windy, wet and slippery on i-94 from bismarck to minneapolis, chicago and detroit.ding also on parts of i-90, 70, 65 and 55. wet and snow-covered in the northwest. >> and if you're flying today, you can expect some airport delays in seattle, salt lake city, denver and minneapolis. plus, chicago, detroit, memphis and new orleans. >>> a sugary alcohol-fueled energy drink is under renewed sc >>morning. >> investigators say it was one of those drinks that sent nine college freshmen in washington state to the hospital. now, some states want to keep it off the shelves. here's t.j. winick. >> reporter: it was an offcampus party that went off the rails. >> there were ruffies. they were falling down. >> people were so drunk, they didn't know what to do. >> reporter: it wasn't ecstasy nor date rape drugs that sent students to the hospital this month. it was a high-alcohol energy drink called four loko. >> as they made entry into the house, they began to see various individuals, both male and female, in various states of unconsciousness. >> reporter: blood alcohol levels from

the suspected masterminds of the time bismarck to blast in the north caucuses arrested or killed as russian authorities declare the case solved. plus a war torn childhood the grim plight of afghanistan's youngsters who are forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become their families only breadwinners. and often levy a star moscow california governor arnold schwarzenegger wraps up his visit to the russian capital with a pledge to try and terminate global climate change. it's five pm in moscow and this is our to you coming to you live first stop we begin with our unique coverage of russia's latest expedition to the arctic scientists are spending a year on the ice investigating the natural resources of the arctic ocean russia is one of five countries who are dividing up what could be billions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves hidden deep under the ice arts music out there in the groucho is with the expedition as it looks for a home among the polar ice floes. to run aggressive march through the arctic the rest break slows down to a crawl explorers are in a delicate missi

this is structured masterminds of the time bismarck blast in the north caucasus arrested or killed as russian authorities declare a truce. also u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton visited o'grady president pressing president boris tadic to open up talks with the south declared independent breakaway republic of course about. the later hours he was pulled from afghanistan where years a war have forced young boys to become the breadwinners for their families. news from russia and around the world this is our see with me thanks for joining us and we'll begin with our special coverage of the russian expedition to the arctic polar explorers have landed and are working to establish a research station or a drifting ice floe the scientists are spending again vesta gating the natural resources of the arctic russia is among five nations staking territorial claims in the area thought to contain a quarter of the walls or the natural gas reserves also use it as you know greg has joined the expedition as it searched for a suitable home among the mammoth floating ice chunks. have to run aggressiv

and snow in bismarck.his storm is influencing the region, although the severe weather is over with. the next storm system is just starting to come on to the map here. one nice day here in the pacific northwest. it's going to be partly cloudy. clouds increase late in the day. the rain returns tomorrow. enjoy one little day here of a break of your umbrella weather. california and arizona looking nice on this wednesday. that's a look at arizona. eve be the deserts today, only in the upper 70s to low 80s. >>> take a look at thursday's forecast and that next storm coming up. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> ford rides smoothly. limewire crashes, and cuddling up in the sky. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, conflicting versions of charlie sheen's wild night in the big apple. >>> the lakers get their rings. and a psychic octopus didn't see this one coming. >>> you're watching "early today." >> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top

the suspected mastermind of the time bismarck at last in the north caucasus arrested or killed as russian authorities declare the case so. close so more torn childhood the grim plight of afghanistan's youngsters who are forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become their families only breadwinners. and hasta la vista moscow california governor arnold schwarzenegger wraps up his visit to the russian capital with employers to try and terminate global climate change. and the world economies poised for a slowdown according to the. nami cooperation and development o.e.c.d. says it will make activity in g. seven and will say it will last on that you know this program. warm welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me and isa now way first this hour we begin with our unique coverage of russia's latest expedition to the arctic scientists are spending a year on the ice investigating the natural resources of the arctic ocean russia is one of five countries who are dividing up what could be billions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves he didn'

with snow falling into the morning hours, we're x.ing blizzard-like conditions in fargo and even bismarck. this storm will go down in history, compared to some of the other storms hitting the great lakes region, it comes in at number two. with a low pressure center comparable to a hurricane. back to you, rob and vinita. >> ava, thanks. we will have more live from the hardest-hit areas of the midwest, later on "gma." >>> from weather to politics now. just six days left until the big midterm elections. >> the three candidates for senator in florida faced off in a final debate. independent candidate charlie crist was taken to task, from his switch to the republican party. and which party he would lean toward if elected. the democrat kendrick meek trailed gop and tea party-backed, marco rubio. >>> in los angeles, first lady michelle obama revved up the crowd at a campaign fund-raiser for senator barbara boxer. the first lady gave a laundry list of accomplishments so far in her husband's administration. but she did acknowledge that change wasn't coming fast enough, especially for those america

