february. that is what happens this time of year. we'll bring you a lot more on that. that's all for us in washington, "america's news headquarters" continues. i'm griff jenkins -- gillian: i'm gillian turner. thanks so much for joining us. ♪ ♪ eric: well, president biden signaling his support for that democratic plan to pass his covid relief proposal with or without republican support. you know, congressional democrats may use a budgetary tool to let that proposal pass in the senate with just a simple majority. hello, everyone, this is a new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader schumer say they could consider a covid relief

bill as soon as next week, but republicans still want less spending than democrats. the gop is balking at the president's proposal which has a price tag of nearly $2 trillion. let's go to david spunt now live at the white house. so, david, i mean, the national debt has been going up for years, so why are republicans balking at it now amid a public health crisis? >> reporter: hi, arthel. many republicans are asked this on a daily basis, and they'll answer it differently. for instance, senator lindsey graham from south carolina wants to provide more direct payments to the american people. he was in favor of that $2,000 mark, said listen to my fiscally-conservative friends, the time is now because we are in a pandemic. so it depends on the republican. speaking of the time is now, that's what president joe biden is saying as far as this nearly $2 trillion covid relief package concerned. biden went on the campaign trail for almost two years, was talking about working with republicans, working across the

aisle to get deals done. now the gridlock, the reality of gridlock in washington is, no question, settling in as we go further along with this covid relief package. remember though, arthel, democrats still have the majority in the house, they have the majority now in the senate, also the white house. but the president says he wants to do things in a bipartisan manner first. if republicans don't want to jump onboard, he'll move forward anyway. >> millions of people are out of work, unemployed, future millions or that are held back for no good reason other than our failure to act. so the choice couldn't be clearer. we have learned from past crises the risk is not tining too much, the -- doing too much, the risk is not doing enough. >> reporter: no question this measure is expected to easily pass in the house, then it will go to the democratic-run senate.

pat toomey, joe manchin and susan collins of maine, the senate will be decided, important voteses will be decided by the vice president, kamala harris. you can expect that she'll vote to pass this measure, this covid relief measure x. then we get back into talking about former president trump. in his last few weeks in office, he was pushing these $2,000 direct payments to the american people. actually, house speaker nancy pelosi agreed with him, she said it's one of the times i can agree with you on this. the question is now will the republicans in the house and the senate, arthel, that agreed with president trump on those $2,000 stimulus payments will agree with president biden on the matter. arthel? arthel: well, let's hope that politics can step aside for the sake of the people. david spunt, thank you. eric? >> reporter: thank you. eric: and, arthel, speaking of coronavirus, now a third covid

vaccine could soon be authorized for use here in our country. johnson & johnson saying it has applied for emergency approval next month, that that after its single-shot vaccine, they say, was 72% effective in preventing moderate to severe covid-19 in a nationwide phase three trial. that, though, is well below the efficiency rate of the pfizer and moderna two-shot vaccines that are already in use. meanwhile, new york city will soon allow indoor dining to resume with limited compassty. restaurant owners struggling, as you know, to try and stay open during the pandemic including in atlanta where charles watson is standing by headquarters for the cdc, of course. charles? >> reporter: yeah, you know, it really is the fight for restaurants here in georgia and across the country to keep their doors open. we spoke to the owner of the silver skillet here behind me that tells us business is just not profitable right now. >> it is kind of a game of

averages. we'll have a good month where all the bills are paid, then we'll have a month where we're not quite that close. we are not making any money. we are not making a dime. but the rent's paid, the bills are paid, and the employees are making some money. >> reporter: you know, and states like california, new york and michigan, as they begin to put plans in place to ease covid-19 restrictions, thousands of restaurants across the country are in a financial freefall with as many as half a million at risk of closing for good according to the national restaurant association. back at the silver skillet, they're just pulling in enough to keep the doors open as the pandemic rages on. the owner says not knowing what the future holds is really the scary part. >> what keeps me up at night is not knowing what's going to happen. whether it's due to political

requirements that we have to sustain and maintain or whether it's just the pandemic itself is continuing to linger -- >> this thing would just go away, everybody get their vaccinations and maybe we'd get back to full speed. >> reporter: you know, eric, even in a state like georgia where covid-19 restrictions are more relaxed, it's hard for business owners, and industry the experts say it could be until 2023 when folks start to see things go back to normal. back to you, eric. eric: you know what they have at the silver skillet? fried catfish strips with your omelet. chicken and waffles. that a place looks absolutely great. if you're in the atlanta area, go to the silver skillet to try to support them and your local restaurants. arthel: i was just saying that i would have ordered pancakes,

