hello, eric along with kimberly it's five:00 in new york city. this is "the five." bone chilling cold in the midwest. anyone who saw the packers game last night knows it's not a good time to be outside. and a rare polar vortex is headed east in its path. 200 million americans, thousands of flights have been canceled. in chicago, wind chills approaching minus 50. i'll say that again, minus 50 degrees. skin will freeze in mere minutes. to indianapolis where the mayor declared it illegal to drive on the roads, the frozen roads. check out this crazy highway video from colorado springs.

>> oh, god. here comes the truck. hitting that car. oh, my god those people are not evenly expecting it, bro. >> dangerous weather event, folks. pay attention to it because it can be deadly. janice dean is keeping an eye on it from the fox news extreme weather center. the situation seems to be deteriorating for folks on the east coast. >> yeah, all of this cold air is moving south ward and eastward. look at the wind chills. this is all coming from the arctic. the polar vortex we call it. a piece of energy from the arctic is now swooping south ward with the polar jet stream. that's why we're getting wind chills around minus 11 in kansas city. memphis, tennessee, i believe you set a record today. it hasn't been this cold in over 100 years. they are shutting down schools in and around the atlanta, georgia, area. they will continue to shut schools down across the upper midwest and the great lakes. again, where wind chills are

minus 20s, minus 30s. your skin will freeze in just a matter of minutes if you're outdoors. i haven't seen this many wind chill advisories, watches and warnings in my ten years of studying meteorologist. it's incredible. it goes as far south as florida. dangerous cold that will continue really for the next 24 to 48 hours. as eric mentioned, it's going to move eastward. folks across the northeast, in some cases we were in the 40s today. here in new york, the 50s. in boston we're going to see wind chills of minus 10 and minus 20 degrees. chicago really got the brunt of this storm or that polar vortex today with daytime temperatures from minus 14 to minus 15 which i believe is a record low/high of the day with wind chills of minus 40, minus 50. so people are urged to stay indoors. you really shouldn't be out there cleaning your cars. you need to be inside. this is dangerous and potentially deadly cold that we

are talking about that is moving south ward and eastward. then i want to mention that we had a bit of a wet day across the northeast as this arctic front moves through. it brought up all this moisture from the south and all of that moisture is going to freeze on the roads and on the sidewalks and that's the danger tomorrow, eric, as we go into tomorrow. it's going to be really slippery. icy. they're going to be working overnight to get the salt on the roads. in some cases the salt won't work, it will be too cold if you can believe it. >> janice, the phrase polar vortex, it sounds like a mad plan devised by a bondville lan to freeze the world. how do we know that's not true? >> you know, i can't disprove it at this point. >> i can't disprove it. >> i'm being sarcastic. the polar vortex is something that the media is using quite a bit of. it's an interesting meteorological term.

it's up in the north pole and a piece of energy has been caught up in the polar jet and it's been pushed south ward, as far south as florida. so that's the weird part of it. the rare part of it is this cold air has sunk as far south as the gulf and florida. it does happen. it's not like this has never happened before. >> janice, i don't think it has happened before. in all my years, i go back to lincoln, i've never heard of polar vortex before. >> you also never did the weather before. >> that's true. what about florida and all those vegetables and fruits and stuff? aren't they going to freeze? >> i mean, sure. if you have temperatures dipping below freezing, which is what is going to happen across central and southern floor danchts bring them indoors. >> bring them indoors. the good news is it's short lived polar vortex part of energy that is moving into the deep south. the temperatures will rebound by

wednesday, thursday, friday. a quick shot and then we're out of it. >> hi, janice. it's kimberly. i should have been watching more of your weather forecast. i got caught in something which was close to a monsoon wedding minus the marriage but i never have gotten so soaked and wet by the rain. unbelievable to the point when i brought my child to school we had to have a separate change. >> is that a personal weather forecast. >> where did you change? >> is that a personal weather forecast. >> i wasn't anticipating it wasn't that bad. >> i'm glad you weren't here. that's the most fortunate thing. >> but we have this arctic front that moved across the east coast and brought up all of this moisture from the south and if you recall, 40 to 50 degree temperatures here along the east coast. that was the other rare part of this is that all of this moisture and southern air was forced up because this arctic air is pushing eastward. so we got a lot of that

