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northam aiming to stay in the public's favor as he refuses to step down. meantime, politicians from both sides of the aisle calling on lieutenant governor fairfax to resign amid this new allegation with one state senator threatening to introduce articles of impeachment. >> a woman in the united states is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds. as the father of three young girls, i cannot stand by silently while the lieutenant governor is facing multiple credible allegations of sexual assault. i believe these women. he needs to resign immediately. arthel: ellison barber live in richmond, virginia, with the late rest. >> reporter: hi, arthel. yeah, a lot has been happening here. we're just now hearing from the governor for the first time since that racist yearbook photo surfaced. he still says that he is not in that photo, and he says that he overreacted when he initially said that he was in the photo.

you'll remember that was the photo that had someone dressed in a kkk robe and another person in black face. governor northam told "the washington post" there is a higher reason for what's happened in the last week. he says he'll stay in office and look at the issue of white privilege and inequity. he said this, quote: there are ongoing inec with i think to -- inequities to health care, mortgages, capital, entrepreneurship, so this has been a real, i think, the awakening for virginia. it has raised the level of awareness for racial issues in virginia, and so we're ready to learn from our mistakes. we were speaking with the chairman of the republican party of virginia when "the washington post" published that interview, it did not change the chairman's mind, chairman jack wilson's mind. he says that the governor and the attorney general, both who have admitted to wearing black face at least once, need to go. >> i'm not sure what the next steps would be, because i'm hoping that both governor northam and attorney general

herring do the right thing and resign. the black face episodes in both of their pasts, i think, are disqualifying. we think that's the best for the commonwealth. >> reporter: but the chairman stopped short of calling for the resignation of lieutenant governor justin fairfax who is accused of sexual assault by two different women. >> we have not yet called for lieutenant governor's resignation because we want to be consistent. we thought the piling on of national democrats and others in the judge kavanaugh hearings was inappropriate, and we think that the facts should be investigated before any conclusions are drawn. it is interesting, again, some of the democrats are now changing their opinion on investigating, but we think due process to a certain extent should be followed. >> reporter: two women have accused the lieutenant governor of forceful sexual assault. one, dr. vanessa tyson, she says he forced her to perform oral sects in a hotel room -- sex in

a hotel room, another woman says justin fairfax raped her in 2000 while they were both students at duke university. the lieutenant governor denies it, he says he is the victim of a vicious smear campaign. he has asked for an investigation into this, and he is vowing at this point, arthel, to clear his name. arthel: ellison barber, thank you very much. eric: border security talks are going down to the wire. you know, another partial government shutdown deadline, that is only six days away. this as congressional negotiators are hard at work over this weekend. they're trying to hammer out a compromise by monday, but the clock is ticking down to that february 15th deadline, and both sides are hoping to find a deal that everyone, especially president trump, can live with. >> we can definitely do a deal, and the president's shown a willingness to compromise. we need leadership particularly in the house to do the same. what we need is something we can pass through the congress and that the president will accept.

>> i'm willing to take what the conference committee comes up with, and i'm willing to empower my democratic colleagues to give a little. i think we have to commit to this process. we have to, at the end of the day, be willing to govern. eric: so what will they come up with, and will the president agree? garrett tenny live with more. hi, garrett. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon to you. the clock is certainly ticking. lawmakers say this conference committee will likely need to come up with a deal by monday in order to avoid another partial government shutdown. and we're hearing some mixed messages in terms of where the negotiations are. we're told that there has been a lot of progress made and that a deal will ultimately be made, but the lickerring question is -- lingering question is will president trump sign off on whatever agreement they come up with. we're told that any agreement will likely include far less funding than the $5.7 billion the president previously demanded. it'll likely be somewhere

between $1.3-$1.6 billion. despite that, on thursday senator richard shelby said he did see a light at the end of the tunnel on all of this. >> i don't know if he'd sign whatever we came up with, but i -- the president had a very positive conversation with the president and vice president earlier today, and i believe that he was very reasonable with us. i think that we're on a positive trajectory, course now. >> reporter: yeah, the president may be able to justify signing often on a deal with less than $5.7 billion because there is a limited amount of money the executive branch can tap into without congressional approval, and that would proallow the president to, essentially, add on to whatever this deal includes. now, as these negotiations continue, with that in mind vice president mike pence said that the president will get his wall built one way or the other. >> when it comes to our southern