bacon and grits. now back to the news, everybody. new york governor andrew cuomo is responding for the first time to a damning report by his own attorney general on nursing home coronavirus deaths. the report says officials undercounted those deaths by as much as 50%. in a press conference friday, the governor reacted with grief and anger and placing some of the blame on the trump administration. alex hogan is live in new york city with more. alex? >> reporter: hi, arthel. i'm here in new york outside of governor andrew cuomo's new york city office. the governor did respond to that report, as you mentioned, this week saying a lot of the information was already known. >> the numbers, the bottom line number doesn't change. you die in a hospital, you die in a facility, that's your total number. >> reporter: the report released thursday finding that new york governor andrew cuomo's policy in march requiring

nursing homes to accept covid-19 patients during the pandemic may have increased this risk. the new york department of health finding that more than 12,000 people died, 4,000 more than reported. the initial numbers do not count patients who were infected with the virus and later died at hospitals. cuomo saying no one is to blame but then shifting the focus to the federal government calling out the trump administration for playing politics. the former assistant secretary of health firing back, saying that it was far from federal guidance. >> that is completely nontrue. what governor cuomo said is the nursing homes had to take back these patients. in no way was this federal government guidance. that is just absolutely wrong, and he can't shift the blame. he has to own this one. >> reporter: so a lot of family members since those comments and even today speaking up, a lot of criticism saying that they are asking the governor for an apolo sky --

apology, for more accountable, mainly responsibility from their political leaders. arthel in. arthel: thank you, alex. eric? eric: well, for more on that troubling decision to send infected people to nursing homes, let's bring in wall street editorial page assistant editor james freeman, also a fox news contributor. you know, james, for governor andrew cuomo, this is turning into a pretty shocking scandal. questions about his stewardship, how he really handled the pandemic, even though the guy earned an emmy, he wrote a book. he was lauded and praised, you know, for his video presentations, but all this challenges the narrative. >> it's really disgraceful. obviously our colleague, janice dean, has done great work raising the alarm on this and others have as well. just so people understand, this is a long-term, aggressive cover-up effort by the cuomo administration that's finally coming undone. you go back to last summer when

governor cuomo had his health department put out a report that seemed to exonerate their management on the nursing home issue, the albany times union newspaper last summer tried to get the underlying data to that report. they were denied over and over again. at one point they were told by the cuomo administration that they were dc -- the government was on a diligent search for the data. if they didn't have the data, how could they have exonerated themselves in the report? this has gone on and on, at one point citing privacy restrictions x then they wouldn't even provide blank copies of the surveys they had sent to nursing homes, so there was no possible -- eric: do you think they tried to hide this? do you think this was a purposeful -- >> well -- [inaudible conversations] eric: -- cover it up. >> you are -- i do. i think a's clear in the -- that's clear in the record, and

i think you see as they now acknowledge once the truth has come out what real number was. the governor is now making a very dubious claim that the overall death tolls would have been the same regardless. i'm not so sure. if his policies had not been fold, if we'd had a more honest look at them earlier, perhaps things could have turned out differently. eric: you know, you mentioned janice dean. janice e her his sean, her in-laws both died of coronavirus. they were in an a assisted living facility. she has been crusading about this. what has she gotten from the administration in they dumped on her. >> yeah. nothing but -- [inaudible conversations] and an effort to discredit the truth tellers here. we really need to emphasize new york has been almost a unique disaster. it has, of course, the largest number of overall covid deaths to date in the united states,

it's -- on a per capita basis, it's number two behind new jersey which is following the same awful policies. and at the same time, we saw this mortality you also had a crushing of the economy where new york to this day has one of the highest unemployment rateses in the country -- eric: you know, governor cuomo -- james, let me interrupt you for a second, he says that the rates in nursing homes are 5% better than other states across the country. look, he said in the previous report that he was following federal guidelines, that the state was following what the trump administration was putting out, that it was okay to put people back into nursing homes, they said, if the nursing homes can handle someone who potential wily would have had coronavirus. and a lot of these infections came from staff. so what do you think about the governor's defense? >> it was a new york state order that sent those patients to the nursing homes. it was new york state policy,

