a reported tornado as well, washington, hyde park, poughkeepsie. cold front very strong for this time of year pushing east wartd pu eastward into the warm, moist air. the biggest threat today expect it to be very strong winds so what we're seeing potentially 60, 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts, hail up to an inch in diameter and here is the area, from bangor to boston, so new york city, philadelphia, baltimore and washington, all expecting some strong storms predominantly later tonight. fredricka, the bulk of this, the biggest access of the storms are still well west. this is just an area we've seen with the tornado warnings around metro new york ahead of this cold front and this warm, moist atmosphere, so it's a long way to go, a lot of severe weather today we'll be reporting on. >> keep us posted on that all day long, thanks so much, alexandra. >> you're welcome. >>> all right, the presidential race is intensifying in two key battleground states in particular, virginia and florida. mitt romney is holding two events in virginia today and president oba

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in tripoli in lebanon poughkeepsie and a hardee's restaurant was torched. and a highly respected school was overrun and looted. but really it was a clumsy u.s.-made film that cost all of this? in fact the editor of egypt's newspaper the real roots lie much deeper. >>> i think american foreign policy for a long long time. it was doing a lot of harm >>> america long supported the rights of despised present was toppled by a popular uprising just last year. we're speaking about a long history of mistrust and defined this way whatever the reason is >>> especially in poor muslim countries were at the face chronic injustice and corruption. and in cairo this week, the protesters did not actually reached the embassy but did did invade the grounds before the riot police drove them back with tear gas took the egyptian president for three full days to condemn the violence. but in the end, the did not period is required to protect our guest said in their place of work. >>> today on face the nation, the libyan interim president while the 50 arrests have been made with a

so imagine driving the thruway from kingston to poughkeepsie to woodstock north through albany and in toward the adirondacks. certainly if you can wait it out certainly just wait it out. it is all pushing eastward moving about 30 miles per hour. so we'll certainly see it be done in a few hours. here's baltimore. baltimore and washington a lot, very strong storms in washington. had a tornado warning there earlier. this line now moving over toward dover and georgetown into the eastern shore. and farther south. you heard don talk about it. charlotte, 7:30 nascar in town tonight. most likely we will certainly see delays with this race. this all has to pass through. so here is a look, big picture. boston, new york, washington. don, a one day affair. just a few more hours of this. this will all push to the east tomorrow. sunny, breezy, cool. even a taste of fall in new england. highs only in the low 70s. so a big change of air mass. but kind of a big power punch as it moves through. >> thank you. >>> if you want to know which states matter most in the presidential election, well just look a

. >> the first show i did as cyndi lauper, a solo artist up in poughkeepsie. killed them. and the owner -- the owner came back and he said, listen, you know i was even worried there for a while when you took the ukulele out but you did great, kid. you did great. >> talk to me about "girls just wanna have fun." you didn't want to do it at first. thought the lyrics were -- >> honestly it was written by a man for a man. for a woman to sing it, it's got to change a little. ♪ wanna have fun girls ♪ >> after everything i'd been through, i kind of didn't want to sing it and rick said to me, well, listen, just take a minute and think about what it could mean. i saw my mother's face. i saw my grandmother's face. i saw my aunt's face. these are women firsthand that i knew had been disenfranchised. they didn't have a shot at having any sort of a dream. >> the song became an anthem. >> good. >> you know -- >> it was fun. when we did the video, all my friends came to the studio. all the hairdressers that i mu from vidal sassoon came. in the video. everybody helped everybod

. >> i'm a poughkeepsie born person. >> you're a local boy. >> i don't know if it's local. >> local enoughent to -- i grew up there, went to high school and left and went to college. ended up going back there and started to work at la sirk. got that automatic gratification. you didn't have to wait until you were gone or dead before you got recognized for something. >> how different is cooking from place to place? for example, cooking in alabama, do you feel you're cooking for a different audience than new york and does that shape how you cook? >> it always does. you're a product of your environment. we went from new york city to -- that was sort of strange. you know, you dealt with the tourists. in laguna, you had l.a. people which were very quite similar to new york. now in the southeast, you know, they look at it like you're sort of down there and it's kind of redneck or whatever you want to say. but it's not. it's very educated. huntsville has nasa and well-educated people. most ph.d.s. we get away with doing a lot of the food we've done over the years. and people really embrace it and