nephew, william, sledding outside of minnesota. look at him go. and my nieces were joining him. they know what minnesota is all about. you still go outside and sled. right? shep smith is now reporting live. >> it's called, and -- it's cold. we cannot describe it. it's too cold. polar bears cannot take it. let's get to it. >> oh, nelly, it's cold! we're going to talk about it. extreme weather across the nation. the so-called polar vortex, there's a drinking game about that. bringing a deep freeze that some folks say they've never felt in their lifetime. so cold the polar bears cannot handle it. so brutal that an escaped convict -- this is real -- he went back to prison so he could be warm behind bars. we'll have more on him.

look how far this misery spreads. these are the low temperatures across the country. minus six in boston. i hate negatives. i like to say minimum news. minus six in new york. minus one in boston. buffalo, minus one. huh. auburn, real cold. the cold comes and covers the midwest down to south, and these numbers really don't factor in the wind chill. it's part of what forecasters call a polar vortex. scientists say the gray blob would normally hang over the north pole. whatever this is should not be where it is now, but over the north pole. instead it's planted itself over much of the united states. something that happens opposite every ten or 20 years or something like that. 190 million people feeling the freeze, but only if they're outdoors. officials report self deaths related to the weather, and we have been getting lots of pictures. i'll give you the slide show.

these are clearly firefighters. it's never good. this fire-fighting in the cold. they're in indiana battling a fire that the hoses were starting to frost over. the guy's beard is covered in ice. it's a rough day, and appears to me this man is about to murder this cow. i don't think there's a good time for cow murdering. if you can take the milk here or slaughter and it have the beef but this looks mean. i'm not sure what is happening. he is number 84. now i know he is actually a farmer who had to use an ice pick on a frozen pond so the cow could drink. snowy streets here. this man is cross-country skiing with trees. that's in st. louis. despite the warningses to stay inside he decided to ski down the road. news from the future. all right. and then polar bear, third time's a charm. they're built for this cold but it's so bad in chicago the zookeepers brought their one

polar bare inside. and then there's this guy. the guy over here. this guy is the one who escaped. he escaped from prison in lexington, kentucky and was wearing just his prison-issued khakis and jacket. ace the wind chill there reached 20 below, they say he walked into a motel lobby, told the clerk, please call the cops, i'm freezing and i can't take this anymore. turns out, warmer prison cell is better than freezing to death. and in iowa, so bitterly cold, fox news crew blew bubbles that froze. it also froze a banana as hard as a hammer, strong enough to ram a nail into wood. and because we've gotten through all of that we have team fox coverage to tell you it is cold. our meteorologist janice dean, the weather machine, is outside. are you cold? >> i'm cold. >> janice is cold. we have garrett in chicago. garrett, would you slide in? we lost him. this where is garrett used to be. >> oh, no. >> but garrett is so cold he has

turned into color bars. rick leventhal is in central new jersey. are you cold, rick? >> colder the longer you speak. >> good, i'll keep talking. garrett is coming in and outer over here. garrett, are you cold? >> cold enough that i can't stay here in one place. >> and a person i don't recognize -- oh, wait, it's ha. i've never seen her outside the building. your nose is running. welcome to reporterville. >> what is happening there lea? >> my nose is running, shep. it is really, really cold out here. you can see that probably because my face is becoming frozen. there goes my head. now, it is so cold here, think my friends in san diego are probably laughing at me as they're watching me do this live shot and my face continues to freeze. i have this handy gadget, and it's been telling me the wind

chill, and it's been hovering at -- feels like it's minus seven degrees here. i'd hole it up but i think it would be blown out of my handle. this cold is clausing contracts conditions, causing delays and cancellations for passengers at airports across the country, including a lot of jetblue passengers. look at this video from yesterday. this video is when jetblue stopped all flights to and from new york and boston. they wanted to give the pilots and planes a rest. today jetblue restored their flights. still a lot of airline delays and cancellations yesterday and today. take a look at this graphic. you can see the airlines are doing better today. since yesterday, delays have dropped from 8,000 to just less than 3,000. and cancellations have almost cut in half from about 4,000 to around 2400. i just spoke with a family who had been on vacation in cancun.