moisture. yes, a lot of areas got a lot of wet weather. kimberly, the thing that i want to point to is tomorrow because we get all of this cold arctic air moving in, i'm really, really concerned that it's just going to freeze like a skating rink on all of the roads and the sidewalks. it's going to be really dangerous. >> they have to close school. >> would he have to go. dana has a flight tonight. >> you have a flight tonight? >> i have a flight tonight. >> i hope you're going to california. >> i'm going to florida where bob's new diet, the fruits and vegetables are all going to freeze. >> my diet. >> we'll get all of the fruits and vegetables from california which is very warm right now. >> janice, we have to leave it there. we'll check in with you tomorrow. no matter the weather, americans love our football. last night, 47 million americans tuned in to fox to see the san francisco 49ers take on the green bay packers in the bitter cold. wind chills at minus 15 degrees. the freezing temps didn't stop san fran led by their tattooed

and tough guy, quarterback, colin kaepernick who dominated the frozen lambeau field. bold performance. the guy's a baller. >> what? >> what have i been telling you? >> footballer. the man can make it happen. >> yes. first of all, you've got to ask yourself why. i mean, i can understand why someone doesn't want to wear gloves because you can't grip the ball, but why you wouldn't put on a long sleeve shirt, unless he wants to show off his tats, that's probably it. >> it's not about that. >> to do that coming out of san francisco. it gets cold in san francisco, right? >> bob, you and i seem to be going well but now i have to break up to do new year's next year with him, sleeveless. what a man. come on. >> say one thing about this weekend. have you ever seen so many good games back to back like that? >> great football. >> amazing. >> listen, i would think that he sends a message to the defense that he's willing to go

sleeveless. he's a tough guy. >> he did the interviews with aaron andrews, it's mental. >> some people don't feel the cold. >> you always come in here and complain about how cold it is in the studio. >> i'm cold in august in the studio at least when greg's in charge of the thermostat. >> isn't it funny. >> you're like the deep freeze. >> we went five minutes saying stay indoors unless it's a game. go the outside. obviously i employed pro football for ten years. >> were you the ball? >> terrible joke. awful. i'm disgusted. you know what i don't understand about football. >> what? everything? >> grown men wearing other men's jerseys with their names on it. how different from gay marriage is that? it's so romantic. it really is. >> commitment. >> when you buy that jersey. >> when you buy that jersey you have an emotional commitment to that man. >> 47 million. >> huge number. >> you knew it was coming with the weather.

>> people were indoors. what better way to spend the time with the niners and the pack is back. that was like greg and i going head to head. you were worried about the 49ers. green bay is used to that beth weather, san francisco, not so much. >> did you ever play in that kind of weather? >> not so much. the worst was 10 degrees. we had helmets but before you had all of this stuff to protect your elbows and hands and everything. i can't imagine. >> go in there with the kick at at end. >> when i was a kid we used to have to go feed the calves when it was this cold. >> the what? >> you would pour them extra warm milk into the cast iron skillet so the barn cats would drink that. >> very kind to animals. see? >> let's move on to this one. alabama fans like to say roll tide. how about role tape.

check out this 'bama girl. the mom fan who lost it. >> oh, yeah! [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> surely there must be more, right? [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> by the way, she claims she wasn't intoxicated. greg pointed this out. alabama girl. >> the 'bama girl. >> all about sports. she said they would do it again. they were talking, her son. this is an interesting point. supporting events is the only place left where you can taunt people and taunting never leads to anything positive. it's one thing that can make you violent. you may be a nonviolent person,

but if someone starts taunting you, just because your only difference is you like a different team, you could kill that person. it has happened. i think she's mother of the year. >> i think if i was the son i'd be so embarrassed that my mom felt she had to fight my battles for me. >> those guys had no idea she was going to fight, which is why i kind of like her. >> you don't think she was drinking at all? >> no, she said she had a couple but she wasn't intoxicated. >> have you ever seen an alabama game? >> where's her husband? sfwhapd go, yeah, babe, get them. i don't know. >> you don't want to be the coach of alabama if you lose a game because they'll taunt you for the entire season. >> they were the expected national championship team that ended up losing. that was a big leap. >> i like watching it on tv, the whole thing. all the football is good on tv, not outside. >> that was a great weekend for football. >> you have a beautiful screen. >> dana? your denver broncos are going to

