news outlets all over the country all outgo except for the new york post which is a local new york city based paper. the new york post called the department of education and sister i do an interview. the department of education insist i ended up speaking to that reporter. we began the interview asking about my affiliation to this organization after saying i would never affiliate myself with any organization or individual who would . play or basically is that i don't believe that these young women are going to being a. reporter asked me for the root word the word intifada and my response to him. if you look it up in the arabic dictionary and it is shaking and i went on to explain to him that this word has evolved and has different meanings for different people based on the palestinian israeli conflict for thousands of people have been killed. i answered one other question for him about the school and at that point he said ok well thank you. there was someone from the press office of the department of education on the phone after we hung she called me back and said to me i think oh well w

in do you find new york city. hungry for the full story we've got it for the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the. wealthy british style. was frantic. target. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on our. good to have you with us this hour this is from the russian capital top stories now this out a green light to the land of opportunity proves a bad bet for some immigrants into the u.s. doctors and engineers who when the green card lottery often end up sweeping floors to scrape a living. the wife of alleged russian arms date of it to boot says she's faced tough questioning from new york immigration and her rival in the u.s. whose family travel to the city where he's being held in custody while he awaits trial. america's billion dollar rebuilding scheme is leaving the poorest iraq is behind sectarian violence has driven files in some of the homes forcing them to live in junkyards. those are the headlines for you not with

city regarding water issues. this is the first outreach which was a supplement in new york times and daily news which i think is the most circulated paper in new york city. and getting bigger as time goes on we'll try to engage in some of this thinking where people are thinking of this early and not just presented with a plan to go, thumbs up or down on it. the idea of putting sustained conversation with consistent information is very important. this is new york city does not preclude the water utilities thinking about climate change and water and the things that go along with that and trying reach out nationally. one more. last one. >> i'm representing the endangered species coalition. made up of four hundred different groups. i guess my question from yesterday revolved the impacts of global warming like the, eco basis. >> i don't want to disappoint you but we're not going to be able to do questions. so i hope you can make this a comment. >> i would encourage water managers and people included in water matters try to preclude or include other species and in the process early on rather than late in the game which h

and dropping a couple inches of snow near pittsburgh, across upstate new york before bringing a coating to an inch in new york city's not the monster of the snowstorm weave seen but this is getting redundant here. we'll see yet another storm take much of the same path through friday. it's tracking over the great lakes. you get into the weekend and that's heading back toward the east coast. again, a chance for upwards of one to two inches perform really what we've seen so far has been remarkable. new york city, already about 60 inches of snow so far this season. that's putting us well above normal, even about 15 inches shy of the snowiest winter of all time. and, unfortunately, the thing to keep in mind, february could be a snowy month. we get a lot of cold air coming in out of canada and that draws a lot of storms up toward the northeast coast. back to you. >> i guess, thanks, ava. >>> here's the rest of your friday forecast. the dusting that hits the east today stretches as far south as charleston, west virginia. snow showers from minneapolis and green bay into chicago, detroit and cleveland. a wet day in the pac

here it is now in new york city. cted here in new york. a messy wednesday morning commute. for all you lucky folks, you still have to go to work in all this. >> you could just see those shots. so many complaints after the first blizzard here in the northeast that the plows were not out and about. you can see them in that shot. >> they're out today. >> definitely out and about today. >> all right. >>> well, the man who michael jackson's family and friends say is to blame for the music star's death will now stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. >> a judge made that ruling late yesterday. now dr. conrad murray faces a very high-profile trial. miriam hernandez of kabc has the story. >> reporter: grateful siblings of michael jackson depart the courthouse with a ruling they wanted. >> very happy about everything. >> reporter: dr. conrad murray will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. the decision was sealed with the prosecution's final two witnesses. the coroner's chief of forensic medicine, dr. christopher rogers

new york city needs to be careful not to mount the conservative element of surprise to many children as their spirit held the department of education is going to let tabloid newspapers influence policy is beyond me and it's atrocious and it's unacceptable if this is the deal only school why are they standing behind it as the mayor where is a. gray . area. why over thirty days is the arabic language such a threat. we found ourselves in the crossfire of a media war against dilute your brand academy because we produced t. shirts a few years ago that were the slogan in the fight n.y.c. . my name is money. i'm founding director of arab women active in the arts and media. the educational programs that we provide for young women are not your average kind of program that you would see for us we engage in media production. and we start from their backyards. the mission of a way is to. basically encourage leadership among young women of color and community organizing with the focus being on empowerment through the media. once i was gone from school and the minute i stuck inside the bus some ol

