lonnie quinn joining us at 12 after the hour. those are good pictures to see, that area you might recall buried in about ten feet of water. >> big problems early why err this year. >> any problems like that? >> i'll show you everything, all right. let's get right you to, what i've got for you. the satellite and radar picture shows clear skies on the eastern half of the country, not so clear on the western half of the country. that's a big winter storm. what's going on, those nice clear skies on the eastern half you can attribute to strong high pressure system, this high pressure system, it's like a linebacker, not allowing anything to get through. this storm is just staying put ands it going to sit and spin. that western storm, it goes nowhere. it finally starts to move by tuesday. that means from now until then, the rockies, boy, you are picking up a lot of snow, winter storm warnings out there, how much snow? two to three feet. the skiers are loving it. jackson hole, beaver mountain, lake tahoe, all the resorts in the area two

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no. >> just you. >> 27. >> thank you lonnie. on a much more serious note an investigation under way into the electrical room fired aboard the luxury cruise liner the carnival "splendor." 4500 stranlded passengers and crew had to endure three days without lights, without hot food, or even hot showers before being led by tugboats back to port. cbs news correspondents john blackstone has the latest. >> reporter: the not-so-shipshape carnival "splendor" sits in the harbor while a team from the cruise line is assessing the damage. the national transportation safety board originally said it would lead the investigation into the engine room fire that shut down virtually all the power on the ship. but now, that won't happen. >> their argument is, well, the united states government doesn't have the jurisdiction. >> reporter: because the ship is registered in panama. critics say cruise ship operators use the so-called flag of convenience to skirt tougher regulations in the united states. so, officials from panama will be taking the lead,

lonnie quinn joining us at 1 1 >> make it a great day wherever you are. speaking of the big storm out west, rebecca, i told you i would [ inaudible ] this one because if it generates winds on thanksgiving, the thanksgiving balloons can't fly as high in the sky and have to be brought to the surface. a very big deal around here we'll watch closely. >> it is a very big deal around here. the big question in britain this morning where and when will prince william and kate middleton tie the knot? speculation reached a fever pitch the royal couple has a place, closing in on a date but keeping mum for now. our correspondent mark phillips is live from buckingham palace. great to see you, mark. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. well, at the time the engagement was announced we were told the wedding plans themselves would follow shortly. but if we've learned anything about william and kate over the eight years of their relationship is, they don't rush into things. still, even without an official announcements, some of the details of the discussions o

i have my friend this is lonnie. so lonnie, i am sitting here admiring your beautiful piece. tell me about it, please. >> well, i carve mostly songbirds and birds of prey both in miniature and life size. my work i started doing this in about 1979 carving duck decoys because of my interest in duck hunting which led to a greater interest in carving other types of birds. it led to songbirds and birds of prey. >> reporter: how long does it take? i wanted to ask you about this earlier. how long? wow, it's so tedious. >> well, it's difficult to tell sometimes because you're working on different pieces at different stages. but piece like this itcally takes 4 to 6 weeks. >> reporter: do you have a favorite. >> my favorite group are the sisor tail fly capers and then any of the birds of prey. >> reporter: okay. you like do research on this -- do you do rearch on -- do you do research on this in. >> yes it's very important because like nick is one of the main criteria. >> reporter: thanks for your time. now we will head over to robert. thanks so. you are in the master gallery. >> i am

and lonny was talking to me about how he learned to make gumbo. he had been in an orphanage as a young child, ran away, went to new orleans, and when he was 11 or 12 talked himself into getting a job in a restaurant. he learned how to cook there. and by learning how to cook, he learned that he was an artist. and it was something so moving that he was making his gumbo and talking about these tales of making a gumbo and art. it was a real eipiphany for me. it showed me americans are making more than dinner, they're making a life. a piece of their lives to share with people. >> and it's interesting because you're doing this in what some think of as the age of the celebrity cook, right? or the celebrity chef. these people are decidedly not celebrities. there are a few celebrities in this book, but most of these people are the glorious american amateur, they're every day people who spend a lot of time figuring out how to make a buefrl meal, and celebrate their place and their family, and their own personality, by what they cooked. >> a lot of people wo

let's go back outside to the plaza with lonnie quinn.ood morning to you. enthusiastic little crowd behind me. i have birthday people. you are 18. who is irene? where are you from? >> long island, new york. >> happy 13th birthday. i have another birthday here. this is more vague. sharing my birthday with "the early show." i asked you if -- what's your name? >> debbie. >> the whole month? >> i celebrate a whole month. >> you gotta like that. let's talk about weather because i have the hot spots and the chilly temps much the hottest spot is tucson at 85 and the coldest is ft. drum, new york down to a low of 21. the best weather is osh kosh, nebraska with sunshine and 74 degrees, not to be confusioned with wisconsin. osh kosh had sunny skies as a high pressure system is in control for basically 99.9% of the country a. i beautiful day albeit chilly in spots. here's a closer look at the weather. happy birthday, irene. >> jingle bells? a lot of things happen around here. they are singing jingle bells because my shout out goes to everyone in bir

