wrote to florida from spain and it was he, james monroe, who stretched america's frontiers to the pacific ocean. back to the battle of trenton for a moment. as i said, monroe didn't cross the delaware on the same boat as washington. he crossed earlier with a squad that landed on the jersey shore to the north of trenton and circled behind the town while washington landed with his troops on the riverside below the town. now what makes trenton so important is that the british had almost won the war by christmas of 1776. their troops had overrun on the island, new york, westchester and most of new jersey. thousands of american troops had deserted and the british had chased the remnants of washington's army across new jersey over the delaware and in to pennsylvania.

there's the pacific northwest, vancouver and seattle. the purple shaded areas right there, computer models generated about eight to ten inches of rain right there. it will turner into snow for the highest elevations. avalanche watches for the olympics and cascades. the rain and thunderstorms really arrive overnight tonight and the wind picks up right around that time as well. a tough couple of days. back to the map, light rain, light snow. cascades, olympics, rain across the valleys where it's going to be all day. portland picking up the rain pretty well around i-5, all moving inland. to the northwest we go, flash flood watches in effect because of all that rain. those are the dark-shaded counties. still warnings up in some of counties because of the rain you had over the last couple of days. a real big concern. down to the south farther, sierra nevada, a lot of snow for the morning, three to six ifrmgs in the highest elevations, advisories out there just expired, which is great. the snow will be back for you later on in the weekend. mor

delays out there and then the pacific northwest. here is our first storm coming in. that's from yesterday. here's our second storm coming in. you get the clouds. that's going to be a big time rainmaker, big time wind maker for you, too. it starts overnight tonight and through the weekend. i'll have more on that coming up in a bit. robin? >>> all right, thank you. get this, bob, eggo waffle, enjoy it because you'll be hard pressed to find eggos -- other brands, too, or is it just that brand? just that brand. it was a frightening moment for a pregnant woman who fell from a s subway platform. the ib credible way that she was rescued. >>> it is time to salute the troops. come here and join me. today our shout out is to greg yarborough. now his mom is very proud of him, and you can just hear it. >>> hi, robin. this is marianne and i'm saluting my son. he's a corporal in the united states marine corps and, greg, we're so proud of you, of your whole family. we've mishd you so much during your deployment and can't wait for you to return home. you're such a role model for you

back to the pacific northwest, of course. may see some heavy snowfall in the cascades. reynold wolf for hln. >>> what do you think? can you get in trouble for throwing paper during a ticker tape parade? some people did just that during the yankees parade here in new york. but they may have picked the wrong paper to throw. uh-oh. ♪ o christmas tree your branches green ♪ >>> the capitol hill christmas tree has begun its long journey to washington. an 85-foot tall blue spruce harvested yesterday from the mountains of northeastern arizona here. the 7,000-pound tree is now on a statewide tour of arizona and will arrive in washington on november 30th. the tradition of having states provide a capital christmas tree started nearly 40 years ago. this is the first year the tree has come from arizona. >>> i'm larry smith. for most of his career, images like in the 2006 masters have been hard to come by for phil mickleson. usually it's tiger woods getting the best of lefty. able to reverse that this weekend, he and woods playing in the final group in shanghai, tiger here on 7 tryin

toward the pacific northwest, here's your cloud cover.rm number one is currently right near kan vufr, british columbia. look at the cold front jacking toward the pacific, heavy rain pulling in towards oregon, washington and northern california coast. storm number two, tomorrow afternoon, it goes right on the heels of the one that's there right now. look at the heavy rain just offshore from northern california, towards portland. now beginning to show signs yellow and red, the heavy rain moving in. once that hit the sierra nevada, it's going to squeeze out into snow, heavy at times today. i think that snow level about 3,000 feet, maybe 4,000 feet. you'll see maybe one to two feet of snow over the next couple of days, rob. more in a bit. winter storm warnings out there in red. fresh powder in the sierra nevada. >>> two sisters have a business that's apparently right on the money. see how they're using cash to make flower arrangements. >>> and also ahead -- you may soon have to pick up the tab for the afghanistan war? who's proposing a tax to

he's meeting with leaders of apec, the asia pacific economic cooperation forum. before he left japan, the president said the u.s. needs to work more closely with asia, because it could create jobs back home. he also said there are other tough things to deal with. >> this is a place where the risks of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world. and where extremists who defile a great religion plan attacks on both our continents. and there can be no solution to our energy security and our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the asia pacific. to meet these common challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships. with the nation's of this region. >> while in singapore, the president is due to talk with russian president, about replacing the start ii nuclear agreement which expires next month. >>> there's strong reaction to bring a 9/11 trial to new york city. attorney general eric holder said five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a civilian court i

look at the clouds extending from the pacific northwest all the way out to the pacific ocean. when you see a line of clouds like that, you know there's a lot of moisture involved with it. so we have winter storm warnings as the cold air is currently in place. let me show you they're located. basically, right along the northern cascade mountains, also the olympic mountains. i think the snow level right now is about 2500 feet, but later on today as the warm air begins to move on through, watch for those to rise to about 4000 feet. you're looking at about three feet of snow over the next three days in the areas shaded in red, mainly the northern part of the cascades. let me show you the radar picture. most of the rain you can see is around the coast. once it hits the mountains it goes p up there, cools down, you're looking at that to be be heavy snow, all east of seattle and portland. portland radar picture, picking up lots of heavy rain for the morning, right around i-5 stretching in towards the lower part of the puget sound, bellingham is getting rain heavy at times. across the

