courtesy of ursula and veronica, two low pressure systems stretching across eastern europe and into scandinavia. the call has already reached denmark, bringing with it light snow and a chill wind. now, forecasters say it is germany's turn. >> we are experiencing a dramatic onset of winter, especially in the south of germany. for october, this is pretty extreme. we're expecting 20 centimeters of snow. motorists will be have to prepare -- be prepared for poor driving conditions. democrats carriages are busy with orders for winter tires. it seems nobody wants to be caught out. some do not have a problem with the colder weather, but for most people, the outdoor season is finally over. >> indicating this is the cold weather has arrived, flirting season is over? we disagree. >> do not forget, you can check out more information on our website. that is www.dw.de. >> stay with us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

we've been seeing a large system just sending front after front into towards scandinavia and the continent. today you'll be finding thunderstorms from norway, swed sweden, down there into northern france. reports of gusts exceeding 70 kilometers an hour in germany. having said that, to the south and east, things are looking much more settled and calm. there are some storms moving through the balkans right now in through the black sea region. some of those could be a little bit nasty with thunder and lightning. temperaturewise, lots of teens out here today across the continent. 12 in stockholm. 18 in moscow. 17 berlin. 22 vienna. out of the 30s now in athens at 29 degrees. iberia, 25. another fairly comfortable 27 in lisbon. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm katherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us. are you totally unprepared? just about all of us have something hangen on our walls, pictures, paintings, art work clocks, all can come crashing down and create broken glass. inexpensive picture hook can secure pictures to the

it's operatednd managed by a group oil industry people, mainly from scandinavia. they drill all around the world. their rigs are very modern, and all leased out with a waiting list. so i think they have a good pattern of rising earnings. >> tom: that's in petroleum energy. you also like utility energy, xcel energy, based in the land of 10,000 lakes in minnesota classic, isn't it hre? >> that's ri ht. it's at. classic dividend. the dividend return is over 4%. it operates in the upper midwest, t good regulatoryod bo. so far they seem to be having a rather straightforward relationship with the regulators, and their economy is doing pretty well. >> tom: that's always important with the regulated energy utility companies you also like dow chemical which got hit this week in part because of its competitor did you popt having a less-than-exprcted outlook and she also announced some job cuts. it's been trending lower. any concern here? >> i'm not truly concernect abot it. no, we reached a point where laying off people, erfortunatelying is what happens when you ach a slow-

we've had, what would you say, field trips from ecuador, indonesia, farmers from scandinavia, germany, asia, pakistan, india, and if they have time they take classes with us. and we have become one of the prototypes in the world of normal farming. these teenagers, children and adults, they take this back to their own homes. so, they feel a sense of personal empowerment. it is good for the neighborhood, but it's a small world. every part of the world is part of our neighborhood also. not just young school kids, preschoolers. they come in and they have a [speaker not understood] and they take off with it. can't do oh, you're too little, you're too sweet. but they're strong and they're learning. it's an asset not only to the neighborhood, but the rest of the city. the kids from bayview, the mission, pacific heights, the local french school, the wealthy kid. let's keep it. i've been in construction and i know how much [speaker not understood]. the parking lot would do. >> thank you. >>> [speaker not understood] the farm for us. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is william pickle. i

meanwhile the nations is said no to the banks toure's and to austerity ice land in scandinavia and the scandinavian countries are not only do in five but they're also seeing the lower levels of inequality and thus their economies are doing better and they're not seeing the high levels of under rouse that showing up in greece. so here's a tip when it comes to stealing a presidential election it really doesn't require that much effort it doesn't require a nation wide conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes or rig voting machines now all that might actually happen on november sixth but it's not really needed it doesn't take all that much planning an execution to tip an election to one side or the other especially in a close election which this one is very likely to be you see a close election all it takes is an operation in one state heck even one county to steal the election think palm beach county in florida in two thousand or think ohio in two thousand and four or think ohio again in two thousand and twelve as poster nate silver with a five thirty eight blog at the new york times wrote today

