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>> great speech, by the way. >> thank you. >> that young man that was crying, he did it better than me. i probably would be on the ground and helped out. >> dana: we're both about to cry. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. have a great weekend. here's shep. >> shepard: lots of news coming up at the top of the hour here on fox news channel. right now, it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 at the white house where president trump says he just finished personally writing the answers to some of robert mueller's questions. the president also talked to the "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace. he will join us lives. plus, the feds reveal a secret indictment against julian assange who released hacked e-mails during the presidential campaign. will he ever end up in an american court? and more than 600 people now officially listed as missing in california's deadliest wild fire on record. but the sheriff reminds us, some
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of them may not realize they're missing. reporting begins now. and our reporting begins with president trump. he said he just finished writing his answers to questions from robert mueller but has not yet turned them to investigators. the president insists he wrote the responses himself. >> my lawyers aren't working on that. i'm working on that. i write the answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i answered them easily. >> shepard: the president did not give details about the questions on his answers, this does mark a critical step after the long back and forth reported between president trump's lawyers and the special counsel's team. mueller is looking into moscow's meddling in the 2016 election and members of team trump and collusion and whether the president obstructed justice. so mueller has publicly entered in plea deals or indicted 32
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people and three companies. president trump says there was no collusion and no obstruction. rich edson reporting live. >> good an, shep. as expected, the president's attorney jay sekulow and rudy guliani will arrive here at the white house as he spoke this afternoon about the mueller probe at an oval office meeting or bill signing there. he said he's hearing the mueller investigation will soon end. this is the day after he referred to mueller saying he and his gang of democrat thugs have destroyed people and are a disgrace to the nation. he was asked this afternoon what he specifically prompted that outburst on twitter about robert mueller. he said it was nothing specific but only just a continuation of this investigation, which should have never happened in the first place. robert mueller's team has indicted dozens and gotten plea deals including president's former campaign manager, paul manafort. after the special counsel
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receives the answers, it's unclear how long it will go despite what the president saying thinking or hearing that it will end soon. >> shepard: rich, we got a decision today in the cnn case versus the white house and members of the white house team. >> right. a decision now, shep, in the hard pass or the white house pass of jim acosta has been temporarily reinstated by the white house. here's what the president had to say. >> you have to act with respect. you're in the white house. when i see the way some of my people get treated at press conferences, it's terrible. we're setting up a certain standard, which is what the court is requesting. always first amendment. but that's the way it is. we always have the option of just leaving. you know? we feel that things aren't being treated properly. >> the white house revoked their past last week for his refusal to give up the microphone in a
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press conference. cnn sued to get the pass back. fox news filed legal briefs in support of cnn. the federal judge declined to rule on the first amendment basis. he said that cnn will ultimate prevail. >> shepard: rule on due process and more to come. thanks, rich. fox news confirms some senate republicans are pressing president trump to replace his asking attorney general, matt whitaker as soon as possible. politco said it would help clear up concerns about interference in the mueller investigation hand calm the controversy that developed when the president got rid of his former a.g. jeff sessions and had whitaker take over. mike emanuel reporting live on capitol hill. >> shep, good afternoon. fox has confirmed the essence of that story. senate republican whip john cornyn spoke this week about the effort to find a new attorney general. >> this is a very important job. i think a lot of the questions involving mr. whitaker and the
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acting a.g. could be eliminated if we had a nominee and my understanding is the white house is starting to look into that. but i don't have any -- as i told you this morning, i don't have any indication of time line or who the candidates are. >> cornyn is not alone. james langford told politco that "it would be helpful to get moving so we can have that person in place as soon as possible. whoever will be there will have to make clear statements about what they intend to do on the special counsel. the sooner the better, let's get it resolved." a senate gop spokesman said much of the conference feels this way. john thune says that they will have the votes to confirm the next attorney general whether it's this year or 2019 assuming it's someone that is
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well-qualified, which thune expects the nominee will be. if the russian probe is still going, republican senators say there needs to be a commitment to protect him. >> i suspect that will be front and center during the confirmation hearing. there will have to be commitments made. the reason why this was not really an issue before is because the attorney general himself had recused from the matter and mr. rod rosenstein was appointed i doubt being inclined to be removed in an inappropriate way. >> republicans need to confirm another attorney general and any new trump cabinet members. >> shepard: mike emanuel reporting. president trump sat down with "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace. hello, chris. >> how are you, shep? >> shepard: i'm great. i want to ask you about it and