border, as the negotiations continue we will not rest, we will not relent until our customs and border protection have the technology, the percent knell and the barriers -- the personnel and the barriers required to secure our border. we're going to build that wall one way or another. i promise you. [applause] >> reporter: this weekend acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is hosting a group of republicans and democrats for a retreat at camp dade, and these negotiations -- camp david, and these negotiations are not going to be a focus of those discussions, but they will certainly be coming up. eric: garrett, thanks so much. arthel: we're going to bring in jo colvin, white house correspondent for the associated press. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. arthel: where does the deal stand now? where's the common ground, and what are the sticking points? >> right now democrats and republicans have been trading offers back and forth trying to come up with a number for border

wall funding, as garrett said. it sounds like the number is somewhere around that $1.6 billion which is, of course, what the senate had proposed back in december before that longest in history government shutdown, but there are sticking points beyond with just the number. there are conversations happening about where barriers would be allowed to be built, what kind of barriers would be allowed to be built and other questions, things like how many beds i.c.e. and other, you know, border agents would be allowed to be funded under this legislation. so they're still going back and forth. the hope is that they will have something in place by monday that they can bring to the white house and present to the president. arthel: and, you know, republican leaders do not want another shutdown. majority leader mitch mcing connell already told the president that would be a big mistake, but what are the chances that president trump will declare a national emergency in. >> there's certainly no appetite in washington for another government shutdown at any side of pennsylvania avenue, especially among republicans who really bore a lot of the brunt of the blame there.

the question though is whether this deal is something that the president is willing to accept. this is a president who, for months now, has said that he will not accept anything less than $5.7 billion, and this deal doesn't look like it's going to provide that much money for him. that said, the white house has consistently said they're also looking at other pots of money. if congress won't give them the amount that the president wants, that they're willing to use whether it's an emergency declaration or other kinds of executive authority that they believe they can use to access other pots of money. and so what we could see is a situation where the president agrees to what the conference committee comes up with but then decides either immediately or at some point in the future to start at least trying to access other pots of money. now, certainly, there will be legal challenges, or there are expected to be if he chooses that road, but you can see the president and the white house trying to figure out how they might be able to access other pots of money to try to be able to spin this as a win as we enter the 2020 campaign season. arthel: let me remind to this past tuesday, play a little

sound from the president at the state of the union address. let's listen. >> most of the people in this room voted for a wall, but the proper wall never got built. i will get it built. police[applause] this is a smart, strategic, see-through, steel barrier, not just a simple concrete wall. arthel: and bathe toe o'rourke is tweeting this afternoon saying, quote: if immigrants are good for the country, the border is secure and walls end lives instead of saving them, then why does the president try to scare us and take our land to build a wall we don't need? so as you well know, jill, the president is heading to el paso, texas, monday. is it to see the texas towrntion the border town in person, the border crossing in person, or will this be a campaign rally? and will we hear chants of

"build the wall" again? >> this is being billed as a campaign rally. we'll see if white house adds any formal events onto the schedule. the president now for several months has been talking about el paso as kind of an example of the success of border walls. he's been criticized by -- for people who live in el paso for exaggerating what the crime levels were like before the barrier was built there and exaggerating the extent to which the barriers made any difference. you'll see beto o'rourke and other democrats doing a dueling rally, competing with the president's, making the case he is wrong about border barriers, about walls, that's not what is needed. what you see developing here is how central this debate about the wall, about a border barrier is going to be going into the 2020 election. the president, as you can tell by the fact that this is really, you could argue, his first 2020 rally, and he's choosing to do it right there in a border state. he wants to make this a key part of his re-election campaign, and you already see democrats trying

to use this to rally their base against the president. arthel: all right. we'll be following it, and we'll have you back again, jill colvin. thank you so much. >> thank you. arthel: for much more of this and the political turmoil in virginia on the ingram angle monday night, laura's going to sit down with president trump in el paso, texas, 10 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. eric: we covered it live earlier, senator elizabeth warren live in massachusetts officially announce her candidacy for president of the united states. so how are her chances in an already-crowded and growing democratic field? our political panel will take up that debate. you know, there are new concerns that china could be targeting students at american colleges. texas senator ted cruz calls it a concerted, organized, systematic attack against america. what he is now doing about it. plus, president trump looking to maybe take a cordial relationship with kim jong un

