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reporter: hi jackie good to be with you we've seen over the past few days all of this work that gritty work to prepare for a transition happen. but the pageantry it will kick off funnelly from here, about 30 miles outside of d.c. later this evening with this posted reception and fireworks display but talking about some of that work even down in palm beach yesterday, the president-elect hosted new york city mayor eric adams he also had a call with chinese president xi jinping stated on that call we discuss fentanyl and president and i will make the world more peaceful and safe. and as you were talking about the administration, i mean, domestic safety, that comes with the immediate immigration action that they have been talking about and incoming border czar confirming to fox news that immigration raids will begin the day after the president-elect is sworn in that being tuesday. chicago was one example given but consider there are 25 field offices. the focus will be on individuals who are public safety threats, here's homan last hour.

>> i want categorized raids and i.c.e. goes out they're going to know exactly what they're looking for and pretty much where they'll find him a well planned operation. you would think sanctuary cities if they care about public safety if they care about the safety of the communities we want to arrest the bad guy -- >> so he said that's what they want to arrest the bad guy with the focus being on those individuals perhaps already considered public safety threats that they've had their eyes are and wanting to take action on them and waiting and an update of other things vice president president-elect jd vance hosting reception with cabinet members in d.c. tonight and president trump will lay a wreath. >> makes all of the final preparations for inauguration anti-trump protesters converging on dubbed as people's march.

fox news national correspondent brian is here with more. reporter: let's geoff our viewers a little view of this people's march right now. this is right in front of the lincoln memorial you can see, what looks like tens of thousands of people here by the reflection pull in front of the lincoln memorial many of the folk have been bussed in from at least ten states as far as maine, pennsylvania, and north carolina. you can tell some of the women have the pink hats made famous back in 2017 when the women's march first happened during president-elect trump's first inauguration. a lot of the signs here have to do with women rights and different issues here represented including immigration, lbgtq rights et cetera, we spoke to two women who came here all the way from north carolina about what the resistance is going to look like over the next four year and this is what they had to say to us. >> i'm afraid of being made to

feel even more like an object like something that is part of the game that people want control over. and like we're human beings and we deserve to have control over our own bodies and make decisions that will impact us and not have those decisions made for us. >> i think it will be more about kind of our government and really hoping that democrats can kind of actually get together and do something and i think on an individual level it will be maintaining mental health, and supporting your community. reporter: over a dozen organizations are represented here organizing people's march jackie. the first speaker who spoke just said today we have to decide to accept the future that's forced on us or fight for the future we will want. a lot has been made about fatigue, exhaustion, by the trump resistance over the last eight years, and this people's march is meant to reenergize folks to say that this fight will continue over the next four

years despite the fact that they decide to lost that fight in the last election come november. but a ton of people are out here. don't have an exact count. but the temperatures are in the 40s, and we expect speakers here to go until at least 3:00. jackie. >> we will be watching it bryan thanks. >> inside the capitol rotunda as dangerously cold temperatures for monday justice correspondent david spunt is live outside the capitol with the latest. hey, david. reporter: hey griff once we learned yesterday inauguration would be moved inside, it really changed the equation especially from a security posture still, however, you see a lot of fencing around town, and expecting to see a large police presence over the next few days because afterall, authorities are still expecting large crowds. we got sol video earlier this week and joined crews as they were setting up some of those

anti-climb fences those fences that were famously around capitol following january 6th, 2021 dome but shortly down after the inauguration this year. we're also seeing signs all across the national mall really warning people to keep out of certain areas, the secret service, the fbi park police, d.c. police all working together to be on hand through the inauguration. now, he check out earlier we jod secret service at their training facility in suburban maryland as they prepared to move the presidential motorcade from the original plan of the capitol to the white house now things are changing given the freezing temperatures on monday. but one of the gentlemen you see there in those vests has a sign that says potus meaning president of the united states. acting out as a role play to be the president, so as i said, plans are changing things are a little bit different but still the secret service and more

importantly inaugural committee wants to keep some of the traditions alive as much as possible especially for those thousands of people that have tickets that have spent money, hotel rooms whatnot, to come to washington to view this historic event. griff. griff: david spunt live for us outside of the capitol david, thank you. ♪ ♪ >> all right for more on the trump transition let's bring in our political panel with us corner stone public affairs principal lauren tomlinson and ark initiative senior advisor tim hogan thank you both for being here. appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. jackie: plans have changed in terms of what inauguration will look leak but we are seeing folkings out on the mall and around d.c. getting ready to celebrate. you know, the picture is a lot different for trump heading into office now than it was in 2017. our fox news polling shows that his favorable is at 50% compared to 42% in 2017.

