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continued bumps in the road, to say the least, implementing obamacare and pushing for an extension he wants for long-term jobless benefits. we'll bring you much more on the president's return home throughout the next hour. >> first, fox news extreme weather alert. that deep freeze, it's almost here. millions of people in the midwest, new england, and the south bracing for the historic freeze that has not been seen in some 40 years. good morning, everyone, on this sunday morning. i'm eric shawn. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm jamie colby. we have seen serious problems from the weather. jfk, where they never close runways in snow or cold conditions today, frigid air which starts moving in today and extends into early next week, which we'll hear more about, eve in places like north dakota, meteorologists are

predicting ice-box like conditions with temperatures expected to drop as low as 25 degrees below zero, and that's without the windchill. coming up in "sunday housecall," we'll tell you how to protect yourself. the governor of minnesota isn't taking any chances. he's already announced he'll close all public schools tomorrow. he did that late yesterday. something officials there haven't done in more than 15 years. got to check in with meteorologists live in the extreme weather center here at fox. jfk, they had a delta jet that skidded on the runway coming from toronto, where they know how to deal with weather. and now, some closures, folks trying to get home after the holiday could see some big problems. >> so much to cover. so let's get to it. i know we have delays in philadelphia as well. reporting freezing rain. so we're going to see airport closures, probably for jfk in the next several hours, and more than likely, laguardia, as we have warm, moist air moving up

from the south, and the temperatures are just around the freezing mark. last week, we had a deep freeze, so we had a shallow layer of freezing air, so the moisture falls through it and freezes on contact. i'm really concerned about this, especially across the i-95 corridor. mainly rain reported in d.c. we have freezing rain in philadelphia. and we will see freezing rain being reported in new york's airports as well. these are freezing rain advisories in the purple. widespread from maine, stretching down to west virginia over the next several hours. we'll see really difficult travel conditions on the roads. probably some major cancellations across the northeast. so keep that in mind. behind this, of course, we're talking about the coldest air of the season. coldest air in decades. we're going to set records tonight and tomorrow with that windchill in the minus 50s to minuss 60 degree range in canada, stretching down to the plains where it feels like minus 13 in kansas city, minus 1 in

chicago. we'll set records tomorrow in chicago with a daytime high of minus 15. that's not windchill. i have never seen this many windchill warnings in my ten years at fox. dozens of states here into dangerous cold with windchill readings up to minus 60 degrees. back to you. >> all right, you know, just looking at those, i think i need to raise the temperature in the studio. that's brutal. >> incredible. incredible. >> we'll check back with you. thanks. as you just saw a moment ago, president obama landing back at andrews air force base in washington after his two weeks off in hawaii. he's now preparing for a full plate of issues that await him, starting tomorrow morning, including obamacare, immigration, and unemployment benefits. james rosen live in washington with the details about what's to come, and the work day starts tomorrow. hi, james. >> eric and jamie, good morning

to you. when president obama irives back at the white house here in the capital minutes from now, he'll find he has markedly less political capital than he enjoyed one year ago. the gallup poll fines only 4 in 10 americans giving the president's job a thumbs up. that was unchanged from november and down ten points from the start of his term. to regain the ground, he plans to pursue a populous tone and agenda in the cycle. his first push of the new year, including held in the democratic senate tomorrow night. as we look at the president and his daughters emerging from air force one at air force base andrews, this is tape, i should say, has him pushing for an extension of unemployment checks for about a million americans w whose checks ran out last month. the white house and democrats also plan to push for an

increase to the minimum wage. the gallup pegged the president's low approval numbers to the fallout of the spying scandals and the rollout of obamacare. they say an incumbent president in his term can turn such numbers around. in fox news sunday, the man who was defeated by president obama is asked if he would have won if president obama would have fully exposed the consequences of obamacare. >> i wish i could have turned back the clock and taken another try, but history is sin the past, and i'm not going to worry about what could have happened. what i am worried about is you have a lot of people who are going to find their premiums going through the roof. they're going to find the doctor they have had, they can't keep. they're going to find that the policies their were braumsed they could have, they can't keep, and the american people are going to be upset about that and should be upset about that. >> a spokesman for president obama says he returns to the

capital with a amount of legislative momentum behind him. >> thank yous. >> james, good to see you. i want to tell you about a string of deadly bombings rocking iraq's capital. you wouldn't expect that to be happening in iraq. but police there are saying the deadliest bombs went off near a restaurant and a tea house in baghdad. at least ten people were killed. dozens more injured. at least five others were also killed in two separate blasts around the city. so far, no one has claimed responsibility, but officials say this is one of the moats coordinated attacks they have seen there in years. >> today's attacks come as iraqi security forces battle to recapture two key cities in the country's strategic an bar province. after the cities were taken over by al qaeda linked militants. john kerry emphasized the wor worries ahead. he said, quote, these are the most dangerous players in the

