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Where that question about major threats to the United States was put to him. I would consider the principal threats to start with russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate patients around their periphery, regional nations nearby them. I am all for engagement, but we also have to recognize reality and what russia is up to. There is a decreasing number of areas where we can engage cooperatively, in an increasing number of areas where we are going to have to confront russia. Jenna we have our fox team coverage, standing by with some latenight votes from the senate including steps toward repealing obamacare but we begin with the chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel and todays confirmation hearings. Good afternoon. The hearing for congressman mike pompeo to be cia director has now moved to a closed, classified session. Pompeo answered several hours worth of questions from senators in an open session, some senators told me they thought that pompeo looked like he was having a good time fielding those questions. No surprise there were questions about hacking after the 2016 campaign. Do you accept the conclusions of the ic regarding russias acts . I do. I had one briefing where i attended the meeting which the president elect was briefed. Everything ive seen suggests to me that the report has an analytical product that is sound. Dr. Ben carson also had his confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of housing and urban development or hud, he emphasize his personal biography ask someone who grew up in a singleparent home with a mother with limited education and made the point he understands firsthand housing and security. One intense moment was when a prominent democrat asked if president elect trumps businesses would receive hud money. Housing development is an area in which president elect trump and his family have significant business interest. Can you assure me that not a single taxpayer dollar that you give out will financially benefit the president elect or his family . I can assure you that the things that i do are driven by a sense of morals and values. Therefore, i will absolutely not play favorites. Dr. Carson gave reporters the okay sign as he left capitol hill. We dont know the outcome of these nominations until senators actually vote, but these two hearings seemed to be a bit milder than some of the fiery once we saw earlier this week. Jenna we will keep watching, thank you very much. Greg the u. S. Senate is taking its first major steps toward repealing obamacare. A latenight session, lawmakers approved a series of measures that began that process. Chief Political Correspondent carl cameron live in washington with more. It is a little complicated. What was happening last night will continue tomorrow in the house really about budget rules, giving lawmakers the tools to move forward through a pretty arduous process and prevent democrats in the senate from filibustering what will be both the repeal and the replacement of the Affordable Care act. There has been a little bit of a heart ache on the Republican House side with a lot of republicans saying they are not all that comfortable with Going Forward with repeal tools when they do not have a replacement suggestion specified and consensus agreement among republicans, but yesterday, it was the president elect who seemed to lay out a timetable as well as priorities and quickly overnight, they passed the rules in the senate and go to the house tomorrow p listen to what the president elect said yesterday. We are going to have a healthcare that is far less expensive and far better. It will be repealed and replaced. It will be essentially simultaneously. That last part, repeal and replace essentially simultaneously has given republicans a little bit more time. There was a belief on the hill that they wanted to get the the health and Human Services secretary confirmed by january january 27th. That has now been kind of pushed back by the congress, and the chairman of the Senate Finance committee had said they probably wont get to a full Committee Vote until sometime this february because there is a holiday, the first congressional recess is at the end of february which means full passage of the repeal and or the replacement wont come until march but that gives republicans a lot more time than they thought they would actually have. With that said, House Speaker paul ryan made it clear that he has spoken to donald trump twice in the last three days, had Vice President elect mike pence in his office yesterday, they are all in sync and the timetable for something in march is likely to be what we are going to see unfold, listen. That is going to take time, its going to take a transition, and we want to make sure we have to put peoples minds at ease that they are not losing their healthcare summit february day, that we are going to have a good transition period while we move on all of these steps to rescue us from the collapse that is now occurring with obamacare. As for the vote last night, it was almost a Straight Party line voting in the u. S. Senate. Rand paul, the kentucky senator voted no, the only publican to do so in said it was part merely because he wants to know the price of all of this. In the house where paul ryan is going to be presiding tomorrow, their art of vote count of about 18 republican no votes, but that still leaves six votes, the difference is six. If 26 republicans were to vote against this, the whole thing would collapse. If 18 do, that means its still going to pass in republicans will have their filibuster proof plan to go forward, not yet the actual plan to replace it. Greg carl cameron, thank you very much. Jenna something that he just mentioned, congress is moving very quickly on obamacare, House Speaker paul ryan said he is incomplete sync with the new administration on how lawmakers proceed from here. Joining me now Fox News Senate anchor chris wallace, so there is some unknowns with the new administration, but there are some notes about procedures that have to happen before we get a new bill, for example whatever that