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>> mr. president. >> president biden, why do you pardon your son? >> bill: that from four hours ago in the tarmac on west africa. no comment. president biden ignoring reporters after doing something he said repeatedly he would not do. issue a sweeping pardon to his son, hunter. that's the news that broke late last night. good morning. after the thanksgiving break we plow straight into christmas. i'm bill hemmer and welcome to our program. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." i guess the president was in a giving mood last night. he goes to africa on the timing of it is very interesting. he usually likes to talk with the helicopters are running and you can't hear anything. today not so much. hunter biden was scheduled to be sentenced later this month on federal gun and tax charges. the pardon spares him a possible prison sentence and marks a stunning reversal by the president. you will remember this. >> president biden: i'm

extremely proud of my son, hunter. he has overcome an addiction and he is one of the brightest, most decent men i know and i'm satisfied. i won't do anything. i said i would abide by the jury decision and i will do that and not pardon him. >> are you except the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter what it is. >> yes. >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> bill: "new york post" cover says hunter gets away with it. >> dana: president biden ran on restoring integrity to the justice system. he returned to that theme over and over. >> president biden: no one is above the law. each of us is equal before the law. no one -- no one is above the law. not even the president of the united states. the american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. my administration, no one is

above the law. >> the president believes no one is above the law. and the president met the moment talking about how no one is above the law here. >> the president and vice president believe no one is above the law, right? >> bill: you got it? a theme there. team fox coverage. andy mccarthy and kayleigh mcenany have analysis. first the white house and madeleine rivera on the north lawn. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. the president's pardon undermines his attempts to try to distance himself from president-elect trump who has accused the justice department of being politicized. a tough one for the white house to explain after consistently saying this. >> is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. >> president biden says that he is not going to pardon his son, hunter. will he ask donald trump to do that? >> i'm not going to go down a rabbit hole on this. i'm clear and we've been asked this question. >> does the president have any intention of pardoning him?

>> we've been asked that question multiple times. our answer stands, which is no. >> the president's full and unconditional pardon spans ten years. not just cover hunter's federal gun and tax charges that he was supposed to be sentenced later this month but any other crime the first son may have committed from january 2014 to december 2024. that period covers hunter's time on the board of ukrainian energy company burisma. on sunday night hunter's legal team filed paperwork in delaware and los angeles asking the judges to dismiss his gun and tax cases. the president is asking americans to understand how he came to this decision as a father. a choice he says he finalized over the weekend. democrats are divided. some saying it sets a bad precedent putting family over country. president trump says does the pardon given by joe to hunter include the january 6th hostages in prison for years? such an abuse and miscarriage of

justice. we'll see if white house press secretary karine jean-pierre will have anything to say today. she is set to gaggle on air force one tonight as the president heads to angola. >> bill: timing is convenient no doubt. madeleine, nice to see you. >> dana: andy mccarthy and kayleigh mcenany join us. andy, you've written a piece. you mention two things i want to bring up. as a matter of law like the crimes never happened and you have specific information that i don't think people have heard yet. i want our audience to understand why the date of him pardoning his son on december 1st mattered. >> well, i think, dana, the sentenceings were scheduled for the delaware case i think next thursday, the 12th and the following monday he was going to be sentenced on the california charges. so in the federal law, in the criminal law this is a state thing as well, you are not a

convicted felon formly until the court enters the judgment of conviction on the record. we talked about this some in connection with what has gone on with president trump's cases -- his case in manhattan. the same situation here. hunter did not want to be a convicted felon. i think you can look at the way that he litigated these cases and some of the choices he made he knew all along he was getting a pardon, notwithstanding all biden's denials. it was important that it happened before he had sentences imposed on him because now he can say he was never actually convicted of a crime. >> dana: right. >> bill: the governor of colorado said i'm disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. tarnish his reputation.

hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself. you can sympathize with struggles but no one is above the law, the president or his son. >> he is right. powerful language in biden's pardon about every parent understanding a father wanting to pardon a son. i understand that. i don't understand the lying or the merrick garland d.o.j. raided melania's closet and pardons his son. when history looks back you will see a legacy of injustice. not just the raid on mar-a-lago, the prosecutions of donald trump. it was also the radical catholic memo from the f.b.i. paulette harlow, 76-year-old. she is sitting in jail right now two year sentence for being in front of an abortion clinic standing peacefully. her husband is devastated and thinks she will die in jail. hunter biden gets a pardon. a lot of people don't understand the disparity. the legacy of injustice will

sear into the minds of people. >> dana: president trump knew it was coming. bill melugin asked him about this. watch here. >> you've talked about wanting to unify the country if elected. if you're president again in the name of unity would you consider pardoning hunter biden? >> well, i wouldn't do anything that would be overt in terms of hunter. it is a sad situation. i will bet you the father probably pardons him. let's see what happens. but he is a bad boy. >> dana: he anticipated it would happen. andy, what about the fact that biden and just insisted and through his spokesperson insisted that no one was above the law. they said over and over again. unfortunately for them i don't think anybody believed them anyway. >> well, this goes to what she was talking about. anyone -- i certainly as a father could understand that you would -- if you had the power to spare your son imprisonment, if

it were my sons i would have spared them prosecution in the first place which he could have done. i think that goes to the political calculations that went into this. as she said, anybody could have understood if biden had said look, this is my son, i know it's abusive but i am going to pardon him. they would have understood that a lot better than the series of lies. the series of lies were driven by the election calendar. they wouldn't do the pardon prior to the election because they realized that the electorate would have went nuts over it. so they lied about it again and again. i think you are right that nobody really believed them. certainly nobody who looked at the choices that hunter and his lawyers made during these cases. they had to know they were getting a pardon. i don't think anybody believed it. >> bill: if you look at the president's statement he says two things. he said no one is brought to trial for filling out a gun form

improperly. paraphrasing the words there. he is making the case if you pay back taxes there is no penalty. the penalty for prison comes off of that. are those two statements true? >> if i rob a bank but bring the money back that's okay, bill? it's idiotic. as far as the gun case is concerned it was not a lie and try case. he actually got the gun. those cases get brought all the time. as for a tax violation like the bank robbery. a little drastic example but makes the point paying back the money that you owe doesn't mean that you didn't commit the crime. it is not a defense. so it is just -- those are silly arguments and in point of fact he got cut break after break because he was hunter biden, because he was the president's

son. this idea that he was singled out for that reason, they actually tried to make the case against him go away, which is a break that no american would get. >> dana: we were going the try to get to kash patel and the f.b.i. nomination. i do want to ask you about this. if you think about the new to trump voters over this past month, right? one of the things that they were frustrated about is they felt the leaders were not in touch with them. they didn't care about themes re things for them. we'll talk to somebody later who did hard time for the same thing that hunter is accused of doing and convicted of doing. now he is not a convicted felon like these things never happened. that feeling of the elites being better than the people that carries through with this pardon. >> absolutely. pro-life activist i mentioned. some of whom jail or acquitted by a jury. huge disparity. when they see selective and

unfairly prosecuted. it was trump with the new york case. "new york times" reviewed any case and count find any case like that. that language applied to trump. i remind everyone august 11, 2023, merrick garland appointed special prosecutor david weiss. it was your d.o.j. that appointed the special counsel. >> bill: thanks to both of you. good stuff this morning. thanks for coming on. there is this from tom cotton late last night. most americans can sympathize with a father's decision to pardon his son even if they disagree. what they can't forgive is biden lying about it repeatedly before the election. senator cotton is coming up next hour. >> dana: interesting how many democrats like governor polis. they are in the leadership vacuum now and how do we lead this party and go in a different

direction. could start there. >> bill: new york city, watch. we are getting close to the end. testimony from both sides has ended. closing arguments set to begin in about 45 minutes from now in the new york city subway choke hold trial. we'll take you there. also this today. >> i think mr. putin is a tyrant. i think dealing with him will be extremely difficult. i give president trump credit for saying that he wants to end this. >> dana: potential diplomatic opening in the war in ukraine. what president zelenskyy is apparently offering and what he wants in return. we'll talk to all the strategy with jack p keane. >> bill: saturday was something, folks. some of the biggest rivalries in college football went nasty. we asked today what's going on

