neil: well, may not look like but the heat is on in iowa. the presidential candidates are making a mad dash to the finish line. six days to go as a fierce winter storm is cancelling events today. but not much could keep caucus goers today. the only thing weather related that could affect turnout is a really bad ice storm that would prevent people from driving there. we have 1,657 precinct sites. nobody has to travel a long ways to get to those caucuses. minus 6 degrees, that s a walk in the park for us. neil: so he hopes. so forget the freeze and focus on the money. nikki haley and her supporters betting big as she surges in new hampshire. busy day. your world now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. so fast and furious that six days to go to iowa and polls tightening and people wondering, is all of that money being put to good use by nikki haley? still too early to tell for sure. grady trimble following it in a snowy des moines. grady? neil, the candidates are braving the we
where the 737 max is assembled. there was a lot to talk about what happened friday in portland. new details today. boeing gave instructions for the inspection and maintenance of the grounded max 9s. the ntsb is investing a 737 max 9 that had the mid cabin door plug blow off at 16,000 feet elevation. a teacher discovered the door was in his back yard and then he alerted officials. it was all in one piece. came down as a single unit. it was lying in my back yard. so it was caught in the trees at the time. luckily no one was in the two seats closest to the hole and nobody was hurt. it was scary until the plane made an emergency landing in portland 16 minutes later. the faa grounded all max 9s that
189 passengers. given the 189 passenger threshold, alaska would not have to have emergency exit doors at that location in the aircraft. alaska actually only has on this plane 178 seats. but this mid cabin door plug, there is one on the left, there is one on the right, they are not operational. what you would see in the cabin if you are a passenger is a window and just part of the cabin. you would not see those as doors unless you are outside of the aircraft. now, we know that there were 171 passengers on board the airplane. with two pilots. the captain was flying at the time. they also had four flight attendants on board. fortunately all passengers deplaned. we are not aware of any serious