craig boswell say the republicans say this is just a road map for more spending. >> reporter: staffers on capitol hill began this valentine's day morning unpacking and unwrapping budget books. president obama '$3.73 trillion blueprint. the president says his proposal trims more than 200 federal programs while making key investments in transportation, research and education. >> the only way we can make these investments in our future is if our government starts missing -- living within the means. >> reporter: he also says it contains 1.1 trillion in deficit savings through tax increases and spending cuts. >> in the next five years, we're increasing discretionary spending which is $400 billion of savings. >> reporter: the administration predicts they will hit a record of $1.6 trillion and republicans say this contains way too much red ink and wants deeper cuts. >> this is just more debt. >> reporter: other gop leaders called the president's plan an fiscally irresponsible spending fee. >> when you talk about valentine's day's it's not the card you want to get. >> reporter: republicans pla

craig boswell is there now. is the weather putting a damper on any of the parties. >> reporter: good morning. yeah. a couple of them had to be moved, one of the parties at the cotton bowl, the tent actually collapsed from the weight of the snow. they had to move that. this is downtown dallas, four, five inches of snow already on the ground. still coming down with some ice on top of this. earlier in the week, this forced some -- this forced some of the 150,000 or so fans getting delayed into town. but most of them are here now. they are dealing with this. even though it's cold, the performers are warming up and the parties are hot. >> athletes not hitting the field sunday are hitting the party scene. vips, hollywood stars and employers will all be making appearances long after the game on sunday. the black eyed peas are front and center doing a hip-hop show that will an speck ka kell. >> watch. >> and fergie, who is part owner of the miami doll fips, said the 5-minute choreographed show -- said the 45-minute chor

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back to you. >>> craig boswell live from dallas. thank you. >>> 8:38.oday, walnut creek will consider banning a popular form of entertainment -- of children's entertainment from parks. some say those bounce houses are aliability and -- are a liability and they destroys the grass. walnut creek require vendors to have permits and they say that's often ig fored -- ignored. >>> all right. it is 8:38. we want to check back in with sal castanedo. we've-- he's been pretty busy for a monday morning. yeah, this monday morning has been busy. we have bright spots. the traffic has recovered in many areas. let's go out and take a look at what we have on highway 24. it's busy on the way to the tunnelle. no major tub coming up to the la fayette and orinda area. also slow traffic here and there on the bay bridge. that's a little bit at the metering lights. if you are driving your car into the city, it won't be all that bad. this is 880. see some slow traffic there getting up into downtown oakland. 8:39. let's go to steve. >>> we had incredible temperatures yesterday. u

reporter craig boswell is in texas to tell us how the weather is making an impact. >> reporter: the kickoffper bowl week is super cold. >> oh, man! it's killing us! we're not used to this cold weather here in dallas. >> reporter: they are dealing with snow, ice and sickle-digit temperatures with wind chills well below zero. for many steelers and packers' fans, it's like routine informationing out the red carpet. >> i was up in wisconsin for the last month. it was minus 24 degrees. 3 of the days i was up there. i'm kind of used to it. >> reporter: the dallas/fort worth area has been preparing for super bowl xlv for years and officials say they won't be sacked by mother nature. they've called in extra equipment across the state. as for the players -- >> we actually feel like we left green bay to come to green bane. >> reporter: as fans touch down at dfw international, they may first thing they never left home with the ice and snow. >> there will be some increase in coverage by air marshals and some other undercover security that people wont see. >> reporter: we'll show you more of that mass i

craig boswell, fox news. >>> and as craig said, that social networking will be a luge part of what is happening tomorrow at the super bowl. 45% of smart phone users surveyed say they are going to be using theirs during the super bowl. 59% say they're going to use them to stay in touch with friends and family through e- mails and text messages. 32% will post updates and pictures of their super bowl festivities to twitter and facebook. 24% will use their smart phone to keep tabs on statistics and 18% will use them to check out super bowl ads during and after the game. look for advertisers to try to engage you on facebook and twitter and try to encourage you to friend or follow them. and coming up in about 25 minutes, we'll go live to dallas, as we count down to super bowl xlv. >>> girl scout cookies may be hard to find in the minnesota area. a number of troops are boycotting the tradition. the girl scouts of minnesota and wisconsin council sold four of its 12 girl scout camps because of financial hardships. to show their displeasure some are now refuse to go sell cookies. the cookie sal

as part of the new health reform bill, i joined with congressman bruce braley, congressman leonard boswell on the house side to negotiate a compromise that provides an immediate $800 million to address geographic disparities for both doctors and hospitals as well as written guarantees from health and human services secretary sebelius for further action to reform medicare reimbursement rates. this great achievement is wiped out with if the mcconnell amendt passes. in addition, thanks to the new lawmakers mid-sized hospitals in iowa -- we call them the so-called tweeners. they're not big enough to have economies of scale. they're not small enough to be put into the small-hospital category. they're sort of in between. but they are important providers of health care to so many communities in iowa and other states around the nation. well, thanks to the new law, we'll see greater medicare reimbursement to these mid-sized hospitals in iowa and other states. the two-year fix will cover fiscal years 2011 and 2012. it will aid these low-volume hospitals, some of which have struggled to keep their do