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>> you know, people are talking about the north koreans agreeing to close their reactor that produces plutonium, but that's an old reactor dating back to the early 1980s, and i think they would close it anyway because it's dangerous to operate. the two things that we really need, eric, are, first of all, a declaration of all missile and nuke facilities and, second of all, a timetable for disarmament. that, i think, is the minimum of what president trump should get at this summit, and if he doesn't get it, that would be a disappointment. eric: do you think that kim is sincere or that he actually would surrender his nuclear weapons or, as the intelligence community says, he will never do that? >> i think the assessment from dan coats is wrong when he says it's unlikely the north koreans would ever give up their weapons, because this is a u.s. question. the question is whether the u.s. will apply enough pressure on the north koreans, the chinese, the russians and the south koreans so that kim has no choice but to surrender his

nukes and his missiles. we can do this without the use of force, so i don't think that this is a question of north korea's -- of course they want to keep their weapons. it's a question of what we will do to force them to do the right thing. eric: and what would you like to see us and other countries do in order to achieve that? >> well, first of all, i think that we need to start going after the chinese banks that have been continuing to launder money. we know that the chinese and the russians and the south koreans have been transferring oil and other commodities to the north koreans. we need to get them to stop that. we need sanctions on moscow, beijing and seoul. and these are things that are within to our power to do -- eric: that's a pretty heavy lift, that's a lot. >> it's a lot but, you know, american presidents -- and not just the current one -- have said north korea poses an existential danger to the american homeland. if that's true, then we need to use with american power to stop this, and the american people

should be asking their presidents why haven't you used american power to protect us? if. eric: you talk about american power, what about human rights? i think about otto warmbier who was so brutally tortured, beatennen and murdered. there's a proposal to name a street here in new york after otto, that is in the new york city council. has the issue of human rights kind of been swept under the rug for now and forgotten, and what is your view of that? >> well, certainly. because if you go back to the last state of the union, you've had the north korean escapee who was run over by a rail train, he was in the gallery, and that was an electric moment this past state of the union there was no mention of north korean human rights. yes, it has been swept under the carpet. >> meanwhile, there's growing concern, stay right there, i want to you about this, the reports that china has been looking to recruit spies to

research and influence what's being taught to our young people. officials are raising alarms, looking at one chinese academic program that's on campuses across the country, that is called the confucius institute. i sat down with the senator, and he filled us n. u.s. intelligence agencies continue to warn of beijing's spying. commercial espionage and the stealing of intellectual property. >> the chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and more concerning than any counterintelligence threat i can think of. eric: a report from the director of national intelligence is blunt. quote: china's intelligence services will exploit the openness of american society, especially academia and the scientific community. and now lawmakers are focused on new allegations of china's attempts to influence america

academia. >> it is widespread, and it's dangerous, and this is legislation designed to stop that. >> senator from texas -- eric: texas senator ted cruz is reintroducing legislation from last year called the top higher education espionage and theft act. >> too many universities, i think, are gullible, are not realizing the magnitude of this threat. this is a concerted, organized, systematic threat to undermine our universities and undermine our economy, and we need to be serious combating it. >> several current and former chinese students have been convicted in u.s. courts for espionage. just recently one, who had studied electrical engineering at the illinois institute of technology, was arrested and accused of working for chinese intelligence to recruit spice. he is awaiting trial. but it is not just spying. senator cruz is also raising the alarm about a chinese-backed academic program currently on more than 100 u.s. campuses. it's called the confucius institute, and critics allege it

is indoctrinating american students with regime propaganda. >> i passed into law legislation targeting, in particular, con few chus institutes and institutes being funded by the communist government in china. >> we do share concerns about the confucius institutes. we've been watching that development for a while. it's just one of many tools that they take advantage of. >> the key risk is that the american public and the students hear a one-sided view of what's going on in china. eric: policy director of the conservative-leaning national association of scholars says they should all be shut down. >> the teachers are hand-selected and paid by the chinese governments. the textbooks are being sent over and paid for by the chinese government. really the only way to protect against these kinds of incursions from the chinese government is to close down the institute. there really is no safe way to operate a confucius institute. eric: senator cruz says it's past time to send beijing a

strong message. >> the chinese communist government is a dictatorship, and it is cruel and repressive, it tortures and murders its citizens, and dictatorships hate sunlight. they hate truth. you know, we're sitting near my senate office. over my shoulder here, i don't know if the camera can get this, this is a picture, a painting of ronald reagan standing before the brandenburg gate. and up above written in german are the words "tear down this wall," in the style of the graffiti on the berlin wall. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [cheers and applause] >> four, i think those are the most -- now, i think those are the most important words said by any leader in modern times. [applause] that's what the chinese government fears. they fear sunlight, so they spend money trying to stifle academic freedom in our universities, and universities shouldn't be willing to sell

