Is not over yet. Yeah, but there are a lot of people trying to make the best of it. This man broke out his skis to get around his neighborhood. Even some dogs are having a hard time getting around in this, but they get to kind of play in it. 21 Pennsylvania National guard troops have been put on active duty to help with emergencies. Temps for the ball drop in times square will feel like Single Digits. Lets check in with our meteorologist live in our weather center. Good morning to you. The school dikids were out of school already unfortunately. Yeah, this was so expensive they had to issue a snow emergency to essentially not allow motorists to be on the roads past 6 00 p. M. And they have to be able to clear the roads out for the emergency vehicles to be able to make their way through if necessary. Were talking 30, 40, to 60 inches of snowfall. State records for the state of pennsylvania, but that amount of snow, the official threeday total is about five feet, two inches or 1. 1 allisons. Thats how much snow it is. It comes up a few inches shy of my height. Most of that came down going from Christmas Day to the day after christmas and not only do we shatter the record, but 97 inches have fallen in erie, pennsylvania. The average for this time of year comes in at 22 inches of snowfall. 67 was the previous record. So shattering the alltime record of the amount of snowfall across that region. But here we go with the arctic air. We get a couple of shots of arctic air. That one round of it comes in. Weve had lake effect snow take place as the canadian air goes over a warm body of water in the great lakes. That Energy Transfer that takes place allows additional snow to come down here in the form of lake effect snow. We have an area of about 50 Million People here who have windchill advisories as cold as 35 below zero. These are dangerous enough in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes youll have permanent damage to your skin. 39 below zero what it feels like. In chicago minus 18 at this hour. The windchill and the pattern continues to stretch really for much of this region, minus 11 in detroit. Feels like zero and thats the start of it. You talk about protect the three p es, the pets, the pipes, the plants. And its going to be a multiday event. You think its cold now. It moderates a little bit come friday and saturday and then the bottom drops out going into 2018. Low temperatures into the high Single Digits when the ball drops. Winds around 10 miles an hour. That translates to a minus windchill at midnight in new york city. So hang in there, guys. Pets, pipes and plants. She will be in times square. Im going to be out there freezing my bottom off. Pipes. My pipes off. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it. All right. President trump and the white house are hoping to unveil the frame work of an infrastructure plan by next month. The hope is to have it be a major part of the president s first state of the Union Address on january 30th. The plan will propose spending at least 200 billion on infrastructure over the next decade with hopes of spurring an additional 800 billion in state and local funding despite state and local budgets that are already strapped. Almost democrats and business groups saying 200 billion is too low, but white house Officials Say its more of a floor than a ceiling. A part of the plan the white house will propose simplifying the federal permitting process hoping to reduce the time it takes to get projects done. The president is set to fly around the country setting his agenda. White house officials have suggested few politicians would oppose a plan to fix crumbling roads and bridges among other projects. Lets talk about all this with our senior political correspondent. How do you like the ultra early mornings. I like it. I feel like i could get used to this. Be careful what you wish for. Right. Right around this time of year too. The possibility of bipartisanship, a historically unpopular president , democrats who he has targeted the entire year on twitter youre telling me bipartisanship is possible in this environment . It sounds like the stakes are way too high, doesnt it . And remember, republicans are going to need 60 feets so get an infrastructure bill through. And theyve only got 51. Exactly now with the Alabama Senate election decided they have a slimmer margin than usual. But think about this plan, it would be easier for voters to swallow than some of these divisive issues like tax reform and health care reform. Its not as high stakes as repealing obamacare was and its not quite as complicated as tax reform. President trump was joking saying ill save the easy one for last. Its not going to be easy and its going to be hard to get democrats to come to the table. Its not going to be easy because theres a lot of money involved. After tax reform theres not as much money to go around and youre going to see these members of Congress Looking for state and local budget to handle more of the payments to improve infrastructure, but theres less will for counties to do that because youre seeing a lot of taxes, a lot of homeowners unable to deduct what they used to deduct. So where is the revenue coming from for this enormous infrastructure bill . Most indications say its going to be a smaller package than President Trump promised on the campaign trail when he said a trillion dollars for an infrastructure push. That money has not come to the table. Its not in the draft plans the way that it looked during the campaign. But the other thing is that democrats and a lot of local, state and county officials have to figure out how theyre spending their money especially now that tax reform has gone through. If they look to cut social services, basically programs that help lower income families in their states theyre going to have less to put up toward infrastructure to make that big push. What happened to deficit hawks and the Republican Party of 200 billion. But health care is obviously pivot tall as well and the president will hunker down when he comes back. What is the path forward on the future of health care and will democrats help in that regard or is it you break it, you buy it. It depends on who you ask. There are going to be two republicans that want to Bring Health Care to the table. Youre looking at Susan Collins and Lamar Alexander. Now, is that in the interest of the Trump Administration . Theyre touting this individual mandate repeal as a total repeal of the law. It isnt, but its a crippling blow to the law and President Trump has said in the past that he doesnt have an interest in shoring up obamacare. He said let it fail. But the bottom line is if people see their premiums go up, republicans own this issue now, so it might be in the interest of the white house and republicans in congress to make it work. Susan collins got a guarantee on that, did she not. She was told if she voted yes on tax reform, the senate would take up her bill to stabilize obamacare markets and then she came out and said at the very end of december we can move this to the new year. She does have a problem from Mitch Mcconnell that will happen. Lets talk about golfing. Lets talk about the president golfing and the president in the past on twitter getting on president obamas case for golfing too much. What say you . This was a favorite attack line of President Trump along with president obama being born in kenya. These were his two major thrusts during most of the obama years but were seeing now that President Trump loves to golf. He especially loves to golf at his own properties and he has spent a third of his time according to cnns own reporting at his own resorts and you see mar florida in the winter. Its no surprise he would favor these properties. But when you look at the cost associated with sending secret service or if you look at some of the people he interacts with, the fact they can buy their way into his resorts, all those raise important questions. 