fort bragg center, text purple to 20222. >> these guys will join us in the after the show show. have a great warm day. see you back here tomorrow. temperatures. we are talk way below zero. the frigid weather freezing everybody from cars to pipes. some rivers have turned to ice this morning. martha: 3 degree in my car. i'm martha, stay indoors if you can like we are today. subzero temperatures blanketing much of our country.

down 30 degree in chicago and minus 23 in minneapolis, minnesota. 25 degree in tampa, 14 in new orleans. bill: rick, where are you? it's minus 19 degree with the with, how does that feel? >> reporter: it feels like fargo. it's painful out here. you mentioned some of these dangerously low record breaking temperatures. it was 16 below in chicago without the with. you add in these withs and look at the map. the upstate new york minus 38 and that's causing burst pipes

and power outages. and this is no time to be losing your heat. but that's happening for thousands of power customers across the country. power companies are asking people to conserve energy. a lot of schools are closed and opening late in parts of the country. pittsburgh, government offices, and many visitors are being urged to stay closed today including in the city of indianapolis where the mayor says this cold is a real killer, saying you could be dead in 10 minutes without the proper clothing. it's causing problems with planes and trains and automobiles. train tracks are freezing in some cases. the roads are covered with ice and black ice. the best advice is to stay indoors if you have to go out and cover those important parts

of your body. bill: you spoke of those folks working outside. >> reporter: police officers, firefighters, gas station attendants. we ran into a fuel delivery man who is going from house to house topping off people's tanks. in many cases people are making emergency calls because they don't have fuel oil. his truck is his sanctuary. but when he gets out he has to run out and fill the tanker. but we also ran into sanitation workers who are handling this cold like champions. does your face hurt at all? >> pretty much. everything is is all right. i have been doing this for a long time. so i'm dressed for it.

>> reporter: both of those guys wearing four layers of clothes. they seem to be okay. they will be out here for a couple of hours. martha: hang in there out there because there are record low temperatures across the country. but they are not stopping people who are hard at work and getting on with their day. a farmer chops a hole in a pond while his daughter waits patiently for a drink of water. and our frozen face of the day goes to this person at the university of the minnesota. negative 21 degree temperatures. but she gets a gold star. she is headed to class. bill: on the happen behind us,

some of the coldest temperatures. it's been this way for a couple days. international falls, minus 25. down here in green bay minus 17. we just mentioned some of the other plays in the country. this is deep purple kind of cold. look down here in memphis. 2 degrees with the with. raleigh is minus 2. 14 in new orleans. sometimes you only see these temperatures maybe every 20 years. maybe once in a generation. coldest temperature of the day, rhinelander, wisconsin with a temperature of 52 degrees today. martha: we have a winner.

rhinelander, wisconsin. the arctic air is causing plenty of travel woes especially on the roads and the thousands of passengers stranded. jetblue canceled all of their flights to and from boston and new york city while the other airlines seemed to be going pretty much at hair regular place. the cancellations have left people trying to get home from the holidays with nothing do but sit around and wait. view * i'm. >> i'm upset. about it doesn't do any view. >> when you call the 800 line they hang up on you. so you can't wait for a person. you have to physically come down. martha: jet blue blamed new

federal regulations that kicked in last week that give pilots have to have more rest. that's part of the reason. but as this harsh weather spreads east, more flights are expected to be dropped today. we are going to dig into that. bill: senate majority leader harry reid rescheduled a vote on extending unemployment benefits after several lawmakers could not get back to washington due to the weather delays. it face as preliminary vote this morning. it needs 0 votes -- it needs 60 votes to in san francisco the senate. in the meantime how cold is it where you are? show us. inside, outside, in your car. tweet us @billhemmer and @marthamaccallum. you are gettings pay -- you are

getting hazard pay for this. martha: the president is renewing his war on poverty. the places he's calling promise zones. what is a promise zone? stuart varney is coming up. happy new year, happy new year to you. what is a promise zone? >> reporter: a targeted area of high economic and unemployment distress. if an employer targets a promise zone they will get a tax break. the president wants $300 million in special education spending in these zones. $400 million for convenient -- for renovating public housing.

now, if you put together promised zones along with an extension of unemployment benefits and a higher minimum wage you have got basis of the president's plan to combat the income gap. he's going to roll out this plan this week. martha: the basic question there is putting more money, throwing more money at the problem some might say, going to solve it when the critic might argue you need something to stimulate the economy. >> reporter: essentially this is a relatively small scale plan. we are not talking about a great deal of money here. we are talking about a political appeal. likely a successful economic policy. the president is going to say i'm doing something. i'm trying to help. i'm trying to make the republicans look harsh and unfeeling if they reject this special help for targeted areas.

heavy dose of politic right here this week. >> stuart, thank you very much. president obama is not the first president to eradicate poverty. this year marks 50 years since lbj's war on poverty began. we'll track how that battle has gone. how these programs really worked. we'll talk to bob beckel about that. >> we'll get back to the weather of course. do you know what happening overseas? american veterans likely cannot believe their eyes. scenes out of iraq. al qaeda-backed militants storming to fallujah and ramadi and so many towns americans spilled blood to free. martha: the deadly high-rise inferno setting new york city on edge. what firefighters say was the cause and it was found in many

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martha: we are learning more about a deadly fire that tore through a new york city high-rise over the weekend. according to investigators the fire was likely sparked by pane overloaded electrical wire that set fire to a christmas tree. it quickly spread as high as the 28th floor. several other people include something firefighters were injured. >> the options are all extremely bad. the reason is he made a terrible decision to pull not you 2011.

why are we negotiating in afghanistan an agreement to leave behind a residual force? bill: these are jarring scenes. the flag of al qaeda flying above the towns of a through gentleman and ramadi where so many americans lost their lives. came home wound as a result. arizona senator john mccain our guest from the hill. senator, good morning to you. what should we do now, senator? >> could i just say we could have left a residual force behind. it could have been done. senator lieberman and senator graham were over there, it was clear they were ready to do it. but this administration wanted everybody out. we predicted without that residual force to assist the military.