new bill might be, healthcare or otherwise. Talk us through what we do know about what is needed to actually see a full plan for what a repeal and replace plan would be. That is a tough one, jenna. Let me try to answer it. Repeal, at least disassembling parts of obamacare is relatively easy exactly as carl suggested through reconciliation which is a budget process where you do not need 60 votes, super majority, you only need 51, a simple majority and with 52 republican senators, they have that kind of majority. So you can disassemble parts of it, but there are some parts that you have to do by law, which would mean that you would need to overcome a democratic filibuster and particularly, in terms of replacing it, youre going to need to do some stuff by law. That is really the question, and that is the tricky issue for republicans, repealing relatively easy, replacing quite hard, not just in terms of the votes also in terms of making it all worked out. Republicans have been talking for years about ideas to replace and while there are some principles in place, there is not the whole mechanism. For instance, talking about tax credits instead of subsidies to help people who cannot afford healthcare, that means billions of dollars, if you take away all the taxes that would be eliminated under repeal, how are you going to finance that . Its a very complicated process, and while president elect trump made it clear he wants to see repeal and replace happen at the same time, repeal can happen relatively quickly, replaced quite complicated. Jenna based on what you are saying, imagining trains moving down to different tracks, one track is the repeal that is at one speed, on the other tract is replaced that has to work at a certain speed to be a new law. It looks like a timing issue of being able to anticipate when a replace will actually happen and when the repeal can actually happen, they can merge at the same intersection. That is tricky when it comes to timing. That is right. If you want them to happen together, part of the problem is either you have to make replacement happen much faster than anybody on capitol hill thinks it can, or you have to delay repeal much more than any of the republicans want it too because obviously that was one of the key Campaign Promises of president elect trump, one of the key Campaign Promises up a lot of those republican senators and congressmen, so they dont want it wait for the months of legislative work to get a replacement plan in place before they repeal it. It is just complicated in terms of trying to make these two things Work Together which is why there is so much consternation on capitol hill. In the meantime, the worst thing that could happen is you repeal without a replacement plan, and then as paul ryan the speaker of the house just suggested, you could have millions of people who dont have a system in place. Even if they said, we will have a transition period, a lot of Insurance Companies may not wait for the transition because they are responding to the new economic order that these revenues are not going to be there anymore, so we start changing healthcare policy. A lot of people could be caught in the middle, and obviously republicans are concerned they are going to end up owning the disorder that happens there. Jenna we have to make decisions for our own lives, companies have to make their own decisions for the health of the company. Certainly a lot of factors in play appeared want to play a little bit more from donald trump yesterday and the press conference talking about how he sees it going down, if you will pit heres president elect donald trump. Obamacare is a complete and total disaster. So the easiest thing would be to let it implode in 17, and believe me, we would get pretty much whatever we wanted, but it would take a long time. We are going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan. It will be repealed and replaced. It will be essentially simultaneously. It will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day, could be the same hour, so we are going to do repeal and replace appeared very complicated stuff. We are going to get a health bill passed. Going to get healthcare taken care of in this country. Jenna what do you think abt that . The person he is talking about, the secretary is tom price, a congressman, republican congressman who he has name to be the new secretary of health and Human Services. If theres anybody who has a pretty good sense of what a replacement plan would be, it is tom price who one assumes will be confirmed to become the new secretary of hhs. Even price, with all of the years he has been working on this, he is a doctor, there is a difference between coming up with, well, we are going to allow Insurance Companies to sell across state lines or have Health Savings accounts are tax credits. It is fine to talk about those principles, it is a different thing to have it all worked out so that everyone is a hole on this, that there is enough money coming into pay for the tax credit to allow people to buy Health Insurance and have a system that health Insurance Companies can live with. That is a level of detail that the republicans have never gotten to, and that just takes time for the idea youre going to repeal and replace at the same time, i think its going to be hard to do unless you wanted to delay repeal, as i say, for a number of months. Jenna interesting, we have asked tom price to come on the program pit he was an orthopedic surgeon, for free medical advice, he has declined. Want to switch topics here briefly because the headlines are crossing as we speak, in a relates to a very important story you know very well. The Justice Department Inspector General is now saying that it is initiating a review of certain Justice Department and fbi actions ahead of the 2016 election. This is just a letter that has been released, they are going to examine whether the department of justice and fbi policies and procedures were followed in connection with the fbis communication on the Hillary Clinton email probe. This is just crossing now, Inspector General, separate investigation of the fbis actions. What do