city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
the republican senators who voted for the omnibus bill last week. texas congressman pat fallon on this show last hour saying when republicans get the gavel next month things will be different. the adults in the room will finally be in the majority in the house of representatives and so we can only guarantee certain things when you control one of the three levels of government. we can guarantee the trillion dollar spending bills outside the regular budget process will end. julie: let s bring in political scientist dr. lauren wright and former clinton pollster doug schoen. what do you make of republicans retaliating against the 18gop senators who voted to approve this massive spending bill? the g.o.p. senators argued it would have been better to wait for the g.o.p. to take control of the house in january to pass
that they are appealing these. so these bills, they re expecting to pass and by the end of the week, democrats saying this is all about republicans retaliating against disney, which employs 75,000 people in florida, and republicans on the other hand, they re saying that s not the case. they are insisting this is not about retaliation, they say disney just poked the bear. listen. . i wouldn t look at it that way. we wouldn t have been look at special districts if disney had not behaved the way they did. by doing that, we looked at it and we realized there was a problem. that happens a lot in this process, there is some sort of dust up, people dig into the issue and go, oh, wow, this is a problem. and disney has not responded to our requests for comment. if this unique status is removed, which, again this bill is expected to pass, the special district would be dissolved june 1st of next year. bianna? disney, a huge player, though, in that state s economy,