region. their barbarism against the civilians of samadi and fallujah is on display for everybody to see. the rise of these terrorists in the region and particularly in syria and through the fighting in syria is part of what is unleashi unleashinginal stability in the rest of the nation. more deadly attacks in lebanon, islamists fighting in syria, libya, and no signs of defeat in afghanistan, has what the "new york times" called this morning, the post-american middle east, only helped fanatical islam. and after we spent more than a decade of war in the middle east, are the islamists now winning? ambassador john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute joins us this morning as he does always. >> good morning. >> 1,335 troops died in the an

bar province in iraq, about a third of the war, and now al qaeda apparently controlled those cities. what does it mean and what does it mean for the future of the region? >> it is symbolic of american retreat from iraq and from the region as a whole. and i think it's ironic that it's the "new york times" that is now talking about a post american void in the middle east. unfortunately, it's accurate. i think it's correctable, but i think the reality we face is that we have had not just five years of this misguided policy, but really add in the last several years of the bush administration and three more to go. so that the decline in american influence that we see now, it's palpable from all across north africa and the middle east, is only going to get worse. >> what went wrong, and what can we do right if we can do anything? >> well, i think in both the end of the bush administration and throughout the entire obama administration, there's been an

unwillingness to face the harsh reality that the war on terror that we saw really begin most visibly for americans on september 11th, 2001, isn't a war we can turn off at our pleasure. this is a war being waged against us. i think we made a huge mistake in withdrawing from iraq. i think we're about to make another huge mistake in withdrawing from afghanistan. people say, oh, but americans are war weary, and the gallup poll says this, and the other poll says that. public opinion polls and foreign affairs are utterly irrelevant when you have presidents who exercise leadership, who explain to the american people what our obligations are, what the challenges we have to face around the world are, what our allies need. and what is required of us. we just haven't seen that over a period of years, and i think that explains war weariness, but it's correctable. >> if the american people are not behind a president and the policies when it deals with having troops in raeg and faek, what are we to do?

>> i think we're stuck for the next three years. particularly in the case of obama where trust and approval ratings for him are going into the basement right now, he is fundamentally different from the vast ranjs of american presidents, republican and democrat alike, beginning with franklin roosevelt, in that national security issues are not the top of his personal agenda. he doesn't wake up every morning with his first thought being, what threats does the u.s. face today. his first are what am i going to do with obamacare. >> is it fair to say he doesn't think about the national security of the country? that's the number one job of the president. >> it's somewhere on his list of priorities. it's not nowhere near the top and it's not the first thing he thinks about. i think we can see that, other that when he's confronted with a situation that demands his attention, or if it's something like the killing of osama bin laden, that he can take credit for. that's why he's so different

than that long list of presidents. >> what do we say to the families of the troops killed in fallujah now that al qaeda has taken control? >> it's a tragedy for them to see that their loved ones sacrifices are going to turnl out to be in vein. i do think it's correctable, but i'm not sure after three more years of the same mistaken policies that we'll be in such a deep hole that it will be very difficult to get out of. >> it is worrisome and troubling news. ambassador john bolton, thank you for your analysis this morning. >> thanks so much, eric. health coverage has begun for more than 2 million of you who managed to sign up for obamacare. how are the policies going to work out? we'll hear from forming republican presidential nominee mitt romney as he offers his take, straight ahead for you. >> and a dramatic emergency landing on a major highway in new york city. how cool heads may have prevented this from getting even worse. we'll get right back. oh!

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welcome back, everybody. we're happy you're taking part of your day to spend with us. the biggest pieces of obamacare will go into effect, and they did last week, and they'll continue this week. meaning americans will now be able to see exactly how the program works. but today on fox news sunday, former republican presidential nominee mitt romney explains why he believes the plan is still fundamentally flawed. listen. >> not just that the president tells people that they have to buy health insurance. it's that he tells them what health insurance they have to buy. the idea that the government knows more than the american people what kind of insurance they have to have makes no sense. it's something which i think the american people are rejecting in large numbers. i think it's going to hurt the president and hurt the country and a lot of families. >> joining me now is the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace, as he does every sunday morning. i'm looking forward to this

