unbelievable scenes playing across the eastern united states. it's like somebody left the door open to the arctic. when forecasters are saying temperatures could come back to normal. the people who once wanted to adopt a missing 3-year-old boy spoke with hln. what they say they did to help police try to find gabriel johnson. and mystery in san francisco may have been solved hundreds of miles away. where experts say xoescores of lions have turned up and why. record-breaking cold across the country today. you're watching "hln news & views." i'm jennifer westhoven. thanks for joining us. the deep freeze has even

taken over parts of the south, making driving a dangerous prospect. the icy roads caused my car accidents, even this massive pileup. 300 crashes were reported in one georgia county alone. driving is even more difficult further north, thanks to all of the snow. snowplows worked in hammond, indiana, to clear out the roads but some people just took to shovels to dig themselves out. >> i prefer sunnier skies but you got to do what you got to do when you live in the midwest and dealing with this weather. i'm usually -- usually i'm pretty angry with the snow but i'm okay this year. >> i'm glad he's got a sense of humor about it. many parts of the country star record-breaking low temperatures and, listen to this, 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota and 21 below in grand island, nebraska. the freezing temps have even moved to the sunshine state, prompting a run on space heaters. >> i doubt four but i think i'm going to go in and get some more. >> business is booming for florida stores that sell space

heaters but the cold snap isn't so good for tourism or orange crops. temperatures will reach into the mid-40s today across parts of central florida. but factor in the windchill and it feels more like the low 30s. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after they allegedly robbed a bank. police say the teen girls walked into the bank on tuesday, suggested they had a weapon and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. authorities report that the suspects were described as two girls, one 14 to 16 years old. and the other possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help, for help from the public to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they've identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark airport security scare. the 28-year-old was taken into custody last night from his home in poe scatway. authorities say he ducked under a plane rope to walk his

girlfriend to his plane. the terminal was shut down. thousands of passengers had to be rescreened and thousands more were trapped on arriving gates because none of the gates at the terminals were offer. last night jiang was charged with defiant tress. he was released last night. new jersey senator lautenberg said jiang's release says a message. >> there's a message out there that says don't dry it. don't try it. because if you do, we're going to catch you. >> at the time jiang allegedly slipped through security. the tsa screener that was supposed to be monitoring the checkpoint slip aped away. and as thousands of passengers were tied up for hours, officials said jiang himself left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. the christmas airline bombing attempt suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. umar farouk abdulmutallab

appeared in court in detroit yesterday. he faces six federal charges, including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapons of mass destruction and that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody and his next court date has not yet been set. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber abdulmutallab made it onto the plane. the ranking republican on the house homeland security committee says there were enough red flags to raise an alarm. >> both parties recognize the need for answers so bureaucratic reviews will take place and congressional hearings will be held. and while that's all well and good, this is about much more than whether the no-fly list gets longer or it takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this past week president obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all of the information that it had about

the suspected plane bomber. the arizona couple that wanted to adopt missing baby gabriel tells hln they voluntarily took polygraph tests. gabriel johnson was last seen in san antonio with his mom. she was arrested in florida a few days later without him. so far, she won't say where baby gabriel is. jack and tammy smith at one time wanted to adopt him and were named persons of interest by police in arizona. investigators say they knew more than they were letting on. they think baby gabriel is still alive. they're asking anyone with information about him to call the national center for missing and exploited children. it's 1-800-the-lost. about 100 protesters massed outside a los angeles court. inside the former transit city police officer accused of fatally shooting oscar grant in a san francisco bay area train station on new year's day last year. johannes mehserle has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. the trial was moved to los

angeles. during yesterday's pretrial hearing, a judge said cameras would not be allowed in the courtroom. the whole shooting was caught on tape by several bystanders and posted on the web. it sparked several protests in the bay area in the days afterward. mehserle's lawyer said he meant to use his stun gunt on grant but accidentally fired his gun instead. the trial could start in may. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. it's the question about your race. for 2010, it's listed as negro. it's alongside black and african-american as it has been on last forms, like the last one from 2000. the 2010 census isn't blue but some say the word is outdated. >> personally, i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know. and it's very clear. >> negro sounds like something in the slavery time to me. >> it's not so much what we're called but what we respond to is

the thing that matters. >> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says what's more important is that people fill out the census so african-american communities won't miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds. census officials say some people wrote in the word negro on the 2000 census. the bureau, which operates under the congress department, is considering whether to remove the term for the next census in 2020. we have been getting your views on this and you've got a wide variety of opinions. here are just a few posts from facebook. michael writes -- i find it very offensive. great many have died trying to get that word from being a description of your race. don't spit on their sacrifices by using it. but alicia points out the word is often used in other nations. i see an overwhelming amount of responses that assume that the word negro is insulting. perhaps the census bureau is wisely utilizing a different term that the vast majority can

understand. and kevin says, no matter what term you use, someone, some where is going to be offended. most of san francisco's famous sea lions have zis disappeared. where did they go? now the mystery may be volume ved.

maybe you heard about the big mystery in san francisco. hundreds of sea lions, which had become a huge popular tourism every year, disappeared. we now know where they went t seems they went north, 500 miles north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the coast. there's a lot of food there, like anchovies. it's not totally a surprise they made it so far. sea lions can swim 100 miles au auaa day in such of food. they started leaving last year. just 20 were left by thanksgiving. scientists say there's no way to tell how many of the sea lions

in oregon are from the san francisco group. peyton manning adds another honor to his hall of fame career. manning was name the associated press nfl most valuable player today four the fourth time. the indianapolis colts' quarterback is the only nfl player to win the ap award so many times, but he's still got some company. hockey's wayne gretzky, basketball's kareem abdul-jabbar and baseball's barry bonds, they all won the ap most valuable player awards four times in their respective sports categories. okay, so most people make new year's resolutions to better themselves or others. but a san francisco politician is taking his new year's resolution in the opposite direction. city sum supervisor chris daly he plans to use the f word in every board of supervisor meeting this year. 'announced his resolution at a board of supervisor meeting and most of his constituents and

colleagues are not happy about it. >> i think it's f'ing redike lus and i'm so glad he's almost out of here. >> i think it's a nonissue and publicity stunt. >> i actually dropped off a bar of soap in his office so that he could use it to clean up his language. >> san francisco's mayor said daly's behavior is an embarrassment to the city. a 10,000-foot volcano is focusing evacuations around the capital city of costa rica. in the recent days it's been shooting ash and steam into the sky, threatening some neighborhoods near it. residents living within four miles of the peak are being told to get out. some are staying in government shelters. the volcano is about 40 miles away from the capital city of san jose. its last major eruption was 145 years ago. vice president joe biden said he's lost the woman at the center of his family. his mother, jean biden, died yesterday at the family's home in delaware. she was surrounded by loved ones. the vice president said in a statement, "she believed in us, and because of that, we believed in ourselves."

jean biden was 92. you may know the name art cloaky, but i bet you know his work. cloaky created the pop culture phenomenon gumby. the artist died yesterday at his home in california. cloaky invented gumby as part of a student project when he was add usc. gumby and his horse friend pokey were eventually featured on "the howdy doody show." and in the '80s, portrayed on "saturday night live" as a cigar-chomping, show business prima donna, and he enjoyed that act. bank failures are still turning up in 2010. horizon bank in bellingham, washington, was the first bank to fail this year. all of its assets will be taken over by the washington federal loan association of seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than half a billion dollars in insurance costs. 140 banks failed last year. that's the highest number since 1992. the fdic chairwoman says the number could be even higher this year in 2010.