warning of the season, winds combined with snow producing white-out conditions in north dakota, bismarck but not fargo. back to you. >> violent night of weather for millions of americans. mike seidel, michigan, mike, thanks. >>> glaxosmithkline, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle justice department allegations that the company, for years, sold contaminated and improperly made drugs, including baby ointment and the antidepressant, paxil. they admit it sold drugs of questionable safety made at a huge plant in puerto rico and admits some were mislabelled in wrong packages. others were made too weak or too strong. the lawsuit was initiated by a company whistle blower, a former manager of quality control. >>> overseas, tariq aziz has been sentenced to death for persecuting enemies of saddam hussein. as saddam's right-hand man and as iraqi foreign minister he was one of the iconic faces of the war. his lawyer says all this is politically motivated. >>> when our broadcast continues in just a moment on a tuesday night, will this work? taking a new stand against bullying in schools. >>> and

it may be messy, just like bismarck said. two things you don't want to see made, sausages and laws. it could be very fractious, but as long as we can get to that two turn over test, once you've had two successive turn overs of power that have been relatively calm and free, relatively fair, scheduled elections, your chances of proceeding down that line are much better than they are going back to what you knew before. iran is going to have a lot to do with what happens in iraq, because its capacity for mischief is still quite pronounced, especially among the shia. >> it strikes me as interesting, actually, that we're talking about democratic elections in iraq. uh, seven, eight years ago, nobody would have thought about that, and yet i think it's uh, and odd contrast, trudy, for you to be talking about the elections leading to a soft dictatorship. does that mean that you would see the elections ending at some point, that they wouldn't happen again, or they would become essentially sham elections, like most of the rest of the arab world? >> i don't think it's necessarily the case that t

the suspected masterminds of the time bismarck blast in the north caucuses arrested or killed. the case. childhood the grim plight of afghanistan's youngsters who were forced to abandon school and start work instead as they become the family's only breadwinner. to american pressure to make concessions in exchange for nato membership talks to experts about hillary clinton's visit to. moscow california governor wraps up his visit to the russian capital with a pledge to try and terminate global climate change. is r.t. it's eight pm tuesday evening here now thanks for being with us top story and we begin with our unique coverage of russia's latest expedition to the arctic scientists spending a year on the ice investigating the natural resources of the oceans there russia is one of five countries who are dividing up what could be billions of dollars worth of oil and gas reserves hidden deep under the ice. with the expedition as it looks for a home along the polar ice flows. have to run aggressive.

north dakota humanities council asked many of us who were friends and colleagues of eric to come to bismarckof this north dakotaian who was such a towering figure in the history of journalism. what a pleasure it was to pause and think about this man who had so much influence on all of us who have been lucky enough to be reporters during one of the most remarkable chapters in american history. the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. i was just a rookie in the washington bureau when i first encountered him in 1969. already he was a story book character you couldn't have made up. one of ed murrow's boys, to reporters who invented broadcast journalism as they covered world war ii. the dashing correspondent who later escaped a tribe of cannibals in the jungles of burma, who went on to become the analyst of the news on walter cronkite's broadcast. today as we think about the vulgarity and the attacks into which so much of our national conversation has fallen because too many have convinced themselves there can be only one side to every issue, their own, i cannot help but t

79 and into the plains, temperatures into the 80s and we have upper 80s in parts of south dakota, bismarck, north dakota, 76 degrees and denver, you can see it behind there and 84 degrees right now. and so that means with all that heat back to the west of us, it's kind of moving in our direction. keeps us nice and comfortable and this evening, breezy and fair skies and upper 50s in the suburbs by 11:00 and we don't have cloud cover here. the reminder is hanging on now and just moving to the north- northeast of maine and clearing the area. all we have here to the west of us is going to stay in control the next few days. the big area of high pressure here and you can't see cloud cover to the west and there are showers back into the mountains of colorado and in that unsettled pattern now to the west of us and through the weekend. the trend mere with the temperatures tomorrow, we're back into the mid-70s and warm on saturday with a high temperature of 78 and again, i think some of our neighborhoods on saturday may go to 80 or 81 degrees and south-southwest of the city. 75, a little cool or sun

bismarck, north dakota, 75 today, 84 for denver, billings, montana, 85 degrees. you can see where the heat has been. there is a very impressive ridge of high pressure right through the nation's midsection and we have cooled town to the northwest with the trough of low pressure -- down to the northwest with the trough of low pressure and another trough of low pressure that settled into the eastern part of the country and is it this kind of remind you here, this jet stream orientation looks like the greek letter omega and that's exactly what this is called, an omega block here, and it takes a while to get this pattern to change. so we're stuck under this trough of low pressure over here on the east coast and with that the cool air has been spilling down into canada. so with that in mind we'll stay cool at least through thursday. it will probably be friday and into the weekend before temperatures get back up where them should be, lower to mid- 70s. we -- they should be, lower to mid-70s. we also have a pretty strong cut-off area of low pressure and that's kept the c

