where the weather is good. just one innovation they re trying to put in place to alleviate the cancellations and delays. it s going to be a big one, jim. your private pilot s license may come in handy. that may be your solution, flying yourself home. not in weather like this. stay at the ready. thank you so much. cnn s allison chinchar is live from the cnn weather center. every time i spoke to you this week, i look at that map and go, oh, the whole country is covered in cold and snow. that is still the case. i think that is the thing that we want to druf home. the message, this isn t just impacting people in the upper midwest or in the high plains. this is going to be a very widespread concern over the next 48 to 72 hours. yes, some of the coldest temperatures exist off to the north. but even when you talk about places like texas, oklahoma, and georgia, these areas are going to be well below what they normally would be. but, yes, the temperatures are peaking. for states like
you know, plunging temperatures and all of the associated risks and dangers that come with that, you know, they re having a hard time and some places keeping the lights on in hospitals at critical infrastructure. that is how bad things are here. and yet, you have russia now after, yes, a triumphant moment for president zelenskyy. they re proud of their president and glad he s coming back with more money and weapons and pledges for deliverables for this war effort. you have people dying on the front lines every single day here. they re holding the lines. but they re not making offensive gains. and the kremlin is saying that bringing patriots in will prolong people suffering. they say they didn t hear anything from president zelenskyy s visitor president biden supporting, you know, addressing russia s safety concerns whether they re legitimate or not. i guess that depends on your point of view. and then they say that the west, the collective west is basically bracing, jim, for a prolonge
world. deterence in the world depends on a potential adversaries assessment of the willingness to employ them on the other. frankly, in the wake of the decision to withdraw from afghanistan, as you know, i agreed with that and then the conduct of that withdrawal, that did not help deter it. this does. this shows you the united states once again leading the world, doing more than all the others put together. we can be frustrated about that. but that say reality that we dealt with throughout our time as the superpower of the west. and ib ndeed, this is very muchn investment in our security and the security of like minded nations around the world. but especially obviously in nato europe. and perhaps message to china regarding taiwan as well. general david petraeus, thank you very much. happy holidays to you and your family. thank you. and best to you and yours, jim. still to come this hour, senators still hashing out the details over the $1.7 trillion
problem. it s a problem that has to be solved. title 42 which ed just reported on and other fixes like that are band-aids. what we need, jim, is for congress to sit down and do the hard work of fixing the immigration system. it s something that american public is demanding. so let s talk about the fitches. you fixes. you don t have any sufficient political will in either party to do it. what would it take to, for one, accelerate the time lines? some folks that applied for asylum and because there are so many of them and not enough judges and courtrooms, right, to adjudicate, they wait months, years to have the cases heard and are waiting in the u.s. in many cases while they re waiting for that decision. that goes with fixing the stum. there have been bills in congress. i think most recently in 2013 and you mention the courtrooms and how long it takes to get
recession, this country doesn t know it. the only place you can see that fed interest rate hikes affecting our housing so new housing investment was down in the quarter. actually held that number back a little bit. and then i hook at initial jobless claims, as you know, they re numbers we look at every week. tell us how many people filed for a jobless benefits. still very low. that number 216,000 for perspective jim in 2019, before the pandemic, the average weekly was 218,000. so these are prepandemic lows, near historic lows for how many people are being laid off. you re hearing a lot about tech layoffs. reminder, tech is 7% or 8% of the overall job market. that s a thing. when you look at the big picture numbers, job market is strong. well, we ll keep on top of it. there seems like there is news every day. thank you very much. you re welcome. still ahead, el paso is now rushing to shelter a surge of migrants at the southern border. legal wrangling creates more uncertainty.