often at odds with trump policy and recommendations. you remember a lot of media folks enjoyed last year presenting cuomo as kind of the successful alternative to whatever the white house was suggesting. cnn, i think there's a special responsibility for promoting this guy as some sort of model for the country. we now know both on the public health level and on the economic level his policies were a disaster. and i think his corrupting of the data was especially harmful because new york add had the early surge. this is obviously a virus that no one knew much about last year, and we're still learning. but if the approach had been honest, if the numbers had been clear, perhaps, perhaps some of these sensible doctors who have been saying for months and months and months you should focus protection on elderly in nursing homes and allow the rest

of society to continue to operate which we now realize was the right approach, not the cuomo approach, things might have turned out very differently and for the better. of. eric: it is so sad and shocking, and they say new york was one of the few states that counted these deaths of people when they went to the hospital. the nursing home patients, if they died in the hospital, they counted them not as a nursing home death. now they are, and there's still questions about that. james freeman of the wall street george, to be continued. thank you. >> thanks, shaun. thanks, eric. eric: and later on our -- arthel: eric, thank you very much. well, president biden, he is visiting the walter reed national military medical center for the first time as president. the visit particularly motional for mr. biden because it is where his son beau passed away in 2015 from brain cancer. president biden spent about an hour with five wounded service of members getting treatment

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ceo of leventhal global advisers. dominic, first of all, what does all of this mean? just break it down for us. >> all right. so let's start why this whole thing happened. so let's say, arthel, i own a stock, and i don't like it because i think that stock is going to go down. well, simply, i'm just going to sell it, take my money and put it someplace else. but if i want to profit from the price of that stock going down, let's say from $10 to $2, i can actually borrow shares. let's say i borrow e from you, i will go out and sell them in the market at $10, i will wait for the price to come down, buy 'em back at $2 and return those shares to you. and profit the $8. so we have billionaire hedge funds out there that are playing this game with these stocks thinking the price is going to go down, have sold billions of dollars worth of these shares hoping the price would go down,

they could buy them back and return those shares. the problem is small investors is have figured out this game, and instead of the price of the stock going down, the stock has gone up, forcing these billionaire hedge funds to come back and buy 'em at higher prices, huge losses for the billionaire hedge funds, big profits for the small investors. arthel: thank you for breaking that down, and that's what i was going to ask you, how is that different from what happens inside hedge funds, and you just told us. but also, why should we care? >> well, the big issue here is that the price of this company, gamestop, has gone through the roof. and to it's one thing when you're pushing this lever to try to push a stock up so you could profit from it, but now we have an incredible amount of unsophisticated small investors who are just focusing on the price of the stock going higher. so we have a lot of small investors buying it not quite understanding the panics. and the other side you have very

large institutional traders that have literally lost a billion dollars, money that they may have to go and borrow to try to pay back. they might be forced to el other stocks -- to sell other stocks and bonds that they normally would not want to sell, depressing the prices of the stock market which is what we've had happen this week. and ultimately, they could have to close their doors and maybe those they partner with also be in financial difficulty. so so we are dealing with a very precarious situation right now. it'll unraffle, but hopefully not with too much damage. arthel: if i'm one of those little guys, why shouldn't i get in the same game? why shouldn't i, the so-called little guy, get in the game and game the system? >> well, so this is exactly their argument. they've watched big players, the clash of the titans back when we saw this happen with herbalife and other companies, and these major institutions, investors made a lot of money or lost a

lot of money. from their perspective, hey, guess what? i'm going to be one of these guys, and in a herd mentality, they're actually acting like a billion dollar hedge fund. the problem, of course, is they bid up the price of these companies to an unrealistic price. sooner or later those companies are going to come back down to normal. if you end up buying the price of that stock at a high, you're going to suffer that loss. it really a game of musical chairs. the music's going to stop playing. arthel: don't stop the music ever. i love music. anyway, back to this story. why do or should lawmakers or the federal government care or get involved? >> so little investors not understanding what they're doing and should there be some guard there to protect them from themselves. also if you had a major financial institution fall, fail in this case, would it bring down the system, would it create damage to other financial

institutions. so there should be some safeguards here. but certainly the little investors are going we're just playing the same game that the big boys are playing and beating them at their own game. arthel: we will continue to watch this story, and tom nick, we'll have you -- dominic, we'll have you back on to talk about it. >> love to. thank you, arkansas hell. arthel: take care. eric: the new deadly form of coronavirus, we're told, is spreading across the country this as the next expected vaccine from johnson & johnson, well, it's not as effective as the two current vaccines on the market at 70%. so what does that mean if you have to get that one? plus, we were told that jimmy hoffa is buried in a metal barrel in new jersey. well, guess what we found in for the latest on the search for jimmy hoffa all weekend long, go to our streaming service, fox nation. you can catch the new show, "riddle: the search for james r.

