caused serious outrage on line including actress kwetweeting i part stop telling women what they should do and can do. baby it s cold outside. and there won t be much relief coming. let s get to meteorologist derek van dam. good morning. on this cold thursday, check out international falls record low temperature. 37 degrees. that surpasses a record set back in 1924. international falls a notoriously cold spot in the u.s. you know it s cold. that s not the only location that shaw record breaking lows. again, on thursday, we re waking up to a very cold day over the
this goes to the federal agencies to give them a head s up. then it goes to congress and could look different by the time it is passed. one group is excited about the policies. the dow hitting another record high. that s 12 in a row. it ties the record set back in 1987. dow up incredible 2,400 points since president trump detectiel president. running into stumbling blocks in morning. two house conservatives, chairman mark meadows saying he would vote against a draft of the obamacare repeal bill leaked last week. meadows calling for the refundable tax credits which he calls a new entitlement program. ahead of the speech, the president is admitting that replacing obamacare is tougher than it looked from the campaign
nation. nearly 50 people are dead. fox news meteorologist janice dean is tracking all the storms. janice? hi, kimberly. this one is for the record books. we had everything from blizzards to tornadoes. 8 days of tornadoes. the flooding, the ice, the freezing rain and the snow. it s almost done. however, the flooding is going to be with us well into the new year into next week. the mississippi river continues to rise. especially at st. louis where it is expected to crest tomorrow at almost historic levels. this type of flooding is something we typically see in the springtime with the snow melt. it s almost unprecedented to see river flooding like this in the month of december. the crest at st. louis, the mississippi, and the missouri river at 43.2. the record set back in 1993, and that was in the springtime was 49.6. and people remember that flood. it was a disaster in the st. louis area. and this are, of course, the national guard has been called in and hearts and
politics now. senate minority leader harry reid says there s been a lot of progress on a deal to avoid a government shutdown but nothing final yet. a short-term funding measure expires at midnight tomorrow 73 six-term iowa governor terry branstad is now the longest serving governor in american history at 20 years 11 months and 4 days. that breaks the record set back in the 18th century set by former new york governor george clinton. speaking of which, a new pew poll finds 74% of americans say they ve given a lot or some thought to the candidates for president. that is higher than the last two campaigns. businessman richard branson spoke to msnbc s kate snow about his fellow billionaire donald trump. after saying he tries to avoid getting involved in party politics, he cracked and branson called trump s recent statements frightening, and worrying. if he really believes them, he shouldn t be in the white house. i m going to say, you know,
blinding sheets of snow are overturning big rigs and downing power lines. the subzero temperatures also gripping denver and the great plains where they are de-icing jetliners in omaha. icy roads have led to more than 100 crashes in lubbock, texas. and just start misting it. reporter: even southern californians are protecting their plants from the deep freeze now spreading from coast to coast just in time for new year s celebrations. here in pasadena, california, thousands are expected to fill these bleachers for the annual rose parade. it s the grand daddy of them all. while rain is expected to clear, temperatures at or below freezing are predicted. this could break a record set back in 1952. brandi hitt, abc news, pasadena.