des moines sure does.: this piece my father acquired, i'm guessing either at a flea market or a gun show. woman: i said it was very ugly. we had a laugh about it. and it didn't get brought out until friday. oh, my goodness. that's wonderful. don't miss a minute of antiques roadshow from des moines, iowa. stay tuned. captioning sponsored by subaru, liberty mutual, the corporation for public broadcasting and viewers like you (firecrackers exploding) announcer: now, the people who make antiques roadshow possible. it's not about the things we have, but the memories we make with them.

. >> west des moines was a very quiet, peaceful, safe place. low in crime and everything else. >> johnny and i were best friends. i just remember nothing but happiness. you couldn't live in a better place or have a better environment. >> johnny just enjoyed doing so many things that he had such joy about it. >> anytime that somebody had a birthday or something, he would spend a lot of time getting the right package for him. >> if he had a pack of gum, he would hand out a slice to you and a slice to you and then look in the gum package and say, oh, i don't have any left. i didn't get one. he was that unselfish. >> johnny's first morning on his paper route, he did the sunday morning paper. and he had his way and he would take gretchen and they'd deliver the paper together. he wanted the paper route because he wanted to get himself a dirt bike. >> he became quite the little businessman. he saved his money and he bought it. well, then he and his brother would go riding out in the fields. >> that particular sunday, we get a phone call about 7:00 in

law degree in des moines. he is our guest for the next 40 minutes or so. the numbers are up on the screen. you can also send in a tweet. david, you are the first caller. you are calling from mississippi. please go ahead with your comments for former congressman james nussle. caller: i want to know why we can send so much money overseas and we cannot attach people right here in america who are suffering? why is it always a problem when it comes to helping the poor, but we can send money overseas to people we do not know and for things we have no idea about? thank you. guest: great question. it is a was a balancing act of trying to determine by your deeds. how much goes to programs that help people who cannot help them selves are people who are poor or between jobs? balancing the priorities of foreign policy is an example. trying to ensure that we are safe and our interests around the world are protect it and that we have influence in those areas that are important to us as a nation. the one misnomer i would say to spend that much when compared to the overal

june 30, 2009 is just winding down for an iowa bridge construction crew along the des moines river when crane operator joe law notices something terribly wrong. >> i seen the boat drift down and he started it up and he was trying to wrap with an anchor or rope or something. then i heard him holler at his wife, put her life jacket on and he didn't have one on. >> there's nothing anyone nearby can do to stop the boat carrying a husband and wife from plummeting over the center street dam. the man is carried downstream, but the woman is caught in the turbulence or boil of the falls, rushing over the lowhead dam. a swift water rescue team is called in and captured by local nbc cameras. they know time is not on their side for anyone trapped in the dam. the short falls create a powerful undertow, too strong for the woman to swim out of. pushing against the strong current, rescuers get as close as they can, throwing her a line. but the celebration is premature according to des moines police sergeant, joe gonzalez. >> evidently, the person didn't have enough strength to hold on so they could be

when you've got the des moines register poll, not just any poll, not some crappy robo poll, but the deson insights on who's up and who's down it's worth spending time on. on the republican side they told us paul ryan is the surprising front-runner garnering the highest favorable rating among republicans. 73 rs 73%. all coming simultaneously as he was brokering the budget deal with patty murray. this poll mostly was conducted before that deal was announced, by the way. it is a reminder how much credibility ryan has with the republican base and how much strength he has inside the house of representatives. a few -- one of these beltway guys that's got insider credibility and outsider credibility. question, of course, is whether ryan can maintain that strength over the next few years. on "fox news sunday" ryan insisted only a conservative can get the country back on track. >> we're going to have to win the senate. and we're going to have to win the white house to truly fix this country's fiscal problems. because i don't believe this white house and this senate, i don't think they're willing

freezing drizzle around the des moines area. the storm now over areas of new mexico will kick to the middle of the country. that bright yellow and red is as much as two to three to four inches of rain. we have the possibility of seeing snow. today's forecast record warmth. 60 in d.c. 53 in new york. 64 in atlanta. the cold side of the storm is towards minneapolis with a high of 19. a huge temperature swing as you travel across this nation. that's your national forecast. here's a look at the weather outside your window. >>> so we could see showers and thunderstorms developing ahead of this storm system. i don't think we will see much in the way of severe weather today in tennessee and wisconsin or in dallas but as we go towards tomorrow could be a different story in the southern plains. looks like severe weather mississippi, louisiana, arkansas. >>> russia's president putin shows his softer side. a tragic ending for a couple who won big on the "ellen" show. these ducks will be retiring. bad weather is causing multiple bus acciden