but you pack those winds at 50 to 60 miles per hour and in cities like fargo and even bismarck blizzard-like now back to you, rob and vinita. >> thanks a lot, ava. now the rest of today's weather. the south and southwest will escape all that stormy weather. we'll have sunny skies an atu. and there's a dry day i pacific northwest. before another storm off the pacific brings rain later tonight. >> miami, new orleans, and dallas are in the mid to upper 80s in parts of southern texas, could hit 90. i'm a little jealous. temperatures in the upper midwest are up to 15 degrees cooler than usual with gusty winds and some snow. >>> so it looks like mother nature has bnbus in the last decade she's added 1,200 new species to her brood. >> scientists with the world wildlife fund say between 1999 and 2009 more than 1,200 new species of plants and animals were discovered in the amazon rainforest. >> here are some of our favorites now. there's a poison dart frog, also a bald-headed parrot, and a little frog with a transparent belly. it's so clear he's called the glass frog. and check out this mini monkey.

to the maps right now in all three sections of the country divided into west, east, middle, fis, bismarck, north dakota, the area around the northern plains we'll see temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above average. nice, sunshiny skies, peaceful and calm but we are watching real trouble, were we saw from priya david's report earlier this morning from phoenix -- flagstaff, i should say, all of that violent weather is moving towards places like grand junction into the four corners area. you could see high gusts, 50 to 70 miles an hour in some locations, hail once again, small possibility of tornadoes but then again there was a small possibility of tornadoes yesterday and look what happened. meanwhile as we take a look at the east we'll see gusty conditions as we see this combination of high pressure and a cold front move on through. that creates a pressure gradient. windy stuff, quarter inch to half inch of rain stretching into sections of >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. could see delays in places like salt lake city and into new england, where we'll see windy conditions. folks

look at this, we have high wind warnings, wind watches, wind advisories from bismarck to detroit to chicago. airport delays, milwaukee, minneapolis, detroit, chicago, all airport hubs so that's going to be a mess. as the cold front associated with the system pushes into warm air, we've got the risk of strong storms from tuscaloosa to atlantic city possibility of tornadoes with the system. we have tornado watches from birmingham, alabama to norfolk, virginia and in fact, atlanta included in this area as well, so we're watching strong storms. rainfall amounts generally 1 to 2 inches generally but some areas may pick up 3 to 4 inches before this is all over. >> thanks so much. we'll get your local forecast in a couple of minutes. >>> but first, the countdown to the midterm election six days to go and candidates in the closest races are facing off for the final time. nbc's kelly o'donnell's in seattle. >> reporter: everywhere we go, voters tell us they are tired of the negative ads. campaigns are trying to walk the fine line, getting in their best opponent attacks and still having time to turn

bismarck, minneapolis, omaha, rapid city, all of the numbers above normal. you're going to be in the 80s today, with nice, dry air. watch the cold front swing through. it's going to come through new england dry. not a lot of rain, except for extreme northern new england. some showers. it's a breezy day with comfortable temperatures in the 70s, as well. most of the nation is looking good. we'll talk about the showery northwest in the next half hour. all of america's weather right here in the next half hour. robin? >> sam, thank you. >>> former cnn anchor, lou dobbs, is under fire this morning for allegedly hiring contractors who employed undocumented workers, people in this country illegally. dobbs has long spoken out against illegal immigration. now, he is defending himself against charges he is a hypocrite. we're going to speak to him live in just a moment. he's there at his home in new jersey. and the journalist who broke the story, is here in the studio. first, david muir has more on the story. >> reporter: in a new report, "the nation" magazine says radi

cities like bismarck heading into the night.e storm will be the wind. the storm center is deepening as it heads further east into the great lakes region. center of low pressure could be as low as category 2 hurricane. that tells you how strong the winds are going to be ripping across the plains. and about 35 to 55 miles per hour sustained winds throughout the day. back to you, rob, vinita. a look at your forecast. winds up to 50 miles an hour in the los angeles area. showers in the pacific northwest. 6 inches of snow in the cascades. a foot in the rockies. it is ski season. 5 to 10 degree as bov normal in the northeast. >>> upper 60s meanwhile in new york and boston. 73 in baltimore. 60s from kansas city to indianapolis. 50 in the twin cities. 51 in seattle. 46 in salt lake city. 64 in sacramento. >>> investigators in washington say a sugary alcohol energy drink sent four college freshmen to the hospital. now there is scrutiny about the drink called four loko, already banned on several campuses. the fda is reviewing the safety r