play. >> i know. i have anxiety already, but my sister, angie, and her husband ben are going to the game. they're already looking at the forecast. they are ready. they are game ready. denver, i hope they can win. >> didn't get a call from j.d. to get a weather update. >> personal weather forecast. >> you're talking about the super bowl champions. unless manning gets hurt, i don't think anybody will stop them. >> the one variable you're not counting, the legalization of marijuana. >> man, you're already high. mile high stadium and you smoke dope, you're getting higher. >> exactly. >> how helpful "the five" is. >> then you can go to the snack bar and buy things and that will help economy. >> best football weekend of the year coming up this weekend. >> quick round. >> tough to beat this past weekend. >> fsu/auburn. >> auburn. >> florida. >> auburn. >> auburn. >> we're talking college, right? >> yeah. >> can i make a point about college really quick? there are activist groups on

college, especially university of wisconsin. they're advocating that their college divest from any companies that have to do with fossil fuel. how are they heating their dorms this week? how are they doing it? are they burning copies of "an inconvenient truth." i think they should be forced to sit outside and let their nipple and nose ring fall off. >> the professors, that's the reason all of this happened. >> planting a lot of trees. >> we're going to go ahead on "the five" al qaeda makes a major come back in iraq. their black 234rflag is rising e hundreds gave their life. later, mama madonna under fire with a picture of her 13-year-old posing with a picture of booze that. coming up next. ♪ ♪

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it's the same song over and over again. >> thank you, greg, for that musical intro. back in 2010 the obama administration made this prediction about the future of iraq. >> i am very optimistic about iraq. i think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration. you're going to see a stable government in iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. >> nearly four years later al qaeda is in control of key parts of the country. nearly all of fallujah, ramadi. our troops worked in the anbar province. 1300 americans gave their life. john kerry said the u.s. is concerned about the recent up risings and will help but won't send back troops. >> this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. that is what the preds and others decided some time ago when we left iraq. we are not contemplating

returning. we are not contemplating putting boots on the ground. this is their fight. we're going to help them in this fight. >> i want to stipulate there are people in this table, including bob, legitimate critics of the war who thought we should never go to war. that's legitimate but let's stay on this topic. i'm saying you have a legitimate point but i don't want to argue about march of 2003. bret made a comment yesterday. let's listen to that and we'll take it around the table. >> the tide was turned in what was called the awakening in anbar province and al qaeda suffered during the surge of the american troops and now they're back. they're back in no small measure because we left. it is the job of a president as leader to bring people along about such things. it is a role from which this president has shrunk and it is -- and the consequences of that are now becoming clear.

>> so, eric, america could be left a little bit confused because we've been told that al qaeda is on the run. certainly it's different and has evolved, but now to have fallujah to possibly fall to the iraqis, what do you make of that? >> i'm going to say we haven't been told president obama outright said al qaeda is on the run, osama bin laden is dead and he pronounced that as fact and only half of that is fact. osama bin laden is dead, i think, but the rest isn't true. we have to state vigilance on al qaeda. i will tell you more concerning to me is what happens in afghanistan. if we start to pull out of afghanistan without having defeated al qaeda, what do you do? do we end up with another country that we spend billions of dollars and thousands of lives? >> how long are we going to stay

in these warms? if we had troops on the ground this wouldn't happen. this war has been going on for ten years now. the american people have every right to be tired of it. look, you're not going to get american soldiers back there. iraqis were trained. we spent over a billion dollars to train them to fight their own battle. kerry is right. it's their own battle. anything we can do to help them, fine, short of committing american troops is the right thing to do. here's a place to use drones, i guess. but the idea that somehow this is an endless war between afghanistan and iraq is crazy. it's al qaeda in iraq. it is not the original structure that brought us 9/11. >> kimberly. >> new coke, old coke, same thing. the bottom line is the obama administration abandoned iraq to its fate when they refused to negotiate a proper agreement. they didn't but theon it up. we're pulling out. we're not going to have u.s. forces there. this is what happened. this is what's forecasted. this is no surprise.