have you seen the national debt clock lately? here it is, a staggering 12-plus trillion dollars and it's climbing. a teenager in rhode island decided to do something about it. she got the idea as part of a high school class project. the assignment was, find a social issue and take some action. 16-year-old katherine young wanted to help pay down the national debt so she held a bake sale. >> at first i wasn't serious about it but then when i thought about it, i realized that it was -- it would be a powerful statement to make, just to the government, the nation, kids around the school, because the national debt is a serious problem and i don't think it's handled as long. >> all of her cookies and goodies sold out in just 12 minutes. she raised about $50 and is raising awareness about the debt. this weekend las vegas is a high-tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smartbooks, laptops and lots of other devices. hln's joe carter is there and

takes a look at something that soon you may not be able to do without. ♪ >> reporter: las vegas, it's growing out of control. just like technology. we're here at ces where the best companies around tare here to unveil their hottest products for 2010. the days of watching your favorite tv program on your couch are over. it's all about on the go. i'm with editor and chief of pcmag.com. we have the slingbox. tell us about the slingbox. >> this is about watching your hd content anywhere want, on your phone, on your laptop, on your computer. you don't have to be there. you don't have to be in the house. you don't have to be in the same room. you don't have to be in the same town. anywhere you go. you like a sports team and they're local and you're in another country, not a problem. you log in, you watch it. you watch it on your cell phone. it's right there. >> can you control what you're watching from your mobile device? >> yep, it's just like being at home with that remote control. you stop, start, go back, easy. >> you can watch recorded tv or

live tv. so it's literally like you're sitting in your living room watching your tv but you're actually in portugal and you're watching your home team. so it's just great. >> reporter: slingbox, tv from your home anywhere. we have a lot more to see here at ces. i'm joe carter. >> that's our new guy, joe carter, reporting from las vegas where the consumers electronic show runs through tomorrow, and we are there bringing ut sco ii scoop on new gadgets all weekend. you know cops and security guards may be packing heat but humane society workers, why some are carrying concealed weapons on the job.

the house and senate are trying to work over their issues on health care legislation. right now they differ over how to pay for it, how many people to cover and how to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion. president obama returned to the issue today in his weekly address to americans. >> once i sign health insurance reform into law, doctors and patients will have more control over their health care decisions and insurance company bureaucrats will have less. all told these changes represent most sweeping reforms and toughest restrictions on insurance companies that this country has ever known. >> whatever the changes are, many of them will not take effect for four years. ralph nader septembisn't gi on his lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to keep him off 20904 presidential ballot. the former presidential candidate tried to sue in a d.c. federal appeals court but he

didn't file his suit soon enough. well, now he's taking his case to maine because the statute of limitations runs six years there. nader's lawsuit slams the presidential campaign of democrat john kerry and the democratic party. his lawyer says they used the courts to sabotage nader's independent campaign. he appeared on the ballot in 34 states and won less than 1% of the popular vote in 2004. defense secretary robert gates plans to stay at his job another year. gates was first appointed to the job by president bush and reappointed by president obama. in an interview last year, he described his job as a very painful thing and not a job anybody should like. but a spokesman says just before christmas gates told president obama he would stay for at least another year. just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the eastern u.s.,

but atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. this video comes from houston, where some folks obviously ignored advice to wrap their exposed pipes. hardware stores there say foam ensulati insulation is flying off the shelves. if you can't find any, one plumber says towels and duct tape will do the job in a pinch. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling windstorm. >> reporter: sustained winds blowing 60 to 70 miles per hour out here. but the windchill, it is just painful. >> now, don't worry, she's okay even after that fall. the reporter was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening. but all of the videos show just

how many problems are being caused by the icy roads, the frigid temperatures and the wind. so keep it tuned to hln. a flight on its way from atlanta to san francisco had to make an unscheduled landing because of an out-of-control passenger. two f-16 military jets escorted the airtran flight to the ground in colorado yesterday after a disruptive passenger locked himself in the plane's bathroom. other passengers say the man appeared to be drunk. >> and the guy is just going off on the stewardess because she's telling him you have had too much to drink. but he has no shoes and he has no shirt on. >> he was just pointing and yelling and even when we went to land, he wouldn't sit down. he stood up in the back of the plane. >> the passenger was taken into custody by police in colorado springs. he is expected to be charged on monday with interference with a flight crew. that's a federal charge. it's late night's latest battle. only months ago nbc gave jay leno a primetime talk show and

put conan o'brien in the top-rated late-night spot. but low ratings for both hosts could soon lead to late-night shake-up not seen since david letterman bolted for cbs.

a suspect has been arrested for a scare that shut down a terminal at newark airport. the charge he's facing and why authorities say he ducked under a security rope. and the trial was moved hundreds of mile as way from oakland, california, but the change of venue may have been for nothing. the scene on the courthouse steps as a transit police officer's trial got under way. plus -- you'll be getting those census forms in the mail soon. pretty extensive but one word on the form getting a lot of attention. why some people say it's outdated. we'll hear your thoughts on whether it should be there. record-breaking cold across the country today. you're watching "hln news & views."

i'm jennifer westhoven. thanks for joining us. the deep freeze has even taken over parts of the south, making driving a dangerous prospect. the icy roads caused my car accidents, even this massive pileup. 300 crashes were reported in one georgia county alone. driving is even more difficult further north, thanks to all of the snow. snowplows worked in hammond, indiana, to clear out the roads but some people just took to shovels to dig themselves out. >> i prefer sunnier skies but you got to do what you got to do when you live in the midwest and dealing with this weather. i'm usually -- usually i'm pretty angry with the snow but i'm okay this year. >> i'm glad he's got a sense of humor about it. many parts of the country star record-breaking low temperatures and, listen to this, 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota and 21 below in grand island, nebraska. the freezing temps have even moved to the sunshine state, prompting a run on space heaters. >> i bought for but i think i'm going to go in and get some more. >> business is booming for

florida stores that sell space heaters but the cold snap isn't so good for tourism or orange crops. temperatures will reach into the mid-40s today across parts of central florida. but factor in the windchill and it feels more like the low 30s. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after they allegedly robbed a bank. police say the teen girls walked into the bank on tuesday, suggested they had a weapon and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. authorities report that the suspects were described as two girls, one 14 to 16 years old. and the other possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help, for help from the public to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they've identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark airport security scare. 28-year-old jiang was taken into custody last night from his home

in poe poe xscataway. authorities say he ducked under a plane rope to walk his girlfriend to his plane. the terminal was shut down. thousands of passengers had to be rescreened and thousands more were trapped on arriving gates because none of the gates at the terminals were offer. last night jiang was charged with defiant trespass and released. he is expected to be in court next week. new jersey senator lautenberg said jiang's release sends a clear message. >> there's a message out there that says don't try it. don't try it. because if you do, we're going to catch you. >> at the time jiang allegedly slipped through security. the tsa screener that was supposed to be monitoring the checkpoint slipped away. and as thousands of passengers were tied up for hours, security officials say jiang himself left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. the christmas airline bombing attempt suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. umar farouk abdulmutallab

appeared in court in detroit yesterday. he faces six federal charges, including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapons of mass destruction and that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody and his next court date has not yet been set. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber abdulmutallab made it onto the plane. the ranking republican on the house homeland security committee says there were enough red flags to raise an alarm. >> both parties recognize the need for answers so bureaucratic reviews will take place and congressional hearings will be held. and while that's all well and good, this is about much more than whether the no-fly list gets longer or it takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this past week president

obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all of the information that it had about the suspected plane bomber. the arizona couple that wanted to adopt missing baby gabriel tells hln they voluntarily took polygraph tests. gabriel johnson was last seen in san antonio with his mom. she was arrested in florida a few days later without him. so far, she won't say where baby gabriel is. jack and tammi smith at one time wanted to adopt him and were named persons of interest by police in arizona. investigators say they knew more than they were letting on. they think baby gabriel is still alive. they're asking anyone with information about him to call the national center for missing and exploited children. it's 1-800-the-lost. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. it's the question about your race. for 2010, one of the choices is listed as negro. it's alongside black and african-american as it has been on last forms, like the last one from 2000. seen here in yellow. the 2010 census is in blue, but