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>> dana: well, it continues. world leaders are coming to the table. president-elect trump met with canadian prime minister trudeau as mar-a-lago over the weekend. as you know trump is threatening canada is steep tariffs if they do not secure their border. bill melugin has the latest from west palm beach, florida. how did that conversation go, bill? >> dana, good morning . trump said it was a productive conversation. it has been a busy stretch of diplomacy with him. he had a phone call with the

mexican president and justin trudeau headed to mar-a-lago and had dinner with the income president. trump's allies say it is a sign world leaders are willing to come to the table. >> what you are going to see is basically the global diplomacy of rock, paper, scissors. strength, weakness, appeasement. string wins. that's why you saw justin trudeau fly to palm beach to meet with president trump. >> trump's conversations with these leaders of mexico and canada came after trump threatened both of those countries with tariffs if they don't get a handle on their borders, secure them and stop the flow of migrants into the u.s. some democrats out there say they believe if trump follows through with the threats of tariffs they will end up doing more harm than good. >> donald trump engages in sort of thoughtless, insane tariff policy that ends up in prices going up but jobs not being

created in the united states. so you have to use tariffs in the right way. if you use them the right way it can create jobs. >> trump is also taking aim at the brix countries threatening them with tariffs. he said the idea the brics countries are moving away the dollar is over. we require a commitment to they will not commit a new currency or back any other currency to replace the mighty u.s. dollar or face 100% tariffs and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful u.s. economy. back out here live as for what we can expect this week. trump doesn't have any listed public events but dana we know the drill by now. he can announce anything at any time on truth social and we'll be standing by to see if any more foreign visitors suddenly show up to have a quick meeting with the incoming president. send it back to you. >> dana: busy airport in palm

beach at this time. thanks so much. now the other bill. >> if we want to stop to hot stage of the war we should take under nato umbrella the territory of ukraine that we have under our control. that's what we need to do fast. and then ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically. >> bill: interesting answer there about the future of ukraine and what happens with the war and changing american administration. the war started in february of 2022 on the map behind me this is dated yesterday december 1, 2022. two years ago now, thereabouts, everything in red was occupied by the russian forces, everything in blue is represented by the ukrainian counter offensive. two years ago as of yesterday. the map will advance one time. two years ago, yesterday and two years ago now. i'll go back one, you can decide for yourself how much progress is being made by either side. really grind out war right now. want to bring in general jack

keane and talk about this. i don't know what he was trying to say by that comment. ukrainian constitution doesn't recognize any land that is not its own which russia has about a fifth of that territory. what gives, what happens, how do you resolve this, general? >> i think where zelenskyy is coming from now talking publicly about things he has been sharing privately for months. that if he gets into a settlement with putin, he is willing to cede to him. he is seeking a model established post world war ii when russia formed the soviet union, occupied east germany, the international territory of germany was never given up. russia occupied east germany and the territorial boundaries remained the same knowing that at some point germany would likely return to some kind of

unification. zelenskyy wants the international territory of ukraine to stay in place even though russia is occupying some portion of it and he believes over time they will be able to get back the rest of the territory. of course that's aspirational but that's his goal. the second thing is if he makes a deal with putin he knows putin is never giving up on the aspiration to topple the government in kiev eventually, put a stooge in and take control of ukraine. he would see the negotiation as just a temporary impasse to that goal. that's why zelenskyy wants some guarantee from nato, a formal invitation to join nato. he would love to have a timeline. nato doesn't have to give him a timeline and hopefully in zelenskyy's mind it will push back the russians from their aspirational goals. >> bill: it is hard stuff to figure out, too, with the current state of that war.

you have hot spots everywhere. ukraine, middle east, now syria from over the weekend, which could lead to something that a lot of people do not know. here is jake sullivan, nsa talking about that on sunday. >> we were not surprised that these rebels would try to take advantage of a new situation in which the syrian government's main backers iran, russia, and hezbollah were all distracted and weakened by conflicts and events elsewhere. they had seen them weaker and more exposed than before and they tried to take advantage of it. >> bill: here is where it gets really sticky. some of these rebels in aleppo could carry remnants of al qaeda or islamic state. the main u.s. interest is preventing the spread of mayhem into israel or iraq that might lead to the revival of the islamic state. the u.s. is a bystander but renewed fighting is a reason to back israel a rare friend in a deadly region.