you think about that, is not expected, unexpected, how do you see that news headline . I dont know if it is expected, it was a surprise to me, dont know about the watchers at the Justice Department. It is very interesting because there is the Inspector General, an independent person does not report to directly or under the organizational charge to the attorney general or the fbi director is going to examine these concerns about james comey, the fbi director and his public involvement in this campaign where he held that News Conference last july and he announced they were not going to go forward with charges against Hillary Clinton, but kind of issued a political indictment if not a legal indictment then what, about eight days before the election, came up with another announcement to say we have new information, this of course from Anthony Weiners laptop, and they were going to conduct a new investigation for their and awful lot of democrats saying that was a tremendous drag on Hillary Clinton that may have cost her the election. It is interesting the Inspector General is going to take an independent look at this and see whether or not the fbi director james comey went too far in announcing all of these things. Usually the fbi does not announce anything in an investigation, even if it is conducting or dismissing it, why was he so public and all these areas . It will be interesting to see what the report is. Jenna interesting topic for sunday, no you have some big gas, mike pence being one of them, look forward to that, we are looking for to that, chris wallace, big sunday, and there is john brennan as well, cbi lee mack fbi director, its going to be a good one, we will be right back. Constipated . Trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax, designed for dependable relief what makesheart healthysalad the becalifornia walnuts. R . 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He knows as much as anybody ive been up there with him when we have been faced with iranian threats that iran is extremely serious threat to the entire region. Its not a country we can have, as he said, a friendship pact with, but he knows however that the Nuclear Agreement has now been signed and is going to be hard to roll that back. The main problem is how do we contain iran in its efforts throughout the region . That is the thing he will have to focus on along with the entire trump administration. Jenna this is something you know very well, iran has a role inside iraq, has for many years, deterring that has been one of the main task that general mattis others have faced. Based on your experience with them, how do you see the way forward with how he would handle iran . In my experience including when we were under attack by iranian backed militias in 2011, he looks for a strategic approach to essentially make sure that iran pays a pet price regionally for what it does against us, be at the bombings in saudi arabia, the militias against us in lebanon in 1983. We were not allowed to do that. We were allowed to go after iran in various ways tactically. It worked for the moment, but from my standpoint, and i think mattis, it is better to go after a bond in a strategic way. Jenna interesting, the washington posted a piece on this topic to say general mattis wanted to go into iran p when it was found out that their missions were killing our men and women come he wanted to go into the country and make a point, there were tensions, according to reports between him and the obama administration. What can he tell us about that time. Matt . I cannot confirm things that are still classified. What i can say is generally the way i cashed it is he wanted to take a strategic approach to iran. Remember, it was not just inside iraq, it was the attempted assassination of the saudi ambassador right here in washington, d. C. , at the time. He looked at a Regional Response to iran. We wound up trying to deal with it unsuccessfully with the problem inside iraq. Jenna quickly, with the nickname mad dog, assuming he is overly aggressive, that is the insinuation by some in the press. I have to take a quick commercial to give you time to answer this question but i would like you to tell viewers how you really see that. Do you see him as overly aggressive at times, or do you see him as being more strategic . I think we know the answer, but we want you to have a chance to answer. We will be back with more happening now. See me. See me. Dont stare at me. See me. See me. See me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. Im not contagious. See me to know that. 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Ambassador to iraq who worked with general mattis, president elect trumps pick to be defense secretary. We left off with a bottomline point for our viewers who as we see and hear different portrayals of general mattis. He is expected to be the next secretary of defense and the issue of engagement is a big one, there is engagement through diplomacy than firepower, if you will. Based on your experience with general mattis, what is his style, what can we expect . General mattis will seek results. He will seek results that will protect america and advance our interest. If he can be diplomatic, fine. If it has to be military, believe me, ive seen him up close, it will be lethal, anyone who gets in their way, they are dead. Jenna ambassador, nice to have your perspective on the program, thank you. Greg new information just coming into our newsroom as the state department is working to confirm the authenticity of a new videotape released by the taliban that purportedly shows an american and an australian hostage. American kevin king and his colleagues were kidnapped outside the American University of afghanistan. This is the first time they have been seen since their abduction. Conor powell joins us now from our Mideast Bureau with mark. Yes, in the 30 minute long video, professors kevin king and timothy weeks make a direct plea to the president elect to secure their freedom, asking mr. Trump to carry out a Prisoner Exchange with the taliban. Now in the video, the two men who were abducted outside American University of