fool's. and we will all be together perhaps on april fool's day, easter sunday. watch out. there we go. >> that to look forward to. >> and we'll be together tomorrow at 1:00 eastern. new york takes it from here. it's a working weekend for president trump as he gathers the gop congressional leaders at camp david. the president and his inner circle discussing how to advance their agenda and mapping out their strategy for the midterm elections later this year. happy new year by the way. hello. it is a happy new year. i haven't seen you. >> happy knew year to you, my friend. goods to have you with us. >> it's been a minute. >> i'm julie ban der ras. >> and i'm kelly. the president is also doubling down on his criticism of a white house tell all book describing fire and fury as fiction. speaking to reporters today he disputed any accounts that question his fitness for office.

>> i went to the best colleges, or college. i went to a -- i had a situation where i was an excellent student. came out and made billions of dollars. went to tell figure television n years was a tremendous success. ran for president one time and won. >> all right. rich hudson is live at the white house with more details. the president didn't mention it but he's of course an alum of wharton, one of the top business schools in america. reporter: he did mention both his professional life and his education and his intelligence and that was in response to really what is charges from michael wolfe's book in which he's saying those surrounding the president believe he's unfit for office. nearly everyone around the president believes he's unfit for office. this morning the president at camp david tweeted saying quote,

actually throughout my life two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. crooked hillary clinton played these cards hard and went down in flames. i went to successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try. i think that would qualify as not smart but genius and a very stable genius at that. now the reason the president is at camp david, he's meeting with republican congressional leaders there, his cabinet developing their 2018 congressional agenda, including budgeting, mail tear and immigration. and the president talking about daca. this is the obama era policy that kept those who were brought to the united states illegally as children, allows them to stay in the country. he wants congress to work on a long term fix. here's the president. >> we want the wall. the wall is going to happen. we want to get rid of chain migration, very important.

and we want to get rid of the lottery system. in addition to that we want some money for funding. we need some additional border security. these are great people and we need some border security. we need i.c.e. but we want to make sure that in terms of what we want -- and we want daca to happen. reporter: now the white house is asking congress to spend $18 billion on a border wall, between the united states and mexico, even though the president's campaign promise was to have mexico pay for the border wall. to that the president said in some way mexico will pay for it. there's international news coming out today. the president responding to north korea and south korea having a meeting next week. they're going to discuss the possibility of north korean athletes participating in the olympics in south korea next month. to that he says i hope they do and hi would love to see the discussions go far beyond the olympics. his aggressive tweets on the

reason behind north korea wanting to talk with south korea though there are the analysts who say what north korea is attempting to do is drive a wedge between the united states and south korea. the u.s. under secretary of state rex tillerson has been leading an isolation of pressure campaign to isolate north korea from the rest of the world economically and diplomatically. and now these korea. back to you. very busy day for the president of the united states. thanks for the update from the united states. meantime the russia investigation making headlines this sunday. two top senate republicans pushing for the justice department to launch a criminal investigation into christopher steele. he complied that trump dossier containing salacious and unverified allegations. jason chaffetz saying just how serious

when you actually make a criminal referral, then you're saying to the department of justice, we have seen the information, we have seen the evidence, we believe there is more than a probable cause to prosecute this crime. and so that is a whole other level. >> caroline is live from the washington bureau with more. hi. >> republican chuck grazl grassy says this is about a perceived double standard. trump campaign associates for prosecuted for lying to the fbi and same standard should apply to others. grassley and senator graham have writ an letter to the justice department saying they believe christopher steele nay have lied to investigators. a has dozen may juror american media outlets were briefed on the dossier for the election. steele was on the payroll of fusion gps whose cofounder former journalist glen simpson.