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release what our viewers can hear. we heard one item last hour and now this, a question on the wild fires, the tragic wild fires in northern california. listen. >> california. the purpose of your trip tomorrow. >> just to see the firefighters. nobody has ever seen what is going on over there. now they're saying there could be as many as 600. this just came out before we met. could be as many as 600 people killed. up by 400. it's incredible what's going on. burned i don't know recognition. they can't even see the bodies. it's incredible. i was watching the firemen the other day. they were raking areas where the fire was. they're raking trees like this -- not trees, bushes that you could see are totally dry. weeds. they're raking them. they're on fire. that should have been auld -- >> what about the argument -- >> what about the argument that
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it's climate change? it's dryer, it's hotter and that's contributing. >> maybe contributes a little bit. the big problem is management. when i was in a certain state, i won't say which, the governor said, you know, we've tested it. we clean out areas and we actually set the fire just to see. we lose almost nothing. we can put it out right away. then we leave areas unmaintained, he said we'll lose 100,000 acres before you know it. you need forest management. it has to be. i'm not saying that in a negative way. i'm saying the facts. i learned a lot. >> forest management. >> yeah, this is interesting, shep. as you know, when the fires first started, the president sent out a tweet that before it really was expressing a lot of sympathy with the people in california, he talked about poor forest management. there was a lot of opposition and criticism that the president should be focusing on the human
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tragedy. he's going california tomorrow to a couple places where he will meet with some of the people in the hardest hit areas but he wasn't backing off his argument that he says that there's a lot of underbrush and a lot of dead trees and bushes and that causes this. let me just say, this was not just an agricultural interview. we spent almost an hour with the president. we talked about the -- we talked about the acting attorney general, matthew whitaker -- >> shepard: what did he say? >> i can't tell you everything. it's my job to tease people to get them to watch sunday. we talked about that he talks about the khaishoggi tape and what is on that tape. >> shepard: does he know? >> very interesting with the relationships with saudi arabia going forward. we talk about the cnn decision. this was his first reaction before the clip that you just ran. we get into -- i think you'll be
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satisfied, a very spirited discussion about fake news and the argument that fake news is the enemy of the american people and then we talk about the criticism the president has taken about one failing to go to the cemetery in paris last saturday and also not going to arlington sunday. the president admits that he wishes he had a rare do-over. >> shepard: that is unusual. >> yes. it is unusual. he was in great form. you know, i threw a lot of tough pointed questions at him. he was in great form. answered everything. as i say, it's about 25 minutes. there you can see us walking in.
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foolish. >> shepard: have you noticed a real attention on the mueller investigation in his tweets and in his utterances lately suggesting, you know, even further potentially that it a hoax and he's saying that mueller is out of control and yelling and screaming at people? does he have any insight why that is coming at this moment? there's speculation out there. >> i don't. he says all of those things again, very critical of the investigation. i ask him, is there any chance now whether he will sit for an interview. he talkeds about the fact and said that he wrote the questions and they were edited by the lawyers. but they're his answers to these questio
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questions. i will say this. i don't think will ever sit for an interview with robert mueller? >> shepard: why do you say that? something that he said? >> yes. you can wait till sunday. >> shepard: i just wanted context and perspective. >> well, you got a little tease there. >> shepard: all right. how did he seem? you hear things, you know. >> well, it's interesting. i will say this. the first question i asked him. i said there's all these reports about the fact that you're sullen and angry and a cocoon of resentment and frustration. he said it's fake news. he talked about how unfair the reporting is on him. we also talked about his tone and how he could be more of a unifier. he has an interesting answer on
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that. >> shepard: i know what we have to do sunday. >> i was going to say, it's worth watching. >> shepard: watching it or dvr it. i'll be watching. >> shepard: thanks, shep. >> most always watch. sometimes it's a dvr binge and sometimes it's a watch. just depends what's up, chris. >> i understand that. >> shepard: as long as you watch it on the same day -- >> if you can do it, same day. that helps the ratings. appreciate it. >> shepard: i'll do that. i'm not a nielsen family for reasons. >> you might be. maybe you're hiding it. >> shepard: that would be against the rules. all right, wallace. take the rest of the day and tomorrow off because your show is a dent in the can now. let the people do it. >> we have more to do. jessica loker, she's a ringer. >> shepard: the one that got away. chris wallace, great to see you, sir.
