0 obsessed with college football. watch it all the time. i can't do it. >> a good friend of mine lives in suburban new jersey and i said tell me what's going on in sports. does his kids play soccer. the very best athletes, you played football. are not always playing football. they were going to soccer or lacrosse. there are other things. it's not a given if you're a biggest, strongest, fastest you go into football. >> i'm watching baseball a lot more now again because of the violence and knowing what it's doing to these kids. i'll say, i don't want to see 23, 24-year-old kid speared in the head and have brain injury for the rest of his life. that's not fun. >> what's the protocol. some teams, guys have a concussion, the guy is back on the field next week. other teams, he's out for several weeks. i do not believe the brain recovers on a sunday night game to a sunday morning game. i just don't think you can recover that fast. >> i don't think so. long term problem. if they want to save the league, save the brand they are going to have to test for hgh. they have to test for steroids. they have to test for all these things and put up with an nfl that's a little slower. >> as long as the ratings are good. >> extreme fighting too. ratings are good for truck polls. i'm talking about long term brand. this is a long term brand issue. you disagree? >> what's that? >> whether this is a serious -- >> yeah. absolutely. head injury thing. no question about it. >> they did a great job on that settlement. >> the other thing on the attendance, red zone, stuff like that. if it's negative ten and you can stay home and watch the game and have the food and friends and bathroom right there that's clean and cheap, tv is so good now that weighing the two, you know what -- >> okay. what is going on? i was at the big game in philadelphia where there were four inches of snow detroit lyons were doing line dances to stay warm. >> i will say if i watched pro football i would have watched red zone. joey and all his friends do. all these fantasy football leagues. most fun they have all week. >> parking is cheaper. >> blizzard like conditions right now are sweeping across a 700 mile stretch of the country and it's only going to get worse for some of america's busiest and biggest cities. governors and mayors from the midwest to the east coast have declared states of emergency. wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour with temperatures dropping to 25 below. schools are closed in philadelphia, boston and new york and to get more, let's go to bill karins. bill, how bad does it get this weekend? >> the weekend will get better. it will rain by sunday. the problem is getting rid of the snow we got last night. with these wind chills, some of the coldest we've seen in years. literally clearing the driveway and walk and car is difficult. let's talk about the snow. still dealing with it for another couple of hours. philadelphia you're done. areas like battle and d.c. you're done. new york city another two, three hours. another inch. the bulk of the snow has already fallen. the problem is getting rid of it. look at these wind chills, minus 4 in new york, minus 18 providence to new england. clearly, easily. the other issues is the winds are very strong. blizzard conditions on long island and from boston southward to the cape that's where we have blowing and drifting of the snow and telling everyone to stay off the roads in those areas at least until 8:00 maybe until 9:00 or 10:00. much of the country is bitterly cold. we're not the only ones in new england. still very cold in areas like minneapolis. let's go to boston. richard lui is live there. richard, what can you tell us about the winds over the last couple of hours? >> reporter: you're talking about it getting cold. about 4 degrees last we checked here. in terms of winds it's the worst we've seen so far as you have been forecasting 20 to 25 miles per hour. the crews have been working all night. the snow is very light and fluffy and able to keep the roads clear which means that in about two hours the businesses will open and people can get to where they need to work and the great thing here, bill, is they are able to keep the streets clean. it's not sticking. that's working out so far. just for fun i put out a bowl of water about an hour ago and it's hard as a rock. that's how cold it is. and windy. >> officially about 14 inches at logan airport. little spot north of there picked up 21 inches of snow. richard lui in downtown boston. thanks. joy, it will get worst before it gets better. on sunday, monday and tuesday, forecasting a historic cold outbreak across the middle of the country. >> i don't like how that sounds. >> minneapolis is expecting wind chills minus 45, minus 60. >> where is global warming when you need it? come on. >> australia just reported their warmest year they ever had. >> we're not in australia. doesn't do us a whole lot of good back here. come on. come on. global warming, let's get it moving. thanks so much, bill karins. willie, did you see that pile of snow there? >> yeah. >> seriously. i mean look at that pile of snow. does bill de blasio really think this is a dress rehearsal? >> best part is that's boston. >> i know. i know. it's a good thing, though. it's a good thing. willie, what else is happening? what's happening in the economy? >> i'll say driving in and you saw this too, i checked every block down, they were all plowed. >> i cannot tell you how angry i was. >> they were. >> he's been critical of bloomberg. but it looks pretty clear right now. >> it looks pretty good. >> i'm keeping my eye on him. that's central park right now. good god. that's all i will say. good god. i miss bloomberg. >> let's talk to jim cramer about the economy. he has a great new book ouout out, "get rich carefully." the street posted a negative start to the new year. global investors put their faith in the dollar believing the u.s. economy will outperform economies in other recovered countries around the world. other promising signs that the u.s. is in the right direction, home prices are up 14.8% since 2010. consumer spending up 2.5%. and when it comes to unemployment recent "wall street journal" survey finds forecasters be expect unemployment to drop to 6.5%. the current rate is at 7. jim this is a good time. take a step back. front page of the "journal" today say there are these signs of recovery. where are we? >> the advisory real. much more to do with pent up demand than anything else. the country was on hold for a huge, long period. not enough homes built. not enough construction. where are the cranes? you go over major city not too many cranes. too tight credit. the things that create a recovery are happening. they should have happened earlier. >> what about jobs, though? unemployment number can be deceptive because people stop looking they get out of the workforce. 