology to uncover the waste fraud and abuse we have a bloated bureaucracy you know there will be waste fraud and abuse. maria: how does this happen and nobody noticed this until doge had to get in there. is there no checks on who is receiving our money, this is all taxpayer money. >> i think the technology in the algorithms and the type of

checking that doge is doing and elon musk is using those type of procedures are uncovering it and that's what we should be using we should be using 21st century technology to check on these things. i am delighted that were finding the waste fraud and abuse we know it existed we've known her for some time we just have to uncover it now we have to do something about it. maria: why are the democrats losing their minds over elon musk having access to all the stuff do they not recognize the importance of finding the waste and eliminating it. >> if i recognize the importance but i think you lost in the wilderness and they have nothing to hold onto right now politically in there looking for anything that they can that they can attach themselves to. they think it'll bring them back into power this will not do it. people appreciate what elon musk is doing and they don't have

access to personal information. of course they're being vetted. you know the algorithm of the procedure that they are using they are uncovering all of this and this is exactly what we wanted them to do and exactly what we hope for them to do. maria: no wonder the social security fund is expected to go insolvent, they're talking about social security retirement going insolvent in 2033. what is this mean for you and your colleagues looking to cut expenses to come up with the offset to execute president trump's agenda 76% of the spending a government goes to mandatory programs now questioning what's mandatory are you going to be cutting into the mandatory spending to come up with offsets any reconciliation package where it is that stan? >> if it includes waste fraud and abuse, yes we will be whether mandatory or discretionary.

it doesn't matter. if it's waste fraud and abuse we will get rid of it that's what we are after. we want to make sure we can cut as much as we can and we are depending on doge. >> what is reconciliation package stan because the word is out that you're having a lot of disagreements with certain people in the party you basically say on the one hand my priority is lifting the salt cap and the other hand people's priorities are cutting out spending how are you squaring the circle? >> your exactly right we have a number of different groups in our conference that have different priorities and were trying to address those and as you know last week we passed the budget reconciliation resolution out of the budget committee. it's a good product and i'm very proud of it are committee works very hard to get this done. >> energy secretary christopher wright speaking at the alliance for responsible citizenship in

london yesterday he's calling out the uk's rush to eliminate carbon missions with a warning that is backfiring. watch this. >> is that 02050 is a sinister goal it is a terrible goal is unachievable by impractical means in the aggressive pursuit in your city to the country that is aggressively pursued this goal and is not delivered any benefits but is delivered tremendous cost. >> of course congressman president trump recently signed an executive order to create the national energy dominance counsel to focus on accelerating u.s. fossil fuel production boosting the private sector investment and energy, liz peek jumping. >> good morning, i think one of the problems the president has the resistance to using fossil fuels is not just a national resistance in some quarters but it is also by state we see in new york state the fact that all of a sudden the cost of electricity is going to the roof

and the governor has to pivot on allowing it expansion of natural gas imports into the state i think congress needs to look at this as a whole but also begin to tackle some of the state-by-state mandates like in california and new york and so forth that are restricting whole regions growth and prosperity, what do you think about that congressman. >> i think it's an excellent point and we need to look at it state-by-state in region by region. i will tell you i'm headed to houston, texas and i'll be speaking to an energy forum and my message to them we need to do a better job in the fossil fuel industry of telling people and telling the public how we decrease admissions here in the united states of america while growing our economy and we have done that and i don't think they tell that story enough. >> i agree. >> you kathy hochul threatening to take eric adams out of his

job. why he's going along with the trump administration in terms of deportation? >> i don't know but i love when democrats fight like this it's great, you sit back and you want to get popcorn and watch it but it's ridiculous. what they do in new york i don't think it's an indication of the whole country. i don't think we should look at that as being the pulse of the country if you will. >> dhs secretary kristi noem set up a multimillion dollar ad campaign to combat illegal immigration set to air in the united states and across the world. here it is. >> if you're considering entering america illegally don't even think about it let me be clear if you come to our country and break our laws we will hunt you down, criminals are not welcome in the united states if you try to enter illegally you will be caught you will be removed and you will never return. congressman what a different sense president trump is in

charge tom homan told me that border crossings are gone better than 90% but the democrats are still fighting deportation efforts. no question about it the border is closed and we see the numbers decreasing daily that is a good thing the open border policy of the biden harris administration are over with and now we have to repatriate these people let me tell you kristi noem is a good friend and she is serious and tom homan i cannot say enough good things about tom homan he will make sure that we get back to be a country of laws and follow the laws. maria: we will leave it there, good to see you. thank you very much. congressman buddy carter, we will be watching your work, stay with us. we'll be right back

