let's go to des moines, iowa. jason and jamie stanley are in the process of finalizing an adoption from the same agency. how are the kids doing, jason? >> they're doing very well, larry. thanks for asking. you may notice, we're down one daughter. everything was a little overwhelming for us. whitney is off the screen right now but here in person. >> larry: and ali is there, right? >> she's right here, that's right. they're doing very well. it was a little overwhelming for them, but they're really fitting into the family well. we got a new puppy for christmas and that seems to be breaking the ice. she's mothering her and having a great time with her. >> larry: do they have the same citizenship issue as the wilkins? >> they do, yes. >> larry: so you think you're going to have a battle on your hands? >> we might. we haven't had an opportunity to talk with our social worker yet, but we'll do that hopefully this week to understand what we need today and whether an adoption attorney needs to get involved. we'll do whatev

but then i looked up the temperature in des moines, eye. with the wind chill there, it feels like negative 25. a lot of cities this morning are dealing with the bitterly cold like we are. other cities are dealing with the heavy snow, many are dealing with both at once. as snow piles up in the northeast -- and temperatures dip well below zero in the midwest -- you have the winter weather-lovers -- >> it's like a winter wonderland. >> and the haters. >> it's unreal. it's blizzard. >> reporter: in indiana, it's so cold -- even the street salt won't melt the ice. >> the roads are in poor condition. roads are snow-packed. slick and hazardous. >> reporter: in buffalo, new york, fans could barely see sunday's bills-colts game. near whiteout conditions on the field. and the brain-freeze in the stands. in minneapolis, firefighters struggled when stores and homes went up in flames. the fire hydrants were iced over. in detroit, an nbc viewer took home video of this ice rescue. three teenagers were stranded when their boat got stuck in icy waters. and

single digits for des moines and omaha. back over to denver, 28 degrees.ngs considered. denver later today going to 40 degrees, but kansas city, minneapolis and chicago still in the teens or single digits. tampa, 51. 63 in miami. again, cold air will be in place for quite a while. when you factor in the cold air with the wind, here's what you have. you have a thing called the windchill factor, which is the windchill kind of feeling like this to the exposed skin. when you combine those factors, it will feel colder into the ohio valley and tennessee valley. for the rest of the day, here's what betty was talking about in terms of delays. we'll see blizzard-like conditions for maine. you will probably be on the mar mack longer than you feel comfortable, with uh d.c., new york, you may will issues. may see stray showers later in the day for miami. trouble with highs going into the 60s for south florida. all right. that's the latest on your weather story. as always, it gets busy on the weekends. i'm sure it will be the same for the week ahead. back to you. >>> t

sioux falls, des moines, omaha, kansas city, single digits.ame story in green bay, milwaukee milwaukee and chicago. today we expect things to modify a bit in terms of the temperatures. going right to 32 in memphis. 38 in atlanta. 51 tampa. 54 houston. that's only part of the story. other issue is the strong winds we're dealing with in parts of the nation where windchill factors will feel like it is anywhere from 0 to 20 degrees. great lakes will feel like it is 10 below just in terms of the windchill. heavy snow may continue for parts of upstate maine. look for scattered snow showers across new york, into pennsylvania. snow showers also possible across parts of the central plains, back into the midwest. pacific northwest will see rain along the coast, and snow back into the interior washington state and parts of the columbia liver valley. that's the latest for your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. enjoy your day. >>> when money is tight usually the first thing go georgia is fancy restaurants. right? but coffee is something folks just won't

des moines was minus 8 today. and has blown through all $3 million of the city budgeted for snow removal. but there, people own winter coats and gloves. not like meridian, mississippi. winter weather arrived inside the courthouse. the boiler is broken. >> we have to dress in layers but when we have to go down the hall or into the break room, it is freezing. it is as though we're outside. >> many people are just sick of it. this cold has been biting them for more than a week and this time, there's no escaping to florida. sunday's low in miami will feel like 24 degrees. mark strassmann, cbs news, marietta, georgia. >>> where do you go to thaw out? >> hawaii. >> that's about it. the bahamas. we always see cruise ships. i'm surprised we don't have one leaving from the marine terminal now today. they're always leaving but the problem is even if you're doing that, you have to dress to get to the ship. wear the heavy coat to get to the ship to go to the bahamas. >> or just run from your car. hope it is quick. >> it is re

