that's also where weather channel meteorologist jim cantore is tonight. did i have it about right at the top of the broadcast saying this is one of the more unusual things weather does anywhere on the planet? >> reporter: absolutely. it's going to do it again tonight, unfortunately, brian. what we're going to see is more of a typical santa ana. in other words, winds will have more of an easterly component. and come down through the simi valley and san fernando valley. last night what made this so unusual here and what caused what looks like as you and i have both been in, hurricane or tornado damage, we had a northerly component in that wind. even still, 80- to 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts. just incredible. tonight they may be a hair tamer. but areas that didn't get it last night could very well get it tonight. once again, unusually cold and breezy conditions expected tonight right through the weekend. >> just thankful it isn't the height of fire season. jim cantore in pasadena. jim, thanks. >>> now to the foreclosure crisis. the attorney general of the c

jim cantore in pasadena. jim, thanks. >>> now to the foreclosure crisis. the attorney general of the commonwealth of massachusetts announced she is suing five of this nation's largest banks, accusing them of unlawful, deceptive practices that harmed borrowers and led to people being thrown out of their homes illegally. and she said she is going the make the banks pay. we get the story from our senior investigative correspondent lisa myers. >> reporter: today, massachusetts attorney general march that coakley accused five big banks of making the foreclosure crisis worse. deceiving homeowners about loan modifications, unfair and deceptive foreclosure practices, and pervasive use of fraudulent documents, including robo-signing. >> this seeks be accountability for the banks cutting corners and rush to go unnecessarily foreclose homeowners without following the rule of law. >> reporter: the lawsuit comes on the heels of complaint by county property records officials, including john o'brien of salem. he accuses the banks of turning his office into a crime scene.

the weather channel's jim cantore has more from pasadena, california. >> obviously the clean up continues in one of the worst situations they have dealt with. they are cutting this tree apart piece by piece and taking it and grounding up all the limbs. of course it's not just the part that's down. we are talking about the part that's still hanging. they are cutting that part of the tree as well and taking that down and grinding that. it will be a danger tonight when the next batch of 60 to 80 mile per hour winds move in. here's the situation. we have about 6,000 people here in pasadena without power. we haveç several of the roads blocked by trees like this that are down. it's just clean up. the winds have died down at this point and they are expected to pick up again today. thank goodness at least at this point we have no fires to contend with. pretty much all day tomorrow. >> thank you very much. now to decision 2012, there reports governor romney is ready to go on the attack against newt gingrich. romney's biggest threat to the gop nomination at this point specifically not only will th

sheets, and this is jim cantore. he goes yeah, did you just extend out the three-day forecast for andrew? i said yet come to keeps going the direction it's heading in the coming between the outer banks south florida. he says to never do that again. i have every emergence the manager call me. sorry sir, i will not do that again. after i hung up the phone, i said i think i learned a little something about the tropics. and i learned that, you know, you've got to go with your guys sometimes. sometimes it's wrong, but in retrospect the storm moved faster and we all know the rest of the story. katrina was definitely the worst storm ever once in. we have some bad information about a place to set up in how high they were above sea level. we lost four vehicles. aides many of these with cream cheese on them for two days, slept in the car and all the fun stuff we been in the field and of course i didn't matter. it was the hardship, seeing people's lives torn from them, just like that. the whole mississippi gulf coast changed ov

also on wednesday, jim can tory -- jim cantore from the weather channel during a luncheon in the club ballroom. hitt at 9:00 a.m. on friday, irina bekova, the director of the u.n. scientific organization will take questions regarding the cut in u.s. funding to the organization following the vote of the unesco conference to admit palestine on october 31st. ok. please we get started, bu turn off your cell phones and other gadgets. we are already getting some noise and invariably we will get that. turn them off. and now, our guests. ben cohen and jerry greenfield, the co-founders of ben & jerry's, inc., will explain how they share many of the values they share with the occupy wall street business because they consider it good for business to get more americans back to work. they want to talk about why and how business leaders should work to reduce inequality and ito help the occupy movement. they built a storefront into a $330 million empire. ben cohen growth and went to school in long island and it is there he met greenfield and the two have remained close friends ever since. they are j

we got jim cantore from the weather channel, to talkç to u about 2011 was a crazy year in weather, aillion, we can't afford those kind of situations. we can't control the weather. we can control how we prepare for it. >> doctor, that's graphic is astounding. heat waves. hurricanes. and of course, the big snows that fell in chicago, but also here in the northeast this year. >> the sad truth is, we can do something about the weather and we have been doing something about the weather, we have making it more and more unstable and we have been running away from that. your graphic here is really shocking. how many disasters have hit the u.s. if you did a worldwide map, you would see the same thing. massive floods and typhoon and looked at what happened in japan, we could have an earthquake combatted with a tsunami. >> we got to ask you before we go, in 2012, the world is going to end -- >> we're hoping -- we thought it might be our last annual issue, rumors that hollywood has run with it the mayan calendar has predicted the end of the world in 2012. if you want to go out in style, make you

[inaudible] >> you have been watching a portion of jim cantore's recent appearance at the national press>> next the supreme court hears the separation of church and state case at issue whether a person who works for a religious organization can sue for discrimination. the case was on a table of evangelical lutheran church and school curses the equal employment opportunity commission. who try to return to work after taking time off for a sleep disorder. the school refused to take the teacher back and fired her when she threatened to sue under the americans with disabilities act. the supreme court heard this case on wednesday, october 6. a decision is expected before the end of the term and jan and this is an hour. >> mr. chief justice may and may it please the court? the trick is to not set the criteria for selecting removing the officers of government and government does not set the criteria for selecting or removing officers of the church. that's a bedrock principle and these respondents would repudiate it. they no longer seriously argue that cheryl parrish was not -- instead they argue

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