current temperatures minus 28 in fairbanks. it's chilly. satellite radar imagery across the west.ould see 6-10 even 12 inches of rainfall and wind gusts in excess of 70 miles per hour especially across the mountainous regions. this is an area we watch through out the weekend as the rain continues to fall or we see the potential for flooding and mud slides for southern portions of oregon through northern portions of california. >> a look at your starting lineup and sports stories. >> major league baseball releasing this year's hall of fame ballot and sure to be surrounded by controversy. the top three names on this year's list barry bonds, roger clemens and sammy sosa. all three linked to performance enhancing drugs. >>> a big rule change could be coming to golf. they are proposing a ban on anchoring. that is when a player holds the putter on his body to hold the end of it. it gives them an unfair advantage. if approved it will take effect in 2015. >> temperatures flaring at a brooks game in washington. >> take a look at the chaos during the second quarter of the game. humphries sh

minus 15 in fairbanks. this pool of cold air sooner or later will probably make a run to the south. it's that time of year where the days are very short, not a lot of sunlight left in fare banks. minus 2. anchorage at 32. juneau rain showers. in the northwest, rain and snow moving through. spokane has snow this morning. we're fine from vegas to phoenix and los angeles. as i mentioned tomorrow, things do begin to improve. still showers around. but the worst of it is this morning. >> you know what was really strange about that, you had minus two degrees but you still had a sun behind snit. >> again, there's not a lot of sunlight in alaska this time of year. >> bizarre. and very cold. >>> let's head now to some entertainment news. bond took over the box office this weekend. "skyfall", the 23rd installment in the 007 franchise scored the highest ever opening for a bond film with $87.8 million. it was the fourth biggest after the avengers and the hunger games. "lincoln" also fared well, making close to $1 million in just 11 theaters before its wide release this weekend. here's a fun fact

but i've got to show you how cold it is this morning in alaska, fairbanks right now is minus 22 degrees. the coldest temperatures of the year. today's highs aren't even going to get up to zero with sunshine. that's cold. that's a look at cloudy. bakersfield to san jose looking good, too, just the northwest with the clouds. >>> no huge storms coming, and we need to get a little warm-up for our friends 2in alaska. >>> the u.s. is poised to become the world's biggest oil producer. a new health scare for women. >>> a petition with almost 400,000 signatures mushing macy's to drop donald trump. you're watching "early today." >>> stories making news this morning, new york governor andrew cuomo wants $30 billion in federal aid to rebuild after sandy. almost 60,000 customers are still without power on new york's long island and all new jersey drivers can buy gasoline today as odd/even rationing ends. >>> over the next decade u.s. oil output is expected to surpass saudi arabia according to the international energy agency. by 2020, the u.s. could be the largest oil producer in the world. >>> kevin

. >> reporter: cathy fairbanks represents the opposition. >> prop 37, it's deceptive and costly. >> reportera campaign funded primarily by biotech, chemical and food industry giants, including hersheys which already does label its products overseas. >> the consumers will view that label as a warning when none should exist. the food is the same. it's safe, it's fine to eat. >> reporter: the no campaign claims the measure will cost california up to a million dollars to enforce, generate lawsuits, and increase family grocery bills by about 8 dollars a week. >> that's why i oppose prop 37. >> reporter: the no campaign has raised more than $45 million. far expanding-- outspending the yes campaign which raised only 8 million. >> vote yes. >> vote yes. >> reporter: money talks in california, support for prop 37 has dropped steeply from 67 percent in september to 39%. but many are fighting hard for the right to know. >> i've got to make the decision about their diets, not the industry, not the government, the not the genetic engineers, my right, my duty. >> reporter: and on lex day it will be her vo

our friends in fairbanks under the coldest air in the northern hemisphere, minus 29 degrees. that's where winter is. the forecast, each and every day pretty much the same. the good chance of heavy rain this morning and a little break later today. then another batch of heavy rain is going to come in saturday. then sunday it looks like it lingers over the region that spreads to the northern rockies. so not until monday it looks like the west will get an all dry day. >> a much-needed break, but not until monday. well, halle berry's thanksgiving day drama seems to be winding down. progress has been made regarding the holiday fistfight between halle berry's ex-boyriend, gabriel aubry, and her current fiance. in a statement berry's lawyer said she and aubry have reached an amicable agreement. berry had a restraining order put into effect after the fight to keep aubry from seeing their 4-year-old daughter. >>> well, lindsay lohan was arrested thursday for allegedly punching a woman in the face at the new york city nightclub. the woman who was punched is a tourist visiting from west