they just finally got here back to new york after three days trying to return. they told me they delayed in cancun for three days and that was really feeling sorry for them when then explained their vacation kept getting better and better. >> it was bad. it really was. between the rain, the stomach virus, sitting in the cancun airport, missing the connection last night, getting up at 4:00 this morning to get back to dfw for our night, it was bad and the kids missed school for two days. >> this weather has impacted all forms of travel and caused some pretty bad accidents. like this spinout in chicago. illinois is just one of many states with dangerous road conditions. trucks and cars have been sliding off roads into snowy ditches, and having a lot of extra work for tow truck

drivers, highways have been cold, and making walls of snow to deep drivers out of unsafe areas. and for 500 people, they were stuck on trains last night, three trains headed to chicago got stuck and those people had to spend the night on the train. they were saying that the conditions there were quite like a five-star hotel. take a listen. >> they gave us a little plop of food and that was it. they said we're going to comp you some food. it's like, thanks. we've been on here for 17 hours. >> you just heard it from that particular passenger. not good conditions even considering the weather. it was pretty bad on the train. >> who told you to stand outside? >> i'm not going to call anybody out here. >> i am. i think it was ken, and ken is fired. you look freezing. please go indoors now. to summarize the previous report, it's cold. some families across the midwest and the south are dealing with the builter temperatures without any power. that's troublesome.

officials report tens of thousands of customers are in the dark. the company that runs the power grid for the mid-atlantic, midwest, and south, are asking customers to conserve electricity. let's get to janice dean. on the coldest day of the last ten years we sent her outdoors. is it cold, janice? >> very cold. i would like to make like the polar bear and go inside. how about that? let's take a look at the records we broke this morning across the northeast and the mid-atlantic and parts of the great lakes region. minus 14 in michigan. detroit, michigan. actual air temperatures, not wind chill. set a record in new york city central park. it was 14 degrees in austin texas. six in atlanta, georgia, toledo, minus 14, four in philadelphia, nine in raleigh, mobile, alabama, 13 degrees, record low for you. the current wind chill continues to be very cold for our friends in canada, moving down towards

the great lakes and upper midwest. feels like minus six in new york, but that's nothing compared to minus 22 in fargo and minus 13 in chicago, which is a warmup from yesterday. looking at the forecast wind chill, we're going to continue in the subzero temperatures -- or the wind chills for the next several hours, and tomorrow, still in single digits, maybe the teens tomorrow, by wednesday, shep. >> to summarize, it's cold, going to get warmer, and if you need the weather, it's always available in your phone, so i heard. janice, please go inside. >> i'm going inside now. >> you and your blue smurf self. all right. so, we continue the theme. how long until it warms up? hello, june? we'll be back. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up.

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12 minutes past the hour in new york city, where it's code. some retired new york city police officers and firefighters lied about health problems after the attacks in 9/11 to get millions of dollars in federal disability benefits. the detroit attorney call the scam one of the biggest social security ripoffs of all time. prosecutors say organizers coached city workers who appeared disheveled during interviews and say doctors

evaluated the workers to be mentally disabled and incapable of doing any work. the prosecutors say at the same time the suspects were post-pictures of themselves on, all together now, facebook, one riding a jet ski, another works as a martial arts instructor, prosecutors say the scam went on for 26 years, and retirees collected at much as $50,000 per year. totally more than $400 million in benefits. one attorney for the suspect tells our local fox station that his client did what he thought was right, and followed the rules of the social security administration. dan shore is a former yonkers, new york, inspector general and worked on fraud cases and theft cases like this. a professor as well at fordham law school. this might be the first thing thing facebook did. >> social immediate gentleman and facebook leads to so much 'information that is relevant.

people looking to shied michigan posting them -- >> we call them more rones. >> -- morons. 26 years this has been going on. >> pension fraud, disability fraud, not shock sho canning it's exist, shocking it's among law enforcement and it's important not to tarnish the reputation of those who risked their lives and are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. >> that's the effect of this. point here. seems when you do something like this, it is an affront to those who put themselves -- i was down there, and anybody who went into that pile of rubble is a hero, and anybody who is taking money from those that went into the pile of rubble and doesn't deserve it, they're the opposite of that and should be dealt with harshly. >> the organizers are facing grand larceny in the first