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senate majority leader chuck schumer making the announcement. his body will arrive on tuesday. officer sicknick's death is being investigated as a homicide. two people in california after a massive winter storm shammed the west coast flooding homes, triggering mudslides and cutting power to thousands, hundreds of thousands of power. a massive portion of the iconic highway 1 near big sur washed into the pacific ocean. and legendary college basketball coach john chaney has died at 89. he led temple university to 17 ncaa tournament appearances over 24 seasons. the coach was also a staunch advocate of helping poor adolescents better their lives through education. temple says mr. chaney died after a short illness. eric: and that is a well-deserved tribute to officer

sicknick at the capitol. meanwhile, president biden is making a push to try and safely reopen the majority of k-8 schools in the first is 00 days -- 100 days of his presidency. california governor gavin newsom is warning schools may not open this academic year if all the teachers and staff have to be vaccinated. christina coleman live in los angeles which has been so hard hit by covid-19. christina? >> reporter: yeah, it definitely has. many parents just want their kids back in school, they're exhausted and tired of all this back and forth between unions and the school districts, but the fighting continues. this week the california teachers association pushed back against reopening by sending a letter to the governor that says an aggressive plan focused on statewide safety measures and effective vaccine rollouts for essential workers including educators is needed. newsom, who would like schools to reopen for some students within the next couple of weeks,

reportedly told the union, quote: if we wait for the perfect, we might as well pack it up and just be honest with folks that we're not going to open for in-person instruction this school year. chicago's mayor, lori lightfoot, is taking a stand saying chicago's public schools will reopen for elementary and middle schools monday even though the union and the school district still in negotiations, so this could lead to a teacher strike. >> union leadership has chosen to disregard the science on reopening schools and instead replace cdc guidance with their own gut instincts. >> unfortunately, yet another day where we in the cps kept fighting for our children. and in this day, the ctu leadership has failed. >> reporter: tension is also mounting in massachusetts. governor charlie baker announced seniors 65 and older moving those up in the state's priority-based covid vaccine

rollout. critics say it will day teachers getting the shotses by a couple of weeks even though the governor wants the schools to open. and this comes as dr. anthony a few backs the cdc findings that the transmission risks of covid-19 appears to be low within schools with appropriate mitigation efforts. meantime, biden's chief of staff, ron klain, is reiterating the notion that more financial investments in public schools are needed so they can reopen stayly are, pushing for biden's -- safely, pushing for biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief package. eric? eric: christina, thank you. arthel: a second state has now confirmed a case of the new south african covid-19 strain. maryland's governor making the announcement today. just two days after the strain was first detected south carolina. this as health officials predicted the u.k. covid variant will be the dominant strain in the u.s. and worldwide by march.

meanwhile, johnson and johnson revealing its single-shot vaccine was found to be 72% effective in preventing moderate to severe covid-19 in a nationwide phase three trial but only 66% in a larger trial worldwide. the company says it plans to apply for emergency use authorization in the u.s. early february with the product ready to ship immediately following approval. let's bring in dr. marty makary of johns hopkins university. he's joining us now, he is also a fox news medical contributor. so, dr. makary, what's your take on the johnson & johnson vaccine? would you recommend are it? >> i would. you know, 72% effective is pretty good and, remember, it's not an apples to apples comparison with the other pfizer and moderna vaccine because there's a lot more variants out there now. so with all of the vaccines, it appears that the effectiveness is lower with the new mutations, so something to keep in mind.

