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reporting begins now. our reporting begins with the killer and record-breaking deep freeze gripping parts of the country. now blamed for at least ten deaths. among them, a 18-year-old university of iowa student who apparently froze to death outside on campus where the feels-like temperature was minus 51. here's a live look from the lows this morning. these are the temperatures before you even factor in the windchill. these are the real temperatures. some images for you in our slide show this afternoon. here first, look at this, this is a harbor light on lake michigan in chicago where the feels-like was minus 41 this morning. this is great falls national park. look at that. completely frozen over in new jersey. not too far from mid on the, manhattan. here's a time lapse video from a

coast guard icebreaker, this is not the arctic. it's the hudson river about 40 miles north of new york city. and you thought your commute was cold this morning? check out these guys. take a look at these fishermen and their frozen boat in new bedford, massachusetts. relief could be on the way for some folks. in some areas, forecasters say temperatures could spike by as many as 80 degrees in the coming days. teen fox coverage now, jacqui heinrich live in new york city. first, mike tobin live from chicago. hi, mike. >> the sun getting low in the sky, you can feel the temperatures drop. we got into the negative single digits and remarkable how much better that felt with the sun out. i can't get over the visuals out here. here's the pier in lake michigan. whatever that structure is, just coated with all of the mist that comes off of the lake because the water on the lake is a

little warmer than the atmosphere. here's the city of big shoulders. the sky line looks so dramatic in light of this. you can see the trees on shore that have also been turned into these ice castles with all of what is going on out here. you can see the people have come out of hibernation as the conditions have eased a little bit. authorities don't want them to do that. a number of people like firefighters, power crews that have to be out in this. they say that in addition to dealing with people, the weather complicates things enough for them. here's the power crews. >> being out in this weather stresses the crews. it's dangerous for them. so do a piece of the work, go warm up. while they're warming up, the other crew takes over and does that work until it all gets taken care of. >> and we're anticipating to finally make it up to zero degrees about 8:00 p.m. today. bad news is sometime around that or a little before that we'll start getting snow.

shep? >> shepard: officials urging people to check in on their elderly neighbors. >> they are. there's a very vulnerable population out here, particularly shut-in people in indianapolis. we have the folks that work with meals on wheels. they're doing double duty, welfare checks on people that can't come out of their houses. here's what they have to say. >> a lot of our clients, most of them are home bound. a lot of them don't have family around. so we are doing this service of having that wellness check and making sure that they're okay. >> and my faith in humanity is a bit restored. you can see what people are doing to help each other out. there's a tent city outside of the loop in chicago. someone sprung an anonymous sprung for 70 hotel rooms. so those people could get out of their tents, out of the cold and have a chance to make it through this thing, shep. >> shepard: mike tobin on the banks. thank you. not as cold as chicago here in

new york city. but still dangerous with temperatures in single digits at some point. right now the feels like is minus 2. jacqui heinrich reporting from bryant park in midtown manhattan. high, jacqui. >> hi, shep. you dress for the weather. i'm prepared in case the windchill kicks up. the fountain here is almost frozen solid. we talked to folks about how they were faring with all of this weather. >> i'm in from chicago. it's warmer than there. >> i had to buy my new jacket because of the cold. actually, my old jacket, we're going to give it to some homeless person. so we're just looking for somebody right now. >> western new york got two feet of snow. lake-effect snow is bringing another 2-3 feet today. that's compounded by the extreme polar vortex with wind gusts up to 45 miles an hour and

windchills at minus 25 degrees. governor cuomo told new yorkers not to test their limits. >> i know what the new york attitude is, that they can handle anything. and i believe that. and i respect that. but there's no need to test that premise over these past couple days and these next couple days. >> the governor told nonessential government employees to stay home and even enacted a ban on tractor trailers and buses on some highways for safety, shep. >> shepard: jacqui heinrich and that chip on her shoulder. the goal is to keep the first responders safe, right? it's dangerous for them, too. >> it is. emergencies in these kinds of conditions can be extremely dangerous. take massive fire at a paper middle in new jersey just yesterday. it happened in iconic paper mill. it was -- i'm sorry.