some say the word is outdated. >> personally, i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know. and it's very clear. >> negro sounds like something in the slavery time to me. >> it's not so much what we're called but what we respond to is the thing that matters. >> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says what's more important is that people fill out the census so african-american communities won't miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds. census officials say some people wrote in the word negro on the 2000 census. the bureau, which operates under the congress department, is considering whether to remove the term for the next census in 2020. we have been getting your views on this and you've got a wide variety of opinions. here are just a few posts from facebook. michael writes -- i find it very offensive. great men have died trying to get that word from being a description of your race. don't spit on their sacrifices by using it. but alicia points out the word is often used in other nations. i see an overwhelming amount of

responses that assume that the term negro is insulting. perhaps the census bureau is wisely utilizing several different commonly used terms that the vast majority of our populous can more easily understand. and kevin says, it's a no-win situation whichever descriptor is used because no matter what term you use, someone, somewhere, is going to be offended. ralph nader isn't giving up on his lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to keep him off the 2004 presidential ballot. presidential ballot. the former presidential candidate tried to sue in a d.c. federal appeals court but he didn't file his suit soon enough. well, now he's taking his case to maine because the statute of limitations runs six years there. nader's lawsuit slams the presidential campaign of democrat john kerry and the democratic party. his lawyer says they used the courts to sabotage nader's independent campaign. he appeared on the ballot in 34 states and won less than 1% of the popular vote in 2004. defense secretary robert

gates plans to stay at his job another year. gates was first appointed to the job by president bush and reappointed by president obama. in an interview last year, he described his job as a very painful thing and not a job anybody should like. but a spokesman says just before christmas gates told president obama he would stay for at least another year. the house and senate are trying to work out their issues over health care legislation. right now they differ over how to pay for it, how many people to cover and how to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion. president obama returned to the issue today in his weekly address to americans. >> once i sign health insurance reform into law, doctors and patients will have more control over their health care decisions and insurance company bureaucrats will have less. all told these changes represent most sweeping reforms and toughest restrictions on insurance companies that this country has ever known. >> whatever the changes are, many of them will not take effect for four years.

most of san francisco's famous sea lions have disappeared. where did they go? it's been a mystery, but now that mystery may be solved.

maybe you heard about the big mystery in san francisco. hundreds of sea lions, which had become a popular tourist attraction over the years, have just disappeared. we may now know where they went. it seems some of them went north

50shgs , 500 miles north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the coast. there's a lot of food there, like anchovies. it's not totally a surprise they made it so far. sea lions can swim 100 miles a day in search of food. millions have seen the sea lions at piers in san francisco. but they started leaving late last year. just 20 were left by thanksgiving. scientists say there's no way to tell how many of the sea lions in oregon are from the san francisco group. peyton manning adds another honor to his hall of fame football career. manning was name the associated press nfl most valuable player today four the fourth time. the indianapolis colts' quarterback is the only nfl player to win the ap award so many times, but he's still got some company. hockey's wayne gretzky, basketball's kareem abdul-jabbar and baseball's barry bonds, they all won the ap most valuable player awards four times in their respective sports categories. a 10,000-foot volcano is

forcing evacuations around the capital city of costa rica. in the recent days it's been shooting ash and steam into the sky, threatening some neighborhoods in it. residents living four miles of the peak are being warned to get out. some are staying in government shelters. the volcano is about 40,000 miles away from the capital city. its last major eruption was 145 years ago. vice president joe biden said he's lost the woman at the center of his family. his mother, jean biden, died yesterday at the family's home in delaware. she was surrounded by loved ones. the vice president said in a statement, "she believed in us, and because of that, we believed in ourselves." jean biden was 92. you may know the name art clokey, but i know you know his work. clokey created the pop culture phenomenon gumby. the artist died yesterday at his home in california. clokey invented gumby as part of a student project when he was at usc. gumby and his horse friend pokey were eventually featured on "the howdy doody show."

and in the '80s, comedian eddie murphy portrayed gumby on "saturday night live" as a cigar-chomping, show business prima donna, and he enjoyed that act. bank failures common last year, and they're still turning up in 2010. horizon bank in bellingham, washington, was the first bank to fail this year. all of its deposits and assets will be taken over by the washington federal loan association of seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than half a billion dollars in insurance costs. 140 banks failed last year. that's the highest number since 1992. the fdic chairwoman says the number could be even higher this year in 2010. have you seen the national debt clock lately? here it is, a staggering 12-plus trillion dollars and it's climbing. a teenager in rhode island decided to do something about it. she got the idea as part of a high school class project. the assignment was, find a social issue and take some action. 16-year-old katherine young wanted to help pay down the national debt so she held a bake

sale. >> at first i wasn't serious about it but then when i thought about it, i realized that it was -- it would be a powerful statement to make, just to the government, the nation, kids around the school, because the national debt is a serious problem and i don't think it's handled as long. >> all of her cookies and goodies sold out in just 12 minutes. she raised about $50 and is raising awareness about the debt. this weekend las vegas is a high-tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smartbooks, laptops and lots of other devices. hln's joe carter is there and takes a look at something that soon you may not be able to do without. ♪ >> reporter: you heard the expression what happens in vegas stays in vegas? not this week, 2,500 vendors have come here to sin city hoping to get their product into your home from netbooks to e-readers to 3d tvs, they're

hire to show you the latest and greatest products to hit the stores and eventually be in your living room. so be sure to stayed tuned to hln all week. we're going to be here in las vegas. if it blinks, it buzzes or even if it flies, we're going to show it to you. you know cops and security guards may be packing heat. but humane society workers? why some are carrying concealed weapons on the job.

just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the eastern u.s., but atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. this video comes from houston, where some folks obviously ignored advice to wrap their exposed pipes. hardware stores there say foam insulation is flying off the shelves. if you can't find any, one plumber says towels and duct tape will do the job in a pinch. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling windstorm.

>> reporter: sustained winds blowing 60 to 70 miles per hour out here. but the windchill, it is just painful. >> now, don't worry, she's okay even after that fall. the reporter was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening. but all of the videos show just how many problems are being caused by the icy roads, the frigid temperatures and the wind. so keep it tuned to hln. we'll have complete weather coverage all afternoon. a flight on its way from atlanta to san francisco had to make an unscheduled landing because of an out-of-control passenger. two f-16 military jets escorted the airtran flight to the ground in colorado yesterday after a disruptive passenger locked himself in the plane's bathroom. other passengers say the man appeared to be drunk. >> and the guy is just going off on the stewardess because she's

telling him you have had too much to drink. but he has no shoes and he has no shirt on. >> he was just pointing and yelling and even when we went to land, he wouldn't sit down. shi. >> he wouldn't sit down. >> the unruly passenger was taken into custody by police in colorado springs. he's expected to be charged monday with interference are a flight crew. that's a federal charge. police in england arrested three men who they say threatened staff aboard a plane bound for dubai. the men were arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat and are in jail in london. the incident happened last night as the plane was getting ready to take off from heathrow airport. all the passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs. they found nothing suspicious. heathrow airport remained open during the incident. the togo national soccer team has with drawn from the african cup of nations tourism. the team pulled out of the games in the wake of that devastating

attack that killed at least two people when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying the team to the tournament. it happened on the border between angola and the republic of congo. so far there is no claim of responsibility for the attack. some humane society workers have started carrying weapons, but it's not the animals they fear in. lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. they say the real risk -- angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything's wrong or if there is something wrong, you know, they don't want to admit to it. so they're usually not in a very good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals and make sure that, you know, nothing bad is happening. >> the director of the humane society says while most calls are not dangerous, investigators are seeing more violence in their line of work. it's late night's latest

battle. only months ago nbc gave jay leno a primetime talk show and put conan o'brien in the top-rated late night slot. low ratings for both could soon lead to a late night shakeup.

