rockies. the map, a line of areas shaded in green and parts of grand junction, colorado, even areas of red. winter storm warnings and advisories in effect for some places in the rockies. could see up to a foot of snowfall today. here is the reason why. scattered snow showers and area of low pressure will bring moisture way back into the rockies, and as it falls through the lower layer of the atmosphere, they could receive a foot of snowfall. look for storms in parts of arkansas in the late afternoon hours. little rock, west memphis, might have rough weather to deal with. strong thunderstorms, heavy rainfall. maybe even flash flooding. can't rule out an isolated storm or two. very pleasant with high pressure to the east. out to the west, the same situation for california, for much of oregon and back to washington state. of course, four corners, some areas, snowfall in the highest elevations. in terms of high temperatures, memphis, 70 degrees. 64 in atlanta. 7 tampa. 80 for miami. and 53 in chic

from the rockies to the midwest, it is cold and snowy. we will not get into the coldest part of the system, but we will feel the change once the front rows by early next week. there is that snow line up, and even the texas panhandle has winter weather advisories in effect and snow is expected to push south into the texas panhandle over the weekend. for us, to amar should be just like today, a lot of sun and mild temperatures. there may be a few widely scattered showers trying to break out sunday evening, but during the day tomorrow and sunday, it should be great weather to be outside before the clouds pickup and the rain newsmen in time for the monday morning rush hour. snow down in the smoky mounds of western north carolina next week. the first day of spring tomorrow at 1:32 in the afternoon. heading west, look for temperatures in the low 60's with sunny skies. 73 on in locations at eastern shore. still mild on sunday, then showers coming in late sunday night. breezy and cooler tuesday, and another front comes in toward the end of next w

on the tail end of it, more snow is falling in the colorado rockies. thunderstorms down near the gulf. that will track through tomorrow night and friday morning. clouds during the day tomorrow. clouds may break out tomorrow evening, but that will be spotty until thursday night in to friday morning where we may get moderate to heavy rain in time for the friday morning rush hour. knowed this ribbon of changing precipitation to the north and west. some of the western fringe of this rainmaker changeover to wet snow or sleet as it drags the colder air through here friday afternoon and heading off the coast saturday morning. saturday looks like the best day of the weekend with sunshine before another storm brings more wet weather for the second half of the weekend. every couple of days, a new storm arrives with some unsell weather. another mild day with south wins pushing temperatures well into the 60's. there is a chance for a shower just about anytime 1 to get past the morning. around the bay, the showers hold off until the evening. warmer and 67, an incre

this was their rocky mound. there was nothing here. -- this was a rocky mount. there was nothing here. no one was displaced at all. >> what would people think it mr netanyahu had to give up building 1600 new homes? >> personally, i know that this is the real peace that absolutely everyone was embracing. the democratic government and everybody expects the democratic decisions of the government appeare. >> what if it was the price of just building its proximity talks? >> we are talking about asking a country to stop building in its own capital. i think it is ridiculous. if you were to ask the british government to stop building in london because someone wanted to make a state there or there were proximity talks, i think everybody in london would be offended and rightly so. this is part of the capital of israel. this is jerusalem, the ancient capital of the jews. i do not think anyone has the right to tell us not to build or expand in a community where we live. >> thank you very much. that is a glimpse of one of the most insoluble issues of the conflict. both the p

snow in the southern rockies through the gulf coast states. >> 46 in dallas. 60 in new orleans. 73 in miami. boston gets up to 39. baltimore, 38. atlanta, 54, 30s across much of the midwest today. and 60s from seattle to sacramento. >> well, it's all over in vancouver. last night's closing ceremonies had its stranger moments including some that involved inflatable beavers and moose. and canadian mounties. >> the athletes are looking forward to a black sea russian resort in 2014, that is if you're counting just 1,439 days from today. >>> and u.s. versus canada in men's hockey may have been the most exciting. the u.s. was down 2-0 before tying the score in regulation. canada claimed the goal with an overtime goal. we will have the final olympic count. >>> and some squabbling takes thousands of federal workers off the job. >> a presidential checkup with a nasty habit. >>> and more on the top story. day three of chile's earthquak >>> insurance giant aig is about to take a big step towards repaying its huge government bailout. the company is reportedly close to selling its asian life insur

skies will be bright and sunny over the rockies and plains.er cold across the upper midwest. and it will be gray and soggy from the central appalachians to the gulf coast. >>> in sports, big lebron led the way in the big easy. lebron james scored 38 for cleveland, including an alley-oop jam in the second quarter. james also had 11 assists including a pass to hickson for a score and james showed his quickness and agility driving for a left-handed floater against the glass. the cavs won it 105-92. >>> in charlotte, steven jackson scored a season high 37 points against minnesota. gerald wallace added 23, including a second quarter drive and flip for a score. the timberwolves took their 14th straight loss 108-95. >>> and speaking of serial losers, how about the new jersey nets. with 26 points from a determined brooke lopez, the nets beat visiting sacramento 93-79. devin harris added 24 points to push the nets' record to 8-63. they need one more win to avoid setting an nba record for fewest in a season. >>> and a reminder, ncaa's sweet 16 action be

