minnesota nice, nonexistent on facebook.ave grandma's grape salad at thanksgiving said no one from minnesota. ever. opined one. i have lived through 74 thanksgivings, both in minnesota and wisconsin, and have never even heard of grape salad much less been served it, grumbled another grape griper. the times public editor replied saying the paper had committed an epic recipe fail adding that food is really regional, not state-by-state. >> it is no way representative or even a good idea because i tasted it after the uproar. it's terrible. >> reporter: in minnesota, the grape salad is leaving them mighty sour. kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> this is just getting started. we're back in a moment with the story behind the embrace after a week of so many troubles. ♪ people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults w

we have that in minnesota. congress needs one too. >> raising the debt ceiling is not authorizing new spending. all it is doing is authorizing the payment of what is happened. you tie the budget situation to the debt ceiling, you would end up shutting down the government, wwhich is exactly what they did a year ago. would all like e to not raise the debt ceiling, but we have to pay our bills. raise the didn't debt ceiling, we would end up defaulting on our debt. >> jp, your next question please. >> regarding national security. you favor using ground troops against isis or isil if the current air campaign proves ineffective. >> no. >> a sustinct answer. >> i think the bigger question here though is the failed administration. it is too bad that it took so president obama to recognize the isil threat. recognizes eone who these patterns -- that is why we need change in washington. to shake things up. we have a president who sort of implement today travel ban. i people around this district asking me -- travel this eb

minnesota nice? nonexistent on facebook. can't wait to have grandma's grape salad at thanksgiving, said no one from minnesota. ever, opined one. i have lived through 74 thanksgiving, both in minnesota and wisconsin and have never even heard of grape salad, much less been served it, grumbled another grape griper. the times public editor replied saying the paper had committed an epic recipe fail, adding that food is really regional, not state by state. >> it is no way representative or even a good idea, because i tasted it after the uproar. it's terrible. >> reporter: in minnesota, the grape salad is leaving them mighty sour. kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> i'm actually just texting with a friend from minnesota. she said she does know what grape salad is. >> she does? she might be the minority there. from the reston holiday parade, had a blast ringing in the holiday there is yesterday with do you go kammerer. i was emceeing and doug was helping. macy style like balloons. >> nice. >> thousands of people come out for this. small bus

minnesota is a bad team, the redskins arrest bad team. i know robert griffin has to knock the rust off. get away, let the stories go away, and move on. >> they actually get like five days off. >> vacation time. >> vacation time, relax, get healthy. i agree, let the noise quiet because they have a lot left in this seas

minnesota with two losses. and nebraska also has games remaining against those two teams. >> chris: you wonder which iowa team is going to show up. sometimes iowa is very good or very average. >> sean: 7-3 after their win today. if they do throw in the surprise every now and then. we were there for their home loss to iowa state which is a real head scratcher as the season goes along. tuesday night, espn2 the selection committee will reveal the latest rankings. find out who is in. top 25 ranking show presented by chick-fil-a is tuesday. and also on watchespn. >> chris: a report on madison. best time to deliver, santa. >> sean: lewallen heading for first down. hard to see the yard line now. he's at the 36 yard line. >> chris: again, a big proponent. i cannot reconcile in my mind putting somebody above somebody that you lose to head to head. i don't understand that. >> sean: unless there was great disparity in the records. >> chris: yeah. thank you. >> sean: tcu and baylor, each one lost teams starting the day. we

there was a narrowing moment in minnesota. you're about to see an officer who pulled over to help a driver when a tractor trailer comes barrelling in. just incredible there. luckily, no one was hurt. but a real reminder of the changers of winter driving. the deep freeze will sent temperatures 30 degrees below normal all the wail down to the gulf. we begin with abc's alex perez in the middle of the storm. >> reporter: the mild west, taking a beating tonight. marquette, michigan, buried under more than two feet of snow. and still falling. drivers venturing out to find covers and slick roads. those powerful snowstorms heading east today. in wisconsin, some places seeing more than a foot. here in minnesota, more than 580 crashes and 700 and 86 spinouts reported. car after car, no match for this slippery hill in dulutduluth. an exhausting 24 hours for minnesota snowplow truck drivers. tonight, we rode with tim, who says this snowstorm is one of the worst he's seen so early in the season. >> what you plowed once that looked good, it

