alamos offered to buy aurizon mines, if the deal goes through it would give alamos more mines in northwestern canada, and bring capacity close to 350,000 ounces a year. >> ultimately i think what investors are going to demand are safer companies with steady, long term production and if you're a single mine producer that's very tough to achieve. >> reporter: while the outlook for gold this year is shiny, if the global economy brightens, analysts say investors could rotate out of gold and goldmining stocks, and pile into metals with more industrial uses, like silver and platinum. ruben ramirez, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: monday on "n.b.r.," the markets are closed for presidents' day, so we bring you "conscious capital." an "n.b.r." special edition, looking at philanthropic spending and investing in others. our "nbr-u" partners at harvard have more on the web, just head to: www.nbr.com. for a look at what makes people give to charity, you'll find it under the "nbr-u" tab. and tomorrow on "n.b.r." does congress have a plan to prevent the sequester? we'll talk to michigan senator debbie stabenow. and

northwestern side, there's the snow. that's where the colder air is. and as it connects, even colder air in canada, right now, starting to move down into the northern plains. that's going to spread our way. so here's how that comes together. the front moves away. winds turn around to the northwest. and this is the kind of colder air that is going to make its way in. now, we won't be in the single digits. but you get the idea. we're back below average significantly for the increase couple of afternoons. things start to calm down somewhat on friday. but -- thursday. but then on friday, we start to see clouds come back in with a new front. this is friday into saturday. may see a mix at the start of this one also. but again, it's looking primarily to the rain as we head into the weekend. forecast comes together like this on those waters. we do have small craft advisories in effect through wednesday afternoon. that will be replaced by gale warnings. those are going to pick up. tonight, all of this moving away. breezy out there, going down to 29 degrees. and tomorrow, windy and colder. high of about 37.

canada as well as new england. up to 130 kilometres for augusta also will be a concern. concerns across the four corners region. snow and windy conditions will then move across oklahoma and northwestern texas within the next 24 hours. up towards the west, wet and windy in british of columbia. temperatures are not doing too badly in many locations, but the exception is going to be oklahoma city. only 2 degrees. that's about 10 degrees cooler than seasonal. looking at 6 degrees in new york city. some snow showers will return on wednesday here. in europe, we can see rotating clouds right here and heavy snow showers across the mountains and heavy rain showers in the coast allocations in italy as well as the western balkan peninsula. the nasty weather here will continue throughout tuesday. low temperatures continue. only 3 degrees in london and 6 degrees in paris. finally, in east asia, we are seeing thunderstorms and heavy rain for the southern islands of japan as well as taiwan. this system is going to be a very problematic one as it heads toward the east. it's going to drag cooler air from the north and bring some precipitation for japan, so low temperatures and humidity, meaning that

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