they can take ownership of this. this is on their hands. >> bob is going to explode. >> i want the explosion. >> i want to know what you expected them to do. to keep -- you say -- >> be how about a slower rollout, okay? >> right. >> awfully slow. it was awfully slow. the idea that somehow this is the fault of obama is just absolutely insane. >> they didn't button it up. you can't pull out and expect everything to stay okay. >> allow me. greg is trying to get in here but here's the thing. i don't like getting into wars anymore than you do. if you're going to do it and spend trillions of dollars and expend lives, finish the job. make sure they're done. >> one of the strategies that has been most successful is denying al qaeda a safe haven from which to plot and plan. if you look at this from a geopolitical point, in addition to the situation in iraq, you have a problem of it possibly spreading into syria. then you have a completely different problem. this would be a big victory for iran.

i think that we have every reason to try to fight them because they are -- we are expecting the iraqis to fight that. greg, i want to ask you about a media question. this is a pattern. if you opposed a policy of the obama administration, obama care, stimulus plan, even on the pullout of iraq you were labeled all sorts of things, one of them, racist, that you were rooting for failure of the obama administration. does the media have to go back and look at, well, wait, perhaps some of these critics did have a point back then? >> but they won't. i mean, does anybody remember how the media was around 2004 cheering for defeat? i wrote at the "huffington post", there was a parade of patriotic terrorism. these are idiots who wish ill will on the united states as a learning experience and also so they can say, so, we were right, you shouldn't have done that. whereas, real patriots would say i'd rather be wrong and win the

war. so i think president obama should have been unhappy i was wrong about iraq. remember, he wasn't for the surge. war zones end even when you win them especially when you have a president and a party who really didn't want to win. >> well, that's not right. there's no question about wanting to win. there's a huge power vacuum. >> they didn't like president bush. >> that's correct. >> obama would be different. >> right. keep this to the president. there is a power vacuum in the mid east now which is significant. there's no real leadership in the middle east. the army controls egypt. think about it. if you know one major player in the middle east that's left to help bring some control over that. >> the saudis. >> the saudis. they've always played the background. >> before we go and we're going to tease next. prime minister malaki does deserve some of this. straight ahead, "rolling stone" magazine encourages

america's youth to reject capitalism and embrace socialism and it's not a parody. greg's reaction to that when we come back. ♪ ♪

110 million, that's how many people died under communism last century. an impressive number. one that "rolling stone" magazine forgot when it argued the principle that filled the graveyards. it called for guaranteed work for everybody, social security for all, three, take back the land, four, make everything owned by everybody, five, having a public bank in every state. no, it's not a parody. i thought it was, but it's real. of course, they left out the

methods of coercion needed to keep people from fleeing this state. only the threat of death can prop up a left wing dream because no one in their right mind would volunteer for this crap, hence, 110 million dead. forget this genocidal amnesia. what about the death of "rolling stone." they can tell themselves this is edgy, but it's so old. you find riskier stories in highlights. why is that? the article reviews the mag's total subservens. it bepds over and takes it. a change of heart because of who's in the white house now. when you asked what killed "rolling stone" it's actually who. president obama. once elected he helped turn a venerable rag into propaganda for force and he didn't even have to ask them to do it, they did it themselves like all good cultists would. >> i blame president obama for this. >> hey, bob --

>> and also for the cold weather. let's not forget that. >> he's in hawaii working the weather machine. the polar vortex -- >> he told michelle, you stay back here. it's going to get cold back there. >> watch me freeze middle america as they cling to their religion and guns. >> do you think that happened? >> that absolutely happened. the kenyan born interloper. >> bob, even this is too left wing for you. >> most of it is. i think a state bank in every state is a good idea. >> why? >> because it puts competition up against some of these profit-seeking -- >> like obama care. >> no. what is wrong with a public bank? if you want to go to a public bank, go to it. >> now you want socialized medicine and socialized finances. >> is that what you guys think? >> bobby, why would you do it? >> why not? >> because a public bank would not take a mortgage and slice it into a bunch of pieces and sell it as an investment tool when they know full well it's a

lousy -- >> is that something you're complaining about 4% interest rate on a -- >> i'm complaining about every investment bank. >> it's cheaper to do business here than any place on the planet. >> are you defending goldman sachs? >> it really worked well when it put us in the great recession, did it. >> did it? what's the alternative? >> the alternative is to maybe have a public bank. i also like the idea of trying to figure out a way like they did in the '30s with roosevelt to do public work. >> when you spent a trillion dollars to bail out the banks. >> you have a public bank. the whole system. >> this is a fox news alert. >> dana, isn't this the kind of thing a kid would write in a high school civics class? >> i did think it was a gag. >> i did, too. >> i think he should run for president now while he still knows everything. that would be great. >> he's the guy that's going to make communism work. it killed 110 million people at a minimum, but he can make it work. kimberly --