an iconic paper mill in new jersey. hundreds of firefighters were bracing windchills at negative 16 degrees. high winds fuelling the fires and embers flying for miles there. 200 workers were inside at the time. they did get out safely. but the plant is covered in ice, escaped in rubble. so for the safety, stay insigned if you can, shep. >> shepard: thanks, jacqui. it's better today though. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is on the big wall. better? >> yeah, a little better. not a whole lot better. better is better. overnight, minus 45 in international falls. actual air temperature, colder than the night before. chicago got to minus 21. never hit that minus 27 record of any kind of sort. that said, a little town to the west of chicago, they think got to minus 30. that would have broken the state record. 2 in new york. 5 in boston. cold won't last that much

longer. up to minus 7 in chicago. getting better. still have the windchill everywhere here. we start to see this give a little break and you can see that where the warnings have whittled down a lot. at least in territory. that's a beg help. here's tonight. >> comparatively speaking, it's about to warm up. >> by any grounds it's about to warm up. the blue line is below zero temperatures. so by tomorrow morning, there's a lot of it. go through the day tomorrow and by friday, saturday morning, it's pretty much gone everywhere and we see this huge warmup. you know what that is? >> what is that? >> lake-effect snow. that right there is lake ontario and the snow goes across that. watertown. a huge batch of lake-effect snow. if you're driving, no snow at all. you hit that, you get a ton of it. snow warnings there around buffalo. here you go.

how does that look for you? >> shepard: 51. >> 51 monday. >> shepard: that's may weather. >> that is may weather for us. 50s for the coming week along the eastern seaboard. get through now and it will be better. >> shepard: keep your pets inside. great to see you. thank you. >> you too. >> shepard: some breaking news on the crisis in venezuela. the american-backed opposition leader there, the one that came up and pronounced himself the leader now says that cops showed up at his home, harassed his wife and toddler daughter. we'll go live to caracas. steve harrigan is there. and the robot that doesn't need a human to tell it what to do because the robot can think for itself. it's new reporting from the "wall street journal" and we'll lay it out for you as reporting continues on this thursday afternoon. (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults

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>> shepard: the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido,

says that security forces tried to intimidate his wife and 20-month-old daughter at their apartment and that neighbors tried to scare them away by banging pots and pans. crowds protested in the streets yesterday to call on the disputed president, nicholas maduro to step down. venezuela has sunk deeper in recession under president maduro. here's what families find when they go shopping. look at that. rows and rows of empty shelves. and here you can see people waiting in line to get what food there is. according to reports, more than a third of the country's population can afford to eat one meal a day. steve harrigan reporting. he's live in venezuela in caracas. steve? >> shepard, senior u.s. officials have warned nicholas maduro of venezuela time and time again, do not harm opposition leader juan guaido.

do not arrest opposition leader juan guaido. today nicholas maduro showed what he thought of those warnings. he sent elite riot police to guaido's home where they found his 20-month-old daughter. they were looking for guaido's wife. he returned home. furious saying that maduro crossed a led line when it comes to the violation of family. besides the obvious attempts to intimidate guaido, marco rubio added this could be trying to test the waters, to see the reaction, if guaido is in fact arrested despite international support, shepard. >> shepard: steve, any sign that maduro may step down? >> so far there's no sign that maduro is going to be stepping down. he's really trying to show himself on tv over and over again with the military and also in an unusual bit of footage today, asking people to pray for him. everybody raising their hands

and praying for nicholas maduro. a lot of dissidents out of venezuela say the u.s. and much of the world might be underestimating maduro's clinging to power, that he could last longer than people expect. here's one. >> it was like getting fidel castro out of power. may not be enough to get maduro out of power either. >> maduro himself showed that he could organize a march as well. thousands of people out of sea of read including a balloon of hugo chavez. they were out there to defend the national oil company. maduro says the u.s. plans to invade venezuela in order to steal venezuelan oil and take over venezuela's national oil company. shepard? >> shepard: steve harrigan reporting live in career --