. >>> finally, on a freezing christmas eve in des moines, iowa, some thought they were giving money toside of the road ended up giving them something better in return. maureen nichols has this remarkable story. >> reporter: drive through this intersection and you'll likely spot a homeless person collecting donations. on christmas eve, it was this man, standing there shivering in the cold. >> it was obvious that he needed help. >> reporter: rob taylor was waiting in the left-hand turn lane when he handed the man some cash. >> he immediately handed me back a blank envelope or sealed envelope, and said god bless you. >> reporter: it wasn't until later when he opened up the envelope and inside found this letter. >> merry christmas and thank you so much for your very kind and thoughtful donation. i live in des moines but i'm not homeless or destitute or without a job. >> reporter: also tucked inside, a $10 bill. >> keep it, spend it, donate it, pay it forward, whatever your heart tells you to do. >> reporter: turns out the man wasn't homeless, but instead, a des moines businessman trying to

des moines, iowa, we saw cars, accidents there, people taken to the hospital. tulsa, oklahoma, oklahoma city waking up saturday morning to freezing rain and colder conditions than they wanted. back here in kansas city, the weather has had an impact on airport travel, a handful of flights canceled at kansas city international airport. it's expected to worsen. an official said they expect more cancellations by airlines later this evening. nick valencia, cnn, kansas city, missouri. >> thank you so much. >>> this wild weather is doing a number on air travel. according to flightaware.com, more than 570 flights have been canceled across the country. the west side shows more than 9,000 flights delayed. the airports with the most cancellations, chicago's o'hare, denver international, dfw in dallas and will rogers in oklahoma city. >>> four men have been arrested in connection with a fatal carjacking at a mall in new jersey. local authorities worked alongside the fbi and u.s. marshalls to track down the men. they are accused of shooting and killing a young attorney whil

it goes from des moines to the southwest corner of the state. for boehner watcher, it's highly unlikely to speaker boehner gets choiced out of his job. he has a tighter grip over the speakership. now two of boehner's closest personal friends in congress, lathe am and senator chandler retiring after 2014. if boehner decides he doesn't want to be speaker and no one is going to know this until november and never going to give a clue. who knows. even his staff said no one knows how much longer he will be speaker. it's important to stress the word if, we can look back on a day like this and say there was a clue. right now 233 republicans in the house and 201 democrats and one vacancy. this news brings the total number of house retirements to nine. eight of those are calling it quits are republicans and rounding out the casualty list, three resignations. 11 members of the house are running for senate. two with pennsylvania's schwartz running for governor. bill young who was announcing he was retiring passed away and there was a special election to fil

>> those are favorability numbers among republicans in this "des moines register" poll. of it probably has to do with familiarity with the candidates. jeb bush, ted cruz, chris christie, paul ryan, mark cmarc rubio. remember, two years from the iowa caucuses, three years from the general election. there's still plenty of time for voters to get to know these candidates and if they are really serious they will be spending a lot of time in iowa over the next two years getting ready for the iowa caucuses. so it's -- and the real fight probably will begin sometime in the coming year, 2014, 2015 because the iowa caucuses will take place early in 2016. >> so i wonder how many republican governors have been scheduled for iowa for chris christie to get that name recognition as high as it needs to be. i don't want you to answer that question because i want to move on to the democrats, if i can. let me put up a list of how the favorability ratings came in for the democrats. hillary clinton up at 89%. joe biden following in behind at 71%. martin o'malley, 18% and brian schweitzer, 1

will it work in des moines and peor peoria? >> no, it will not.of the subtleties of the republican presidential process issubtleties of the republican presidential process is that, first off, it begins very, very early. it begins about now. and secondly, people shuffle. they move their preferences. and for somebody like chris christie, if he moves into iowa or south carolina, and starts making lists and deciding who's on his side and who isn't, that is an incredibly destructive way of going at it for him. because as candidates drop out, as they get in, people move from camp to camp, you don't burn your bridges and you don't let people know that you're mad at them early on if you expect to close the deal in 2016. >> matt katz, one person's bully is another person's decisive leader. maybe there's a yearning for this sort of leadership in the heartland. >> i think there might be. i mean, the knock against the president right now is that he doesn't know how to work and maneuver the levers of power. and chris christie has managed to do that. i mean, wh