so i decided to write a letter to the senator out in minnesota.e president. and i explained my story in the letter and asked for their help. it had been two whole years of waiting for them to charge victor. i thought that it was possible it would never get filed. after months, the local news in minnesota contacted me through an e-mail and said he heard about the story and wanted to see if he could help with some media, if it wouldn't help get the case rolling. >> to his followers, victor barnard is a spiritual leader, but the pine county sheriff calls him a pedophile, plain and simple. and the ones who finally had the courage to come forward may have been his youngest victims. >> and it seemed after that aired everyone seemed to be making it like a really big deal. >> good evening. i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. bombshell tonight, how did this happen? >> there are so many aspects to this story, nancy. >> these parents, they have to be on another planet. this is a perfect case for prosecution. >> they went to the media. tha

that's a 21-yard gain and minnesota is moving. later in the drive, he hands off to his running back, matt aziada, his third touchdown of for him and that was your game winner. vikings beat the redskins with 29-26. with more from minnesota -- >> the drama started even before kick-off today. the team's two buses crashed into each other and then a report claiming that robert griffin iii lost the locker room. the team denies any of that and say robert is indeed the team leader. it's the defense who caused the team's loss. >> we believe in him. it's not his fault that we loxt. it's defense lost. that's not the quarterback. the quarterback did his job. >> you still want robert griffin iii at quarterback. >> absolutely. absolutely. everybody loves him. i don't understand any qug him as a player in the locker room. we all love him. >> we are in d.c. and it is robert griffin. they are going to try to tear us down and him down. we're going to stay unit nighted as a locker room. that's that. >> that's a small time reporter reporting. in that

. >> i'm from minnesota originally. this jacket was mailed to me from someone in minnesota and it's not warm enough. maybe that's why they sent it. >> it's not a matter of whether people like winter or not, most people just aren't ready for winter yet. >> at least get to us mid november before we get used to it. >> if you are having trouble coping with the dropping temperatures, be glad you are not in other parts of the country dealing with snow. parts of the northeast received heavy snow and high winds knocking down power lines and in the carolinas they are dealing with eight inches of snow. in the west winter storm warnings are posted in higher elevations from idaho and montgomery to colorado -- montana and colorado. >> watch for the bus stop forecast and conditions as you head out to work beginning at 4:30 in the morning. >> d.c. police have ruled the death of a baby boy born just last month as a homicide. officers say they found the baby unconscious wednesday at a home on trenton place southeast. tom is live with wh

the seventh is the largest district in minnesota. we will now start with the opening remarks from both of the candidates. they have 90 seconds to make opening remarks. the coin toss was one by representative heaters in. -- peterson. >> i want to thank my seventhents in the district for letting me serve them for the last 24 years. i am somebody that works across the island gets things done. the top of the agricultural committee. beennking member, i have writing the farm bills. of thisier a compost congress was getting a farm bill done. it took longer than we wanted. we passed a very good farm bill that covers farm safety nets which is what most people think about when they think about the farm bill, there is a lot more to it. we had a good conservation title that expanded significantly the conservation parts of the farm will. world development has allowed us to build new hospitals and other facilities across the district. it has been a very important thing for this district. now we are in the process of getting it implemented. we are