it is just painful -- >> some unbelievable scenes playing out across the eastern united states. it's like somebody left the door open to the arctic. when forecasters are saying temperatures could come back to normal. the people who once wanted to adopt a missing 3-year-old boy spoke with hln. what they say they did to help police try to find gabriel johnson. and miss flee san francisco may have been solved hundreds of miles away. where experts say scores of sea lions have turned up and why. recordbreaking cold across the country. you're watching hln "news and views." i'm jennifer westhoven. thanks for joining us. the deep freeze has taken over

the south, making driving a dangerous prospect. icy roads caused many car accidents, even this massive pileup. 300 crashes were reported in one georgia county alone. driving is even more difficult further north thanks to all the snow. snowplows worked in hammond, indiana, to clear out the road, but some people just took to shovels to dig themselves out. >> i prefer sunnier skies, but you got to do what you got to do when you live in the midwest and are dealing with there weather. i'm usually pretty angry with the snow, but i'm okay this year. >> i'm glad he's got a sense of humor about it. many parts of the country saw recordbreaking low temperatures, and listen to this -- 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota, and 21 below in grand island, nebraska. the freezing temperatures have even moved to the sunshine state prompting a run on space heaters. >> i bought four, but i think i'm going to go in and get some more. >> business is booming for florida stores that sell space heaters. but the cold snap isn't so good

for tourism or orange crops. temperatures will reach into the mid-40s today across parts of central florida, but factor in the windchill, and it feels more like below 30s. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after they allegedly robbed a bank. police say the teen girls walked into the bank on tuesday, suggested they had a weapon, and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. authorities report that the suspects were described as two girls, one 14 to 16 years old, and the other possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help or help from the public to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they have identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark airport security scare. 28-year-old haisong jiang was taken into custody last night from his home in pass cat away. authorities say he ducked under a security rope on sunday to walk his girlfriend to her plane. when it was reported to security the terminal was shut down,

thousands of passengers had to be rescreened, and thousands more were trapped on arriving planes because none of the gates at the terminal were open. last night jiang was charged with defiant trespass and released. he's expected to appear in court next week. new jersey senator frank lautenberg says jiang's arrest sends a clear message. >> pleased that there is a message that goes out there that said don't try it. don't try it. because if you will we're going to catch you. >> at the time jiang allegedly slipped through security the tsa screener who was supposed to be monitoring the checkpoint had stepped away. and while thousands of passengers as we said were tied up for hours, security officials say jiang himself left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. the christmas airline bombing attempt suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. umar farouk abdulmutallab appeared in court in detroit yesterday. he faces six federal charges,

including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapons of mass destruction. and that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody. and his next court date has not yet been set. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber abdulmutallab made it on to the plane. the ranking republican on the house homeland security committee says there were enough red flags to raise an alarm. >> both parties recognize the need for answers, so bureaucratic reviews will take place and congressional hearings will be held. and while that's all well and good, this is about much more than weather. the no-fly list gets longer and it takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this past week president obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all the information it had about the suspected plane bomber.

the arizona couple that wanted to adopt missing baby gabriel tells hln they voluntarily took polygraph tests. gabriel johnson was last season in san antonio with his mom. she was arrested in florida a few days later without him. so far, she won't say where baby gabriel is. jack and tammy smith at one time wanted to adopt him and were named persons of interest by police in arizona. investigators say they knew more than they were letting on. they think baby gabriel is still alive. they're asking anyone with information about him to call the national center for missing and exploited children. it's 1-800-the-lost. about 100 protesters massed outside a los angeles court. inside the former transit security officer accused of fatally shooting oscar grant in a san francisco bay area train station on new year's day last year. johannes mehserle has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. the trial was moved to los angeles. during yesterday's pretrial

hearing a judge said cameras would not be allowed in the courtroom. the whole shooting was caught on tape by several bystanders and posted on the web. it sparked several protests in the bay area in the days afterward. mehserle's lawyer said he meant to use his stun gun on grant, but accidentally fired his handgun instead. the judge says the trial could start in mid-may. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. it's the one about your race. for 2010 one of the choices is negro. now the word is listed alongside black and african-american, as it has been on past forms like the last one from 2000, seen here in yellow. now the 2010 census is in blue, but some people say the word's outdated. >> personally, i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know. it's very clear. >> negro sound like something in the slavery time to me, uh-huh. >> it's not so much what we're called but what we respond to as the thing that matters.

>> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says what's more important is that people fill out the census so african-american communities won't miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds. census officials say some people wrote in the word "negro" on the 2000 census. the bureau which operate under the commerce department is considering whether to remove the term for the next census in 2020. we've been getting your views on this, and you've got a wide variety of opinions out there. here's just a few posts from facebook --

most of san francisco's famous sea lions have disappeared. what happened to them, where did they go? it's been a big mystery. new mystery may be solved.

there's a mystery of sea lions that just disappeared. we may now know where they went. it seems the sea lions went north. 500 miles north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the oregon coast. experts say it's probably because there's lots of sea lion food there like anchovies. it's not totally a surprise that they made it so far. sea lions can swim 100 miles a day in search of food. millions have seen the sea lions at pier 39 in san francisco, but they started leaving late last year just 20 left by thanksgiving. scientists say there's no way to tell how many of the sea lions in oregon are from the san francisco group.

vice president joe biden says he's lost the woman at the center of his family. his mother, jean biden, died yesterday at the family's home in delaware. she was surrounded by loved ones. the vice president said in a statement "she believed in us, and because of that we believed in ourselves." jean biden was 92. you may not know the name art clokey, but i bet you know his work. clokey created the pop culture phenomenon gumby. the artist died yesterday at his home in california. clokey invented gumby as part of a student project when he was at usc. gumby and his horse friend pokey were eventually featured on the "howdy doody show." and in the '80s eddie murphy portrayed gumby on "saturday night live" as a cigar-chomping, show business prima dona. and clokey said he enjoyed that act. this weekend las vegas is a high-tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smart books, laptops, and lots of other devices. hln's joe carter is there and

takes a look at something that soon you may not be able to do without. >> reporter: e-readers are all the rage at ces. jim lauderbach, we've heard of the kindle, the nook, there's a lot of competition out here. show us what you've got. >> there are a lot of e-books and factors like lighter and thinner. see how thin they are. think about the kindle, you're never going to get that kindle in your pocket. this one you abe to put in your -- able to put in your pocket or purse. this is the alex. the neat thing about this is you can head things here. when you see something you want to look up you can go down here to google and look it up. i've got another one i want to show you that's bigger, and in this case, bigger actually is better. >> reporter: okay. >> there is the larger one, the entourage edge? >> yes, this is bigger. it looks more like a book. look at this suite over here. this is a full-fledged net book. an internet-connected computer, and they work together to let

you go from book to computer and internet to being able to get video and other things. >> reporter: and you -- >> you can actually write and do things on it, as well. >> that's our new guy, joe carter, reporting from las vegas where the consumer electronics show runs through tomorrow. and we are there bringing you the scoop on new gadgets all weekend. for three years now we've been introducing you to every day people who in many different ways are changing the world. our first cnn hero of 2010 is a trucker-turned-lawyer who's trying to drive away the problem of domestic violence. when i was growing up on a rural back road, family violence of an accepted way of life. this was my mother, and i'm the baby here. my father and my brother, richard, and my sister pauline. my father would commonly abuse all of us. he raped me and beat my mother. and my other siblings. when the neighbors heard

screaming coming from our home, they just turned their heads. for domestic violence victims in rural areas, it can be very devastating. they are out there on these back roads with no access to in-town services. many of them do not have telephones. some of them do not have driver's licenses or an automobile. so we go to them. my name is wynonna ward. the turning point for me was when a child in my family revealed that she had been abused by my father and my brother. i just said, this has to stop. when i graduated from law school, i was 48 years old. good morning, my dear. i go to people's homes, give them in-home consultations, provide them with free legal services, and transportation to and from court hearings. i don't want children to have to go through what i did as a

child. i want to see my clients become empowered. i can understand them, and they know that i will be there to protect them. >> you can follow all our cnn heroes on facebook and twitter, and maybe you know someone that you think is changing the world --

just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you shud. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the eastern u.s. but atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accident after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. this video comes from houston where some folks obviously ignored advice to wrap their exposed pipes. hardware stores there say foam insulation has been flying off the shelves. if you can't find any, one plumber says towels and duct tape will do the job in a pinch. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling windstorm.