fargo at this hour, 27 degrees below zero fahrenheit, minneapolis, 14 below, duluth, even des moines and sioux falls, temperatures there dropping significantly. kansas city this morning, current temperature right around 3. we're heading for a better day in kansas city. 14 degrees, nice and beautiful for you there. atlanta, 38 degrees, 30 in boston, new york also 30 degrees. speaking of new york, a great shot for you. it's of central park. not too many skaters for time being, but we've seen them on and off. looks like the zamboni is cleaning off the ice, but more skaters will enjoy the great day. with highs in the low 30s, don't think much of that snow or ice will be long gone. the rest of your forecast, we may be seeing snowfall across parts of the central plains as well as the central and northern rockies, the cascades certainly could get in on the snow action, but fairly dry in the desert southwest with high temperatures that will be going up to about 71 degrees in vegas, 52 in dallas, 34 in memphis, and 65 in miami. that is a wrap on the forecast. pretty nice for part of the natio

lakes, the western half of the great lakes and into portion respect of the midwest. 16 in duluth, des moines with 1. also sink gill did i thigle dig. and what it will mean is it will feel like 10 to 20 degrees below zero in parts of the ohio valley and tennessee valley, basically the same thing. and in the deep south, although it has a reputation of being warm, it will feel like anywhere 10 to 20 degrees. high temperature there da in atlanta, 38. the shot outside looks pretty good. feels awfully cold. a few scattered clouds here and there and as we pan the camera a little bit farther from left to right, seeing some of the city's backdrop looks fantastic, but, yeah, it is certainly a chilly time out there. security guys outside the building all bundled up trying to stay warm. if you happen nobody boston, new york, what we'll be seeing there, certainly that cold air, but almost blizzard like conditions for upstate maine. this low will tap into that moisture. as the moisture falls throughout lower levels of the atmosphere, it it will move in a shallow level of cold air and turn into snow. that

fingerprints run, citizen, immigrant, it does not matter if you lie and say you were born in the des moineswhen you were born in paris. we will run your finger prints. we will run against the fbi database and it will come back and it will say you have a criminal history. to give it to you in real terms -- we take a lot of people that the border patrol catches every day trying to come across the border, the southwest border. it makes sense. wycombe of lawlessness along the border. there has to be some sense of deterrence. in many instances, those are not mandatory detentions. we do them as a matter policy because that makes sense. we take a lot of people for for the border patrol. outside of prison systems, the border patrol is the single largest source of our duties. going forward, we will lead to reconcile and balance those things. >> if you look at secure communities and other criminal alien programs that have the ball over the years in ice, it looks from the outside like a bit of a patchwork. you have talked about secure communities and that is a more systematic kind of approach. should

but cold temperatures this morning, 15 as we speak in des moines. that is the latest in the forecast. cold times. i mean, it's a beautiful area up there, love the people up there, but this time of year, not so much. >> yeah. >> reynolds, when you show us those pictures, i was thinking about the summer. great towns in the summer, minneapolis, boston. >> beautiful. >> not now. >> yeah. it's great if you're on the other side, a good 72 degrees, fire and hot cocoa. >> not if you're having to shovel off the sidewalks. >> or los angeles. >> south is always a good time, l.a., don't have to shovel sunshine. >> they just cheat down that way. >> yes, they do. >> thanks, reynolds. >>> up next, the woman who has been warning the public about airport security for more than one decade. >> yep, there she is. what she has to say. i keep track of my entire business on this spreadsheet... and all of these. paid invoices go right here. bang! - that hasn't been paid yet. - what? - huh-uh. - all my business information is just a phone call away-- to my wife... who's not