>> two major storms now across the country one in the midal and one affecting the pacific northwest. we'll start with the people awake right now and all the rain coming in through memphis and stretching down into houston and really heavy at times. one thunderstorm line as it moves all the way down to arkansas through southern parts of texas. severe weather we don't have it right now, but the houston radar picture is picking up a squall line headed into your city, that line goes towards arkansas and upper parts of louisiana, too. that's shreveport and heavy rain right over the city itself and moving over to the the east, not very fast. you can see a lot of rain over the next couple hours. memphis showers still on the other side of the river. that moves in for you later. back side upper level low and cold air in the upper midlevels and now switching the rain over to snow. the snow is all the white right there. this will pile up quickly for you. four to ten inches of snow for northern parts of kansas and two to four outside that box. more on that coming up in about a half hour. >>> so,

be no solution to our climate challenge wouz the rising powers and developing nations of the asia pacific. to meet these common challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> while in singapore, he plans to meet with the russian president as well. >>> there is strong reaction to bringing a 9/11 trial to new york city. there was a decision to be tried in civilian court. the suspects include cleed shake moham -- khalid sheikh mohammed. members are sharply divided over the prospect of a civilian trial. >> to bring it back here it is tasteless, insensitive and those scars which have never been healed are going be opened again. i am not comfort wbl this call. >> i think it speaks to the heart of who we are, not only as new yorkers but as american citizens. if a crime is committed on our oil, you will be given a trial, you will be given access to an attorney. >> it is not just the families of the 9/11 victims sharply divided over the idea of a civilian trial. some say it is dangerous because any evidence obtained ag

witnesses say that a massive fireball fell into the pacific ocean after the collision. the nine people on board the two aircraft are now feared dead. the coast guard says all nine had access to heat-retaining dry suits and were in excellent physical shape. >>> there were problems with halloween night last night as far as the world series goes. a lot of rain. but what about today? how is it looking for the world series? reynolds wolf joins us. >> it looks a little better. the yankees won the game. tonight in philadelphia, conditions should be a little better. one of the issues we had last night were the scattered showers. still we see them moving through the philadelphia area. what we expect is for the frontal boundary to drive on through. when it does, we expect a little bit of drier air to move into the area for the series. tonight for the series itself, we expect temperatures right into the 40s, a few scattered clouds, first pitch around 8:20. meanwhile, for the rest of the nation, what we can expect is for the frontal boundary to make its way to the eastern seaboard,

no security or our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the asian pacific. to meet these kinds of challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> president obama later met with the japanese emperor. in singapore, he's expected to talk with russia's president about replacing the nuclear agreement which is expiring next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale among u.s. soldiers there. in contrast, two battlefield survey, morale is up in soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the surveys indicate suicide have jumped across the board. the army is working to get more mental health workers to help soldiers cope with more depression. this report comes as president obama considers sending more troops to afghanistan. >>> strong reactions out there about the decision to bring a 9/11-related trial to new york. eric holder said yesterday five suspects with the alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just

and northward to the pacific ocean. for the first time since they declared independence americans were secure of attack by foreign troops and they streamed westward over the appalachian mountains into the wilderness to claim their share of america buying up wilderness land from the government and carving out forms, harvesting firms, timber, ore, in an era when land, not money, land was wealth. the land rush at its six states to the union and produced the largest redistribution of wealth in the annals of man. never before in history had a sovereign state transferred ownership of so much land and so much political power to so many people bought of noble rank. and with land ownership americans gained the right to vote, to stand for office, to govern themselves, their communities, the states in the nation. you couldn't vote and couldn't stand for office if you didn't owned land. if you own the land you owned the nation. to ensure success for the land rush and perpetuate economic growth, monroe promoted construction rhodes,

yeah, big-time system out there and one for the pacific northwest. get to that coming up in a little bit. >> snow! all right, thank you. >>> one of your fellow morning viewers is stephen king whose new book, by the way, is at the top of the charts. he stopped by to talk about "under the dome" and we asked him about other stuff, too. you are so up on current events what news story have you seen lately that you think this is a suspense, horror, thriller in the making in real life? now you can be funny with your answer or serious with your answer. >> there are always advances in the science field that would make for good horror stories. the swine flu that's going on now. i kind of did my flu book with "the stand" a few years ago. >> if you can't wait to see more of the interview, you can go watch it at cnn.com/robin. in the next half hour, i ask him about some of the questions that he's always asked or the ones that he never wanted asked. but the book is called "under the dome." >>> lately ly owning a home is losing investment. >>> an affair with anothe