arthel: so do you know if johnson & johnson is developing a second shot? >> yeah. actually, all the companies are working on a second shot. that is another version of the vaccine to address the mutations. moderna was really the most effective in talking to the media about that, j&j says they're doing the same. you know, j&j's trial with this new vaccine that was done in south africa showed only 57% protection, and that's probably because of the south african variant. arthel: i'm going to get back to that in a second, but i understand that johnson & johnson, the vaccine was created using a different virus rather than an mrna technology. does that make it more or less effective? >> this is a technology that's been around for a while. it was used with ebola successfully. it's a virus that does not cause illness in humans, but it does generate that spike protein so the body can start the immune response. arthel: so back no these variants, i mean, are we in a

race, dr. makary, against the virus and its characteristic of mutating or reproducing new strains or variants? i mean, can the current vaccines keep up? >> yeah, absolutely. we're at a real critical point right now, arthel, because we're seeing a rapid deceleration in daily cases in the united states, a 40% reduction in daily are new cases over the last three weeks. but at the same time, the new variants pose a significant risk. they're more contagious, they may be more deadly, and the vaccines are increasingly working less effective as more mutations happen. and given the current rate, it's pretty clear people are going to need to come back for another vaccine more frequently than previously thought. arthel: perhaps once a year? >> i don't think it'll be as frequent as the influenza virus, but pretty frequently. arthel: what's the best? until we can get the majority of americans vaccinated, how do we

protect ourselves? >> i think the standard precautions, i also think we should be maximizing first doses. you know, a lot of states are holding back their second doses. they should be maximizing people to get first doses. i don't think it makes sense from a saving lives standpoint to give somebody a second dose when you've got vulnerable high-risk americans not getting the first dose, and we know the first dose confers pretty good immunity, 80-90%. it increases over time, and no one has ever died because they missed or delayed their second dose to date. arthel: so you're saying get the shots in the arms as soon as possible, and then you feel confident that the second doses will ship and be distributed and arrive at their proper locations in time for that second date dose even if there's a little bit of a delay. >> yeah. delay is not our major concern. our concern is a race against time with the new variants. you know, 50 million vaccines, arthel, have been distributed,

but only 54% have been given in people's arms. so about half the supply is sitting around right now. some states are doing better and others are doing worse. states that are doing better, ironically, are ones with very small departments of health. west virginia is doing best, 81% of their supplies administered. north dakota, south dakota, they're second and third. these are small departments of health that work efficiently. meanwhile, maryland, massachusetts, california, illinois have distributed not even half of their supplies. those are larger departments. arthel: yeah. and i've heard on a press conference the other day that the west virginia governor got a shout-out for tining such a good job. do you feel confident -- well, i'm not going to ask you that question. it seems that the biden administration seem to be very diligent about getting this distribution system in order. we wish them well, we hope for the best, that's for all of us. what can we do? should i double mask? >> arthel, ooh i've been wearing a surgical mask in the operating

room for my entire career, and if it's worked for me for 25 years, i think a simple surgical grade mask works for everybody. now, if you're high risk and you're losing a poor quality mask, a cloth mask, maybe a second mask could make sense. arthel: okay. thank you very much, dr. marty makary, appreciate your with advice. >> thanks so much. arkansas a take care. everything eric very good advice. meanwhile, overseas moscow is cracking down on protests in support of kremlin critic alexei navalny. his brother was put urn house arrest yesterday, this as the united nations security council is set e to discuss this coming wednesday a proposal to possibly intervene in the standoff and investigate navalny's original poisoning. kitty logan is live in london now with the very latest on that. hi, kitty. >> reporter: hi, eric. yes, will there have been

widespread international criticism of navalny's arrest. he's still in jail ahead of the next protests by his supporters tomorrow. navalny appeared in court on thursday. he accused the government, the russian government, of trying to intimidate him. his appeal against his arrest was rejected. of course, navalny was detained back on january 17th as he returned to russia from germany. he was recovering from a suspected poisoning. last saturday were some of the largest demonstrations in russia in many years in several cities, all calling for his release. thousands arrested during those protests. among them, navalny's wife x. this week that net closed even further with the arrest, as you mentioned, of navalny's brother, or just one of a series of raids on homes and offices linked to navalny's family and supporters. president biden has voiced

concern about this in a call with vladimir putin, and russian police are already warning people to stay away from that protest planned in moscow for sunday, but it seems that navalny's supporters are very determined. eric? eric: all right, kitty, we'll see what happens. thank you. arthel. arthel: outrage as millions of americans wait anxiously for the coronavirus vaccine while the pentagon is now offering vaccines to guantanamo bay prisoners including the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. that's coming up next. ♪ supplements— neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. research shows people remember commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back.