very cold minneapolis, des moines teens to around 20 with light snow and snow showers.vel problems through chicago. flying toward dallas that looks good. hartsfield 43 but sunny. that's not a problem. headed toward florida, a nice day in miami, sunny and 82. some good weather down there. in fact the whole 90 corridor. as lieu at the icons, -- as you look at the icons, all sunshine. temperatures in the 40s in new york. cold in new england and snow showers buffalo, pittsburgh and detroit in the colder air. only 19 degrees. around here today, we will be about 44 but with the wind this afternoon, it will feel like it's in the 30s. we'll have passing rain and snow showers. 20s tonight if not a few upper teens north and west. your christmas day going to feel like 36 but the winds will be a whole lot lighter tomorrow with mid-20s again in the suburbs tomorrow night. thursday and friday partly to mostly sunny, 40 to 45 and milder this weekend. up to 55 by sunday ahead of the next shot of cold air. here comes monika samtani with our free ipad app. >>> it's premium and it's great

you can reach as many iowa voters going on fox news, more iowa voters than by flying to des moines. >polled them about sean hannity. >> he gets to be on tv, knock democrats teeth in every day, do it with a smile and not the nitty gritty of campaigning. >> let's look at the other side. in 2008 there were rumors chris matthews was considering running in pennsylvania and he has his perch at msnbc where he gets to bash republicans and conservatives every night. >> looking at 2016 there are three or four candidates doing the behind the scenes hard work, chris christie, rand paul and marco rubio. then the scott browns talking about it and going to iowa. again you can go out to iowa, get a lot of buzz, maybe rise up to 3% in the polls, rise to 10%, all of a sudden you're on the vp short list discussion. you can raise your profile just by talking about running for president. >> thank you for sharing the story with us. it's a great read on cnn.com and christina and amy thank you for being here as well. >>> ahead on "reliable sources" the ron burgundy phenomenon, is there anything such as too m

north of dallas and oklahoma city, iowa and des moines. one to three inches of snow, again, stay on the lookout d.c. so we're going to want to be careful if we're traveling. we want to be careful if we're out there on the sidewalks and certainly if we're going to be walking around the city because -- give the folks time to treat the roadways and the sidewalks. richelle back to you. >> gleel thank tjelelah thank y. >>> officials are encouraging people to not submit paper applications for the health care coverage the start in january. >>> looks like the ultimate video game console, computer scientists at the university of illinois in chicago, are taking computer exrs to the extreme. ,. >> in this stunning 320° cavern of pixels. data comes to life. numbers transformed to a flight skimming the surface of mars. known as the cave 2, this large scale virtual real reality lab,t the university of chicago. >> war room where you hang up pieces of paper and photographs and you tape them to the walls so you can see lots of different data at the same ti

what about des moines, iowa, 3:00 in the afternoon in march.hard route. >> i tested that route. went online at 1:00 in the morning. got a fare. went back online at 2:30 in the morning and it went up $30. how many people are looking for that route for march. there's no heart to that evidence, but maybe, did the computer recognize my ip and my computer? it's all about cookies. if you're going to book a fare, at least shop for a fare on one computer. go back to book it on another. >> or find a friend that can book it. >> peter greenberg, thank you. >>> in washington, a yearful of partisan gridlock is almost over. a pair of female lawmakers are reaching across parties line for a deal in the making. as nancy cordes reports they want to establish a museum honoring the accomplishments of women. >> reporter: on the national mall there are museums dedicated to natural history, spaceflight, american-indians and more. the museum dedicated to african-american history is under construction. but about 15 years ago, some members of congress began to wonder wh

phoenix, l.a., if you're catching a flight to grandma's house, cold in minneapolis and des moines. same in the dakotas. this looks to be a fairly light event. in the south all is looking good. just cold. new orleans only 53. atlanta only 43 and a much better day for travel. some snow showers pittsburgh and buffalo but boston, new york, the whole 95 corridor looks really, really fine for today. the three-day outlook 44 today with the afternoon rain or snow shower, wind chills in the 30s. tonight dipping into the mid- 20s in town, closer to 20 in the suburbs. 36 tomorrow but lighter winds for christmas day. chilly on thursday, not as cold, 43. we finish out the week about the same on friday. milder this weekend, 50 to even 55 sunday. could see a flurry monday as colder air returns, highs in the low 40s. we turn it over to monika samtani wearing her christmas eve red blazer. >> and your tie. you're festive today. >>> idlewood road north of route 7 at burrows lane in falls church is blocked right now with a crash and crews are on the scene there. so be aware of that. it's just north of