venezuela. >> shepard: and white house officials say the next targets are cuba and nicaragua. they're called the triaca of tyranny and it will crumble. let's go to a.b. stoddard. what's going on here? >> i think the report from venezuela shows that nicholas maduro is more defiant than we had hoped, and he could as the experts are saying be dug in for a while with enough of the military supporting him. these provocations like the one with guaido that could really lead to something more violent. u.s. diplomatic haven't been involved yet. so this idea that the "wall

street journal" is reporting that the administration has this very broad, very ambitious risky plans for toppling government in nicaragua and cuba where you expert said sanctioning has not driven these people from office in the past. decades of our efforts to help transition to cuba to democracy have failed. so it seems until venezuela is more stable, which could be a huge effort and again a violent one and will require huge coalition refugees between 2.5 and 3 million people have fled from venezuela there throughout latin america. it's a huge strain on many different countries. the island that we can take on this three-country strategy at the same time could lead i think to a backfire where iran and russia and the chinese become more fowlerful in those places than they are now. >> shepard: there's a red line of sorts regarding the arresting of the opposition leader there,

guaido. is there a concern in washington and what might happen if some of these red-line matters happen? >> yes. look, we have a bad recent history with red lines. so it's hard to stay committed if we don't know, as i said, how long this will last, how violent it can become and what kind of resources we'll put in there. we have a shaky relationship right now with adversaries in terms of commitment to our word and promises but with our allies as well. we're trying to leave syria with a coalition of 70 countries fighting on behalf of the same goal. so this idea that we're going into a very volatile situation with these big plans and red lines that we're announcing with people speculating that we might be in it for thousands of troops and some kind of invasive, you know, you know, is really risky

and completes a lot of unintended consequences. but the idea that maduro has this played hand guaido could lead him to targeting the embassy and the personnel and drags us to something more dangerous. it doesn't seem like it's a pragmatic strategy for the administration to have aggressive plans of venezuela let alone can yuba and nicaragu >> shepard: thanks, a.b. rams or patriots? >> i can never go against the patriots. >> shepard: thanks, a.b. see you. >> bye, shep. >> shepard: all it takes is laptop and computer skills and the person can create a doctored video of you that looks like the real deal. some serious concerns. we'll show you as lawmakers try to crack down on deep fakes. that's next. as a fitness junkie, i customize everything -

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>> shepard: lawmakers are trying to crack down on new types of doctored videos that make it look and sound like people are looking and saying things, which they are not at all. they call them deep fakes. analysts say they could have real consequences. take this. researchers at the university of washington put together with comments from president obama. on the left, the real remarks after the pulse nightclub shooting. on the right, the doctored results of that audio on top of a different address. >> i visited with the families of many of the victims thursday. one thing i told them, they're not alone. >> shepard: that's one example. analysts say there's potential for these deep fakes to go a lot further. trace gallagher reporting live in the west coast news hub.

trace? >> shep, the technology showing people doing what they never did and saying what they never said has been around for decades but it's rudimentary. like john wayne in a super bowl commercial. and this scene in forest gump. >> how does it feel to be an all-american? >> i got to pee. >> i believe he said he had to pee. >> yeah, 25 years later, deep fake technology is exceptional. if you have enough video of an individual, a computer program using an algorithm can mimic that person's voice and facial expressions and because the technology is widely available, it's raising big-time concerns especially with the 2020 election coming and the consequences of spreading false information more severe than ever. consider this manipulated video by buzz feed made to illustrate what is possible. look. >> we're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying

anything at any point in time. this is a dangerous time. moving forward, we need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet. >> yep. there's plenty of examples of people creating phony videos for nefarious reasons like deep fake porn videos being used to humiliate women and hollywood stars. shep? >> shepard: what are lawmakers doing trying to fix this? >> last year. ben sasse introduced a bill to criminalize the dissemination hoff deep fake bills but it got overshadowed by the shut down and expired. he will raise it again. adam schiff and others are asking to be briefed by technology and intelligence officials of the best way to respond to deep fake video and audio. so experts say we can expect some type of legislation in the coming months. critics wherry and laws being

