Dave Anthony

A fight over funding homeland security has partially shut the government down as Republicans try to approve by tomorrow a Senate compromise, giving DHS only two weeks of money while funding the rest of the government through September.

to pass in order to get an actual vote on these funding bills on the house floor now that procedural vote is going to be a whole lot easier said than done fox's bill malusion the republican house majority may get even smaller today 218 to 214 of christian menefee's sworn in after the democrat won a special election saturday for a vacant seat in texas as american ships move to the middle east following president trump's threat to take action over iran's nuclear program and the deadly crackdown on protests iran's supreme leader says that could lead to war

The president responded, we'll see if he's right.

If Iran doesn't make a nuclear deal.

It's Groundhog Day and after all the snow and ice and frigid cold that appears we won't get an early spring.

That was after Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania where the wind chill was below zero.

America's listening to Fox News.

There are gains on Wall Street so far to start the week.

The Dow up 163 points.

The Nasdaq's gaining 52.

It's a 15-point rise for the S&P 500.

Gold and silver rebounding this morning.

After a big drop-off from record highs Friday, silver's plunge was 30%.

Cryptocurrencies are rising this morning.

Bitcoin up about 1%, around $77,000 per dollar.

But since an October record high, Bitcoin is down about 40%.

And today there's a meeting on regulation.

That's Fox's Jared Halpern.

The price of oil is down big, $3 back to $62 a barrel.

Gas is up a fraction, but AAA's national average for regular remains $2.87 per gallon.