Of getting concert or sporting tickets at face value. I just go right to stub hub. I dont even bother. You can never get tickets. It sit there and pray and keep kids clicking and calling. Hundreds of dollars renting a cable box . Cable companies are making a lot of money. 20 billion per year off subscribers. They have a proposal that could save you money. I would take part in this. The average is 200 per year. We are fattening up today. Its mikes birthday. Sam has been kind enough to make cupcakes. She did. Who knew . Juliet this might be the last day on she is having surgery and she is worried that she might not make it. Ben i told her that we will soldier on if she doesnt make it. Jesus. He actually did tell me that. [laughter] i dont know if you will make it. [laughter] mike happy thursday low freezing temperatures and icy spots around the tristate region. The current temperature is 330 so will be possible that we have frozen spots here in the city. High temperatures up to 400. The front comes this way dropping across the great lakes in a rain or a snow shower in these situations. A little bit is not out of the question. Its freezing in all locations except for central 27 in montauk and when you have temperatures like this it does get risky. 230 drop in suffix and 160 cooler in bridgeport. Mainly clear skies so once the sun comes up, we get plenty of it at the colder air is working in from the northeast. We are getting the cold air influence from canada and we have another shot of that coming towards us later on tonight. Its like another clipper dropping in here with little moisture. Sunshine out there earlier today with High Temperatures sitting at 400. The suburbs could get up to 430. Anyway, the average high is up to 380. Tomorrow we make it up to 40 and its a quick morning snow shower mixed it is a possibility. A high of 47 on sunday and now it looks like the next storm will be on wednesday. It could be rain coming through and it looks solid. Lets bring in ines. Starting off this thursday morning with problems. There is an accident in new jersey with a couple of issues. There is a 50 mileperhour restriction between 62 and 124. Thats in both directions. They are doing salting operations because of the icy conditions. There is a tractortrailer eastbound as you approach exit 56. You would use the express lane. Lets look at the commute on lie. You have a bit of a delay this morning as the with the lane being blocked. You have a five 10 minute delay. No problems for the holland tunnel. Juliet think you come ines. The republicans candidates are facing off. Theres been a lot of talk about who will not show up and who might show up. It sounds like donald trump is not going to show. Lets bring in robert moses to cover the story. Ben he was on fox news last night. He did not give some wiggle room but i think there is a chance he will show up. Robert that is adding to the intrigue. Will there be an 11th hour appearance . Then there were seven. Donald trump would make eight but he says he will not be on stage. Instead, he will be 2 miles away raising money for veterans. Never before has a candidate skipped a debate attention. This is what the stage will look like. There is a noticeable absence at center stage. You are depriving the people of seeing you in a forum that they need to see you in. No i am not. Its about the country. Bill oreilly spent his show trying to convince donald trump to reconsider. Dont you think is the right thing to do . It probably is but its an i4 an eye a guess. Thats old testament. You are the christian. The i4 the eye rule goes out. Turn the other cheek. Trampled out because megyn kelly is a moderator. He is still angry about the exchange they had in august. You call women you dont like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. Trump explained his decision on twitter. And taunting statement by fox that maybe not to the debate more so than lightweight , megyn kelly. He was referring to the Statement Released this week. We long for a back channel that the ayatollah input intend to treat trump differently if he makes it to presidency. Donald, i get it. When you are elected president , you will get a lot more than not. The debate begins at 9 00 tonight on fox news. There will be an earlier debate beginning at 7 00 featuring Carly Fiorina and rick santorum. They will be watching for isnt. Ben we will see how it goes. You can argue with the fact that he has basically taken the oxygen out of the room at the previous debates. This might give the other candidates a big opportunity here. He stole a lot of the airtime in the first debate but after that , i feel like his influence has been weaning a little bit. We will see if he shows up tonight. We will be watching. Thank you. Ben a new report says we have no chance of getting concerts to tickets or sporting events because he says the ticket industry basically is involved in a scam. Juliet lets let teresa tell us about us , live at the garden. Theresa juliet, i heard you talking about this before. You call and call and try to get the ticket. Weight online for the device in the middle of the screen to go around and you just dont get the ticket. You felt like the deck is stacked against you in the game is fixed. According to the attorney general, you are right. When one of the many . How about the bosses most recent appearance . New York Attorney general says its just not right. The Attorney Generals Office says there is a review of ticket practices and concluded ticketing is a fixed game. The report entitled, why new yorkers cant get tickets down 50 of all concert tickets were set aside for industry insiders and presale customers. Often times, the tickets are marked up almost 50 . Its not just music, sports and religion. Pope francis sold for thousands. Brokers purchase thousands of tickets using Robotic Software. They sell them on sites like stub hub and take it now. Simon says the office will continue to deny you new yorkers of Affordable Access to the concert and sporting events they love. What would you like to see done about this . He has three specific things he would like. He wants there to be criminal penalties for using the software and he urges state lawmakers to remove the paperless tickets. He says if we