i ll watch. martha: charlie received a purple heart. he would have turned 104 in february. he was riding an exercise bicycle. he was late to rest with military honors today. god bless charlie gubish. that s the story for today. see you back here tomorrow. say stand in this line, stand in that line. we re standing in the line. we missed our flight. the whole time to talk to someone was about 4 1/2 hours. we had the wait 1 1/2 hours for our luggage. because of the weather and de-icing and because of that, we lost over $10,000. neil: ho, ho, no, it s happening again. another fierce winter storm. this one known as a bomb cyclone is about to blast much of the united states wreaking havoc on
the congressman on before that said this could be bigger than madoff. got to put it in context. madoff was something like a 40, $50 billion rip-off ponzi scheme. they traced back and clawed back about half of that. so people a lot of people got what got some of their initial investment back or all of their initial investment back. not the gains. but some of it back. neil: is there any chance of that here, charlie? that s where it gets crazy. this is an eight billion i don t know. the numbers are all over the place. let s say a $5 billion of customer money missing. that none of it could come back. on a proportion scale, this is where it s bigger than madoff. remember, madoff was literally money in from people, money out from anybody that wanted to take their ill-gotten gains or gains
so far more than 30% of flights leaving seattle tacoma international airport have been disruntsed today. the fox forecast center forecasting delays an cancellations in the gulf states so places like orlando, you just heard from that passenger. she s dealing with a delay. we re looking at potential delays in atlanta and new orleans because of rain and wind today. neil? martha: all right. thanks very much for that, katie. want to go to charles payne in atlanta, the airport there, where they re also dealing with some that could get worse if it isn t already worrisome enough. to you, charles. yeah, good afternoon, neil. the holiday rush is coming just in time for the cold and wet weather that will almost certainly affect most of the country. forecasts are calling for freezing temperatures throughout the lower 48 and the midwest is expected to get hammered by a bomb cyclone that will bring heavy snow and possibly blizzard-like concerns in places like chicago, milwaukee as early
to get here, he has to leave the bahamas. that s why the focus is on the bahamas. tomorrow morning, 11:00 a.m. in that hearing. neil? neil: i would imagine that bail would be considerable. yes. you would think. it s been granted in some of these high profile cases in the past. our reporting suggests that there s a deal between the lawyers to grant the bail, but again, the judge could come in and make a different decision. we ll see once he gets here how that is handled. neil: great coverage, con them. charlie gasparino was on this story when nobody was. what are we talking about here? obviously they re concerned he s a flight risk. in the beginning that was a concern. they obviously take your passport away. that doesn t guarantee that you re still not. where is this going, charlie? i kind of think he will get bail. bernie madoff before he went to jail was home i guess house
a lot of the stuff he spents money on wasn t on houses. it was lost in trades. that i don t think you can claw back. they were not part of the system. they were trading with him anonymously or whatever in the open markets. that s where this becomes potentially bigger than madoff. neil: what a mess. martha: it s a mess. neil: thanks, charlie. meantime here, we to know the government spending is out of control. right? and the proof isn t only in the latest figure for a spending measure, $1.7 trillion but the sheer size explaining the measure itself. you re looking at 4, 155 pages looks like. to describe a massive spending measure. according to aishah hasnie, it might not be over yet. aishah? that s right. we are waiting a senate procedural vote. a lot of senate republicans are raising the alarm, sounding the alarm saying look, this is 4,000