that this whole thing would unravel. it has. the bloodiest battle of the whole iraq conflict was the battle of a through gentleman where 80-some brave marines gave hair lives and i have forgotten how many wounded. what do we need to do? there is not a lot we can do. but there is some. that's to get some people high level to give maliki some advice and counsel. get some equipment over there that he can use. but maliki has to reach out to the sunni rather than do we did after we left, that's to begin persecuting the sunni, include be his own vice president who was a sunni. the iranian presence grows every

day there. there are thing we can do to be of assistance. and maliki has to change his attitude toward sunni. we have to have an an bar awakening. we had more casualties there than any other province. what do you say to americans when the banner of al qaeda is raised over a through gentleman and ramadi. >> it's hard for me to look them in the eye. general petraeus said we won the war and lost the peace. this president wanted us out. he got us out. march 2012, the guy who is now obama's national security adviser gave a speech that said iraq is necessary violent, more democratic and more prosperous and any time in u.s. history.

i'm not making that up. we saw it coming and we knew there was instability there unless we left a residual force. and this administration refused to tell maliki how many we wanted to leave behind. in the word of general dempsey the number cascaded down to 3,500. we predicted without the residual force things would go to hell in a hand basket in iraq and it certainly has. bill: 75 hellfire missiles were dispatched in december at the end of last year and you wonder whether that's enough to even start to turn back the extremists. senator kerry said this is a fight for the iraqis. what do you think of that? >> i think that senator kerry echos what the president decided when they decided to pull everybody out. it's really offensive to hear

him say that because these iraqis, many of them, were supporters of ours, basically they are being slaughtered now. the fact is it was a total gross mishandling of iraq. once we had won with a great sacrifice you and i just talked about of american blood and treasure and they blew the whole thing and it's really tragic. bill: we'll stay in touch with you to see what to do next. john mccain on the hill. martha: it was a scary scene at a gas station. an out off control * car that led to this fireball. bill where families of victims of benghazi pleading for answers. >> the fact is we have four dead americans. was it because of after protest or because of guys out for a

walk one night and decided to kill americans. what difference at this point does it make? i used to scrub the floor on my knees. [ daughter ] i've mastered the art of foot cleaning. oh, boy. oh, boy. oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. it gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wett. you guys should try this. it's so sy. oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washe this floor. if i didn't see i wouldn't believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good toee you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah.

bill: another successful day for u.s. commercial space travel. >> liftoff for falcon 9. falcon 9 cleared the towers. bill: that's space-x delivering a commercial satellite. it's a sign it means business in the market to launch commercial satellites, a business the u.s. has lost to competitors overseas. martha: the deadline for

obamacare insurance coverage signup has come and gone. experts say the fact shows one thing -- >> obamacare showed it can enroll sick people. you only have a small group of people even promed. it doesn't take einstein to figure out the first people to . more than million people received cancellation in the from the private insurers. steve hayes is a fox news contributor. some people may look at that number and say we may get to 7 million by march. it was a rocky start but it's accelerating. >> that's what you would expect snob the white house to say because they are trying to spin

this to make it look as good as it is. jay carney spent some time trying to distance himself from this $7 million projection because they are so far short of it. the fact is the white house and other noacts administration embraced that number at every different times. you had kathleen sebelius saying that was their target. you had the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services embrace that number and suggest the projected number at the end of december would be 3s 3 -- would be 3.3 million. that 2.1 million number the administration keeps citing includes people who are not actual enrollees in that they have not paid their first month premium. the administration is including anybody who has clicked enroll on the website.

martha: the real proof in the pudding will be people's experiences and whether they get the coverage they think they are going to get. whether they are okay not having their doctor anymore. but, you know, they also have started talking about the mix. they say the mix is improving a little bit. talk about that. >> they won't provide any numbers to verify the mix. the administration needs lots of young and healthy people to sign up so they can use the money that's being contributed by the youngs and healthy people to shep offset the expensive costs of those who are older and sicker. so that demographic mix will be important. jay carney said that yesterday. he's right. that will be important.

but people trying to figure out what that mix is won't be able to do so because the administration doesn't provide that information. jay carney can say that mix is important but he can't say they are on the right track. martha: no numbers to back up that statement. steve, thank you very much. have a good day. bill: it feels like there is a draft in this room. we are getting some great pictures from you folks all over the country. whether it's in the northern part of the midwest or down south. a lot of folks like georgia, alabama, georgia. martha: if you left 'soda in the car overnight it didn't turn out so well. throw it out. bill: president obama unveiling his new weapons on the war on poverty. but has this all been tried before and was it successful then? martha: thousands of airline passengers left stranded in the cold as much of the nation is

plunges into subzero temperatures. >> it's frustrating when you call the 800 line, they hang up on you so you cannot even wait for a person and have to physically come down. speeds of a transmission connected to more standard horsepower than its german competitors. and that is the moment that driving the lexus gs will shift your perception. this is the pursuit of perfection.

bill: millions in the midwest battling cold temperatures. schools are closed today.

we have not seen temperatures like this in years. >> good morning, bill. we are warming up. yesterday morning our thermometer said 23 below zero at this point in time. all the electronics are freezing up so we have gone old school. the thermometer says 12 below. we are looking for a high of 1 degree above zero for a number of days and 32 by monday. but this is still very dangerous weather. there have been quite a few incidents of frostbite. schools closed for a second straight day. i wouldn't be surprised to some schools closed tomorrow. once you move west in minnesota north it's flood near the red require valley. that's where they have school

canceled more often that not. they try to be aware that these temperatures are dangerous. bill: we have been asking for pictures. indiana. that's the good-looking site as long as indoors looking outdoors. we have a photo in moment ago from alabama. we'll share that in a moment. spit was 10 degrees on this thermometer in alabama. you hear from:folks in michigan and ohio and minnesota. and wisconsin. these winters come and go for them every year but not like this. but deep in the south when you see temperatures minus 1 degree with, that's really cold outside. keep sending the pictures we'll share them with you during the morning. >> this administration today

here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. martha: that was president lyndon johnson almost 50 years ago to the day. today president obama is expected to announce several anti-poverty proposals. it will happen later this morning. we want to talk about the big picture and the success of these programs in america over these years. bob beckel is a former democratic campaign manager and cohost of "the five." there is a lot of talk about the great society and how successful it is. let's take a look at some numbers here. this obviously is what many people would coin a big government initiative. let's look at how people feel about big government. 72% say it's the biggest threat to the united states. let's look at a couple other numbers here. the first one is food stamps.