degree, which means up to 25 years in prison. the rest are grand larceny second. most of the money is probably sent and not saved because it's a pension over many years. >> you don't get blood from turnips. >> a possible plea bargain may involve some kind of restitution but what money is available is unclear. >> you wonder if -- can you sentence one to do some sort of work in exchange for your bad deeds. >> you can enter judgment against someone for an amount of restitution corks when they do earn money they have to pay that money back to the government they took the pension with fraud from. but once again, where are these people going to earn enough money? there's millions and millions, maybe tens or hundreds of millions at stake here. >> is the thinking here that this is all of them or is this a surface scratch? >> according to prosecutors there's mow out there. that may be hubs more out there. 100 were indicted today but they believe this is even more

widespread. >> the way you find out, head to facebook and twitter and instagram. >> and also talking to the ones indicted now, maybe they'll talk about others involved in this kind of scheme. >> do they have the manpower to do that? seems like this is worthwheel. >> i'm sure they'll pursue it, enough that it's so big. they'll want to see how extensive is the scheme and how many other people are involved and not just something? new york. pension fraud exists all around the country. >> dan shore, good to see you, thank you. >> the lawmakers in d.c. are cold and they're wrangling over an issue, whether to extend benefits to the long-term unemployed. some people are saying the extra benefits could hurt our economy. we're live in d.c. with the results of a crucial vote. plus, we're getting a look now at some explosive surveillance video. we'll show you what happened right after the car took out that gas pump. dream on, and stay warm, because

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>> some dramatic video. not one but two big crashes on camera. the first one involving a tractor-trailer in salt lake city. this was captured on dash cam. big rig cut across the highway, plowed into a traffic divider. officers say the driver was not hurt. and that he told them that the patrol car's emergency lights distracted him. it's the cop's fault. he says that's when he drifted and overcorrected and lost control. this happened last month. in massachusetts -- uh-oh, accidently hit the gas instead

of the brake. gee. before he plowed into a gas station attendant and knocked over a pump. caused a fire. the attendant is in the hospital. police say he will be okay. the guy behind the wheel is 83. so far he is not facing any charges and says he feels pad beside the whole thing and will consider giving up his license. >> well, the fight to extend unemployment benefits for more than a million americans, about 1.3, has taken a crucial step forward today on capitol hill. a bill to renew the long-term jobless benefits that ran out last month, narrowly passed the first vote in the senate. the white house is backing the measure to extend the expired aid for three months. they've been doing it year to year and they're like, give it three more months. the vote was originally set for yesterday but some members couldn't get back to d.c. because of -- it's cold. we confirm third earlier. shortly after today's vote, president obama spoke about the importance or extending unemployment insurance.

>> this insurance helps keep food on the table while dad is sending out real estate mays. helps mom pay the rent why she is learning new skills for the new job. provides the extra bit of security so that losing your job doesn't mean that you have to lose your house. where everything you worked so hard to build for years. >> but republicans are saying, unemployment insurance is holt nat we need. >> if you look at the states that cut it back, they've lowered their unemployment rate and increased job formation. so there's a debate economically whether this is an incentive that is -- is a disincentive to work or help people. i want to help everybody that needs help but i want to incentivize them to help themselves. >> disincentive to work. a handful of g.o.p. senators helped push the bill closer to the president's desk. how hard did the president wish

congress today? >> i can confirm it's cold and i can confirm the president has been working the phones and calling republican senators like susan collins of maine, who have been sitting on the fence, whether to support this. the white house believes he was persuasive. there's more work be to done if you take a step back, we saw this kind of battleline for the mid-term elections becoming more clear. what the president's approach and democrats approach will be, we're standing up for the middle class. he appeared at the white house with people who had been long-term unemployed and said republicans want to add strings to the legislation and says hair not helping these people. here's his case. >> i think the american people are really looking four in 2014 is just a little bit of stability. let's just do the common sense thing. let's do what is right.