joining us is stacy malkan for yes on 37 and kathy fairbanks for the no on 37 campaign. about this. i see lots of ads. stacy, each of us give a definition? >> genetically engineered food has been in the system for less than a 20 years. one species is forced into the dna of another. salmon engineered in an eel that grows twice as fast. this may be on our dinner plates soon and is good reason why prop 37 is so important, if we look at salmon, if it's wild or farm raised and get to know if it's genetically engineered. we have a right to know. >> cheryl: is that similar to that? >> i would look to the experts. bioengineered food or genetically engineered food has been looked at. it's been studied by the national academy of sciences, world health organization and american medical association. they found it safe for people to eat and proposition 37 is really much more than just a simple labeling. i know that is the way it is promoted but shake down lawsuits against grocery retailers, retailers and increase state bureaucracy and increase grocery bills. it contains a number of l

it's very cold still from anchorage back to fairbanks and not bad in june you, but there is a chill in the air. at least it will be sunny. for the south, nice in honolulu, mostly sunny skies. a few showers around hilo and la hui, but overall, hit-and-miss showers, won't ruin your day. in the west, we're gorgeous the next two days. in the southwest, california, nevada, arizona, to the northwest, we sneak in one nice day today with dry weather. and then tomorrow, it looks like that next front will be swinging on through, get a little windy and also a little wet for your friday, primarily in the morning. >> very nice. all right. they need the rain. >> we'll take it. >> they need the rain, right? >>> all right, now to sports. we start with two nba overtime games. first atlanta's kyle korver hit a long three-pointer with less than 2 seconds on the clock to lead the hawks over washington 101-100. >>> and the thunder's russell westbrook hit a fading jumper, there he goes, off the clippers, and oklahoma city beat los angeles 117-111. >>> in college basketball, fourth-ranked michigan made a sec

robert green fairbanks pleading no contest for the 1985 death of wendy cheek. he's been on death row in san mateo county since 1989 but multiple appeals have delayed his sentencing from being carried out. today a judge will schedule the execution. the last execution in san mateo county happened back in 2005. >>> the husband and wife accused of killing a woman inside her home in hercules expected to enter a plea today. darnell and tania washington were arrested near seattle last month. prosecutors say they killed susie ko, then stole her car and fled to washington state. the couple had been on the run since august when tania allegedly helped darnell break out of prison in san bernardino. today's hearing is at 1:30. >>> an emotional plea from an east bay mother this morning for thieves to return the ashes of her baby son. that urn containing those ashes was stolen from her home earlier this week. now, the mother says she just wants them back, no questions asked. her infant son died at birth earlier this year. she says the urn was engraved with his name, gabriel,

. >> the fairbanks are pulling, why were they hoe ebb he en[speaker not understood]? >> they have been chose tone conduct the prior polls under our contract, contracting method. if we go forward with any other polls, i'm sure or surveys, i'm sure we'll go through whatever the necessary steps are. >> we look for local pollsters that could be engaged as well? >> yes, absolutely. >> any other questions for members of the commission? >> mr. president, just a couple comments. i'm not going to be here for the next meeting so i just wanted to make a couple comments. first, i appreciate the more detail especially that you laid out. at our last meeting we talked about what the commission had anticipated there being really a final go, no go vote when this thing is fully baked and we have all the pieces in front of us. it looks as though that's going to be coming up in march of 2013. so, a lot of work to do between now and then, but i appreciate your laying that out as clearly as you have. as far as the outreach program, one of the things that we have left unresolved when the co

. >> fairbanks moves to safety but keeps his camera rolling when it looks like nothing is going to happen. >> i just set up the camera and waited. our reporter bill mitchell came up. he said we probably ought to get back to the station. i said, yeah, you're probably right. but she looked really convinced. i would hate to leave and then hear it had fallen down. we almost both gave up at this point. then all the sudden a big slab of rock came down. >> 30,000 tons of mountain crashes down on the road. it takes only seconds for rocks and trees to descend onto the ground where they were just standing. >> all you could hear was the rumbling sound. it sounded like something out of a movie. it sounded like cars crashing. rocks were hitting the ground. all the sudden it stopped and everything came to a standstill. >> i was looking at this thing not believing my eyes and then the whole thing comes rushing down the slope. an immense amount of noise and dust. and you never see something like this in person. >> there's so much stuff going through your mind. to see rocks the size of greyhound buses com

governor fairbanks addressed the legislature when he arrived here. he asked them to appropriate the astonishing sum of a half-million dollars in this little say. a legislature deliberated for about a day and appropriated $4 million. that even made news in europe. the painting behind me is painted by julian scott do it then a charmer boy and had dropped his charm and waded into a creek to rescue wounded vermonters. and for that, she won the medal of honor. so when the legislature after the were decided a memorial painting what to julian scott and he visited the battlefield kansas city pitcher rain and was absolutely accurate. i've been there 50 times. and produced this wonderful painting that not only accurately predicts the battle amateur rain, but painted about for departures of vermont soldiers in the battlefield. the military role as an outsized one that i'm absolutely convinced of that based on a relatively small 350,000 people. burma's performance was extraordinary. we may have saved grant's army and the wilderness. at the battle of cedar creek