this is average monthly participation in food stamps. in 1964 you had 376,000 people getting food stamps. now you have 47 million on food stamps. on the thing is single parent homes. in 1964 it was 11%. now it's 35%. do these programs work? >> let's put things in perspective. the number of people on welfare as we know it are more white than they are minority. secondly, a large percentage of people in poverty work but they work in low-wage jobs. and usually a single mother is the head of a household. the great society was medicare and medicaid. and education. there were some good programs.

there were, however, some and i what say this as a liberal who supported much of this. we did have programs that did tend to breed a few generations of poverty. we were giving incentives to live without going to work. the number of children in poverty today is much less than it was then. and also if you look at tonight real terms, the poverty increased every year after johnson $'s declared war on poverty. it has not increased. martha: 1964 you had 19% living under the poverty line, now it's 15%. is that a great achievement? many of these programs disincentivize people to go back to work.

they should encourage people to take the job that might feel beneath you but do it with pride and begin working again. we don't hear that from the president, that message. >> it was one of bill clinton's messages. very few people in this country get direct welfare grants anymore people do have to go to work. and most of them are trying to work. the problem is the single mother household and work at a low wage job, it's impossible to get fought of the poverty area. that does not excuse -- martha: you have 50 years of welfare programs that have increased in one form or another. look at the food stamps. the increase in food stamps. what it says to many is we have to incentivize people in a big way. >> most this is the result of businesses fleeing under cities. there is a lot of reasons you

could argue about that. but the fact is well-paying jobs are not anymore an impact on poverty. we have to be careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water. medicare, medicaid -- martha: nobody tries not throw the baby out with the bath water. we have an increase and a constant from the president saying we'll get rid of the minimum wage. in most cases they can't even tell you how many programs are out there. you wonder if it's just sort of -- is it just word? is it just to say that you are doing something? >> you may look at it that way. i would prefer to think he's well up tensions. but good intentions do not necessarily result in good programs. but the question i have to people opposed to federal programs is what is the at tern

tough. if there weren't good paying jobs around that would be the alternative. but there are not. i get back to single mother household. the breakdown of the family has been a singular contributor to poverty. i'm not sure how you deal with that. that's a cultural issue. that's particularly true in the minority population. all i can say is thank god for grandmothers. martha: the's another thing people criticize the president for. he has the potential to be a strong voice on that issue. in terms of the inner say, unions have been a big burden in many cases like detroit. and and also regulations has driven manufacturing jobs out of this country. >> i think there is something to be said about that. businesses where going to flee to the lowest paying workforce

they can get that's competent, you hope. but my problem with all of this is, we -- you still have to have some standard. the food stamp program went up because the regulations loosened significantly during the great recession. and i think there is abuse of the food stamp program. but meal and wheels are vitally important for people to live. we are talking about an awful lot of people in poverty who can't work. the question is some of them have been a failure. some of them have dependency on the government and others have been a success. how do you separate those snout i think there need to be an entire auditing of what's going on in welfare reform.

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>> reporter: i think it's a good idea. wait would do in the house of representatives is take the efforts of four or five different committees look into benghazi and put it together in one select committee like iran contra, like watergate. i think benghazi was a tragedy of enough magnitude and importance to the use the over a sustained period of time that a select committee would make sense. the individual committees each have their jurisdiction. but you can give every one a shot at the shots spotlight to magnify -- bill: five separate house committees are look into this. why has speaker boehner that not gone this route? >> i don't know the answer to that question except he did make a commitment when he became

speaker to his colleagues in leadership that they would maintain what thee they like to call a house of regular order. the regular order is each exit he does some thing. i would say benghazi and the sore nation of four americans is something that goes beyond the regular order and it's called for. i would go beyond in this select committee, i would go beyond investigating benghazi. this is part of overall rising threat of terrorism in the middle east and around the world. it's contrary to what the obama administration has been saying for years. >> serve would go first on international terrorism and how this administration has fought back or not fought back. what are you looking for there? >> let's take what's been happening in iraq in ramadi and fallujah with al qaeda taking control of cities we w

recollection sted away. -- wrested away. you have got a civil war in syria that's growing worse by the day. you have got rising terrorist elements all across north africa and the middle east from algeria, nigeria, right across to somalia and the arabian peninsula. this is a huge issue. the president doesn't want to talk about the global war and terror. he doesn't want to engage on a war on terror. he wants to indict in federal criminal trials. i think the significance of the traj chicago benghazi does give you a window into the much broader, much more significant question. bill: if you weren't for a

select committee, would other people clam up? would the investigation slow down? >> i don't think so. there would be coordination required among the city staff. i think it would give an emphasis to the importance and significance of the investigation. it would give comfort to people who may still in the bureaucracy and the state department worried about telling the truth about what they know. that kind of house-wide committee i think would be a powerful protecting force that the individual committees can't provide. >> john bolton, thank you. thank you for your time, mr. ambassador. the other of one of the victims in benghazi, patricia smith is my guest. she lost her only son, sean smith on that day in benghazi. >> on a lighter and frostier

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bill: this could have been a disaster. filling up a customer, then that car comes in, rolling over the concrete barrier, igniting the

gas in the line below. the worker is okay. bruise, treated to hospital. the driver of that car apparently was 83. looks like might have hit the gas instead of the break. in the end they are okay, but man oh man, look at them. martha: you look other people's snowman, you say that's impressive, nice job. check this out for competition. three minnesota brothers built a massive 1-foot high snow shark. it's not the first time they have teamed up on elaborate snow designs. pleads to be joined by these brothers who are snow artists. trevor, how cold was tonight minneapolis when you were building this thing? >> it depends.