. >> united states is a pacific nation, and we will be deepening or engage. in this part of the world. as i said to the prime minister, the united states will strengthen our alliances, build new partnerships and we will be part of multilateral efforts and regional institutions that advance regional security and prosperity. we have to understand that the future of the united states and asia is inpsychiatricablinked. >> the two talked about afghanistan. japan is agreeing to provide civil assistance but will not allow u.s. military aircraft to refuel for afghanistan missions. >>> a sixth man was arrested in a very disturbing child sex abuse case in missouri. a 77-year-old father and his four sons are already in custody. they did not enter a plea yesterday. court documents obtained by local media say the alleged vingts are adults now and came forward in august. a reporter from affiliate kmbz talked to hln's mike galanos about this case. >> a lot of this is based upon the victims that have come forward and some of the stories they have told. among those stories ar

the case was union pacific verses brotherhood of local engineers, and my partner argued it. the reason i mention it is it really reflects the bread and butter of the core stock. it is not headline case, is about statutory case and it governs how the courts are allowed to preview or control decisions in the railway labor area. in this case, wind union workers have a dispute with their employer, such as union pacific, they go to arbitration and the board makes a decision, and then the question in the case was really, what are the grounds that the courts can use to review those decisions and when can they be set aside? it sets up really a question of statutory interpretation, the statute set forth ground for review, the court of appeals decided to imply additional grounds. it will never make the headlines, but this is the kind of the speed that this -- this is the kind of dispute that the supreme court decides on a regular basis because they disagree on how to interpret the federal statute in governing an important part of federally- regulated labor-rail relations. without tryi

i've just been reading through the new book about america's engagement in the pacific, where he quotesone of my favorite quotes, it is our fate, it's america's fate, not to have ideologies, but to be one. and i do think there is a point in that, particularly with regard to this concentration not on american national values, but being transferred internationally. then finally what i turn in the paper as blowback. one has to be very careful, because this is a loaded turf, also much misuse. it is often, particularly in this country, the background of conspiracy theoryless of why people decided the way they did based on collaborations. that's not the way i used it. what i'm interested in is what you do not sense is done in terms of outright policymaking with regard to these areas in the past and how that affects u.s. policy now, when when it was not effected. there are two things that really do stand out. and often generally not much spoken about in the coming up of scientists and historians. one is the united states' understanding of the relationship in the region. i'm talking about iraq

another one dropping in on thursday across the pacific northwest.alf hour, i showed you the powerful rain maker for the northwest. let me show you the snow maker going on across central kansas, an upper level low, circulate to go upper levels, drifting to the north. so it will be here for the next few days. ahead of that, all rain. all well above freezing for you, chicago, all the way towards kentucky and stretching to the gulf of mexico. but the cold air is still out there, so that blue and pink shade -- the blue is a rain, the pink shade is a rain/snow mix, looks like everybody is beginning to switch over from from snow this morning to the rain as things get warmer during the morning hours. look at the heavy rain, a swath of it over central illinois in towards indiana, goes towards kentucky and light scattered showers for tennessee. here is the chicago metro radar, and it's moving up towards the city. you're going to see some of the rain off in the afternoon, wind will be out there, milwaukee might get a piece of the rain, but a better look at it

and, our joint colleagues as i see the chair of the asian-pacific caucus of which i'm a member, chairman honda, hispanic caucus, on the issue of crack cocaine, i'd like to weave in several things that i think are race-based to a certain extent. the issue of crack cocaine, i don't see any of my judiciary committee members but we are confronting it head on. we may have an opening. because we now have a bill, many of us started out with bills, on this old issue of eliminating the crack cocaine disparity. we now actually have a bill that is merged... the senate introduced a bill or is about to introduce a bill, and their being challenged by finding a bipartisan member, we are likewise being challenged but we have a premise of eliminating language that distinguishes between crack cocaine in the sentencing. we had my bill that had extensive as expects to at drug courts and other that's i think we'll be able to work through but i'm glad to work with chairman conyers and chairman bobby scott, to work on a premise bill and a lot of members have bills, and i want you to look out for that. that is

from those of you in the east and central time zones, 0002 for mountain and pacific time zone than you can send a tweet twitter.com/booktv. the first call is from idaho falls, idaho. go ahead with your question. >> i happened to catch the last bit of your program. how to deal with his parents and letting him know who he is and i am very fortunate to have a brother and that is day. he lives in the salt lake community. he is so loved by his family. such a great love for somebody who don't want to be around them because of who they are. >> all of our children are wonderful. to reject one because of their sexual orientation. >> the next call is from allen in baltimore, maryland. you are on the air. >> how are you doing? >> guest: hi, alan. >> caller: i am a gay man and i know longer practice the gay lifestyle for survival. the catholic church teaches in the catechism and i'm not officially catholic. when you are 58 years old and you don't know if you are a man or a woman you are screwed up inside of yourself psychologically and emotionally and everything else. it really screwed up my life

