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mother nature is coming. i feel it. >> thank you. >>> don't forget our question for today . . . us at ali velshi or ajrealmoney, and you can log on to our website, aljazeera.com/realmoney. the obama administration eased sanctions today on iran after it was confirmed that they suspended high-level enrichment at a nuclear plant. iran will now be allowed to export oil and gas. some travel restrictions will be loosened, and new cultural exchanges will begin. months ago, pennsylvania orchestra received an invitation to perform in iran, and they are optimistic that will happen this year. it's stranged to imagine bauc and mozart combined with centrifuges and uranium. but trust me, the pennsylvania-symphony oring stra is pitch perfect. tomorrow banks are ranking in billions in overdraft fees, plus ali velshi reports from the world economic forum in switzerland. you don't want to miss any of that. i'm david shuster. us. ♪ check check snoop >> good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton, here are the top stories we are following. >> thousands of anti-government protest

i'm trying to enhance what mother nature does. >> first we need a male drone, then what else? >> you need a lot of males. takes a lot of males to inseminate a queen. >> koby is working at the forefront of technology t diversify bee populations. across the u.s. bees are dying in massive numbers. tell us about that. >> there's a lot of different factors, you have to look at the environment, mal pesticides. >> from her farm koby gathers male sperm from drones that can survive harsh conditions and will inseminate queens showing resistance to pests. fitness. >> the process is quick. it does take a lot of squeezing to get enough sperm for insemination. >> i'll role the fingers. >> that's the semen. >> you can see the >> it placed in a tube. >> how much will you give her. >> one turn, 10 microlitres. basically 10 drones worth. the goal is to have - i want gentle productive bee, but bees resistent to pests and problems we have, which is a tall order. i'll spend the rest of my life trying to do that. >> koby is not alone. in paulman washington, members of her team are breeding the >> >

i mean these -- it's just mother nature being mother nature.t's a sick click cyclical pattern, these extrements come and go. you can't really tie one or the other to climate change. it's just the state of the science isn't there to tie them together >> reporter: how are you able to say that this is not going to happen again next week? what's the future of this polar vortex? >> the computer models for one. we also look at observed temperatures, so we can see what the temperatures are coming out of upstream. if it's not a long channel of cold temperatures, we can confidently say it's going to be a short event. but if there is a deep, long stream of cold temperatures coming at us, those are the events that last several days but we are fortunate, in this two. >> for now, the national weather service is advising people to stay indoors and layer up. this extreme cold front should be gone by wednesday. washington. >>> historic, life-threatening, that's how it is being described. access rebecca stevensons joins us. she has been monitoring conditions. t

blame anyone.t mother nature has a mind of its own, and it does is what it chooses to do, and even withbest of forecasting, i do not think anybody could have totally predicted this would happen in this magnitude within the short window of time within which it occurred. >> atlanta has been down this same icy road before. three years ago, a similarly light snow flurry brought the city to a standstill for the best part of a week. it will be difficult to clear the cars before the ice starts to thought, and that will not happen for several days. bbc news, washington. >> the world is facing a global education crisis, according to the united nations today, and in pakistan, the situation is particularly dire as the bbc reports. >> coming to the end of a hard where he should be at primary school. instead, he and his friends have been up since dawn, harvesting sugarcane and preparing it to store. sure exactly how old he is, and from what he told us, he barely understands the concept of what a school is. he is not the only one. it appeared the farming around here was being done entirely by young c

hey, if you want mother nature to do it hold up. we're only expecting showers to hit the coast line but i can tell you in the south bay we picked up most of the rain. about a quarter inch in san jose. we needed it. so this morning we're looking pretty mild out there. we're going to hit the 60s today, south bay looking good. low 60s, we're in the upper 50s along the peninsula and the same deal in san francisco. so bring that jacket with you but leave the umbrella home for today. you might have to pull it back out on sunday. we're going to show you a really moisture rich system that's going to be close to the bay area. will it hit the bay area? i'll give you my best explanation coming up in the next report. 63 in santa rosa. 58 in fremont, and 61 in pleasanton. i'll have the forecast for you. if you don't want to wait for it, the seven-day forecast at the bottom of your screen throughout all of my reports. mike, we made to the friday. i'm feeling good about. how about you? >> i'm feeling great. looking here the forecast at the bottom,