some days it was pretty chilly, other days it was quite warm for minnesota. a couple days it was 40 degrees which is pretty warm. martha: it's been 23 below in the with. >> it's been really cold recently. martha: the first time you got together and built one of theengs these things what was it? >> it was a copper fish. martha: how big was that one? sight wasn't that big, it was 6 feet tall. martha: and there was a walrus, too. look at that. the tupper fish is really good. tell me what your craft is. how do you do this? >> you pile up all the snow into the biggest pile we can. then we start forming the features like the tail, the

fins, the teeth. martha: who is in charge of the three of you, who says no, not like that. >> we are all kind of in charge. >> we know what we are good at so we work together to try to make the best sculpture possible. martha: do you use shovels or a snow plow to push the snow into a pile first? >> we shovel it into sleds and military in the garage to warm it up to make it easy to work with and sticky, then we bring it back out and work with it. martha: you shovel the snow into the garage and let it melt a little bit? >> yes, that's how we can make details on the sculptures. martha: for the base of it, you can't put that your garage. >> the first couple days we pile

up the snow without putting it in the garage. the other days we put it all in the garage. martha: what's the next idea? >> we have a couple ideas but we are not telling anybody yet. martha: it's very cool and back to school i guess now, right? >> yeah. martha: connor and trevor and austin bart well done. have a great return to school and happy new year to you and your family, okay? thanks for coming in, guys. bill: well done. this record-breaking cold not going away anytime soon. who went outside and took it for the team? team fox coverage on how long this will last in a moment. martha: we are keeping an eye on capitol hill and a critical vote that happens today on unemployment benefits. how long will they be extended?

martha: fox news alert. we are waiting for a key vote in the senate and the vote would be to extend unemployment benefits for 1.3 million americans. it is just the first of a series of measures the president wants to get done in the new year to ease the burden on those still unemployed. welcome everybody, brand new hour starts now in "america's newsroom." glad to have you with us on this tuesday in 2014. i'm martha maccallum. bill: that makes me bill hemmer. good to be indoors. martha: very good. we're thankful. bill: the vote on the bill is scheduled to happen 30 minutes from now. an hour after that the president is set to make his own remarks about how to fight poverty. martha: he will have a whole plan he rolls out this week. chief correspondent he had henry joins us from the white house. how hard is the white house pushing on the extension of unemployment benefits today. >> reporter: president is pushing it hard, working phoness like susan collins on the fence

on this vote. they're not clear whether later this hour they will have enough votes to advance the extension of the unemployment benefits. it ran out for the year during the holidays for long-term unemployed. the reason the president is pushing so hard it is part of a broader push ahead of the state. union address to talk about income inequality. republicans say it is about class warfare. it is politics. the president trying to frame the midterm elections and put republicans on defense, saying they're mean and not extending unemployment benefits. the president's economic advisor, gene sperling said it is one way to take the politics off the table. take a listen. >> if anybody suggest that is somehow we want to fight for the minimum wage or extending emergency unemployment for political reasons, as opposed to it being the right thing to do, well i have a really good solution. let's get them done right now in a bipartisan way. then everybody can share credit doing something the right thing

for the american people. >> reporter: now as you mentioned the president is expected to speak here at the white house next hour after the senate vote react whether it goes up or down. even if it passes today in the senate, still has to go you through the house, martha. it is not clear they have the votes there. martha: what about the efforts on republican side, yes, we are willing to do this but we want to see commensurate cuts? >> reporter: republicans like tom coburn saying we want to help the long-term unemployed and lost their unemployment benefits but you have to find a way to find the so-called offsets to pay for it to make sure the money is not added to the federal deficit. >> this bill costs $6 billion. it is not paid for. about borrowing money from children in the future to pay for a benefit today. the real job, why are we not creating jobs and why are we not moving economy and fixing the fiscal mess that is here? >> reporter: gene sperling says the president doesn't want to find offsets now because he is

believes it is emergency situation unemployment benefits t raises the question why democrats, president on the hill didn't make sure the unemployment benefits were not dealt with in the budget deal pass ad few weeks ago. remember the president signed into law. this was negotiated by patty murray, republican paul ryan. they left it out of the budget deal but the president signed it anyway. martha? martha: ed, thank you very much. we'll see you. bill: deadly blast of arctic air sweeping across the united states. these are windchill temperatures at the moment across the united states. minus 22 in minneapolis. 29 below in chicago, 29 below in cleveland. that's cold. but look down here in the south. 30 in tampa. minus six in atlanta. three degrees in memphis. you could live a lifetime and rarely see temperatures this cold in certain parts of the country. look at satellite image. here is florida. okay. this is the polar vortex, right?

here it comes sweeping down from the arctic, just pushing this cold air across the upper midwest down to the east coast. looking at this picture it looks cold from lear. of the one woman describing the conditions she feels in chicago where it is minus 4 real temperature right now. >> i walked from the cta to the train station and it really was not far at all but i had to like stop and go in a store because i thought i was getting frostbite on my hands, but, i don't know, kind of exciting. bill: she is not alone. team fox coverage. maria molina in the fox extreme weather center. we begin with garrett tenney who is live in chicago. what's the temperature there now, garrett? >> reporter: bill, you mentioned with the windchill it was negative 29, negative 30 degrees. even though the temperature is expected at a high above zero today with these windchills it will be far below zero. this is the same across much of

the midwest. this is pretty cool sight when you get some temperatures. this is the chicago river. this is the steam coming off the water and the air is so cold and water is so much warmer it causes steam to kick up along the river out to lake michigan as well. out here on the streets we have a lot more foot traffic than we saw yesterday as temperatures come up into the negative 20s, negative 30s, this is what people in chicago are more used to this time of year. schools across chicago are still closed as well as throughout much of the region. some schools will head back tomorrow. amtrak, the train system here in chicago, that has been having issues as well. last night several hundred passengers spent the night on three trains after the trains got suck in a snowe drift just built up in some of the rural areas. 12 feet of snow in one area where the trains got stuck. even the trains 8,000 plus