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a mixture of rain and snow develops over the rockies.will be another gorgeous day throughout the east. temperatures will be in the 60s. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. democratic leaders expect a house vote on health care reform this sunday. a revised $940 billion plan was unveiled yesterday. >>> and people in fargo, north dakota, have done about all they can do to prepare for the possible flooding. the red river is expected to crest sunday. >>> every day, a thousand young people take up smoking in the united states. the federal government has announced new rules to clamp down on the marketing of tobacco products to children. randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: these are ads the government does not want kids to see, pitching tobacco products they are too young to buy legally. mike started smoking when he was 17. >> i didn't get carded, it was easy to buy cigarettes. >> reporter: the fda is rolling out new rules designed to stop children from ever trying cigarettes. >> the historic rule we're issuing will help ou

you know, we have winter storm warnings in the rockies. >> well, the rockies. >> i guess. >> i guesshat's okay. right? >> we just got over a brutal winter in new york. i'm hoping the weather is warming up there today. reynolds wolf has a look at all of that for us in the cnn weather center. hey, reynolds. good morning to you. >> good morning. t.j., it's okay? i mean, if you're out there and sick of shoveling, man, it's not a good day. you're angry. probably at t.j. holmes right now. >> my goodness. >> just teasing. it's not that bad. there are going to be some points out there, guys, where you'll see the snow possibly go to a foot of snowfall in some places in the high mountain peaks and if you're a skier, it has been purely incredible for you. we'll be seeing that snow continue through a good part of today then fizzling out by midday. you get a break. the other half of the system is moving into the plains bringing in something different. right now it is snow from castle rock southward to colorado springs. temperatures mainly in the 30s and into the 20s. we can expect that storm syst

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after we report divers' grainy photos surface showing what could be a human skeleton face up on the rocky ocean bottom off the aruban shore, aruban prosecutors send dive teams to scour the water. why? to pinpoint the exact spot of the photo. tonight, have the remains of american girl natalee holloway been located? and tonight we obtain the rest of joran van der sloot's alleged confession, describing how holloway disappears. he insists she'll never be found. but tonight, will justice finally win ou >> yes. it's just she'll never be found again. i think. >> she's been dumped in the ocean? >> yes. >> breaking news. the aruban police dive team searching an area off the island coast, looking for the area in question, where this photo was taken. >> an underwater photograph may be a new clue in the natalee holloway case. >> is it really remains? >> it's a photo taken by a pennsylvania couple vacationing in aruba. >> that is a corpse. you can see the skull. you can see where the eye sockets were. it's laying flat on its back. and its arms a craed around. you can almost see fingers. >> are thethe

it moved right on across the country across the rockies where it dumped snow. now extending from the great lakes down toward louisiana with the western edge of it. you see snow. still associated with that. our temperatures are so warm though. we're really not going to see any winter precipitation. the most we'll get out of that is our temperatures will take a bit of a hit. today of course, we still have warm air in place. the warm air is going to start mixing with the cooler air moving in. we're going to likely see some thunderstorms out of this. the heavier rain and the overnight hours through tomorrow. thunderstorms intermittently through the day. it all starts to move out of here on tuesday. we only have really 48 hours of this. but again, the transition is going to bring us a drop in our temperatures. we'll go from the 70s down into the 50s and 60s which although it sounds pretty chilly, it is still closer to our average. our average temperature for this time of year, our daytime high about 56 degrees. keep that in mind. sunset at 7:19. and look a little cl

winter is still holding on in the rocky mountain states. judge a little bit and travel across the country and give us rain. -- this system will travel across the country and give us some rain. we have a clearing trend going on. you may see a couple of clouds drifted by. , but temperatures are on the cool side. mid-upper 40's. the forecast for today is mostly sunny skies. high temperature is 56 and that is the average. it could be choppy and the chesapeake today. mostly clear skies tonight. temperatures in the upper 30's and an 40's. the high pressure will move off the coast. this area of low pressure roll right along the front. there is a pretty good chance for rain. it should be dry on thursday. expect a cool down at the end of the week. 60 on thursday. a good chance for rain thursday night and into friday morning. we should have a dry weekend. sunday night, monday, and tuesday, a chance for showers. temperatures in the low to mid 50's. >> there is a push to end a state spending on bottled water. there wasn't demonstration showing there is

this will dump snow back into the rockies. we'll see colder temperatures filtering in and blanketing the mid-atlantic. for us, cold means we'll be down around normal. average in the mid-50s now. we have been spoiled with these temperatures in the 70s. but we'll be closer to normal at least for the next week ahead. bob will have your complete updated first warning forecast. >>> thank you, tim. snow days granted. most maryland school districts are receiving waivers from the state. this will reduce the number. required days students must be in class this year. because of the massive snow storms in december and february. five days have been waived for 12 of the state's 24 districts, including anne arundel county and baltimore city. baltimore county applied for and received a one-day waiver. >>> well, the student population in harford county is growing. but some schools aren't seeing the boom. and now, four elementary schools may be in danger of closing. gigi barnett has more in tonight's school watch report. >> reporter: overcrowd