their academic freedom, they shouldn't be willing to allow the communist government to have control over discussion. eric: the confucius government issued a statement which reads in part: they are programs dedicated to the teaching of mandarin, cultivating chinese cultural awareness and facilitating global education. the programs do not teach history, to politics or current affairs. the courses are managed and supervised by u.s. universities which also decide the content, instructors and textbooks. despite that defense, peterson has reservations. >> the american people need to know that what they're hearing about china may not be true. it may be influenced by the chinese government's pr campaign, and even from the halls of academia which are supposed to be trustworthy and respected. it may even be happening there. eric: gordon chang is still with us. about 250,000 chinese nationals students are here, and you think the vast, vast majority are students, not inserted by

beijing to spy. but what type of threat is this, and how widespread do you think it is by beijing? >> this is really pocketer eric, because you have -- important, eric, because you have not a lot of students here, and only a few of them are problems. but the issue here is not so much the students, but it's the united states has allowed the ministry of state security and chinese diplomats from the embassy and the five consulates to actually work with these students surreptitiously. and it's not only just spying. it's also they've been working with these students so they demonstrate on u.s. campuses, demonstrate off campuses. so this is affecting our democracy, and we've permitted this for a long time. this is as much a washington problem as it is a beijing problem. this is clearly going to be at the top of the a agenda, and your reporting on this is so critical to our national security. eric: thank you for that. you're talking about, basically, a major propaganda and influence operation that's under the covers right here trying to

brainwash our students. >> well, it is the, first of all, the confucius institutes, as you point out, it's the confucius classrooms in secondary schools, and it's the chinese students and scholars association which also works on these campuses which beijing uses to surveil chinese students while they're in the united states. and, by the way, there's also branches, formal branches of china's communist party that operate on our campuses. so this is an extensive operation. it's run by the communist party, and we have allowed this to continue. and it's got to stop, as senator cruz mentioned. eric: senator cruz has that bill. what do you hope happens to that bill, and how do we stop it? >> yeah. we need, basically, a legislation which would say that no university may maintain a con confucius institute if it receives federal funding. it's got to be that broad. we had something close last year in the john mccain national defense appropriations act which said no university could operate a c.i., a confucius institute,

if it got defense department money. but it needs to be broader than this, and we need to support president -- cruz's legislation. eric: senator cruz has that bill in the senate now, as we reported, they indicate they're there as an educational institution but, clearly, a lot of questions, and it's a growing controversy with some colleges shutting those branches down. gordon chang, as always, thank you. >> thank you, eric. eric: of course. arthel? arthel: well, senator elizabeth warren officially launching her presidential bid as she works to move past controversy over her ancestry. we're live from the campaign trail ahead. plus, as 2020 democrats rush to embrace the green new deal, republicans see it as a political gold mine. our panel weighs in next. >> this is going to be such a powerful issue in the 2020 election cycle that we're going to have the republican support. ♪ ♪ only one in ten veterans use their valuable va home loan benefit.

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>> we are in this fight for our lives, for our children, for our planet, for our futures, and we will not turn back glue my daddy ended up as a janitor, but his little girl got the chance to be a public schoolteacher, a college professor, a united states senator and a candidate for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] arthel: there you have it. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren a making it official, launching her campaign for the white house amidst swirling controversy over her longstanding claims of native american heritage. she joins a growing field of democratic hopefuls vying for the chance to challenge president trump in 20. molly line joins us from massachusetts, it's very chilly, right? >> reporter: absolutely, arthel.

and that is how senate warren started her event today, thank the hearty crowd for braving the cold and blustery day that it just happens to be. we're here in lawrence, that's the backdrop that was chosen. this, of course, an old mill town that saw its heyday a hundred years ago. this was something elizabeth warren was trying to highlight, essentially, economic fairness across america is what she believes she is fighting for, a fair deal for all americans. >> this is the fight of our lives, the fight to build an america where dreams are possible, an america that works for everyone. >> reporter: warren touched on criminal justice reform, hit wall street, touched on climate change, childcare, and reiterated her mantra of critiquing a rigged system. corporations have too much power, and she struck out against the president, against the trump administration on the issue of corruption, taught her

own anti-corruption are legislation. >> we all know the trump administration is the most corrupt in living memory. [cheers and applause] but even after trump is gone it won't do just to do a better job of running a broken system. we need to take power in washington away from the wealthy and well-connected and put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs! [cheers and applause] >> reporter: this announcement for a white house run comes in the wake of a pretty tough week for the senator who found herself apologizing yet again after her registration for the state bar of texas, filed in 1986, surfaced this week and showed that she had wrote that her race was american i indian. >> she offered a personal apolo entry to the chief of the

