. >>> gigantic python a huge attraction at a zoo in india.e is a 12-foot long snake, especially popular with kids. forest officials first spotted him near a village seed factory. weighing in at 130 pounds, a local zoo employee says it is the largest snake they have ever encountered. >> jim bernard can you top that out? >> no, 130-pound python showing up on the horizon, skies clearing out in and around the bay chance of showers develop late tonight into tomorrow otherwise spring like. 130 pounds worth? >> thank you jim. >> look can i for you we have -- lucky for you we have half the weekend left enjoy. >> that is it for this early edition of weekend early edition. next newscast is at 5:30. >>> have a great sunday ♪ [ male announcer ] escape convention. ♪ escape definition. ♪ escape compromise. ♪ introducing the most fuel-efficient luxury car available. the radically new... 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus. ♪ welcome to the darker side of green.

it's a little bit like the monty python skit, which i believe it's john cleese -- >> keep going. >> the public's comment time is very limited and i would appreciate the attention of the body while the public is speaking. i believe it's john cleese who goes and pays a group that is selling various services, including argument. he goes into a room and sits down with a guy at a desk, and ends up with essentially a dialogue that goes, yes, i did, no, you didn't, yes, i did, no, you didn't. and complains that he's getting contradiction instead of argument. that's what largely this comment does. for example. our comment that the branch facilities plan is seriously misconstrued in the draft e.i.r. got a response at page 81-82 that the branch facilities plan is a living document. so presumably is not binding. but what did the branch facility's plan say? and it stood and still stands. for example, architecturally significant buildings, it says properties considered by the planning department to be architecturally significant in their own right or significant to the context of the neighborhood ar

and they say it could be a boa constrictor or a python.s just a boa or a python or maybe something more common on to that area perhaps a smaller snake. is preying on their pets and one rumor says it even killed a large dog and although snake experts say that's unlikely. just a boa. >> just a boa. >> python. >> a garden snake. >> winter is still holding on in parts of the upper midwest. wisconsin saw nine inches of snow. let it go, mother nature. the estates of lacrosse, milwaukee and madison set daily records yesterday and even more snow, that's right, snow in late april all on the way today. commuters struggled on the icy roads as you can imagine and one driver skidded off of the highway into the water. it is not natural for there to be snow in late april. >> yeah. >> i don't get it, how people do it? >> that is tough. some folks are used to it and it doesn't seem to end. take a look at your weather. >> 70-mile-an-hour winds, golf ball sized hail and isolated tornados from texas to atlanta and even up into philly. drenching rain here in n

get a referendum now it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old monte python sketch you know this parrot is to cities to see such power is no more well let me tell you this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extinct it can not survive spain will go next. and coming up it's not just europe doubts in trouble. the u.s. debt problem is big fourteen trillion dollars big meanwhile the solutions lawmakers are coming up with to solve this problem are small argue worlds out of wedlock as the u.s. tries to agree a toy eleven budget and threats to its credit rating. every year thousands of women die as a result of domestic violence in russia even more decide to suffer in silence lawyers say only a change in the law allowing greater involvement in a family life can help the victims are to read english go reports. at the best we had cried he raised his hand happens so many times i held on for as long as i could but when i realized that he couldn't stand it i found the center where they hope women took my child and ran to save my life. it was this help center. wher

get a referendum now it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old monte python sketch you know this power to see such power is no more well let me tell you this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extent it can not survive spain will go next. still to come here on r.t. more financial trouble this time from across the atlantic. one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to get done is that growing along over america's careless boring credit agencies one of a possible downgrade of the country's rating. is a case of a granny versus the internet our seventy five year old woman a balance to cut off the web connection for huge swathes of both georgia and armenia. that ordinance legal system is under fire for failing to match its claims of democratic development the number of prisoners has significantly increased since president mikheil saakashvili came to power with only seven acquittals and twelve thousand legal cases over the last year or is claimed it's practically impossible to get a fair trial. the people of georgia do seem to

the referendum no it's kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old country python sketch you know this power it used to cities to cease fire is no more well let me tell you this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extinct it can not survive spain will go next. well coming up for your out see it's not just europe that's in trouble. the u.s. well looks at the river as the u.s. tries to agree on a two thousand and eleven budget all all of this so amid threats to its credit rating we have new details on that shortly here on artsy. now in japan radioactive water is reported to have leaked from a fuel pools at the owner nuclear power plant it's following a violent aftershock a measuring seven point one the plant is less than a hundred kilometers from the stricken fukushima plant which is still said to be made safe. at second rate so far following last month's there was a double hit of earthquake and tsunami so let's get some more develop on this will discuss how events might develop i joined now live by white from the citizens nuclear information center in tokyo

get a referendum not this kind of becoming irrelevant because this currency is doomed the old monty python sketch you know this power of his deceased deceased his power is no more well let me say this currency is dead it is deceased is is it is extinct it can not survive spain will go next joe back to your make a persuasive argument it's always good to have a right to have your thoughts i know you show your i love i love me in an art it's a great station with independent views keep it up thank you john pleasure to have you on. from birmingham in the u.k. time now to bring you some more world news this hour a powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of japan triggering a tsunami warning which was later lifted residents of the northeast of the country have been ordered to evacuate to higher ground the quake is not power at several nuclear plants which are using emergency surprise comes amid a struggle to restore cooling systems of the atomic station damaged by last month's deadly tsunami. at least twelve people have been killed and twenty two more wounded as a gunman opened fire in a sch