governor fairbanks address the legislature when he arrived here. he asked them to appropriate the astonishing sum of a half-million dollars from the state. the legislature deliberated for about a day in appropriated a full million dollars. that even made news in europe. the painting behind me is, first of all, he said by a man named william scott, who had been a drummer boy in the civil war and at age 16, he had dropped his drum and waded into a creek to rescue wounded vermonters. for that, he won the medal of honor. when the legislature decided that it needed a memorial here at the statehouse, naturally, it went to julian scott. he visited the battlefield, studied the terrain, not absolutely accurate. i have been there 50 times. and produced this wonderful painting that not only accurately predicts the battle and the terrain, repeated about 40 portraits of vermont soldiers who were in the battle into the painting. the military role of vermont in the civil war is an outsized one. i am absolutely convinced of that. based on a relatively we small pop

governor fairbanks address the legislature when they arrived here. he asked them to appropriate the astonishing sum of half a million dollars from this little state. the legislature deliberated for about a day and appropriated a full million dollars. that even made news in europe. well, and pain behind his personal opinion by a man named julian scott, who had been a charmer boy in the civil war and at age 16 at the battle of the smell had dropped his strom and waded into a creek to rescue wounded vermonters. and for that, he won a medal of honor. so when the legislature after the war decided it needed a memorial at the statehouse, a memorial painting, it naturally went to julian scott and he studied it and it's absolutely accurate. i've been there 50 times and produced this wonderful painting that not only accurately predicts the battle amateur rain, but he painted about 40 portraits of vermont soldiers who were in the battle. the military role of vermont in the civil war is an absolutely convinced of that based on a relatively small population of 31

peter fairbanks: your painting is by francis calcraft turner. in the lower left is a signature.it's dated 1835. this is a pointer. not the pointer that you'd find today, because they've been bred far differently since. but the british were very proud of their animals, and they, just around this time, started to do portraits of their best sheep or their bull or their dog or horse. and he was well known for this. one lovely aspect of it is over in the right-hand side, you have a nice landscape in the background. the painting has a label on its reverse, which is the label of arthur ackermann & sons, which was this famous sporting dealer. and they dealt with sporting pictures. and that's kind of wonderful to have that. this painting of this pointer has some condition issues. a colleague of mine didn't like the condition. doesn't bother me so much, because that cracking that you see, or hazing, i think is only in the varnish, and the varnish is on top of the painting. and i think when it's clean, that craquelure will disappear. it's a lovely picture which, with the cleaning first, i

guest: i have a daughter who lives in fairbanks, alaska. my son-in-law is in the 101st airborne. she says, if it ever gets warm enough in alaska, you could walk around barefoot and oil would come up through your toes. we have an abundance of oil all over the united states. we need to develop our own resources and get out of the way of the oil industry and others. shale is a the new way to produce more energy. break away from the independent on foreign sources that may not always be friendly toward our country. 7 and $16 billion cuts in medicare -- $716 billion cuts in medicare -- mr. ryan came forth with a plan to save medicare. that was a step in the right direction to save medicare for future retirees. in medicare as we know it occurred with the passage of the affordable care act two years ago because of the huge cuts to medicare. the independent payment advisory board, 15 eurocrats will make decisions based on cost and cost alone. the-bureaucrats -- bureaucrats who will make decisions on cost and cost alone. when we want to see 2/3 of congress agreeing on anything? host: mr. j

host: fairbanks, alaska. hello. caller: i have confidence that zero of these guys did something done. where is our leadership? we are just going to kick it down the road. everybody has to have free stuff. nobody wants to take care of themselves. host: what is one thing you would say is a reason they will not make it happen? caller: they will kick it down the road. that is all they are going to do. they have been taking it down the road for 15 years. that is all they do. they have it made it. the president is leaving the country. host: some type of deal are at least the details are being worked out by congressional leaders and their staffs. there are hopes they can get this done before the december 31 deadline. allen is from michigan and joins us on the independent client. -- independent line. caller: i have no confidence in the leadership of the republicans and democrats. they are spending on more militarism. this spending on wars is a total waste of our nation's wealth. they are squandering the wealth of this count

in the words of one prominent fairbanks community leader, he said, "it's the air force's intention to change isleson from a base that is mission-capable to a base that is mission-incapable. " the air force somehow concluded that it could pull off a move of this magnitude without ever having to face a brac commission or answer to the congress. that takes a little b bit of chutzpah. the air force promptly dispatched then-chief of chaff general norton schwartz to a meeting with community leaders. i was there when he spoke to those leaders. his message really didn't leave much room for optimism. air force officials pretty much sinced thainsisted that this wao happen. it came as something after surprise to me that the air force would select isleson as the only active duty base slated for a backdoor brac. for those who aren't familiar with isleson's strategic position, it sits at the gateway to the pacific area of responsibility, the most strategically important area of responsibility, according to this administration's defense planner. it also sits at the front door of the joint pacific-al