afghanistan appear pale and unshaven, several months ago, u. S. Special services launched an unsuccessful rate to rescue them. Its believe they are being held by a network that is particularly violent, pakistanibased offshoot of the taliban who also have had sergeants for a number of years. Before then, they carried out a string of attacks in afghanistan just killing at least 50 people in least dozens more wounded. Mr. Trump will talk a lot about tackling islamic extremism, but he has said very little about what his plans for overall u. S. Strategy in afghanistan. Mr. Trump has also been very critical of the obama administrations Prisoner Exchange to release sergeant bergdahl, so its unlikely he would go through with any kind of Prisoner Exchange but we still dont know what the overall plan is for afghanistan with the new administration. Greg as we say, this is breaking news so we will keep on top of it, thank you. Jenna right now some disturbing new numbers on religious persecution across the world showing 90,000 christians were killed last year because of their faith. Amy kellogg live from milan, italy, with mark, amy . That is one Christian Martyr every 6 minutes. The numbers were put together by the center for the study of global christianity, and it is really an average over the last several years. They have a rather broad definition of martyr, it is not some unnecessarily who pledges to die for their faith, rather these are people who live by christian values ever caught up in acts of human hostility. About 70 of those 90,000 killed in tribal conflicts in africa. The rest due to government persecution or terrorist acts, much like the one that we saw in istanbul, targeting killing some of the isis shooting in the nightclub that in fact really brought down many muslim victims, but the target was christians celebrating their pagan holiday. Then there was the attack on christians and a park celebrate easter last year in pakistan. Pope francis has been very vocal on the issue, and not just, he got on a plane a little over a year ago to go to wartorn Central African republic republic where he met with both christians and muslims fighting. The pope sees religion, True Religion has to promote peace. God cannot be used the pope often says you cannot use the name of god for violence or to kill people, he is going to africa as a way of saying lets Work Together, religions can Work Together for peace. Part of this discussion over these new numbers has been that christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world now. Interestingly, back in the days of communism in the last century, the numbers were even higher because there was so much repression in secular countries, forcibly secular countries of people who actually followed their faith. Now what we are seeing is this phenomenon of christianity spreading to very fragile part of the world like certain parts of africa where there is war and also, of course, the shocking spread of crisis targeting specifically among others christians. Jenna thank you. Greg brandnew developments of russia, what are Intel Community is saying about Vladimir Putin and allegations the kremlin had compromising information on our president elect. What our nations spy chief told mr. Trump about that matter. We are live with that story. Plus, we know his feeling about the media, but president elect donald trump took his feelings to a whole new level in his press conference. Did he go too far . How about some of the reporters, did they go too far . Our media panel weighs in. Here. Or here. Today, theres another option. Drugfree aleve direct therapy. A tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. 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Thank you, fox news confirming the Intelligence Community leadership wanted to give the president elect a heads up that the allegations were widely circulating, a lot of Media Outlets have the documents, and they were sitting on them. Meantime, fbi was working to substantiate that the allegations were true, but they were unverified. This was not described as a central element of the briefing or the larger Intelligence Report formally delivered to mr. Trump and his team on friday. Then last night, the spy chief James Clapper sent out this statement he called mr. Trump about the media reports, emphasizing he was confident the Intelligence Community was not behind them. I emphasized this document is not a u. S. Intelligence Community Product and that i do not believe the leaks came from within the ic peer that is the acronym for the Intelligence Community. Theichasnotmadeanyjudgmentthatt heinformationinthisdocumentisrel iable. Writingina tweet James Clapper called me yesterday to denounce the false and fictitious report that was illegally circulated. Made up, phony facts. Too bad a short time ago, the leader of the Intelligence Committee was pressed about his view on these allegations. We will continue to look at leaks because we have a massive amount of them over the last three weeks. That is an acceptable that it was classified in a sensitive document. Spoon the last few minutes, outgoing Vice President joe biden has told nbc he and mr. Obama were briefed on this dossier in the same vein, unverified, unsubstantiated, but certainly out there. Jenna thank you. You are welcome. Since you are attacking us, can you give us a question . Mr. President elect, president elect, since you are attacking our News Organization, can you give us a chance . You are attacking our News Organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir . Sir, mr. President elect, can you state categorically, can you give us a question dont be rude. Dont be rude. Not to you. Im not going to give you a question. You are fake news. Go ahead. Greg pretty Dramatic Exchange during the president elect trump News Conference as he refused to answer a question from a cnn reporter. Joining us now, anderson comments at the washington examiner, republican pollster Juan Williams joins us from our fox news clinical analyst, cohost, but how did you see this, who was being abrasive and rude . Was it trump or the reporter from cnn, which . It is like