we're going to have to see action, though, on the part of congress. >> the strings that republicans want to add is they basically say there should be some budget offsets to pay for these benefits. about $6 billion. the white house insists there shouldn't be offsets bass they call it an emergency situation and say that under previous presidents of both parties, this has been pushed through without it being paid for. >> so it's all politics. not surprising. but a lot of hurdles politically speaking. >> has to go through the senate, and some senators say they want to give budget offsets before they give it a stamp of approval. then it has to get through the house, and speaker john boehner is saying in addition to dealing with unemployment benefits he wants to see more jobs plans so there's not as many people suffering from long-term up employment, and meanwhile the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, says all of this need to help people on long-term

unemployment suggests the president's previous economic policies have failed. >> record numbers of long-term unemployed. record numbers on food stamps. people losing their healthcare plans. others seeing the premiums shoot up when they can least afford it. and now, another call, one more call, for a government fix. >> senator mcconnell reached into his campaign playbook and tried to add an amendment that would delay the individual mandate on the healthcare law by a year. that was pushed aside by harry reid. >> new year but the same old stuff. i. >> that's right. same argument, same playbook on both sides. >> happy new year, ed, who confirmed it's cold there at the white house. workers in one part of the country say it's so cold outside they're working overtime to deliver heating oil to homes. they say emergency calls are flooding in and a lot of customers are senior citizens. >> we have no choice. we have to work hard to keep our customers warm.

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continuing coverage of, it's cold. it's making millions of people terribly miserable and sinking temperatures to record lows in dozens of cities. let's take another look across the country. a nonprofit ambulance service outside detroit has been delivering food and warm clothes to people in need in minneapolis, schools are closed for a second day in a row. in minneapolis the schools are closed. at least one business is letting employees bring their kids to the office which is making for a wonderful scene for everyone. so the south, got cold enough that this fountain froze over in north carolina. farmers 20 miles east of tampa, florida, have been scrambling to protect crops from the cold. folks down south are not facing the same dangerously cold temperatures as people in the north, unless they dent have heat, and then they have a problem. garrett has been outside in chicago for the better part of two days days and is still brea.

how are you? >> after those two days i still haven't gotten feeling back in my feet yet. other than that i'm doing pretty well. i've been watching j.d. today. been having this little dance going on to keep the blood flow going. across the city people aren't walking the same. you see people with a little bit more pep in their step. with this wind chill, the chicago river is still frozen over from yesterday to get the steam off the water. we just reached over zero degrees for the first too in 40 hours. so we are over that, but with the wind chill it feels like it's negative 20, and that's all across the midwest. it is still brutal to be outside. just after ten minutes you lose feeling in your feet. it hurts to breathe. your legs start to shake without even you realizing it. so, really, over the next couple of days it's going to warm up, but these wind chills are going to continue, and that's why they're asking people to stay

indoors, and not go out unless they need to, because it is still extremely dangerous. st. paul, minnesota, regence hospital, had a record number of patients come in with cases of frostbite. just from yesterday alone. >> frost bit me, too it was not pleasant. garrett is live in chicago. it's very cold there. some folks still need to work outside in the cold. that includes people delivering heaty oil to homes. in the northeast, many people use heating oil, including in some place called carterrette in central new jersey. rick is there. ricky. birthday boy. how are you out there in the freezing? can you confirm it's cold? >> i can confirm it's colder in carterrette than in antarctica today. but people still have to work outside, even on days like this and that includes steve, who has been delivering fuel for long horn hail and has been work

overtime since before new year's eve, a lot of emergency calls from customers who realize their tanks are either empty or about to run out. >> three or four in an hour. depends how far apart they are. maybe a few minutes at each house, but driving around, three or four in an hour. >> so you have a chance to warm up in the truck. >> oh, yeah, it's a sanctuary in there. i rub it to when i'm done to try to thaw out. >> steve says he loves his job in the summertime but on days like this, not so much. >> not so much. rick, i heard you making fun of the pronunciation of antarctica. how do you say it? >> i thought it was antarctica. >> that's how you say it. thought you were making fun there, use no, no, no,. >> okay. >> wasn't making fun. >> the tell prompter says i should say the following thing, he is not the only one working outside. >> that's right. we awe a mailman making his rounds, crossing guard. police and firefighters.