. >> you're out there trying to capture mother nature's art. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. it is dangerously cold in much of the country. many places it's the coldest that it's been in decades. tonight in chicago it will feel as if it's 50 below zero. it was so cold there today the de-icing liquid used at o'hare airport froze. and chicago is just the tip of the iceberg that is middle america. in indianapolis, where miguel silva was shoveling snow, the windchill is in the minus 30s tonight. for many this will be a night in the cold and the dark. 50,000 power outages are reported in the region. most of them in indiana. in owen, wisconsin, the temperature today, the actual temperature, hit 29 below zero. and as far south as waco, texas, the temperature got as low as 16 degrees, breaking a record that had stood for more than a century. we have a team of correspondents covering this arctic blast. first, dean reynolds in chicago. dean? >> reporter: s

ingredient needed to sochi twenty fourteen which is largely active all denies his hands but if mother nature can't quite manage a blanket of a lympics know there is a plan to bang explains. perhaps the biggest challenge facing so she's organizers is making sure there's plenty of off the one thing the games hunting without snow the new rosa haunted alpine resort to reaches out over five thousand feet making it one of the biggest lifts of mountains in the world concerns about a snow less the lympics were raised up to two testy benson so she had to be cancelled last february because there wasn't enough the temperatures here rarely falls below freezing but snow is being guaranteed and here's how sixteen million cubic feet of snow has been stored and europe's biggest snow making system is in place weather stations make sure the organizers know when they're going to have to act as mother nature themselves now we care for the field of play almost done so it's more than one meter of snow right now on the slopes so this is this is the main this is the main task there are four different forms of techn

is in place weather stations make sure the organizers know when they're going to have to act as mother nature themselves now we care for the field of play almost done so it's more than one meter of snow right now on the slopes so this is this is the main this is the main task there are four different forms of technology that have been used to ensure the snow a snow vault has been storing snow thought over yet under special blankets keeping it from defrosting. there are hundreds of snow cannons scattered around the slopes they use water from the mountain lakes to make artificial snow a special kind of snow salt is also being used as glue when and if the snow melts and finally mountain gutters these pipes will gather snow falling at the highest peaks transported down to the slopes wade will get an actual boost without official snow of course technology is also being utilized by the competitors going for gold . i am in charge of steel lubricants including solid and liquid ones we're basically trying to figure out which lubricants would provide the maximum acceleration in the saatchi snow so that

when the station is make sure the other night the midwest they going to have to act as mother nature themselves. knowledge of the field of play almost done so it's more than one meter of the snoring on the slopes so this this is the main is the main cause. the full depth and full use of technology that the news to his show last night. as soon as involved as installing state owned land down under special blanket keeping it from defrosting the effects of snake and is expected among the slaves. use water from mountain lakes to make the official said the kindest a salt is also being used as a teenager. my aim is to stand now. i was fine in the mounting debt to its east winds will get this name falling at the highest peaks transported onto the slaves way to get an actual least got sick they still sing. of cos technology is also being utilized by the compact it is going for gold. we had to chose. i'm in charge of ski lubricants including solid and liquid one. we're basically trying to figure out which lubricants would provide the maximum acceleration in this auction snow. so then later we

it is not your natural mother nature. mother nature you want it to flush out the salts that we do irrigate because we get all our rain while they are sleeping. >> so even though the draught conditions seem pretty dire, the owner of this vineyard says there is actually a benefit of the lack of rain. apparently, when it is warm out people like to taste wine. >> the people that are here from boston and canada and minnesota, detroit, getting out of the cold to come here in 85- degree weather. >> the long term effects of draught conditions will not be known for some time. for now, wilson and other winery owners are studying innovative ways to connerve and maximize the water they do have. >> southern california water is one of if not the most precious commodity. mark my word, it's going to be even more so if this continues. >> reporter: i am tom wait. >> ranchers and farmers also fear they will go out of business if the draught continues. >>> the high pressure is just locked over us. >> reporter: just sitting there. thank goodn

