everything you put in a salad is coming in harvest in the south. we re talking lettuce, tomatoes, we re talking broccoli. all of that stuff that is good for you, those prices are coming up. it s coming at one of the worst times, this is the beginning of the year. everybody is on a diet right now. all going to salads. could be a good excuse to put off your diet. it s a weather emergency. you can put it off until the prices come down. that s what i m recommending. all kidding aside, this is going to affect the u.s. economy to a small degree. we re talking billions of dollars of a hit to the u.s. economy. the good news is, with the cold temperatures, we ll get a boost from people that are shovelling snow, people that have snow blowers, people that buy warm coats like this. people that are very good about the market, the traders can take opportunities. like i took an opportunity last year on a thought.
state than new york or california, some of the blue states. the solutions is to get rid of the state income taxes. it s great for state tax powers and removes the issue. you still have your state sales taxes but get rid of the income tax altogether. i m all for simplifying the tax code and getting rid of the deductions as long as they use them to lowter rates and don t grow government. i m okay with that. for all the people in california and new york, move. we would love to have you in the south. there s other states that have no or lower state income taxes. we would love to have your business here. neil: it s hot and humid in louisiana. a beautiful state. but just saying. when you re shovelling snow in the east, we re in shorts and t-shirts. neil: fair enough. you got me there. thanks, governor jindal.
bitter cold turned deadly. 21 cold- related deaths in the country since sunday. five people died after collapsing while shovelling snow. how is it looking, rick? it is better but take a couple of days before it is above average. temperatures 16 in atlanta. nine in new york. seven in bostonment minus 11 in minneapolis. it feels like one degrees in chicago and 11 in new york city. and 41 in atlanta. in the last 24 hours, look at temperatures, for everybody in the eastern side of the country, 15 or 25 degrees warmer than you were. it is not warm, but warmer than you were and that feels better. today s temperatures, all of that peak is gone for high temperatures. for friday we ll improve and be back above freeze nothing chicago. and same goes for saturday.
wisconsin. the storm dumping as much as eight inches of snow in some areas but the big concern now, the freezing temperatures and ice. david lee miller is live in our plaza with more. david? here in new york city, temperature is now inched up to 36 degrees, a very light rain, no snow in midtown manhattan but throughout the northeast, it s been a very rough 24 hours. just outside of new york city, in greenwich, connecticut on i-95, the last few hours there was a 20 car collision that closed the southbound lane of i-95. and in philadelphia, there were 8 1/2 inches of snow reported at the airport and to put that in context, that is more snow than the city received all of last year. there was also a fatal crash on the pennsylvania turnpike involving more than 50 cars. motorists were stranded up to seven hours. pennsylvania department of transportation says it was simply taken by surprise. what we re seeing is that there s really been a 360 with
tomorrow. get what? this storm is going to have temperatures cold enough that some precipitation from the storm is going to come in the form of snowfall. for the same areas across places like washington, d.c., philadelphia, up to parts of connecticut and even massachusetts. again, you are going to be getting another round of snowfall coming into tomorrow. if snowfall accumulation is not expected to be very significant. the exception will be the areas down wind of the great lakes by tuesday into wednesday. later in the day you re going to start to see the lake-effect snow picking up and some could be seeing a foot of snow out here, especially off lake ontario. you can see the forecast here. some of the higher elevations across the mid atlantic could see over six inches of snow. cities like washington, d.c., three to maybe five inches of snow forecast through tomorrow of the philadelphia, new york city, accumulations a little lower, one to three inches in