i want to ask you as the democrat here -- what do you attribute that to, tim? >> i think it is a different time we've lived through an era of the first trump administration where i think when he won the first time it was a shock to the system there was a lot of talk about how this was not normal and framing of the beginning of his previous administration and there were a lot of questions about -- you know, election interference, those claims were made. but it's just different now. i will point out, though, that his approval rating still lower than a george w. bush than a barack obama than a joe biden being elected. so he's in a bit of a honeymoon period that is normal for republican presidents democrat president when is they're elected but rubber will hit the road when enact policies whether that is, you know, protectionist policies like tariffs that may drive up prices and whether or not he can actually enact pargt of his agenda.

jackie: what i didn't here as part of tim's answer was just a rejection of joe biden and his policies, and how that might have benefited trump. your thoughts. >> i see a lot of parallels with ronald reagan '85 people are talking about this a good bit not only was trump the right man for the moment but also a very big rejection of joe biden's presidency. you know, reagan came in with very popular ratings, and also a mandate to change because of jimmy carter's fail policies during the time very similar with the economy with national security issues with social justice. and i think trump too is the voters are looking at him for a drastic change we see this in the polls some of the which you referenced. you know 60% want to see a change in government in the way that things operate. so i think he enters in with high approval ratings for his agenda. we know that mandates are short-lived. so he probably only has six months of this honeymoon high popularity ratings before rubble

really hits the road and he might see a dip in that but a long runway to come in, high ratings on the transition his nominees et cetera to get things done with congress. jackie: to lauren's points tim, biden numbers are underwater. he's sitting at 40% favorable compared to 50% in 2020, and yet you have this sort of coalition of democrats now pledging a resistance 2.0 we heard this week about a group of former biden officials or -- groups basically that are putting together resources to counter what it calls emerging threats they've identified more than 200 emerging threats as it comes to the president's incoming president's expected executive orders could that backfire on democrats? >> i think the american people are going to start at a place where they want to see democrats and republicans work together. i think that is true. i will also say to lauren's point look the last election

saying that it is a referendum on the biden administration versus a support of trump pep and that is never a place you want to be when you're running for reelection so that's important to take into consideration. for democrats it depends on the issue right if the trump administration comes in, and wants to make health care less accessible if they want to pass an abortion ban if they take a hodgepodge of very unpopular policies from project 2025 and try to pass them, i think it makes perfect sense for democrats to fight that. if there are mass deportations daca sipghts are threatened with deportation if there are a whole host of policies that i think the american people would look at and say, we don't support that, and the majorities that trump has been given, they're razor thin in the house yes he flipped the senate one by 1.4% in the popular vote so does he have a huge mandate to enact project 2025? no. i think if that's the rout he goes democrats will do what they need to do to prevent that from

being actualized. >> lauren so much of this election came down to the economy. and we had fox news polling that showed that over half of americans believe that the biden administration made the economy worse. you had the president in his final interview give somewhat of an odd explanation for why he invested in red states saying that they really screwed up their economies. yet we have this reporting to show that -- red states actually recovered from the pandemic better than some blue states. do you think that we're seeing the president's age show more in his final days because that last interview he gave as someone who follows him very, very closely, it was a little bit stunning to me even he speaks slower. you see him his age wearing on him. >> i think we'll be grateful for great public service everything he's given to his country over

half a decade in washington. or longer than that actually. but he's slowing down. and you see that, and i think that his good-bye tour especially trying to create his legacy is going to be fraud because as he said himself, it's going to be decades before some of his policy impacts are really realized. but the one thing that is realized right now is inflation is worse because of the surplus stimulus spending he did during that term soundly rejected during his time and he's going to have a hard time defending his legacy and record i think that is what gives trump such a opening to do something on the economy right out of the gate. he's talking a lot about immigration, energy, some of the other issues, tax cuts, he really does need to focus too on inflation and lowering cost for americans because the reason why, you know, red states economies felt inflation so much worse is because they already had low prices because red

states have good economies they have low prices compared to blue states blue states were able to absorb inflationary impacts more so because they have high price there's greater regulations it is already labor costs are already higher. red states felt that greater and so i think that you know, trump needs to remember that as well. he's got a really important job here to get the economy back on track and prices back down. jackie: you know, tim it seems that there's been so much reporting about the president's age over the last couple of years more after he drop out of the race, obviously, but there's an interesting "new york times" article with a quote from one of his closest advisors mike donilon saying tights title of that article how inner sickle protected and the biggest is perception of ag do you think that we were actually dealing with the perception of age or just plain old age? >> this entire time i think that truth has been that aging not a conspiracy. right? it is not something that you can hide.

