the bearing sea, you know, somewhere up in the alaska/russia area, it's pretty darn cold.omewhere up there is the russian tanker, renda. it got stuck in the ice. to the rescue comes the coast guard cutter. you can sea it is in front, the larger of the two ships. the ship to the right is the tanker. we are 90 miles outside of nome, winds are about 5 knots. >> the coast guard cutter is cutting through the ice, helping the renda deliver it's 1.3 million gallons of fuel to nome, alaska. they need the fuel. they were not able to get it earlier in the season because they had a huge, early-season store. >> don't they use up all the fuel they are trying to transport trying to keep themselves warm. >> 1.3 million gallons goes a long way. according to the captain, it's about minus 7 to minus 10 degrees. it is breaking ice for about 300 miles to get the ship where it needs to go. >> we're in the middle of the football playoffs. it's like the full back going for the running back, plowing through. for all the sports fans out there, they know what this is like. >> can you imagine how co

i'm not sure that i can see russia from alaska. [laughter] and yet, though, there are many are regressive's. there are many people of color who are in this quandary. what is a quandary? >> of quandary is -- the quandary is how to get action for your. >> the same thing that you are urging. >> we cannot, we cannot assume again -- let me be really clear. those who are in presidential politics who understand the limitations that any president has. he was talking about more than just a president though. i think the whole party. >> so make it happen. make it happen. here in new york i think there is a working party's family which i think is really exciting and they are doing exciting work. i know some of the folks there and they are doing good work. i think in minnesota you have the farmer party. again, that is exciting. but i think it the end of the day, politics is the art of compromise. how do you get more of what you want them more of what you don't want? i know that i don't want a palin, a bachmann makes stuff out of whole cloth. le

alaska, we have to call her now. >> this is sarah. >> they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. >> you can actually see russia> what have we done? >> i can't control her anymore. >> she's a great actress. give her some lines. >> if i'm single handedly carrying this campaign, i'm going to do what i want. >> it's not about you. it's about the country. >> this isn't the campaign i wanted to run. >> i have to win this thing. i so don't want to go back to alaska. >> look at those pictures. she looks like sarah palin. every political junky is going to be watching that movie. the minute it comes out. speaking of sarah palin, last weekend she encouraged voters to annoy a liberal by casting a vote for newt gingrich. i think she's off on this one. and the former alaska governor had had this compliment for mitt romney. >> i think if he's surrounded by hard core conservatives who understand that government is not the solution, he would be kind of directed into more of those conservative positions that i think that the majority of our center right nation would respect and expect. i do -- i respect mitt romney's success. >

. ♪ >> zach and i grew up on the border of russia and wasilla, alaska. te so i wasn't really next to russia as much as zach may have been in wasilla. we left alaska for the sake of touring, ended up in portland, oregon, and this is the thing about alaska. you take them out of alaska and they realize there are things to do in the world. >> i would say that, in general, it's pop music based, but we are fans of effects on every instrument. >> people like to add in psychodelic to that, which doesn't bother me. i think that's pretty cool. >> a lot of people thought that we were a lot more experimental at the beginning, but i don't really think that's true. i just think we didn't know how to write songs. we're starting to get the hang of it now. especially with this last record. john and i go back to alaska every christmas to hang out with our families, and he lives -- i live in the middle of nowhere. he really lives in the middle of nowhere. so he hangs out at his parents' house and writes songs in his room. then i'll come hoefr and he'll show them to me and w

alaska. the trip is the first of its kind to deliver fuel from russia. an american ice breaking hip is leading the way -- ship is leading the way followed by that russian tanker. they're expected to arrive in western alaska tomorrow or monday. >>> a pretty nice weekend around here, despite the lack of rain again. >> i know. we're not seeing any rain at all in the seven day forecast. so -- you have a little cold too, don't you? >> i do. it's the winter weather but it feels more like spring. >> yes. especially later on today. wait until tomorrow. let's look at current conditions outside right now. mostly in the 30s and 40s. yeah. we'll warm things up by later on this afternoon. we'll tell you how warm in just a few minutes. >>> and tips for parents as kids whip out the smart phones and i pads, common sense media89 us next. >>> i'm allen martin, why downloading illegal copies of tv shows, movies and other copyrighted material may get harder and harder to do. in a closer look. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like

had a good chance farther north into -- in fact, it was seen in alaska and up around hudson bay and canada. and around into northern russia and siberia. they saw scenes like that. let's look at the forecast for today. good morning, starting off with temperatures below freezing in many locations in virginia and maryland. closer to washington, montgomery, arlington, fairfax counties now are near 30 degrees. later today we'll climb into the upper 40s with increasing clouds after a sunny morning. and then cloudy tomorrow, tomorrow morning might have a few sprinkles, maybe a little sleet north and west of the metro area. there's a slight chance of that. with temperatures above freezing, should not be causing problems. then highs reaching the upper 40s tomorrow afternoon with a greater chance of rain moving in. looks like occasional rain thursday through midday friday. then drying out on friday afternoon with a little sun coming back. highs in the low 50s. sunny and chilly on saturday and turning colder sunday into monday. and tuesday, as well, remaining quite cold with highs only in the low to mid 40s. how's traffic? >>> volum

