it's 35 degrees in fairbanks, alaska right now. it's colder in vegas than fairbanks. that doesn't happen often, hardly ever. as far as the forecast goes in vegas, maybe an inch on the grass, possibly maybe a half inch. not a lot. but enough to hopefully make it look too pretty and not too treacherous on the roads. the windchill not fun either. san francisco, a winarizona. as we go into the overnight hours tonight, the cold air continues to be the story in the northwest. midnight forecast pretty much just cold out there in many spots. >> 25 degrees in las vegas. the new year on the strip is going to be different this year certainly. >> it is. >>> in the headlines this morning, from nbcnews.com, hold the meat. >> i would try it. >> i hear it has more fat. >>> before you're too quick to judge, apparently the vegetarian version got rave reviews. you have to eat 12 at once. >>> good news to report. george h.w. bush released from methodist hospital in houston. mr. bush spent the past week there after experiencing shortness of breath. >>> straight ahead, a look at the bigges

in fairbanks alaska. they moved it from china to fairbanks. i told them they should put a four by eight sign out there and say we take jobs from china and we bring them home, because those are all good paying. as a matter of fact, they are union jobs. so when people talk about how unions are destroying the country, actually, they brought jobs back that are union jobs paying good wages good benefits and took it from china and brought it to fairbanks alaska, a glass company. unbelievable what they do. they do business not only in alaska and hawaii and other places. so i listened over and over again today and i want to make sure people -- and also i should mention housing prices are up. new housing starts are up, which is important because that's part of the construction industry and creates jobs and also make sure we have competition so prices are stabilized over time. retail sales are strong. i know this. i have no idea if my colleague has ever been in business. he talked about the 179 depreciation. i have actually used it because i'm in a smal

the next two years he traversed the nation working for various industrial outfits in oakland, fairbanks, alaska, san francisco, milwaukee, finally arriving in new york whether he married a german native who worked as a live-in maid for a wealthy family on park avenue. en they made residents in a new york neighborhood which was a very german neighborhood. the german neighborhood of new york. real center of german life including after the rise of hitler, nazi supporters, the most public of which were the goose stepping members who famously had a rally in madison square garden, filled madison square garden with that the supporters in 1939. william sebold took seriously the oath when he became an american citizen and pledged i absolutely and entirely renounce allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, state or sovereignty. i had nothing to do with hitler anymore later said. i was an american citizen. so when he was contacted by regina officials as promised several months later he initially refused a startling offer to go to the united states as an agent for the german military espionage servic

because i can pull fish out of a stream and then cut them up and grill them there in alaska and there i am just outside fairbanks- >> it sounds you got a pretty good life. manhattan, dallas, alaska. >> i don't accumulate a lot of stuff. i like to travel. i'm not a materialistic person. so my apartment is not full of crazy things. i travel a lot because i want those experiences. we try to go to the salmon run every fall in alaska. i am in morocco on assignments. that was actually for work. you know western sahara. i disputed territory south of morocco proper. >> for "new york times" work? >> no it was for a think tank in dc. the religion & public policy institute wanted to do a press tour so they invited me to go and i came home and wrote about the experience for a number of publications. but i just -- i love to travel. i love to get out and see the world and especially see this country. i think i've been 48 states. i think there's nothing better than really getting to know the country you live in. >> would your parents be able to explain why you've gotten yourself into all this? does it make sense to them? >> no