in the months leading up to the election, after know reports ran frowith the story, the project s funded by the clijton campaign. many republicans want to know if the dossier sparked the fbi investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> this all goes to how did this investigation into this collusion begin with law enforcement. what was christopher steele's role. who was he working with in the justice department of the fbi. >> but politico this. it's quote clearly another effort to take away attention from what should be the committee's top priority, determining whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the election and whether there was subsequent obstruction of justice. this is the first known criminal referral from congress as part of the russia investigation. >> thank you so much

so for more on this, let's bring in david french, senior writer at the national review and senior fellow at for joinin. let me get to one point real quickly and that was from senator dianne feinstein who said is this a deflection point for the republicans trying to distract fbi -- the fbi investigation and also the i mew truly because we haven't seen the actual evidence. but the fact of the matter is if senator graham and if senator grassley have made a credible referral for investigation, which right now we don't have any reason to believe that they haven't, what we're seeing is the even handed application of law. if the evidence is credible, if the referral is credible, you can do two things at once. you can investigate the legitimate issue you can also

investigate whether a part of the investigation was triggered by real by what was clinton opposition researcher. you can do them both at the same time. >> on friday evening both senators delivered that letter and classified memorandum for delivery to rod rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray. and it points to the u.s. section code of 1001 stipulating that individuals are prohibited from making false statement to the federal authorities of the united states. so obviously as we've seen from jason chaffetz, these senators believe they have discovered in their investigation that christopher steele potentially made false statement as we saw in our report from the reporter in washington that the distribution of claims from the trump dossier, that he authored -- so there seems to be a problem here. and what about the veracity of the claims within it. they're actually questioning all

of the facts in terms of who it went to, how it was distributed and how it was disseminated. >> right. from our limited understanding, because we haven't seen the classified memo, this isn't questioning whether the dossier is true or not true. it's requesting whether christopher steele was truthful when he described his media contacts about the dossier. and that's an interesting point of inquiry, because there, in fact efforts to at least get some of that dossier out into the public domain prior to the election. not only were people approached allegedly directly, but rumors of it were circulating widely throughout the media prior to the election. there's an interesting that how is it that this piece that was democrat funded opposition researcher began to be inject into the american political blood steam. >> and it just goes to more of -- more confusion, more

convoluted and more to investigate. senator glassily issued a statement that says this, everyone needs to follow the law and be truthful in their interactions with the fbi. if the same actions have different outcomes and those differences seem to correspond to partisan political interests, then the public will suspect that law enforcement decisions are not on the up and up. that's something to ponder. and then senator graham states after having reviewed how mr. steele conducted himself and how many stop signs the doj ignored in its use of the dossier, he says, quote, i believe that a special counsel needs to review the matter. the rule of law depends on the government and all who work on its behalf playing on the rules itself. he hopes that the department of justice will carefully review their letter and take appropriate action. now you're talking about another special counsel and also looking

into perhaps partisan politics that could be at play here. >> i think senator grassley's statement is spot on. the law applies to both sides equally. it's not the case that trump officials can be prosecuted for lying to the fbi but not people who are directly connected to the clinton world. the law applies to all of us. senator graham's statement i'm a little more skeptical. before we see a special counsel to examine this matter, what is the actual evidence here. what are the real substantial actual evidence based concerns that the current investigation mechanisms are inadds quait. that's what i want to see before i would agree a special counsel was appropriate. >> i have a feeling we'll see a lot of this very soon. david french, thank you. >> thank you have you noticed it's cold outside? i mean i know it's winter but this is brutal. bone chilling temperatures gripping the northeast this weekend. some of the coldest days in

quite a long time. a drone capturing snow falling in parts of pennsylvania where forecasters are predicting temperatures in the mid teens. and some northeast states are still digging out brutal winter weather blamed for at least 22 deaths across the u.s. brian is outside braving the elements right now. >> i don't think i wanted kelly to end an interview so fast in my life. it was a good interview though. it is so cold out here. the arctic blast hitting here at the bomb cyclone which lived up to its name in massachusetts. and now we're talking about brutally dangerously cold temperatures. in new england there is a windchill advisory for much of the northeast and the great lakes. take a look at the windchill temperatures right now, minus 9 in pittsburgh, minus 2 here in new york city. negative 10 in boston. that's the windchill. and this windchill advisory is in effect because places like new england, you're talking about a windchill from negative