judging a prize fight, ive never seen a press conference like that. That was really something. I think it is donald trump taking the offensive, making it clear that he felt offended, that he felt something was being done that was wrong and was vilifying him, smearing his reputation, and he was pointing a finger at cnn. You can make your own call as to whether or not you think he is right or wrong, but i think this is the kind of confrontational press conference that i just have not seen from either a president elect or a president of the United States. Greg buzzfeed wrongfully published the entire salacious unsubstantiated reports, so they discredited themselves all on their own. But cnn did not do that. They simply reported that this had been presented to the president elect and a meeting with intel officials. Is it fundamentally wrong and unfair that the president of the United States would ridicule and demean what is otherwise a legitimate News Organization for doing what they think is correct . It always frustrates me when democrats or president obama demean or belittle conservative News Organizations or News Organizations that are fair and balanced, that want to give the right story. I dont think it is right when either side does it. In this case, i suspect donald trump was conflating the issue because in his mind, it is a story that has all of the bad stuff about me, i dont think it is fair, i think it is wrong, not really making the distillation between buzzfeed, who put the really salacious stuff out there, and cnn whose reporting seems to now be pretty close to confirmed that at least this document, even if it was not the crux of the briefing given to president elect trump, it was something that was mentioned that it existed, not that it was true but letting him know it was out there. It seems theyre reporting is confirming that. It does not seem donald trump made the distinction. What concerned me more is not whether or not they have hostile backandforth and press conferences. What would bury me is if the new Administration Takes action similar to the Current Administration and going after journalists legally. That is the sort of thing, much more than anything in terms of style, tone, combativeness, that would really concern me about this administration and the free press. At the moment, he is not yet in office so we have not seen legal action taken on that front, but that is what i would consider to be something truly troubling rather than just an explosive back and forth with a reporter. Greg let me get a Quick Response from you, because i want to segue to a new topic here. If this is what we are going to be seeing over the next four years, a level of belligerence and entity that we have not seen since nixon. I think a lot of it was behind the scenes with nixon, but i do not think it was out front in this way like we have seen from the tapes in the likes of the Nixon White House there was a lot of anger, but i do not think we have seen this extent of animosity between the press and the president or president elect in this case, and just picking up on what christian was saying, i think she is right. I will note the obama Ad Administration has gone hard on leaks in washington in a way that has alarmed many in the press, but what is different about this is i think it spreads the idea, especially to trump supporters, that you do not trust the press, that the press is basically out to get you, and that he is fighting for his life against people who would take him down and that he is making the press into part of the opposition. In terms of the people who left first amendment, left press and think reporting is essential to our democracy, this is a different stage of relationship. Greg its going to be interesting to watch it unfold. I want to go to what has been a breaking news story over the last hour. The department of Justice Office of Inspector General has announced they are going to launch a probe, and it is going to be of both the fbi and the department of justice relative to their conduct involving the clinton investigation, her email server and may be the foundation, but it seems, although they are very general and broad and vague here in the announcement. I did a little checking, senator chuck grassley, republican of the Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Inspector General, complaining that Loretta Lynch was compromised and biased toward Hillary Clinton, and she arguably recused herself, but he cited others within the doj that were leaking things, allegedly, to the clinton campaign. That appears like it may be a part of this. What is your reaction to it . There are pieces of what happened in those closing weeks of the election that i think both sides of the campaign would say they thought was wrongdoing on the part of the fbi, whether it was democrats being frustrated with the announcement late in the game that the fbi was reopening an investigation into potentially classified information that was on a computer potentially accessible to folks that should not have had it. Then there were folks on the republican side who are frustrated again by the allegations that attorney general Loretta Lynch is corresponding on the tarmac with bill clinton, so i think for both sides, there is probably in eagerness to get a little bit more to the bottom of what happened. It does not seem like either side is particularly happy with the way things went. Republicans may be happy with the election results, but not necessarily thrilled with the way the entire thing unfolded. Greg also, juan, it looks like included in on this that the Inspector General will also be looking at the chief investigator james comey, so an investigation of the investigator. Without a doubt pay right now, james comey is under fire. I think democrats are pointing to the idea that that with the latest revelations about donald trump and this unsubstantiated document that was appended to the recent report, there was no effort by him to make that public whereas the evidence against clinton, unsubstantiated charge, was made public. Greg i have to leave it there, thank you both. We well be right back. You dont let