what makes it better for movies than mother nature?trol.ll about we have the opportunity to place the snow where we want it. when weake it where and meet its. mother nature, as you well know, is pretty unpredictable, and a you thinkes when you're going to have snow, she does not come through. we are standing by to make sure that is happening. even mean the wintertime. that means spring, summer, and fall also. >> does the snow you make feel different than the snow that drops from the sky? >> we have 25 different materials we use for snow. >> for example? we built aium -- truck call the snow maker truck. chip ice at the rate of 100 pounds a minute. it comes bursting out of this hose. snow is frozen particles of ice. when it is extremely warm and we need to hold it for maybe a couple days, we use something like a high expansion snowfall in. there are many different techniques and materials we use. situation andthe the circumstances. >> a snowball machine. that must be fun to operate. sometimes you have to be hit in the face with a snowbal

we can't control mother nature. just as we could not make better predictions neither could school superintendents. >> the mayor and the governor got on tv yesterday and said, oh, this wasn't expected and that's not true. we were talking about this monday, that this was going to happen. they took a gamble. >> paying the price. thousands of motorists stranded on the roads and thousands of their young children trapped at their schools. for one family a panicked delivery on side of the highway. >> my wife said we're not going to make it. it happened so fast, i didn't have time to panic. >> the big cheese, the president in wisconsin today stressing clean energy at the ge natural gas engine plant. >> i remember when i was up here campaigning first time and there was cheese heads for obama and i felt pretty good about it. >> as republicans hold their winter retreat to retool their agenda. >> it's important that we show the american people that we're not just the opposition party. we're actually the alternative party. >> an

but if mother nature does not provide, sherwood says mandatory rationing is possible. >> as water managers, we have to prepare for the worst. and projections show the worst. and we're seeing water levels in the reservoirs at historically low levels. >> reporter: there's no timetable on any mandatory rationing right now in mendocino county. but they are down to less than 100 days of water supply there. live in corte madera, i'm ryan takeo, kpix 5. >> that's in mendocino county. a statewide drought declaration may not be far behind. water resource officials are telling us they could send a draft declaration to the governor within weeks. >>> and coming off our driest year on record, paul shows us the water worries are getting worse. >> there's no year drier than 2013. the water year is off to a bad start. that's dropping our reservoir level. let's take a look at the numbers here. we'll start with lake shasta. i drove over this last week. very low. down to % of normal. not -- 56% of normal. folsom 36% of normal. lake oroville 57%. all three of those this time last year were above normal above

the big question now is if mother nature will rear its ugly head one more time for the super bowl.will get a swag bag to survive the big chill. >> when they sit down in their seat they're going to have a cushion and the cushion is going to be a zipper pocket and it's going to be like a cold weather survival kit. it's going to have gloves, it's going to have a beanie, hand warmer, lip palm, tissue, neck warmer and it's going to have the thing the quarterbacks wear on their belt where they put their hands in them and warm them in between plays. it's going to say super bowl on it. pretty cool deal. >> all right. now you want the forecast. the short answer is, we all really know. it's eight days away. but we do know that it will most likely be chilly. as these forecast models continue to come together, one model is forecasting some sort of precipitation in the vicinity. another one is showing a low pushing off the coast. so, victor and christi, still just too early to tell. we'll get confidence as we move closer to the game day. >> thank you so much. we just put in our eight hours, vic

we can't control mother nature. oh this wasn't expected and that's not true. we were talking about this monday, that this was going to happen. they took a gamble. >> paying the price. thousands of motorists stranded on the roads and thousands of their young children trapped at their schools. for one family a panicked delivery on side of the highway. >> my wife said we're not going to make it. it happened so fast i didn't have time to panic. >> the big cheese, the president in wisconsin today stressing clean energy at the ge natural gas engine plant. >> i remember when i was up here campaigning first time and there was cheese heads for obama and i felt

i spoke to one competitor saying it looks like mother nature will cooperate.ls will reach 40 feet high. they say it will be a challenging contest. >>> stay with kron4 tomorrow morning. we will have live coverage from half moon bay. it is kron4 and the big waves hanging 10 tomorrow on the morning news. >> reporter: we have winds picking up and gusts in the 30s. there is an area of low pressure in the valley pushing toward the coast. there is a localized area of low pressure. there is the cloud cover near the coastline just at the coast. the winds will be out of the east. the dry, central valley will raise fire concerns. red flag warning will head through the santa cruz mountains. it is dry out there, low relative humidity and little recovery tonight. temperatures are 30s and 40s. valley floors are a little more sheltered from the wind. chillier in the north way. down through portions of the south bay upper 60s, a few 70s. the records will stay safe tomorrow. coastline low 60s. san mateo, 63 in ocean beach. the influence of the sea breeze winds. highlighted in p

