kearney street facility. the va and city got together and collaborated to make this happen. so once it's full, we will be managing some of the work there will be providing the 24/7 coverage where we have monitors to make sure everybody is safe. this is a really great thing and we are very appreciative of the people that have come together to make this work. i know i'm running out of time. i just want to close by saying that i think the collaboration is critical and that this is going to take everyone working together as partners. everyone has to work together, agencies, hud, the city, the va, it is going to take like hilary clinton said, "it's going to take a village" to get through this. i would like to quote -- "we need the vision of inter being, we belong together. we could not cut reality into pieces. the well being of this, is the well being of that. we have to do things together. veterans have experienced that make them the light at the tip of the candle and the war and the way to peace" in healing the

we had the grand opening or the soft opening of our 250 kearney building two weeks ago which was a blast. really you have to come down and look at it. it's right in the financial district right where a house for veterans appreciate 80% in recovery and walk outside around the block and smoke a cigarette and not faced with all the demons like myself like myself in recovery are. the city is doing great things for the veterans and other organizations. i would love to continue my position. i am in the honeymoon. i can't stop now so please let me continue with the local homeless coordinating board. i spoke with nancy pelosi about the opening of st. anthony's and quite an event and chat with her about some of the things going on in san francisco and she promised to speak with her boss, barack obama in a few days and i am waiting for the call from the white house. i know it will come any day. thank you for the time here and the original appointment and i would like to continue pressing on. thank you. >> thank you. kim armbruster. >> not yet. is kim here? >> [inaudible] >> okay. erick brown. >> g

. >>> busy day on job for firefighters in kearney, new jersey. this is on the third floor. fully engulfed. you see this woman on the fire escape? she is having problems getting down. somebody does come and try to assist her. they pull that last part of the fire escape down. firefighters on the scene put the ladder up. they do assist this woman getting down. during the rescue you could hear what's going on in the apartment. it appears firefighters are knocking things out of the windo trying to make sure all the flames in this apartment are out. you see they do get this thing under control. the cool thing is that thing does not spread to that whole building. think of all the people who would be without homes this holiday season. >> detroit has been rocked by a powerful storm. close to 200,000 people without power. lots of downed power lines. somebody captured one of those power lines down on the ground. this guy creeps closer and closer to it. the passenger feels like i do. just as they get close -- whoa! >> the guy's like why are you driving by? >> you are going to jump in f

here is one special dramatic example, kearney, nebraska hit a high of 71 degrees this afternoon, it will be in the low teens by tomorrow. over the course of the next week the coldest air since last winter arrives and frigid temperatures will stretch deep into the deep south. we are joined from boston by eric fischer. eric, what is happening? >> jeff, winter early and often is going to be a theme this year. frost is across the arctic and head to is south as we head to the week, down the rockies, well into texas, stretching into the midwest, by the end of the week, the only state really spared from the cold air is going to be florida, never quite gets in on the action, deep into the sunshine state. in terms of temperatures, by wednesday, the cold really is taking control, single digits and teens here, places like cheyenne, denver, omaha, below freezing and staying in the twenties and by thursday morning when we are all waking up and this cold really worked its way eastward, look at some of these ubmperatures, single digits, some going sub zero here across the middle of the in addition and