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sparking outrage particularly after president biden warned it may take months for the majority of the rest of us, americans, to get their shots. danielle hoffman, former cia station chief, joins us, fox news contributor. so, dan, the pentagon says that the gitmo detainees, they need the vaccine before they can appear in court. well, why not give it to the judges and the lawyers to make sure they're protected and not these guys? >> yeah, i think that would certainly make sense. you know, i know firsthand the legal profession has used technology very well to enable remote functioning of the legal process, and, look, we all know that detainees and prisoners are very comfortable with physical and social distancing. you'd think that they would have found a suitable work-around here as opposed to giving what is a very short supply of the vaccine which is saving lives for our citizens. eric: i mean, it's stunning.

here's governor george pataki who was the above of new york during 9/11. he tweeted this out: the mastermind of those horrible attacks and the man who bragged about beheading daniel parallel gets advantage d daniel pearl gets vaccinated before the men and women of 9/11? inexcusable. they're vaccinating these monsters? you know, the rest of us, most of us can't get the vaccination at this time? can the pentagon reverse this? should the pentagon reverse this, or is this humane? >> so i think, you know, i would think that they could reverse it. i would think based on my experience the highly likely the pentagon made the decision unilargely without getting any input from the white house. first of all, we're talking about 80 vaccines, so it's not 800 or 8,000 or even 8 million. and so far our government has

distributed almost 50 million vaccines. we've administered 25 million. but still, 80 vaccines is 80 vaccines, and how many lives would those vaccines save? and that's where, i think, when you've got a vaccine in short supply, you've got to set priorities. we've already done that. we've said that seniors and those with caron ec health conditions -- chronic health conditions can get them, and some of them are waitingment it would obviously obviously be the right thing to do to make the detainees go without those. and as you pointed out, this is horrifically bad optics. you've got 9/11 first responders who aren't getting the vaccine and the guy who masterminded the attack getting one. that doesn't make any sense. eric: you know what in grandma's got to go to gitmo e to go get a vaccine. while we're talking about this, dan, breaking news, folks, the pentagon has announced they're pausing this. this is occurring as we are talking about right now live on the fox news channel.

here is the statement from john kirby, pentagon press secretary. quote: no guantanamo detain knees have been vaccinated -- detainees have been vaccinated. so breaking news, they're pausing it for now. dan of match, your reaction to that. -- dan hoffman, your reaction to that. >> it's good. this is what democracy, this is what it's all about in our country. you shine a spotlight on something, and department of defense, to their credit, took a look at this and, apparently, they've made the right decision. good on 'em. eric: good on them. we'll follow up on all of this, this decision, this surprise and sudden reversal to give vaccinations to the detainees including the mastermind of 9/11. yeah, having -- do it remotely in court like everyone else has been doing it. dan hoffman, former cia station chief in moscow and elsewhere,

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arthel: oh, boy, a slow moving went stom will pile up snow from chicago to d.c., and that is before bringing several inches of snow to new york city. and beyond. meteorologist adam klotz has the forecast. so, adam, the city of new york as well as the outskirts, tell us the deets. adam: a whole lot of folks are going to be seeing snow. currently, just a big rainmaker across portions of the plains. you're seeing heavy rain currently through kansas and lifting up into illinois, but it's running into colder air, and it suddenly becomes an ice storm and snowstorm, and we see watches and warnings stretching from iowa across the great lakes, mid-atlantic including washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york. how much snow you're going to see, i'll tell you in just a moment, but as far as the timing

goes, we really see the temperatures drop and this get into some of that colder air overnight tonight, so tonight around chicago and stretching across the great lakes. sunday, particularly late in the day, this is a slow moving storm, you start to see more of that snow along the east coast. and because it's such a slow mover, trout the day on -- flout the day -- throughout the day monday into tuesday, that's one of the reasons you're going to see so much snow pile up in the next couple of days. here are our potential snowfall totals, as much as 10 inches in chicago, running down along the coast, again, maybe 10 inches in the philadelphia area. 7 or so inches in new york city. maybe a little bit less snow as you head farther north. the snow is not only going to be along the coastal areas. if you live farther inland, we're going to see over a foot in places like pennsylvania, inland, upstate new york, so a lot of snow is on the way, arthel. arthel: the snow boots are ready.

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