allow them here with more frequency resell them after the fact. He thinks these things would improve things for people like you and me. I dont remember the last time i paid face value. The big story. A major drug bust in queens with 14 million. The dea agents found 100 pounds of heroin hidden inside of a driveshaft. They were being transported in the bed of a pickup truck. They picked up the truck and stopped it after this suspect circled the blocks. They are hanging out and looking for something else. They got curious. They pulled them over and busted two guys. They were arrested and charged with conspiracy and criminal possession of a good for those agent ugly piles of garbage bags sitting on top of the snow mounds will be picked up today. The Sanitation Department will resume garbage pickup this morning. Trash collection was put on hold after the blizzard. Crews will start picking it up according to schedule but do not expect it all to be gone in a day. Its asking you to remove snow from around the trash bags. We better not bring a hover board. They are now banned. Mike, are we having snow tomorrow . A little bit. You could see icy spots out there early on. The startup temperature is in central park. Everyone else is freezing. Be aware of ice on the roadways or the sidewalks. It could be a problem. The apple itunes store. It goes to wo Dunkin Donuts unbelievable selection of breakfast sandwiches freshly made all day and now you can enjoy two english muffin egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches for 4. Ben professional speaker lost her balance on the ice tumbling 1000 feet over the alaskan mountain. Experience was terrifying. There was nothing to hold onto. Amazingly , she walked away with only two sprained fingers and some bruising. The accident took lace last spring and the video is just release to promote safety this week. You can hear her audio. I am okay, i am okay. Wow. I would rather hang out in the chalet. I would rather go to the beach. Lets get over to mike, the birthday boy ben you are exasperated with us already before i am stuffed full of cake at 5 15 am. No lunch for me. Its friday. Time to get out there and get the day going. The week. We will see some icy spots around the tristate region. Lots of sunshine coming at you this afternoon. The High Temperature gets up to 400 today. We come up above freezing and well start the melting process as the sun comes up. Look out for the icy patches. The rain and snow chance today. Its a small one but temperatures are down into the teens and 20s. Its outside the city and we are saying look out for snow and ice. Theres lots of melting going on with a temperature drop like this. Lots of roads will refreeze out there so keep that in mind. 160 drop in bridgeport. Some places are 25 30 preschooler. Well have a clear sky for morning. Lots of sunshine out there. Nothing in the immediate future like rain or snow. This is the other thing we were talking about earlier in the week. Its a coastal low that brings in something interesting. We could have seen some more snow. Thats not the case. Stays offshore but it will swing by and bring us a slight chance of some showers. It looks like nothing is happening throughout the day. The clippers do that from time to time but its just something to keep an eye out for. You get a slick spot on the roadways and it will probably be up in the tristate. Shower chances tomorrow. With rain but again, not a big threat. More clouds early next week with temperatures early next week. Ines there will be parking again ines here is whats going on. Problems across the box. Its blocking at least one lane. Its all westbound by hundred 30th st. As far as new jersey, problems on route 70 is found. Use the expressly. There is a jackknife trailer by exit 56. Lets go to the cameras. We take a look at the expressway. During the fdr drive its doing fine. You have the construction going on by 63rd st. Blocking two lanes. 495, another problems was lincoln tunnel and we have the hill towards kennedy two lanes blocked with this tractortrailer there. Its a 10 minute delay. Past that, no problems with the holland and the George Washington bridge. Ben ines, thank you. It was one of those pregnancy pause moments. Ben the mta is taking a stand against hover boards. The new rules have just been announced. They are taking a stand juliet carrie, what are they saying . Carrie they have banned hover board citing a fire risk. Its for all of the flight risks like the metronorth in the li double r. To get the word out, they have planned to launch an Advertising Campaign called hover boards not allowed. Its common sense. Using a wheeled vehicle on a platform is not safe. It doesnt make any sense. These hover boards can burst into flames. They are blowing up. I think its great. I feel like kids have been in so much danger. Hover boards are already legal to write on city streets, sidewalks and parts of the city. They are banned on amtrak and many us airlines. If they can fix them, the mta says it will then reconsider the band but for now , no hover boards on the buses or buses. Juliet i love the purple. I love the gray you guys are machi , machi. Juliet it seems hard to believe. The challenger shuttle exploded during liftoff. Killing all seven astronauts. Many students were washing launch live because nassau was sending a teacher into space. Kristin was chosen out of 11,000 people who applied for the teachers in space program. It was cool and it was so sad. One of the astronauts had first ties. Mcnair would visit him often. He became the second american to fly into space. There were several ceremonies to honor astronauts. Coming up with greg and roseanna they will have more with the anniversary. Do you remember that . Where were you . In elementary school. I was home that day from school. 30 years, wow. No way. Savor an egg mcmuffin any time bacon and an english muffin with real butter. Mcdonalds all Day Breakfast menu. Hey, what are you doing . Getting the coats. For a half hour . Bob just got time warner cable. Hes getting more. More what . More than 25,000 movies and shows on demand, most for free. Look, hes dvring like 6 shows at once. Lets go. Ah, this grass is so much greener than on our tv. Because im on their bed. I dont want to be rude. Discover how much more is included. Are those meatballs still circulating . Get tv, internet and phone for 89. 