you are the director of the hayden planetarium in new york city. you're the host of nova science now. and you write books, and you dance, too. >> i once danced. not much anymore. that was an earlier chapter in my life. and odd that you would mention my ethnicity there. and i say that because i once thought about that. and i realized that i may be the most visible scientist of y discipline, of any ethnicity, of any skin color, in america today. and the reason why i went through that mental exercise was because there i am trying to bring the frontier of science to the public, and i said, "i don't want to do that alone. i want some others there with me." and i looked around to see who's there with me. you know, do we have a geologist there with me, and a biologist? and there are a few that are known-- you know, e .l. wilson and brian greene and michio kaku. but given the size of that science frontier, we need many more. and so i'm disappointed that i'm sitting there alone with that kind of distinction. >> hinojosa: so when i was growing up, e most fam

new york city, 6 to 12. of this storm is going to be across southern new england, where hartford brov dense, boston booster, massachusetts, they could see over a foot, with lots of blowing and drifting. >> reporter: this evening, new york city declared a weather emergency. >> what we sure know is that tomorrow morning's commute is not going to be easy. >> reporter: mayor bloomberg came under harsh criticism for the city's response for the last storm, even ending up the target of a "saturday night live" skit. >> tonight i am pleased to report that even as we speak, thousands of city sanitation workers are out in the plows. they're not plowing yet. right now, they're playing cards. that's in their contract. after they're done playing cards, they'll look at internet porn for an hour or so. >> reporter: today, he was quick to assure the city that lessons had been learned. >> you should know that our sanitation department has 365 salt spreaders and 1,700 plows ready. >> reporter: balances have even been issued sl

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new york city. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. today . whether. the last of five in the. far east coast. on the globe conspiracy. theories. science is struggling to come up with the answers. europe's asylum policy. last year as a string of terror arrests. for the spread of the threat. from iraq where people driven from their houses by the wall landfill sites their home. the opening of a public school in new york city has sparked an outcry and debate over freedom of speech in the u.s. we explore why that's coming up next. when chile is a place that represents the world community. the opportunity to teach arabic to students here in brooklyn i think is an opportunity that we we shouldn't we shouldn't miss. and so when people made statements that were truly discriminatory of course of pain me and said me. certain feel mongering groups the play of the disco all would be a religious school which is a public school in america it could never be and it will not be thes

in defined new york city on r t. v guide sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street fight. to fly in from the colonel of the chilean armed forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. come the. sergeant of the us army. trying to become an american by getting pardon the. franks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. broadcasting live. sunday morning. as a. referendum on whether to separate from the north many displaced. in the country see it as an opportunity. in the vote that starts on sunday. to choose independence from the mainly muslim. doomsday predictions. of. across the globe in the most recent to. have been found dead in italy. call of duty. the russian special forces unit for the. feared. those were the headlines up next as a special report on how and opening of a school in new york city sparked a. debate over freedom of speach. brooklyn surely is a place that represents the world community. the opportunity to teach arabic to students here in brooklyn i think is an opportunity

new york city has already received twice the average snowfall this winter with crews working overtime to clear the streets. cities throughout the northeast are facing the same dlem moo, what to do with all that snow. >> it is hard, because it is not just the amount of snow, it is the frequency of the storms. >> reporter: in boston, open lots and park space are now designated snow farms. >> we have a lot of snow we have to put it some place. we are fortunate enough to be able to identify some lots of land that we can put it in. >> reporter: worth having it off the streets, but all that snow removal is adding up fast. boston has already spent more than two-thirds of their $16 million snow budget. new york city has already blown through its annual budget of $38 million clearing 56 inches of snow. even atlanta, which barely sees a dusting each year, has spent $9 million of its $10 million budget. new york city is literally burning through its budget ugz massive heaters to melt and recycle the snow. piles on this street alone have been trucked in from other areas of the city. >> that snow

he's not old enough, so he decide to go to new york city, coming to you live from new york city, and just to spend a year, to spend a year in new york city. now, what's he going to do in new york city? he's going to go to union theological seminary, but you have to understand bonhoeffer already had his doctorate at age 21 from berlin university. you know, so this to him is like beginning to a community college practically. this was not something that he was not going there for a reasons of academics in particular, and he was not disappointed. the fact is that bonhoeffer gets to union, and i where about this in the book. it's actually quite funny. he writes in his letters home that he really is shocked by what quote on quote passes for theology at union, and in other words he found it to be shallow theologically. they had the right answers. it's interesting because in berlin university, they were very theologically liberal. he was not, but he respected the liberal theology of his professors in berlin. he respected them as academics, and he was able to learn a lot from them, but now he

