working areas just to the north there. but winter storm warningsexpi expiring at 10:00 a.m. over 500 flights canceled, about 400 of them out of new york and boston airports. 250 flights also delayed across the northeast. but a couple are more inches for places such as portland and that is about it. blustery weather could lead to some disruptions in the afternoon hours. and conditions will begin to improve, but look at the air mass left mind this, highs today in chicago in march 14 degrees. in minneapolis, about 8. these are running 25 to 30 degrees below average for this time of year. again, a few weeks removed from the spring season. should be into the lower 40s in chicago in places like st. louis should be at 51, and the best we can do, about 23 degrees.
the minnesota group. there you go, harris. today s high, minus 14 in minneapolis. for the weekend, look at that it ll be about a 70-degree swing. that 70 degrees only gets you into the lower 40s. it ll certainly be a lot better. melissa: it s minnesota and it s january. i remember how that is. but there have been deaths associated with this cold snap, so we wish everybody the best. cover up. rick, thank you. you re welcome. melissa: fox news alert, and the next hour a by partisan conference committee is set to open talks on funding the government and border security under the looming threat of another possible partial government shutdown. the big question can they reach a deal? the president will sign ahead of the 15th deadline. g.o.p. senator lindsey graham has reported they floated the idea, including the debt ceiling in discussions but wall funding. they are pushing the idea of a car brands of immigration reform deal. but there are no formal proposals at this time. this mo
house correspondents, he was out. the white house even though the white house was continuing a cover-up, it understood that there are certain rules. this administration doesn t seem to care. they re blowing through these rejecting these norms. normally it would matter. i think the question is the president s challenge is that if you look at his poll numbers, they ve improved a little, but we re talking about a small improvement in the 40s. this president has not been able to move above the lower 40s in approval, i m talking about on the average. yeah. for since the 100th day of his presidency. yes, his supporters, his base don t mind apparently that he lies. but the rest of the country minds a lot. if he wants to build a winning coalition for this november and two years from now, he s got to do something because the lying isn t working. errol, let me come back to
had. in part, i think we re starting to see there s much more slack in the labor market than we ve had in the past. and we re starting to see the economy maybe not being what we always thought it was and whether it s because of globalization or automation, the economy is just different at this point. but i will say more broadly to your point, the fact that the president s approval ratings are mired in the lower 40s shows that the economy does matter. but people want a president whose values reflect theirs. the economy will provide ultimately less of a boost to him than perhaps it has to other presidents in the past. michael, one quick point. on the wage issue, you re right. the whole point of this tax cut that we did with the president was to try to get a tighter labor market so that wages would rise. i m going to make a prediction. i believe you ll start to see wages rise at a faster pace because there s this demand there s 6 million more jobs today than there are people to
and vital region, the greenpeace message is we can do something before we reach a crisis point. arwa damon, cnn, the antarctica. well, in some places, you couldn t be blamed for not knowing what season it is. there is a ferocious heatwave hitting southeast asia, and snow is forecast for the u.s. northeast. meteorologist ivan cabrera joins us now to explain what is going on. ivan? too much snow late in the season. that s what is going on in the northeast. i ll talk than in a second. it s psychologically depressing as well, even though we re going to melt the snow with warm temperatures. not as warm as it s been in india. have you seen the numbers from the weekend? upper 30s to lower 40s you. have you to factor in the humidity. it s humt humid, humid enough te it feel it s in the mid and upper 40s. that s dangerous heat. it continues to build into the next few days. a problem in india this time of year is the monsoon hasn t