took a little peak out of my window at about 2:00 this morning. i knew we were in it and i was ready. this morning was a little rough. the drifts were not too thick, maybe 8 inches off the ground and nobody has gone outside yet to shovel, so a little tricky but just wear your boots. martha: team fox coverage for you. janice dean is live in the fox news extreme weather center where it s nice and toasty warm. we go first to mike tobin who is out there in ohm a ma omaha, nebraska where it s not. how is it look. reporter: because the schools are closed and the business shut down we see life trickling back to normal as the people are digging out here martha, you see a little bit of traffic behind me. the interstates so warm and clear that they are actually well. you can see an example of that when the sun comes out, melts the snow the roads get wet. here is the ricketts, as yo risk. you can see where the bridges
colliding to produce what we just said and 44 million people are in the way. we have team fox coverage. january than hunt live in lower manhattan. first let s get to rick reichmuth in the fox exexcept
that s why once we get this snow falling in the next hour or two on top of that and the temps plummeting we will have ice and then snow on top of it. that makes the roads very tough. shepard: the big problem in boston, rick as you know the streets are so narrow. there is just nowhere to put it what does the weather look like for monday morning commute. most of the area is briefly going to warm up to well above freezing 40-degree mark for much of the day monday. that much snow is going to take longer to get rid of. you said it those streets are old cow paths how they built most of those roads in boston. they are very very narrow. you get 2 feet of snow, three feet of snow there. you try to shuffle it and move it some place. there is no place to put it and there is no place to put it. causes major problems in boston area. shepard: big problem with the blizzard is the surge that forecasters say it will bring. up to 7-foot storm surge in certain areas. expected those still recovering
thoughtfully, and i think that there are those who may have disagreements, but, at the end of the day, no one can question, i think, the truth, veracity and depth of thoughtfulness that the secretary answered shepard: remember the first scheduled hearing on benghazi happened in november without secretary clinton who was away on a trip. lawmakers cancelled another set of hearings last month after secretary clinton got a concussion and suffered a blood clot. so this extraordinary day has been months in the making. and we have team fox coverage of the benghazi hearings. catherine herridge covering the ongoing threats from terrorists. first, let s get to mike emanuel on capitol hill. mike, in the late afternoon session and late in the day, some fireworks on the house side. shep, that s right. there was some bickering back and forth with democrats saying that funding for embassy security has been inadequate. republicans responded saying you should spend your money on security and not o
possible ban on those high capacity ammunition magazines. but he says he has not yet made an official list. after today s meeting, the nra released a statement that reads in part, and i quote: we are disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the second amendment. team fox coverage continues. carl cammeron live in our d.c. newsroom to. know one s surprise i m sure the nra is not backing down? no. they didn t mince any words at all saying afterwards we will not allow law abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and mad men. they sat in the same room today with the vice president but this is going to be a long, tough fight with all the trappings of a full blown partisan campaign. shep. shepard: did the vice president change his tone at all from yesterday. a little bit. with sports men and hunters today he emphasized finding common ground. yesterday outcry from gun rights in a