>> yes. >> -- people thought this was a parody. isn't that the worst insult you can pay somebody when you did this on purpose? >> did it on purpose, yeah, exactly. i don't understand. we still quarrel about this whole situation. how about, you know, keep taxes low. how about keep regulations low? etc. wil let's stimulate the economy. that's a proven formula. this other nonsense is getting us in trouble over time. >> a rising tide in our economy lifts all yachts, there's no question about that. >> and boats. >> and dinghies. >> and surf boards. >> it's probably not fair to equate this with communism. they didn't have social security. they didn't have take back the land. public banks, did not have guaranteed work for everybody. >> that was part of the dream that wasn't realized. >> maybe that's so, but not all of this is a definition of communism. >> 2014, there are two financial issues popping up.

one is the minimum wage and the other is income inequality. president obama will come back from two weeks in hawaii with the family, leave michelle behind, cost taxpayers millions of dollars to send air force two there and bring her back because it's her birthday present, it's a gift, yet he'll talk about income inequality. a little bit hypocritical. >> can we show that tape of him bashing republicans for going home. >> just a few days from christmas more than 1 million of our fellow americans lost a vital economic life line, the temporary insurance that helps folks make ends meet while they look for a job. republicans in congress went home for the holidays and let that life line expire. for many constituents who were unemployed through no fault of their own, that will leave them unemployed. >> the "red eye." kind of weird to come back after a two week vacation and give them grief. >> yes.

on the minimum wage piece, their policy, i can understand wanting to tackle the issue. their policies are very boring. no creativity. i think that people that are long-term unemployed and on minimum wage are being used as political pawns in an election year. >> let the republicans keep stopping this unemployment insurance and see what happens to them. they won't -- it won't overcome obama care. the republicans to sit back and try to cut off that money for people who don't have work is absolutely -- let them try to do it. >> the republicans said they would extend it as long as it's paid for. >> three months. >> what's going to happen in three months? >> the pentagon budget. >> well, if that's the compromise. is that the compromise that president obama wants to offer? they're not offering any compromise. >> nothing except for more pain to people who aren't in their wealthy set. >> we are evil, rich jerks. >> correct. >> there you go. >> bob -- >> coming up.

another msnbc host apologizes on air over their remarks. this time it's about mitt romney's adopted grandson. you'll hear romney's reaction to that next. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ first alec baldwin, now melissa harris perry is the latest msnbc talking head who has been forced to apologize for vile comments, this time about mitt romney's adopted african-american grandson. they mocked the interracial adoption. after intense criticism she apologized this weekend. >> without reservation or qualification i apologize to the romney family. also, allow me to apologize other families that formed through trans racial adoption.

i am deeply sorry that we suggested that interracial families are any way funny or deserving of ridicule. >> governor romney responded to her apology with grace and class. >> i recognize that people make mistakes and the folks at msnbc made a big mistake and they've apologized for it. that's all you can ask for. i'm going to move on from that. i think it's a heart felt apology and i think for that reason we hold no ill will whatsoever. >> no one is surprised, i think, eric, at the reaction of mitt romney because this is a man who's always risen above the tide. some feel that he didn't get in tough enough to do battle against obama to win it, but he's a class act. can't change who you are. >> absolutely, kimberly. class act. you expect him to react that way and he did. regarding melissa harris-perry, look, i'm not sure it was heart felt. it seemed heart felt. it may have been heart felt. she did the right thing. look, we all blurt out stuff

that sometimes we wish -- >> not like that. >> well, you know what, the only thing about her is it keeps happening. she keeps doing it over and over. however -- >> she's a recidivist. >> my feeling is you make a mistake, you go on air and you apologize. i screwed up. i made a mistake. if you mean it, let's all move on. >> i don't have enough time to make all those apologies. i make those mistakes, too. >> you don't say stuff like this. >> i think romney was a class act. in her case, she was crying near the end of that apology if i'm not mistaken, beginning to well up. if that was so emotional for her, why did she say it in the first place? >> correct. >> that's the thing that bothers me. >> i have a theory. >> dana. >> well, when she had -- when it happened she had on a panel of comedians and it is not easy, greg, to have comedians on. you have no control over them. you get caught up in the moment. you might say something that you're trying to elicit laughs. your job is not to make jokes. you want the comedians to make