because he saw it as another route, the southern route to the pacific.ooked so easy and once you're over the range of mountains there's bound to be a river down to the other side. and that would be the way a second route, western route, could be found. and so he borrowed the map from humboldt. and gave it to wilkinson. wilkinson copied it and shared with his protege who used it about two years later when he explored into that area. now, it was -- wilkinson knew more than just the map. he knew more than anyone else what was happening down there. because he had a wonderful protege who would break the mustangs for the spanish army so he had direct information about how you might very well go in there or alternatively you could turn to the south and you might very well find a way into mexico. i don't know how complicit jefferson was. he was seen on one occasion having dinner and discussing something secret. the entire table fell silent when this witness came in. but there around the table was wilkinson, philip noland and thomas jefferson. and wilkinson had w

wilkinson to this very sensitive place at least suggests he wanted to find a route through to the pacific possibly he also wanted to see if there could be a way of expanding into mexico. wilkinson you remember had this need to be liked. he wanted to be approved of. and he responded enormously. he responded to jefferson's promotion with an absolute doglike adoration. he wrote to one friend soon afterwards tell the president i would gladly give my life for him and counted a loss of i have but one to give. and you begin to see happening in the beginning of a terrible morass of the tail wilkinson who has always been prone to treachery has found somebody that he is going to be loyal to. and what is really terrible for him is that just one year earlier before he was promoted from he and his friend aaron burr had started to plot a little conspiracy to carve out some kind of a kingdom partly in louisianan, partly certainly in mexico what is but expects it is so valuable is this mother lode of silver running through the sierra mountain that produces about one-third of all the silver in the civiliz

witnesses say a massive fireball fell into the pacific ocean after the collision. >> we looked at the time that was involved. we looked at the nature of the collision itself. we exhaustively searched the area where we would have found them if there was anybody that had survived it. you look at the cold-water exposure models as far as the time goes, and when you put all those pieces together we no longer believer that there's any chance that somebody could still be alive. >> search crews made one final pass of the scene this morning. family members were told last night that the effort would be abandoned after that sweep was completed. >>> the only challenger in the afghan presidential race is pulling out. abdullah abdullah claims next saturday's runoff will be just as rigged as the initial voting. >> the only way to decide that this country will be through free and fair elections. so my message is loud and clear to the enemies of democratic process and through all our commitment to these principles and values we will disappoint anybody who would like to become an obstacle to us and the

at the end of the second day of, reagan took us up a steep winding road to his home in pacific palisades overlooking los angeles to service some iced tea and cookies. while he and nancy were in the kitchen, i walked over to the bookcases in their library dan and began examining the titles. they were almost without exception works of history, economics and politics. they included conservative classics such as the road to serfdom, whitaker chambers's witness. henry hamlin's economics and one lesson and a book i have never heard of, the law. that wasn't good enough for me so i began taking out the books from the shelves and looking at them. he said don't do that. i said it is okay. looking around. they were dogged these books, annotated. i realize this was the personal library of a serious, fossil individual who has a are arrived at his conservatism the old-fashioned way, one book at a time. history is filled with examples of books that inspired and motivated. for good and for evil. without calm marks's communist manifesto, marxism might have remained an obscure 30 and not become the power

witnesses say that a massive fireball fell into the pacific ocean after the collision. the nine people on board the two aircraft are now feared dead. the coast guard says all nine had access to heat-retaining drysuits and were in excellent physical shape. >>> there were problems with halloween night last night as far as the world series goes. we're talking about a lot of rain. what about today? how is it looking for the world series? reynolds wolf joins us. >> looks like it will be a little better. if you happen to be a phillies fan, hopefully better than the three home runs the phillies gave up to the yankees and the yankees winning the game. tonight in philadelphia, conditions should be a little better. one of the issues we had last night of course were the scattered showers. still we see them moving through the philadelphia area. what we expect is for the frontal boundary to drive on through. when it does, what we expect is for a little bit of the drier air to be moving into the area for the series. now, tonight for the series itself, we expect temperatures right int

called the great eastern pacific garbage patch? in august a group of scientist looked into the impact the trash is having on the environment. >> as soon as we got to the area, we started sampling with our troll nets which are only about a meter wide. and unfortunately between the two research vessels we had in the ocean, we found plastic in every single sample over 3,500 miles of sampling. the pervasiveness of this small material, plastic does not biodegrade, most of it does not. but it photodegrade. that means that uv influence on the plastic when it comes -- the larger pieces which can be -- many things are just household items which somehow find their way into the ocean into this middle where currents are basically swirling in the middle of the pacific, all of this debris gets broken down by the sun and it gets into smaller and smaller pieces. when you look out over the water, it looks beautiful. but when you look down, you see all of these particles. it's almost as if an airplane had come and spread plastic debris across the en

