a mu one hitting seattle down to medford, and that means rain.u're waking up with rain there, and temperatures m 40s for the most part. it will be a sunny one for vegas and phoenix. here's the forecast for you. 33, denver, with more clouds than sun, and, yes, some snow m upper reaches. then salt lake city, 41. 73, phoenix with sunshine, and we'll flip over and give you a sneak preview of your wednesday. go up to idaho and 55 for wednesday with a partly sunny sky. keeping the rain up many seattle, but moving it in medford, going for 63 on your wednesday, and by wednesday in l.a., 77. plenty of sunshine there as well. that's a how about yuma, arizona. here up there in the 70s. nice with all that sunshine. that's a look at your tuesday forecast. >> ginger, huh. >>> well, oil runs the çstreet. recalls run wild, and an airline horror story you really are not going to believe. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. sfwlirchlgts plus, more on the manic up and downs of charlie sheen in the wake of his firing from one of tv's top shows

medford, 59. now, seattle does have that rain for today. rain is going to spread eastward, though, and kind of infiltrate the sunshine. clouds will too as we go into your thursday. that's where we see more medford, 55, with rain. boise, 57. the sunshine state for denver on thursday. 63 will be their high. that is a look at your regionaly make it to 80. and that's a look at your wednesday forecast. lynn. >> ginger, thanks. >>> well, oil settled. yet another new way to rent your movies. and the invention that can shield you from everythingç charlie sheen. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, does she own the word gaga? she seems to think so. >>> coming up, a major suspension for ohio state football and a miami heat have another reason to cry. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. the senate is expected to vote this afternoon on a pair of competing budget plans to fund the government for the rest of th

then we look at medford also to have rainshowers. a little dryer in l.a.65. 75 today in phoenix with partly sunny skies. denver, a little bit of icy weather. micked precipitation type of day. then we'll look at tomorrow. why don't we go ahead and get a little bit brighter down in vegas at 64 for your tuesday? full ol sunshine. portland, you'll get rain. seattle, too. 52 and 48 respectively. a bit more rain up there on tuesday. if you are watching us on kntv nbc 11 in california's bay area, visit a small piece of the australian outbackç and see fi fuzy koalas at koala crossing at the pacific zoo. that's your pacific event of the day. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. no big surprises in the box office as gun slinging lizard won the box office showdown. eye ramgo" easily took the top spot with $38 million while it fell m low range of expectations. it still had the best non-holiday opening so far this year. >>> and then there's the sci-fi romance thriller the adjustment bureau starring matt damon and it is a big hit w

the temperatures out there today on the west coast, it's a chilly morning in medford, warm in arizonaphoenix by the way yesterday had their first 90 degree day of the year. and on much of the west coast is actually going to be much cooler today. it's not going to be much in the way of warmth. there's clouds even down in l.a. showers around portland. so it's not a horrible st. paddy's day forecast but on the cool side with showers in oregon. now here's a look at the weather outside your window.ight. friday forecast coming up, lynn. >> thanks so much. >>> coming up, stocks tumble, prices surge and the world's most expensive dog in the world. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. with over a month to go before this generation's fairy tale wedding, proof that quick commercialization of the event may have moved too fast. >>> coming up -- the heat are thunder struck, the president makes his final four picks and one nfl star is switching sports. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top he

only in the 30nd from medford, northward. we're not bad from l.a. to fine igs.emperatures in the 70s. as our friends to the north here with the clouds, occasional showers, it's going to be a cool friday in the pacific northwest. that's a look at your friday struggling. cloudy. only 43 degrees. weekend forecast coming up. >> bill, thanks. also coming up, investors wait for reassurances on america's jobs, and is facebook fueling marriage problems? a newer on theic liz art tadz on a new york politician at the movies. who will win? >> coming up, the magic stun the heat, and if there was a work stoppage in the nfl, one league is ready to step in and fill the void. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning.ç four years after a retired fbi agent mysteriously vanished inside iran, u.s. officials say they have proof he's alive and may be in southwest asia. it remains unclear who is holding robert levinson, but the man's family says they are, quote, tremendously enc

medford, you're going to have showery weather to deal with along with our friends throughout the intermountain west. we're dry in california today. arizona, is going to be one of the warmer spots over the next couple days, near 80 tomorrow in phoenix. l.a. a little cool today, tomorrow we give you sunshine, a nice friday too. 70 to end your work week. if you're watching us on king 5 news in seattle, washington, visit a colony of flightless birds from peru, watch them swim and learn about their habitat at the penguin exhibit at the woodland park zoo, that's your pacific event of the day. >>> here's an early look at the morning's headlines in entertainment. if the marketplace is the true test of stardom, justin bieber just passed with flying color. would you doubt it? the 17-year-old's hair clippings have been sold for more than $40,000. bieber chopped his trademark hair style and then he donated the leftovers to ellen who sold them on ebay for charity. >>> superman's mom got a make-over. diane layne will play the usually much more matronly martha kent in the new untitled man of steel film sched