with sustained winds blowing 60 to 70 miles per hour, with the windchill it is just painful. >> don't worry, she's okay even after that fall. the reporter, keeley chalmers, was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening. but all the videos show just how many problems are being caused by the icy roads, the frigid temperatures, and the wind. so keep it tuned to hln. we'll have complete weather coverage all afternoon. a suspected suicide bomber blamed for killing seven cia employees and contractors threatened revenge before he died. hummam kalil al-balawi appeared in a video on al jazeera this morning. in it he said the attack was revenge for a former boss in pakistan who was kill in an air attack. he said he was carrying out the attack because of ongoing drone attacks inside pakistan.

perhaps more ominously he threatened more attacks are coming against america both outside and inside the united states. the man sitting enjoyed kalil al- balawi in the video is the new leader of the taliban's pakistani branch. this is another picture from hummam kalil al-balawi's family. he's suspected of blowing himself up in afghanistan on december 30. police in england arrested three men who they say threatened staff aboard a plane bound for dubai. the men were arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat and are in jail in london. the incident happened last night as the plane was getting ready to take off from heathrow airport. all the passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs. they found nothing suspicious. heathrow airport remained open during the incident.y soon have new tools to help them in the fight against alzheimer's disease. one is a drink that may one day be sold at pharmacies.

souvenaid is a medical food that may be prescribed by a drk and may delay the symptoms of alzheimer's. there's also an mri scan that may pick up sign of alzheimer's in healthy people. more than five million americans suffer from the disease. some humane society workers have started carrying weapons. but it's not the animals they fear. in lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. and they say the real risk -- angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything's wrong, or if there is something wrong, they don't want to admit to it. so they're usually not in a very good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals, and make sure that, you know, nothing bad is happening. >> the director of the humane society says while most calls

are not dangerous, investigators are seeing more violence in their line of work. it was a big scramble for a big prize by elvis impersonators yesterday. check it out. ♪ ♪ don't be cruel to a heart that's true ♪ >> that was his best shot. these guys are competing at the european elvis championship in england. lookalikes came from all over europe and actually new zealand. the king of rock 'n' roll would have celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday. it's late night's latest battle. only months ago nbc news gave jay leno a primetime talk show and put conan o'brien in the top-rated late night slot. but low ratings for both hosts could soon lead to a late night shakeup not seen since david letterman.

a suspect has been arrested for the scare that shut down a terminal at newark airport. the charges he's facing and why he ducked under a security rope. and the trial was moved hundreds of miles away from oakland, california, but the change of venue may have been for nothing. the scene on the courthouse steps as a transit officer's trial get underway. plus, you'll be getting those census forms in the mail soon, pretty extensive. but one word on the form getting a lot of attention. why some people say it's outdated. we'll hear your thoughts on whether it should be there. recordbreaking cold across the country today. you're watching hln "news and views," i'm jennifer westhoven. thanks for joining us. the deep freeze has even taken

over parts of the south making driving a dangerous prospect. the icy roads caused many car accide accidents this massive pileup. 300 crashes reported in one georgia county alone. driving is even more difficult further north thanks to all the snow. snowplows worked in hammond, indiana, to clear out the roads. but some people just took to shovels to dig themselves out. >> i prefer sunnier skies, but you know, you got to do what you got to do when you're in the midwest and dealing with this weather. i'm -- usually i'm pretty angry with the snow, but i'm okay this year. >> i'm glad he's got a sense of humor about it. many parts of the country saw recordbreaking low temperatures, and listen to this -- 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota, and 21 below in grand island, nebraska. the freezing temperatures have even moved to the sunshine state, prompting a run on space heaters. >> i bought four, but i think i'm going to go in and get some more. >> business is booming for

florida stores that sell space heaters. but the cold snap isn't so good for tourism or orange crops. temperatures will reach into the mid-40s today across parts of central florida. but factor in the windchill, and it feels more like the low 30s. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after they allegedly robbed a bank. police say the teen girls walked into the bank on tuesday, suggested they had a weapon, and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. authorities report that the suspects were described as two girls, one 14 to 16 years old, and the other possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help, for help from the public to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they've identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark airport security scare. 28-year-old hey song jiang was taken into custody from his home in piscataway. he ducked under a security rope

saturday to walk his girlfriend to her plane. when it was reported to security the terminal was shut down, thousands of passengers had to be rescreened, and thousands more were trapped on arriving planes because none of the gates at the term noll were open. last night -- terminal were open. last night jiang was charged with defiant trespass and released. he's expected in court next week. frank lautenberg says jiang's arrest sends a clear message. >> we're pleased that there is a message that goes out there that said don't try it. don't try it because if you will, we're going to catch you. >> at the time jiang allegedly slipped through security, the tsa screener who was supposed to be monitoring the checkpoint had stepped away. and while thousands of passengers, as we said, were tied up for hours, security officials say jiang himself left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. the christmas airline bombing tampa suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

umar farouk abdulmutallab appeared in court in detroit yesterday. he faces six federal charges, including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapon of mass destruction. and that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody. and his next court date has not yet been set. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber abdulmutallab made it on to the plane. the ranking republican on the house rurt committee says there were enough red flags to raise an alarm. >> both parties recognize the need for answers, so bureaucratic reviews will take place, and congressional hearings will be held. and while that's all well and good, this is about much more than whether the no-fly list gets longer or it takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this past week president obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all the information it had about the suspected plane

bomber. the arizona couple that wanted to adopt missing baby gabriel tells hln they voluntarily took polygraph tests. gabriel johnson was last seen in san antonio with his mom. she was arrested in florida a few days later without him. so far, she won't say where baby gabriel is. jack and tammie smith at one time wanted to adopt him and were named persons of interest. investigators say they knew more than they were letting on. they think baby gabriel is still alive. they're asking anyone with information about him to call the national center for missing and exploited children. it's 1-800-the-lost. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. it's the one about your race. for 2010 one of the choices is negro. now the word is listed alongside black and african-american, as it has been on past forms like the last one from 2000, seen here in yellow. now the 2010 census is in blue, but some people say the word's outdated.

>> personally i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know. and it's very clear. >> negro sound like something in the slavery time to me, uh-huh. >> it's not so much what we're called but what we respond to is the thing that matters. >> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says what's more important is that people fill out the census so african-american communities won't miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds. census officials say some people wrote in the word "negro" on the 2000 census. the bureau which operates under the commerce department, is considering whether to remove the term for the next census in 2020. we've been getting your views on this, and you've got a wide variety of opinions out there. here's a few posts --

we may read some of your answers on the air today. most of san francisco's famous sea lions have disappeared. what happened to them, where did they go? it's been a big mystery.

maybe you heard about the big mystery in san francisco. hundreds of sea lions who became a popular tourist attraction over the years just disappeared. we may now know where they went. it seems some of those sea lions went north, 500 mimes north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the oregon coast. experts say it's probably because there's lots of sea lion food there like anchovies. it's not totally a surprise that they made it so far. sea lions can swim 100 miles a day in search of food. millions have seen the sea lions at pier 39 in san francisco, but they started leaving late last year, just 20 left by thanksgiving. scientists say there's no way to tell how many of the sea lions in oregon are from the san francisco group. peyton manning adds another honor to his hall of fame career. manning was named the associated press nfl most valuable player today for the fourth time.

