there s a noticeable change in the letters and we say from the needy to the greedy. the letters now in the past, they were asking for laptops, macbooks and this year the theme is winter coats, gloves, heat, pay their rent, they can t buy food or medicine. they are reaching out to santa. i want to show one of the letters from a woman named maria, a woman from three. she said blankets, jackets, pants, jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, socks, snow boots. this is from christopher, age 11. if possible, we would like some educational toys and winter clothes. i would like something to make my mommy happy. she is getting chemotherapy after breast surgery. what do you do with letters like these? reporter: these letters are put out there for people we call
the blizzard of february, the way people are driving. we will keep forces until it s completely clear, we have everything treated and everything is in good shape. i was not doing very well. so it s a little slippery? very slippery. i don t have snow boots, so i m wearing my rain boots and yeah, it s really slippery. martha: if you think this is bad, forecasters are keeping their eyes on what could turn into an even bigger storm pushing eth now. meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox weather center with perhaps our white christmas outlook it may sound like janice! reporter: does bill have a coin we can toss? bill: actually i m broke at the moment. but i could run downstairs, maybe. reporter: i got to say, it s 50 lsh 50, a lot of the local forecasters were saying a lot of maybes, could be, because a lot of the computer models, there s a little bit of divergence here, some computer models showing it come closer to the shore, which means all of the big cities could hav
ten inches here in places like cincinnati up through columbus. winter storm warnings are posted for these folks. we rolled this thing up the eastern seaboard. it does do a little bit of a nor easter but won t intensify as much as the last one. it won t have the cold air so the rain/snow line will be north of washington, d.c. that will be good. snow getting into new york maybe three to six inches there and then the big story, really, continues to be, guys, arctic cold air driving all the way down to the deep south. so, that part of the pattern will continue through the end of february. keep out the snow boots. you re going to need them this week, too. thanks, rob. this morning s top story is minutes away, including a major offensive, maybe the biggest since 9/11 going on right now in southern afghanistan, major test for troops. afghan troops as well, as well as the afghan government. and president obama s war strategy. we re going to talk about what s at stake live from kabul. at
let s just start over, 23 percent say pass the current bill the way it is, 23 percent say do nothing. i don t know what exactly they re after, but bob beckel is with us, professor of advanced political studies at gorge washington university and a fox news contributor who apparently has good snow boots, andrea santoras is here and she s a fox contributor as well. good to see you both. andrea, you say that this discussion between republicans and democrats and the president, the gop needs to proceed with caution. why do you say that? absolutely. look, the republicans i think made a mistake, meeting with barack obama before and televising it. the setting was not good for them. he was able to lecture to them, he was able to in front of millions of people say you guys are to blame, you come forward with no ideas, and i think republicans here need to look at the polls you just presented, martha, a majority of americans wants to start over, republicans
google from future attacks or threats, i should say. under the reported agreement, google will not allow the nsa to view user s searches or email accounts. oh my, a fox news weather alert now and what could be a record-breaking snow storm now headed for the mid-atlantic. and we re told this one could hit some spots with up to 20 inches of snow. at least one state already declaring an emergency for the weekend. let s get to our meteorologist domenica davis in the extreme weatherweather center. look out in d.c. they are shaking in their snow boots. they could see a record-breaking snow with a foot to two feet. here is the snow right now a massive storm system that comes through much of the middle part of the country. the low pressure system is sitting over the gulf. here is the time line. it slowly pushes across to the east by friday evening. here it is. now a coastal low and this snow will start to push in to the mid-atlantic and the northeast by late afternoon from new york further n