radio in des moines, iowa and he knew what the free marketplace meant to free speech. and therefore his fcc repeal that by a 4-1 vote back then. but it was the best thing that ever happened to free speech in america. for the first time broadcasters were on an equal plane with our print brother. >> host: after the end of the fairness doctrine in 1987 what happened to the radio airwaves? what kind of metamorphosis did you see? >> guest: it was instant. i was involved in a talk radio station in seattle, washington back in 1988 cold king 1090, a very liberal radio station i might add. we can get into that story a little bit later, but immediately the first one out of the gate was rush limbaugh. rush fully understood what it was to be able to opinionated freely on the airwaves when he was in sacramento, california. he had to live under the fairness doctrine guidelines. when he located in sacramento he told me that it was amazing that there was nobody doing political talk and he said oh, this is a cakewalk. my word, what fun this is going to be. then he had to succumb to the

seaboard of new england spinning all that cold air back and look at these temperatures. 5 in des moines, 8 in fargo. keep in mind by the mid week, another system will roll on through and we could be talking about temperatures 30 degrees cooler than this. and these cold temperatures dip down to places like northwest arkansas where you'll see some snow today and southwestern missouri. let's widen out the picture and talk about the northwest. we'll see rain roll on through today. the place to be the southwest, just beautiful. and get your >>> 11 minutes past the hour. let's turn it over to russ mitchell for a look at our headlines this morning. >>> happy new year. there is news this morning that the first american combat deaths of the year in afghanistan, four american service members were killed by a roadside bomb sunday in the southern part of the country. last year roadside bombs accounted for almost half of the u.s. military deaths in afghanistan. >>> five americans are in court this morning in pakistan and deny planning to carry out terrorist attacks. the lawyer for the five young men

this is where the coldest air right now is, minus 15 is what it feels like in des moines, minus 36 and with those winds what snow is on the ground could cause some terrible visibility problems over the roadways across the northern plains. tonight's lows over the southeast, extremely chilly. 17 in atlanta, 21 in tallahassee. look at orlando, 27 degrees. so the cold air is going to be in place. i want to show you our future cast. we've got this frontal boundary along central florida, so we're going to see the moisture. will we see snow? 6 a.m. on saturday see that pink? that is an indication it's going to be cold enough for some frozen precipitation either freezing rain, speed, and/or snow flurries. we'll take a look at that. and the temperatures incredibly cold. we're going to certainly break some cold records this weekend. tallahassee, florida, saturday, sunday, monday teens and 20s. so we're going to watch those crops across florida. now, in terms of satellite radar, got the storm system that is exiting the northeast, but that frontal boundary that could bring a little bit of precipit

me. 23, minus 23, that's what it feels like in bismark, minus 27 in sioux falls, minus 18 in des moines. this cold air is locked in for the weekend and pouring down from canada and reached pretty far south. so this morning, we were seeing very cold lows that made its way all the way down into florida and pretty much much of the country this weekend will be running below average for the highs and you can see the current wind chills not only cold in the plains, but off to the midwest and the northeast as well. and that's what we'll be dealing with for this weekend, the highs like i mentioned will be below normal, not only to the north, but down to the south, too. 49 for the high in dallas today, only 57 degrees in tampa. now, this cold air is making for some lake effect snow showers that will continue to ramp up through the weekend. so we could have an additional one to thee inches of snow there, but the bigger story is this coastal low that we're seeing, that's just sitting off of maine and means for new england we could have a snowstorm, travel delays and slick roads today and i won't b

fingerprints run, sisson come emigrant, it doesn't matter whether you have lied and said i was born in des moines when in fact you were born in paris. we are going to run your fingerprints. .. site of prison systems the border patrol is the single largest source of hoard detainees. so again going forward we are going to have to reconcile and balance those things. >> let me pick up on the secure points because if you look a secure communities and some of the other criminal alien programs have evolved over the years in i.c.e. it looks from the else like the kid of patchwork. there is a fugitive operations task force, there is to 87 g. you've talked about secure communities and secure communities is a more systematic kind of approach. should we infer from that or that secure communities is likely to become the overall framework for a criminal alien identification or is there going to continue to be some kind of meeting together of all these other criminal alien initiatives as well? >> first you are right there is a tremendous patchwork of programs and we hit the institutional hearing program that ma