. >>> desde doc ta del norte a minnesota anuncian que el invierno ha llegado mucho antes de lo normalta invernal astro comenzÓ el recorrido ayer en la regiÓn de las rocosas y grandes lagos arrojando 14 pulgadas hoy dÍa en minnesota recibieron un pie de nieve decenas de accidentes paralizaron las carreteras del estado y muchos amanecen con nieve. con kim a las condiciones invernales tÍpicas de inicio de aÑo y no principio de noviembre. >>> no lo esperÁbamos no mas de repente llegÓ. >>> cubre la mayor parte del paÍs, la nieve continuarÁ cayendo rumbo este y antes de finalizar la semana mÁs de 200 millones de personas sentaran el impacto de la tormenta. >>> es una que podrÍa traer temperaturas de 20-40 grados por debajo de lo que es normal para estas fechas y pueden ver que la masa de aire frÍo estÁ entrando a los estados unidos y habrÍa que entrar al sur como texas es mÁs gran parte de los estados unidos. en los prÓximos dÍas. >>> algunos aÚn dicen no estaban listos. >>> no estaba lista ni tengo mis botas. no y noÉ me gusta el invierno tampoco. >> en aeropuertos de la regiÓn decenas de

. >> reporter: hillary has been a licensed private investigate junior in minnesota for 15 years. last year a shocking discovery when the tables turned on her. >> it came out of the blue. john and i received separate letters saying an individual from the dnr accessed our driver's licence information and has been terminated. >> john hunt at the minnesota government department accessed thousands of licence, mostly women. said. >> it opened a can of warms. >> pandora's box. >> reporter: she and husband john, a private eye, requested an audit of who else looked up their private data. they got back stacks of records. >> all the cities that looked up our information. the city we lived in. the amount of times our private information was accessed. >> reporter: what did you find out? >> we had numb rouse. >> queries. >> how many? 1400. >> 1400. >> yes. >> they looked up your information 1400 times. do you have any idea why? >> that's what we want to know. >> they discovered a spike in activity when hillary was featured on the local paper's front page. in a matter of days law enforce agents

is in minneapolis, minnesota. the scene whereby a bus crash involving redskins players and coaches happened. the good news is we know the coaches, players, staff, everybody is in the stadium right now. everyone is going to be okay. as far as what happened, to give you the truncated version from what we're getting from nbc4's dianna russini, they missed an exit, stropd abruptly and forced kind of a chain reaction. you can see the damage done to the front of the bus. there was a big spider shattering image there on the windshield. but as we mentioned, you can take a look right there, two buses -- this is actually the accident scene. it's still there. >> this is adina minneapolis right outside of minneapolis. the two buses right there over on an exit ramp. what we heard from diana was one of the police escorts missed the exit ramp t. one bus stopped and the other one came from behind and actually hit the other bus. so the good news aga looks like there have been no major injuries and all the team officials are tellin

it starts right now here in minnesota.ous snowstorm that we got, the first one of the year and believe me, driving in it is absolutely treacherous. it's very, very unsafe. i want to show you i-94 right now, the interstate that cuts through minnesota and i got to really give it to minnesota department of transportation. you can see cars moving relatively quickly for these kinds of conditions. we're talking about 13 inches of snow where i'm standing. this is unplowed snow. this was green brown grass yesterday and in about 14 hours this is what you're looking at here in st. cloud about 50 miles west of minneapolis. see this car back here? again this person came to work and left his car here, poor guy, and now look. he's got his whole trunk up with snow. he'll be stuck until the plows can get him out. of car in st. cloud, which is the -- every car in st. cloud which is the eighth biggest city in minnesota looks like that. it's only about 26 degrees, but the winds are really gusty, so it actually feels more like 10 degrees and

this is minnesota, a place whose name means the land of the clear blue waters in the original dakota language and the game is played on dakota lands. so the protests are against washington redskins and minnesota authorities to allow the game to go on in a place of rich native american history >>> we'll go our separate ways and say goodbye to the viewers in the united states on al jazeera america thanks for your company. there's more on the website as always. aljazeera.com. get the latest on all the stories we have been covering there. plenty of news, analysis and perspective - it's all there for you. aljazeera.com. >> a new business is rising in america's rocky mountain west. and sales promise to be brisk. >> i want to get $100 bucks dj shorts and $100 bucks of the tahoe. >> this past january, licensed shops in colorado began selling recreational marijuana to anyone 21 years of age or older. >> whoo that smells nice >> prices range from $14 to $25 a gram. >> what's the difference between the ultimate. i need the kemba and the kemba

