It’s still cold - single digits and it feels like below zero with the wind chill. The good news is that it’s supposed to go up to the 30s tomorrow. That will feel like a heatwave. Maybe our week-old snow will finally melt.

A shame about the 28-year old actress who was gunned down on the Lower East Side in a robbery attempt. The News quotes a local resident as saying, "Before this happened, the neighborhood was a gentrified utopia. This is a reminder that as hip and mainstream as it becomes, it still has that gutter element." It’s also a warning that as safe as we may think we are, we must always keep our guard up because you just never know.

Listen to MTA President Lawrence Reuter backpedal on his statement that it would take five years to repair the C-train. Now he’s saying "I must have misspoke or didn’t clarify myself very well on that." Right. Because saying five years on Monday and nine months on Tuesday is just a case of not clarifying himself very well.

What’s the best way to beat the cold? Watch Australian Open tennis where they are playing in 95 degree heat. I don’t envy them though as I prefer cold weather to hot weather. But the matches have been tremendous. Serena Williams beating Maria Sharapova and Marat Safin beating Roger Federer have been among the nailbiters. The finals are set for this weekend as Serena will be playing Lindsay Davenport and Safin will be playing Australia’s own, Lleyton Hewitt.

I’ll close by acknowledging the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. No words can adequately mark the occasion.