the jokes. i think she got carried away, i hope. >> i think you're absolutely right. that has happened many times on "red eye." >> what show is that? >> some show on late at night. the one that drives me crazy, she wasn't sincere. i think the crying was heart felt. isn't it sexist for us to feel better about it that she cried. >> yeah. >> because it shouldn't matter. like alec baldwin in a way was right when he said -- oh, that's your next topic? he was saying, if i cried i would have been ridiculed. in a weird way melissa, who is a feminist, kind of defeated her own purpose. >> yeah, but look at the double standard. she cries, it's okay? >> i would have cried. >> no, i don't think you would be -- >> if greg cried i would die. >> i'm being serious. if you cried and you were heart felt and you got emotional and you weld up people would be like, wow, what a great guy. it's coming from here. >> listen, no, i think it's a

bit of a double standard. she's a lady, she cries, it's okay. look at alec baldwin. the one smart thing he said, if he cried about it could he be forgiven? because the point is a little bit of a double standard there. it's a gender double standard. he was treated differently than something that she said. i think what she said was bad. she should have known better. why did it take her so long to apologize. come on, you guys are kind of soft giving her a pass. >> you know what it is, i disagree with probably every single thing that she ever said in her life, but i can't help but like her. >> why? >> i don't know why. >> i don't even like her. >> i disagree with every single thing that comes out of her mouth. i don't like her. i think she's ridiculous. i think she's provocative, for the sake of being provocative, not because she believes what she says. wearing tampons on her ears. come on. you make a mistake, you look at the camera and you apologize and move on. >> the point of making it, it's the difference between the left and the right. the right thinks the left is

wrong but the left thinks we're evil. that's why i look at her and i go, i think she's wrong but i still think she's a decent person and i give her a pass. >> alec baldwin walked the plank. this isn't the first time that she said something. let's see, three strikes you're out. >> who was that basketball player with baldwin? >> what? >> who was that basketball player with baldwin. >> i think that was his wife. >> a daughter. >> could mcdonald's actually be good for you? we're going to tell you about one science teacher who went on a mickey d's diet for three months and the results my surprise you. that's coming up on the fries. >> on the fries? ♪ ♪

♪ you've got another thing coming ♪ who knew that mcdonald's might actually be healthy. get this, an iowa science teacher only ate mcdonald's for three months and the results are amazing. he lost 37 pounds and his cholesterol dropped 80 points. here's john who explains his shock diet. >> a typical breakfast would be

two egg white dliets, fruit and maple oatmeal and 1% milk. at lunch i would have bacon ranch salad and at dinner i would have meals. i started noticing results after 30 days. >> anything you want in moderati moderation? >> absolutely. >> let me ask you here. a couple things we should fill in. this guy was kept to 2,000 calories a day. students put this together. he walked 45 minutes a day, neither of which he was doing before. is it a surprise he lost weight? >> no, 2,000 calories, he walked 45 minutes. he adhered to the recommended allowance of carbs, fat, he put himself on a healthy diet. it doesn't matter what carb. >> it sounds like he ate the healthy food choice options. >> i think the risk here is people would think they could eat anything that they want at any time and not change anything else but he changed two things.

the calorie intake. 2,000 calories isn't that much for a man that's that size. if you start walking 30 minutes you're going to see a big difference. >> where's your little >> the fit bit is miserable. >> you start swinging your arms. i have to get this going. >> greg, you have to tell us. you did this yourself, didn't you? >> yeah. this guy obviously read man tell. i did this in 1996. i lost weight. >> is that you? >> yeah. i ate nothing but mcdonald's. look it up. it's called be your own lab rat. this guy ripped me off. >> your he a a prophet. you think of everything. >> the reason this worked, he ate more calories before. that's all there is to it. the fact is he's eating 2,000 is irrelevant unless he's eating 2500. the fact is he was -- so this is all -- >> why is everyone a bunch of mcdonald's haters. >> if big mac was a woman, i'd marry it. >> if you take 2,000 calories and you walk, couldn't he have done that anywhere? >> here's the point.

