for example, in eastern montana, there's something called a bachen formation. it's heavily impacted by oil and gas development. the police force is stretched so thin they can't begin to deal with all the issues. and police officers start a $40,000 -- their salary is $40,000 a year and they see $800,000 spent, what's going on here. there's a little town of culbertson i visited. they're scratching to try to get money for a sewage system, trying to piece it together here and there. when they see this waste, they go what? we could use that $800,000 for a sewage system in our little town. otherwise, we can't afford it, we can't finance it. ingmar, montana is a very small -- populationing about two hands. trying to save their post office. the rent is $700 perrant who for that post office and they see $130,000 for eight preconference trips to las vegas. you know, it's just galling. it's absolutely galling when you see what the dollars could otherwise be spent for just for legitimate purposes. where people are really struggling. and i just tell you that i think senator

the warmest year was in eastern montana. at this hour is still warmer in rapid city.an hour winds are still blowing and dusting. these are peak wind gust within our producing wind chills it is a chilly night. the dew point give you an idea where the bottom temperature may wind up. yet high tree in which paula around the area today as we continue this 2012 season. it will be mild for the white sox opener. >> this line of showers come through saturday night. the winds will be blowing northwest on sunday and will get another 60 predate before the cool off comes. we could be in worse shape. the mountains near yellowstone park montana will see snow. maybe a foot and had an spots. tamara the temperatures go into the '70s. tonight a freeze on warning commences at 1:00 through eight in the morning. the chilliest temperatures and almost one month. with areas of frost and freeze in protected areas. we think o'hare will bottom out at about 34 degrees. the northeast winds will keep up tonight. tomorrow will be sunny and unseasonably cold. clear and cold patch of frost and lin tom

rain showers you can seat northwest eastern plains, montana, down into texas and east across the tennesseelley. these, the farther you get away from the jet stream will be more of the afternoon variety situation and the summer where you will have a few thunderstorms pop up, 90% of the area with nothing. keep that in mind. most of the this green farther south won't be rain but are you talking hit and miss showers and thunderstorms. right through the week there. is the jet stream. northern third of the country. best chance for rain great lakes and ohio valley and back with that next system coming in to the northern rockies, that will scoot across the middle of the country. you can see on friday with a good chance of rain across the great lakes and thunderstorms, near and south of the jet stream as well from time to time. let's go farther out. this will about may 6th through the 12th. below normal temperatures for the great lakes, northeast and midatlantic from louisiana, mississippi, back across texas and the four corner area and up to north dakota expected above normal temperatures, about l

for example, in eastern montana, there's something called a bachen formation.avily impacted by oil and gas development. the police force is stretched so thin they can't begin to deal with all the issues. and police officers start a $40,000 -- their salary is $40,000 a year and they see $800,000 spent, what's going on here. there's a little town of culbertson i visited. they're scratching to try to get money for a sewage system, trying to piece it together here and there. when they see this waste, they go what? we could use that $800,000 for a sewage system in our little town. otherwise, we can't afford it, we can't finance it. ingmar, montana is a very small -- populationing about two hands. trying to save their post office. the rent is $700 perrant who for that post office and they see $130,000 for eight preconference trips to las vegas. you know, it's just galling. it's absolutely galling when you see what the dollars could otherwise be spent for just for legitimate purposes. where people are really struggling. and i just tell you that i think senator cardin

their rural post offices and mail processing facilities and far flung places like he lane a, montana or eastern oregon and very eager to protect that service saying, look, usps, postal service, you claim you need to end saturday plal and close hundreds of facilities across the country. we don't believe you. go back and find another i with a. the postal service and auditors looking for years say this is all they need to do. they need to contract the size of the network because they're simply not as much mail being delivered anymore. >> put a couple of members on the table. the postal service does say is delivers 560 million pieces of mail each day. under the bill being put forth by senator joe lieberman and ceo sponsored by susan collins it would use about $11 billion from the federal employee retirement system to offer buyouts to the employees and if 100,000 postal workers to retire the postal service could save $8 billion a year. >> that's right. that would be part of a where broader plan to save $22.5 billion by 2016. that's a big chunk and the rest is from closing facilities and ending six-d