did you see this coming, general? >> i don't think most people saw that coming. jake sullivan certainly has classified reports that we don't have but likely surprised as well. a stunning defeat. took four years for the syrian regime with hezbollah ground forces doing most of the fighting for the syrian army for years in syria, russian air power, four years for them to take aleppo from the opposition forces. it took them 48 hours to take it back. why? hezbollah is gone. where are they? back fighting israel where they've been. the syrian army is broken, low morale, never has been very effective to begin with and right now the country is almost in bankrupt. people are in despair. military is demoralized. they just walked in and the army fled. there wasn't much fighting at all, bill.

that's a stunning defeat for assad. can he regroup and get some of this back? remains to be seen. russia has been trying to get assad to make a peace deal with the moderates and enter into the political process for years. this may force him to do it. u.s. interests as you indicated are just that. we don't want isis to rise again. we support the syrian kurds and arabs east of the euphrates river valley. special ops and air power supporting them. that's as it should be. isis wants to rise again for sure. we've already seen the telegraph of that in europe and also taking place in afghanistan. >> bill: we'll see where it goes. thank you. talk later in the week, okay? jack keane. thank you. >> dana: new york city's 220 million deal to house migrants in a hotel with ties to pakistan is sparking debates. critics are raising concerns about money from taxpayers going to foreign governments. the incoming trump

administration is weighing in. plus our big story of the morning. president biden is pardoning his son, hunter, for tax and gun charges. miranda devine joins us with her extensive knowledge of the cases. >> he thought his influence as president of the united states could influence the outcome of the jury. the way he has influenced the indictments and continual weaponization of department of justice against president trump and his family. for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. hi, i'm greg. i live in bloomington, illinois. i'm not an actor. i'm just a regular person.

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roosevelt hotel behind me. owned by pakistan international airlines, a state-controlled entity. last year the city of new york entered into a three-year, $220 million deal to use the 1,000 or so hotel rooms to house illegal migrants. that deal is now sparking new debate over the weekend with vivek ramaswamy posting this on x on saturday. a taxpayer funded hotel for illegal migrants is owned by the pakistani government. new york city taxpayers are paying a foreign government to house illegals in our own country. this is nuts. as we know, ramaswamy will lead the department of government efficiency or doge with elon musk and their mission will be to cut federal spending and government waste. they may very well focus in on spending on the migrant crisis. bill, as of 2023, illegal immigration cost taxpayers at least $182 billion annually and

state and federal tax dollars. the bulk of those costs incurred on education and medical care. most of those expenses are borne by state and local governments. here in new york city mayor eric adams projects that this city alone will spend $10 billion on the migrant crisis through the summer of next year. really underscoring questions about spending is a city audit report that shows 1.7 million are spent over two months on almost 10,000 hotel rooms here in new york city that were not used at all to house migrants. a lot of questions about spending, bill. >> bill: yes. the mayor was right about that. lydia hu, thank you outside the roosevelt hotel. >> dana: the reaction is pouring in after president biden announced a sweeping pardon for his son, hunter. our next guest writes this. we always knew joe would pardon troubled son hunter feeling the president would break another promise to the american people.

i think that's right. who believed them when they said over and over again no one was above the law and accept what the people said. that's not the case of what happened. miranda, i want to show people some of thse the question as to whether this is about the court of law or whether this is somewhat political theater. this has opened the door to these type of political pardons in such a way it will be hard for democrats and others to critique anything that donald trump does on this scale. >> the reality here is if this was anyone other than joe biden's son no one would object to a pardon. >> dana: what say you, miranda? >> well, i mean i think that the most surprising thing about all of this is that anyone is surprised that joe biden lied. he made sure to continue that lie that he would not pardon his son right through the election and then, you know, even after

the election he had karine jean-pierre speak at the white house podium and perpetuate that lie knowing full well that he always intended to pardon hunter. i think what is just impossible for democrats to defend is that this is not just about a father looking after his son and when the sentencing was supposed to happen in a couple of weeks. this is joe biden going retrospectively going back 11 years to insure that he himself is not ensnared in any investigation into his family's influence peddling around the world earning millions of dollars when he was vice president. this is joe biden protecting himself. >> bill: and maybe his brother, miranda. >> well, of course. i'm sure that will be the next pardon. why wouldn't joe biden just go