wrap your head around this. you can go and get some healthy food choices at mcdonald's. everyone can afford whole foods or something like that, but you can eat, swap something out. have a healthy salad with some dressing on the side or do something -- >> boo. >> whatever. pile it on. there are options that are affordable. if you put your mind to it and spend the time to say i'm going to take less fault, less carbs, more greens, you can work it out. >> what's your favorite mcdonald's meal? >> i love the quarter pound der with cheese and i love the number 2 meal which is the two little cheeseburgers like that with large fries and a diet coke. don't be mad. >> wait. >> do you realize that nutrition segments are really boring. mcdonald's is fun but boy nutrition puts you to sleep. >> you know what's interesting, do we have ten seconds to put up the picture. >> eric from subway. remember? >> even the after guy was fat. >> that's not nice. >> but when you saw him on

kavudo with clothes. >> makeup. >> he looks good. >> one more thing, you stole my plan! ♪ ♪

time for one more thing. a very smart man once told me, democracy doesn't work until the media does its job. keep that in mind. i was watching the sunday shows this weekend. "meet the press," david gregory, "meet the press," nbc, 6 million total enrolled in obama care. now, according to nbc themselves, it's 2 point be point 1. they cite the white house numbers, not 6 million. 2.1 million. nbc, do your job. i'm glad you worked that in and bob, his head didn't explode. i've got something, material girl, madonna. there was a lot of uproar over this picture that she put out on

instagram. the picture of her son, rocco ritchie that she has with guy ritchie, and he's 13 years old. he's got two vodka bottles. people were really upset. not appropriate given the drinking age in the u.s. and apparently in switzerland it's 16 there. a lot of backlash. she addressed this and said on sunday, no one was drinking, we were having fun. calm down and get a sense of humor. another caption, don't start the year off with judgment. think about that. >> bobby, you're up. >> there's a guy that was an internet sensation. mark brown. take a look when he was in the shower with his favorite pet. >> what kind of weirdness is that. >> oh, my god. that's not normal. >> look at -- that's a raccoon. >> all right. >> that's mark coon rippy brown who had his raccoon taken away from him by the health department after that. he decided to get it back.

he got a bunch of petitions going. that didn't work. he's announced for governor so he becomes governor, then he can get his raccoon back. >> are they doe mess city dated? >> this is part of my new year's resolution. to drive bob more crazy, greg too. i have five extra calendars. if you go to my website, you have a chance to write a poem about your dog. this picture. you can also see the jasper year in review which is fun. don't miss it. >> you're up, my man. >> you know what, let's have a resurrected phrase, shall we? >> don't rip it. >> the resurrected phrase is fresh. in the gold old days, if kids gave you any lip your mom or somebody would say, don't get fresh with me, whack, and slap you across the face. problem is, kids are walking around all day, they're fresh. they're fresh. we need to say -- you see a kid

acting up, don't get fresh, and then whack them. >> thank god you're not a parent. >> i don't know. >> i remember fresh but why fresh? why is fresh bad? >> no, i'm saying fresh -- >> no, no, i want it back. >> where did it come from? >> i don't know where it came from. >> it's old-fashioned. it's like eddie has dpkell. >> set your dvrs. you'll never want to miss "the five" mr. bear, his birthday is today. make sure you stay tuned for a look back at "the five." stay tuned for bret baier. it is tuesday, january 7th, and extreme weather alert. frozen eyelashes. well, that says it all. more than half of the nation waking up to a dangerous deep

freeze. roads, runways, schools all closed across the country. maria molina tracking when we will see a warmup. and the final moments of a fatal plane crash just released. what caused it to plunge to the ground before that exploding into a ball of fire. and the mother under fire after turning to the internet to punish her daughter for cyber bullying. some now say that the mom is being a bully. what do you think? we report. you decide. "fox & friends" first starts right now. ♪ ♪ oh, it is cold on that street right there. fifth avenue, new york city.

good morning, you're watching "fox&friends first" this morning. >> thank you so much for starting your day albeit a cold one with us. we begin with that extreme weather alert. temperatures fall temperature alert. it is plunging much of the country into a dangerous deep freeze. 200 million americans in sub zero windchills from chicago to tulsa. schools are closed and flights are grounded. how long will this bitter blast last? >> let's go to maria in the weather center. what is the latest? when is this going to change? >> it doesn't look like it will be lasting too long. what is being blamed for all of the cold air is a polar vortex. it is cold air that is in place but it dipped down into parts of the lower 48. we have record breaking temperatures in many areas of the co