new york city, peter mentioned 19. now the eight largest storm in new york history. get these stats. five of the top ten snowstorms in new york city have occurred in the past five years, and 3 of the top 11 have occurred in the past 11 months. it's been very snowy over the past couple years. seasonal snowfall average has gone by the wayside, meredith. over 6 feet of snow, meredith, so far in hartford, connecticut. blockbuster storms. >> mike, thank you so much. reporting for us from braintree, massachusetts. al is headed inside where he's tracking the storm. >> all right, meredith. record breaking snowfall. new york city breaking the old record back in 1925 for the month of january. newark breaks the record with 37.6 inches back in 1996. islip, long island, new record. bridgeport, 38 inches of snow. january, this snow, 19 inches of snow. that is coming down and we're not done yet. as we check out the satellite and the radar, you can see the radar pulling away, the snow starting to shrink as that system moves offshore. that's the good news. final snowfall totals before

new york. good morning, scott. >> reporter: good morning, betty. it will be a messy commute this morning, after the storm brings another foot of snow to new york city. overnight, airports had to close, bus service was suspended and now it will be a costly cleanup here in new york, which already has blown through its snow budget for the year. for the sixth time in as many weeks, the northeast is waking up to another wintry mess. >> we had thunder tonight, freezing rain and snow. you don't see that too often. >> reporter: overnight the wild weather dumped up to a foot of snow in some places. in the d.c. area, hundreds of thousands of residents were left without power in frigid temperatures. >> got to love it, got to hate it. >> reporter: across the region airlines have canceled hundreds of flights, even these two travel agents couldn't catch a break. >> the flew flights between knew and 6:00 that there are are all full or canceled. >> reporter: and the roads aren't much better. a mix of snow and ice creating hazardous conditions. last night, president obama's motorcade was stuck in traffic for an hour on its way back to the white house for a trip tha

the snowstorm is exiting this region and these snowfall totals once again, new york city was the winner. i mean how many storms this winter can new york get the highest totals. philadelphia 15 inches, no newark, 14, areas around washington, d.c., at least 9. one storm after another, 50 inches of snow has fallen in new york city in one month. >> it's -- >> never happened before. >> it's unbelievable. thanks so much. >>> and getting around washington today may be tough, but lawmakers looking to tackle the federal deficit have their work cut out for them. a grim estimate from the congressional budget office puts the nation's deficit at just under $1.5 trillion this year. tracie potts joins us from washington with those details. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. that annual gap between what the federal government spends and what it brings in is now at the highest point ever, at $1.5 trillion. why? because the government's been trying to put more money in your wallet. remember that tax deal from december, that ran the numbers up. while you get more money, it's tougher for uncle sa

to new york city. to long island. and in boston. some spots in new england could total 20 inches with whiteout conditions and a 35-mile-per-hour wind. in rhode island, government officials are urging all state employees to just stay home. >> keeping people off the roads allows the plows to do their job. >> reporter: in new york city, the mayor declaring a weather emergency early, trying to get ahead of the storm that would end by 6:00 a.m. >> we are enhancing our existing snow plan. and supplementing it with lessons learned during and after the christmas blizzard. >> reporter: 1,700 plows and 355 salt trucks out in full force. new york city usually gets 27 inches of snow a year. but with this storm, they surpass that average, getting 34 inches since december. that's almost halfway to the city's all-time record of 75 inches in 1996. and there's still three months left of winter. in philadelphia, the city wasn't hit quite as hard. but five inches of snow and icy roads kept drivers on their toes. boston's in for the worst of it, through

but they also occurred through new york city, new jersey and new england. e so many arrests in the new york area, suspects had to be taken to a gym for booking. >> we have about 700 law enforcement agencies from a number of different entities that are involved in this massive takedown. >> reporter: mobs, aided by turn coats, have reduced the ranks of crime families in recent years. while organized crime may not be what it once was, it is hardly the stuff of fiction. >> enough said. you don't want to go there. >> reporter: the crimes include 2 murders dating back 30 years. and one as recently as 2002. one of those arrested is a former new york city police officer. rob and vinita? >>> in florida, the miami-dade police force is grieving the loss of two officers shot while on duty. they were part of a team serving a murder arrest warrant on a fugitive with a long record. they traced him to the suspect's mother's home. she let them in. and the suspect jumped out and shot the two officers. >>> the largest rocket ever launched from the west coast has blasted off fr