meanwhile the nations that said no to the banks toure's into austerity like ice land in scandinavia the scandinavian countries are not only doing fine but they're also seeing lower levels of inequality and thus their economies are doing better and they're not seeing the high levels of under arrest that showing up in greece. here with more about the consequences of inequality is marshall our back economist and fellow in economic economics for peace and security a research associate at the levee institute martial walk and tom thanks for me on thanks for joining us looking around europe in the recent i.m.f. projections are we seeing the collapse of the beginning of the end of globalism well i think that we've been seeing that the last ten fifteen years in fact i would say that the high watermark or globalization of the so-called washington consensus actually came in about the midnight hundred ninety s. and i think that the asian financial crisis was the first warning that shot across the bow that things were not right in interesting the parallels with with what happened in two thousand and

drastically different economic approaches in debt ridden europe with the exception of france and scandinavia technocrats and banks are shoving austerity down the throats of working people cutting back on social services privatizing big chunks of the commons in south america opposing economic philosophies progressive you cannot mix philosophies are seen enormous success their version of socialism following his victory on sunday night chavez addresses addressed his supporters of the presidential palace where he said this has been the perfect a democratic battle that is well it will continue along the path of democratic and bowl ovarian socialism of the twenty first century keyword there is democratic leading up to the election many in the united states speculated that chavez was headed for defeat or that he would reveal action to ensure his victory in a reality of that as well as one of the better democracies in the world of not the best jimmy carter applauded but as well as elections saying of the ninety two elections that we've monitored i would say that the election process in venezuela is

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we should not be falling behind china and scandinavia and germany. -- in thezabeth in a journ new jersey. caller: this election has gotten so much out of hand. i'm a democrat. i am willing to give a obama for more years treat it disturbs me because you have so many people who have not been paying attention to everything that has been going on. before people vote really need to research, listen to the topics of what both of these candidates are talking about. the previous caller talked about oil. romney said oil prices need to go up. these aren't things that people are not researching. he is flip-flopping so much, he gets in front of millions of people, he says what you want to hear, but when you go back, he does not believe a lot of these issues. to tell you the truth, i think mccain would have been a better candidate running again than him, and that is all, ladies. thank you so much. guest: interesting call. the only thing i would say is voters want to be informed. people pride themselves on being informed, but it is hard, and this caller has done a lot of research, and romney is making

northern parts of europe, germany, scandinavia, pretty good overall. >> thank you for your work on thisat cause. >> thank you. >> walgreens makes a deal with boots. walgreens tells me one of the reasons they do that is because in this country, high-end cosmetics, they want to own that segment because people are spending on that here, too. i find it counterintuitive. we talk about how unemployment is not great. it doesn't seem to relate to your industry in this country. >> the disposable income -- we do best in market where is there's an expanding middle class consumer. in our category in particular. the consumer is comfortable spending at this category because it's a relatively low number for her to get in and she feels very good about herself right away. now, why is there this bifurcation? in most markets in the world between prestige, aspirational and more mass oriented, we offer a value proposition for the consumer with service, with touch, where an expert helps you find the right product, the ride shade, the right formula for you. they give you that high service experience for a rel

i think also that it's partly, the germaneness of scandinavia's so of america if you will, iowa and wisconsin, two states that are very much target states. in minnesota where rasmussen report on a five-point obama lead, although it's not anybody's target state at this point. does have always been a pacifist isolationists parts of america, relatively speaking. and i think barack obama's both i kill osama bin laden, not as big a plus in those states among some people who have been voting democratic as they are and many others. and romney talk about peace but the other thing he did was talking about tumult and chaos in the world. i think that libya situation has hurt barack obama, by giving people a sense that is promised in 2007 in 2008, if you elect me, the world will love america. and the muslim world in particular will love america because hey, my dad was a mosque. i think that's what's happened in libya, tends to undercut that, the differing explanations that we've had from the president, the administration, about it, intent to cut the. and it clearly has eroded what was an obama lead of fo