it is -- it is just what it is. and we had an election with two candidates we are two of the oldest candidates we've ever had for president of the united states. and that is what it is. that is the choice that we may, obviously, we had kamala harris step in on the last 107 day but that was the choice that americans were given for a very long period of time and i think we heard from voters that that was not the choice that they wanted to make but to lauren's point look i think there's a lot in this farewell address that biden gave that is about the seeds of his legacy that he has planted i think that was one of the difficulties in the election a lot of projects that democrats pushed good projects which is chips in science and producing semiconductor and infrastructure projects that are built around country, it is hard to point to those with immediacy and make americans feel the impact of how important those projectses are. those are things that happened

on the road versus what you feel every single day as inflation prices going up, and the biden administration i think at the beginning of the pandemic was focused on job loss rightfully so had a historic record of 170 jobs created but boil all of this down, i think it was the economy. >> but i also will say to that point democrats have a lot of rebuilding to do because of the brand image that lying to the american people did about his age. and telling everyone that they weren't see qhag they were seeing, and i think you're seeing that reflected greatly in the polls right now. i think that wall street journal had a poll out saying that it was like 12% you know, thought that biden could go ahead and so i think that's something that democrats are going to have to claw back out -- jackie: don't believe your lying eyes everybody got tired of hearing that, obviously, 50g years in public service, grateful to the president for his contributions to the country he's not done yet has a couple of days left and hear he might do preemptive pardon we'll see what else he has in store for us

all right lauren tomlinson tim hogan thank you very much for being here. griff. griff: great conversation, meanwhile that tiktok ban is quickly approaching with many waiting to see if president biden will intervene to save from millions of americans today. as one of his final acts in office, lucas tomlinson live from the white house with more on this. hey lucas. reporter: 170 million tiktok users in the united states to be exact, now, president biden says it is up to donald trump to decide what to do next with tiktok. >> what's your take on the tech took decision today, sir? >> decision would be made -- [inaudible conversations] >> do you think someone will buy tiktok? >> biden toed to sign the prayer book first visit there as president if he had not gone griff would have broken 200 year tradition of every president visiting dating back to james

madison. now back to tiktok, trump recently became a tiktok convert and credits reaching voters during a presidential campaign and taking a true social saying my decision on tiktok will be made in the not too distant future. but i must have time to review the situation, stay tuned. tiktok says unless the biden administration does something today, tiktok will be forced to go dark tomorrow after supreme court upheld ban and white house says this is all a stunt and urges company to wait for trump to be sworn in before taking any action now tiktok ceo posted this message to his app yesterday. >> i want to thank president trump for his commitment to define a solution that this is a strong stapgd for the first amendment and against arbitrary sensor share. >> kevin told our own bill hemmer yesterday he has a 20 billion dollar all cash offer to buy tiktok that would be

divesting company putting in american handle, and now tiktok ceo will be at the inauguration tomorrow perhaps he like around monday perhaps he would like a word with the new president. >> live bidding on our air. why not? who knows lucas tomlinson live from washington. jackie. jackie: still ahead very latest from los angeles, as homeowners assess wildfire danger and new york city ramps up security after recent violent attacks. that's next. to ♪ s ♪ so you can get back to your monster to-do list. super helpful. see if you can save money at progressivecommercial.com. thank you. do your dry eyes still feel gritty, rough, or tired? with miebo, eyes can feel ♪ miebo ohh yeah ♪ miebo is the only prescription dry eye

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griff: new york city will begin deploying police officers on every overnight train in a multimillion dollar effort to deter people from committing crimes on nation largest subway system. cb cotton is following that story, hey, cb. reporter: hi griff they are one initiative announced by kathy hochul to make subway ride rs feel safer. i mean, we learned another example just today of why some people say they feel scared while riding the subway. investigators announced this morning this this man is wanted for punching 66-year-old transit worker that happened after 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon. the on duty worker told police she was standing on the platform when this man walked up and

punched her. this is just the latest incident on heels of other high profile subway crime you may remember this past december fatally set on fire by illegal migrant and then on new year's eve a man shoved in front of a moving train and miraculously survived so beginning on monday, 750 additional new york police officers will be stationed on subway platformings and 300 more will be added to overnight trains from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. new york governor kathy hochul says nighttime hours are when subway crime is occurring and safety plan also includes new l.e.d. lighting protective barrier and outreach teams for homeless or mentally ill. these are welcome changes for many subway riders who told our fox news digital team they feel the violence can strike at any hour. >> this is actually with the violence going on i don't really think that this is something positive anymore.