none here in new york city. bill karins, not your -- >> amazing, over 60 people had all but one number even. there was a -- they won a quarter million each. they did all right, too. >> not bad. i'll take it. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> one annual tradition in china offers up a true winter wonderland. at the snow and ice festival, over 9 million pounds of ice will be used to create sculptures that will attract visitors from around the globe into january. in addition to seeing famous buildings, places and people, visitors can take part in various winter sports. >>> zookeepers in london are taking on a task of almost biblical proportions, you could say. they're counting all of the animals living within the zoo. it's not quite noah's ark, but the annual count of over 16,000 creatures takes three weeks. it's not an easy task, but with a little persuasion, zookeepers get the final head count on everything from camels to creepy c

new york city has already had its snowiest january ever. but if new york city picks up one more inch before tuesday, it will become the snowiest month in the history of keening records. and guys we kept records on this since 1968. do you want to see a record? do you not want to see a record? >> no, not at all. >> one more inch. >> if we stand on the edge and click our heels, if we do this, if we do this, maybe we'll get some more snow? >> we have a chance to pick up another inch before tuesday. and the chance to do it was just today. >> it's only an inch. >> only an inch. >> the question is how does new york city compare to the rest of the country. >> right now, more snow on the ground in new york city than your hometown of minneapolis. go figure that. >> go figure. >> there you go. thank you, lonnie. >> and we have another story coming up. charlie sheen checks himself in to rehab while "two and a half men" goes on temporary hiatus. >> and later inside the frightening bank hostage drama all caught on tape. we'll be back. ,,,, never in my lif

new york city is taking steps to avoid the chaos that followed the post-christmas blizzard. >>> the government expected to announce an upbeat new jobs report this morning. president obama will comment on the numbers while touring a manufacturing plant in maryland. >>> the fbi and homeland security are working with maryland investigators to find out who sent two, small, mail bombs to state office buildings. security officials across can country are on the lookout for copycats. >>> there's a heavy police presence across london, especially at transportation hubs. british intelligence officials have reported to pick up on shatter, suggesting a terror attack might be in the works. >>> and oil-eating bacteria used to clean up last year's oil spill in the gulf. the journal of "science," says the bacteria did a good job of consuming lots of the methane that gushed into the water, along with the oil. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everyone else, the late-night comics on the new session of congress. >> always a good way to start the friday. [ female announcer ] now, give dry, damag

to test this theory, we took this actress named jessica to a local gym here in new york city and asked to cry on command. >> she's not actually upset at you. >> that's good. >> reporter: this guy admitted he did not like it very much. >> might be slightly annoyed. >> reporter: but this guy said there are some circumstances in which crying could actually work in a woman's favor. >> she's crying and start kissing me, that's different. i might get turned on. >> reporter: scientists we spoke to today about this new study were fascinated, especially by the notion that our tears could be sending out chemical signals that influence the physiology and behavior of other people. but from an evolutionary standpoint, if you hair con back to the cavemen days, some scientists aren't so sure that this whole idea of men losing testosterone when women cry really adds up. >> if you think back to cavemen, and if you had a family with children and suddenly a wild beast comes in and attacks one of the children, tries to drag it off and the mother starts to cry, i don't think you would want the testosterone

call from his mother, we offer these instead. 1/11. >> we have now had the snowiest januarys in new york city'sory. >> reporter: 1,000. the number of times you could fill the empire state building with all the snow that's fallen on the city this season. 21 million tons. that's the amount of snow that's fallen on boston so far this winter. 37 million, that's the amount that's fallen on philadelphia. $38 million, that's what new york had in its budget for know removal. $0 million, that's what new york has left in that budget now, and it's still on january. 3 1/2. the number of feet of snow on the roof it took to collapse this warehouse in massachusetts. number of hours it took these two guys trapped inside their car to be freed, they don't want to count. >> i was in some trouble and didn't know if i was going to make it. >> reporter: 66. the number of years that hartford, connecticut's previous snowfall record stood before it was smashed by this season's 57 inches. thrice, that means three times, which is how to describe the hour that president obama spent in heavy traffic between the airport and

