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I didnt want daggers. gregg: martha is a step tick. martha: last time bought into it hook, line and sinkers. you know what we should call this? snowvatar. after snowmegeddon. gregg: get the cameras out, we want you to take video pictures of this, go to foxnews.com, upload images from your home town and well do our best to get them out on our air. martha: enough about the weather, a new warning about our nations largest social program. for the first time, social security is in the red. and it is ...

Whats so great about the robots, what can they do we werent able to do before? >> they are called -- martha: they are r2d2. >> theyre dex reduce robots, they have agile rnlg -- agile, human-like hands that can do tasks that hulky robots cant do and they have each their own interests, gm wants to use technology for manufacturing. right now there are massive crane robot necessary plants and those are dangerous to stand near, they have to be caged off, and theres a big safety system that costs a lo...

This. martha: were just starting the day but you know its bedtime right now for the astronauts aboard endeavor, but the engineers on the ground are keeping busy, while theyre sleeping. nasa and general motors, teaming up, building the second generation of humanoid robots, they are designed to work side by side with people. i dont know about that. i think -- i dont think theyre going to replace us. capable of highly technical work and hazardous space stations and the robonauts never need sleep. i...

Look like a human and it is designed to replace certain tasks. >> what theyve told me is they hope it will replace the dull, mundane, stressful, the tasks that hurt your back. martha: the ones that people dont want to to. >> the ones like you bend down, put the dash board again and again in the cars, they want the robots to do that, but were seeing -- they could have potentially some jobs lost. martha: do they do mundane jobs like unloading the dishwasher in the future? >> i hope so. >> so this ...

Flights from today and into tomorrow morning and at midway and ohare, the global traveller airport of the year, it is at 100 -- said 100% of air travellers are agitated. gregg: what do they expect for travellers? >> reporter: well, so far, here, it is only about half past 9:00 in the central time zone, and theyve only had 3 to 5 inches of snow so far and by this time tomorrow, they are expecting up to a foot, why some airlines have gone ahead and cancelled flights for tomorrow and why everybody ...

Backtracked a little there. this is, again, what this is all about, martha, really, is politics. you have john mccain saying that this nominee isnt suited for this, hes being challenged in the primary on the right in arizona, so theyre politicizing something over a pretty inoccuous board, the national labor relations board, these are academic writings from many years ago, there were republican nominees to the commission that had writings that were academic writings that were conservative, and th...

You very much. do you think the president and congressional democrats will seriously consider it, those republican ideas you just heard? wed like to know what you think, log on to foxnews.com, simply click on to the you decide link on our home page to weigh in and check out how other people are voting, too, over 70,000 have voted, 17 percent say yes, the president will carefully consider any ideas, 5 percent say maybe, 76 percent say are you kidding? pelosi, reid and company are prime ago proced...

Gender is good, feels good and something they have a right to do. martha: i find it interesting in this age of political correctness, that they are singling out certain religions and saying these religions, and name catholicism and muslim religion in this report are not doing their job and sending the wrong messages to kids and they say the report demands children ten-plus be given come pre-hissive sex education by governments and organizations and other groups. but apparently they want to pick ...

All. these numbers are up four points from late november, and up nine points since september. the margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 3 percent. martha: we have been reporting on the controversy surrounding president obamas nominee to the national labor relations board. craig becker is a union lawyer whos a man who served on the chicago-based offices of the afl-cio and the smiu, both huge labor organizations supportive of president obama during the election, but senate opponents from b...

International union has a bias and will make prolabor changes on the board without congressional consent. both gop and even some democratic senators like nebraskas ben nelson are threatening to put a hold on beckers nomination. martha: for the past 27 years, becker has taught and practiced labor law, he was part of president obamas transition team when he became president, advising him on labor department appointments while serving as general counsel for the seiu and afl-cio. many business group...