segment every week, chris. good to see you. >> thank you, jamie. >> i have been fortunate enough to talk to you and i'm particularly interested on this. of course, mitt romney speaks, i'm sure, from his experience as well as the governor of massachusetts and the health care plan he put into place. what does he think is so flawed about the program now? >> a lot of things. first of all, he says, and the point he was making there, is there are a lot more coverage mandates. he said in romney care, yes, you had to buy insurance that was an individual mandate, but as he said, the gold-plated plans, all the coverage, he said the idea that a 70-year-old woman has to get maternity services, as in fact they do under obamacare, he said that's crazy and it should be much more individualized in terms of what you choose. he also, and not surprisingly, makes a big deal about the fact that the president, he says, misled the country when he said if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. and of course, we saw millions of people who were kicked off

their plans because it didn't meet the mandated coverage standards. he feels that was a gross deception. i asked him whether he felt he would have won the election if the president would have been straightforward on that. he wouldn't play along on that. >> i'm surprised because it's such a big issue for america. i wonder if they had known what they no anyhow then, if it would have made a difference. also, i have to mage you touched on the olympics and the violence in russia. >> he's very interesting on that. he, of course, ran the olympics in salt lake city in 2002. i was asking him about the threats of violence, to the sochi olympics just a month away. you have these islam iic extremists who had two bombings, killed about 40 people close to the olympics and some radical leaders threatening to disrupt the olympics himself.

he said it's concerning. in this particular case with a specific circumstances there where you have this terrorist movement only hundreds of miles away from sochi, it's particularly concerning. i also asked him about russia and its role, the fact that it's a much more autocratic country, that president putin has signed legislation against gays. it does russia in some sense, does its values undercut what the olympics are about? he raised a lot of concerns about that. he said i certainly wouldn't have voted to hold the olympics there, but it wasn't his choice. >> hello, ed snowden, the relationship is more strained than it's ever been. i don't want you to give any more away. >> as a tease, we also asked him about the awful comments made about his african-american adopted grandson, keiron, on msnbc, and for the first time,

he speaks out on you don't want to miss that. >> we won't. that's an interesting topic as well. chris' interview with mitt romney on fox news sunday, 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. right here on the fox news channel. don't stand me up next week. i'll see you then. >> well, actually, i'm going to be on vacation next week, so i'll see you in two weeks. >> all right, i'll wait. it's worth it. take care. >> well, you know, ronald regan did it. so did arnold, but now his action movie actor steven seagal the latest hollywood star considering a possible political run? and syria where he could throw a cat ameringue? that's coming up next. overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full -- a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth!

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icy conditions in new york causing an airline mishap. an airplane skidded off the runway. it was making its way to the gate when the accident happened. we're looking at file footage now that basically has nothing to do with a plane. well, thankfully, no one was hurt this morning, and officials are investigating. meanwhile, the airport has temporarily suspended all of its flights and is expected to reopen in about an hour from now, so there are some delays if you're traveling out of jfq here in new york this morning. >> they never do that. they almost never close jfk. all right, there was another plane as well that made an emergency landing on a major highway in the bronx, new york. you don't see that every day, either. the amazing thing is the plane came down and there were no serious injuries to anyone onboard or on the ground. it turns out it was a student pilot who saved himself and two

others onboard by making the emergency landing when the plan started having engine problems. they closed down lanes to help the plane land and it's since been towed away. >> a u.s. coast guard ship on its way to rescue 120 crew members trapped aboard two icebreakers in antarctica. it started on christmas eve when a russian icebreak eer radioed for help after getting trapped in the ice. a chinese ship was sent to its rescue, but it also got stuck, and in the middle of all this, an australian ship was sent to get the folks from the russian ship. they were able to get 52 people off. now it's up to us, a u.s. coast guard ship on its way to rescue the 122 passengers. they hope to get them all off after this adventure the last two weeks. steven seagal said he may consider a run for arizona

governor, revealing he discussed the possibility with the toughest sheriff in america, you know him, joe. he made the comments while talking about his newly released reality series. steven seagal, lawman, maricopa county. he's been deputized. obviously, he's an advocate for security and border security, actually. eric. >> how about that. >> we'll see what happens. >> really cold outside. a lot of the country, many faces extremely frigid temperatures. but what do you do to try to keep your family safe from the cold temperatures? the doctors will be here with their best advice. >> they're going to talk about revolutionary technology that could also save lives. we'll be right back, "sunday housecall," don't miss it. ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)...

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well, i'm jamie colby. it is time now for "sunday housecall." >> i'm eric shawn. welcome to the program. joining us is dr. david samadi. chief of robotics surgery. >> dr. marc siegel is there. he authored innerpulse, unlocking the secret to sickness and health. doctors, good morning. i know so many people who are home sick, who are watching us. this show is even for the healthy ones, too. >> absolutely. >> one of the big issues has to do with the historic cold