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Midway and o'hare airport. years a funny picture, pants standing up frozen in minnesota but there was a serious situation yesterday when excel energy put out a request to customers in some areas asking them to turn their thermostats to 60 ° or lower and not use of the gas powered appliances in an attempt to avert a major gas shortage. residents in the midwest have been feeling the pain. >> hard to take a breath in. it has affected my lungs a little bit. >> coldest i have ever been. >> reporter: check out these record lows. chicago at negative 23, the lowest since 1985. minneapolis, 28 ° belo...

>> ha, ha, ha, we have to occasionally remind each other, it's moos. >> it's brutal weather heading across the mid-west and the northeast. you may be one of the 55 million people who will see their temperature fall below zero. i mean, way below. >> and there are some cities, maybe more than a few that are potentially going to break record lows. let's go down to cnn meerltologist allison chinchar, some of these numbers are unbelievable. >> yeah. it's not just records for the day. some could break all time record lows. chicago potentially being one of them. it's not just the cold. you also have ...

Saying now has no application to the transaction we just talked about. talking about the other companies, yes. >> let me ask you more broadly about the question of antitrust mergers. i'm increasingly worried that the department is not enforcing vigorously the antitrust statutes. in many sectors of the economy, not just technology, we see -- again, as you have alluded to -- we see growing concentration of power in various sectors held by just a few firms. if you look at recent trends in the department's scrutiny of proposed mergers, it's at record lows. last year, for instance, the department o...

>> let me ask you more broadly about the question of antitrust and mergers. you gestured towards this earlier in your testimony. i'm increasingly worried the department is not looking at these. you see growing concentration of power in the various sectors, probably just a few firms. if you look at recent trends in the department's scrutiny of proposed mergers, it's at record lows. last year, the department of justice antitrust division scrutinized mergers through second requests for information in less than 1% of all eligible cases. that is, i believe, the lowest level of merger scrutiny recor...

You need to speak up about the future you can see for all of us and you need to have your voice be heard. i have leaned in to politics, unlike ever i have done before, because i think we're so dangerous, the path we're on, and we need to correct. >> what do you say to people who point out that the trump administration is presiding over record unemployment levels, in other words, record lows. growth seems strong. what are you complaining about? >> so i think there's at least two things. one is i think obama and the previous administration did a lot of good things. so i think there's a tailwind ...