overbroad and put morgue on social media companies that are scared taking down everything reported as fake when it's not. taking down genuine content would violate the first amendment. shep? >> shepard: thanks, trace. robots can think. reporting now on the news i mentioned at the top of this hour. a new warning from our corporate cousin at the "wall street journal." white collar robots are coming for jobs. if you think that reporting sounds far off, scientists at columbia university say they have come up with a robot that they say can repair itself. robots now think. the fox business network's deidra bolton. weird. >> it's very weird. we just saw that robotic arm. there's a 3-d image that is uploaded into the computer, into the robot. and so the robot knows what it is supposed to look like and it also knows how it's supposed to function. as a test, they put a 3-d piece,

injected it and it was wrong. it was faulty. the robot figured it out and fixed itself. so that gets back to your point about robots being able to think. what is untested is whether they can think about thinking, which is parentally what separates us from our other cousins. >> shepard: that's the next best thing. >> one of the professors working on this at columbia university, he says and i'm going to question him, this is perhaps what a newborn child does in its crib as it learns what it is. so this is pretty mind-blowing. i know you covered that story that our journal cousins covered in a sense of with banks and all sorts of customer service. there's a computer program that can emulate empathy, tell if we're annoyed in our checking account, something isn't there that is supposed to be there and respond to that. most people are hailing this as a major advance in robotics. >> shepard: deidra, thank you. >> here we go. >> shepard: major league baseball and fans of the game

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>> shepard: now the breaking news. the family of the actor jussie smollett questioning to people that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. he's black and openly gay. he's a star of the tv series

"empire." police say they reviewed hundreds of hours of the area where the attack happened. think have not found any images of the attack or attackers. matt finn live in chicago with the family's new response. matt, what did they say? >> the family says they're grateful that they kept him alive and a portion of the statement reads -- >> this afternoon chicago police tell fox news that so far they don't have video of the attack and no video of jussie interacting with or involved in any type of altercation with these two persons of interest that police have released pictures of. the pictures are grainy, black silhouettes. police are looking for them because they do want to talk to

them. police say this doesn't mean this assault didn't happen. they have no video to show it this afternoon. police are also telling us so far that the alleged assault happened around 2:00 a.m. officers arrived to the actor's apartment around 2:42 a.m. it's not clear the exact time when the 911 call came in, but there's a 42-minute gap between the alleged assault and police arriving to the actor's home. police telling fox news that they have video of smollett walking into his apartment building with that small white rope around his neck. police now telling us that the white rope was draped around his neck. it wasn't tied or in a noose when they arrived to his department. detectives say they're pouring over hundreds of hours of i have yes trying to trace his exact steps the night of the attack. police say it's very difficult, like putting together a puzzle, shep. >> shepard: the actor and his manager said they were on the phone at the time the attack happened and police have asked for their phone records. what have they said?

>> police tell us the actor and the manager have declined to turn over their phone records. they cannot prove that that none call happened. this weekend, jussie smollett is scheduled to make his first public appearance since this wept down. jussie is a music and a performance scheduled in california this weekend. his publicist says it will go on in west hollywood. the venue's performer tells fox news that jussie wanted to keep the show as is. fox broadcasting confirms to it that it has increased security for jussie and the entire cast of the show "empire" which is filmed here in chicago. >> shepard: thanks, matt. the president today renewed his demands for a wall on the southern border. he said republicans are wasting their time trying to negotiate with democrats. nancy pelosi spoke plainly on the matter. she said there will be no money for a border wall. so this afternoon the president said he will wait until february 15. decision day on any possible

renewed government shut down. if he gets congressional proposal without money for the wall, he won't even read it. declare a national emergency and face legal challenges? the president says he's not worried about that. on the russia investigation, the president says he will leave that to the justice department to decide whether to release the special counsel robert mueller's final report. in an interview with the daily caller, the president insisted that he has the right to get involved and shut down mueller's investigation of his campaign's contacts with the russians, but that he's chosen to stay out of it. the investigation has produced indictments against 34 people and three companies including in the mix six former trump advisers. he's one-time campaign manager, his national security adviser and his foreign policy adviser, his lawyer and fixer, michael cohen and roger stone. the investigation is ongoing.