according to the des moines register, 73% of republicans have a favorable view of ryan. that's the highest among all of the potential 2016 presidential hopefu hopefuls. on the democrat side, of course, all hillary clinton. 89% have a positive view of the former secretary of state. but the youth vote that helped lekt president obama in 2008 and 2012 may not be a sure thing for democrats in 2016. a usa today poll finds 45% of millennials approve of the president. less than a year ago that number was 67%. that's on par with several other recent polls of younger americans which find the president's approval rating among that key demo below 50% now. >>> to the latest on the continuing unrest in ukraine. the european union has suspended talks on a trade agreement that prompted all the massive protests there. ukraine's president initially agreed to sign the deal last month which would have weakened ties with russia but then he changed his mind. u.s. senators chris murphy from connecticut and john mccain from arizona addressed thousands of anti-government protesters before meeti

look at this cold blast once again that goes from california all the way down to des moines heading tohicago and east coast as we go through your tuesday. again, we'll warm up today and melt a lot of that. up to 44 in new york. that's great but all that cold air comes in as we go throughout the end of this week and it's going to be frigid for a long time. >> kansas city, minus 3. >> yeah, it's going to be frigid for a long time. no signs whatsoever of any warmth up to christmas. >> thank you very much. >>> to twitter. last night i was struck by weather channel's jim cantore tweeting this. "i can't remember the last day i've seen so many interstates gridlocked from one storm midwest, northeast, midsouth and southern plains." he's covered every storm since the dawn of managekind so we thought we'd get historical with you guys. your scariest toughest weather-related adventures commuting or otherwise. #waytoo earlyt. i had my shares of 360s driving to work in my day. >>> the obamas joining more than 50 world leaders paying tribute to nelson mandela tomorrow. president george w. bush and hi

four in des moines. 15 in st. louis. very cold air making its way our way.hicago, expect it to get close to record low temperature of minus eight tonight. some areas may even break some records overnight tonight all because of that area of arctic air. high pressure moving down from canada right down into our area. tomorrow, it will be in place. tomorrow is going to be a very cold day with most areas staying below freezing all day. as we move on through the day tomorrow and friday, the arctic air starts to retreat. friday not bad. temperatures will warm into the upper 30s to around 40 with more cloud cover. and then guess what, here comes saturday morning. look at the radar. showers out there in the form of snow early around 10:30. watch what happens very similar to what we just saw. snow to the north and west. rain down to the south and east. where is that dividing line? that's always the question here. i do think this will be more of a rab event for the washington, d.c. metro area. places back to the west may get snow. this is not a big storm. it does come

the national weather service told the des moines register it's looking into the reports, but it won't be able to determine for sure what the flash of light was because of its location in the sky. >>> up next, we'll show you a selfie that really is out of this world, literally. >> plus, cal has their final tune-up before pac-12 play starts. fred ingles has highlights, next in sports. >>> it is being called the selfie to end all selfies. nasa astronaut and stanford grad mike hopkins snapped this shot of himself while out on a space walk outside the international space station. the image was taken on christmas eve and it captured a spectacular view of the earth from space. hopkins and another crewmember were changing an outside pump on the space station when the picture was taken. look, mom! i'm in space! >>> fred inglis is here to tell us about the cal bears going at it in berkeley. >> it's about time where we have to find out which team is really the best team here. cal golden bears. they are not expected to make much noise in the men's pac-12 this season, but if the nonconference sche

when david, the husband she left behind, unaware the letter existed, was asked to drop by des moineson star 102.5. >> you lost your wife brenda a couple years ago to cancer. >> reporter: and first they talked a bit about brenda and david could barely get through it. >> she was very strong. um -- accepted what happened to her. >> reporter: and then they told him about the letter, which they had only recently received. anonymously. and they read brenda's worlds allowed to him. >> i am writing this letter to have sent tow by a dear friend who has instructions to do so when it was the time. >> reporter: and why was it time? because david who had been raising three boys with brenda, including a 2-year-old named max. >> what a great husband and father he is. >> reporter: because david had only recently been engaged to remarry, to jane abraham, joining two families. and back in 2011, when brenda was dying, she had foreseen this day and asked a close friend to mail off her letter to the radio station only once david had found new love. >> she must be quite a lady and i wish i could have met

cameras captured a bright streak zipping west on a path from roughly cedar rapids, iowa, to des moines was the day after christmas, so, not santa claus, but still a mystery. >> it was a fireball meteor. which is a meteor that is brighter than the planet venus. and its origins could have either been from a comet, a piece of a comet, or it could have been from the asteroid belt. >> reporter: whatever it was, it apparently burned up harmlessly, unlike this much larger meteor that, in february, came blasting through russian airspace. sending debris and shattered glass flying, injuring hundreds, but also kicking off a cosmic scavenger hunt for valuable pieces of space rock from far, far away. >> with this meteorite fall, there's no doubt that millions and millions of dollars in value of -- of pieces fell to the earth. >> reporter: they don't have to be big to be bright. this meteor over the east coast in march, about the size of a refrigerator. the good news is, the last time anyone can confirm getting hit by a meteor was back in the 1950s. >> so, you have a better chance of winning the lot