horsepower engines was not enough to push through there. those passengers are being bused back to chicago this morning, bill. bill: wow. how long is it supposed to be this way, garrett? >> reporter: well, any amount of time is too long, that is what a lot of people have said today but by the end of the week it is supposed to be above freezing here in chicago as well as throughout much of the width mess but that doesn't mean most of the problems are gone. we have flight delays going on throughout the midwest. at o'hare, 750 flights canceled. at midway airport more than 755 flights canceled today. that is after 1600 canceled yesterday, 1200 on sunday. a lot of flights are still far backed off. that will carry through much of the rest of the week. roads throughout the region continue to be blocked. we know an 80-mile of stretch of

interstate 65 between indiana and illinois is completely shut down. it is expected to be reopened this morning. that is the case across many streets across the region. in indianapolis 400 people were evacuated because of lack of heat and power. indianapolis officials say get this, if the storm and cold was not enough, at end of the week they're worried about flooding as temperatures will get above freezing and more than 11 inches of snow they have gotten will be melting out into the lawns and streets all over. that's what they're getting ready for now. bill: good day for a walk on a treadmill indoors where it is 70 degrees. garrett, thank you for taking one on the team on the streets of chicago. thanks. martha: thank goodness we have the garrett a nice fox news parka so he is toasty out there. you add a thick layer of snow and ice you've got yourself some real trouble. folks in st. louis are digging out after they got hit by a foot or more of snow.

>> i'm trying to get myself out where i go to work tomorrow because our work is shut down, it is too tough for everybody to get around and get in. there isn't much we could do we came in anyway. martha: hopefully he can get there tomorrow. more snow on the way. up to two feet in areas east of lake erie and lake ontario. bill: you can show us by giving us a photo. we'll share one of those in a moment. put the deep freeze in context though. forecast highs only 14 degrees in new york city. 22 down south in nashville, tennessee. the high in nashville is 22. the windchill takes it in single digits. both cities a lot closer than juneau, alaska, where the high will be a balmy 37. let's go to juneau. martha: right. when will it warm up? that is the question we want to know. fox news coverage continues with maria molina in the weather center. we'll tell you when we can see

double digits behind the screen behind her, right, maria. >> cold temperatures, typically you think let's go to florida to warm things up. we're waking up to windchill temperatures there in single digits and zero degrees across parts of northern florida. extreme cold gripping southern half of the country. we saw lows across portioned midwest but didn't set many records but record lows set in places like baltimore where the temperature was 3 degrees. in new york city's central park, 4 degrees. look at atlanta, georgia. you think of typically warmer weather, 6 degrees a record low temperature set in the city of atlanta. factor in the wind and feels like zero in portions of georgia. a big dip in the jet stream responsible for cold air moving southward. chicago, you just saw a report from there, 29 degrees below zero what it feels like heading out the door. new york city it feels like 6

below zero. do to dangerously cold windchills we have risk of hypothermia and frostbite. windchill advisory warning in place. martha, you mentioned lake-effect snow. feet of snow in off lake ontario. blizzard warning in city of buffalo. improvement next couple days. forecast by thursday, friday, saturday, warming up across parts of the country. martha: up and down. we see the extremes lately. maria, thank you very much. bill: we've been asking you throughout the morning for to you sent pictures to share what you're experiencing out there. gary tweets this. how about this alabama temperature? that's the tweet. check it out. 5 degrees in the deep south. that is 5 degrees in atlanta. keep them coming. we have a lot of great ones throughout the day. too many to put on the air frankly. show us, don't just tell us, what the weather is like, @marthamaccallum and @billhemmer. martha: most of the pictures

people are sending are taken from inside. this is my they thermometer. on one of them we may show later, inside she had it set at 80. outside it was really cold. i had the moment i had to park the car outside to turn it on, saying, please, please. a little hesitation and then it turned over. thank goodness. bill: not going to last forever but we're all in this for the moment, by the millions. martha: yeah. so here's a question for you this morning. should congress and the members of congress and their staffs get a different deal on obamacare? should they get a break? a top republican says no. he rejected it for his office. he is now suing the government. senator ron johnson is here to explain. bill: also, heart break for an american gold medal it. there is news today on lindsey von. we'll tell you about that. there is this. >> what i try to do as a director, i try to, ah.

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bill: got a fox news alert now. this is tough news. olympic gold medal winning skier lindsey vonn will skip the sochi games because of ongoing knee injury. she hurt the knee in the world championships last february. she reinjured it twice since. she is one tough woman. the u.s. skiing star will undergo yet another operation. that means no winter games in february. certainly a disappointment.

martha: well a top republican senator is now suing to block the government from continuing to pay most of the medical insurance premiums for members of congress and their staffs. this lawsuit is part of a move by republicans to stop this sort of special treatment as he sees it for lawmakers. that senator is wisconsin republican ron johnson and he is on the budget committee and joins me now. senator, good to have you here. >> good morning, martha. >> the way the health care law originally members of congress and their staff was supposed to get on obamacare. they were supposed to go through an exchange and exchange their health care policy. swept in a special decree that said no, you don't have to do that, right? >> not exactly. there has been confusion. let me describe the special treatment. martha: okay. >> nextwave of canceled policies will be those individuals that get their policies through their employer. that is tax-advantaged contributions. when they have to buy their coverage on the exchanges,

they're going to have to do that with after-tax dollars. members of congress and their staff will lose employer-sponsored care like other americans of. but they're the only americans when they go to the exchanges their employer, the federal government, will be able to make a contribution to those plans pretaxed. tax advantaged. that is the special treatment. martha: got it. >> that is unfair. that is what i'm suing to make sure we overturn the ruling to give them the special treatment. martha: and that contribution, essentially comes from the u.s. taxpayer, is that correct? >> yeah. but that contribution was always being made. i'm not quibbling with that. i'm talking about the special tax treatment of this as well as, you know, very important concept of actually following the law, you know. president obama has got to stop issuing all these presidential decrease. if he doesn't like the law he should come to congress and change the law. this is one area where i think a member of congress myself has

