Welcome to the beat I'm Ari Melbra and yeah a big news day to be sure we're tracking the developments in the final countdown to aisle a candidates canvassing the state the high stakes debate is tonight as mentioned another Republican dropping out.

Governor Chris Christie, who, if you've been watching MS-MBC, you just heard moments ago,

the most strident Trump critic, is out of this race.

So the field narrows for the anti-Trump candidates, they say that may be a good thing to coalesce around an alternative. I have more on the breaking Christie news later tonight while Trump is holding his own Fox Town Hall tonight fresh off the court appearance yesterday

where he watched in person as his lawyer made extreme and unlawful claims about why they

think a president should have a license to kill their political rivals in America

without being prosecuted.

So as the headlines range from the start of the primaries to those brazen claims about assassination.

Right now we have something special for you.

We're actually beginning in a way with the weather.

Last year had some of the most extreme weather ever, driven of course by climate change.

There were heat records broken, catastrophic flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, and then in the winter

months, extreme snow events.

Indeed there were 28 separate billion dollar climate disasters

breaking the previous record from about three years back cold

weather as you may know can be just as overwhelming and dangerous as a fire or a

tornado and nowadays we have more videos showing it than ever from the ice tsunamis that I'm about to show you where the ice is

being created and moving so fast. It looks like a kind of tsunami event to snow-covered goats in China.

There goes a couple of plows demonstrating what I said. What I said. head.

Check this out. It's a car and buffalo that's turned into a giant icicle

Monday after a weekend storm sent waves from Lake Erie surging right onto the streets.

Extreme cold weather is serious and it could now have a larger impact on next

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