what about the sanitation workers? we got to get those guys props. at 8:00 this morning we saw a crew working very rapidly, moving up the block, collecting the trash from the neighbors. even though it felt like somewhere between negative 14 and negative 19. >> won't be here that long, but we got to work. >> face hurt at all? >> my fingers is numb. everything is it all right. >> how many layers. >> about four. >> four? >> yeah, i'm good. running around, getting the garbage, we all right. >> what about your face? >> we all right. we're used to it. >> i said negative, i should have said minus. any apologies. big rob had some advice for people. don't try this at home. but if you do go out, keep moving. don't stand in one place like we're doing. >> i would did he ever to nancy reagan on this matter. the next time kendall or jay or

one of the managers says, go out and stand outside in weather that will kill you, just say no. >> you know, shepard, we do this so other people don't have to. >> oh, rick, you are so kind in benevolent. the 54th? >> that's correct, sir. what about you? >> you know, pushing 5-0, bro. we used to celebrate birthdays together, but then it got cold. so, we stopped. rick, stand by just in case there are cold developments and then we'll come back to you periodically throughout the hour. >> we will. >> the five has requested you be on standby for them as well. it's very warm in "the five" studio, but fox newsen confirm rick i coal. >> for -- tips for anyone outside. doctors save if you get frostbite, -- back up. if you get frostbite, you should try to remove rings and other

jewelry because frostbite can cause serious swelling, preventing you from removing rings later that i would have to be cut off. they also say drinking alcohol will not warm you up. drinking alcohol will not warm you up. it can expand your blood vessels in your skin which can cool you down. do not rub your frozen skin either. you can rub it off. actually, experts say you should gently warm the area instead and, of course, see a doctor right away. we are so helpful. i'm not sure anyone would know, first of all, it's cold, or how to warm up without your friends inside the television box here at the three cable news channels. fox news can confirm it is cold. and even if cnn says it, too, still true. this year's winter olympics will be cold, and sadly will be missing one of the most important athletes. i love this chick and hoped she would be able to recover.

lindsey vonn took a bad tumble and had worked her butt off to get ready but announced she'll skip this year's olympics because of her right knee. she is spectacular. hurt her knee in crashes last year. she is 29. and did a posting on facebook today and said she is devastated to miss the olympics, quote, but the reality has sunk in that my knee is too unstable to compete at that level. man, that sucks. vonn's publicist said that vonn will be having surgery shortly. today is exactly one month before the opening ceremony in russia. lindsey, if you you're watching, keep warm. >> security in sochi just got tight. russian officials are deploying security guards and rescue workers for the game and deploying them from somewhere else so that's where it gets bad. at of today only vehicles ridge centered sochi or with. special passes are allowed to

enter the city. suicide bombings killed people last week, and some of the cops have been restationed into soap si and so the terrorists hit there. >> a bill ruling on a ban on gun sales. a federal judge says law is unconstitutional, part of it, but can stay on the books for now. this is chicago. a giant wave sending folks scattering. the question is, why is this wave not frozen? because, as you know, it is cold. too big.

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when did this happen? happened yesterday. some folks ran for their cars to escape the waves. reports indicate the water dragged the cars along the pavement and that some people got scraped up. >> federal judge has ruled that a key part of chicago's current gun law is unconstitutional. what part? the part of the law that said essentially bans the sale and transfer of firearms. supporters say it aims to cut down on the amount of gun violence that has plagued the estimate the judge ruled, and i quote, chicago's legislation goes too far in banning buyers and dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and sales of firearms. the government has a duty to protect the citizens and also has to protect constitutional rights. despite this ruling the law will remain in effect for now while city workers and city officials decide whether to appeal. tom is the executive editor and cofounder of real clear politics. tom, why does it matter?

you can get online and order whatever you want go to a gun show. why does this matter? >> this is because one -- sort of ongoing battles in big cities across the nation. d.c. had it in 2008, chicago pushed through a blanket ban a few years ago under the previous mayor, richard daley, to ban guns totally from the city, and they thought that would happen, and, look, folks found this is -- those kind of bans have gone too far, and impinges on second amendment rights. so your seeing gun rights advocates sue the cities, and in chicago they have been making gains. a number provisions of the ban have been rolled back. this is just the latest example. a. >> a lot of money behind the groups, too right? >> there is money behind the groups-but second amend advocates are passionate. >> no doubt. >> three of the folks in this current lawsuit were private citizens. one was a gun credibilitior, --

collector, and his argument was i legally own my guns and why shy be prevent from buying additional guns for my collection. >> is there reporting to suggest why the strict gun laws in new york city seem to have produced good results and violence crime ills at a low, and chicago is hat worsened? >> that is one of the things that folks have been struggling with to figure out why new york has had such a drastic reduction in homicides in chicago we had over 500 murders last year -- it's primarily gang-fueled, on the south and west side. and -- but again, we have seen a 20% reduction in homicides this year. mayor emanuel has hired a new police chief, they're doing different things from a policing aspect. they argue that gun control is a vital part of that. what the judge is arguing you can regulate the heck out of these guns if you want, and he

