or is it was this can chuck lake is left over from an ocean that once covered the earth and that three hundred million years ago the ocean began to recede but it is pretty these aberration of seawater around let a fractional salt crystallisation is used as a result then challenged structures here to consist of a mass of table salt. in the. historian say salt was first minded like baskin took fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. not know the bias has been working in salt mining for more than twenty years as watched methods develop. in the old days crowbars in spades we used to chip away at salt crystals now special equipment is means to them is just to just let it go no because this is a new generation of so mining machine and such machines have been in operation here for only a decade they're made locally and you won't find such powerful machines anywhere else in the world much and as you've seen it moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tons used to form. tracks laid on a seam of souls in the middle of the lake allow the device to move to and fro

composition of the brain of lake is very similar to that of the blood plasma of humans only the concentrations are different. doctors advise people against staying in baskin chucks water for more than fifteen minutes just to be on the safe side. over the lakes water the sultan mud have healing properties treatment should only be conducted under medical supervision. various procedures are administered at this nearby sanatorium. the room is like a salt cave patients here breathe in specially made salty air the procedure is thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system are thawing when they don't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake grind and dry it is and use an dozing unit before putting it in here. so this is where it's atomized and then the atomizers sends it into the room where the tiny particles are inhaled by patients and they should the song to mind a baskin cheika counts for four fifth's of russia so production its properties make it among the world's best. though we have to watch our intake salt is the minimal no animal can live without so it's little wonder that medics minus and spar tourists tur

. >> they got married, had a snowball fight and even took their pictures by the lake. chuckvenson, abc news. >> i used to live in the twin cities and i'm telling you, that snow is just really something. >> and i lived in buffalo. top that! (laughter) >> yeah! >> the weather continues with the envy of everyone where we saw numbers above normal and that offshore flow allowed for the temperatures to stay quite mild this morning. as we look outside this morning, you'll notice that it's clear out there. you can't really notice that but it's calm. the bay waters are very tranquil although the winds continue as well in the higher elevations and that's why we have a wind advisory also aiding in our warming in morning. 53 fairfield, 68 napa. 51 santa rosa. the cool spots menlo park 45. look at san francisco, 57. we have 60s in fremont and some gusty winds in the south bay around san jose with temperatures in the low 60s there. 50s at our coast. the numbers have not dropped. the readings we've been used to of early november where we've seen 30s and 40s. we are 6 degrees warmer this mo