25 to negative 40. it's the type of windchill that can cause frostbite in as little as ten minutes. now tomorrow in boston we could be seeing history made. not only in boston but across much of the northeast with some daily record temperatures being broken. tomorrow could be the coldest january 7th ever in boston. it's expected to be negative 4 in boston, the coldest ever was negative 2 back in 1896. and after this weekend boston will have experienced 13 straight days of under 32 degrees which would make the fourth longest streak in boston's history. and on top of all of that, we're talking about travel chaos right now, especially at jfk airport here in new york. a possible gridlock situation. the faa and the port authority working in tandem right now. there are people tweeting from airplanes at this moment stuck on the tarmac for five-plus hours. up to 20 hours without food,

without water and without access to toilets. apparently there are so many flights that have come in there are no gate access because of the storm and they're having trouble deplaning people. the port authority is bringing in mobile staircases and deplaning people on the tarmac and busing people off. it's a serious situation at jfq right now. here are some folks that we spoke with at dulles airport in d.c. >> we don't want pretzels and business cuts businespretzel.i i want my lugg. >> take a look at this video. this was taken by the mount washington observatory in new hampshire. this guy is blowing bubbles and you can see the bubbles freeze instantly. he's able to pick it up with his hand like a baseball. mount washington and new

hampshire is tied right now for the second coldest place on earth. that is tied with armstrong, ontario. at the summit of mount washington right now in new hampshire, it is minus 36. that's not the windchill. you're talking about a windchill of minus 80 degrees right now. not a place i would like to be. i would like to run back inside if you'll let me. >> no. i'm going to continue this. how cold does it have to be for the bubbles to freeze in air. >> i don't know. >> would you find out? i want you to blow bubbles at 7:00. i'm only kidding. >> make sure she joins you outside. >> she said he wants to get you a ho hot cocoa. >> it's brutal. >> see you later. all right. panic on a plane when passengers look out the window and see this. what caused the plane's wing to catch fire plus, the u.s. doubles down on its report of the iranian

people adds they continue to protest against the government. but what is the next step? more on america's best course of action in iran. but first, here's u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. >> the iranian people know the truth and we know the truth. they're acting of their own will, on their own behalf for their own future. nothing will stop americans from standing in solidarity with them.

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scary moments for passengers on an incoming flight from mexico to toronto as the plane was waiting to get to the gate, it was struck by another plane moving the other way. the collision sparking a fire on the wing of the second jet. passengers were then emergency s but no major injuries luckily have been reported. the incident now under investigation pro-government demonstrators rallying in iran today. the country's state run tv showing hundreds of people gathering in several cities waving iranian flags while chanting anti-u.s. and israel slogans. it follows a u.s. emergency meeting of the u.s. security

counsel to discuss antigovernment protests sweeping iran. here's nikki haley reiterating america's support of the iranian people. >> the iranian people will determine their own destiny and let there be no doubt whatsoever the united states stands unapologetically with those in iran who seek freedom for themselves, prosperity for their families and dignity for their nation. >> joining us to follow up on this kitty logan is live in new york with more. >> these rallies in phase of the government take place in several applieses at the same time today. now the first protest appeared in the north of iran, but they were in several places elsewhere too. iranian state tv say they're in direct response to days of demonstrations against the government. now the iranian government

reacted angrily about the meeting of the protests. it described the decision to call the meeting a mistake. but the ambassador nikki haley says it's put iran on notice. saying that the protests are a human rights issue. 21 people have been killed and up to a thousand were arrested since the antigovernment protests broke out on december 28th, last year. people first came out on the streets about the economy but they soon turned to anger, direct anger against the iranian government. and of course president trump has voiced his support for the antigovernment protesters, that these antigovernment protests have slowly started to fade, particularly after a crackdown of the iranian government and shutting down social media. >> thank you for more on this we go to ambassador dennis roth were a former special mie middle east

coordinate. thank you very much for talking to us. i'm confused as to a split. an apparent split in washington on how to deal with these protests. because the iranian people, of course, want us to get involved. but there are some in washington that prefer we stay silent. why the debate about what the u.s. government should or shouldn't do or shouldn't say? >> you know, i think it stems from this concern over will we look like somehow we're playing into the government's hands, the iranian regime's hands. because they're saying that everything that is happening that's against the government is understaninstigated by the u.s. it's a cia plot, saying we're behind it, we and the saudis maybe israelis. they've con injured up a story, it's a narrative they're trying to suggest as a way of deflecting any blame from