standing to take them to court to uphold the rule of law which is a pretty important concept. martha: what are you and your staff doing voluntarily? >> the staff is trying to follow the law as it is written. what i did to wisconsin, went to a broker, bought a policy there. i'm not accepting the employer contribution. i'm not criticizing anybody trying to follow the law and those rules. this is really about presidential overreach. also making sure members congress feel the same exact experience, the same pain and damage of obamacare as the other millions of americans because right now senate democrats are turning a deaf ear to all these canceled policies, all these increases in premiums. only when those individuals, those members of congress start feeling the full pain of obamacare, will they be forced to act to repair damage, limit the damage of obamacare. martha: we'll see how that goes with your lawsuit because obviously it has ramifications as a possible precedent for some other executive overreach some

people have seen in the changes and delays to the law as it comes through as well. >> right. martha: i also want to ask you about the unemployment movement happening in the senate today. >> sure. martha: whether or not you are going to vote extend unemployment benefits for 1.3 million americans today. will you? >> first of all, they call it emergency, call it temporary. at some point in time, four years into recovery the emergency has to end, temporary has to end as well. like senator coburn said, this isn't paid for. they actually have a way to pay for it. senator murray negotiated $22 billion more discretionary spending. if democrats think it is so important, such a high priority to extend unemployment benefits, face it we're all concerned about individuals, we want to give them jobs. if democrats want to pay for this, they have $22 billion of discretionary spending they should apply toward this. the fact they're not willing to do that, shows they're trying to politicize the issue which is a real shame. we need the economy growing so people have jobs and don't need

unemployment benefits. martha: that is interesting point. in the existing bill paul ryan and patty murray came up with there are 22 billion in discretionary fund. >> use that. that is $22 billion in mad money. use it for that. we need to prioritize spending. we have to stop mortgaging our children's future. democrats are apparently not concerned about our kids and grandkids. we are. martha: senator johnson, we'll see how it goes. always good to have you. >> stay warm. martha: you bet. you too. bill: 20 minutes past. she calls herself "jihad jane." american woman convicted for a role in a terror plot. are there others like her out there? martha: police officer dash-cam shows how dangerous distracted driving can be. huge issue. look at this. >> i realized if i had been maybe 30 feet ahead, i would have not been going home that night. shook me up a little bit.

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martha: a state trooper just seconds from death escaping a alive as a big-rig semi slammed into the highway divider. look. how would you like to see that in front of you driving down the highway? dash-cam video picked it up in salt lake city, utah. the trooper was approaching another accident, when the truck driver lost control, he was a few feet from the patrol car. the semi driver said he didn't notice traffic was slowing down until it was too late. bill: so there will be a vote we believe on extending jobless benefits moments away. but as we await on that there is new question why the jobs that are available still not filled? the labor department figures show the national unemployment rate is still at 7% but at the same time at the same time four

million jobs are unfilled. molly henneberg is here. where are the jobs, molly? >> reporter: 3.295 million to be exact according to bureau of labor statistics bls, government and private sector unfilled jobs. last check of the numbers was in october 2013. the vast majority of them, unfilled jobs was in the private sector, 3.5 million of the 3.9 million unfilled. the rest were federal, state and local jobs, government jobs talk there. the in private sector industry were most unfilled jobs were, at top of the list, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, then education and health services. as for where in the country there are the most unfilled jobs, mostly they're in the south, according to the bls. although there was an increase this past fall in infilled jobs in the midwest. bill? bill: you know, molly, why are

they still open? >> reporter: there are a number of possibilities, bill? people don't have the right specialed skills to take the jobs open or maybe don't want to move their families to a different part of the country to take a job. maybe employers are trying to save money for part of the year and looking for just the perfect candidate. perhaps students may not come out of schools with employable job kills. these are some of the reasons experts cite. bill? bill: molly, we'll debate this in a moment as well. live from washington, d.c. there. now 26 minutes past the hour. martha: fox news alert. we're moments away from a key vote happening today in the senate. there is mr. mcconnell. you have a white house-backed bill that would extend long-term unemployment benefits. democrats, will they get 60 votes they need on this. big story. we're live on capitol hill. bill: we're live in las vegas for adam housley. what is up, adam? >> reporter: ces bigger than ever, after getting smaller for five years, this year larger

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martha: back with a fox news alert. we're moments away now from a vote in the senate on a bill that would impact more than a million americans.

it would be a three-month extension of long-term unemployment benefits. the outcome of this vote could lay the framework for the democrats 2014 platform. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on this story for us on capitol hill. senate majority leader harry reid needs five republicans to pass this test vote. looks like he will get there, mike? >> reporter: martha, everybody i talked to today suggests it will be very close. for some republicans it is tough to vote against those who are struggling in america, those people who have been unemployed for a long period of time but a lot of republicans are saying essentially that they feel like the emergency is over. we're supposed to be in the fourth plus year of the economic recovery and so, when do you stop doing emergency and temporary benefits? we know there are a couple of republicans who will vote in favor. dean helloer from nevada. nevada's unemployment is substantially higher than the national average. susan collins after getting a phone call from president obama, signaled she will go forward

with the test vote today. the question where do the votes come after that? so at this point not abundantly clear whether they get there or fall short by a vote or two. martha: some say it could be a win-win situation for democrats, right? >> reporter: that's right. democrats, obviously if they get 60 votes they want to get these unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. if they don't get there they're planning for a press conference after the vote to use it as a political weapon. we're now in 2014 and another election year. so to change the subject from obamacare, that has been obviously difficult for democrats, they want to be able to use this as a political weapon to hit republicans over the head to say, you're not looking out for those who are struggling during this difficult economy. and so they have this, as a political issue here in this election year. martha: we're watching senator dick durbin making his case on the floor right now in the senate. mike, thank you very much. we'll see you later.