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there is breaking news now and we have just gotten corn -- confirmation of an enormous avalanche in east vail in colorado. backcountry. four people caught in the avalanche, one person confirmed to fox news has been killed and three others rescued in what is being described as nonlife-threatening injuries. according to local report from

the abc station who is citing the sheriff, and we have been working to contact them but their phones are busy. i want to show you. >> right here is downtown vail, and it's in east vail, and the rockie mountains. a lot of backcountry and ski resorts but we don't know the location. >> we have not told us how much ground the avalanche covered. >> we don't know that. >> we have some tweets. lillian heard from lots of people out there. >> first we got the one from colorado avalanche information center. they're saying it's large. >> they're never dramatic about that sort of thing. if they say it's a large avalanche, they're on point. they don't exaggerate. we follow them all the time. >> other reporters, clayton with cbs is saying the three are fine but are -- >> just promoted clayton to cbs. it clearly says --

>> abc, and then mark is a guy who is with fox 31, and he said five minutes ago they're taking camera crews down so hopefully we'll get more information and video coming in soon. and then keira is with the denver post, and unfortunately she says that the sheriff's office, like you said, is reporting one is dead. >> in i just got this from -- talking about the weather there. the temperature five to ten degrees. wind speed, 10 to 20-miles-an-hour. mostly cloudy. one to three inches of new snow. this is a -- had a very heavy base and a lot of snow on the mountain and it's my understanding there had been some advisories going out about dangerous conditions. a mighty sad thing. five to ten degrees on the slopes this afternoon. mighty cold for skiing. >> and a search and rescue. i'm glad they got them out. >> thank you, lillian, thank you, rob. neil cavuto will be along.

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>> the mother of an nfl player who shot and killed his girlfriend and then himself, says concussions gave her son mental problems. and now she is suing his then-football team. the year was 201. police say javon belcher opened fire on his girlfriend, who was cassandra perkins, at their home in kansas city. at the time belcher's mother was with the couple's daughter in a different room. after her son left she called 9-1-1. the former linebacker drove to the parking lot of the chiefs stadium where he shot himself in the head in front of his coach and others. his mother says he had multiple concussions and each case she said the chiefs did not provide the right care. so far there is no word front the kansas city chiefs. >> the niece of the fashion designer ralph lauren got too

rowdy on a flight and was charged with being drunk and disorderly flying from spain to new york. the plane made an unscheduled stop in ireland so police could arrest her. here she is after a hearing in ireland. the hearing was in a pub, not a courthouse, because that's where we're told that area of ireland does conduct court. because they don't have a courthouse. a police officer testified that lauren told the accusing officers to speak to her in english. apparently as opposed to english with an irish accent. i used to feel like this was a worthwhile venture. do you guys remember those days? there are days. not this one. on this day in 1927, the harlem globetrotters played their very first basketball game in linkley, illinois. the globetrotters were actually from chicago. this is before the nba and the

globetrotters games let lots of midwesterns watch hoops for the very first time. over the years the team would live up to its name, enter taping crowds and dozens of countries, but the harlem globetrotters first took to the hardwood 87 years ago today. and now you know it. want to talk more about the avalanche? any new information? deck hands? don't arch -- don't everybody speak at once. we know they had an avalanche in east vail. sadly somebody lost their live and three people were rescued, and that rescuers went out in five degree weather to do it. the dow has been steady. that green line tracks the flow of the day. this is 11:00, 1:00, noon, all eastern. the volume has gotten back up there. and all the doomsayers are proved wrong.

there's a time it can go down but not today. it only has 12 second left. and before we get away, i should -- we should update fox news top story. also we have been covering. fox news can now confirm, it can be told, it is cold. read it and leave-not the temperatures that are dropping but the price of everything else as a result that are soaring. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. after the shiver, now the quiver, because as the mercury goes down, get ready to pay up. heating bills soaring as the frozen records just keep breaking. four degrees in new york city. six degrees in atlanta. minus eight in louseberg, west. bitter cold, record cold in disney world, darn near freezing cold. so cold you want to see mickey? better pack a parka. that is if you can get to