in africa in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight when more than two hundred people were killed lonnie will now get at least twenty years in prison. a swedish prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the man who founded the whistleblower website wiki leaks over allegations of rape juliana saw she was accused of raping a woman in stockholm two months ago and sexually assaulting another in the town the case was dismissed after its surface and all this but was reopened on appeal strongly denies the charges and the prosecutor says investigators have been unable to meet a song for questioning. well it's official russia has the most smokers per capita in the world this is districts just released are yet another reminder to the government that it needs to up it's going to help people quit as are too stacey bivins reports they're not taking this battle line down. brief but graphic health organization and the russian government are hitting the airwaves with a campaign to stamp out cigarettes. and a nation where a pack of smokes is sometimes cheaper than a bottle of water a new study shows that more

property bad guy lonnie from tanzania was cleared of hundreds of other counts including murder charges at the court in new york he was arrested four years ago over his involvement in the nine hundred ninety eight bombings of u.s. embassies in africa which killed over two hundred people. here at least fifty people have been arrested one injured near the american embassy in athens during a rally marking a nine hundred seventy student and i dictate or should uprising more than twenty thousand demonstrators clashed with riot police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades police also reported clashes in the southern city of atrocity people were venting their anger at the u.s. support for the challenge which then ruled greece. a crisis is over the plight of roma gypsies is spreading across you are some e.u. countries blame the roma for of rising crime and tackled by the porting down but the situation in their native countries is even worse with most roma living in appalling conditions our teasdale bushell reports from bulgaria. seems like we could become common across europe the mood o

. >>> the brutal murder of a hollywood publicist lonnie shasen.whitaker reports for wjz. >> reporter: nearly 1,000 members of the entertainment world gathered for shasen's funeral. >> he gives a speech so well thought out. >> reporter: many remain stunned by shasen's violent death. she was shot five times while driving through beverly hills tuesday. no shell casings were found on the scene. there are reports that shasen told friends she thought she was being followed as far back as march. >> there is some pressure to bring in the lapd into this investigation because the beverly hills police are not very experienced in solving homicides. >> reporter: investigators are reviewing surveillance footage from a movie premier attended by shasen the night before the shooting. >> we have sources telling us they are looking at ronny shasen's personal finances for potential irregular activity. >> reporter: those attending sunday's funeral don't believe shasen lived a secret life or had an enemy capable of murder. autopsy reports are expected in two weeks and

he and lonny, another name you might recognize, did an informal study at harvard. they looked at the list of incoming black freshmen, and just picked off the african surnames and found that was more than half of the incoming black freshmanmen at hard record. so the sons and daughters of immigrants are doing very well. the best educated group of immigrants coming to the united states today, the african immigrants. better educated than the asian, south asias, europeans, anybody, the best educated group. they don't come with a lot of money but come with a lot of education, intact families, educational aspirations and they're going to have a big impact in years to come. as the other component of emergent group was biracial americans. there there were laws outlawing misogeny. strom thurmon called it misogyny iation, and that was in the 60s and 70s, and a time when social barriers between white people and black people were tumbling, and i know in the generation of my sons, who are 27 and 20, they have tumbled. it's just not there or they don't feel it's there they've gro

he and lonnie gineer, another name that you might recognize from the past as another harvard professor, did an informal study at harvard. they looked at the list of incoming black freshmen and just picked off the african surnames. they found that was more than half of the incoming black freshman at harvard. there have been more rigorous and scientific studied that have confirmed the same thing. so the sons and daughters of of immigrants are doing well. best educated group are the african immigrants. better educated than the asians, south asians, they don't come with a lot of money, but a lot of education. in fact, families educational aspirations they do very well. i think they are going to have a big impact in years to come. the other component of the group is biracial americans. we forget only in 1967 in the decision from the supreme court ruled that law outlawing what used to be -- where i came from in south carolina rahm thurman used to may it. we didn't know at the same that strom of guilty of it himself. [laughter] [applause] >> but that was only in 1967. this was in the middle o

. >> lonnie price, great actor and director put the evening together and then captured it on film, whichvid hyde pierce do when he takes a break? go sailing? >> i don't know. probably go play football. >> you're such a macho kind of guy. >> oh, shut up. happy thanksgiving to you guys. >> enjoy the rest of your team. we'll see you in a couple of weeks. >>> coming up next she's the loud-mouthed mom on "everybody loves raymond." >> she knows how adorable she is. >> i know. i'm home. [ pigeons cooing ] they're hungry. [ male announcer ] of all the things that happen on your wooden surfaces, disinfecting has to be one of them. clorox disinfecting wipes. safe on wood. hard on germs. on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> for nine years