many believe it was a meteor and the national weather service told the des moines register it won't beble to determine for sure what the flashing of light was because of its location in the sky. >>> coming up, college basketball in full swing, and the finish you have to see. sportswrap is next. the toyota sportswrap brought to you by your local toyota dealers. toyota let's go places. good evening everyone and thanks for joining us our saturday night edition of sportswrap. the usf men's basketball team may be the wild-card in this year's west coast conference and they opened the wcc in a thriller. they are in portland, pilots have the ball here. kevin bailey for the pilots was unstoppable in the first half. portland led byat halftime. we cut to the final minutes of regulation. it's tied at 66. holmes one of five usf players to score in double figures, but kevin bailey with another up his sleeve. seconds in regulation, adams made one ballot basket for usf and this is. the off-balance 3-pointer to tie the game with .2 seconds left. let's go overtime. chris adams, timing is everything, bab

the "des moines register" had even second place after paul ryan, head of rick santorum and chris christiea lot of talk about mike huckabee in 2016. are you thinking about it now? >> well, i'm open to it. i'm not sitting around plotting my comeback or anything like that. and there are people who want me to jump off the brooklyn bridge as well. that doesn't mean i'm going to do it. but i ddn't know if anybody can make up their mind. the numbers were startlingly good. i think there was an honest and legitimate polling. and so you at least keep your mind open tobut if you just menu know, with a new website coming up in other things that i have had going on with my fox news television show, radio commentaries and what have you, i'm not looking for something to do, but i'm not closing the door and i will keep an open mind. lou: you and i talked a lot about your decisions to run and also when he withdrew in 2008. does it ever occur to you to say that lou dobbs is right and that you should have stayed and changed history? [laughter] >> even my wife agreed that 2012 would've been a tough time and

the new des moines register poll has her approval rating sky high. it's approval, not a horse race. i asked our polling director where she was this time i guess eight years ago, leading into 2008, and 82%. nationally, not iowa. the point is that she was sky high, nobody could even dream that barack obama would come up and get her. and knowing the people around her and just sort of understanding how she operates, she's well aware of that. she's seen this movie before and wants to make sure she doesn't get too comfortable this early, even though her approval is so high. >> also, this makes her a target. not that she wouldn't be a target anyway because hillary clinton is always going to be a target. but when she's that high in the polls, the republican candidates are going to be shooting at her and trying to knock her down and say they'll be talking about benghazi, so she is already this person they're aiming for out there because they believe she's also the presumptive nominee, as you say we have been there before. >> there's a set of issues on the democratic left that are sort of bub

but here's what is moving in right now. 38 in d.c. 19 in detroit. 12 in chicago. 8 in des moines. one below in minneapolis. that's the arctic air. and it will move in overnight tonight. here's the cold front. right now we are looking at snow towards the pittsburgh area. arctic air moving in. and then look whapds on saturday? tomorrow will be the coldest day of the season. and then saturday morning look what comes back in. it's going to be snow on saturday morning and the next storm system will come through during the day on saturday. right now this will start as snow and change over to rain. however, we still have a couple of days to figure this out. the storm that will create this is just off the coast of california. so we have some time to work on that. today is 42. tomorrow is a high of 31. 29 in gaithersburg. 28 in martinsburg. it won't even feel close to that cold. i think the windchill will be around 20. all day around d.c. into the teens in the north and west. a high of 32 tomorrow. right back to 40 degrees on friday. then we get to saturday. and that is snow to rain. showe

lou: and a new poll from t des moines register.y think about the potential 2016 candidates. and one of the biggest surprises, paul ryan, congressman ryan, -- topping the republican list, 73 rcent favorability. governor mike huckabee came in second. by the way, will be our guest tomorrow evening. and rick santorum coming in third. on the democratic side hillary clinton coming in first. and 89 percent favorability. talk about a blowout fallen by vice-president joe biden and maryland government -- governor martin o'malley. the democratic senatorial campaign committee reporting they raised just over $5 million last month. that means that the sec has roughly 12 million in cash on hand compared to the republican counterpart which h only 5 million. the senate republican campaign has not release the november numbers and. they will do so later this week, and when they do, we will have that is for you and see how they're doing. my first guest tonight says the budget proposal does not go far enough to stop washington's runaway spending, and t