cherokee tribe. today the president's campaign manager responded to her white house run saying: elizabeth warren has already been exposed as a fraud by the native americans she impersonated and disrespected to advance her professional career and the people of massachusetts she deceived to get elected. that statement goes on to say that the american people will reject her dishonest campaign and socialist ideas. meanwhile, elizabeth warren has gone on to the campaign trail, she's headed up to new hampshire today for her first organizing event of this new campaign, and then she'll be headed on to iowa. so she is off on the 2020 campaign trail trying to put that issue behind her. arthel? arthel: all right, molly, try to go inside and get some heat in there. okay. [laughter] thank you very much, molly. for more, we're going to bring in our panel, capri cafaro is a former ohio senate democratic minority leader and an executive in residence at american university's school of public affairs, chris wilson with senator cruz's campaign

pollster. good to have both of you. >> absolutely. good afternoon. arthel: and, chris, i want to start with you since we're talking about senator warren, will her claims of being american indian continue to dog senator warren and, ultimately, cost her the democratic nomination, or will her supporters care in the end? >> well, starting with her supporters, you didn't show about half of them walked off the stage before she was finished, which is not a great way to announce. but i will say i'm actually appearing here from oklahoma, and she seems to claim that because she was from oklahoma, she had the idea that, well, i must be native american. i can say that is, in fact, we learn in oklahoma hospital about the dawes rules in which there was a census of tribal peoples that listed out who was native american. and instead of using that as an excuse, if anything, it makes her claims even more nefarious because we to have such a -- we do have such a strong understanding of what it means to be native american.

i'm frankly surprised she didn't put off her announcement after the exposure of the texas law bar association application which she listed and claimed to be native american and now that she's saying it may turn up in other places, i think this is absolutely disastrous for her campaign and the sort of scandal you cannot rise above, and i think we'll see the campaign come to a quick end. arthel: i didn't see the end of the speech, so i didn't see people walking off stage -- [laughter] >> you'll have to watch. arthel: it could have been because it was freezing out there. >> well, there is that. arthel: i'm not sure. capri, that controversy on the table, chris doesn't think it's going to go anywhere. i want to think if you think it'll wane in the end and also in terms of message and policy promise, what does senator warren bring to the crowded table, and can she unseat president trump? >> i think it's going to be very difficult for senator warren. i think that, you know, this issue continues to haunt her about her ethnicity and how it potentially has been used and if it was used to advance her

career. you know, "the boston globe," apparently, has investigated it significantly and has come to the conclusion that it was not used for some kind of professional gain, but it still does damage her credibility and in such a crowded field, mostly all sort of in one place on the progressive lane of the democratic party in this primary, you know, to me i think that the democratic party would be better served with less people in this primary. and, frankly, more of these united states senators staying where they are because they're in a very important fight and dialogue to have in the united states senate. and with all of these folks saying that, you know, they're concerned about president trump, doing your job in the united states senate and having that checks and balance is critically important and may be more important than a vanity project running for the president of the united states. arthel: well d -- [inaudible conversations] who didn't get your message, senator cory booker, he's out today in des moines, iowa. he has thrown his hat in that

crowded ring for democratic hopefuls in 2020. senator cory booker is also one of those who is supportive of the green new deal, comparing it to going to the moon or defeating the nazis in world war ii. so let's talk about that green new deal, capri, staying with you. break it way down for us. what's the essence of the green new deal, and tell us why it would be good for middle and working class americans. >> well, let's just first say cory booker should not be comparing anything to nazis. [laughter] setting that aside, the green new deal, look, we do need to have a serious conversation about climate change. there is a potential for investment in producing wind and solar and all of those components go into that generation that could create jobs. but that isn't necessarily what these, the green new deal is doing. it is a simple resolution, one introduced in the senate, one introduced in the house. why is that important? because it's not really a bill necessarily that has the force of law. so just to let you know,

recognizing the duty of the federal government to create a green new deal, and then it goes whereas we have all these problems and resolves that it is the sense of the house or the senate that we should do x, y, z, like, you know, get rid of air travel. so this is really more education pressing an opinion than actually, you know, implementing a law. so my personal opinion is let's stick with that special committee that was just created in the house, go through regular order and actually try to pass a bill that could move the ball forward rather than, basically, doing political pageantry. that's why all these 2020 folks have signed on, because it's a nice, shiny thing -- arthel: maybe it's not a nice, shine -- >> well, it is for the political party. arthel: chris, is this an albatross for the democrats? >> it really is. i think what they're doing is -- what donald trump did in his state of the union address that i think was absolutely brilliant