>> people are feeling not safe on the subway that's a real feeling. reporter: so while nypd data shows subway crime has actually declined from this time last year, both city and state leaders say it comes down to perception and perception often overrides reality. griff: and that rider is accurate i ride the new york subway occasionally there's a certain concern with all of the incidents cb kot about live for us in new york. thank you. jackie. jackie: some los angeles residents turning to areas evacuated last tweak survey wildfire devastation. more on that, coming up next. ♪ ♪ three little birds ♪ ♪

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jackie: los angeles community is now beginning the long road to recovery after the devastating wildfires as the fight isn't over for fire crews on the ground and in the air. christina coleman is live in the pacific palisades with more on how families there are picking up the pieces.

hey, christina. reporter: hi jackie, yeah many families are just devastated because of what you see behind me. homes that have been destroyed take a look at this house it was leveled by the destructive palisades fire that ripped through here and if you just walk few steps further you can see it looks like a beautiful beach, and pch but if you look closer you can see how much is burned. there's an entire rv park that is just decimated and although crews are getting control of this fire, there are still a lot of people who are upset over the initial response to the wildfires. take a listen. >> los angeles failed us to a catastrophic degree, and it just can never happen again. my entire house burned down our entire neighborhood burned down i live in an area called alphabet streets it is totally decimated. reporter: yep totally decimated l.a. times reports los angeles

frpgd face extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds top demanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water carrying engines in advance of the fire that destroyed much of the pacific palisades. and continues to burn interviews and internal lafd records show now l.a. fire chief says they followed the system they had in place and predeployed resources and calculated ways throughout the city. but some residents are still upset especially since l.a. mayor karen bass left for ghana january 4th with warns of increase fire risk for upcoming week and many mayors have reached out to her during this time. >> their number one advice to me was to stay focused to not get distracted for all of the reviews and analysis of what happened, what, when and where to make sure you stay focused on saving lives.

reporter: the deadly eaton fire and altadena area is now 73% contained and palisades fire is 43% contained. but as folks here brace for more windy conditions next week, remains concern over cuts to the los angeles fire department budget. >> was the budgets cut? >> it was cut. and it did impact our ability to provide service we are -- screaming to be properly funded to make sure that our firefighters can do their jobs so that we can serve the community -- reporter: now, as for this community, it is gong to take a while for people to get back on their feet because of what you see behind me all of the destruction. now, there are some areas throughout l.a. county where people are allowed to return home. and others like this one where people are still being told to stay out because of all of this hazardous materials, there's crews walking around checking for gas leaks, downed powerlines still a very dangerous situation. jackie. jackie: christina before we let you go what's the biggest

ongoing need there for people on the ground. >> i mean there's so many. i mean, it depends on what area there are people who need things as simple as diapers -- food, socks, shoes, others who just, you know, immediately need a place to stay. i mean there's so much that people need right now. so you know, checking for resources checking online checking with verified sources on ways to donate help out is really good for anyone who wants to help out in this very dire situation, jackie. jackie: we have a way for our viewers to help out bottom right of your screen a qr code, for a donation you can make fox has made its own donation we continue to support that community. all right christina coleman thank you very much for your time. appreciate it. jackie: well phase one of the gaza cease-fire deal set to begin tomorrow. this as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says will not continue until a hostage list. fox news correspondent mike tobin is live in tel-aviv,

israel, with more on this. hi, mike. reporter: this has been a bumpy process not surprise there's a hangup but hangup now is that hamas missed a deadline to turn over the identities of three of the hostages who were supposed to be released tomorrow. therefore, prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a statement that the deal will not move forward until hamas does his part. now just a short time ago really just minutes ago prime minister netanyahu didn't mention anything about the hangup rather he talked in broad terms. he tacked about how israel through this process is changed the face of the middle east. they december -- decimated hamas and hezbollah and willing to negotiate and ultimately arrived all a deal in which hostages are supposed to start coming home tomorrow. it begins with the release of three hostages just after noon tomorrow. now, israel has prepared a couple of several reception points where these hostages can be received they don't just go