minnesota with two losses. and nebraska also has games remaining against those two teams. >> chris: you wonder which iowa team is going to show up. sometimes iowa is very good or very average. >> sean: 7-3 after their win today. if they do throw in the surprise every now and then. we were there for their home loss to iowa state which is a real head scratcher as the season goes along. tuesday night, espn2 the selection committee will reveal the latest rankings. find out who is in. top 25 ranking show presented by chick-fil-a is tuesday. and also on watchespn. >> chris: a report on madison. best time to deliver, santa. >> sean: lewallen heading for first down. hard to see the yard line now. he's at the 36 yard line. >> chris: again, a big proponent. i cannot reconcile in my mind putting somebody above somebody that you lose to head to head. i don't understand that. >> sean: unless there was great disparity in the records. >> chris: yeah. thank you. >> sean: tcu and baylor, each one lost teams starting the day. we

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he loved minnesota and minnesota sports, and just a good friend. whether it was governing, it was baseball, doodling, whether it was family, whether it was bipartisanship, advising presidents, welcoming new members, advising and helping others, there was just know greater mentor, no greater public servant that minnesota er had in the wonderful bill frenzel and his life is an inspiration for us going forward and our nation is a better place because of bill and his inspiration will enable us to continue that great tradition forward and for us to make this great nation of ours a better place to live. thank you, mr. speaker and fellow members, for the opportunity to stand here and pay whomage to a great citizen of minnesota. mr. paulsen: i thank the gentleman for sharing his stories. next, i would like to yield to the gentleman from maryland, the minority whip, who served with a decade with bill, until bill retired in 1991 and that relationship continued after his retirement as both had a passion for working on the federal budget and bridging the gap b

heavy snow hitting wisconsin, montana and minnesota. look at the mess in central minnesota. oh, my.t. cloud, minnesota. expected to get slammed up to 16 inches of snow. police in the area responding to nearly 400 car accidents and 200 flights canceled at minneapolis airport. >> the deep freeze is spreading across the country. will it come your way? indra petersons has the answer. >> you said it. not me. there is snow out there. keep in mind northern portions of wisconsin as the low is exiting from the area. showers in the ohio valley, but where are you on the weather map? if you are here, you are great. if you are on the back side of this, maybe not so much. look at the temperature difference. billings,9 degrees. a huge contrast across the country. we dropped temperatures significantly. oklahoma from 80 yesterday down to 43. the cold air is not just hanging out in the dakotas or montana. it is spreading far down to the south. an example of yesterday with colorado at 62 in the morning. now with the windchill, it feels like 2 degrees. denver not feeling so hot this morning. in fact, e

we had about 14.5 inches is the highest total i saw in minnesota.inneapolis has a pretty good snow band on top of it. and snow will fly as we go through t throughout the morning through wisconsin. even chicago and milwaukee may get a burst of snow. >>> the thing to watch the blue colors is pretty much the cold. we take it today push it into the ohio valley tomorrow, and then by the time we get to thursday it covers a good half of the country. that's highs only in the 30s from oklahoma all the way to northern new england. it's coming. it's on the way. we're almost done with the snow that will end today. >> all right. quite a first impression. >> that's the problem. is it going to last? we don't know the answer. >>> president obama is in china today expanding the u.s.'s trade relations with beijing. while trying to pressure the government on everything from human rights to cybersecurity attacks, the u.s. and china have already agreed to drop tariffs on tech products and extend work and student visas which the president held has major breakthroughs. aw

and we explain why hundreds of native americans in minnesota are protesting against one of the country'sest known football teams. ♪ now, 24 suspected migrants have drown after a boat sank off the turkish city of istanbul and searching for survivors north of the striet and the boat thought to carry migrants from afghanistan and syria and seven people have been rescued and this is a hub for illegal migrants trying to reach europe and we are live from istanbul and have all the passengers been acquainted for now? >> not at the moment, sammy, we know this is an ongoing rescue operation and believe the boat set off this morning through the strait and headed to the black sea on somewhere around there it has capsized because it was overloaded and because it has been very windy so the weather has not been very good. fishermen who initially went to the rescue said this was a small pleasure boat to carry 7-9 people and the waters around istanbul and know so far 20 people have drown and six survived and clearly the boat must have been overloaded in some way as well as hitting the bad weather, the co