. >> i guess mother nature wanted to give me one more gift. for just his second day. >> it would have been nice to have a nice, calm first day, but we have snow on our mind. we are focused like a laser. >> reporter: also on the mind of new york officials, avoiding a repeat of last year's stheerm left motorists stranded on the highways. >>> with more than 20 inches of snow in massachusetts and up to a foot in parts of new york, there's no question this is a memorable storm. >> our coverage continues live at accu-weather with meteorologist jim dickie. what's the latest? >> we're in the meat of the storm, the heart of the storm. boston to new york city, snow coming down heavily. the area at the east coast is moving east. many spots have improved. certainly across central and western p.a., back toward pittsburgh, the snow coming to an end. interior sections across new york, the snow coming to an end. for the i-95 corridor, still a couple hours of heavy snow. and also, it is brutally cold out there this hour. it's minus nine in burlington. minus tw

. >> this is mother nature. at some point we have to learn to live with nature. we have to get on nature's side and not abuse the resources that we have. and that's the point of the deck lar ration. >> at this point it is voluntary, but the president said he could make it mandatory down the line. >> how are firefighters doing with the koll de -- the colby fire? >> they are getting the upper hand. it is only 30% contained, but they feel positive. it has burned a half dozen homes and at one point it forced thousands to evacuate the area. as of right now 300 people are under a mandatory evacuation. the dry conditions mixed with the santa ana winds and the governor is adding additional firefighters, and keep in mind it is only january. it will be very dry this summer. that may not be good are to the 2014 wildfire season in california. >> indeed. will carr thanks very much. >>> more on the drought and the fire out west. let's go to janice dean with the latest weather. jd? >> hi, greg. it will remain dry across southern california. there are your temps. 83 in los angel

jeweler betting against mother nature. who boughtone jewelry from his store between black friday and christmas day could get it for free. of course, chicago received more than three inches. he is taking it all in stride. he is even throwing a champagne party for his customers. there is good reason for that. probably had backed up. >> probably insurance. >> right. very smart. >> changes on the way in the forecast. cold weather is coming. it will be hard to tell for the next few hours. temperatures will rise. this is one of those rare exceptions where you will see that happen. 41 at the airport. winds out of the southwest at around nine miles per hour. we still have a lot of fog out there. we are at 41 degrees. temperatures will continue to increase. the weatherbug shows 40 in the district. up to 42 degrees. look at maryland. they are at 57. they could make it to the 60's in the next few hours. this is ahead of the cold front. long.l not last the cold air is off to the west of us. hagerstown and winchester, all around the fr

. >> mother nature. we are from chicago. this is not new to us. >> reporter: this family is trying to end their family vacation without problems. a delayed flight is not easy. >> we have to keep them entertained. the ipad comes in handy. >> reporter: they check their flight status in advance. >> we want to get home. it is not what we planned or wanted. we will have to wait here longer than the 2 hours. >> reporter: this wick ed winter weather will cause cancellations friday as well. check with your airline before you travel. >> anyone flying to the midwest or east coast should check with your airline on the flight status. oakland and san jose have more delays than sfo. >>> a huge sigh of relief after a judge said a school's accreditation cannot be terminated. it doesn't change that the school could lose it later this year. j.r. stone has details. >> reporter: we have heard about city college and how they would lose accreditation. that is unlikely to happen. >> it is a cherished public institution, and as long as i am city at