right back to their families but taken to comfortable locations where they will receive preliminary examinations, to just see how healthy they are. and then ultimately without time to find moved to hospitals where they will ultimately be reunited with their families there's a lot of plans that has gone into it. but process is expected to begin at 8:30 tomorrow morning. local time that begins with a cease-fire, then when we get to 12:30, the release of the hostages is supposed to begin tomorrow. and that starts as 42 day first phase of the cease-fire that ultimately will see 33 hostages released the guns go quiet, and aid starts moving into the gaza strip. jackie. jackie: mike we heard net yahoo say this past hour if we must we would return to fighting explain what's going on there. reporter: well, israel is prepared to return to the fight also something that netanyahu said yesterday is that his conversations with incoming

president donald trump some of the weapons that were frozen during biden administration has been freed up and delivered to israel so one of the points israelis made yesterday is not only able to return to the fight. if this cease-fire falls apart they'll have more tools to return to the fight if -- if as they say hamas doesn't do its part. jackie: we'll keep an eye on that on the ground thank you for your reporting. appreciate it mike tobin. thank you. griff. griff: now incoming trump administration plans to handle vladimir putin in the war in ukraine. that's next.

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jackie: as d.c. prepares for president-elect trump inauguration, our next guest rifes from a country swept by massive demonstrations more than 50 days citizens of georgia demanding more on elections joining me in studio fifth president of georgia.

thank you very much madam president for being with us i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i want to bring our audience up to date on sort of the background for why we're talking today. this past fall your country held parliamentary elections international observers said that they were not free or fair, they've not been recognized, and this was after a russian style law basically labeling everyone foreign agents results produced a parliament that is run by a single party with increasingly authoritarian rule increasingly aligned with china, russia, and iran. prime minister, in fact, attended funeral of the last iranian president and where our audience may remember people in the room were chanting death to america, death to israel. there have been mass protest for months in your country calling for new elections, and in the span of just three months, you've had georgia go from enjoying strategic partnership with the u.s., a glide path to potential membership in may nato

with sanctions from biden administration officials you've had more than a hundred visas banned basically under this administration and big question now is what will trump do? i understand that you have met with a number of incoming trump cabinet officials. how did your meetings go? >> those were not proper meetings. they're meetings in those receptions that proceed the immigration. just to bring georgia to their mind, and to start the first contacts because georgia can be torment big success of america or it can be the big problem for america in this region. that russia is always wanting to dominate that has been the constant reach of the russian empires and then the union and -- russia is trying a new strategy

with georgia. eventually romania other countries which is to try to win the country over through reelections and through putting their own in place. not caring about democracy, constitution but just having the regime and that will be the question for the next administration. and of course america for 30 years has been on side of georgia, georgia has been one of the biggest recipients of american aid because it will represent strategy interest, engine routes, trade routes, routes to central asia and country that basically has been the strong hold of democracy and of shared values. georgia is one of the oldest together with armenia we say we're the oldest they say we are

both the oldest christian states in other words -- something that links us very strongly. and we have been the strong hold for democracy in this wide region. we need america. but i think america needs you too. jackie: to that point congressman joe wilson invited you to attend trump inauguration as his guest he's introduced a bill to product u.s. government from recognizing this new georgian government also demanding new elections. what should americans who are watching might not be fully aware of this issue? what should they understand about the risk of a georgian government that's aligned with russia, iran, and china? >> that's losing the strategic interest in america in the central region of the caucuses it is not only caucus but the black sea. the aim of the war against

ukraine, is also the black sea, and the attempt to rig the elections in romania or in and u.s. interest also we have big ports of the black sea, which might be given to china. that's what is in the plans of these -- target i would say government what is in place today. so these are major u.s. interests together with european interests. which are at stake in this region. >> you had an opportunity to speak with president-elect trump at the invitation of french president macron. what did you tell him and what did he say back to you? >> i told him exactly that. that georgia needed to be supported today before these transforms itself in a crisis. we have people on the streets for 53 days that are protesting

