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The Iowa transportation department this week approved more than $2.7 million in state funding for seven recreational trail projects across the state.

The Iowa transportation department this week approved more than $2.7 million in state funding for seven recreational trail projects across the state.

The Iowa transportation department this week approved more than $2.7 million in state funding for seven recreational trail projects across the state.

The Iowa transportation department this week approved more than $2.7 million in state funding for seven recreational trail projects across the state.

The state transportation department this week approved more than $2.7 million in state funding for seven recreational trail projects across the state.

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Again, its really the winds. windchills right now almost 30 degrees below zero in duluth, 16 below in minneapolis. fargo, same deal. hour by hour, tomorrow morning, international falls 42 bloels zero is what it will feel like as you walk out. really, very dangerous. so all this cold air, the coldest confident year dropped south and dropped east. which wednesday, it modifies some. certainly portions and the essence of the cold air is there but certainly not to the degree without the winds there. ...

Harry reid said that todays news that unemployment fell is an encouraging sign that our economy is recovering. >> nice try, senator reid, but it wont work. when you look at the drop from 9.4 to 9.0, the reason is, 500,000 americans dropped out of the work force. 504,000 people just in the month of january gave up. they stopped looking for work. the labor force contracted. thats why the unemployment rate went down. megyn: how do we know that? >> official numbers. these are hard, cold numbers. meg...

Jump because businesses are closed and not hiring. from the labor market to the market-market. retailers already preparing to see some increases from the very worst months of the recession a year ago, but the weather also being to blame, the sales gains might not be stronger. cold weather has already been held responsible for chilly sales of bet new and existing home sales. who wants to look even at fire sale prieces when its so cold outside. we could hear that people couldnt get to work so prod...

Do. lets look at some of the hard, cold numbers right now. on monday, december 23rd, there were two million plus site visits. that was the peak day. the system was able to ham 83,000 -- handle 83,000 concurrentsers. on december 24th, christmas eve, 880,000 total visits. healthcare.gov met the mark and did what it was supposed to do which was help americans find secure, quality, health coverage at an affordable price. here is the press secretary. >> we have made tremendous technical improvements ...