willy-nilly and pardon everyone in his family? anyone he can think of, because he will take whatever political hit he needs to for in 11-year pardon for hunter for any crime that he might have committed and that includes, of course, the ukraine grift back in 2014. >> bill: your theory, then, is that he has got to put an umbrella of protection around specific family members, maybe more than two, in order to prevent congress from going after what they believe was wrongdoing as they have chased for four years. >> yes. obviously hunter is the most involved in all the china and ukraine and romania. but jim biden, hunter's uncle, was also involved in some of the china deals with hunter and then there are other family members

who received money and i think james comer on the oversight committee did a good job of following the money trail and seeing where it led from those sort of shady oligarchs and chinese ccp members through to various cut-outs and then eventually to the bank accounts of several biden family members, including joe biden himself. although we're told that that was a loan repayment from jim biden to joe biden on those two checks. >> dana: right. as you said, a lot of family members got money including some grandchildren in that. i'm sure they didn't do any of the work. you have to wonder about joe biden allowing hunter to do this for so long in the first place. president biden -- president obama and his team were concerned about it enough to raise it but it continued. let me ask you this, miranda, do you anticipate or know or have a feeling whether the incoming trump administration would continue these investigations? >> look, i think it's very hard

for them to pursue them given the pardon and the upcoming probably other pardons. i think also that really although the corruption is egregious and ongoing and a sell out of the country during joe's vice president and compromised him during his presidency, i think the bigger crime and the worst story was of the cover-up and this was, you know, whether it be the department of justice, the f.b.i., the c.i.a., the department of state, the i.r.s., they all covered up for hunter biden and joe biden over many years. and i wrote about that in my recent book. the c.i.a. director under trump gave the green light to what i call the dirty 51 letter written

by the 51 former intelligence officials falsely claiming that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. that was a c.i.a. domestic election interference operation. you had the same from the f.b.i., coercing twitter and facebook to censor the "new york post"'s stories about the hunter biden laptop. >> bill: thank you for coming on. donald trump's attorney general pick pam bondi making her pitch as we speak to senators on capitol hill. california governor newsom might be changing his tune. but will that fly in the golden state? is california about to be the new place of resistance from the left in america? we put our arm around the veterans. when i think of the veteran out

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>> dana: the deep blugold en state losing its hugh. leaders opposition for donald trump appears to be softening and governor newsom's plan to disrupt the incoming administration looks like they will fail to get off the ground. we're tracking this in los angeles and william la jeunesse has the latest. >> right now we're seeing two

gavin newsom's, two days after the election he wanted to trump proof california, transgender rights and e.v.s. no talk of getting along. he promised to wage a policy and political war against trump. >> it is not a theoretical exercise. we know what happened the last time donald trump was president. he vandalized our progress, vandalized our programs. he broke the law. >> now, however, different story. he told the "l. a. times" yesterday it is not about resistance, it is about practicing thattism and preparedness and now recalibrating his message telling california and other democrats, you know, maybe the state is moving to the right on issues like crime, taxes, and immigration. >> there has been a shift. the biggest shift probably coming amongst latinos in california. they are clearly starting to vote more republican. >> so while harris won the popular vote trump won more counties. last time california spend 42

million fighting trump. today democrats are proposing $25 million to protect so-called california. basically, dana, places like l.a., san francisco, don't expect the kind of reasonable approach to president trump. >> dana: lots of other counties went the other way. >> bill: let's bring in the incoming border czar tom homan. here is alex,, a democrat from california. push may come to shove. >> we are not going to utilize state and local resources to do the federal government's job for them. so if it is legal assistance, legal advice and support that is just the california way. we embrace our diversity, our diversity is what made our communities thrive and our economy thrive. so we'll assist families against the threats of the trump administration. >> bill: that last line. we'll assist families against the threats of the trump

administration which you'll soon be a part. california four years ago, california today. look at that red shift. there is still plenty of blue if you want to run and hide, tom. what will happen? >> look, we're not asking local law enforcement to be immigration officers. we're asking them to just for instance to jails, let us in your jail. let us in your publicly funded jails to take custody of an illegal alien that you decided to lock into a jail cell because there is a public safety threat. the california sheriff's association is behind us. law enforcement wants to work with us. we are asking them to assist us in the jails. let us into the jail to get the bad guy. we can't arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, that means they release them back into the community which means we have to send officers in the community, unsafe for the officers and alien, unsafe for the immigrant community and they are screaming and yelling they don't want ice