bill: how long do you keep extending unemployment benefits? lars larson, compass radio networks. jehmu greene, fox news contributor. how are you two doing? good morning to both of you. >> good morning, bill. bill: i assume you're warm because you're indoors. lars, what do you think about this? should they do it or not? >> it is a tough one, i don't think they should do it unless it is paid for number one. secondly we don't want to turn it into a entitlement because america has far too many entitlements and we have big budget problems because of entitlements. when you look long-term unemployment, many stay on unemployment until it runs out and go out to make the tough decision and compromise and take the job they didn't want to take, some of the four million jobs molly was talking about. that is exactly the problem. do we put the nation further in debt, spend on a program we don't have the money to pay for right now, borrow more to give more money and more incentive for people not to make the hard decisions to go out and go to

work. bill: sorry for interruption. you would support it if it were paid for, is that what you're saying? >> i'm not crazy about supporting it. i think we're becoming entitled society, unemployment long term, or short as entitlement. at this point the emergency is over according to the president. economy is on the mend and things are on the up swing. go out and find a job. bill: appreciate the clarification. jehmu what do do you? >> giving up on hard-working americans bill is bad for our economy. when republicans and lars talk about is this paid for, these americans who lost their jobs at no fault of their own, they did pay for these employment insurance benefits. we've already seen state economies hit with 400 million in losses because these benefits have been cut. this is at no fault of their own, and damaging to our economy. we're going to lose up to 310,000 jobs because this was

not paid. bill: jehmu, the deal if you really want to make back here, people like lars would argue, improve the economy. that is where you find the jobs. >> bill, it is great that the stock market has rebounded. it is fantastic that in the last quarter we had 4% gdp growth. but we can not leave these hard-working americans behind. it is not only bad for the families, it is, not only bad for the half a million children who are kept out of poverty because of employment insurance benefits last year, it is bad for our economy. we will see small businesses hit extremely hard because those resources are being taken out of that community. so as the economy is on the mend, we don't want to hit it again with, by not extending these benefits. bill: november 2013, unemployment rate at 7%. it has been at or above 7% for

60 consecutive months, lars. five years. >> and the president, the president's made it worse. look at this. we're getting huge numbers of new regulations imposed by this president. obamacare itself i think will cost us a lot of jobs as a lot of americans see themselves paying higher premiums and more out-of-pocket. that will suck money out of the economy as well. the argument somehow we can borrow our way to prosperity by having unfunded program to put more money in the hands of americans who will spends knit the economy, by that logic, jehmu, put everybody on unemployment. that will really help the economy. bill: respond to that? >> research shows unemployment insurance benefits keep people looking for job and stop giving up to rely on their relatives. it shows it does not stop them from looking for employment. this is, this is not just about families and the hit that they are taking that they took just

days after christmas. how cruel is that, bill, and lars. but about our economy. if we want to keep recovering, we can not have another hit as drastic on our economy. 400 million from states. bill: we're watching the senate. don't know what happens in the house. that's a wildcard right now, even if this does pass from the senate. we'll see if that happens first. appreciate your time. stay warm. lars, thanks to you as well. 37 minutes now past the hour. >> thanks, bill. martha: last night's bcs national title game was won for the ages. number one florida state taking on number two auburn empty fourth quarter, it got electric. auburn just over a minute left, trey mason, heisman trophy finalist, you see why, unbelievable run. touchdown. 37-yard touchdown run. auburn regains lead, 30 one-27. last chance for fsu with seconds

remaining. >> he will throw it. end zone, touchdown! martha: that is what it was. jameis winston, the heisman winner, finds kelvin benjamin on a touchdown. florida state seminoles on 34-31 win. that snaps sec consecutive title run at seven. wow, what a game, what a game. awesome way to end. bill: auburn had that in the first half. when i woke up, florida state won? how did they do that? shannon bream was at the game. went to florida state. sending all the tweets, surrounded by all the auburn folks. martha: guys, we want to win this hinge. she is, oh, we do. great job. bill: whole bowl season was phenomenal. wait until they get the playoff next year. i'm telling you, martha, it will be 10 times the expectations. really, really great competition on the field.

meantime average american woman called herself "jihad jane" sentenced to 10 years for her role in a terror plot. some are wondering whether 10 years is enough. are there more people like her out there? martha: incredible story. we'll talk about that coming up. a big hollywood action movie director transformed into a nervous wreck in front of a whole lot of people. ouch. >> the curve? how does it, how do you think it will impact how viewers experience your movies? >> excuse me, i'm sorry. i'm sorry.

martha: this to watch unfold. the american woman who called herself "jihad jane" sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her role in a terror plot that target ad swedish artist who they felt had depicted mohammed in an unfavorable light. she wanted to go over to kill the artist that did it.

in her other life she was 50-year-old colleen larose. she was indicted in 2009. she became consumed by thoughts of muslim holy war and facing a potential life sentence on this. but here is her lawyer on the judge's relatively short sentence. >> i think it is a just and reasonable decision by the judge, in light of all the myriad of circumstances in this case, fairly unique case but i think it's a just and reasonable decision. would i have liked less? yes. martha: let's talk about this. mike baker, former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, global intelligence and security firm. what did she do, mike? >> well, first of all we all can agree, she had a very difficult childhood growing up. a lot of people will say -- martha: that is part of the leniency here. >> you look at this background. she was impressionable. what did she do, she didn't

actually kill anybody? that is missing the point. what happened was she allowed herself to be recruited into terrorist organization, you know, by a pakistanis primarily, and in doing so, she actually took concrete steps to engage then in terrorist operations in europe. she traveled from the u.s. she was engaged with a terrorist cell. this was not just in her mind. she actually did all of this but it is indicative -- martha: stole a passport to, give that passport to a terrorist so he could carry out a terrorist act. >> absolutely. martha: she did travel to europe with the intention to kill. she said in one of the documents she would try to shoot him six times in the heart, this artist. >> right. martha: you know, so, as you say these are not, there is there there. >> there is absolutely there there. it is interesting, do i think the sentence is appropriate? i'm surprised it was 10 years. i'm surprised it wasn't more

lenient in today's current environment, where admittedly -- martha: really? >> everyone has sort of terrorism fatigue. it is tough to understand and remind ourselves about how difficult this situation is because anybody who, who recalls 9/11 in a vivid way, they're not going to forget but for a lot of people, particularly younger people, it's a point in the history books, i hate to say that. so when they look at something like this, they have a hard time understanding why it is a serious issue. martha: two things, when i look at this, maybe i watch too many tv shows, like "24" and "homeland." how many people are out there on the internet like she was, who are angry, who perhaps had a troubled life as she did, we understand that -- >> we don't have to go further back -- martha: how good are we at finding them? >> we're getting better. it's a human process and never will be perfect and will be room for error.