snow piled up quickly in minnesota. this was forest lake yesterday and forest lake at the same time today. police responded to more than 600 crashes as temperatures dropped, turning roads into sheets of ice. this snow will be followed by brutally cold arctic air surging in from the north. rapid city, south dakota, plunged from 53 to just 16 degrees in 24 hours shutting down the airport because of the dangerous conditions. springfield, colorado from 78 to 47 in one hour, 31 degrees. even more impressive, carr, colorado, dropped 22 degrees in six minutes. residents are preparing for the first major snowstorm in this part of the country. paul schmidt picked up the last snow blower off the rack. >> just been putting it off, putting it off. we usually don't get snow until after thanksgiving. but guess i was wrong. >> reporter: in nearby dalton, a semi loaded with live turkeys likely headed for someone's thanksgiving feast, skidded off the interstate. let's put this in perspective. on average this area picks up about nine inc

minnesota to new york. abc's gio benitez gets behind the wheel. >> reporter: as millions hit the road for their thanksgiving day destination, a powerful nor'easter dumps snow on every state from north carolina to maine. record snow totals just outside washington, d.c. and here in connecticut, the snow is coming down hard and fast. when most of us won driving. in fact, an estimated 41 million people will be on the roads this thanksgiving. that's the most in seven years. weather snarling traffic up and down the i-95 corridor. accidents littering the roadway. this car slild into a guardrail. a reck on i-77 in virginia, backed up traffic for seven miles. officials across the region issuing speed restrictions to slow drivers down. >> we're urging motorists to drive with additional care and allow more time to reach their destination. >> reporter: the midwest hit hard, too. parts of minnesota digging out from almost a foot of snow. and in iowa, this semitractor trailer jackknifed after hitting black ice. salt spre

a foot of snow and this is what drivers are facing in minnesota tonight. one family in wyoming capturing this outside their back window tonight. the wind chimes, no match for thor if rope shus winds there. and in denver this evening where they started the day at 69 degrees, they will end it in the teens. look at the wall tonight. that arctic air about to stretch all the way down to texas. 200 mile americans will feel this. ginger zee is standing by. but we begin with abc's alex perez, in the middle of the storm. >> reporter: the chaotic, wintry scene near duluth, minnesota, tonight -- car on top of car, icy conditions causing this 16-vehicle pileup. >> just kind of a landslide of cars, everything just slid down the hill. >> reporter: snow, ice and possible treacherous conditions for some 6 million people across eight states tonight. this time lapse shows how quickly the storm barreled in. complete gridlock as frustrated motorists tried to get moving. minnesota highway patrol responding to at least one fatality and more that 390 car accidents today alone. i

you saw pictures from minnesota and through dakotas. small temperatures here in the teens. cold enough for snow so it that is light, puffy powdery snow for them. >>> in the meantime we will see more warmth during the day tomorrow, high temperatures in the upper 60's some spots making it to 07 degrees as this cold front gets closer. good news is that cold air will maryland rate by the time it makes it to the eastern seaboard. pleasant day wednesday, front moves through makes it cold thursday and then we have an area of low pressure developing that could bring moisture thursday night to bring us rain or wet snow shower, that would be the extent of it but i will keep you posted as we get closer. overnight mainly clear not as cold low of 43. veterans day stellar with a high of 60 degrees. we will watch a piece of that polar air moving south, you can see core of the cold air already invading the the west, for us, it means a chill he end to the week with temperatures ten to 15 degrees below average by the time we make to it thursday and friday. tomorrow, 68. wednesday 65. and the

