. >> reporter: challenged by a professor to fill a real need in the city, art student veronica scott>> you can open it up here, and this is what we call the foot bag which is the sleeping part of the jacket. >> reporter: detroit is home to nearly 35,000 homeless people. and it was the conversations with those living on the streets that led scott to a bigger idea. hire homeless, mostly single mothers. >> they're not just teaching me how to sew. they're helping me to be stable and self-sufficient. >> reporter: ethel rucker is one of 36 women making the coats that are also transforming their lives. >> now i'm back on my feet. i've been stable for two years now. >> this looks so nice. >> reporter: at 27 years old, veronica scott is now the ceo of the empowerment plan. >> i realized i sucked at sewing and i should not be the one sewing these, and it would make much more impact instead of giving them to the homeless, but hiring the homeless instead. >> reporter: fueled by hard work and a donate button, they've sdrinted 20,000 coats worldwide, all request the hope of changing generational p

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scott martin, kingsview asset management, fox news contributor, veronica daguerre, "wall street journal," also host of watching your wealth podcast. scott, i know the argument, a couple of thousand jobs, just kind of a drop in the desert. we need millions of more new jobs. this is the beginning and he is not president yet, at least got plaudits from one of the guys who claims yes, trump is why the guy is hiring. >> remind me debt and deficit talk last couple years, couple billion here, couple billion there you get real money over time. that is what the jobs picture what president-elect trump is doing. you know, he is getting these business, david, refocus on not moving production and labor outside of america and but bring it back in and work within the confines of this great country and capitalistic society we have running here. that helps a lot for the stock market and small businesses consumers, investing in america and being happy with someone in the white house that finally cares about business. david: veronica, i talked to a number of companies, managers who have businesses or oper

geraldo is keeping an eye on milwaukee city streets, and veronica macias is with people digging out in racine. first, let's get right to meteorologist scott steele in the storm center. scott. >> i got to tell you, katie, it has been nasty all day long. this is now an extension of about 24 hours solid of snow falling across southeastern and the national weather service now dropping a lot of the advisories and warnings up to the north and west because the back edge is starting to move into our area. but, still, as you mentioned, a winter storm warning in effect for our entire viewing area, the times that it expires, a little different. up to the north, 6:00, for sheboygan, fond du lac, and dodge counties, but then the central part of our viewing area, expect to see the winter storm warning drop at 8:00. milwaukee, racine and kenosha ti storm warning extended until 10:00 tonight. before all is said and done. it's fairly safe to say they will see between a half a foot and nine to ten inches of snow across our entire viewing area. here's a look at "storm team 4" max radar, the back edge of precipitation now pushing into the northwestern part o

work west alice riding shotgun in the storm chaser and veronica macias were not going to let the winter storm ruin their weekend. but first, scott is here to show us how much snow fell where you live. >> katie, it's been a day, 24 hours of snow, nonstop, piling up in a big way across our state. no weather alerts out there right now. national weather service dropping the alerts around the chicagoland area as well. in fact, we all picked up between 6 and 9 inches of snow all across southeastern wisconsin. a pocket of heavy stuff down around walworth county as well. a live look at the storm team match radar. going back six hours so you can see the progression of the snow departing in the evening hours rapidly as we approach the 9:00 hour leaving in re seen and kenosha. up to the north, a pocket of light snow. it may add to what we have out there, maybe a dusting or so. that would be about it. behind it, clearing skies coming our way by tomorrow. the snow maybe next to milwaukee for a couple of hours. nothing much to worry about. a live look at our ft. washington tower cam. you can see the damp pavement as crews have been cleaning u