people in counterterrorism always understand that. you never get it zero-sum game. you don't have to go back farther in time to see examples of "jihad jane". the tsarnaev brothers. they're looking for impressionable individuals, looking for people already existing in infidel countries. whether they contact them online, whether they meet them directly, and "jihad jane" was a case of both, then it doesn't matter because their objective continues to be the same, find people who then they can bring over to the dark side as it were. martha: sooner or later they will be successful as they were in boston. one of the things that really bothers me about this entire nsa story not so much the privacy issue. it is effectiveness of the program, okay? this is a woman who was, she was talked to by the fbi in 2009 and then managed to hop on a plane to go to europe to carry out

terrorist act. she was not on terrorist watch list. so neither were the tsarnaev brothers. we have this infrastructure checking everybody's lives except hers and the tsarnaev brothers. we're not doing this effective one could argue. >> you raised most salient point talked about the nsa programs. i spent 17 years behind the curtain basically in operations. so i don't exist in this world where i'm paranoid about the government constantly trying to screw us over. i'm worried about the nsa program, is it working operationally? you identified a very important point. i think the current program as it stands, i understand the reasons for it. i don't believe there is a large case for a potential abuse because we do actually have checks and balances in place despite what some of media want to say and those arguing against it. martha: she got through. she wasn't on the terror watch list and neither were they.

>> we will never get it to perfect situation because it a human process but we are getting better at it. martha: i hope you're right. we have breaking news. mike, thank you very much. great to talk to you. bill: martha, just on the floor of the senate, we're watching the movement here. they're voting to end cloture on the motion to proceed? what in the world does that mean? they need to get to 60 votes in order to continue debay on the floor of the senate for unemployment benefits. we're watching that. still aways away on that. when we get you an answer we'll let you know. looking for a new gadget, are you? adam housley live from las vegas to tell you what you need america. what's up, adam? >> reporter: i'm sure you need one of these, bill? this is a robot that will clean your grill for you. if you want to go swimming not take off the headphones and put these on to go swimming. from fugu, it is a speaker. wireless bluetooth, drop it in the water, plays inside, or out. ♪

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martha: well action movie director, michael bayh running into -- bey technical problems at a tech show in las vegas. he was endorsing a new tv when the teleprompter went awire and he tried to ad-lib. >> as a director, i try to,-ah. the type is all off, sorry. but i will just wing this. >> tell us what you think. >> yeah. we'll wing it right now. i take, i try to take people on an emotional ride. and, -- martha: wow. well, you know, that happens. right? bailed on the audience. walked off the stage and issued a statement, said, i guess live shows are not my thing.

bill: i feel for you, michael. deal with it every day. martha: we don't use teleprompters, do we bill? bill: bill: adam housley is at the same show. he is better with live tv. what are the gadgets you're seeing, adam? >> reporter: that is what we get paid for. mobile mood trackers because this is about health. anything will tell you about anything you have going on inside of your body. this is june. you wear this on your wrist. it will tell you put on hair color, eye color, basically tells you the skin type. after so much time in the sun it tells you to get out so you don't burn. this is from arcos one of the heart monitors. there are some different monitors. this is watch that tells you stress left, how well you sleep. tracks everything from calories steps. bill, everything here is pretty much health-based. they have this here, track dot to track your luggage. it is really light, and if you lose you can go on computer to find it. this is about mobility and

getting more and more affordable. bill: i liked the speaker you dropped in the water. that was cool. what else are you seeing? >> reporter: we'll do this again, this is from fugu. this is $220. there you play it. william tell overture. drop it in the water. hear it off the microphone. leave it there. kind of cool when you go swimming. you listen to the music while you swim. two more things, bill. it is 199 from doorbot you put it on the front door, talk to people two-ways and see a camera. you don't need a expensive home system. put it on the front door. umbot, $59. draw it on tablets or on paper. it will basically follow what you draw. in this case they're following fox, bill. bill: nice. >> reporter: as they should be. bill: how much does the camera on the door, how much does it go for? >> reporter: 199.

comes with the screwdriver to put it up. looks way. two-way audio and a camera. my wife would love something like that. come to the door, don't want to talk to them. this is cool, really quickly. bill: go ahead. >> reporter: use that while i'm gone. bill: next time you're in new york, put it on the office door. >> reporter: bill, for our viewers at home, they don't know you live in a box. that little box you live in new york. when you're in the box, traveling to work, these are bluetooth headphones. you listen to these when you go to work. when you get to fox and fold them up and turn off to save your how about that? bill: good job. martha: and today they keep your ears warm. bill: cool, adam. see you later in the week. cool stuff. >> reporter: sound good. martha: we're minutes away from the vote on extending unemployment benefits. we've been watching the procedural vote playing out on the floor of capitol hill today. will democrats get the vote they need? will it move forward? big story coming back moments

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bill: so we asked you throughout the morning to share with us what the weather looks like where you are. martha: mike tweeted -32 in maine is no problem. bill: so he sent this picture along. martha: that looks fun. bill: love it. martha: mary from florida posted this on facebook, that is ice happening from her tree in florida. bill: wow, that's florida. lastly, our junior reporter from des moines, iowa, and that is frozen bubbles, the kind you dip into the little bubble -- martha: that is very, very cool. and how about this one? this week i started at fox ten years ago this week, okay? and pat sajak of the wheel of fortune tweeted me back, i felt very special. ten years? how can you do the same thing for ten years? oh, never mind. bill: he's within there. martha: he's been doing the same thing for 32-plus years at wheel

of fortune,o thank you. and you came shortly after me. bill: yeah. my eighth. martha: almost ninth, right? yeah. bill: august 2005. you came when? martha: january of '04. bill: you were working at one of those other joints. martha: thank god we're here, right? jon: 17 years for me, this is a fox news alert. the senate is voting right now on a matter related to the extension of unemployment benefits in this country. as you height know, about 1.3 million americans saw their unemployment benefits expire at the end of december. the senate is voting now on whether to extend them. it doesn't look like it's likely to happen. they need 60 votes to make it happen. so far they only have 57. two republicans voting with the democrats to get this done. right now they're in the middle of a cloture