anything keep you sidelined. Thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy to get back to doing. What you love. Ensure. Always be you. Jenna fox news weather alert, business beginning to improve after powerful storms dumped more than 10 feet of snow in some areas out west in fact some ski resorts are reporting too much snow and it is causing a problem. Alicia is standing by with that story but we begin with our chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth with the latest forecast. Lets go p that looks amazing. A lot of the west under snow, then take a look at the east where we had snow that melted really fast, 42 degrees in caribou, maine, 63 in new york right now, 61 in phoenix, getting an idea where the cold air is which is where we had all of these storms. Along that, weve had a drought weve been talking about for years in california. This takes us back to what it looked like about a year ago. Watch what happened, kind of expanded little bit over the summer, then take a look at the latest coming in here, the drought is gone a lot. North carolina, the drought is over, South Carolina steel dealing with it, but we have more moisture in the shortterm, we e moisture today and tomorrow. Then we get a four or five day break before another storm moves in, so i think this overall pattern where weve been getting this storm across the west is going to stick around, want to show you another story we are going to watch, this is what is happening across the west for the next day and a half. Take a look at the pink that is going right here across parts of the central plains. We are going to have a multiday event where we have pricing going on here because of that, we have advisories in effect for parts of illinois, back in toward oklahoma and the panhandle of texas, and some spots are going to see a really significant icing which will cause major problems in kansas, oklahoma, the panhandle of texas, some a half an inch, maybe a little more of that of ice on everything which causes a lot of Power Outages paid you get the idea the cold air will settle right here against areas of the central plane, so a big storm on its way. Jenna good heads up, thank you. Greg after the rather rare problem of too much snow for some ski resorts out west. Alicia acunas life in breckenridge, colorado, so obama, it looks like theyve got quite a bit there. Just a little bit, so some advertising it sounds like when there is too much snow, but it really is true, it is beautiful, but it is just as dangerous as being in the wrong place at the wrong time in acute relations have been crazy. Here in breckenridge over the last seven days, they received 50 inches of snow, over the last seven days. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center tells me that during the storm, they have had to rescue at least nine people who have been stuck in slides, and the entire Mountain Area is under some level of avalanche danger warning which is what was forcing these ski resort closures and internet enclosures in their estate. The 70 which beats the cars to the resort because of the conditions. Colorado, california, oregon, utah have all had their interstate highways and roads closing and reopening due to avalanches or simply really dangerous conditions. The other thing, this system has brought heavy, wet snow. Here, a local hotel was evacuated after the roof of one of its buildings collapsed. Fire crews say that then caused a gas leak which then ignited a small fire. No one was hurt, but one guy we talked to who said he was there was saying it was scary when the cops came banging on the door to get out. Luckily, i grabbed my i. D. And while it, but it was quite an interesting night to see that building completely collapse on itself due to snow, break a gas line and start a fire is not exactly what i had in mind for our vacation. And as you can see, the sun is out here right now, so everyone is celebrating and lookingoc forward to the ski slopes. Greg like you very much. We will be right back. Ba ready. avo tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. Dont use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Dont share needles or insulin pens. Dont reuse needles. 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Jenna every four years, d. C. Residents get to witness history and maybe even make a little money on the side. In washington with a look on this part of the story, shannon . This time of year in washington is generally not great for the economy, so much of what is here is a sight seeing and being outside. Things people do not want to do in january and february. That changes every fourth year with the influx of people here for the inauguration, filling up the normally empty hotels and restaurants. By that comparison, the first inauguration of obama drew 1. 8 million people, the second was under a million and experts like George Mason University professor predicts this time around about 400 or 500,000 people will show up. On average, each one of those visitors will, over the course of their time here, will spend about 3300. So right there, you get about 1. 2 billion in impact. Some of those incoming benefits are offset by a little bit of the reality when you factor in construction, security and all of the other bells and whistles, the price tag comes to 175 million or 200 million, about 70 million of that is expected to be covered by private donations, but the rest is up to the taxpayers. About 3,000 Police Officers will be here from around the country in the d. C. National guard will also be activated. We did some checking on hotel rates for local properties and found a significant spike witthe inauguration and before and after. Despite that, one of the ritzcarltons in town is completely sold out, room rates range from 6,000 up to 40,000 for a multinight package. Jenna 40,000 . Wow, want to see what that room looks like. Thank you very much. We will be back with happening now. Lots of news this hour but thats it for now. Thanks for joining us. Americas news headquarters starts right now. Byebye. This hour starts with a fox news alert. 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