for example, in eastern montana, there's something called a bachen formation.heavily impacted by oil and gas development. the police force is stretched so thin they can't begin to deal with all the issues. and police officers start a $40,000 -- their salary is $40,000 a year and they see $800,000 spent, what's going on here. there's a little town of culbertson i visited. they're scratching to try to get money for a sewage system, trying to piece it together here and there. when they see this waste, they go what? we could use that $800,000 for a sewage system in our little town. otherwise, we can't afford it, we can't finance it. ingmar, montana is a very small -- populationing about two hands. trying to save their post office. the rent is $700 perrant who for that post office and they see $130,000 for eight preconference trips to las vegas. you know, it's just galling. it's absolutely galling when you see what the dollars could otherwise be spent for just for legitimate purposes. where people are really struggling. and i just tell you that i think senator cardi

we have our jet stream that is lifted across parts of montana and into the dakotas and taking a dip in the eastern part of the countries. that's where we are seeing the cooler temperatures in the northeast and showers coming down into portions of the carolinas and out west two storm systems will be impacting the west today. we will keep an eye on that. otherwise the storms today chicago you are also lacking at that severe weather. large hail damaging winds and isolated rain. >> now to stories you can bank on this morning. we begin with a brand new development in the missing $1.6 billion in ms global customer money. now we go to lauren simonetti for more. >> it is a high stakes game of lost and found. 1.6 billion lost and now it's found. they are reporting that 700 million at a u.k. subsidiary 220 million transfers from customer accounts into commodity customer accounts and remaining 680 million at some other banks like jc morgan. they found it now they have to get it back to the customers. 70-80 percent has been returned so far. >> that's the tricky part is getting it into the right hats. apple st

eastern nebraska. a little thunder activity out in the plains. snow up in northeast montana. the coast there is some rain, and that's it. like i said, a quiet morning for the start of the easter weekend. which i guess kind of started yesterday. anyway, our clear skies here, it is a little chilly. a little colder than yesterday at this time. at the airport 38 degrees. inner harbor, 48 degrees. the humidity is at 48%. barometer rising. kind of high. 30.13. high pressure sitting overhead is providing good weather. a little breezier yesterday morning. hard tore get chilly. this morning we're successful at getting the chill down. big old moon down there. it is almost full this morning. the moon set this morning will be at 6:52. just before that, the sun will rise at 6:41. great opportunity to see the whole thing. low clouds in the sky. yesterday morning there are clouds and rain south of us. that does not exist this morning. everything is going to clear. annapolis is 48. 45 in camebridge. 41 westminster. frederick has gone below freezing. they are at 30 degrees right now. 32 in oa

a little snow off montana and the storm off the the pacific coast. that's it. the eastern half of the country. nice quiet beautiful easter weekend weather. >> taking a look at our top stories. a two-alarm fire under investigation in carroll county. fire broke out before 10:00 in the 600 block. we're told it took 100 firefighters two hours to get the blaze under control. officials say the barn, which was used by the westminster rescue mission was completely destroyed, along with two other structures. no one was inside the barn at the time of the fire. >> life plus five years. the sentence for the man who shot the owner of a store in the head four times will -- times. she will survive. >> a procession for good friday continued to city hall yesterday with the procession stopping at several times to pray. >> covering the nation, something terrifying and almost unbelievable in virginia. a navy f-18 fighter jet fell out of the sky crashing into an apartment com flex -- complex. given the pictures you are about to see, it is remarkable there were no fatalities. >> at least five a

eastern texas. rain from little rock and louisville over to cincinnati and detroit. showers in the dakotas and montanaseattle. 65 in portland.