why does america get to go from the atlantic to the pacific because they are in the process of doing that. they showed americans as the symbol of what america can do. there are images of americans civilizing the native americans. there are images of americans being subjugated, violently, by the conquering europeans. there are images of native americans as childlike people that need to be taken care of. they take these simple, natural people and help them. there is a native american that is crouching down, even if he stood up, he would be taller than the pilgrims and he offers in youand your of corn. -- an air of corn -- an ear of corn. in this sculpture, he looks eye to eye with the native american. if you look at the picture, there the same high. >> this is not the way the story would be told today, but it tells you a lot about the 19th century attitudes and the doctrine of manifest destiny. >> with the first united states capitol completed in the 18 twenties, it is less than 30 years before a bigger building is needed -- in the 18 20's -- in the 1820's, is less than 30 years before

witnesses say a massive fireball fell into the pacific ocean after the collision. nine people on board the two aircraft are now feared dead. the coast guard said all nine had access to heat-retaining dry suits and were in excellent physical shape. >>> there were problems with halloween night as far as the world series goes. we're talking a lot of rain, but how about today? reynolds wolf joins us now. >>> looks like it will be better. if you're a phillies' fan hopefully it will be better than the yankees winning last night. tonight philadelphia conditions should be a little bit better. one of the issues were scattered showers. still moving through the philadelphia area. we expect the frontal boundary to drive through and then we expect a little bit of drier air to move into the area for the series. tonight for the series, we expect temperatures right into the 40s with scattered clouds wind from the north around three to six with the first pitch around 8:20. for the rest of the nation we expect the frontal boundary to make it to the eastern seaboard. high pressure in

officials say 17 cars of a canadian pacific rail wa jumped the tracks. bell says train cars fell off the bridge and railcars came with feet of two perm nernltly mounted liquid propane tanks, all wee lined a strip mall. it was evacuated as precautionary measure. bell says his friend told him about the derailment and he went to the scene and took these images and send them to us. we appreciate it, brian. if you're ever in a situation like that, where there's something kind of interesting, breaking news, video happening in your part of the world go to ireport.com and go to the upload now link. always safety first. always. if you get that far and want to stend to us, there's instructions how to do that. >>> a leaking oil rig is on fire. started yesterday when workers tried to plug a leak by pumping mud boo a hole. this is happening near australia. the company operating the rig says it doesn't know how the fire started and the leak actually started ten weeks ago. indonesia says thousands of dead fish drifted near its coast. this, last week. >>> your tax dolla

some other name, sarah palin, maybe even first lady michelle obama. 11:00 eastern and pacific. one of our i-reporters really captured the mood of the protests on the ucla campus this week. look at this. thank you to julie who says students there are frustrated, they're angry, they're worried about the 32% tuition hike approved yesterday. thank you to her for bringing us this. by next fall, students at all ten u.c. campuses will have to pay $2,500 more for tuition which brings the cost to about $10,000 a year. she talked to some people who just can't afford that, including one man who managed to turn his life around by getting an education. >> after a life of crime, going through the criminal system, i decided it was time for a change. i got into the u.c. system. this is my second year. i graduate this year. i'm here because i know this is going to separate from those that have and have not. as fees continue to grow and escalate, who will be able to afford education? like myself. >> this is ridiculous. we're here fighting. we're here to tell people if they want to grow as a soci

behind it, the nature of the clouds around the pacific ocean.hat's an indication of very cold air over the relatively warmer waters of the ocean and clear indication of satellite and radar, too, the white is all snow above 3,000 feet. cascade mountains, looking for a foot of snow by this time tomorrow. as for northern california, it is all rain around the eureka rada radar. more rain through portland and then stretches all the way in towards seattle. puget sound, rain. spokane, more rain moving into the direction as it gets in toward idaho later, too. the tropics, want to show you this because it's something to really be concerned with next week. it's area of low pressure, ida, tropical depression up to the north. 35-mile-per-hour winds. has a chance to restrengthen and that could be a problem because by the middle part of next week might be a tropical storm in the middle of the gulf of mexico. florida, alabama, mississippi, will have the low down on that on monday. more in a little bit. >> thank you. >> yeah. >>> all right. yesterday the dow su

later today it should basically back back into the pacific oc n ocean.ot a threat for the afternoon when it comes to travel delays. for the morning it's out there. high pressure dominating across the eastern sea board. a weak cold front across florida. see the clouds wrapped up there. down south farther still, let me show you what it looks like down in the southern part of the caribbean just off the coast of costa rica and panama. possibly a new tropical depression forming. tropical cyclone formation a possibility in that area that i put in that yellow circle. it's a low level circulation that developed overnight last night. upper level winds are weak. it has a little room to flourish. we're going to keep our eyes on it. may become a tropical depression today or in the next few days. flood warnings out there from the weekend's rain event, eastern texas into the lower part of the great lake. no rain for at least the next five to six days. high pressure dominates. a different weather pattern for you as opposed to last week. a little bit of light rain falli

