live in minneapolis where it looks cold. first joining us from fox weather is ian oliver. ian, give us good news, can you? good afternoon. there s none in the short term. new year s weekend, i guess, that looks milder if you can look about a week out. yeah, we ve been tracking this powerful sprawling storm system. it has brought with it all the problems that it has brought all the way across the country. we ve seen heavy rain, isolated severe storms moving through the new york city metro area this afternoon. now a changeover to snow as this arctic air crashes in quickly. the flash freeze that we re expecting through the rest of the day today and the overnight hours, it was 58 degrees at 3:00 a.m. in new york city. by tomorrow morning, you re waking up to temperatures around 11, maybe a round number around 10. it s a more than 40-degree temperature drop and come with these brutal wind gusts.
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you ve also got the idea of when certain key levels for key price points are taken out, that can drive that selling and that fear even further. so for example if we take out 1.10 against the us dollar, that was a round number, but the key concern here is the outlook for the uk economy and what it meant how uk economy was going to be able to going forward. in terms of those drivers for the markets, you talk about fear and greed, a lot of what was in the mini budget, the biggest expense was already in the pipeline, that help with energy bills. then of course there was the unfunded borrowing for the tax cuts. what was it in particular that spooked the markets at that point? i don t think it was one thing in particular,
the last dime here and can t possibly get it. nobody really can explain to the american people or congress what the $40 billion really gets you. if 100% of that is going to ukraine in lethal aid support, probably a good case for it. don t tell me $40 billion sounds like a good nice round number. show us the backup data. that s what congress is notorious for. pushing big numbers. using that as fungible numbers to help in other areas. martha: the problem is accountability. the fact that he got pushed back for asking for accountability on this. one of the many reasons that ukraine is not in nato is because over the years they ve had corruption. that means that when you send money, it gets funneled in to the wrong places. this is a fair question. it doesn t take away from the validity of the fight and i think americans are united on that. we have to know where this money