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Peter live from washington. thank you, peter. >> with the report that iran is sending 4,000 revolutionary guards to fight for assad and syria and with regime gains against the rebels does the obama administration plan to send those small arms. some wonder today why did it take so long. as peter said, tomorrow the president looks with a major assad supporter, president putin in ireland. what can be accomplished at that meeting if anything? former u.s. ambassador, senior fellow and fox news contributor john bolton joins us every morning. >> good morning. >> good to see you as always. first, let'...

You. and that's your newsreel. folks in the midwest are starting to dig out as a winter storm heads east, but they are not in the clear yet. heavy winds whipping up all that snow. peter ducie is live for us in chicago. i guess you're pretty much out of the woods there, huh, peter? >> reporter: well, yeah, but yesterday, jon, was the worst winter storm they've had all day, and actually yesterday had the highest precipitation total in february in 102 years. but you look around now, the sun's shining, the sky is blue. you can see for miles and miles. but there is no more winter storm warning, but...

Which is a testament to how well-prepared the midwest always is when it comes to these big winter storms, something that did catch them off guard in the middle of the night was an earthquake. jon: yeah. mother nature's having some fun with chicago with, i guess, a minor earthquake, huh? >> reporter: yeah, about 4 a.m. it was a magnitude 3.8, and it was centered about 45 miles northwest of downtown. it actually woke me up from my sleep, but i just thought i was having a bad dream. i never would have known it was an earthquake, but you look around, they had a minor earthquake and a major blizzar...

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