john roberts is live with more. >> the president said he could have taken a different tact on the mueller investigation than the one he did. telling the daily caller that i had the right if i wanted to to end everything. i could have said that's enough. many people thought that's what i should do. the president also said he's not talked with the acting attorney general, matt whitaker about the probe and whitaker's assertion that the investigation may be nearing its end. the president denying any involvement with russian operatives to collude, to throw the election back in 2016 and describing the whole mueller investigation is a colossal waste of time and money. the president saying, i guess there's well over $30 million in this hoax and everybody knows it's a hoax. they spent all this money. nothing. the negotiations over border security high on the president's radar screen particularly with the new honduran migrant caravan making its way through mexico

city with its sights set on the united states border. the president tweeting today about an increase in crime in mexico that certainly could find its way over our borders. the president saiding sadly, murder cases in mexico in 2018 rose 33% from 2017 to 33,341. this is a big contributor to the humanitarian crisis taking place on the southern border and spreading throughout our country. worse even than afghanistan. much caused by drugs, wall is being built. as the bipartisan committee considers the best way forward to securing the border and whether or not that includes a border barrier, nancy pelosi today said about the president's $5.7 billion request for a wall, the president is no going to get $5.7. the president is not even going to get that dollar i said i gave him a couple weeks ago. listen here. >> there's not growing to be any wall money in the legislation.

however, if they have some suggestions of that certain locality where technology, some infrastructure as i said about the ports of entry, might need more ports of entry, some roads, that is part of the negotiation. >> so what is interesting to note here, this conference committee, which is not meeting today, their staffs are getting together, trying to hammer out a frame work is that there are some democrats that might want to give some money for a border barrier. if nancy pelosi keeps saying no, they may be beholden to her, shep. >> shepard: john roberts live at the white house. thank you. so there's a you study that finds e cigarettes can help smokers quit. maybe more effectively than nicotine patches or gum. researchers study 900 spokers and found 18% of e-cig uses quit smoking after a year. that's 10% to those that used

nicotine replacements. they also say e-cig users were more likely to keep using the devices than folks that used the gums or patches. e-cigs are a multibillion dollar industry. dr. raj is here from nyu's school of medicine and medical editor for "health magazine." great to see you again. welcome. >> thanks. >> neil: what do you think of this? is this an effective way for people that want to kick cigarettes to do so? >> you read the statistic. 18% were not able to quit. it's not huge but better than those that just tried the patches or the gum. so it's effective for some people. this is the first well-controlled large study to show that. however, as you said, a significant percentage, 80% of those that were able to quit because of the e cigarettes still use the e cigarettes. so they were getting nicotine for a while.

my personal thing, one thing you can try, there's prescription medications that are more effective. >> shepard: the study mentioned that wellbutrin and chantrix. >> yes. and the e cigarettes still have nicotine. it increases your risk of insulin resistance, diabetes. we know nicotine is addictive. for younger adults, it can affect neurological development. yes, this study proved it is effective more so than the gums and the patches. >> shepard: you have to keep it away from middle schoolers. >> yes. the flavored e cigarettes. everybody is coming down hard on that. it's more attractive to younger people. >> there's apparently from the teachers i know real problems in schools. >> there are. this is sky rocketing.