notice, we really didn't pick up much in vegas, medford. this was southern california's big storm.currently the storm is kicking through. it's actually moving, finally. it's still going to be rainy this morning. there's going to be some showers. you may even see some hail mixing in with some of the thunderstorms during the day. if we get enough instability out there. the heavy rain has ended. tloois that threat of it. now the jet stream, the big dip here to the south, and as that cubings on shore, we will watch the temperatures. very chilly, too. l.a., more showers are arriving as we speak. the mountains still with the snowshowers. it looks like vegas, some of the rain is now right over the top of you. as far as the snow goes, not a lot of additional more or less up through idaho and the northern rockies. today's forecast, though, still thunderstorms. let's look a we'll do it all over again. it looks like tomorrow finally will be a dryer day. later hopefully the west has seen the worst of it and maybe now we can get a break. >> all right, bill. thank you. >>> well, at&t gobbles. g

seattle, medford and portland. that will be nice. your skies. go up to portland you know you have rain, 62. >> that's a look at your thursday forecast. lynn? >> thanks. coming up a big day for big blue. price gouging a pregnancy drug, and bye-bye greenback. our early morning businesscc1: headlines are straight ahead. today is her big day in court. don't expect any resolution to her problems. >> coming up, controversy in the big east tournament. kevin love stands alone and a hockey goal that will make you dizzy. you're watching "early today." c: >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. the senate has rejected a house budget plan with deep spending cuts as well as a democratic alternative with milder reductions. white house officials say the votes should turn a page and lead to more productive talks to fund the federal government for the rest of the year. >>> illinois has become the 16th state in the country to abolish the death penalty. governor pat quinn signed the lan

we're at 41 in medford. 43 in seattle.orm system has been pushing on shore for the last two days. a big storm it was, and now it's just a moisture plume. cold front is trying to head through california and montana. at the current time a lot of clouds. don't count on a lot of sunshine on the west coast, and there are areas of steady rain. it will be more scattered this afternoon, but the heaviest of it is now up here in the central cascades. sacramento is getting a little bit of a break. heavy snow outside of reno and tahoe and outside of mount shasta too. further up in the pacific northwest, yesterday reports of hail formed during the afternoon. that's what we thought could happen with some of the thunderstorms. it's a similar scenario today. scattered showers out there. maybe a stray thunderstorm or two. your forecast today, more unsettled weather. much of the west. we do keep that moisture out of arizona, though, and in southern california, but you will see mostly cloudy skies. that's a look at your a lot of this storm.

an inch of rain in seattle and portland half an inch in medford.tories and images into our homes. they are pictures that many people can't turn away from, but parents are increasingly concerned about the impact of these images on their children. and maech many of us don't know the best way to talk about will this with our children, so joining us to help us out dr. jennifer hartstein. i will say this hits home to for me. i have a 4-year-old and he keeps saying the waves can't come to new york city. >> they really don't understand especially at four what that means. they don't understand that it's already happened and it isn't happening again. >> so what is the best way to have in discussion with your child? >> i want to provide accurate information. you don't want to say everything is fabulous, nothing will happen to you, because you can't back that up. you want to wait for specific questions. you don't have to get into all other details. an you'll probably have to repeat it many times. >> you mention be accurate, keep it simple. so just how much de

this weekend on c-span 3, ed mullah medford of the participation of african- americans in the civil war and our 30th president. and the 175th anniversary of the dade massacre of florida. the first american war fought over slavery. for a complete weekend schedule online, go to c-span.org to have the schedule e-mail to you. >> potential republican presidential contenders have been stopping in key primary states. this weekend michelle bachman is in nashua, new hampshire at a fund-raiser for the republican state committee. >> "washington journal" continues. host: time for a look at politics going on in washington. with us is laura meckler and patricia murphy. we took a look at the arrivals at the gridiron dinner last night. national journal headlines, " obama and daniels, he got the special musical instrument -- introduction at the dinner. as the band struck up a familiar chord he belted out -- born in the usa. [laughter] patricia, what does something like that say? guest: as much as everyone can talk about politics, it is still a relatively closed culture between those that are indeed. you

i'm happy that my deputy administrator ron medford is here who is another alumnus of the consumer product safety commission and another proud warrior in the fight of keeping people safe and alive. and throughout his entire career in government service. and it really is for both of us as the two agency leaders to come to work every day with our portfolio. as jack alluded to, this job is really -- i tell folks and people think i'm being hokey about this -- but i personally think i have the best job in federal government. is i mean, i guess for me. i can only speak from my own experience. but it's the best job in federal government. i have the opportunity to work with fantastic technology, companies around the planet that are looking at ways to improve individual mobility. things that sort of enrich every american's life. the one thing that i know because i have anytime my car, people have personal relationships with their vehicles. there is nothing more personal than a car. and the voice al exciting choice that you make at the dealership, trying to figure out what you want on the car. and t