it is wednesday, december 4th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. happy hump day. national cookie day. whatever you want to call it. >> my favorite day of the year is what i want to call it. >> maybe my second behind doughnut day. >> as long as you don't do anything too crazy with the cookies. >> bacon cookies. are you going to be brave? >> i don't know. >> we have the oreos. >> as long as i have oreos, i'm good to go. >> mallomars and oreos and maybe a bacon cookie. >> and favorite cookies as well which is interesting. >> looking forward to it. should we get to the news, the real stuff? >> let's do it. biting cold snap taking hold of the western half of the country with plunging temperatures and tons of snow. >> parts of the rockies and