the snow side to the storm will stretch from wichita, des moines, milwaukee. we're talking 6 to 10 inches of snow. and then, there's a severe side to this storm system, as well. a moderate risk for severe weather. we're talking about the threat for tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds from jackson, mississippi, as you go up towards memphis, as well. it looks like could be a busy day for the first day of winter. bianna? >> welcome to winter, indeed. damon, welcome to you. great to have you here with us. thanks. >>> we're going to turn to the high drama happening right now at the international space station. a dangerous spacewalk this morning to fix the crucial cooling system. and abc's mike boettcher has the latest on how the risky repair is going from inside the johnson space center in houston. good morning to you, mike. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. i'm inside the mockup of the international space station at the johnson space center in houston. and this is the airlock module, that astronauts use to train for spacewalks. this is the compartment they will

cameras captured a bright streak from cedar rapids, iowa to des moines.stmas. so not santa claus but still a mystery. >> it was a fire ball meteor, which is a meteor that is brighter than the planet venus. its origin could have been from a piece of a comet or from the asteroid itself. >> reporter: apparently whatever it was, it burned up harmlessly unlike this meteor in february that came blasting through russian air space. sending debris and shattered glass flying, injuring hundreds but also kicking off a cosmic scavenger hunt for valuable pieces of space rock from far, far away. >> there is no doubt that millions of dollars in value pieces fell to the earth. >> reporter: they don't have to be big to be bright. this meteor over the east coast in march about the size of a refrigerator. the good news, the last time anyone can confirm getting hit by a meteor is in the 1950s. >> you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting hit by a meteorite. >> reporter: clayton sandell, abc news. >> all right. clayton. >> an incredible amount of people repo

elsewhere, like des moines, iowa, green bay, wisconsin, and wichita, kansas, it was not rain but snow that was the problem. causing horrible accidents on the roads. and there was ice, too. at this outlet mall in oklahoma city, sheets of ice slowed down holiday shoppers a bit. in upstate, new york, ice knocked out power to thousands, even further north in toronto, canada, ice froze power lines leaving nearly 200,000 customers in the dark. possibly until christmas. officials are calling it a catastrophe. transformers are exploding like firecrackers. just trying to get the word out proved dangerous for this reporter. >> with that, i'm going to send it back inside. oh -- there goes! that just landed on a toronto truck. that just landed on a toronto hydro vehicle, and the wires are down, you hear the cracking, listen for a second, the cracking, we're sending it back inside and are not going to stand here anymore. >> reporter: it seems one of the few places spared all of this nasty stuff was new york city, where just days before christmas folks enjoyed a record high of 71 degrees over the w

look at the des moines register poll. lets look at 2016 matchups, hillary clinton way out front, joe biden not that far behind. has he name recognition, chits from people, sitting vice president with pluses and minuses. if for some reason hillary were not running biden is quite viable in primary terms. >> look, i'm not always a big fan of looking at polls this far out 2016, we know in iowa the person front-runner even in december of the caucus doesn't always win. it's the most unpredictable state in the world. it is good to be vice president of the united states. you have incredible amount of goodwill with your base. >> you have a blue and white airplane. >> that helps you get places. still making phone calls to people in places like iowa, state legislators involved in the process. on the republican side it wasn't that surprising to me that the guy who was the vice presidential nominee last time is the person leading this time around. the fact of the matter there aren't a lot of people, even in a place like iowa, who are

david, the husband she left behind, unaware the letter existed, asked to drop by des moines radio station102.5. >> you lost your wife brenda a couple of years ago to cancer. >> reporter: at first they talked a little bit about brenda, and david could barely get through it. >> she was very strong, accepted what happened to her. >> reporter: and then they told him about the letter which they had only recently received anonymously and they read brenda's words aloud to him. >> i am writing this letter sent to you by a dear friend who had instructions to do so when it was time. >> reporter: why was it time? because david who had been raising three boys with brenda including a 2-year-old named max -- >> what a great husband and father he is. >> reporter: because david had only recently engaged to remarry to jane abraham, joining two families. and back in 2011 when brenda was dying, she had foreseen this day and asked a close friend to mail off her letter to the radio station only once david had found new love. >> "she must be quite a lady, and i wish i could have met to take on the task of rais

also, around des moines. just watch out for some slick travel there. also, around cleveland we continue to deal with that lake-effect snow. you saw the video of that pileup. use caution on the roadways. towards the northeast right now, pretty quiet from new york city to boston as well as philadelphia. look at the snow flurries off to the north and west. some of this activity will approach philadelphia as well as new york city over the next several hours. here is 5:00. you can see approaching the i-95 corridor. by 7:00, new york city area, we are looking at the threat for snow on your christmas eve. as far as the travel conditions right now fairly quiet conditions across the nation. portland, oregon, looking good. we are looking at foggy concerns. la guardia, no weather worries now. watching out for volume delays. atlanta looking good and 40 degrees. l.a.x. now, temperature of 76 degrees. all in all looking good as far as christmas eve weather now. >> all right. in the next 12 hours or so, as people begin to get ready for santa's arrival, what will it l