if you're trying to get away this weekend, it will be a tough gol go from the pacific northwest stretchingn into central california. a couple storms we're watching. november, february, your big rainey month for the pac northwest. but the rain is in there, it's been around seattle for the last couple of days and it's been heavy at times. there's saturday's storm. look at the rain and the snow. snow levels are relatively high right now. she should drop to about 3,000 feet when you get in towards the cascades. look at the radar picture coming in across northern parts of california. that's the eureka radar sweeping. this rain has been moving eastward over the last few hours and now dropping down to the south. san francisco, right now you guys are dry. let me take you live there and show you the tower cam. winds are up to 15 to 20 miles per hour. those will increase this afternoon to about 40 miles per hour. so far, no problems on the road, but the airport is taking a hit because of the wind. currently there's an 83-minute delay because of the wind that will only increase as the rain gets there

then the pacific northwest. another round of weather coming in today. another one for the weekend, too. look at the clouds wrapped up there. heavy rain. just blanketing the coastline now from northern oregon in towards washington state. all know for you. that snow level for the afternoon climbs to about 4,000 feet. we're watching for that. here's your heavy rain. right around that northern part of oregon coast. stretches all the way in toward seattle. puget sound covered up. winds will be very strong. high wind warnings gusting to 60 miles per hour today. worse than yesterday. let me she you video coming in from oregon yesterday. winds here are about 40 miles per hour. a lot of chop in the ocean. surf advisory out there. winds pick up to almost double what they were yesterday. here comes storm number two. then storm number three in a series comes in over the weekend. we'll talk about that again tomorrow morning, virginia. >> good to see you, bob. thanks so much. >>> hey, there's a battle brewing over same-sex marriage in the nation's capital. but it's n

. >>> the coast guard says there is no hope of rescuing nine people who plunged into the pacific last week. remember the story, that midair collision. the coast guard plane and marine helicopter collided off of southern california last thursday night and authorities have officially given up the search and rescue mission yesterday after 60 hours and still no sign of survivors. >> we looked at the time that was involved. we looked at the nature of the collision itself. we exhaustively searched the area where we would have found them if there was anybody who could have survived it. you look at the cold water exposure models as far as the time goes. when you put all of those pieces together, we no longer believe there's any chance somebody could still be alive. >> the coast guard will have a memorial for the victims this friday. >>> and the u.n. wants $39 billion here to fight the number one killer of children. did you know it's pneumonia. hopes to save more than 5 million kids by 2018. agencies want to vaccinate our children and work on economic development because pneumonia deaths are l

and our joint colleagues as i see the chair of the asian pacific caucus of which i'm a member, chairman honda. the hispanic caucus. on the issue of crack cocaine, i'd like to weave inself things that i think are race-based to a certain extent. the issue of crack cocaine. i don't see any of my judiciary members. but we are confronting it head on. we may have an opening. because we now have a bill. many of us started out with bills on this whole issue of eliminating the crack cocaine disparity. we actually now have a bill that's merged. the senate has introduced a bill or is about to introduce a bill. i think they're being challenged by finding a bipartisan member. we are likewise being challenged. but we have a premise of eliminating language that distinguishes between crack cocaine in the sentencing. we had my bill that had extensive aspects to it, drug courts and others that i think we'll be able to work through. but i'm very glad to join with chairman conyers and chairman bobby scott to work on a premise bill. a lot of members have bills. so i want you to look out for that. that's con

if you look to the pacific northwest, it's a train of storms. we've had a couple this week already.ne is right over washington state. now saturday's storms coming in for tomorrow afternoon. there is where it's located south of alaska. now that drives on into the east. take you live to d.c. traveling here low clouds are out there for the morning. looking at partly sunny skies to mostly sunny by the afternoon. not much of a travel delay there but you get it across new england and talk about that in a bit. there's a look at the capitol looking very lovely this morning. >> it is pretty. >> more details in a bit. >> i know that you know the news because you watch this show. so why don't you prove it to yourself. take the cnn challenge. challenge your friends, yourself, test your knowledge. you can pick your favorite anchor. so is hln's richelle carey. play now at cnn.com. >>> two sisters have a business that is right on the money. see how they're using cold, hard cash to make special flower arrangements. also ahead, you may soon have to pick up the tab for the afghanistan war. who is pro