>> again, mother nature helps us with the sun and all.hen, with the friction, too, with the cars driving around, that helps. >> reporter: drivers around here say they're getting by right now. >> the biggest problem we're having it's cold enough that windshield wiper fluid freezing on our nods -- nozzle but we're striking out. >> reporter: an absolute necessity especially if you're headed anywhere near the sun. >> the cars going down this road going very slowly. good advice for anywhere you're traveling. what kind of report card is vdot giving itself. hear about that next hour at 6:00. reporting live in falls church. news 4. >>> one way to enjoy a snow day, sledding. almost every school district in our area was closed today because of the snow. dozens of kids came out to enjoy the snow covered hills in stone park in bethesda. tomorrow, back to class for students and teachers in montgomery county. we just learned that school district will open on a two hour delay tomorrow. >>> the school district has already reached the budgeted number of s

since mother nature itself. actually it's huge the spring. g handsets the trees have started to this year. there is something quite strange to see. i just knew. farmers are working on trees. to repeat the whole. hse it's our freedoms. it is. this means doing what. with the police would keep parts of the natural ecosystem. we will visit once. life isn't that an insurgent. i am using this moment. thus we need to do. the increase. since the late nineteenth century england team has brought to the forest was cleared. trees grow all this region is japan's top producer the farmer's cheese begins to the snow has melted. in early spring this is our forty farmer console. he is quite cold today. about seven hundred and three pts. eight years creaking old barn off the trees. i argue that this was really a treat. it makes an ideal habitat for harmful insects and pathogens. this can lead to the death of the tree. his screed. is it he'll just busy orchard meal takes time each day to check for one particular tree. that aside the whole tree terms he beat out

. >> any business that relies on mother nature will require flooes a small measure of optimism. after 39 years running the snow drift ski shop, tom has hope to spare. >> hopefully we're going to get some snow this month and next month. >> so far, though, storm clouds have hovered over this year's ski season. the state says early data shows the snow pack about 20% of normal. pasatino had to scale back his employees. >> when you don't have a lot of snow, maybe you would have ten employees, you now can get by with three. >> still he says while business is improving, it is steady thanks to resorts iman made snow. and cold weather is preserving the small amount of snow that has fallen. >> people are eagered to get up to the snow. they want to get up there. because last couple of years have not been good. >> skier shawn o'brien stopped by the shop to get a helmet. he says snow machines are stepping in for mother nature, which means conditions aren't ideal. >> you just have to expect a lot of runs that aren't going to be open. but, you know, the worst day of skiing is probably better t

. >> mother nature wanted to give me one more gift in a snowstorm. >> reporter: spin outs across newland, flipping pickups and beaching tractor-trailers in the snow and causing a fender bender with a state police cruiser. from pennsylvania to washington d.c. plows are commuting with commuters sitting in bumper to bumper traffic sitting in roads. >> we are concerned about it freezing up and we need to get the salt in and getting them run early. >> reporter: no relief in the skies as stranded passengers in airports struggle to get home, flight aware.com is reporting more than 8,000 flights have been delayed or cancelled. >> i have awared mom at home who is freaking out right now that i'm not home, so, yeah, i'm trying to get home. >> reporter: al jazeera's john is in boston, the heart of boston with more on the storm. john, good morning, it's the kind of temperatures where you really do have to cover your face i see. >> absolutely. it's really, really cold here. i just found out for you there is a snowplow coming by. and i found out it's three degrees at the moment and with the wind ch

seasonal affective disorder -- a mood swing brought on by what we have all had to put up with from mother nature this winter. it has been cold, windy and gray. >> seasonal depression is real. collett the winter blues or depression, psychologists say it's common this time of year when there are few hours of sunshine but lots of bitter cold that keeps folks in the wars for long stretches of time. everybody in my house a little cranky. >> just ask the mother of young children. opportunities to burn off energy is not good for any family. >> she has three young children and says she had to get at least one of them some exercise today. we are starting a little bit later, but we are getting there. visit would be a good place to find folks, but they came to shake off the blues and cabin fever. wanted to come out despite the cold. >> and the pandas, especially the new baby did not disappoint. the winter gloom outdoors, at least for these folks, a few precious moments, it went away. >> if watching a baby panda doesn't warm you up, i don't know what will. deal are other ways to with this disorder. the most