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parking lot at the chico parking lot. there's a distribution center where evacuees can get clothes, food and water and a medical tent. all of it have been donated from people like raquel who spent it here at the walmart to buy things for the evacuees. >> we have sleeping bags, tarps, toiletries. a woman that lost her house. she's 27 weeks pregnant. she's in a tent back there. >> i have never seen so many people in my life seem people come together and help out like chico has. >> many local families have opened their homes to strangers. the need is great. time is of the essence. this shelter is about to slows down. they want it closed by sunday. rain is in the forecast for next week. the hope is that wherever these
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evacuees end up, they can stay through the holidays. back to you. >> shepard: thanks, claudia cowan. we go to southern california now. jeff paul reporting from malibu. >> yeah, more and more people in southern california being allowed to return to their homes. some people are starting to find this image as they pull into their driveway, that they lost everything. this particular home burned to the ground. several others in this malibu neighborhood the same thing. one of the images i find is this. you can see the garage door burned to the ground and two perfectly good cars there pushed down to the metal. we mentioned, some people are allowed back in. not everyone though. that is causing frustration. firefighters say it's too dangerous. we spoke with one man that refused to evacuate. here's what he had to say. >> no, i would say, you're better off not being here at this point.
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you have internet, you have restaurants you can go to. we're dependent on these people donating food to us. what is odd about the situation, money means nothing at this point. the rich and poor are equal. >> we're not only seeing a lot of firefighters in the neighborhood mopping up the hot spots. you can see the work crews, this is a staging area. they've been getting the electric polls that fell in the ground back up. we've seen gas trucks. they're trying to make it as safe as possible so when they start to allow a lot of the evacuated residents, close to 250,000 people, that when the they're here, that it's safe. shep? >> shepard: thanks, jeff paul. democrats are fighting to keep their hopes alive in some of the nation's oldest and closest mid-term races. and a long shot legal challenge in georgia's governor race. this food truck
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to the south in broward county, workers finished the manual recount this morning but missed the deadline for the machine recount by two minutes so they threw it out. peter doocy reporting live in lauder hill. >> shep, there's a big projector inside here where officials are putting up ballots trying to see what total strangers meant when they made certain markings on the ballot. some voted for nelson and scott and some drew extra bubbles. an overwhelming majority of the ballots hand-counted left the senate race blank. nobody gets to vote. it's harder for bill nelson to make up the more than 12,000 votes he needs to catch rick scott. the scott campaign doesn't think that's what the opponent is making the recount about anymore. bill nelson has served the country nor decades but the d.c.
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lawyers don't care about his legacy. all they do is care about changing the laws ahead of the 2020 presidential race. for nelson, there's no signs that he's dropping out. he's appealing to supporters for more money to continue the fight. part of his appeal said this about rick scott. . >> people can still come to polling places in florida to fix their ballots until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. that is something that was really big for the nelson campaign. just in case. they think a lot of their supporters messed up the signatures on the ballots. we'll see if it's enough. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy reporting live from palm peach county. he was in broward. let's go to palm beach county.
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phil keating is in riviera beach. >> breaking news her as well. you can see by the room full of empty tables that emptied five and ten minutes ago. teams of 22 people have finished going over roughly 6,000 ballots that were questionable on election day. so all that is left now of the manual count process is for the canvassing board in a small private room, they will go over those few ballots where the team could not decide what the voter's intent was. all of this is finally to get the election process once and done over here in florida. the question, 6,000 ballots in palm beach county. so that's been windowed down here. it's a process determining what the voter meant there as peter doocy was alluding to.