now that pacific northwest storm, richard, it's a big time rain/wind snow maker. we'll get to that in a half hour. >> a beautiful shot you have there. >> looks nice. it's on the cool side, 40. >> you think you know the news? prove it. take the cnn challenge. challenge your friends, yourself, test your knowledge along the way. you can pick your favorite anchor like our very own robin meade or click on richelle carey. play now at cnnchallenge.com and they actually talk to you. some important information as you begin shopping for the holidays. find out what made the list of toys that could be dangerous for your kids. also ahead, think you have the best idea to help cut government spending? well, one state wants to hear them. >>> south carolina governor mark sanford will face charges that he violated state laws. the state ethics commission says he'll have a hearing early next year. it looked at his use of state, commercial, and private airplanes and campaign finances. there's no word on specific charges or whether they'll be civil or criminal. sanford's attorney says

rain up across the pacific northwest starts sometime late today. new york city live, here is what it looks like. still celebrating the yankees' win. a decent start there in midtown. temperatures relatively cool, in the 50s. more on that in a bit. >> you had to mention that win again, didn't you? >> just in case you're just waking up. >> thanks, bob. >>> all right, a hospital is expanding to house a possible spike in flu patients. the new flu unit is actually in the parking lot and a travel basketball team gives new meaning to the term old school, that's for sure. meet the granny globetrotters. >>> after a five-day search, a missing baby was found alive hidden in a box underneath her babysitter's bed. the babysitter, her husband, and the baby's mother have been arrested but not yet charged. the baby has been placed in protective custody. >>> some gay rights activists say president obama is partly to blame for a stinging election loss in maine. voters rejected a law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. activists say mr. obama did not pu

a different system from the one in the pacific northwest. the same result. windy conditions, not quite 95 miles an hour. you're still getting the winds out there to near 40 miles an hour. here's kansas city. now the radar is all color coded for you. the white is all snow. the blue is all rain. that rain/snow line is right around kc itself. you get in toward kansas it's all snow. about 34 35shgs degrees there so having a tough time sticking on the roads but is making things a little bit tricky on the bridges and overpasses. so the winter weather advisories up for kansas city and the metro until 8:00 p.m. this morning and you can also see down to 35 between emporia and wichita, a winter weather advisory through the morning hours because of the snow that's currently falling. out of kc, all this leafy stuff, the blue stuff, that is all snow. look at the temperature, though, almost 36 in topeka. again, it's having a tough time sticking and it is 40, safely above freezing when you get across missouri so mostly rain on that side. look at the heavy rain pulling up.

it is open in many ways, that are so unique to this country and to this culture and it was pacific northwestly clear to me why anybody with energy and talent would want to move here, because of the opportunities that were created not just in terms of economic opportunities but just in general. -- perfectly clear to me why anybody with energy and would want want to move here. it was much less -- there is much less prejudice in this society. merit and talent was a much more important quotient but have i to say that despite all of this experience that would have and has made me very optimistic on so many levels, i have developed an increasing sense of pessimism about where we are going in the future. future. . re ng in the future. the main reason for that, frankly, is the propensity of the american system now to produce weekly -- leadership to paralyze that leadership. without it, we will have a difficult time solving the myriad of problems that we are trying to grapple with. the emergence of this kind of leadership where, in a sense, the national interest is put more head of the political intere

i don't know if you have seen "south pacific." >> reporter: i haven't seen the new version. >> i camewith the song and said what about this? it is an incredible song if it fits. it is an amazing, very classic song. i recorded it. clive was like i don't know if it fits the record. we both realized after -- we thought it was going to be a bonus track and it ended up going on the cd. >> he did an incredible arrangement of it and brought a whole new feeling of "some enchanted evening" as he does with "the way you look tonight." he reported charlie chaplin's face, billy joel or close to you by the carpenters. >> larry: this is one of the great cds of the new century. >> wow. thanks, larry. >> larry: you are an experimenter. i saw a concert you did in new york. you did all jazz. >> that is where it comes from being a jazz musician. all of these decisions come from the same place. what was so fascinating working with clive he said we know you are a jazz musician and write the orchestrations and do the conducting and scoring. let's put that aside and feature you as a singer co-starring with t

i want to show you our newest storm off the shore of the pacific. seattle, down through portland, the clouds are blasting their way through the states. look at the rain now beginning to show up on that radar out of seattle. that rain is going to turn heavy at times, specifically later today. you could get as much as two inches of rain for the mountains. that in a little bit. hey, your home state there. more rain. >> it is. rain something that's probably expected. >> they don't need much more. >> no. thanks, bob. >>> so you think you know the news, but we really want you to try to prove it here. challenge your friends, yourself, telephone yost yourse. pick your favorite anchor at cnn challenge.com. >> it's fun. >>> a label that claimed a cereal boosts your child's immunity is being yankeded. why kellogg is backing off its immunity claims. >>> plus, these grandmothers are playing basketball and they are w winning, folks. wait until you meet the granny globetrotterss. >>> breaking news on the job market this morning. the government says the number of p