montana. talked about that earlier, maybe a shower or storm down in miami but it won't rain all day. your weekend forecast because saturday looks nice on the easterne will have showers in the middle of the country, not going to be a rainout. afternoon thunderstorms especially west texas and a little bit of wet weather will arrive on easter sunday. oregon and washington, light rain, scattered storm in texas. middle of the country looks fantastic for easter sunday. i don't think too many will get washed out for easter sunday. i give it an "a." >> you are don't give those out often. >> more like a "c" plus. >> i knew that was coming. it's inevitable. especially on a friday. >>> a new entertainment power couple. >>> plus, 13 years after "american pie" will interest in their reunion knock "the hunger games" off their box office perch. your first look at entertainment is ahead. you're watching "first look." ♪ pop goes the world ♪ it goes something like this ♪ everybody here is a friend of mine ♪ ♪ everybody, tell me, have you heard? ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ pop goes the world [ female announcer ] pop in a whole new kind of clean with new tide pods... a

montana. another guy with a crew cut. looks like a regular guy. works on his tractor on weekend. he is known as a north eastern liberal.sure. your thought on him, larry? >> i think she's right but i would call tester the most endangered democratic incumbent. that a race i see obama losing 7, 8, 9, maybe 10 points this time around. that should be enough to allow the republican to defeat senator tester. >> let's go finally to the hot race in florida. bill nelson has been around a long time. he may well face connie mac. it's not sure yet. he is up over mac by 8 points. again back to you sheera, has he been around too long, bill nelson? does he have a reason to be re-elected. >> there is that old saying, would you rather be lucky or good. i think bill nelson is lucky. republicans have a primary problem. >> his dad had a great record. his dad is was popular. >> his dad was popular but that was many years ago. his son is not running the solid campaign. >> the great grandfather to this guy was the owner of the philadelphia as. this guy, does he have the magic name or something. >> he has a magic name but he doesn't have a mag

eastern texas. rain from little rock and louisville over to cincinnati and detroit. showers in the dakotas and montana. mountain snow in idaho and wyoming. showers in the pacific northwest. >> 55 in seattle. 65 in portland. 95 in phoenix. it's 58 in kc. 73 in dallas. miami hitting 84. atlanta, 72. and boston, 70. >>> there is a lot to celebrate on this april 20th. 4/20 is the date. to some it's earth day. an important cause around the world. other tos it's weed day. those celebrating that are already probably asleep. >> but here like actual weeds in your garden? >> yeah. uh-huh. >> "world news now" we're celebrating national look alike day. i've had a lot of folks tell me that -- they have told me for years that i look like bianna, the weekend anchor for "gma." she's on maternity leave right now. >> had her first kid. >> he's beautiful. she's doing well. but, yeah, she could be my twin sister. what do you think? >> i see a resemblance. the thing i always get in my look alike is this familiar broadcasting face right here. the one and only bryant gumbel of "today" show fame. bryant is still one of the b

eastern. welcomes house speaker john boehner and governors bob mcdonald, virginia republican and brian sweitzer, democrat of montana"face the nation" from cbs completes the line-up airing at 4:00 p.m. eastern. bob schieffer talks with the former mississippi governor, los angeles mayor, chairman of the 2012 democratic national convention and california democratic governor jerry brown. again, the reairs begin at noon eastern with nbc's "meet the press". at 1:00 abc's "this week". 2:00 p.m. "fox news sunday". at 3:00 state of the union and at 4:00 "face the nation" from cbs. all of the programs are brought to you as a public service by networks and c-span and you can listen them all on c-span radio in the washington, d.c. area. nationwide on x.m. satellite radio channel 119. listen on your blackberry, download us an iphone app or go on line to cspanradio.org. host: if you've been following this year's student cam contest you'll know this year's theme was about the constitution. we want to continue that conversation now with thomas neale of the congressional research service as we discuss the 12th amendment and the ori