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in the florida senate race, still too close to declare. governor scott is ahead hoff bill nelson by 12,500 votes. well under the automatic trigger for the hand count. the campaign calls on nelson to end it all, his election and career and conceal. nelson is not doing it. it's tame for bill nelson to respect the will of the voters and graciously end and not another count of the votes that will bring more embarrassment to the state that we know and love. and ron desantis still leads gillum by 33,000 votes. gillum, that conceded once on election night and took it back a few days later, has not yet conceded a second time. he said a vote denied is just as denied in the state of florida
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must count every legally cast voted. also about 5,000 ballots statewide that had a signature that didn't match. a ballot signature that did not match the signature with the county. >> dana: a federal judge has given those people until saturday afternoon to resolve that and get their voted counted. shep? >> shepard: phil keating reporting from palm beach county. now georgia, the democratic candidate for governor, stacey abrams is still refusing to concede. she's running out of options. at last count, stacey abrams is more than 17,000 votes of forcing a run off. now there's word that her campaign is considering a legal challenge. steve harrigan reporting live from atlanta. >> >> shepard, we could see one of two very different results here in georgia in the next few hours. brian kemp might be certified by
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the state as the winner. right now he has about 50,000 more votes than the democrat, abrams. he said 50.2% in the polls in the election results. he would have to go under 50% to force a run-off election. so abrams would need to find about 17,000 votes. but abrams still has one more option. an extreme legal option. she could ask a judge to throw out the votes and call for a revote based on irrebel laterties and fraud. strong enough fraud that it would make a difference in to who won this election. this would be a high legal bar to meet, something that hasn't been done here and something that the abrams campaign has talked about but they haven't said they're going to do it yet. tempers and tones are really getting worse and worse as this drags on. we have had calls for concessions from kemp and from president trump and recently kemp said about abrams refusal to concede, he called it a temper tantrum.
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back to you, shepard. >> shepard: steve harrigan from atlanta. a full minute ago, we had a full screen that showed the governor candidate and it said that -- which was it? that andrew gillum in the florida race was the incumbent. there's no incumbent in that race. we regret the error. if you're not comfortable, it can be tough keeping track of your spending. presumably tougher when you're the pentagon. the department of defense has undergone their first audit. wait till you hear how that came out. it's next. this is important for people with asthma. yes. it's a targeted medicine proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, and lower oral steroid use. about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. fasenra™ is designed to work with the body to target and remove eosinophils. fasenra™ is an add-on injection for people 12 and up
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>> shepard: a mistake in a court document. reveals the justice department officials have prepared an indictment against julian assange. he's been living in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six years. he said he's trying to avoid
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extradition to the united states where he published classified documents. he's a key player in robert mueller's investigation. the special counsel team is looking into whether members of the trump campaign knew in advance that wikileaks was going to publish the hacked democratic e-mails weeks before the 2016 presidential election and whether wikileaks got the information from russians or it was of or by the russians. president trump said there's no collusion with russian. catherine herridge reporting live from washington. >> the disclosure about the head of wikileaks is buried in this paperwork. a counter terrorism researcher struck belled across two references about julian assange and the need to keep the indictment secret. it said --
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>> assange remains in london unable to leave for fear of arrest. he's been under scrutiny since 2010 and the release of cables an more recently of clinton e-mails in 2016. julian assange said they have heard nothing about indictments. he said it would set a terrible and dangerous precedent, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge. during the election, candidate trump did a lot of praising of julian assange. >> yes, he did. after the election, mike pompeo accused wikileaks of high crimes including espionage. >> wikileaks walks like a
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hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service and encouraged their followers to get jobs at the cia and give away intelligence. it's time to call them what they are. a hostile intelligence service. >> earlier tomorrow, a cnn contributor, highlighted the apparent conflict. >> you have a candidate for the president of the united states calling for the assistance, using the information from, praising an institution that the man he chooses to be his cia chief, calls a hostile intelligence service. >> we know through our john going reporting that the obama administration considered charges but was cautious about assange and whether wikileaks qualified as a news organization but worth noting the trump administration has taken a much more aggressive tone and it does appear now that they filed charges against him, shep. >> shepard: catherine herridge
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reporting live from washington. nancy pelosi is fighting to return as speaker of the house now that the democrats are about to take over control. her supporters say she helped to make that happen. during the campaign, dozens of democratic candidates have said that they would voted against her for speaker. nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the house in 2007 and analysts say she's favored to win the spot again. she met with one of her possible challengers today. the democratic congresswoman marsha fudge of ohio who says that she will announce if she's running sometime after thanksgivi thanksgiving. chad pergram reporting live live from the hill. >> shep, marsha fudge has been a congresswoman for ten years. a congressional chief of staff, a mayor and pretty clear as to why it's time to move on from nancy pelosi. >> she's been a great leader for us, she's been a wonderful speaker, minority leader. we need sold change.
