frfrom the great lakes makig it feel substantially colder the cold snap. is now headed north. temperatures offset to warm upup over the next forty eit hours but could drop even further before that happens millions of people have been caught up in the deadly. polar vortex which is put out by c. f. from the north pole vice gotta husband. in a bid to stop transport grinding to a halt completely fire is being used to heat is freezing rail tracks in chicago day. with temperatures reached a low of minus thirty degrees celsius on wednesday the sixty second coldest d day n record. america's third largest city has resembles a ghost town for the past few days as the arctic weather known as a painter vortex forced hundreds of offices schools all my g god is reallyy. freezing is really bad yeah is dentures. see this on my glasses this is this is not juju fogs frost. is ridiculous are here is gonna get worse. three two till the west to grip the area and the generation of school to transportatation knocked out electricity andd burst water mains a across e region. the us postal service to th

these are people whole are makig 30, 40, $50,000 a year.in most parts of the country you are middle class at that level, but you don't really have a lot of cushion after you've paid your taxes, your health insurance, your 401(k), or childcare, your rate, your car payment, maybe a student loan payment. there's not much left over. >> host: after this getting federal employees should revisit the idea of a shutdown fund for the future? >> guest: no, i don't really think it's the responsibility of our organization or any other organization, to be honest, to create an insurance pool for irresponsible politicians. i mean, come on. this is not a cost the rest of us should have to bear. the congress of the united states and the president need to do their jobs. this is very serious business. this is a government of united states of america. it needs to operate in a a more reasonable and responsible fashion. >> host: frank is in big rock tennessee. good morning. >> caller: good morning. first of all i'd like to say god bless all the people that happen

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