99 per month. We are back. Ben members of the city council are talking about giving them the bigger pay raise. The mayor propose a pay raise of 23 but they would like more. That pushes 250,000 per year in return for councilmembers to give out outside income. This gives up little bonuses. If you want to stay in the travel heart far. New york is home to the top rated hotels. The name the hyatt. Its the super tall building. The best in the big apple. Its pretty new. Still just open. The greenwich welcomes fourlegged guests for no charge. The nations number one is the lodge down in georgia. I was looking it up. Its a golf resort. Are you a golfer . Before i do golf, badly. Juliet the government wants to make the band easier. The government wants to make it easier for you to companies other than your cable provider. A new proposal allows satellite customers to use whatever box they want instead of having to rent one. The fcc says 99 of customers currently rent their boxes that cost 230,000 per year. Its a lot of money. They will vote let next month. Ben we will be right back. You like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and with picture perfect banking. New customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube we are looking at a cold start to the day. Ben beautiful shot of new york city. Its a lot colder than it was yesterday. We are hovering around freezing. Be careful when you head out. Look for that black ice. It will warm up into the 40s. We are watching a system that might bring us some light snow. Thats tonight or tomorrow morning. The forecast is coming up. Juliet donald ducking. The republican president ial debate. We have the brilliant writers. Plans on doing. He might go up. It happened to just about everyone. You are looking to get tickets to a popular concert or show. You go online right as they go on sale but you cant get them. They are gone. The investigation by the attorney general accuses ticket brokers of being involved in a massive scam. Mayor deblasio says he will not kill another rodent or groundhog over there. We will tell you where he plans on being on groundhog day what would you rather have in bed . A kinkaju or a groundhog . To a kinkaju. They are cute. You bite. Juliet you dont know that. They are fond of people. Alex, our Makeup Artist has its adorable. sock. Ben last day with juliet. She will be okay . Right . [laughter] you started it. We were joking around. We were joking around about you having routine surgery. Being under for three or four hours is free being freaking me out. Before you are going to feel amazing. Juliet dont say that. That is sick. Its like you are having fun but i dont like it. Before here is what we have out there. Up around the tristate region. We are doing a lot of the melting in the dying but it freezes in the overnight hours. Should drop to 320 here so icy spots will be there. Its cold and dry. Other temperatures around the area at 27 in new york city and everyone is freezing. Its only 120 in allentown. Mainly clear skies and more cold air dropping in from canada. The clipper is dropping across. This time, it will dragon the cold air but it will bring in a small chance of quick showers. The High Temperature goes up to 40 with a mainly clear sky. Looks like its a quick snow shower mixed with some rain. Just a little sprinkle. Lets bring in ines. Looks pretty busy. Problem spots this morning. Cross bronx near west chester avenue. Two lanes are blocked. We have a jackknife tractortrailer on route 78. Do not take the local lanes. Thats what happened. Using expressway. Lets go to our cameras. On the fdr, so far so good. Construction is going on by 61st st. Blocking two lanes. On the lie, lets go to that shot. Saul was blocking the lane. Thats where it was cleared away on the westbound. 495, dealing with that they are. Its a 10 minute delay. Stalled tractortrailers locking lanes. Its a slowdown there. The George Washington bridge is doing fine. Thank you. We need more highways. It took me an hour and 40 minutes to get home. The republican candidate will face off in the final debate before next weeks iowa caucus. The debate has been really good. The moderators are awesome. They are really good. They always pull interesting stuff out. Every candidate will be there except for donald trump. We will see. Maybe well get a surprise in the 11th hour. What is your gut say . My gut says no. I think he has a lot to lose if you were to show up tonight. I still think its not out of the question. Thats part of the intrigue. Ben if there is an empty podium , what will they do . Reporter trump says he there will only be seven instead of eight. He will raise my as the debate is going on. Trump did not sound like a man who plan to change his mind and his discussion with bill oreilly. This is what the stage will look like. As of now, there is a noticeable absence at center stage. You are depriving the people from seeing you in a forum that they need to see you in. Of his show last night trying to convince donald trump to reconsider part. Dont you think its the right thing to do . It probably is but its in i4 an eye i guess. You are the christian. The i4 the eye roll goes out. Turn the other cheek of the moderators. They are still upset about the exchange they had. You call women you dont like fat pigs , flat blobs and disgusting filthy animals. It was the childishly written and taunting statement by fox that maybe not new do the debate. More so then megyn kelly. We learned from a back channel that the ayatollah and tuten plan to treat him unfairly. The issue that should or whatever it was , i guess it was a press release. I got it. If you are elected president you will get a lot more than that. Trump and oreilly spoke over each other for most of the interview. They googled the debate at 9 00 tonight with seven candidates. All are not named trump. For other candidates including Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee at 7 00. We will look at who is not going to be there. We have implications for who is there and who has been flagging recently may be able to be elevated. Maybe its rubio . Maybe bush . Ben