officers in their neighborhoods. if you don't let us in jail you force us into the neighborhood. more officers in the jail means less officers in the neighborhood. simple math. >> bill: speaking of bad guys from california no new york. "new york post" cover tren de aragua gang bangers tied to wild colorado apartment takeover arrested in major new york city drug gun bust according to sources there. a lot of folks in colorado said it is not true what is happening in places like a aurora. in new york city now you have thousands of illegals. 58,626 previously convicted of crimes and charges pending. i have to think that's the group that you will target based on what you have said to date, tom, am i right on that? >> aurora, colorado, i went there. i went to that apartment complex and talked to residents of that

complex. they are lying to the american people. tren de aragua took over that area and not just that one apartment complex. the entire area. i was there and i saw. you are right, new york city, there is a target-rich environment for criminal aliens with criminal charges. that's why president trump has been clear from day one. right out of the gate in a deportation operation right out of the gate priorities are public safety threats and national security threats. i hope every elected mayor and elected governor will agree with us that public safety threats need to be removed from their communities. >> bill: on that point, tom. does it appear the democratic governor -- the democratic mayor in new york, eric adams, a former cop, is ready to work with you? >> i hope so. i've been notified he wants to sit down and meet with me. i'm willing to meet with him or anybody to help make their prioritization is public safety threats. work with us on that and make

sure the community is safer and keeps the officers safe and community safe. let's work together and get this done? >> bill: when does that meeting happen? >> i will respond this week. >> bill: maybe you can come on together and we'll have it out. thank you, sir. we'll talk later in the week. tom homan, thank you. >> dana: in just minutes closing arguments are set to begin in the new york city subway choke hold trial. plus many of you are living this. winter storm burying the northeast in feet of snow. how much more can you expect to see in we'll be right back. and if you've made the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up

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>> dana: inflation is hitting the 12 days of christmas.

it would cost nearly $50,000 to buy all the presents in that song. that's a 5.4% increase from last year. the biggest jump in the partridge of a pare tree. the second highest increase was a ty between pipers piping and drummers drumming. if you're in the market, beware. >> bill: i think the fox tree has never looked better. >> dana: it's gorgeous. >> bill: all mostly white. gasoline in ohio when i left yesterday was dropping to $3.06 a gallon. it was $3.19 when i got there. 3.06 when i was leaving. that's a good thing. >> dana: end of the holiday weekend. >> bill: that's our tree and it is beautiful. we salute that. historic snowstorm blasting the northeast from michigan to new york. some folks are seeing three to five feet of snow. oh my. there is more to come.

fox weather storm specialist mike seydel is in mayville, new york south of buffalo. how goes it, mike? good morning. >> good morning, bill. and good morning dana. this will put you in the holiday spirit. we've had nearby 4 1/2 feet of snow and still coming down. another band moved in. this is your work-out this morning, guys. trying to walk through this. look at this. it is about three feet plus. it has settled since it started midnight thursday. literally hasn't stopped. a little improvement on the road. we had sun earlier and the snow stopped. now that we've got another band, look at that. 394 slushing up. good news on 90. they opened up to commercial traffic at 2:00 a.m. this morning. 90 is open in both directions for many stuck trying to get from buffalo to chicago over the weekend. we still have the warning for here in this county until tomorrow afternoon and evening. we could still see another foot

or two of snow. this snow is perfect for snow angels. >> bill: we'll see one in a moment. lake-effect snow, right? we've had a drought here in the northeast for some time. this helps. >> yes. the ski resorts are opening up in the next couple of days. one holiday, hunter mountain has opened up already. this is great for snowmobiling once hunting season ends. the trails have been touch and go over the past few years. we could end up in some areas barnes corner new york has had 5 1/2 feet of snows. some could end up with seven feet of lake-effect. cold air coming over the warm waters of lake erie. another shot coming in wednesday and thursday. this one will have a lot more wind. we've had very little wind. hardly any power outrages. that will change on thursday. blowing and drifting of snow.

>> bil