two weeks ago, according to market watch, des moines was named the no. 1 city in america to do businesstatistics. they are the tools that we will need to help us continue to attract good-paying jobs, and encourage existing companies to expand here. i am proud of the fact that we have worked very hard to bring new jobs to this state. 3500 new jobs that pay well, google, aviva, and -- these are very exciting projects but they are just the tip of the iceberg. private industry has brought $7 million in new capital investment to this state. the business climate, even during the difficult recession, continues to outperform the neighbors, putting us on the clear path to recovery. [applause] in an effort to make certain that we do all that we can to continue to keep moving forward, and prepare the state for a bright, economic future, i will join the lieutenant governor over the next several weeks to do all that we can to highlight the great things that are happening, to talk to local business leaders about what we can do to move the economy forward. let's talk about the green- collar economy of

[applause] two weeks ago, according to market watch, des moines, iowa was named the no. 1 city in americathese are not just statistics. they are the tools we will need to help us continue to attract good paying jobs to iowa, and encourage existing companies to expand here. as an example, i am proud of the fact that we have worked very hard to bring new jobs to this state. 3500 new, good paying jobs at companies like google and council bluffs, and viva and ibm in dubuque. these are just the tip of the iceberg. since 2007, private industry has brought more than $7 billion in new capital and investment to our state. our business climate, even during this difficult recession, continues to outperform our neighbors, putting us on a clear path to recovery. [applause] so, in an effort to make sure we do all we can to continue to keep iowa and moving forward and prepare our state for a bright economic future, i am going to join the lieutenant governor over the next several weeks on an iowa jobs to work to do all we can to highlight some of the great things that are happening, to talk to some of th

now alert retailers trying them out, one that reaches two hundred moin customer million c year.ry in today's ecosolutions. >> reporter: there's one more thing to ring up at this walmart. you can now add reusable shopping bags. >> this bag here is anticipated to replace about 75 single-use plastic bags and both bags are washable. >> reporter: it's a pilot program at three northern california stores. >> we have commitment to reduce our global plastic bag waste by one-third by the end 2013. >> reporter: smaller bags are 15 cents, bigger ones cost 50 cents and apparently you get what you pay for. >> these do tear. so eventually they'll ware out. these ones here are more durable. >> reporter: brianna ross brought some bags, but it wasn't enough. >> we had to buy more because the ones we bought -- >> reporter: starting tomorrow, 52 more stores will sell the reusable bags, but they'll still carry plastic. customers here had no choice. >> as much as i hate getting forced into doing something, i think it's a great idea for the environment. >> i think it's a really good idea, except i alw

would be good if we could get at "new york times" editorial or it would be good if we could get a des moinesal. we have a member we think is on offensively to get an editorial here or, we can ask them to gin up something. the research team is another one will do hill team can kind of say it would be really good if you could find out, figure out for us how many campaigns came in under the public option cap. and then they will go figure that out. or if you could tell us how much money have the members of congress on the committees that deal with health care gotten from pharma. that would be really interesting. and then they will figure that was kind of things out. so everybody works hand-in-hand, but we have a research team, a hill team, a grassroots slash fealty and. we have a fund-raising team and a research team. and that's kind of loose broadly how it is divided out. in terms of structure and accountability. again, we are all adults, and we are all coming from places where we want this to happen. and so it's like you don't need a lot of discipline. because people are doing this. we are so

fingerprints run, sisson come emigrant, it doesn't matter whether you have lied and said i was born in des moines when in fact you were born in paris. we are going to run your fingerprints. .. site of prison systems the border patrol is the single largest source of hoard detainees. so again going forward we are going to have to reconcile and balance those things. >> let me pick up on the secure points because if you look a secure communities and some of the other criminal alien programs have evolved over the years in i.c.e. it looks from the else like the kid of patchwork. there is a fugitive operations task force, there is to 87 g. you've talked about secure communities and secure communities is a more systematic kind of approach. should we infer from that or that secure communities is likely to become the overall framework for a criminal alien identification or is there going to continue to be some kind of meeting together of all these other criminal alien initiatives as well? >> first you are right there is a tremendous patchwork of programs and we hit the institutional hearing program that ma