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maria: welcome back israel set to withdraw from lebanon as part of the cease-fire deal that will keep troops and five strategic positions despite the pull back. lebanon's president calling for full withdrawal while israeli officials a military president in the south remains necessary talks on the phase two of israel cease-fire with hamas have yet to start but is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu studies committed to president trump's plans for gaza i spoke with middle east envoy steve wycoff on sunday morning future sunday. >> phase two is a little bit more complicated than phase one but phase two is absolutely going to begin. i actually had calls this morning with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and prime minister mohammed from qatar and as well egypt who is the director of intelligence and we

had a very productive and constructive calls this morning about the sequence of phase two setting forth positions on both sides so we can understand level set where we are today and continue talks at a location to be determined so we can figure out how we get to the end of phase two successfully. >> joining me senior strategic analyst and chairman of the institute for the study of war general jack keane back with us, great to see you thank you for joining me. >> delighted to be here. >> where are we do you expect on the talks for phase two phase two and the israeli hamas cease-fire was supposed to mean all of the hostages were released and we still have hostages. >> phase one is 42 days in lent that began on january the 19th

and ends on march the second. there is a dispute over the actual numbers of hostages remaining but somewhere around 70-ish is where we are with half of those may in fact be done we have considerable hostages that have to be released prior to march the second and phase two kicks in and the negotiations were supposed to start well over a week ago and the substance of them as you just indicated in the interview sunday are just about to get started. phase two is really tough and asked for a complete withdrawal of all idf forces out of gaza and in to the war and secondly hamas is going to give a governance of gaza and disarm,

those objectives need neither party wants to achieve the israeli's do not want to leave gaza because they know they're not going to leave hamas in control of gaza and they do what aleve thousands of hamas soldiers still in gaza. in the back of the mind of the israelis they intend to go back into gaza to finish the business that still remains unfinished as i stated. certainly hamas will not give up control these two objectives of phase two has always been irreconcilable heading towards that if something can be worked out certainly to everyone's satisfaction that would be great but as i indicated that is doubtful. here's the issue also if the hostages are not released if there is a stall in the hostages israel will likely go back into gaza as a result of the failure

of hamas to fulfill the deal and release the hostages. i think the likelihood of returning to hostility is more definite than the likelihood we will have a complete troops ending into the war permanently. obviously that is an aspiration and it's not realistic given where both parties are. >> it's too bad what a shame as hamas pushes back on the idea they will not be part of a governance of gaza on the other side of all of this. you have a senior iranian official boarded the u.s. and israel cannot do a damn thing about tehran nuclear ambition in the goodie keep building a nuclear weapon after secretary of state marco rubio met with benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu not to counter while meeting with rubio, watch this. >> i want to tell you that it's her loud and clear here in everywhere else.

today secretary rubio and i had a very productive discussion with our staff on a number of issues, none of them are more important that iran israel and america stands shoulder to shoulder encountering the threat of iran and we agree ayatollah must not have nuclear weapons. we also agreed that iran's aggression in the region has to be rolled back. over the last 16 months israel has dealt a mighty blow to iran tear access under the strong leadership of president trump and with your unflinching support i have no doubt that we can and will finish the job. >> what are your thoughts on that. i know iran is pushing back saying you are not going to stop us from building a nuclear weapon but at the same time president trump has instituted the maximum pressure campaign back on iran will that be enough to stop them from pursuing this?

>> most definitely. the reality iran is back on his heels away that's not been imported for years hamas and obviously has below has been seriously decimated they lost their strategic platform in syria in the military defenseless and being able to defend against any substantive error attack in their country because air defense system has been eliminated by israel. we have never seen iran in this desperate situation. what is left for them to develop a nuclear weapon to preserve the regime, that is what is left and we have to take that off the table. the united states and israel agree try to get them to voluntarily dismantle with a date certain and absolute verification of that with the alternative u.s. supported israel strike to dismantle the nuclear enterprise, that is where we are those of the two

options in those options will be executed in the next few weeks one way or another. maria: then there's russia ukraine were, what are your expectations, russia released an american citizen who was detained for a drug smuggling that was caleb wayne byers arrested in moscow on february 7 after cannabis laced marmalade was found in his luggage he got the u.s. embassy in moscow waiting a flight home. it's happening out of the u.s. and russia officials meeting in saudi arabia today to discuss setting up a summit between trump and putin and ending the war in ukraine ukrainian presented zelenskyy is warning any talks will yield no results unless ukraine is part of the discussion, steve wycoff told me ukraine as part of the discussion and just because it doesn't have a seat at the table today doesn't mean it is not part of it, scott bessent was with zelenskyy trying to do a deal for the rare-earth minerals, your reaction. >> what this meeting is about, the key thing that took place