86 days at a trump Golf Property but the white house wont say hes golfing because 86 days on the golf course would sound like an extraordinary amount of golf for anyone in this country, let alone the president of the United States. The brightest light you can shine on this is that he needs Good Relationships with members of congress to get his agenda through. If you can create that Good Relationship on the golf course, we see this all the time in business and politics but its a large number of days. He once treated about obama that he should play with democrats. That would be one thing wed like to see, how about President Trump play golf with democrats in 2018 . New years resolution. Golf with democrats. Yeah. Theyre in swing states. They are people you could get on board in infrastructure push. You interviewed sumer. Does he golf . Im not sure. All right. Well talk about that in about 30 minutes. The tie breaker to settle a Virginia House race that would determine balance of power delayed now until at least next week. Lawyers representing Shelly Simonds taking the matter to court. They want the Circuit Court judges to reconsider a controversial ballot to be counted for david yancey. A day after the recount panel had declared a one vote victory. The chairman of the board of elections say the tie will be delayed to let the Legal Process play out. It will be a lock draw and the names will be put into canisters and the first name drawn from the bowl will be declared the winner. Two senior figures linked to north koreas Missile Program all part of an effort to stop the nuclear development. So lets bring in fred in moscow with the latest. Good morning, fred. Good morning. It really looks like the russians are trying to somewhat insert themselves into this whole situation thats been going on between the north koreans and the Trump Administration. On the one hand, they say that theyre willing to step in and be a mediator between the u. S. And pyongyang, which in itself is quite interesting, because the russians do have economic relations with the north koreans, they have a common border with the north koreans and they do hold some sway in pyongyang and they dont want that situation to get out of control either. But on the flip side oaf that, they did lace all that with some heavy criticism of the u. S. Saying some of the rhetoric coming out of the administration was not helpful in this situation and saying apparently in this call between Rex Tillerson and Sergei Lavrov that they needed to move away from the language of sanctions back to the language of negotiations. Theyre willing to play a mediating role, but of course the big question in all of that is is the u. S. Willing to trust the russians to play such a role after all the thing it is weve heard since the election last year. All right. Thanks, fred. A flight from l. A. To japan spending eight hours in the air. Only to return to california. What happened . And the epic twitter takedown from one celebrity who was on board. No matter how the markets change. At t. Rowe price. Our disciplined approach remains. Global markets may be uncertain. But you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. Call us or your advisor. 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Then amusement. Dont know why im not more upset. The pleasure i get out of the story is worth more to me than a direct flight to tokyo. Amusement turned to frustration. Wont be able to sleep until i know how this person figured out they were on the wrong flight. Then when no one would share information about the mystery passenger teigen added, no one will spill anything. Wish i had more for you guys. Wish i could be your snow den. The airline put the passengers in a hotel and booked them on a flight this morning. No explanation how the passenger got on the wrong flight. One possibility is the passenger cuz ticketed under a code share agreement. Thats where one airline puts its name on a flight of another airline and sells tickets. The flight was also coded as a united flight and theres an update. Chrissy teigen 29 minutes ago said taking off. Please dont be the same menu, please dont be the same menu. All right. Retailers found a nice present under the Christmas Tree this year. Strong holiday sales, america spent at a record pace this Holiday Season and thats good news for retailers after a difficult year overall. Mastercard spending poll says its the biggest percentage gain since 2011 when the economy was still coming back from the great recession. The profitable shopping season has given a lift to traditional retailers. Shares at macys up 33 since before thanksgiving. Gap up 20 . Target up 15 . This comes as the Retail Industry in general has had a really tough time in 2007 store closing announcements more than tripled to about 7,000 which is a record. There have been 662 bankruptcy filings in a Retail Sector so far this year. Thats according to bankruptcy data. Com and thats up 30 from the same period last year. Well, its a Christmas Eve to remember for the Travis Family of north carolina. The husband and wife to meet each other, both saved people in separate incidents. Crystal travis and her daughter, they were driving when they saw flames through the roof of a home. They jumped out to help the family just in time. All of a sudden like the propane tank on the porch explodes. And so like we it shakes the ground and you can feel it really fast and really chaotic and just really glad that they were able to make it out. Okay. So that family is okay. And crystal travis had no idea at the same time, follow me here, her husband roger was 20 miles away helping a baby. Roger travis is an emt and he saw cpr being performed in front of a mall and he stepped in to revive the infant. We did get a pulse back from the child. God put us at the right moment for the right time for the people that needed us the most. And what could be an understatement, the Travis Family call it the craziest day ever. A possible meteor sighting across the United States last night after people across the country reported seeing a flying object in the sky. 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