themselves as being a source of the problem in iran. there are some who feel that the more the u.s. is out there publicly, the more it plays into the hands of the iranian regime to suggest this is somehow all instigated in the outside. the problem is if we do something they'll say we're behind it. if we do nothing, they'll say we've behind it. we might as well stick to our principles. when people are on the streets peacefully protesting, when people this costing them, when iran is spending up to $15 billion in syria, it's robbing them. this frustration, this anger is genuine. we ought to be shining a spotlight on it without having too much expectation that we'll be the ones to determine the outcome diswhr you hit the nail on the head. the amount of money that iran is spending in syria, that alone should prompt the u.s. to want to deal with iran more seriously

than they have in the past. in 2009 the obama administration chose to stay out of a wave of protests. many would why wouldn't the u.s. want to denounce the corruption and brutality of the iranian leadership. >> i think we do want to do it. i was part of the obama administration at a time. i was part of the decision-making process as well. we were getting messages at the time from the green movement within iran saying keep a lower profile because we are the ones who created this, not you. now in retrospect i think we were wrong. i think in fact what we should have been doing is we should have been creating a standard for the well. we should have been in a position to where what we were doing would have contributed to the europeans doing it as well. we should have done it not only because it was a source of reassurance to the iranian people, but it's a reminder to the government that they're not able to do this with impunity. we want to raise the cost of what they're doing to their

people and to people on the outside. their own public is frustrated right now, producing a reason for us to call more attention and be very specific. what they're spend in syria, what they're spending with his buhisbehezbollah. >> many are calling on president trump to bring on the return to iran democracy fund and congress should immediately pass. and i want your pass on this -- emergency appropriations at the level originally requested by president bush. would that make any difference? >> well i think it would help. i don't think we should have any illusions that that's going to be decisive one way or the other. again, no one should think that we will determine the future of what's going on in iran. what nikki haley was saying was quite right. they'll be the ones who will ultimately determine their destiny but we're prepared to stand with them. we shouldn't be egging them on

to do something that we're not going to be there. but we should be ensuring that others are also focused on the human rights abuseses abuses, oe focused on what iran is doing in the region to destabilize the region. the more we do that, the more the europeans will have to join with us. the key is the more collective the response will be, the more certain we can isolate the ie rain jane regime and raise the cost of what they're doing. >> great to see you as always. thank you. >> my pleasure. flu season hitting the u.s. even harder than usual with more outbreaks and severe symptoms, how you can protect yourself and your family still ahead. plus, the trump administration giving new details on the border wall with mexico. details on that next. >> we want daca to happen. i think i can speak for everybody. we want john cornan from texas.

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we want the wam. ait goes toinwall.it's going toe not going to be daca. we want to get rid of chain migration and the lottery season. in addition to that we want some money for funding. we need additional border security. these are great people and we need border security, we need i.c.e. >> president trump touting his immigration plans after asking congress for $18 billion over the next decade. kara tenney has more from the washington bureau. >> this is the first detail blueprint we have of the trump

administration's vision of the southern border wall and it calls for a major expansion of border security. "the wall street journal" view a copy of the document and reports the first phase of the plan would cost $18 billion, take ten years to complete and include more than 700 miles of new and replacement barriers along the southern border. the document lays out the changes to immigration policy that president trump has demanded to be included in any deal to address daca and allow the dreamers to allow in the country. >> the wall is going to happen or we're not going to have daca. we want to get rid of chain migration very important and we want to get rid of the lottery. we need money. these are great people. need i.c.e. but we want to make sure in terms of what we want -- and we want daca to happen. >> democrats are slamming the administration's plan for a border wall, including senator

dick durbin who says the president may be pushing congress toward a government shutdown with the latest proposal, adding it's outrageous that the white house would undercut months of bipartisan ervets by putting its wish list plus an additional $18 billion of wall funding on the backs of these young people. several items not included in the administration's plans are what kinds of barriers or walls will be used, where along the border the initial phase will be built and how the white house plans to make mexico pay for it. >> thank you. kelly: for more on this topic, let's bring in our panel. francisco hernandez is an immigration attorney, mark is a director at the center for immigration studies. hi to both of you as well. this is a very tough situation. and as you look at daca going forward, many people are wondering how this will all turn out. because you have a lot of people who are upset that it's happening in the first place and