was when he drew a line in the sand about america being a socialist country. and then you have a socialist member of congress immediately thereafter introduce a resolution that would do exactly that. if you were to take the green new deal and implement all aspects of it, it would for cost 75% of the u.s. economy to be taken over by the government. that is the true definition of socialism. and from that now you have several of the -- really, actually, all of the mainstream, leading democrat candidates who have embraced that, and i think they are walking right into the trap that donald trump set for them on tuesday night, and they're doing it in a way that is going to strike trickle down to senate and congressional races. democrats were able to make such room in the suburbs, and now they're going to be pushed back. arthel: capri, is the green new deal socialism, and it be compared to existing or past government-funded benefits that americans have access to? >> again, i mean, you can't

really compare it because it's a resolution, not something that is actually, you know, a bill that -- arthel: you need to talk to the people right now, because that's what they are promoting -- >> i know, i know that this is a nuanced issue -- arthel: clarify it for us. here's your chance. >> again, i am not necessarily an advocate of the green new deal, because i think it is much like howard dean, for example, it is not something that is actually able to be implemented because we're not going to fully reduce, you know, airplane travel, for example. i would say let's try to, for example, start with implementing the aspects of the paris accord. i mean, let's be realistic. we have to talk about climate change. this isn't the way to do it, and i think we need to grow up and get real. arthel: california prix capri cs wilson, have to leave it there. thank you. eric: a new challenge for some of our first responders. many communities are facing a dwindling number of volunteer firefighters.

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jackie heinrich is live with more on this very important story from our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: hi, arthel. the situation in pennsylvania is beyond critical, and state officials are warning the rest of the country could find themselves in a similar position are soon. a number of factors got us here, but the national volunteer fire council says this generation just isn't signing up to volunteer. today people have more transient lifestyles, and often jobs have inflexible schedules, plus millennials have more debt, making free volunteer work just unaffordable. as numbers shrink, population has increased, and fires burn more dangerously than ever before with synthetic materials. the cost of training firefighters has also gone up. >> we have to train a little bit harder. when i joined the fire department, the essentials class was probably only 30 hours long, the fundamentals of fire fighting. now it's at 180 hours.

>> reporter: the council's report recommends incentives to attract volunteers from tax creditsosmething's got to changr a fast and traumatic decline. in the 1970s there were roughly 300,000 volunteer firefighters in pennsylvania. by the year 2000, that number dropped by 80% to just 60,000. fast forward to 2018, and there are just 38,000 volunteers. it's considered a public safety crisis because more than 90% of the fire companies in that state are volunteer departments. >> a lot of these communities could never replace the service provided by the volunteers with a paid career fire department, because it would be not financially feasible to do that. >> reporter: nationally, the decline is headed in the same direction. in 2011, the number of volunteers reached an all-time low. arthel? arthel: thank you very much, jackie. eric: out west as a massive snowstorm that now hammers the pacific northwest, and seattle is getting its heaviest snowfall

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joining us from the aptly-named fox extremewet center. hi, adam. >> reporter: yeah, big snowfall. part of the ingredients, obviously, cold weather, and we're seeing it funnel in across the northern tier of the country. these are your wind chills, minnesota 10 to -20 degrees. colder than you typically see, so any moisture running onshore is going to be snow. they're going to continue to see it, and that's stretching down into portions of central california. this is a large low pressure system, and there are a lot of spots that we're going to be talking about snow. winter storm watches and warnings, advisories stretching across midwest much of the pacific northwest. everything in the pink, that's a barning. the occasional red spots, that's a blizzard warning. it's going to be windy, and the snow is going to be piling up very quickly. as far as totals go, we show this often, and you rarely see all the purples.

the purple colors indicating as much as 2 feet of snow from central california, up across oregon, up near seattle. i think widespread, eric, spots getting up to a foot to 18 inches and then, yeah, plenty of areas getting up over 2 feet of snow. this is going to be a big one. eric: all right. folks gotta be careful, but i guess it's good news if you're skiing. >> reporter: yes, it is. eric: adam, thank you. arthel: that is going to do it for now for us. we'll be back again at four eastern. hope you can join us. eric: meanwhile, the journal editorial report is here on the fox news channel after this short break, so we'll sew you in a couple -- we'll see you in a couple hours. take care. ♪ alright, i brought in

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