>> shepard: so easy to hide. >> and kid think it's cool. many people think it's a gateway to actual real cigarettes or other drugs. >> shepard: they like the buzz. so if you're a parent and you know your kids are sneaking around your back on something, how do you present don't do this to the kids? >> i think, you know -- we've done a good job presenting how bad real cigarettes are in terms of tar and the carcinogens. we have to present the same data with nicotine. your brain is still developing, this will affect how it develops. it has health risks. it's not a free pass because it's pure nicotine. >> shepard: dr. raj, main thing is try to quit. >> absolutely. no matter what works and talk to your doctor. prescriptions are an effective way to do it. >> shepard: dr. raj, thank you. >> lovely to see you. >> shepard: no matter where you're watching the big game this sunday, odds are this next guy has your beat. the l.a. rams hooked up the team's locker room janitor and

his son with two seats plus flights and a hotel in atlanta. the receiver, brandon cooks, surprised the man with the news. look here. >> on behalf of the team and organization, we would love to invite you and your son with a round trip super bowl, hang out with us. you mean so much to us. you know that. you're special what you do around here. everything that you do does not go unnoticed. we thank you for that and would love for you to join us and scream with us. we need you out there. so two tickets to the bowl. you can keep this as well. >> oh, my gosh! serious? >> absolutely. >> this is a dream come true, man. oh, my god. >> thank you. >> thank you. oh, my god. i can't believe it. going to the super bowl. i get to take my son. because of you guys. >> absolutely. >> shepard: he and his son are going. the rams tweeted the video and wrote "it takes a team to

achieve a dream." pop icon mariah carey facing a backlash from human right as becauses. the reasons ahead. but first, an urgent. just in to fox news, out of san francisco where a federal court just blocked a controversial soda law. remember the one that forced companies to put health warnings on ads for sugary drinks and sodas and the rest? the group sued and just won. no health warnings, san francisco, for your sugary sodas. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing.

-jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay. [ singing in spanish ]

>> shepard: surprise surprise surprise! a live look at the white house. this was a surprise. the cameras have just been called in to the oval office where the president is meeting with the vice premier of china. we didn't expect video. the president changed his mind. we'll have that for you. stand by for news. mariah carey making news as the biggest star to perform in saudi arabia. that's casing obvious controversial among some saudi women. they called on maria carey because several women are locked

up. they say it's a government stunt to rehab the crown prince. the saudi government just launched an initiative to bring western entertainment to the muslim country. critics say to show and convince outsiders that he's moderating and modernizing. carey's team says she sees the opportunity to perform for a mixed gender audience as a positive step towards ending gender segregation. lawyers for el chapo are wrapping up their closing arguments and did so earlier this hour in brooklyn. one of them said you don't have to give in to the midst of el chapo. yesterday prosecutors walked the jury through what they called an avalanche of evidence against the drug lord accused of head ago cartel that smuggled tons of cocaine in the united states.

bryan llenas is live in brooklyn. >> shep, defense attorney jeffery lakeman told the jury you can say no, no, no, not guilty ending his four-hour closing argument. he spend the majority of the time calling the government's star witnesses liars and tried to call them criminals willing to say anything to get el chapo convicted in exchange for possible sweetheart deals from the government. now 14 cooperating witnesses, former cartel members, kingpins and one of el chapo's misstresses testified against him. he said some of you have doubt. if you have the doubt, hold on to it. you don't have to give in to the myth of el chapo. right now the prosecution is giving their rebuttal. deliberations are set to begin

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go to newdayusa.com, or call 1-877-423-5739. >> shepard: two hate crimes in brooklyn blocks apart. a group of men have been arrested for attacking two jewish guys. it happened in crown heights. a place where there's ultra orthodox. video shows the first assault around 1:00 a.m. attackers surround the guy, shove him to the ground and start punching and kicking him. there it is. the suspects are now under arrest. cops say a man in florida rammed his car through a fence at an airport, drive on to the runway and started doing doughnuts. happened in pensacola. a local news outlet said the cops said he wasn't drinking. but told them that he just felt like doing it.

they felt like giving him a ticket. the final bell is ringing on wall street today. the dow with a good turn around. now above. we're up 10 points. good news. neil cavuto has the rest now. >> neil: the freeze is on. chances are you're feeling it if you're one out of the 7 and 10 americans in the bone-chilling past of it. forget about the buses and the schools shut. ten people are dead because of this brutal cold. guess what? that brutal cold is not over. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." the records are falling faster than the temperatures across the country today. minus 30 degrees in rockford, illinois. minus 32 in grand forks, north dakota. minus 45 in international falls, minnesota. it is so cold that 18