arthel: she sure is. i'm arthel neville.in some places, slowing travel to a crawl on roads, rails and runways all across the region. bill: let's go to janice dean live in the weather center. she has been waiting on this day for three months. mike tobin is live in the streets of chicago, we'll go there first. >> reporter: the bad weather finally did show up for wintertime, six inches of the last night. now you have the way chicago looks in the wintertime. you have the cars going over the wet roads, they look wet because the salt got out. here is something people living in the city are used to seeing, caution, falling ice. the snow can cascade down on the pedestrians below once in a while. it got particularly treacherous on the roadways yesterday because the snow came down warm and wet and froze. the bridges and the overpasses are usually the first to make the ice patches. that's where you see three traffic fatalities out of st. louis and one out of chicago here. there were patches of ice that people didn't see coming as they

. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville. brand-new numbers out this week showing the nation's unemployment rate dropping to a three-year low in what some analysts are calling a, quote, virtual cycle of hiring and spending. will this welcome trend last? we'll ask a top financial expert. >> rick: the bizarre case of an american teen-ager mistakenly deported for being an illegal immigrant. how this happened and where the girl is now. we've got a live report. >> arthel: and penn state unveils its new coach today. can he fill the shoes of joe paterno, fired in the wake of one of the biggest scandals in college sports history? >> rick: first, it's game time in the granite state as gop hopefuls gear up for their biggest contest yet. the new hampshire primary is the country's first and only a few days away. with mitt romney ahead by a wide margin, the battle for the live free or die state may be turning into a race for second place. chief political correspondent carl cameron live in manchester, new hampshire. good to see you. let's

. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. top of the news this hour, newt gingrich a key leader of the conservative movement and a crowd favorite, but he has a few problems. >> rick: the dreaded s word, stimulus. is the fed now looking to pump more money into the economy? if this he do what, would that mean fort rest of? >> arthel: kentucky, we have a problem. a cargo ship carrying material for nasa. a traffic nightmare. >> rick: we start with politics and what is turning out to be an all-out fight in the sunshine state before the primary. newt gingrich and mitt romney, racing to events all over the state today, stumping for votes. both candidates pulling out all the stops as they make their closing arguments. >> how many of you remember being proud of an america that could? [ cheers and applause ] you know, under the elite, the people who oppose me, some of the democratic party, some in the republican party, under these elites, we've become the america that couldn't. >> people are coming down because they're concerned about

arthel neville has chosen a slip of the tongue by vice president biden. >> even call centers, even callrseas in hundreds of thousands, how many times you get the call? i like to talk to you about your credit card. >> bill: um-huh. >> so why was that dumb. >> it's dumb because i think the vice president was trying to imitate an indian accent. >> bill: you can do indian accent. >> i wouldn't dare. it's offensive. you don't do that. >> bill: is it offensive? >> of course it does. >> bill: they have the accent. >> you are making fun of someone the way they speak. >> bill: illustrate how the phone is answered. >> i would agree with you that perhaps the vice president was without malice but it's still offensive. >> bill: is it offensive. >> yes, it is. >> bill: offensive to you, gutfeld. >> i'm offended by nothing. the problem is what was dumb he was trying to do scottish accent. >> bill: you can do indian accent. >> no, i can't. >> bill: you are both afraid to do the indian accent. >> it's your turn. >> bill: i can't do it. i can't do an irish brogue. i have always wanted to do one and i can

here they are, two brilliant people arthel neville and five guy greg gutfeld also does red eye in theight sometimes. arthel has chosen 18-year-old colorado senior at durango high school sydney spice who wants very unusual yearbook picture. >> i really honestly think that it describes who i am. people can take it however they want but i'm an outgoing person and i think i really do think it's artistic. >> bill: hard to argue with that logic. >> bill: this is a picture she wants in the yearbook with all her activities underneath. sports, volleyball and cheerleading. >> put it up there. i think this is dumb. are you kidding me? this is not appropriate for a yearbook photo. i'm sorry. act right. dress appropriately for the yearbook. this is in this isn't the first admission. >> bill: first one is better than the second one. do you know why it's really dumb. >> it's smart because in the one on the left what she is doing is instructional. showing students how to go up a flight of stairs. >> bill: do you know why it's really dumb because durango is freezing cold. that's a ski place. >> i wore

and we just heard from congressman martin frost a while ago talking to arthel about how the electionn to eight states in the nation's heartland, these industrialist states where folks work in factors and have these kinds of jobs, a lot of times they lose the jobs for one reason or another and how does a candidate like mitt romney if he wins the nomination plaexplain what he d in the private sector to folks who may have lost their job the last couple of years and who's vote he's going to need if he wants to win the white house? >> it is simple. you are looking at one small subsection of people who have lost their jobs. and, there are hundreds of thousands -- millions of jobs that have been created because of companies like bain capital and private equity firms and because you interviewed a few people doesn't mean it is true and you can say the same thing over and over again and brain wash people to think what they are hearing is true, and i could tell you i look just like brad pitt but it isn't true, all right? >> rick: a little bit. >> and the truth is -- a tiny bit but the truth is

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rick folbaum and arthel neville take over at the top of the hour. >> heather: we will see you tomorrow great weekend, everybody. bye.

jenna: thank you to bill and arthel, if we start off the show with a little tim tebow reference, jon will crews on down the next two hours. i'm jenna lee. jon: we'll keep an eye on that van der sloot sentencing. we're here in the fox newsroom and "happening now", the fight is on for south carolina. jenna: not new england this weekend. have to go to south carolina to talk about politics. the pivotal primary a week from tomorrow. many gop candidates campaigning there already covering a lot of ground in a state much bigger than new hampshire. jon: the latest "real clear politics" average in south carolina shows former massachusetts governor mitt romney leading with 29% of the vote. newt gingrich number two at 20%. rick santorum at third. jenna: not separated by much. we'll look to florida. former house speaker newt gingrich making several stops in the sunshine state today. the primary there isn't until january 31st. polling stations in some counties are already open. jon, he made many stops already whether or not he is there today. where the candidate will be all over florida, south car