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we ran on change and we should have change. >> when you talk about change, tim ryan, democratic congressman from northeast ohio, challenged nancy pelosi two years ago. he's a marsha fudge ally and he says we'd have to protect those members that ran on change. i want to read something to you. time ryan said "there may be a florida flight. i don't think anybody would be interested in blocking the first african american to be the speaker of the house. tim ryan said we have to protect the freshmen that campaigned that they wouldn't vote for nancy pelosi." one of them is matt ryan. i asked him if there was an ask that he had, a tran actional question there. he said no, the only thing i skid for is coca-cola and i got some dark chocolate. there's one factor here, shep, that may work in nancy pelosi's favor. carol mcmillen said events are important. there could be a big event like
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when the government runs out of money. if they go into a shut down, this is her chance to say these are the types of things we're fighting for. shep? >> shepard: chad pergram reporting. the pentagon got $700 billion of your tax dollars last year. you wonder how the military spends that money? you can keep wondering. for the first time ever, accountants did an audit of the pentagon and the short version, the pentagon failed. apparently some of the accounting problems could take years to fix and cost millions more dollars. jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon. >> since 1990, the pentagon was to undergo an audit. last december, jim mattis ordered the first ever audit.
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the headline is that the pentagon failed this first ever audit. patrick shanahan said that is beside the point. we failed the audit but never expected to pass it. everybody betting against us that we wouldn't even do the audit. it found inventory discrepancy that the pentagon thought they owned buildings that they no longer owned and noted that they needed better cyber security. the audit cost $14 million and used by 12 auditors. they examined 2.2 billion in assets. the chairman of the house armed services committee, congressman mack thornbury should not be an
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excuse for cuts. >> so far, there's no finding of fraud or any of that sort of thing. mainly the problem is that one set of financial or accounting systems cannot talk to another. i think the biggest surprise may be that the pentagon does not actually own as many buildings as i thought it did. >> this audit is a good start at finally being accountable to the taxpayer, shep. >> shepard: jennifer griffin reporting live, a pair of announcements from north korea. and a dad that pleaded guilty to killing his family also had a girlfriend on the side. now she has something to say. managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. once daily tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. tresiba® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes.