we can't control mother nature.t as we cannot make better predictions, neither could the school superintendents. that's why the schoolchildren are in the situation they were in. >> the governor deal said that more than 2,000 students spent the night at school, because buses like this, idle on many of the roads in the atlanta area could not move because of the hills and the ice. students, teachers and principals tried to make the best of it. >> we have kids that have never been away from home. our younger 5-year-olds, we called the parents. last night and this morning. that calmed fears. >> atlanta, hub to major corporation and the busiest airport in the world is facing the consequences of not being prepared to deal with snow and ice that had been forecast well in advance. >> i lived off the street my whole life and never saw anything like this. >> the city is shut down, schools closed and residents looking to put the blame on someone >> robert ray reporting. and former georgia state senator liane levetan is on the p

supplementing what mother nature hasn't provided. >> through the winters, i can't predict what is going to happen. >> like the rest of california, a cutely aware of how dry it's been. >> i don't know if you have seen folsom lake, but it looks sad. we're going be hurting for summertime. >> to answer a question, no, this storm isn't going to provide reservoir runoff, not even close. >> these first storms are just being absorbed into the dry ground. >> and the dire news keeps coming. the official snow survey happened this afternoon. the statewide snow pack is a mere 12% of normal. >> of course, if it kept snowing like this for the next 50 days, we could catch up, make up some of that deficit. the next is set for april. we're hoping that is not historically low. kpix5. >> an acid spill on the cal campus created a scare tonight. it happened on the sixth floor of tan hall just before 8:00 p.m. students were evacuated. berkeley fire department says it was a container of hydrochloric acid. >>> some lawmakers are calling on congress to verify the quality of goods you get at outlet stores. there

plus, archaeologists work on a -- see how mother nature tells them the -- calls it a magic trick, but this is a violation. getting his messy mouth all over them. why stealinging kisses does not make you a smooth criminal. >> in belfast, ireland, a couple of revelers took it to the extreme. >> doing burnout, damaging the cars and putting people at risk. they completely ignore that. he goes down the street and for quite a while, they tear it up. >> so close to these cars. i can't imagine all of this behavior. >> this is a public street. right outside people's homes. people believe this gathering was put together on facebook and twitter. >> you see this car is disabled now after all the abuse. the video, too large police vehicles show up again. to deter these guys. they also believe all the social media involvement. you just park your car, can't find it, call the cops and find out this is what happened to your car. i mean -- a wild brown bear left the woods and hit the streets of a turkish city. it is a moment someone captured on video of the bear running down one of the streets. at this

. >> another problem -- mother nature. >> there had to be a rule change in terms of us being able to on getting the super bowl. it had to be an open expose stadium. the average mean temperature the day of the game is above 50 degrees. int is clearly not the case february and the new york and new jersey area. >> they change that rule for this game. >> it went away. -- he says they are ready for the snow. >> we have one down here on the field. we have a snowmelt melt or we can use. they have a jet engine inside. the heat that is produced from the jet engines is what caused the snow. >> it is a big operation. >> no matter what the weather, it will be a great game. >> some of the greatest games in the history of the nfl have been played in severe weather. but it couldrain, also be 45 degrees and gorgeous. super bowl xlviii at metlife stadium will be exciting. we want to make sure that the region knows that the super bowl is in here. >> when we come back, jonathan tisch confesses a secret. >> when people ask me what i have been doing, i'm a frustrated architect. ♪ >> the regency hotel had

. >> now science and technology take on mother nature. >> who wins? >> it's completely fine. >> techknow. sunday 7:30 eastern on al jazeera america. >> that is a harsh reality that's hard to watch. welcome back. we're talking about haiti. how far it's come four years after its devastating quake. ben, is there any way to know how much the money donated actually got in the hands of the haitian people or programs that directly benefit them? >> overall not really. the organizations that are raising these dollars are not subject to information laws. you can look in their tax returns to see how much they spent in the caribbean each year in the last three years. but in their tax returns, they say operations in the caribbean, that's it. unless they tell you specifically what they've done, that's the problem. the partnerships and relationships maybe a bunch of organizations are contributing to the same program. they might say we did this so that inflates the success of what really happens. >> what bill was mentioning, a group of ngos were driving on the beech