the indianapolis colts player is the only player to win so many times but he's got company. wayne gretzky, kareem abdul-jabbar and barry bonds. they've all won the a.p. most valuable player awards four times in their respective sports categories. this weekend las vegas is a high-tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smartbooks, laptops, and lots of devices. hln's joe carter is there and takes a look at something that soon you may not be able to do without. >> reporter: the big news here, tablets. lenovo has one. among the big news, tablets. tell us about the tablets. >> a tablet is like a small computer that has a touch interface, like a touch phone or iphone. it's bigger. you can actually read your web sites and stuff on it.

it's something you might take into the kitchen or the living room, sit on your couch and read your e-mail, look at blogs and stuff like that. the one that we saw is the u-1 from lenovo. it's a tablet, but it fits on to a little keyboard portion that is a separate computer. and when you snap it on there, when you snap it into its little keyboard, it switches control over to the keyboard and you can type. it's kind of weird actually, but's also pretty cool. >> reporter: thank yougear.com. thanks, we'll see you this week. >> you're welcome. maybe you started that after-holiday diet, but you're still not seeing any results. you may want to blame your metabolism, but come on, is that fair? don't you pick up that cookie yet. let's go beyond the surface to find out. >> regardless of your

metabolism, if you have a fast metabolism or a slower metabolism, you can still be overweight. metabolism is the process of converting food into energy. and then how quickly you burn up that energy. so it's not just metabolism alone that is going to determine your weight. it's how many calories you're eating and what else are you doing to burn calories and to keep your metabolic rate up. three things to help increase your metabolism would be to eat portions consistently throughout the day. stay properly hydrated. and to increase your muscle mass by doing weight-bearing exercises. spicy foods can slightly increase your metabolism. just like caffeine can slightly increase your metabolism. dieting absolutely can slow down your metabolism. that's why you need to eat consistently throughout the day, and you need to eat an adequate amount of calories to keep burning.

just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know how many vehicles are dinged and dented across the eastern u.s. atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. there video comes from houston where some folks obviously ignored advice to wrap their exposed pipes. hardware stores there say foam insulation has been flying off the shelves. if you can't find any, one plumber says towels and duk tape will do the job in a pinch. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling windstorm. with sustained winds blowing 60 to 70 miles per hour, with the windchill it is just painful.

>> don't worry, she's okay even after that fall. the reporter, keeley chalmers, was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening. but all the videos show just how many problems are being caused by the icy roads, the frigid temperatures, and the wind. so keep it tuned to hln. we'll have complete weather coverage all afternoon. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider with hln and your saturday forecast. another day, another cold weather day. we are looking at more arctic air hitting the south in places that typically aren't there cold this time of year at all. check it out. frigid across the center of the country, and then down in the south, so cold we've had reports of sleet and snow flurries early this morning in central florida. that's right, florida. the cold front has passed through, and now the cold air is well in place. so temperatures today are going to be just brutal. check this out. highs today across the midwest,

19 degrees in chicago. the windchill factor will be below zero as it was early this morning. even worse in kansas city with a high of only 9 degrees. the windchill, again, below 0. then as we head to the southeast, 25 for the high temperature in memphis, tennessee. brutally cold there, as well as in atlanta. we're also looking at very cold temperatures for florida, miami at 53. the normal temperature this time of year is about 75 degrees. so big changes there. also boston, the northeast looking cold. if you are looking for milder weather, here is a place to find it. los angeles. we'll look for sunshine there, and a nice, mild, high temperature of 78 degrees. so if you're looking for relief from all this cold, you'll want to head to southern california. that's where we're looking at the nice weather. in las vegas, 61 degrees, and cold there into salt lake city. high of 32 right at freezing. that is a look at your saturday forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for hln. senate majority leader harry reid apologized today for comments he made about president

obama during the campaign. they were reported in "the atlantic" as part of an excerpt from an upcoming book by two journalists. the book tells how senator reid reportedly said in private that then-candidate obama could win thanks in part to his "light-skinned appearance." the excerpt guess on to say obama didn't speak with a "negro dialectials unless he wanted o" the senator said he deeply cigarettes using such a poor choice of word and said he sincerely apologizes to all americans, especially african-americans. a plate on its way from atlanta to san francisco had to make an unscheduled landing because of an out-of-control passenger. two f-16 military jets escorted the airtran flight to the ground in colorado yesterday after a disruptive passenger locked himself in the plane's bathroom. other passengers say the man appeared to be drunk. >> and the guy is just going off on the stewardess because she's

telling him "you've had too much to drink." but he has no shoes, and he has no shirt on. >> he was just pointing and yelling. even when we went to land, he wouldn't down. he stood up in the pack of the plane. >> the passenger was taken into custody. he's expected to be charged monday with interfeens with a flight crew. that's a federal charge. a suspected suicide bomber blamed for killing seven cia employees and contracts threatened revenge before he died. he appeared in a video that aired this morning. in it, he said his attack was revenge for a former boss in pakistan kill nd an air strike. he also said he was carrying out the attack because of ongoing american drone strikes inside pakistan. he threatened more attacks are coming to america. the man sitting beside him is a

new leader of the taliban's pakistani branch. this is another picture we got from the family. he's suspected of blowing himself up on december 30th. it was a big scramble for a big prize by elvis impersonators yesterday. check it out. ♪ that was his best shot. these guys are competie ining a european elvis championships. look alikes came from all over europe. the king of rock 'n' roll would have celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday. it's late night's latest battle. months ago, nbc gave jay leno a talk show and put conan in another spot, but low ratings for both could lead to a late

night shake-up.

it is just painful. >> some unbelievable scenes playing out across the united states. wind, forecasters are saying temperatures could come back to normal. p people who once wanted to adopt a missing 3-year-old boy. what they did to help police find the boy. and mystery in san francisco may have been solved hundreds of miles away. where experts say scores of sea lions have turned up and why. record-breaking cold today. i'm jennifer westhoven. thanks for joining us. the deep freeze has even taken over parts of the south, making

driving a dangerous prospect. the icy roads caused many car accidents. 300 crashes were reported in one georgia county alone. driving's even more difficult further north thanks to all the snow. snowplowis worked in indiana. >> i prefer sunnier skies, but you've got to do what you've got to do. i'm usually pretty angry with the snow, but i'm okay this year. >> glad he's got a sense of humor about it. many parts of the country saw record-breaking low temperatures. 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota. the freezing temperatures have moved to the sunshine state prompting a run on space heaters. >> i bought four, but i think i'm going to get some more. >> business is booming for florida stores that sell space

heater, but the cold snap isn't so good for tourism or orange crops. temperatures will be in the mid-40s today in florida. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after they allegedly robbed a bank. police say the teen girls walked into a bank on tuesday, suggested they had a weapon and got away with cash. the suspects were described as two girls, one 14 to 16 years old and the other, possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they've identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark security scare. he was taken into custody last night. authorities say he ducked under a security rope on sunday to walk his girlfriend to her plane. when it was reported to

security, the terminal was shut down. thousands of passengers had to be rescreened and thousands more were trapped on arriving planes. last night, he was charnled with definal trespass and released. new jersey senator says the arrest sends a clear message. >> we're pleased that there is a message that goes out there, said don't try it. don't try it. because if you will, we're going to catch you. >> at the time he allegedly slipped through security, the tsa screener who was monitoring the check point had stepped away. and while thousands of passengers were tied up for hours, security officials say chang left 20 minutes after the attempt. the christmas day bombing suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

he appeared in court yesterday. the charge could get him life in prison if convicted. his next court date has not been set. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would-be bomber mutallab made it on to the plane. they say there were enough red flags to raise an alarm. >> both parties recognize the need for answers, so reviews will take place and hearings will be held. while that's all well and good, this is about much more than whether -- gets longer or takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this is past week, president obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all the information it had about the suspected plane

bomber. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. one to have choices is negro. it's listed alongside black and african-american as it has been on past forms like the one from 2 2000. some people say the word is outdated. >> personally, i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know and it's very clear. >> liberal sounds like something in the slavery to me. >> it's not so much what we're called, but what we respond to is what matters. >> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says it's more important fill out the form. firnls say some wrote in the

word negro in the 2000 census. so we've been getting your views on this and you've got a wide variety of opinions out there. here's just a few posts from facebook. jackie went to dictionary.com and said -- and mike says -- ralph nader isn't giving up on his lawsuit. the former presidential candidate tried to sue in a d.c. frl appeals court, but didn't

file his suit soon enough. now, he's taken his suit to maine. his lawyer says they used the courts to sabotage nader's independent campaign. he appeared on the ballot in 34 states and won less than 1% of the vote in 2004. robert gates plans to stay in his job another year. he was first appointed by president bush and reappointed by president obama. in an interview last year, he described his job as a very painful thing. a spokesman says before christmas, gates told president obama held stay for at least another year. the house and senate are trying to work out their issues over health care legislation. right now, they differ over how to pay for it, how many people to cover and how to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion.