the fact that this government that has no mandate and that runs against constitution of georgia is trying to take georgia away from its atlantic pass, and that's where we need to support america. and president elect at that time trump, and tomorrow president trump told me that he had been to georgia that he values georgia's friendship with the united states, and i'm sure that he will be a strong for georgia at the time when georgia needs it when georgia has to be on your minds, you americans -- jackie: we've been reporting that one of trump's, you know, first initiatives is going to be having this call or maybe a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. what would you encourage him to say on that call? >> handle handle off georgia, hands off the caucus that is an

interest of the western countries it cannot become again a dominated region dominated by russia. it has to be a region that exist on its own. and that has been for history, for centuries has been a place for different civilizations meetings, and it has been a place where european values are always been at the center stage and country that society is a vibrant civil society that wants to be part of the community of values that is represented by europe and the united states. so hands off, georgia. >> looking back in history former president obama was criticized for how he handled situations in georgia. tell us historically the impact that had and how you hope trump will approach differently. >> i home that america cannot be linked to regimes that don't represent their people. that's where they have to be

american interest, and we're here to defend those common interests between america and the georgian people. but never should the people be sacrificed to serving some relations with governments that do not represent their own people. jackie: and just bring us up to speed i know you had a few informal meetings with incoming cabinet member who is did you meet with and what did you walk away thinking? >> well i had a short meeting with secretary rubio which is not yet a confirmed -- so what i was trying to get from him was from his in the few days where staying in washington -- to be able to meet, and to both him and to the ambassador to the united nations which i also met. i told them that i hope that georgia was not going to become one of their problems, but one of their solutions. jackie: we are grateful for your time madam president georgia

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griff: prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying won't proceed until they get a hostage least mike tobin is in tel-aviv live on the ground. mike, where do things stand now? >> well it just griff it is another snag in this very bumpy process that has led us to this hostage release and cease-fire agreement what it is that hamas had a deadline this evening to return to turn over the identities of the three female hostages who were supposed to be released tomorrow. so far hamas hasn't complied with that deadline. therefore, prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a public statement saying that process is not going move forward until hamas does its part just a short time ago prime minister netanyahu addressed the nation. he didn't get into this particular hangup and the process too much. what he talked about is how strong the military has been. how strong israel has been to this point decimates hamas but

the leadership of hezbollah. and therefore, relieving hamas isolated, desperate, and willing to negotiate and that's how he says they got to this point. where they're willing to agree to the hostage releases. now, that being said, they also said if hamas plays games hamas doesn't do its part, israel's quite willing to return to the fight something netanyahu said in previous days, is that weapons that were frozen during biden administration are now available to them under trump administration. still more tools to return to the fight if that's the case. griff. griff: we'll be watching see where it goes mike tobin live in tel-aviv for us. jackie. jackie: griff, a major cold front is in store for millions of americans as polar vortex will bring freezing temperatures to nearly every american east of the rockies. adam klotz live at the fox weather center with an update. hey, adam. adam: we're going to see that cold air sneak in the country as

we speak you see some of that colder air currently sitting across the northern plains. how cold is it? well the dakotass, north dakota in particular feels like temperature that's your windchill down to negative 20, 30 already. this is going to settle deeper and deeper across the country. all of that arctic air that's currently across canada and the northern plains really starts to make that move here. and we do see this cold air settling into the midwest southeast, ultimately east coast a lot of folks are going to be feeling impact that have. today you're luges at forecast highs in places like chicago 27 degrees and then that cold air continues to settle in by tomorrow morning. it is 7 degrees in chicago does ultimately there warming up to 11 degrees only. right, so some truly cold air that's going to be kind of sticking around into monday morning as well suddenly negative one degree in chicago. this is also the case there in washington, d.c. right we see those temperatures really begin to drop sunday still 40 degrees, a little bit of mix of rain and snow. and then you see those temperatures continue to fall suddenly 22, 25 degrees and by

time into monday evening 12 degrees if so some really truly frigid air settling in on with that on top of all of that, folks across east coast countrily also dealing with some rain and some snow that's currently marching its way across the country. particularly there into portions of new england we're ahead of that really cold air not a ton of snow and snow currently coming down and you're looking at spots where ut ultimately snow and couple of inches in boston that's always the case with interior states with heaviest snow and 8, 12 inches in some of those areas jackie, i hope you have your jacket ready because cold air is on the way. jackie: i've been moved inside. so -- thank you so much adam klotz appreciate it. griff: yak it is time now to put on our washington commanders hat and get ready for the commanders of detroit lions game tonight

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