. >> zrv actives like steven moore, says the president is about to kill more jobs. >> i taught economics. if any of my students ever said that we should raise the minimum wage, i would probably flunk them. i think this is a terrible policy. what you're doing by raising the minimum wage, christine, you're sawing off the low-wage jobs that are starter jobs that get people in the economy and the job market in the first place. i spent the last couple of days talking to a lot of fast food restaurant owners to people who run hotels and so on. christine, they're telling me we're operating on very thin margins right now. if they raise this minimum wage, we are going to have to lay off workers. i think it's going to hurt the economy with respect to more unemployment. look, if a worker isn't worth $9 an hour, what you're basically saying is that they can't work because no employer can afford to hire them. >> i want to bring in daniel gross from the daily beast. as stephen was saying. most of them we talked to say they hate the dedae of raising the minimum wage. listen to a few of them. >> of cours

two economic experts, stephen moore and steven ratner are standing by for a very good debate. >> it will following as well, including a record-breaking, bone-chilling, paralyzing winter weather system. that blizzard that hammered the texas panhandle is on the move right now. it could dump 18 inches of snow in parts of the midwest. more than 45 million people are under at least some kind of winter weather watch, from oklahoma all the way to michigan. cnn's george howell is right in the thick of things. he's in kansas city, rate now, kansas city, missouri. what's going on? >> reporter: wolf, look, we're talking snow on top of snow. this is the second time in a week that the midwest has been hit hard by a snow system like this, and there's a lot of this stuff out here. you're looking at it right now, wolf, there's more snow in the forecast. snowplows hit the streets of kansas city tuesday, to wage war against mother nature. this city on the kansas/missouri border could see up to a foot of snow from the massive blizzard before it ends. lindsay hughes spend much of his day shoveling. >> it's