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to get a free trial offer of once-a-month actonel visit actonel.com. and ask your doctor how once-a-month-actonel can help you reverse bone loss. >>> it is msnbc saturday and it is bone chilling and fender bending. old man winter provides southern discomfort in icy fashion. coming up, live reports on the deep freeze in the deep south. >>> also ahead, love at the airport alert. authorities finally catch up with the man who triggered that newark airport security crisis. but what does love have to do with it. >>> the call of the wired. a new study on how your cell phone might save you from a devastating disease. >>> rescue 911, the struggle to save a horse in troubled waters. good morning, efr morning, ever. i'm alex witt. we have all that to bring you this morning along with the major hurdle on the road to economic recovery. 60% of the country is feeling the full effect of winter weather. it is another day of sub-zero temperatures in the plains and more snow falling in the midwest. but it is dangerous ice on the roadways and in an around atlanta causing

to get a free trial offer of once-a-month actonel visit actonel.com.your doctor how once-a-month-actonel can help you reverse bone loss. >>> none of the terror plots against a u.s. airliner and an apparent shift in strategy from the u.s. white house. after a muted attack apparently in the days following the immediate attack, the u.s. is meeting with the security agency with meeting as cross the board and now warn it's will hold the government accountable for any intelligence failures. i'm joined in washington by msnbc analyst pat buchanan and democratic strategist peter fenn. okay. i want you to put on your political hat, pat buchanan. pretend you're president of the united states. you're going into the situation room. where are you pointing the finger? what question are you asking? >> i don't know you point the finger but the questions you ask are what peter and i were talking about in the last segment, in go down the list of things this fella, he gets on board. he doesn't have any luggage. he's paying in cash. there are reports he was in yemen. there