icy roads are now blamed for at least two deadly crashes in minnesota. there were close to 500 crashes across the state yesterday. more than a foot of snow fell in some areas, and several school districts have already canlled classes. we'll have much more on the storm heading east coming up in our next half hour. >>> right now, authorities in loudoun county need your help to find a man accidentally released early. christian was freed from the adult detention center but had not completed his 92-day sentence for assaulting a family member and violating a protective order. the loudoun county sheriff's office tells news4 it's now investigating how that early release occurred. >>> first at 4:00, opponents of a plan to expand a tunnel carrying csx trains in the district plan to challenge the project in court. the federal highway administration and d-dot recently gave final approve to double the size of the tunnel under virginia avenue between second and 11th streets in southeast. now, tomorrow opponents are filing a lawsuit and requesting a preliminary injunct

hardest hit will be minnesota and the dakotas where wind chills will dip below zero. blast putting much of the country in its icy grip. mark barger, nbc news. >> so now that the blast of cold air is headed our way, let's find out exactly when. let's head to storm team 4 meteorologist, veronica johnson. >> this is going to be hitting us at the end of the week. temperatures for your evening here, we're going to see them dip from the upper 50s to the mid 50s and then the low 50s by the time we get to 8:00. let's go ahead and switch over to the other computer system. we can show you that dip for your evening. again, it's under a clear to a mostly clear sky. there we go. no issues here. meanwhile, right now at 64 in d.c. 61 in gaithersburg. 61 in camp springs. but here comes the cold. your average high temperature now at 60 degrees. by the time we get to friday, we'll be talking about high temperatures around 45 degrees. friday, the weekend, and much of the next week, guys. this is going to be lasting a while. again, impacting so much of the country. when i return in just

minnesota state police say a police escort stopped short and that caused the chain reaction crash. nobody other than the drivers were wearing a seat belt. >> i was just really worried about the bus driver. the pwoeupbd shattered. thank god he had on his seat belt. all of us were good. it didn't affect the game. we were able to play. >> redskins players sigh hrus red could not suit up because he was experiencing back pain. coach gruden has a stiff neck but okay. . >>> the next time you stop to get fas, the major milestone we have crossed for the first time in years. >>> the historic day ahead in new york city as the new world trade center prepares to open its doo. >>> the roller coaster temperatures we will see the next 36 hours with your next 36 hours with your hour-by-h we all know washington's broken. but to fix it, it takes people who are independent.. and willing to work across the aisle. that's what i've tried to do in business, as your governor... and in the senate. because it's the only way we're gonna solve big problems... like cutting our national debt, fixing the va, or..

most of this has already fallen across minnesota. the cold has pushed in. low temperatures, 21 in minneapolis. nineus 1 in bismarck. >> jim, thank you. >>> the lava flow in hawaii has claimed its first house. the molten lock flowed underneath the home igniting the wooden blocks and the rest of the structure. the lava started in june. it's traveling about 3 to 5 yards an hour so the renters of this home had plenty of time to evacuate. families in florida's so-called sinkhole alley also evacuating. take a look at that. this sinkhole swallowed a car and most of a home's driveway in just 15 minutes. five other families nearby were also told to get out. more than 250 sinkholes were reported in the sunshine state last year. a third of them in just three counties. mgs. >> this is my hometown, sinkhole alley. the water underground washes away the limestone and the earth then kind of falls above, falls in. it's incredible. this is private property. it's not the government's responsibility to take care of this hazardous situation. it's the owners. >> it's a fact of l