7% right now. what's the job market really like? >> there are jobs that are plentiful in industrial positions. people have misunderstood what causes a lot of jobs to occur and that's construction not home construction. home construction is important but office construction. new projects. that's where a lot of people get jobs. that's going to do well. aerospace. oil and gas even without the help of washington. democrat or republican doing amazingly. we have strong regions. we do not have finance doing well yet. that's where you need to see some strength. >> why is there such a disconnect at the end of 2013 and beginning of 2014 between main street and wall street? why is wall street having record highs and main street still struggling? >> i think wall street in the end continues to reinvent itself rapidly. there will be a new product to be sold. few people are actually in it. a lot of people invested in a lot of companies that did very well because the federal reserve kept interest rates down. so companies that would have gone out of business otherwise that were invested by very rich people at wall street, private equity firms have come back public and that's a very big theme and making people a lot of money. main street is trying to create jobs. main street is hamstrung. main street is small business. small business doesn't do well in an environment where there's a lot of regulation and interest rates money is not free home to, only free to the big people. >> you're exactly right. there was something said that was brilliant. we talk and analyze the economy and all the problems and what we need to do to fix it. it's very simple. if the economy gross at 2% we have these problems. if the economy gross at 3.5%, a lot of these problems take care of themselves. a lot has to do with growth. you believe the government has gotten in the way of our economy growing. >> yes. the government wants to do a lot of things that turn out the being a great for the biggest companies. the more regulation, the more companies can write the laws, be able to have the lawyers, accountants. i started six small businesses. my biggest costs are legal and accounting. i don't want to hire people if i can't figure out how i'll get in trouble with the government if i do. that should be your initial worry. i'm opening a restaurant right now. my first worry is the government. >> it's the government because when you hire people you're actually as a small business owner that wants to grow the economy, wants to make money, hiring people carries with it a punitive price from the government with all these regulations. >> you hire expensive people to tell you if it's okay with what you're doing with hires. i have very expensive upfront costs from white collar people who tell me what the law is. i would like to just hire chef, cook, waitress, bartender. no. tell me what i'm going to do wrong before i get start sod i won't be shutdown. >> what do you mean specifically? what are some of the laws you're bumping your head into? >> i have to worry dwhabout hea care, minimum wage, health code. what do i have to do for my neighbors. there's another bar within 500 feet of mine. what do i have to do with the community board. how about 12:00. 11:00. now look these are all understandable things because they are neighborhood issues. the layers of government of everything i've done -- i own an inn, it's a bed and breakfast. if i call it an inn, trenton can shut me down. i have the biggest bill i have are the people who protect me from getting prosecuted. >> i asked this question several weeks ago from several people who were small business owners, in a also asked people, have you talked to anybody, and i'm not just picking on the affordable care act, did you talk to any small business owner in the past two years and they say the affordable care act will do anything but hurt their business. they say no. that's just one layer. but there's layer after layer after layer of regulation from the federal government, on state government, local government. we're not talking about big wall street firms. we need regulations on big wall street firms. small business owners, so many of them say i can't afford to hire anybody else because look at all of these costs, look at this exposure. at some point people are going to figure out that they are is going to have to aggressively get in there and help small business owners lighten their regulatory load if they want this economy to grow. >> it's a mindset. look, i'm blessed. i have some capital. but between buying municipal bonds and starting a business. i don't have to call anybody to buy a municipal bond. other than a puerto rican bond. i'll buy a bond. okay. i want to open up a restaurant. year and a half later i'm almost there. nothing is involving the mexican food or the liquor i'm serving. >> george mcgovern, famously opened a restaurant after he got out of the politics and shut down. he blamed in large part a lot of the regulations and red tape he had to deal with the government. and he said he wished he had done that before he ran for office because it would have changed his entire outlook on everything. >> nobody helps you. we had a driveway at our inn. somebody slipped because it was gravel. we paved it. then you got to take that pavement off. we didn't give you approval. someone slipped and hurt themselves. so what. i'm afraid of the government before i'm afraid of the insurance company. >> a lot of people are. i saw this fascinating poll. majority of americans supported same sex marriage, supported the legalization of marijuana and believe that the federal government was a fundamental risk to their freedoms. does that tell you -- a lot of us have been talking about this libertarian streak that will run across all issues especially in the future. >> and young people who have a reason to be suspicious -- not talking about obamacare but going back to katrina, the iraq war, all these big institutions that have failed them and they watched that happen as they grow up. >> you think about it. 2000 the recount. 2001, of course 9/11. and the missed intel. 2002, enron, world come. 2003 iraq. wmds. 2005 katrina. 2006 complete meltdown in iraq. you can go on and on. an earth shattering scandal every year that has shaken the confidence in younger americans and, you know, this past year it's been the affordable care act and we'll see. the final chapter is yet to be written. >> maybe not our best century so far. >> maybe not. let me tell you something, the last 86 years, we're going to kick ass. this is our american century. got off to a rough start. like the colt stumbling out of the gate. >> as we say in the scarborough household, it's not how you start, joe, it's how you finish. >> jim cramer thank you so much. the book is "get rich carefully." coming up we have david gregory and politico's maggie haberman and reverend al sharpton and chris van hollen. later, ethan hawke will be here to talk about his new role in "mcbeth." you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. my mouth will return soon. 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