erica hill at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific.sed the president of dithering and suggested that his actions toward afghanistan are due to inexperience. how do you comment on that? >> i think it's been a very good process of the strategic review. i think they've worked it with the governments of pakistan and afghanistan. i think it's been time very, very well spent. i have to say i'm in sympathy with general mcchrystal's request for troops. i would request them if i were there. i hear what matthew-they're bot. mcchrystal needs more troops. the government's not responsive. it's not as legitimate as probably we would like to make it. and the other element is, of course, pakistan has to do more because we can't succeed in afghanistan alone. it's not isolated. all that is part of the review. >> larry: tom, every public poll says a majority of americans want us out. how do you respond to that? >> well, the support for the war can ebb and blow based on the case that's our leaders make for it. one draw back of the long and protracted revi

of world war ii beginning december 7th, 1941, surprise attack on pearl harbor, a good part of our pacific fleet anchored in pearl harbor and a month later, january 6th, 1942, president roosevelt gave the state of the union address in which he announced arms production goals. we are totally in world war ii at that point. we are going to miss 45,000 tanks, 60,000 planes, 40,000 artillery guns and thousands of ships. no one had ever seen arms reduction numbers like that anywhere in the world. these were off the chart. but what roosevelt and his colleagues realize was at that time, the largest concentration of industrial power in the world was in the u.s. automobile industry. after his state of the union address he called leaders of the industry and said because you guys represent such a large share of our industrial capacity, we were making three million cars a year during the depression, you represent such a large share of industrial capacity, we will rely heavily on you to meet these production goals. these arms reduction goals. they said mr. president, we will do everything we can but it

. >>> the coast guard says there's no hope of rescuing nine people who plunged into the pacific last week. their coast guard plane and a marine helicopter collided off southern california on thursday night. authorities gave up the search and rescue mission yesterday after 60 hours with no sign of survivors. >> we looked at the time that was involved, we looked at the nature of the collision itself. we exhaustedly searched the area where we would have found them if there was anybody who could have survived it. you look at the cold water exposure models as far as the time goes. when you put all those pieces together, we no longer believe there's any chance that somebody could still be alive. >> sad to hear. the coast guard will have a memorial on friday. >>> police are trying to identify six women, all found dead at a home in cleveland. the coroner says it appears they were strangled and their body may have been there for weeks, if not months or years. 50-year-old anthony sowell has lived at the home. after serving 15 years for rape. police spotted him walking in his neighborhood satur

that's at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific.y alice duncan was oprah winfrey's fourth grade teacher in nashville. oprah said the years she spent as mrs. duncan's student was one of the defining moments of her life. she was 9 years old. mrs. duncan joins us now. what are your memories of oprah? >> i'm very happy to have the opportunity to speak about how i feel about oprah. at the time she was in my fourth grade class, she was outstanding, very good student in all areas, especially in reading. even the students loved to hear her read. >> larry: was she a good talker. >> she surely was. >> larry: now, she's been very open about the hardships she had as a childhood, difficult things. did you know how tough things were for her? >> no, i didn't. she spent time talking about when she was talking with me, about her dad. she thought so much of her dad. she still does. >> larry: are you surprised at all that's happened to her? >> you know, at that time, i felt that she might become a teacher herself. and i really thought, i think she tho

he was accompanied by his dog, who traveled with him to the pacific coast and back in by his servant,. the was not a slave. he was a free man of the african and french descent. he had been a wide house servant while lewis was serving as jefferson's private secretary before the expedition. he was present on the night of lewis's death. he brought the news of his death to lewis's mother in charlottesville and presidents jefferson and madison. within six months he would also be dead. supposedly of suicide. he died of an opium overdose. while waiting to receive his back pay of $240 from illicit state. we know that he died at grinders stand because the contemporary accounts said he died of grief that his master's grave. that is all we know and that is why our book was written. the book presents the evidence for why mary whether lewis's remains to be exhumed in order to determine the cause of his death. it also presents historical evidence, some 20 documents pertaining to his death that had never been seen before. they have never been gathered together. the last part of the book is my own th

it's the wind directly off the pacific. getting light showers around portland. snow for higher elevations. really not that big of a deal. the portland radar is picking up light showers and flash flood watches to the north. look how much rain over the next two days. key. one batch tomorrow, another batch friday and saturday. the purple shaded area right by the olympic mountains west of seattle, about set to ten inches of rain. poor that reason, the flash flood watches out there. watch for that later today. rain comes in overnight tonight, so does the wind. away from there, south further, light snow across the sierra nevada range. and upper level low stacked vertically on top of the surchs low. all the way down to the deep southeast. rain is in there for chicago. probably get air traffic delays out of that. tell you all about that in about 20 minutes. richard? >> a good size, midwest to the east? >> huge storm. getting here tomorrow. >> slow mover. >>> you really may not want a lego of your eggo, you'll be hard-pressed to find these frozen delights. well into next