suspicions over why it didn't work are far from over russia's deputy prime minister thinks phobos groans may have been wrong footed by an american radar in alaska to me that are our goals and also wants an investigation into why frequent disruptions of russian space technologies occur the probe was launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november nine to collect soil from a martian moon but shortly after it fell to head its course to mars and remain stuck in earth's orbit eventually came down in the pacific ocean on sunday. a look now at some other news from around the world hopes are fading for twenty nine people still missing following the italian cruise ship disaster that's killed at least six. also the italian navy is using explosives to get into parts of the vessels in a scramble to find survivors the liner capsized after hitting the reef off the italian coast on friday the captain is accused of abandoning the ship before it was evacuated and could face manslaughter charges. insurgents in iraq have attacked a checkpoint killing five police. it took place in the town of route by as police guarded a border highway with jordan

across europe, eastern europe, ukraine, russia, kazakhstan, mongolia, russia again to siberia, and then we flew the bikes to alaskaow fun are you? >> that was amazing. >> jimmy: i mean, that is so cool. [ cheers and applause ] >> that was a cool thing to do yeah. >> jimmy: i don't have friends i can do that. like, let's do it buddy, i'll drive. london to new york. but, i'm thinking of getting a motorcycle. >> yeah, you should. >> jimmy: i don't know how to drive it. >> well, you should be careful. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, i should. >> jimmy: do i have to go fast? >> no, don't go fast. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: don't go fast? >> no. i think you could, if you want to go very fast, go to a racetrack, that's the best place to go really fast. >> jimmy: yeah, i don't like fast. >> well, don't go fast then, don't go to the racetrack. [ laughter ] stay on the roads and go slowly. >> jimmy: this is kind of a -- >> you know, the trips we did, you're very often on rough roads, you know. we did a second trip down through africa. and, i should just say our documentaries are called, "long way around" and "long way down." and the seco

. >> you can actually see russia from land here in alaska. >> oh, my god, what have we done? to talk. i am not your puppet! >> i can't control her anymore. >> i just don't want all that. >> she's a great actress, right? why don't we just give her some lines? >> i am single-handedly carrying this campaign, i'm going to do what i want. >> it's not about you, it's about the country. >> this isn't the campaign i wanted to run. [ chanting ] >> sarah! >> we have to win this thing. i so don't want to go back to alaska. [ applause ] >> wow. that looks like it would be good. >> you, really? because i saw it, i was like, who's going to watch this garbage? >> exactly. no! >> listen -- >> not just because -- >> an amaze iing. the performances, julianne moore, ed harris, dead on, but it's going to take us behind the closed doors of sarah palin and mccain? it looks remarkable. >> it really does. >> exactly. the people of hbo have done incredible. the guys who did "recap," the director and screenwriter, have knocked it out of the park, and all three of the lead performances, eddie harris as

russia gathers steam heat dot com is that a guide you all the way through. breaking the ice a russian or is on an unprecedented mission to deliver a lifeline to people in alaska in the city cut off by a severe winter conditions. in about ten minutes time is the business news here protesters are back in new york's zuccotti park the symbolic but the place of the wall street movement where it all started almost four months ago barricades have been in place since midnight when the occupiers were victory tonight raided by police but now that the barriers are gone the protesters are determined to stay and. the mood certainly is very very optimistic people seem very reenergized they're excited to have been able to get back into the park the birthplace of occupy wall street that's where everything began and it's really looks like a lot of the skeptics were hoping that after the occupiers were kicked out of the cotton park in mid november that would be the end of occupy wall street but certainly that has not been the case and the occupiers the protesters themselves believe this and they see this is a new chapter really for the food movement that has now become nationw

alaska's harbor. a fuel transfer could begin tonight. without that deliver ethey'd run out of fuel by march or april. the tanker began the very slow journey from russiacupy movement marked the holiday with a march. demonstrators gathered at the african burial ground and marched to the new york federal reserve. the protesters said their crusade against corporate greed echos the slain civil right's leader's crusade for equality. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." this is going to be a big segment for everybody watching this show. in the past couple weeks, we pointed out some of the criticism of president obama from republicans is not rooted in fact. criticism he's bungling the economy and greatly expanding the government and that he's an appeaser. in the current issue of "newsweek," andrew sullivan takes on obama's critics on the right and the left and points out that president obama's strategy is to take the long view, play the long game and ultimately he will outsmart his critics. but it requires obama a second term. andrew sullivan has the piece. he's the editor of the dish and a columnist at "newsweek." andrew, thank you for jo

russia. the renda fills up with fuel in south korea and was going to pick up fuel in japan. they got shut out. they have to go to un-alaskautch harbor on the aleutian chain to fill up with -- they're basically trying to top off in un-alaska. but those of us who know the federal laws of the jones act, you know you've got an issue there so we had to get the department of defense, homeland security, department of energy in to get a jones act waiver so we can top off the russian fuel tanker in an alaska port so she can haul up north to deliver the fuel to the people of nome. pretty interesting saga, just in describing the beginning. this is over 1,000-mile nautical journey and you're breaking ice for about of the way. well, the renda is a pretty capable ship, but she's not an icebreaker, and so how she gets through that ice is the interesting part of the story. the coast guard cul cutter heel, who has been on a research mission since early may, and was on her way back to seattle to deliver the crew after months of this mission, they get the call that nome needs help. and the fine men and women of the heeley missed their chris