. >> reporter: the chaotic wintry scene near duluth, minnesota.p of car, icy conditions causing this 16-vehicle pile-up. >> a landslide of cars. everything slid down the hill. >> reporter: snow, ice and possible treacherous conditions for some 6 million people across eight states. this time lapse shows how quickly thunderstorm barrelled in. -- quickly the storm barrelled in. complete gridlock as frustrated motorists tried to get going. minnesota highway patrol responding to at least one fatality and more than 390 car accidents, including this overturned truck carrying turkeys. in normal driving conditions, you are supposed to keep about three seconds of distance between you and the car in front of you. aaa says under conditions like this, snow and ice, stay about eight seconds behind to give you time to react. salt trucks and snow plows across the storm's path gearing up. and it's here just north of minneapolis they got slammed the hardest. more than a foot of snow in some areas. the big mounds of snow piling up. it's not over just yet. they are n

at least two deaths reported on minnesota roads.in minnesota, they've been stocking up on salt since spring. more than 276,000 tons already in place for what's to come. alex perez, abc news, minneapolis. >>> this cold front moves across the country. bitter cold is right now behind it. temperatures plunging 30 to 40 degrees below normal. >> our coverage with accuweather meteorologist jim dickey continues. good morning, jim. >> good morning, reena and t.j. arctic cold pushed all the way south to the gulf coast. temperatures well below average. thesior expected early morning lows. 23 in oklahoma city. 30 in dallas. 34 in memphis before the sunrises. and then you compare this to average from the northern rockies into the plains, 20 to 40 degrees below average across colorado and wyoming. and this cold will continue to spread eastward as we head to the end of the week. reena and t.j., back to you. >> jim dickey, thank you. >>> the governor of missouri says law enforcement is prepared to keep people safe once the grand jury decision is an

michele bachmann in minnesota retiring, so people will be spending a lot of time looking at the minnesota house race. >> we'll look at the results of the new york house race. >> michael grim has been hounded by indictments. >> throw him off the balcony, and he might still win. >> and his local paper endorsed him. >> he's from staten island and they have made hay out of it. he may win this race. >> shocking and disappointing. >> coming up we'll go west to utah. mia love tries to become the first black female in congress again. >> your next word is prior. >> prior. >> from spelling bees to shark nadeau. we look at the best and worst political ads of the season. >> welcome back to a special election day edition of power politics. i'm michael shure. >> i'm michael shuster, michael. it's great to have you here. >> we're going to focus on florida tonight. it's going to be one of the more interesting results to watch. >> the governor's race in florida between charlie cyst and rick scott. this has been the most expensive gubernatorial race. these guys hate each other's guts. they've run nothing b

still, i want to show you minnesota, wisconsin and michigan. that's because, not only will it be windy, but additional snow. some places a foot or a foot and a half in the u.p. of michigan in some sports. that's just the snow. but i think the cold is what you're going to notice most. let's take for example, denver. earlier today, almost 70 degrees at 10:00 p.m. 15 minutes later, they dropped more than 20 degrees. then four hours later, another 20. by early tomorrow morning, we're looking at denver, some almost 60 degrees colder than what they started at today. that arctic blast is going to move as far south as oklahoma. the wind chill will feel like the 20s. look at memphis by wednesday morning. all of this moves south and east as we go into the end of the week. >> all right, ginger zee here with us tonight. thank you. >>> now to the breaking news, that lava flow we've been tracking as it closes in on a town in hawaii. officials there say the lava has now reached the first home on the big island today. the house empty. the family had evacuated

minnesota not quitting.dgewater drives the vikings down the field under pressure hits an open greg jennings for the score. they add the two-point conversion and it's a three-point ball game. two minutes to go minnesota needs a stop. no time-outs left. on second and five. handoff to lacy. how about this. huge ten-yard gain here for the first down. that ices the game. green bay holds onto beat minnesota 24-21. >>> colts hosting the jaguars. wide receiver t.y. hilton's wife gave birth to his first child this morning. hilton said he would score for his daughter today. third quarter. andrew luck helps him out. wide open for the 73-yard touchdown. check out the celebration here by hilton. cradling the ball like baby. colts beat the jags 23-3. also tonight, sunday night football matchup on nbc will feature the cowboys and new york giants. let's move over to basketball now. the wizards definitely earned their day off today. the fellows coming off a four-set back-to-back game so far this season. impressive over the w