new york's operations. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening kate, from times square. security officials say there are no specific threats but this is nonetheless a major undertaking for the new york city police department, which since 9/11, has developed into a world class counterterrorism force. in new york's times square tonight, 17 miles of barricades. bomb dogs. thousands of police officers. and surveillance helicopters are out. but much more in new york is hidden. often in plain sight. on the hudson river by ellis island, the former gateway to america, a barge and crane are mostly unnoticed. but quietly, they're constructing a major anti-terrorism upgrade to new york's underwater subway lines. the subway tunnels under the hudson river are over 100 years old. unlike most of new york city's subway system, which is burrowed through solid bedrock, the underwater tunnels sit just under a thin layer of silt and mud, leaving them vulnerable. so this crane, piece by piece, is lowering a protective shield to bombproof the tunnel. the reinforced casings are being lowered over the tops of the tunnels on the bottom of the hudson. the insides of the tunnel are being hardened, too, lined with

new york and the northeast during the christmas weekend. a couple weeks ago. it is interesting, though, it is still early. the worst of this storm could be yet to come. new york city had its salt spreaders in action as soon as the flakes started falling. more than a foot of snow is expected in the new york area. forecasters say it could be even worse in new england. blizzardlike conditions are in the forecast. and in new jersey, sandra hughes was surprised at how quickly the snow piled up. >> i came out to all the snow coming down, so welcome winter once again. >> reporter: here in times square, plows and spreaders have been keeping up with the snow so far. mayor michael bloomberg promised to do a better job this time, after the christmas weekend blizzard left parts of this city paralyzed for days. >> we didn't do the job that new yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm. and we intend to make sure that that does not happen again. >> reporter: and while the northeast is dealing with its third storm in three weeks, the south is in a deep freeze. from louisiana to the carolinas, thick ice has caused hundreds of highway accidents. >> ice of this magnitude is ju

new york. these are live picture from times square. the ball dropd drop is upped way. we want to show you ringing in the new year in new york city. as it happens liv live. [applause] 2011 has begun on the east coast. said to be a ton of con pet any times square tonight. much bet than the snow they had just a few day ago. it's cold in new york but the weather has cooperated for about 1 million people who are in times square tonight. more than 1 billion people around the world are watching the very picture you are watching rate now in more than 190 different country tuned in to the famous ball drop at times square. that tradition dates back to 19 04. originally the ball ties the mayor time tradition of light houses with the new invention of electric try advertise at the time to show the latest technology to the entire world. this year ball that you saw drop is nearly 6 tons. 12 feet in diameter. 32,000 led light more than that actually. being used as an environmentally friendly way and cost effective way to light the manhattan sky line and show off that great ball. there's mayor bloomberg in new york city. 2011 under way on the eas

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software drift into piles of refuse one of thousands filling many of the almost six thousand miles of new york city streets the average american is said to produce fifty tons of garbage in a lifetime new york city has reportedly accumulated as much as fifty thousand tons of garbage in just one week just because we're in a financial recession is sure to mean that we're in a moral recession but it will world recession is exactly what the trash invasion has turned the big apple into and while some officials have graded themselves and a plus for handling the situation new yorkers are outraged he was very upset about it it's gross it's ridiculous in a good enough job for taxes that we are praying for as an economic crisis leads to budget cuts that lead to boycotts in the sanitation department that lead to all this garbage out on the street it may be time to ask how soon before the big juicy apple turns rotten and. new york. two years of democrat dominance on capitol hill have come to an end and you are. has been sworn in with republicans now sitting in more seats the party seized control of the house of

now, new york city is supposed to get up to a foot of snow. but east of new york, and all the way up north, into the boston and cape cod area, could see even more. the winter storm started pounding the northeast overnight. plows and sanders hit the streets. some areas braced themselves for up to two feet of snow. parts of massachusetts declared a snow emergency for this morning. in new york city, officials said they're ready to combat an expected 8 to 12 inches, promising this wouldn't be a repeat of the slow response after last month's blizzard, when many streets went unattended for days and the city came to a halt. >> we do know that we didn't do the job that new yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm. and we intend to make sure that that does not happen again. >> reporter: officials say the key will be preparation. trucks were ready to roll. and workers were split into different shifts. >> we're on a 12-hour shift. you know, midnight to noon. noon to midnight. we have the men to man the trucks 24/7. so, we'll be here. >> reporter: th