and then the heavy snow, milwaukee right on back up even into the up of michigan but through des moineskansas city, wichita, some spots will have a foot of new show as you mentioned and the potential for tornados. we even had a tornado on the ground today in mississippi and not that far from jackson, mississippi. 20 miles west of there. didn't hit anything except trees. that's the threat. that's the warm, moist air, the cold air never likes to mix. like oil and vinegar, they don't like to go together. they will separate at some point in time. look at the city. i know the retailers will complain how cold it is. you have to get out there and shop on sunday, 67, d.c. 73, pleasant in atlanta when i arrived today except the airport was full. i think people tried to get out early and got caught in the rest of the rush that started today. >> let's talk about the airports because with the forecast, i get the sense it may not be a happy time at the airports. >> i have that. oklahoma city, i don't think planes will get in and out. you may have to try to get to dallas and something south and drive

. >>> in des moines, iowa, and wichita, kansas it wasn't rain but snow that was the problem.ausing horrible accidents on the roads. and there was ice too. at this outlet mall in oklahoma city, sheets of ice slowed down holiday shoppers. in upstate new york, ice knocked out power and froze power lines, leaving nearly 200,000 customers in the dark, possibly until christmas. officials are calling it catastrophic. transformers are exploding like fireworks. >> oh, jesus! >> just trying to get the word out proved dangerous for this reporter. >> i'm going to send it back inside with. that oh -- there it goes. that just landed on a toronto hydrovehicle and you can hear the cracking. listen to the cracking. >> i wouldn't stand there. >> we were just told to move. we are not going to stand here any more. >> one a of the few places spared was new york city where days before christmas, folks enjoyed a record high of 71 degrees over the weekend. >> i love it. it feels like may in december. >> too bad winter has only just begun. randy kaye, cnn, new york. >>> you see those pictures there.

here's the snow from milwaukee to des moines. it is not like you're not used to it.t inches of snow. do you know what? i flew from d.c. to atlanta today and the airports were jammed. i couldn't believe the number of people in the atlanta airport trying to get someplace. so with this weather coming in for tomorrow, i assume it will be just as busy, if not more. this will slow down travelers for sure. escalating tensions in north korea. they sent a fax, yes, a fax to south korea threatening to, quote, strike mercilessly and without notice in response to anti-korea. this all comes as rodman is there. and north korea threatens south korea. how serious are these threats? >> reporter: this is something that happens quite regularly between north and south korea. they have a very long history of this sort of behavior. north korea sent a fax on the day that dennis rodman tux down in pyongyang saying that it would strike mercilessly and without notice if the anti-regime protests continued. we are talking about a small scale protest here. people talking, speaking out about the

i was talking to a bunch last night at a liberal event, just outside des moines, and you know, they respect her. they like her though she lost here in 20008. there's two house races, senate race, governor's race next year, if she wants to be a loyal soldier democrat, there's plenty of chances to come out here next year. >> to start campaigning for the democrats it couldn't hurt her. probably help her if she wants to run in iowa caucuses in 2016. one issue, though, could hurt her and it's already resurfaces where you are in iowa. her vote in favor of the war in iraq. the former montana governor, brian schweitzer telling iowa democrats what only yesterday that secretary clinton's decision to support military inaction in iraq was the wrong decision. what's go on here? schweitzer, his name has been thrown out as well as foenpoten democratic candidate even though he's not well-known. >> reporter: that's right. he's throwing his own name out there. brian schweitzer a former two-term democratic governor of montana, self-styled prairie pop lift who likes to talk about economic issues. he came throu

a des moines register poll showing republican voters in the first primary state of iowa overwhelmingly support paul ryan. followed by mike huckabee, rick santorum, rick perry and former florida governor jeb bush. he tied with new jersey governor chris christie. rounding out, rand paul, marco rubio, ted cruz. a former political adviser to former new jersey senator frank lautenberg and fox news contributor, and lars larson, syndicated radio talk show host. this poll, lars, i think the very interesting. paul ryan just set forth what some claim to be a very moderate budget known mostly as a pretty conservative guy. now here he is with 73% favorability in iowa? which tends to pick a more conservative candidate? what do you make of it? >> it's a little bit surprising, isn't it? i would have expected people would have seen paul ryan perhaps not as a guy who could run a second time. this time in the first position. but i don't know how to explain what's going on in iowa right now with the voters there. as you say, they usually pick a conservative. i would expect they'd be -- they'd be more e n