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. >> shepard: perhaps some mixed messages coming in from the north koreans, if you can imagine it. the regime announced they will released a detained american citizen. that came on the same day that
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kim jong-un observed a successful weapons test. wait, no testing. the reporting from our senior foreign affairs correspondent, greg palkot. >> yeah, good news and bad news. according to north korean state media, kim jong-un observed a testing of what they called a newly developed tactical weapon. probably not a missile or nuclear weapon. the first time that he's observed any kind of military testing. at that time he was watching a missile that could hit the united states. not quite in the spirit of the summit with kim and trump. this amid word that there could be another summit next year. now to that better news. a few months after the release of three americans held by north korea, pong yong announced that they were deporting an american citizen that allegedly crossed illegally into north korea from china a month ago. just in the past 20 minutes, the
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associated press agency quoting an official saying that that american is on a plane hitting back there at least north korea, shep, is turning over the people faster than it has in the past. we're waiting on more details. back to you. >> shepard: greg palkot reporting live. a man headed to prison for killing his wife and two daughters apparently had a mistress. she has a story to tell. trace gallagher has more. >> shep, the mistress is 30-year-old nicole kissinger. her lawyers say she spoke to the denver post so the world will know the truth and doesn't plan to speak again. she told the post that she and watts worked in the same industry. she said he made me believe that he was doing all the things that
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a rationale man and good father would do. about 1 1/2 months into their relationship, she said christopher watts texted her saying his family was gone. saying his wife took the kids on a play date and disappeared. tv news trucks started showing in. she learned his wife left her wallet and purse behind and that they were still married. that's when she contacted police saying "i just wanted help with a pregnant woman and two children missing, i was going to do anything i could." he said "i thought if he was able to lie to me and hide something that big, what else was he lying about." she said christopher watts story began changing and she told him she would not see him again until his family had been found. she says since the day he was arrested, she never doubted that he killed them saying he's a liar and lied about everything. shape? >> shepard: trace gallagher. they had been predicting yesterday's snow since the
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>> shepard: a snowstorm made for commuting a hell scape, especially in new york city where we ought to handle a foot of snow. they got the most snow on record in the state, in the month of november, 6 inches in central park. we're still more than a month away from the official winter, this is the cover of the "new york post," our parent company. this is the port authority terminal, which they had to shut down because hell scape. look at the scape. if you're going to jersey on a bus, 40 million buses go in and out of this crazy, terrible place called the port of authority and new york and new jersey. it's by all definition terrible, horrible on any day of the year. yet yesterday, oh, my gosh. they had to shut it down because they couldn't get the buses outs. people sat on the buses. it was hell. the main bus terminal, they
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kicked them out. they shut down the george washington bridge because of a 25-car pile-up. where with the plows? the mayor said the plows were out. i was out. i didn't see no plows, at least not when it was snowing. later, yeah. there were some trees down. anyway, more images. new yorkers mad today. like come on! it's snow. get it up. some people and a police officer pushing a car out of the snow in mount holly new jersey, 20 miles east of philly. trees came down, crashing on cars all over us in new york city. we have a lot of trees here. folks say the commute took hours and hours when i -- this is morristown, new jersey, outside the city. sad face on the car. the kids didn't have school. they weren't sad. some of our people had to stay in hotels because they couldn't
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get to jersey. in d.c., workers cleared the snow in the capitol. oxford, yeah, we had snow. new york ought to get it up. the panda at the smithsonian national zoo had some fun. bebe rolling in the snow. rick reichmuth live. for new york, it was a lot. six inches, that's a lot. >> give me credit for showing up to work. no doubt, we got it wrong. it happens sometimes. a few things, we don't see snow like this in november that often. you're not going to get mad if we say it's 80 and turns out 81. you say, yeah, got that right. if it's 32, 33, it can make a big difference. more cold air in place. that makes a difference between an inch of slush and what we saw with six. pack that in to the most densely
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populated area in the country on a rush hour in the afternoon and evening, there you go. we had a need mai-- had a nightmare. most of the storm is out of here. a little lake-effect snow behind that. for the most part, it's gone. temperatures warmed up. so we're seeing a lot of that snow melt, which just became ice everywhere. overnight tonight, temperatures are going to cool down. hartford, you'll be below freezes. boston, new york, above freezing. we won't see the slush out there, have any kind of freeze behind it. big cold aired comes back in across the northern plains today. we got it wrong, shep. it happens. >> shepard: you're forgiven. we went to dinner. took the subway. it was fine. didn't see the plows. they said they had 600 out there. that's what they said. the sanitation trucks do the
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playing. they made the switch and did the best they could do, which is not good enough in new york. cavuto is next. hang on. he's the best. >> neil: all right. forget about florida. did you hear about georgia? we're just getting word that the democratic gubernatorial nominee stacey abrams will be delivering brief remarks sometime this hour, maybe in the next hour, 5:00 p.m. eastern time. her first that she's not going down without a fight. he will highlight how much her campaign has done. hard to tell what this will be about. steve harrigan in atlanta with the latest. >> neil, wore likely to find out something in the next couple hours here in atlanta. it's not clear. stacey abrams the democrat