>> once i sign health insurance reform into law, doctors and patients will have more control over their health care decisions and insurance company bureaucrats will have less. all told, these changes represent the most sweeping reforms and toughest restrictions on insurance companies this con tru has ever known. >> many changes will not take effect for four years. most of san francisco's sea lions have disappeared. what happened to them? it's been a big mystery, but now, it may be solved.

maybe you heard about the big mystery in san francisco. hundreds of sea lions just disappeared. well, we may now know where they went. it seems some of those sea lions went north. 500 miles north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the oregon

coast. it's not totally a surprise they made it so far. they can swim 100 mailes a day n search of food. millions have seen the sea lions at the paer, but they started leaving last year. scientists say there's no way to tell how many are from the san francisco group. joe biden says he's lost the person at the center of his fami family. his mother died yesterday. he said in a statement, she believed in us and because of that, we believed in ourselves. she was 92. you may not know the name, art cloaky, but i bet you know his work. he created gumby. gumby and his horse friend were

eventually featured on "the howdy duty show." bank failures last year and they're still turning up in 2010. horizon bank was the first bank to fail this year. all its deposits will be taken over by washington federal savings and loan in seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than half a billion dollars in insurance cost. 140 banks failed last year. that's the highest number since 1992. the number could be even higher this year. have you seen the national debt lately? a staggering 12 plus trillion. a teenager in rhode island decided to do something about it. she got the idea as part of a high school class project. the assignment was find a social

issue and take some action. 16-year-old catherine young wanted to help pay down the national debt, so she hold a bake sale. >> at first, i wasn't serious about it, but when i thought about it, it would be a powerful statement to make to the government, the nation, kids around the school. because the national debt's a serious problem and i don't think it's handled as one. >> all her goodies sold out in just 12 minutes. she's raised about 50 bucks and awareness about the debt. this weekend, las vegas is a high-tech haven. joe carter is there and takes a look at something that soon, you may not be able to do without. >> reporter: the biggest story this year, 3-d tvs. ryan, editor with cnet, what do

you see is going to wow us? >> i hate to say it, but 3-d tv. i'm kind of an i don't get it guy. i think it's for an audience that watches a certain kind of content. but i don't think we're going to put on goggles to swatch a weekly scripted drama. might be shot in 3-d, but i don't want to put goggles on all the time. and a lot of consumers don't want to go buy a new tv right now. we're still getting used to it and still digesting that $2,000 purchase. but it is definitely for real at this show. we're also seeing a lot of connected cars. hold everything, right? but the idea is to allow car aps to be loaded in the consider and

do things over the internet on the car. for example, that navigation dvd you have now to have your maps, it would just reach out through the web and use goggle maps. instead of playing music on your i-pod, it would stream radio. it make as lot of things happen like your smart phone or computer. >> reporter: thank you, sir. >> that's our new guy, joe carter, reporting from las vegas where the consumer electronics show runs through tomorrow and we are through all weekend. cops and security guards may be packing heat, but humane society workers? why some are carrying concealed weapons on the job.

harry reid apologized today for comments he made about president obama during the campaign. they were reported in the atlantic as part of an excerpt in an upcoming book. the book tells how senator reid repo reportedly said in private that then candidate obama could win because of quote, his light-skinned appearance. it goes on to say quote, he didn't speak with a negro dialect unless he wanted to have one. senator reid says he deeply regrets using quote, such a poor

choice of words and sincerely apologizes to all americans, peshlsly african-americans. just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the u.s., but atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow. and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. this video comes from houston where some folks ignore advice to wrap their pipes. insulation has been flying off the shelves. towels and duct tape will also do the job. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling wind storm. >> sustains winds blowing 60 to 70 miles per hour out here.

the windchill is just painful. >> don't worry. she's okay, even after that fall. the reporter was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening, but all the videos show just how many problems are being cause d by te icy roads, the frigid temperatures and the wind. so keep it tuned to hln. we'll have complete weather coverage all afternoon. police in england arrested three men who they say threatened staff aboard a plane headed for dubai. they were arrested on suspicion of a bomb threat and are in jail. it happened last night as the plane was getting ready to take off. all passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it. they found nothing suspicion. heathrow remained open during the incident. doctors may have new tools to help them in the fight

against all disease. a new study suggests it may help delay some of the symptim sympt. another study found a new type of mri scan may help pick up signs of the disease in healthy people. some humane society workers have started carrying weapons. but it's not the animals they fear. in lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns and they say the real risk, angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything's wrong. or if there is something wrong, they don't want to admit to it, so they're usually not in a good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals and make sure that nothing bad the happening.

>> the director of the humane society says that while most calls are not dangerous, investigators are seeing more violence in their line of work. it was a big scramble for a big prize by elvis impersonators yesterday. check it out. ♪ that was his best shot. these guys are competing at the european elvis championship in england. his look alikes came from all over europe and even actually from new zealand. the king of rock 'n' roll would have celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday. it's late night's latest battle. only months ago, nbc gave jay leno a prime time show and put conan o'brien in the top-rated late night slot, but low ratings for both could soon lead to a late-night shake-up.

a suspect has been arrested for the scare that shut down a terminal at newark airport. the charge he's facing and why authorities say he ducked under a security rope. and the trial was moves away from oakland, but the change may have been for nothing. the scene on the steps as the trial got underway. plus, you'll be getting those census forms soon, but one word on the form getting a lot of attention. why some say it's outdated. we'll hear your thoughts on whether it should be there. record-breaking cold across the country today. i'm jennifer westhoven. the deep freeze has even taken over parts of the south, making

driving a dangerous prospect. the icy roads caused many accidents. even this massive pile-up. 300 crashes were reported in one georgia county alone. driving's even more difficult up north thanks to all the snow. snowplows worked in indiana to clear up the roads, but some took to shovels. >> i prefer sunnier skies, but you've got to do what you've got to do when deals with this weather. usually, i'm pretty angry with the snow, but im okay this year. >> many parts of the country saw record-breaking low temperatures. 31 below in aberdeen, south dakota. the freezing temperatures have even moved to the sunshine state prompting a run on space heaters. >> i bought four, but i think i'm going to get more.