new york, the most snow ever in january. >> we've gone through all the snow removal budgets in many of the cities and states. it's incredible. >> eight snowstorms here in new york, since mid-december. once every five days. >> schools are closed in boston, new york city, washington, d.c. people all over the northeast are having one heck of a time trying to get to work. some people didn't even make it home last night from their offices because the storm started around dinner time last night. and in the capitol, it was a nightmare commute. so many people stuck in dire conditions for hours, including our own abc news staffers, who are going to give us a video notebook on what it was like to get home. >> i got out of washington just in the nick of time. all the trains were packed because people knew it was coming. that didn't make it any easier. to go for a stretch of a couple miles took several hours. >> oh, my gosh. >> we have full team coverage of this. we'll start with sam, tracking the storm up in columbus circle. sam? >> good morning, george and elizabeth. and if this keeps up, it will be a record-setting wi

do you realize new york city has already picked up 21.8 inches of snow? a typical winter for the whole winter in new york city, 22.5, i think. >> my gosh. >> we're less than an inch away for the season total two weeks into winter. >> man. >> we only have two and a half months to go until spring. >> always the bearer of good news. >> voila. >> lonnie quinn, thank you so much. >> >>> still ahead, from homeless pan handler to media sensation, how does instant sensation struggle someone who struggled to oefrz come addicti addiction. >>> it doesn't work out like for ted. a lot of people are trying to stay afloat. later we'll have the secrets to making money in 2011, smart financial moves that really can help fill up that bank account, protect the money that you already have. an important part too. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> coming up, more on the case of ted williams, the formerly homeless man with the golden voice, his first exclusive interview on "the early show" this week. he's getting job offers, money thrown at him all sorts

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not very long ago in new york city. and the response to it, how things were not cleaned up as quickly as many would have liked, stale lot of garbage on the streets in my neighborhood. >> mine, too. >> eyes on new york city to see how it affects you across the country. >> good morning, everyone. this is erica hill, i'm chris wragge. have you heard about this ted williams' story by chancesome. >> sounds familiar. >> does it really? finally we have the reunion between ted and his mother julia. a long-awaited and finally didn't see each other in ten years and can't wait to have them both with us this morning. it's a great story. obviously, everyone across the nation is now heard about these two and now they're together at last and we have it here. going to be a good day. >>> let's get to the news of a moment ago. beginning with the new weather blast, winter warning for the northeast right now o. officials are not taking any chances with the snow this morning after taking a battering for the way they handled the christmas wee

to test this theory, we took this actress named jessica to a local gym here in new york city and asked her to cry on command. >> she's not actually upset at you. >> that's good. >> reporter: this guy admitted he did not like it very much. >> might be slightly annoyed. >> reporter: but this guy said there are some circumstances in which crying could actually work in a woman's favor. >> she's crying and start kissing me, that's different.

speaking of all that ice in new york city, this is live look or it was a live look at new york city. let's move on. [ laughter ] >> what we're facing today is patchy fog in the usual spots around the carquinez bridge and delta. otherwise mostly a mild start to the day. inland 39. up to 51 degrees inside the bay and 52 at the coast. we have talked about this winter warmup for more than a week. now we're talking about the possibilities of temperatures flirting with record highs. 72 degrees expected as the warmest of areas in the inland areas. we'll see about 69 degrees at both the bay and the coast. here's what's going on. while the high pressure system is locked in place it will dominate our weather through the close of the week so expect unseasonably warm temperatures to last. it's going to break down and temperatures back to seasonal averages. can we say it? a possibility of rain? say it ain't so! take a look at some temperatures as daytime highs today. 69 in santa clara and sunnyvale. 66 pacifica. look at half moon bay, 68 degrees. we might flirt with record highs today. 67 in danv

new york city slammed, too. 56 inches of snow so far. the city that never sleeps, today, stalled. >> it's taken me about a half an hour just to get six blocks. >> reporter: the storm snarled flights, too. more than 1,500 cancelled. dozens of amtrak trains delayed. and the roads weren't much better. in connecticut, an accident caused i-95 to be shut down both ways for hours. jackie was forced to sleep in her car. >> i've been shutting it off every ten minutes, then turning it back on. >> reporter: do you have a full tank of gas? >> i have about a third left. >> reporter: patience now running low, too. >> people are pretty much over it. pretty grouchy, pretty grumpy. >> reporter: and tonight, while many continue fighting mother nature, others have clearly surrendered. and we spoke to a travel agent tonight who told us about half the calls she was getting were people trying to rebook those canceled flights. the other half, people trying to get out of town, anywhere where there is warm weather. this might be a good time to mention, just 51 da