>> reporter: rekha basu wrote a scathing column for iowa's "des moines register" calling the seven malerrassing. >> i think a female justice, working through her own first-hand experience and perspective, would have had a different take on it. >> reporter: melissa filed yet another appeal and, in a surprise this summer, perhaps because of the public outcry -- >> he needs a little novocain in mr. happy. >> reporter: the high court agreed to reconsider their earlier ruling -- a rare occurrence. but the same seven judges came up with the same ruling and clarified that you can be fired, "because the boss's spouse views the relationship as a threat to her marriage." melissa is out of legal options. she thinks it's laughable a jury of her peers will never get to decide if she was wronged, so naturally -- she brought her case to comedy central. >> if melissa wants to clean teeth, she shouldn't have to worry about her boss's dirty mind. that's why i invited her to give me an oral exam in hollywood, where women are never objectified. >> reporter: this is the standard issue scrub suit and lab coa

the des moines register she writes this is a milestone for the many families who have waited too long for affordable health insurance because of a broken system that was stacked against them, end quote. i'm joined by d.c. democratic congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. representative, good morning to you. we know things are better looking at those numbers, but the goal as has been said, it's seven million people signed up by the end of march. can that happen? >> oh, sure. look what you saw. you saw double the number that had signed up sign up on just the days before january 1st. we all do the same thing. last minute. and when that fine is going to kick in, you're going to see people trotting to sign on like you've never seen it before. >> what tells you that might happen. >> let me tell you what tells me. what we have been battling now is, first, every time the house couldn't think of anything else to do, it had a big debate on repealing obamacare so there are millions of people out there who think it was repealed. so there was no way to break through that very easily. then comes this

here is the front page of this morning's des moines register calling paul ryan a favorite along withwa. you think he is the model of what we're going to see? >> i think he is. i don't want to exclude these other long list of republicans, especially the governors because it could end up being a governor. paul ryan is clearly emerging as the leader he is. when you're a vice presidential candidate, you tend to seem minimized against the presidential candidate. paul ryan, of course, looked gigantic next to patty murray, which his stature is physical as well as his political presence. but in addition to creating this budget that has finally become somewhat popular, he seems, he just simply seems more mature. he seems to have become seasoned during the years. >> changed a little bit. >> yeah. >> i want to clarify something because i mentioned it a couple times about senator rubio this morning. did he call the compromise deal unamerican? that's not actually what he said. we got the clarification and i wanted to make sure to do this and apologize for the confusion about it. he asked why he c

a construction worker was left dangling off of the side of a bridge in west des moines after a train hit the boon truck he and another worker were on, he managed to cling on the side of the bridge even though was injured until rescue crews arrived. took about an hour to finally, lower him to the ground. the other worker was thrown from the bridge and is being treated for life-threatening injuries. >> ross is back in sports. baseball making headlines. >> winter baseball meetings are going on as we speak in orlando. how convenient. everybody is playing golf and let's make a deal. the diamond backs acquired trum bell. the laangels and white socks, trum bell who has hit at least 30 homers in each of things last two seasons is heading to the confines of chase field while the d backs, ethan to the white sox and angles get young pitchers in santiago and tyler skaggs. >> baseball writer today joins us from new york today. it seems like arizona got a heck of a power hitter in trum bell. >> that's true. ocean a great power hitter. there aren't a ton of homerun guys in the league. trum bell doe

look at the snow that's coming from us from des moines to chicago, milwaukee, green bay an back towardnches of brand new snow is coming, richard. i think all the kids getting sleds will be pretty pumped for this one and smooth sailing for santa and his reindeer. >> over the weekend i was thinking i should come in shorts and a t-shirt today the way the weather was. >> now we're going back into winter in some parts of the country. >> mike bettes, appreciate it. >>> to politics now, where drug dealers are capitalizing on the word "obamacare." massachusetts police confiscating hundreds of bags of heroin. on those bags it was stamped with the nick and a quarter oba -- nickname obama care. >>> the first family spent time cheering on oregon state. the first lady's brother is their head coach. they lost 83-71. >>> meanwhile as new york city mayor michael bloomberg gets set to leave office, he made his inaugural appearance on snl. >> what's next for you, mayor bloomberg? >> i'll be enjoying a lifelong dream of enjoying a small soda on a nonsmoking beach. >>> and a way to raise campaign cash. we