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jon: bottom of the hours, and happening now, we have brand new information on the big stories fox is following for you. coalition forces gearing up for a major offensive against the tobacco in -- in taliban -- against the taliban in southern afghanistan. >> reporter: jon, there are preliminary skirmishes underway, but the precise start of the full-flemg dollars offensive is unclear. they may want to have that element of tactical surprise. for now the people are being told the military is coming, and once the taliban and drug traffickers are cleared out, a better way of life is ahead. jon: a monster storm hits the south and midwest, heads for d.c. and the northeast. kelly wright is in washington. >> reporter: jon, take a look around me, snow everywhere, everywhere you look, there's snow in the nation's capitol.

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