then you have those who are saying something has to be done about 350,000 people in this country. and so where do queue see this s lining up with the trump administration, the republicans and democrats trying to find some bipartisan support from it. >> guys, the first problem is why is the tail wagging the dog. why does congress need to know what president trump will accept or not accept. he has a veto power. take him on. the president keeps on taking congress and congress just backs down. who cares what he wants. who cares what the list is. in fact just tell him, he can start buildin building the wall. we're going to have to legalize 100,000 mexican to build it right anyway. kelly: to his point, congress has to find agreement to come up with a plan to move the daca situation forward. >> yeah. but see the way this debate has been structured or understood is that somehow the president is

just making up these things that he wants like a horse trading in exchange for letting the dacas, giving them a real legal amnesty instead of the unlawful one that obama gave them. but actually his demands are connected to the amnesty. every amnesty has two effects. it draws new illegal aliens in the future and it results in chain migration a few years down the road as the amnesty people start sponsoring their relatives. so you need to deal with those two things. the president is talking about the wall to deal with the future illegal immigration. i'm not sure the wall is going to be the most effective way to do it but that's the point of that. and he's saying we need to have chain migration ended. kelly: as well as the lottery system. he's not just talking about using the wall or building the wall for illegal immigration but also to keep out illegal drug activity because he says that drugs have run ra rampant in ths

country and something needs to be done. for the president to get what he wants, will the democrats have to give in on some of the conditions that he's calling for, particularly that $18 billion wall which he says that mexico will pay for in some way? >> well, it's francisco by the way. kelly: i'm sorry. >> i've been called worse. why do the republicans need to talk to the democrats. yes, it's good to be bipartisan but they have a majority. use it and make trump veto or propose his own legislation. but the president -- kelly: but you're saying that as if the republicans and democrats will find a way to put something together to present to the president. do you think that will happen? already democrats are outraged over the fact that the president is still asking for an $18 billion wall and he's questioning them saying, who is going to pay for this. >> who cares. we tried to build one in 2002.

the point is the democrats can come up with an offering as well. we tried it under president obama to have the gang of 12, i think it was called. they had a pretty good proposal but it died based on politics. let's sitting there waiting for the president to give a green light before they ever begin negotiating. i think he's whipping them in negotiation. they're not even getting him to the table yet guys. kelly: mark, let me get you in before we go. how do you see this ending? >> the reason they need tom democratic by-in is only because the senate, because of this filibuster rule, they can't pass things with 51 votes. most things need 60 votes to pass. but i don't actually understand why the here's the money for the wall. if they think it's uneffective fine, say here's your money, give us the amnesty. i think he would go for it. kelly: i agree with you.

>> the democrats are not pursuing their own goals effectively because they're so crazed about the president and not letting him have this wall which i think wouldn't be as effective as the president thinks but it would be a lot more effective than the democrats and others are claiming km mark and francis, we got to end it there. this is a discussion we'll be talking about for a long time, until some remedy has been applied, particularly for 850,000 people whose future is up in the air right now because congress has not acted. the president is asking to act. butbut we'll have to see how muh compromise we find in washington. thank you both. >> thank you. thank you. >> calling for attorney general jeff sessions to step down as house republicans renew their scrutiny of special counsel robert mueller. what happens next in the russia investigation. our panel is on deck to debate. >> there's been no collusion.

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kelly: sad news from nasa today. confirming the death of legendary astronaut john young. young died friday night at his home in houston. young was the only nasa astronaut to go into space as part of the gemini, apollo and space shuttle programs. also the first to fly into space six "the new yor times and the o walk on the moon. young was 87 years old. julie: so so how republicans are putting renew pressure on attorney general jeff session to step down, citing the justice d. president trump is saying the focus is shifting from the trump campaign to the democrats.