>> business is booming for florida stores that sell the heaters. temperatures will reach into the mid-40s today in central florida, but with the windchill, it feels more like the low 30s. police in ohio are looking for two teenage girls who are on the run after allegedly robbing a bank. police say the girls walked into the bank tuesday, suggested they had a weapon and got away with cash. they were described as two girls, one, 14 to 16 years old and the other possibly as young as 12. police are asking for your help to track them down. authorities in new jersey say they've identified and arrested the man who touched off the newark airport security scare. 28-year-old haisong jiang was taken into custody last night. he ducked under a security rope

sunday to walk his girlfriend to a plane. when it was reported to security, the terminal was shut down, thousands had to be rescreened and thousands more were trapped on arriving plans. he was charged with defiant trespass and release. new jersey senator frank lautenberg says the arrest sends a clear message. >> we're pleased that there is a message that goes out that, said don't try it. don't try it. because if you will, we're going to catch you. >> at the time, jiang allegedly slipped through security, the tsa screener who was supposed to monitor the check point had stepped away. and while thousands of passengers were tied up for hours, security officials say jiang left the airport just 20 minutes after the incident. the christmas airline bombing has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

he appeared in court in detroit yesterday and faces six federal charges including an attempt to blow up a plane and attempt at weapons of mass destruction. that charge could get him life in prison. his defense didn't challenge the request to keep him in pretrial custody. republicans are pushing for a closer review of how would be bomber abdulmutallab made it on to the plane. >> both parties recognize the need for answers. some bureaucratic reviews will take place and congressional hearings will be held. this is about much more than whether the no-fly list gets longer or takes more time to get through the security line at the airport. this is about whether we've learned our lesson. >> this past week, president obama acknowledged u.s. intelligence failed to connect the dots on all the information

it had about the suspected plane bomber. one of the questions on this year's census has upset a lot of people. the one about your race. for 2010, it's listed as negro. it's alongside black and african-american as it has been on last forms, like the last one from 2000. seen here in yellow. the 2010 census isn't blue but some say the word is outdated. >> personally, i don't care for it. i believe that african-american pretty much states what we need to know. and it's very clear. >> negro sounds like something in the slavery time to me. >> it's not so much what we're called but what we respond to is the thing that matters. >> the san francisco chapter of the naacp says what's more important is that people fill out the census so african-american communities won't miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds. census officials say some people wrote in the word negro on the 2000 census. the bureau, which operates under the congress department, is considering whether to remove

the term for the next census in 2020. we have been getting your views on this and you've got a wide variety of opinions. here are just a few posts from facebook. kevin writes -- doug says -- but sharon says -- we want to hear from you on this story. what do you think? do you think using the word negro on the census is still outdated? should it still be listed? you can sound off on my facebook page or e-mail us and dive into

the discussion. we may read some of your answers on the air today. most of san francisco's famous sea lions have disappeared. what happened to them? where did they go? it's been a big mystery but now, that mystery may be solved.

maybe you heard about the big mystery in san francisco. hundreds of sea lions, which had become a huge popular tourism every year, disappeared. we now know where they went t it seems some went north. 500 miles north. the sea lions started showing up at a popular cave on the coast. experts say it's probably because there's lots of sea lion food there. like anchovies. it's not totally a surprise they made it so far. millions have seen the sea lions at pier 39, but they started leaving last year. just 20 were left by

thanksgiving. scientists say there's no way to tell how many of the sea lions in oregon are from the san francisco group. vice president joe biden says he's lost the women at the center of his family. his mother, jean biden, died yesterday in delaware. he said in a statement, she believed in us and because of that, we believed in ourselves. jean biden was 92. . . this weekend, las vegas is a high-tech haven. firms are showing off their trendiest smart books, laptops and other devices. joe carter is there and takes a look at something that soon, you may not be able to deal without. >> reporter: we're in las vegas at the coolest trade show in the world. i'm going to go treasure hunting. see what we can find. forget buying another ap for my i-phone. i know what i want next year. i want one of those. a helicopter flown by our

i-phone. gone are the days of lugging that big, heavy projector. >> what makes this one special, it has a gigabyte of internal memory. it will go anywhere from an 8 to 15. you can go bigger, but you're going to have to start to dim the lights. it's not to replace a big board room projector, but for someone on the move, this is a great product. >> reporter: i found this. >> this is the world's first wireless leash for mobile phones. it prevents you from walking away from your cell phone. >> reporter: how? >> you wear it on your key chain and when you get away from your cell phone, an alarm sounds. makes you never lose your phone. second thing it does is call

notification. if you get a phone call, you hear the alarm. press this button and it turns into a fully functioning speakerphone. speakerphone right here, microphone right here. it's a personal security device, so if you're out, you feel threatened, hold this down for nine seconds, it sends off a panic alarm and it dials 911. >> that's our new guys joe carter. we are there all weekend. you know cops and security guards may be packing heat, but humane society workers? why some are carrying concealed weapons on if job.

senate majority leader harry reid apologized today for comments he made about president obama during the campaign. they were reported in the atlantic as part of an excerpt by an upcoming book. it tells you senator reid reportedly said in private that then candidate obama could win because of his light skinned appearance. in a statement to cnn, he said

he regrets using such a poor choice of words and sincerely apologizes to all americans, especially african-americans. just because you can drive in icy conditions doesn't mean you should. it's impossible to know just how many vehicles are now dinged and dented across the eastern u.s., but atlanta alone is reporting hundreds of accidents after frozen rain and snow and staying inside is no guarantee you're going to escape problems from the arctic blast. ruptured pipes are keeping plumbers busy. this video comes from houston, where some folks ignored advice to wrap their exposed pipes. hardware stores say foam insulation has been flying off the shelves. in oregon, a reporter determined to get the job done was literally blown away by a howling wind storm. >> sustains winds blowing 60 to

70 miles per hour out here. the windchill is just painful. >> don't worry. she's okay even after that fall. the reporter was back reporting live from the same scene later in the evening, but all the video shows just how many problems are being caused by the icy roads, the frigid temperatures and the wind. keep it tuned to hln for complete weather coverage all afternoon. i'm bonnie schneider for hln with your saturday forecast. another day, another cold weather day. we are looking at more arctic air hitting the south in places that typically aren't this cold this time of year at all. frigid across the center of the country and then down in the south, so cold we've had reports of sleet and snow flurries early this morning in central florida.

the cold air is well in place, so temperatures today are going to be just brutal. check this out. highs today across the midwest, 19 in chicago. the windchill factor will be below zero. even worse than kansas city with a high of only 9 degrees. the windchill below zero. in the southeast, 25 in memphis. we're also looking at very cold temperatures for florida. miami at 53. the normal temperature for this time of year is about 75 degrees. also, boston, the northeast looking cold. if you are looking for milder weather, here is the place to find it. los angeles will look for sunshine there and a nice, mild high temperature of 78 degrees, so if you're looking for relief from all this cold, you'll want to head to southern california. in las vegas, 61 degrees and cold into salt lake city with a high of 32. that is a look at your saturday forecast.

a suspected suicide bomber blamed for killing seven cia employees and contracts threatened revenge before he died. he appeared in a video that airair ed this morning and said the attack was for revenge on a boss killed in an air stik. he also said he was carrying out the attack because of ongoing drone strikes inside of pakistan. he threatened more attacks are coming against america both outside and inside the united states. the man sitting behind him in the video is a new leader of the taliban's pakistani branch. this is another picture we got from his family. he's suspected of blowing himself up at a cia base in afghanistan on december 30th. police in england arrested three men who they say

threatened staff aboard a plane bound for dubai. the men were arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat and are in jail in london. the incident happened last night. all the passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it. they found nothing suspicion. the airport remained open during the incident. the chogo national soccer team has withdrawn from if nation's tournament. they pulled out of the tournament in the wake of the devastating attack that killed at least two people. it happened on the border between angola and the republican of congo. so far, no claim of responsibility for the attack. doctors may have new tools to help with alzheimer's disease. one is a drink, but a new study

suggests it may help delay some of the symptoms. a new study found a new type of mri scan may help pick up signs of the disease in healthy people. more than 5 million americans suffer from the disease. some humane society workers have started carrying weapons, but it's not the animals they fear. in lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. they say the real risk, angry pet owners. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything's wrong and if there is, they don't want to admit to it. they're usually not in a very good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals and make sure that nothing bad is happening. >> the director of the humane society says that while most calls are not dangerous, they're seeing more violence in their

line of work. it was a big scramble for a big prize for elvis impersonators yesterday. check it out. ♪ that was his best shot. these guys are competing at the european elvis championship in england. his look alikes came from all over europe and even from new zealand. the king of rock 'n' roll would have celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday. it's late night's latest battle. only months ago, nbc gave jay leno a trim time spot, but low ratings could soon lead to a late night shake-up.