least for now. 46% say congress should keep trying to pass a bill this year. another poll finds most americans believe if lawmakers can t reach a compromise today they should drop the bill and start over. but about a third of respondents say democrats should move forward without republican support. well l. that come to pass? stay tuned. right now we have team fox coverage. steve brown, jonathan hunt, carl cameron, first to major garrett live at the white house. major, if these two sides can t bridge the gap and it doesn t even appear they are trying to, what s next? well, the president said he has heard some substantive ideas from republicans. he asked them to do some soul searching, shepard, to find out if they can come toward democratic priorities on health care radio form. if they can t, if they won t, the president warned, this debate will not go on forever. so the question that i m going to ask myself and i ask of all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month s
resort. where you go to see the irs before you go to jail. we have team fox coverage, our senior correspondent rick leventhal on the suspect and that internet rant. first to kris gutierrez at the crash scene. chris, officials say this wasn t terrorism but it was clearly criminal. yeah, the white house is reporting this does not rise to the level of an al qaeda-like attack. but take a look here behind me. can you see what s left or what we can make out as believed to be the tail end of that aircraft, shepard. and we should point out that the investigators are still here on the scene, austin authorities really stressing the fact that they do not believe, again, this is terrorism. this is more of an isolated incident. and they had this to say just a short time ago. the fire is primarily extinguished. there are a few small remaining pockets of fire in there that may be filed cabinets, some collapsed areas. but fire is extinguished. the conditions now allow us to we are thoroughly doing
biden accusing cheney of trying to re-write history. and cheney attacking the obama administration s decision to send the so-called underwear bomber from christmas day to federal court instead of putting him in military custody. the thing i learned from watching that process unfold though was that the administration really wasn t equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the united states in the sense that they didn t know what to do with the guy. you know, i. [ laughter ] i don t know what dick has been doing lately. i don t know we did exactly what he did with the shoe bomber. richard reid. exactly what he did. shepard: former vice president cheney says he opposed the bush administration s decision to charge richard reid in federal court, leading tom wonder whether his fight is with the current administration or his previous boss. reid eventually did plead guilty and now serving a life sentence without the possibility for parole at a super max prison
the freezing mark, and that s going to create a mess on the roadways, shep. shepard: hello ice problems. atlanta home to the busiest airport in the world. and delta s biggest hub. how is jackson looking? yeah, as heartsfield jackson goes, so does the rest of the world. right? you remember that jetblue flight that was stuck on the tarmac for like 6 to 8 hours. airlines want to avoid that at all costs. so delta has gone ahead and proactively cancelled about 1400 flights, which will, in turn, effect tens of thousands of passengers for the next several days, shepard. shepard: local coverage from our friends at fox 5 atlanta and tom haines their anchor. thanks. as i mentioned earlier, that same storm also dropped records amounts of snow on texas. according to the weather center, 12 and a half inches officially fell in the dallas-fort worth area in the past day. more than a foot. beats the previous record by just a fraction. kris gutierrez continues team fox coverage. this is causing b
actually cost billions in damage and lost productivity. we have team fox coverage of the winter blast. brian wilson in maryland. rick reichmuth in the extreme weather center with new details about this storm. there are changes afoot. first get to laura ingle outside our headquarters in new york. a little wet, i m guessing? it is indeed. icy and slushy conditions have been severe at times today for sure. things are starting to settle down a little bit. i can tell you that schools will be open tomorrow in new york city public schools, students had a rare treat today of a snow day, but they will have to go back tomorrow. as far as commuters, they will have a headache for a while longer. it has been a frigid, windy and dangerous day across the eastern seaboard. a state of emergency southern new jersey counties. drivers who were daring enough to brave wind-whipped snowy streets were warned to slow down. speed limits reduced.