house. excuse me, a what? good morning, everyone. winter has returned. it s brief, it won t feel nice this morning. the wind doesn t feel good. didn t feel good yesterday. this is a quick change. this morning you need the winter coats. bundle the kids up with hats and gloves. temperatures have dropped about 20 degrees compared to this time yesterday and even as much as 25 lower right now than yesterday in albany. how bad are the temperatures in the worst of it is definitely in northern new england, but everyone here is now below freezing. this white line is the freeze line. we had a hard freeze overnight through all of new england, most of michigan, pennsylvania, new york state and even now down here in areas of new jersey. all the flowers are out, the buds are on the trees, the magnolias have bloomed. hopefully the hardier stuff survived. wind chill, this is what gets
just a little bit up towards the northwest. i think my mouth is freezing as it melts and freezes a little bit. i want to bring in ivan clark here. you re the public works director here. you guys have your hands full today to clear all this out. we have a mess on our hands. that s for sure. i know you guys get storms like this but a storm that stays this windy this long, does that make it more difficult? it s pretty wide open country in this area. we re accustomed to working with these kinds of conditions. the wind doesn t help matters much. i know the state department and the highway department has been out all night and we met with them last night at 6:00 and it s been an ongoing process. they brought other trucks from down state in here to help us, also. we ve got some video out of texas from around amarillo that shows people trying to drive through there in almost white-out conditions. amarillo, not that far from here, all part of the same region on the panhandle. we re talk
to a category two, possibly to a one by landfall, it s still a huge storm, and it s displacing a lot of water. in other words, this is like a big huge fan out over the ocean. taking all of that wind and pushing the water to the coast. because of the angle of approach to the coast, the winds are going to be out of the south for a very long time, and areas along the coast, the southeast along areas of maryland, delaware, into new england. the longer duration is actually going to build the water up higher. let me try to explain what the storm surge is, one of the most famous cases, of course, was katrina as it went on shore. they had a storm surge of 27 feet in areas of mississippi. as the hurricane approaches land, the wind pushes the water towards the shoreline. that happens in the northeast quadrant of the storm. that s where the winds are coming out of the south and in the northeast, and that just blows and piles the water. the water can t go back out to sea because the wind doesn t a
president bush for severely when he was running for office. how can president obama come back to the american people now and talk in any way about being fiscally cautious and focused on debt reduction? well, megyn, quite frankly that is a challenge and a struggle for him or any president. i think one thunk we know whether you re president or a congressional member it s one thing to say what you re going to do when you want the job, then when you get in having the job and what you need to do to keep the world in this case going is a whole different story. megyn: that didn t work for george h.w. bush. he said, look, things changed, what happened to him? booted out of office. that s true. the american people need to make a choice, and the choice is do we want to switch as we keep doing every time somebody doesn t own up to every promise a hundred percent and i would say this for a republican as well as a democrat we think to look at as business owners do the entire picture. he created
4 million jobs, maybe they didn t teach this at the ivy league school he went to megyn: they are saying he s stemming the tide it would have been worse without his policies. reporter: i understand he s suggesting if i hadn t been here things would be worse than they are now. that doesn t help americans. the gdp report out 1% growth is not going to replace the jobs either and his policies are a failure. this is a problem that the president doesn t seem to understand. he can change his epa policies, regulatory policies, he can give america some confidence and faith. right now all he s done is thrown everything up in the air, if you re a business owner and want to expand you have to worry about energy costs going up because the president wants them to, regulatory costs going up and healthcare is a complete ke with mark. if you re in that environment. megyn: i want to get to leslie. he talked about cutting the debt in half this. week it came out that he s added now about $4 trillion to