you are going to see travel concerns along i-95, even heading through the new york state thruway into albany. new york citylk of it, it's also going to be up towards new york and also along long island. that's where some places could see about a half foot of snow. even albany, that could be up to 9 inches of snow. this is a quick-moving storm system. it exits friday night and we're not going to see nearly as strong of winds. you won't see that blowing and drifting behind the storm. here's the next potential. we do have a storm coming out of texas into monday and that's going to bring some much-needed rain to the southeast. depending on where the storm tracks, if it goes offshore, not too many problems. if it stays onshore, we could see another round some of heavy snow and that's something we will continue to watch and something to keep in mind, january could be fairly stormy for the rest of the northeast. now back to you, vinita and mike. >>> here's the rest of your weather. rain and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. up to 1 foot of lake-effect snow in western michigan and northwest indiana. a coatin

of troy, new york, but that is where the very first team where in the name giants played, so we will be going there accompanied with a trip to cooperstown. of course, we will go to new york city to bring it to our friends in new york city, the former home of the giants franchise. a complete listing of all the communities and dates are in the press kit, available to you. just a little bit about what happens when the trophy arrives in the community. each stop is expected to last about two hours. we would do our best to accommodate everyone. the viewings are free to the public. there will be an opportunity for a professional photograph to be taken of you with the trophy. those photographs will be available for purchase on-line. so once again, the test run, kick off to the trophy tour will be right over here from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. we are anxious to get started, anxious to bring the trophy to giants fans everywhere. the best fans in baseball. thank you very much. [applause] >> i do not know what more we can add that has not been stated. i want to again express our appreciation to the giants for beginning the tour here. thank you again for making this city what it is. without the f

philadelphia has already more than doubled its yearly average, and so has new york. >> we have now had the snowiest january in new york city's history. >> reporter: experts say it's all hurting the economy. >> it just shut commerce down. people aren't able to move. they're not able to shop. >> reporter: restaurant traffic is down 3% compared to last year. mall traffic is down 5%. and one key barometer-- bottled water consumption has dropped 5% in the southeast. >> when you start to see bottled water fall, it's a very good indicator that there's just not as many people out there making those purchases in general. >> reporter: in the south, where this prolonged winter weather is rare, the snow and ice have forced some companies to temporarily shut down, leaving workers without paychecks and causing a short-term spike in unemployment claims. as for the forecast, there is little relief in sight. meteorologists say another major winter storm is brewing and could hit the northeast by this time next week. katie. >> couric: elaine quijano, elaine, thank you very much. turning now to the middle east where a wave of angry protests is

recession new york comes to rubbish. in the city of skyscrapers. and the streets in the west bank city of ramallah named after people. some choices are causing in israel. with news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us and the far eastern coast of russia is one of three ships stuck in freezing water to safety three extreme weather a second vessel is trying to follow while the third remain stranded four hundred people aboard the ships which have been frozen for a week in the conditions. that that means. it seems that things are beginning to move maybe just slowly the ice breaker that's managed to to smash a path towards the ship stranded in the ice is now towing one of those ships out of its having been freed out of this search zone and they're going to try and calm a second ship to that our team managed to contact the captain of one of those toads ships he said that currently everything is going ok but off of the icebreaker is towing us towards clear waters right now the situation is normal we are gett

many of those arrested were in brooklyn but they also occurred throughout new york city, new jersey androbes aided by mob turncoats have considerably reduced the ranches of organized crime families in recent years. it may not be what it once was it's hardly the stuff of justification. >> enough said. you don't want to go there. >> reporter: the crimes include two murders dating back 30 years, and another as recently as 2002. one of those arrested is a former new york city police officer. >>> nasa shuttle's fleet will not be mothballed as soon as expected. the space agency has added one more mission. the shuttle "discovery" is set to launch next month followed by "endeavour" in april, that's the one mark kelly is scheduled to demand. "atlantis" will take off and the final shuttle mission in june. >>> the largest rocket ever launched from the west coast yesterday, blasted off from vandenberg air base carrying a secret national security satellite. preparing for the launch tock three years. the base north of los angeles needed $100 million of upgrades. >>> former top bush administration off