. >> now science and technology take on mother nature. >> who wins? >> it's completely fine. >> techknow. sunday 7:30 eastern on al jazeera america. >> john henry smith has more. >> the ruling by arbitrator frederick harrow wits is in a fight that rodriguez began waging when his 211-game suspension began. a-rod showed up at the park any way. >> i'm going to respect the process. apparently rodriguez met the appeals process. he quickly challenged the ruling, taking aim at major league baseball and commissioner bud selig in the process. all this in the wake of rod guesrodriguez's name being linko performance-enhancing drugs and bio genesis. after an investigation major league baseball suspended rodriguez, and hi said it was de to, quote: >> selig went on to say: >> reporter: nevertheless the yankee slugger continued playing throughout the season. rodriguez filed a lawsuit against major league baseball and bud selig, saying, quote: >> frederick horowitz issued a gag order that seemed to be working, as rodriguez discovered, selig would not have to testify

we were breaking it down for five days i'm hoping for help from mother nature. to come through. we can't cut through so much faster. now and last year we couldn't get through when it was just it was more than three meters deep then about a meter of snow on top of that they had no choice but. it's a long way from the russian. huge chunk of. the home. to the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left they had to conserve fuel for the whole. after that there wasn't although a few containers of spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone is anxious about what further surprises no hold for now though the. closer to the progress station. sometimes surprises too once we have there we were unloading fuel when they started cracking so we have to. we will have to cut it a little it was an emergency and we had to get off quickly it was impossible to turn back because that was close by lots of things happening. we had to wait half an hour at the progress stations. suddenly started cracking there was a huge iceberg behind us. flipped the other way. the critical factor. to pull

unfortunately, mother nature is not cooperating giving us the good drinks they need right now.re still hopeful a good soaking rain is yet to be had in the winter season. but right now, conditions are pretty dry. beautiful, sunny california, but the grapes are doing exactly what they need to do, which is resting and getting ready for the next growing season. >> how much rainfall should you have by now and how much do you have? >> well, you know, up and down the state, we have varying levels of rainfall in wine country. that creates different dynamics. we are on par overall in the state of having about 20% of what we should have at this point in time. right now in our area, we are 45 or 50 days without substantial rain right now, which is really challenging because, for the foreseeable future, we are not seeing any rain in the forecast of any measure. we are facing some challenges ahead of us. >> does the governor's declaration because of the drought, does it have any effect on the individuals and businesses you deal with on a regular basis? >> absolutely. the conscious recogniti

we went up a degree, our average went to 44 today, but no one told mother nature. >> she needs to get on board. doug hill will have your updated forecast tonight at 5:00. we will see you tomorrow morning for "good morning washington." have a great day. [dramatic music] ♪ >> hey! how are you? [cheers and applause] yeah! >> hi. >> hello. welcome. >> i'm katie. nice to meet you. >> how are you? >> good, how are you? >> good. >> whoo. >> oh, yeah. hello, and welcome to millionaire. we've got a contestant today who is so obsessed with apes that she adopts a new one every year and gives it away as gifts to her fends and family. so if anyone is hoping she wins a lot of the money, it's her friends and family who are waiting for a new ape gift. [laughter] from new york city, give it up for katie cook! what up, katie? [cheers and applause]

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super bowl sunday has a nice ring to it, how mother nature could make that a reality. >>> welcome back, 11:23 right now. the votes are in. for the first time in his career, steph ku ri is considered a virtual lock in the western conference line up. he was number two behind kobe bryant who won't play because of an injury. if curry's name is called, he will be the first warrior named today a starting line up since 1995. other warriors are bogus and lee. how about super bowl saturday? maybe even super bowl friday. the big showdown is set for a week from sunday at metlife stadium in new jersey. take a look at what it looked like after this week's winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow. the nfl now says that another major storm is in the forecast for super bowl sunday, and it will consider changing game day to friday, jan 31st, saturday february 1st, or even monday, february 3rd. perhaps we'll go back to a warm weather stadium after this. >>> the muppets get a make over. >>> a popular kids tv show "sesame street" is getting a make over. they're teaming up with mount sinai hospital. t