>> i guess the collusion now is dead, because everyone found that after a year of study there's been in collusion. there has been no collusion between us and the russians. now there has been collusion between hillary clinton, the dnc and the russians. julie: here to debate, former dnc deputy press secretary and beverly hall berg, fellow at the conservative think tank, the i'. house republicans intensifying their assault on robert mueller once again and the latest here with the two lawmakers essentially calling for jeff sessions to step down. would that. if it were to happen, clear the way for trump to then fire mule center. >> i think that there is potential. but here's the reason why there is concern to begin with. the lack of evidence of collusion isn't because of a lack of investigation. there have been now six investigation against trump. and yet they have found nothing. this is more than what we saw

with the 30,000 missing e-mails from mil hillary clinton, more n benghazi. yet there's no proof. so how much more time is needed especially when taxpayer money is being used to try to figure out whether or not anything there is there. julie: i've lost track. i think they've had about seven months and no collusion yet. although investigators do hold all of their evidence, their information close to the vest until it's time. it's sort of like until you get to time obviously you don't expose what they've got. but it doesn't seem they have much regarding collusion. but friday lindsey graham and charles grassley both asked the department of justice to open a criminal investigation into the author of the dossier, christopher steele. how do you think the department of justice handled this shadowy document which prompted the russia investigation in the first place? >> the reality is the attempt by the republican to do this is

just american public. the investigation is not over. the investigation must continue. the fact of the matter is we're in a midterm election, 2018. the republicans are worried that this investigation continues, they're going the lose the house and might lose the senate. we have to remember that robert mueller, who many republicans have praised in the past, he's looked into ivanka trump and donald trump jr., we continue to get closer to the oval office and the president doesn't like this. and the republicans don't help them out doing the thing that at the end of the day we don't know if there ask collusion with russia. we got to wait and see. julie: the dossier, beverly, has become a key weapon in republican attempts to undermine the probe. >> we have to find out more. i'm glad there are subpoena to

find out more freedom house caucus, came out and say that the attorney general kneads to step down, it seems that the "the new york times" gets more details than congress gets in these hearings. there are so many leaks aen we need your attorney general to make sure that no investigation, no details are being compromise and sent to reports. i'm wondering if there was a bad precedent set by james comey. that's what i would say with our attorney general. making sure that the informations, the integrity is upheld and that the leaks have stopped. julie: yeah, the leaks are bad but they do provide a lot of intelligence and it also sort of opens all of our eyes as to what is going on. jose, members of both parties, they're seeing potential, you know, for democrats to retake the house, republicans say this is their shot, this dossier is essentially going to give them the credibility they need to basically remain in power come

the midterm elections. who benefits from this dossier? >> look. at the end of the day, you know, republicans, democrats, we need to be -- if anything, we need to be worrying about americans and their issues. the american public is tired about hearing about the russia scandal. robert mueller needs to continue with his job. democrats have done well in virginia and new jersey. but time will tell. i think the american public, we've seen a precedent with approval rating, he passed one legislation in one year. we got to see. it's more the american public to judge come november. julie: all right. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. julie: kelly. kelly: flu season hitting with a venn glance with a recorvengean. what they're recommending next. >> it's possible that if the vaccine is not as effective

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kelly: have you noticed lately it seems like everybody, i mean everyone is sneezing and coughing around you.

you are not imagining things. it's actually going on. that's because flu season is especially intense this year. >> when my fever went up to 103, i knew it was the flu. >> vomiting, fever, ear pain, poddbody pain. i still have chills. kelly: will carr is live in los angeles with more. reporter: yeah, you and me both. this is setting up to be one of the worst flu seasons ever. according to the cdc, the number of people bogged down with the flu spiked over the past week. wide spread flu symptoms being reported across the board in 46 states, leading to 45 deaths, nearly 4,000 people have been hospitalized. the spread so large that some parts of the country are seeing a record number of cases. and in one days forcing a california hospital to set up tents for flu that

we just learned about yesterday from december 31st of this 12-month-old and we're all very sad. but this is a good reminder for all of us that we all have a role to play in terms of protecting us and the community and our loved ones from influenza. reporter: the elderly and kids are the most vulnerable when it comes to the flu ap and the cdc recommends everybody get a flu shot even though some say this year's vaccine may not be doing a great job when it comes to prevention. >> there is a mismatch this year and the vaccine is a little less effective than what it would be if it was a complete match. reporter: but think about this. flu season takes between december and february and can go as long as may. so we could have a long way to go. kelly: the weather doesn't help at all. thanks, will carr. reporter: not on the east coast.

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