last week towards president trump and president putin talking to each other and president trump is feeling amount are you serious about making a deal and putin said yes, this meeting is confirmation of that, does putin really want to make a deal or is his condition so difficult that we cannot find some kind of a compromise. the early indication that russia has a very hard and position here and what are we talking about. number one they want more territory that they're not even occupying. 30% more than the territory currently russian troops are on that is not going to happen. secondly they don't want zelenskyy as an elected official they want to have elections but zelenskyy and the martial law and he cannot hold elections they want the ukraine military to demilitarized and then no security arrangement with ukraine or any other country whatsoever those are pretty

hardened positions and his team, trump's team rubio, walz and wycoff will get a feel whether something is achievable are they willing to compromise on those conditions that i'm confident zelenskyy and his team will be involved in the negotiations, the president said as much and so have the key members of his negotiating team. maria: you know there will be lots of criticism about any deal reached if ukraine has to give up a lot of land. >> zelenskyy is not going to give up territory that russia is not sitting on right now. as a matter of fact zelenskyy has territory himself in the cursed area that he will likely use for negotiations. maria: icy, great to talk with you as always thank you for your insights as always. good to see you general jack keane. a quick break walmart dealing with democrat backlash after

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maria: delta air lines is confirming no fatalities after a

jet crashed and flipped upside down while landing at the toronto airport, cheryl casone with the details. >> that is right miraculously 0 deaths in the latest plane crash that left 18 people internationally happen yesterday afternoon at 245. none are critical to train under plane flipped upside down on a snowy tarmac at 2:00 p.m. 80 people made it off the aircraft before it burst into flames which then they had to put the fire out listen to air traffic control right after the crash. >> we had a crash on runway. working to see whether they want to redeploy this crash. >> there's people walking around aircraft. >> we got it there is a site down and bernie. >> they were talking to a medevac helicopter that happened to be an elevator like a life flight helicopter which then landed on the runway next to the

plane delta's incident response team has been deployed it'd investigation underway by canadian authorities the ntsb is serving and in assisting not immediately clear what causes the heavy snow in my guest after 40 miles per hour as the plane landed could have been factors in this delta airline ceo responded to the crash he writes the entire global delta family are with those affected by today's incident and toronto we are working to confirm the details, we will share the most current information on delta.com as soon as it's available. the vatican says pope francis has a complex respiratory infection known as poly microbial respiratory tract infection this means a mix of bacteria viruses parasites were funky growing in a person's lungs the 88-year-old has been hospitalized and will require targeted medication and treatment to fight this the vatican did not give any other details on the severity of his illness. this morning your governor kathy hochul will meet with new york city leaders to discuss possibly

removing mayor adams from office after half of the deputy mayor stepped on yesterday he is facing mounting criticism over a quid pro quo with the justice department to drop criminal charges against him in exchange for his cooperation on immigration crackdown he denies the claims and hope all is facing pressure from fellow democrats to take the action she said overturning the will of the voters is a serious step that should not be taken lightly, that said the alleged conduct at city hall this been reported over the past two weeks is troubling and cannot be ignored. he says he has no plans to resign and this would completely defy the will of voters in new york city, then there's this walmart's decision to move away from dei initiatives has the support of shareholders a letter signed by over 60 investors at pfizer's proxy group applaud the retailers moved to roback dei saying the move restores the promise of the american dream they're asking walmart to stay the course amid backlash from the democratic officials and

left-wing shareholders take a look at the stock in the premarket right now it is higher by almost half 8% in the advisors alone 9 billion in assets under management. >> here we go one after the other doing away with the dei policies which at the end of the day have become more of an expense than anything else wasted money. >> five years ago walmart spent $100 million, committed $100 million to a racial equity center and now they tossed that along with other mandates people don't realize this was not just about who they hire it was also what contracts they give to suppliers and what kind of information they demanded from suppliers about the dei efforts et cetera. i think corporations got so over their skis after the george floyd murder that they did things that were really injurious to their businesses and frankly bottom line in now

that's being rolled back with the help of the supreme court decision obviously on admissions and i think shareholders are in the right to say get about your business earn money do what you do best and let the racial compote of your business be taken up elsewhere because it's not working. >> in the political correctness. we will keep a spotlight on it. meanwhile kentucky what a disaster 12 people are dead after catastrophic flash flooding in kentucky and tennessee more than 1000 rescues taking place across kentucky, flooding could stretch into the weekend with officials in tennessee urging residents to evacuate to higher ground after of a failed along the river. incoming winter storms can slow the recovery efforts in both states "fox weather" meteorologist stephen morgan with an update. >> good morning to you, as far as the storms are concerned we have a break right now but the cold air has moved in, you think

february you would deal with winter storms in kentucky and tennessee is abnormal to see the ring that we saw over the weekend but while we have in kentucky specifically 91% of the state under a flash flood warning on saturday this morning were waking up to most of the state under a winter storm warning as we are expecting a 3 - 5 or 6 inches worth of snow that's moving in and will last through wednesday night. >> we will be watching out thank you very much, stephen morgan we have a big hour coming out you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪

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