the corn palace in mitchell, south dakota. palace director mark shelling. >> the corn palace attracts a half a million people per year. this is the biggest monument to corn that we have in the entire world. >> not only is the biggest, it's also the onliest. people drive from presumably elsewhere to see the murr alls made of 12 different colors of corn. >> since 1892 we have been redecorating the corn palace with a new theme each year. people really cannot believe that the murr alls are made out of corn until they experience it and see it for themselves. and they start saying, that is an ear of corn, wow, this is truly amazing. >> but a drought in the heartland has threatened this annual tradition. the world's only corn palace has brought in tourists to mitchell for a number of decades. the drought this year may take its toll on the corn used to make those murr alls. >> because of the drought, four of the colors that we would typically use in our murr all designs are not going to be available for us this year. >> we've seen the

south dakota and was not shy about having public policy, in and fix that -- come in. two winters ago we had a bitter cold winter and he decided he wanted to go back to mitchell. sometime in january. those in south dakota know when you get on the interstate in the winter, the wind blows your car. from this car my little car feels it could go into a ditch. and there is blowing snow and ice. the interstate was not closed, but there was an advisory saying don't do any non-essential travel. but my grandpa want to go to mitchell, so i was glen drive him. got on the interstate and the car was going to the side. i said something like this weather is just terrible today. he was never one to brag about his service in world war ii ever, accept this one time. [laughter] he said -- and he was a great storyteller, which is one reason he was so successful in politics, and sometimes he would slow it down a little to make a point. and you had to listen. so we started talking real slow. he said, "matthew, when i was in the war, a lot of times we had to fly in bad weather and you would get out and in the cockpit with 20,000 pounds of bombs in the plane and another 20,000 pounds

mitchell. jim told me this great story about traveling from florida to south dakota through wisconsin last summer with goerge over nine days. i had my own experiences with george driving over the years in south dakota. i will never forget one night, a beautiful night, george and i were coming back from mitchell having been to some program, driving to su falls, he was driving, we were going around 95 miles an hour and he was looking out the windshield looking at all those great stars and pointing them out one by one how beautiful they were. my eyes were frozen on the road. i said george, look at the darn road! metaphorically and actually, george plowed down the road. his eyes focused on something beautiful and something distant. in a speech at wheaton college in illinois before the '72 election, he told his audience i felt called to the work of serving others. at first i thought my vocation was the ministry and i enrolled in the seminary. after a period of the reflection i felt i should become a teacher yet even -- i felt there was something else for me to do and that led me to politics. he went o

south dakota. i'm delighted to present him to you. would you share your remembrances? [applause] >> dakota wesleyan university, the city of mitchell in the state of south dakota lost a dear friend. george mcgovern, age 90, d.w.u. class of 1946 died early sunday morning, october 21, this past week. as a congressman and a senator and a democratic candidate for the presidency in 1972, he gained international fame. as i view his life, three talents all grounded in the soil of south dakota may account for his meteoric rise. first, george was an exceedingly bright man. this was a gift of a birth, yet he developed this by reading and writing two habits that sharpens intellect. he wrote books and articles and speeches almost to the very last day of his life. what nature gave, and george developed. by his own admission, george was very shy, not the type of person attracted to debates or politics, yet through the one, he found the other. a teacher suggested this painfully shy boy join the extroverted debate team. he flourished and became a nationally renowned college debater. later as a professor of history, he was our debate coach as well.

south dakota. he was 90 years old. >>> a member of one of our state's most prominent families, clarence mitchell the third was laid to rest. he served in the house of delegates and the state senate. funeral services were held today at sharpsstreet memorial church. he died after a battle with cancer. he was 72. >>> an uplifting day in hunt valley, abc2news was there for the susan komen race for the cure. we will hear from people standing up and fighting to find a cure. >>> frightening news about spray on suntan lotion, those details coming up. >>> we are cool across much of the east coast. take a look in the south, dallas, 90s, you could see 80s in the forecast. and maybe tropical conditions next week. full forecast coming up. >>> thousands united to fight breast cancer, part of the 20th susan komen race for the cure. >> reporter: it's an exodus that begins before the break of dawn. thousands of pink clad women that share in a celebration of life facing breast cancer. and each sign that reads joys' jug does not begin to tell the story. >> i was diagnosed in 2006. and it was actually a couple days before my daughter's

mitchell. jim tells me this great story of traveling from florida to south dakota through wisconsin last summerperiences with george driving over the years in south dakota. i will never forget one night, it was a summer, story, a beautiful night. george and i were coming back from the chill, coming back from a program, driving through sioux falls. he was driving. we were going around 95 miles per hour and he was looking out the windshield saying, look at all the great stars, pointing them out one by one. [laughter] my eye were frozen on the road. i said, george, look at the dark road! [laughter] metaphorically, and actually, george plowed down the road. his eyes focused on something beautiful and something distant. it in a speech at wheaton college in illinois a month before the 1972 election, he told his audience, i felt called into the work of serving others. at first i thought my vocation was in ministry, and i enrolled in the seminary. after a period of deep reflection, i thought i should become a teacher, yet, even at my teaching at dakota wesleyan, thought their cause something else for m

mitchell. june told me this great story about traveling from florida to south dakota through wisconsin last summerogram, driving to sioux falls. he was driving. we were going around 90 miles an hour and he was looking out the windshield saying look at all those great stars and he was pointing them out one by one just how beautiful they were. my eyes were frozen on the road and i said george, look at the road. [laughter] metaphorically, and actually, george plowed down the road. his eyes focused on something beautiful and something distant. in a speech at wheaton college in illinois less than a month before the 72 election, he told his audience, i felt called to work to serving others. at first i thought my location was in ministry and i enrolled in the seminary. after a period of deep reflection i thought i should become a teacher. yet, even in my teacher at dakota wesleyan i thought there was something else for me to do and that led me to politics. he went on in that speech to say that we know the kingdom of god will not from a party platform. we also know he said, if someone who is hungry, we gi