eastern half of the country. and even the west not looking bad at all. temperatures warming up across southern california. los angeles, your high in the low 70s. some cooler air in montanauisville. great weather here in the southeast. sunny in new york city. 60 degrees for your high. on sunday, easter, not bad at all. high plains drying out. showers very isolated across texas and oklahoma. low threat for severe, but something to keep an eye on. ohio valley expecting rabe through the interior of the northeast there and your temperatures for easter, 78 in atlanta. 65 in new york city, just perfect. 70 in kansas city. salt lake city, also in the 70s. monday, showers continue to linger here around the lakes. and we'll see this system pull away into the northeast, parts of new england, dropping temperatures into the 50s. in fact, quite cold starting out on wednesday. some areas getting into the 30s. some of the coolest air we've had since february here across the east, including atlanta dropping overnight. our temperatures will be in the 40s and warming to about 68 by wednesday. more showers across the plains and moving into the west there. only 51 in chicago by next thursda

eastern texas. that is a slow cold front and that will come here through tomorrow and by afternoon, the showers, may be even thunderstorms and now, we're going to fly up to montana, idaho, and wyoming. and you see that bit of rain there? northern sections of wyoming and idaho? that is a pocket of energy that is going to come long and kick up a coastal storm on sunday. much like we watched the nor'easters in the wintertime, the track with the storm on sunday is going to be very, very critical on just how much rain we get. we'll talk about that more in the full forecast. still, real good out there new. 74 in the city. fredericksburg, 73; culpeper a few clouds down there and temperatures are cooler. nice at 7:00. mild and nice at 9:00. and still mild at 11:00 with temperatures in the upper 70s, upper 60s, pardon me. wishful thinking, to about 70 degrees. even as late as midnight or so. real, real mild and nice out there this evening. soak it up. we have the showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. and on sunday, drastic changes around here. >> all right, i don't know if i want to hear about that? >> and yes, you did. >>> i hate it when you're in the 70s and clos

have rain and maybe a light thunderstorm across eastern kansas, towards missouri and oklahoma this morning, and we had some snow yesterday in across montanamber. the entire state was in a drought and almost 90% in the worst category drought and now about go to this, a lot of improvement. across the eastern side of the state of texas and the next few days, the next five days, chances of rain, across from west texas where the worst of the drought is. that's good news. some areas, well over an interest. a few pockets, some of that at the price of some thunderstorms and today we have a risk for severe weather, across the areas from around the big bend, headed just to the north of the dallas area, and i think we'll mostly be looking at strong winds and a little bit of hail and not relieving the tornado threat with this, we will get some rain and that's good news. here is your temperatures for the day today. 80's and 60's all the way towards minneapolis and still above average not 40 degrees above average like last week. all right, guys, back to you. >> thanks, rick. coming up on the show, president obama says ronald reagan would never get elec

areas around wilmington, eastern north carolina, looks like at augusta for the masters golf tournament, no problems with the weather. the storm system clearing out. if you're in montanat for today, dry, mild good friday. beautiful weather after a chilly start from new england all the way through the great lakes. as far as saturday goes, we'll see showers in the middle of the country. it's not a washout. looks really nice in many spots. for easter sunday, only trouble spot on the west coast, rain from san francisco northward to seattle and portland. middle of the country to the east coast, fantastic for easter sun. a few storms in texas. that's not going to ruin your day or easter egg hunt. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. my mother froze everything. i was 18 years old before i had my first fresh bun. the invention that i came up with is the hot dog ez bun steamer. steam is the key to a great hot dog. i knew it was going to be a success. the invention was so simple that i knew i needed to protect it. my name is chris schutte and i got my patent, trademark and llc on legalzoom. [ shapiro ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and l

for example, in eastern montana, there's something called a bachen formation. it's heavily impacted by oil and gas development. the police force is stretched so thin they can't begin to deal with all the issues. and police officers start a $40,000 -- their salary is $40,000 a year and they see $800,000 spent, what's going on here. there's a little town of culbertson i visited. they're scratching to try to get money for a sewage system, trying to piece it together here and there. when they see this waste, they go what? we could use that $800,000 for a sewage system in our little town. otherwise, we can't afford it, we can't finance it. ingmar, montana is a very small -- populationing about two hands. trying to save their post office. the rent is $700 perrant who for that post office and they see $130,000 for eight preconference trips to las vegas. you know, it's just galling. it's absolutely galling when you see what the dollars could otherwise be spent for just for legitimate purposes. where people are really struggling. and i just tell you that i think senator