team in minnesota. here is john hendren to explain why. they came in trazitional -- traditional clones bearing incense and a plea. >> the name, washington redskins, represented football in the u.s. capital since 1932. many fans want to keep it that way. >> i don't think changing the names. it's not doing anything to change a need. >> if they change it, they'll have to buy new gear. >> you want them to keep it. >> i do. >> reporter: how about you? >> i agree, i don't think this is right. >> there's a lot of other names out there that come from derogatory terms. it's football, not a big deal. >> reporter: this is native american country, minnesota means land of clear blue water in the dakota language, and the arena is the university of minnesota stadium. native americans and supporters came by the thousands to tell the redskins to come up with a new name or go home. >> the name is not defensive. the fact that it's placed here is offensive. it is on dakota land. >> they are not welcome in our homes, because it is demeaning, dehumanizing and h

>> -- chippewa national forest in minnesota. before the big lighting, the tree will be decorated with thousands of ornaments made across fr people across the state of minnesota. the big reveal comes december 2nd at 5:00 when house speaker john boehner lights it on up. >> didn't chop that down from your front yard? >> no. >> that tree is thinking it's warm around here. you know? that's cold stuff up there in minnesota. cold north winds. this will be good tree decorating weather today if you're stringing up the lights on the house, whatever you'll be doing outside today. very cooperative weather for your weekend, both today and tomorrow. chance for showers coming in tomorrow. not until well after the sun goes down. your daylight hours this weekend looking good. outside, bright sunshine. tons of it, in fact, coming on down. it's a nice day to be out there. there's still a real chill left this morning. cold front went by yesterday. blustery, cool, friday afternoon. that led to a very cold start this morning. most of the suburbs were

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here in minnesota we balance our budget.e need someone to represent those minnesota values in washington. as your next congressman i will dedicate the can-do attitude and perseverance that have in washington. >> moderator: thank you. we will now move onto the questions. on to the questions. each candidate will have 60 seconds to answer a question and there will be an opportunity for some limited rebuttal. the first question will be asked by representative peterson and he will have the opportunity to answer first. we can start with the question. >> moderator: representative peterson, farmers are very concerned about the plunge in the corn prices and land values also are anticipated to drop. is there anything that washington can or should do to prevent a western minnesota retention? peterson: the new farm bill changed the way that we did the safety net. in the past we have direct payments that went up at the matter what the situation. we are going to the floor under prices and this is going to pay off given what's happened in

paul, minnesota.estigators trying to figure out why a patient would suddenly go on an attack. >> these images are disturbing. the dangers hospital staff can face on the job. abc's gio benitez with this story. >> reporter: the attack is sudden. nurses on the job. suddenly turning in fright as a 68-year-old man, a patient, comes blazing through a minnesota hospital with a large metal bar. the patient reportedly getting the bar by disassembling a hospital bed. the nurses running. he follows them injuring four. one nurse suffered a collapsed lung. >> by every stretch of the imagination this was a highly violent incident. >> reporter: police confronted the man with a taser. he died later that night. incredibly, violence at a hospital is not entirely unusual. 60% of all nonfatal assaults and violent acts in the workplace occurred in the health care industry. in fact, 31 states now have laws in place aimed at protecting nurses. fellow patient adam lind witnessed the attack. >> there should have been more sec

parts of minnesota are digging out from more than a foot of snow. we have a report from minneapolis. >> reporter: people across minnesota woke up to piles of snow and freezing temperatures. >> it came early so we're going to have another long winter like last year. >> reporter: from colorado to wisconsin, an arctic blast arrived weeks ahead of schedule closing schools and causing dozens of accidents. temperatures in montana hit 4 below overnight. forecasters say it's not over yet. >> snow will continue all day today and parts of tomorrow for the great lakes region. we are still talking about snowfall totals in excess of 18 inches for parts of wisconsin and the u.p. of michigan. >> reporter: the winter storm hit minnesota especially hard. it's only november but the state's transportation website shows that two-thirds of the state's roads are either partially or totally covered with snow. >> crews are out there and we've got our plow blades down and we're moving as much as we can and the material and the snow off of the highways. >> reporter: the nast