. >>> from flooding in the midwest to snow in the rockies.ing starts tomorrow, you know that, but old man winter is not giving up in the mile high city. people in denver are getting one more blast of winter weather. they have an advisory until midnight. >> our snow is a distant memory but it's replaced by spring fever. >> temperatures will be like mid-april than mid-march. gary mcgrady has more on that. >> how about that. some 15, maybe 20degrees warmer than where we should be. the good news, it will last through the weekend. we can't always say that but it looks like we will have a pleasant weekend. here is why. you look at true view, you can't find clouds out there. it will remain mostly clear overnight tonight and for the better part of the weekend there will be clouds coming in sunday. believit or not associated with this snow that we were just talking about and showing you pictures lifting out to the central plains. in kansas, most of western kansas is under the gun for a little snow. before it's said and done, the texas panhandle will g

let's go to the first warning doppler weather radar, i want to show you along the front range of the rockies. look at the left side of the screen, we've had serious winter weather and a foot of snow. you move east and we're talking about rain, that's going to be moving our way and yet, another deep area of low pressure and not just rain, but thunderstorm, approaching, well, kansas city and eventually some of the action will get through chicago and indy and cincinnati and into the mitt atlantic. what's the timing? the low is out over the ohio valley, tomorrow and the clouds will be here tomorrow and late afternoon. and by the time we get into the morning rush on friday, shower activity will be starting in the western viewing area. it looks like it will be a rainy week's beginning and how about the end. we'll have more in a few minutes. >>> thank you, marty. the president signed the health care reform bill into law and today, the republicans are gearing up to fight it. here's joel brown reporting on part two of the health care debate. >> nobody believes that. >> the republicans took to the sen

snow working into the colorado rockies. winter storm watches are posted here.ee anywhere from six, maybe as much as 18 inches of snow depending on where you are. we will get a little front range upslope. with winds coming up and out of the east, later on tonight, denver will see some snow. we are starting to see some snow develop across the higher countries. this would be a good one for those folks. after that, though, what's keeping things cold, the jetstream, very far to the south, slowly starting to make its migration to the north. the warm air is going to return at some point here. we are seeing hits of that, certainly. a high temperature of 75, expected in dallas today. 71 degrees in memphis. finally, bouncing into the lower 60s in atlanta after seeing some snowflakes fly around the deep south yesterday. kyra? sfri spring is coming. just be patient. >>> alleluia! ♪ >> that's right, today is the 267th alleluia! anniversary. it was performed in london in 1743. >>> the words heard around the new nation on this day 1775, patrick henry delivered one of the most

of mexico and it's wrapping around where you have some very shallow and cool air in parts of the rockieswhen it comes in, obvious it's going to fall through the lower levels of the atmosphere and give us that snowfall. but right ahead of that boundary, we can see strong storms develop especially through parts of the dallas/ft. worth metroplex. afternoon hours, could have some strong thunderstorms and could see delays in places like dallas. relatively calm in places like the northeast, but we could see some delays. already at jfk, a one-hour delay. more of those in boston due to the wind. all the airports in d.c., philadelphia could have an hour-plus delay due to the wind. cleveland due to fog and in denver, yeah, more of that snowfall which is going to hamper some of the visibility. visibility in new york looks pretty good. this is a shot from central park. you see the ice-skating rink right there. enjoy it while you can because summer is right around the corner. that is the forecast. let's send it back to you at the news desk. >> thanks, reynolds. >> you bet. >>> a split decision on the

>> it's been a rocky road to development for this system that has cameras and sensors and communicationsed to be a force multiplier for the border patrol to help secure the nation because it's been so rocky the secretary of homeland security janet napolitano announced yesterday $50 million in recovery act funding that was supposed to be spent on sbi net is now going to be reprogrammed. she's going to spend it on other kinds of technology off the shelf that's been proven. she says we're going to complete this stretch that we're worki

rockies, you look just fine, boise and salt lake city. that's a look at your forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. a lot of areas are going to see enjoyable weather today from cleveland, ohio, to tampa. temperatures are going to be near average for once in many areas down in florida. tampa today around 76. philadelphia, beautiful at 63. lynn, there's a surge of cold air that's going to head down from canada in the next couple of days. we'll talk about that when i come back. >>> caterpillar booms, nintendo goes 3-d, and why the irish aren't drinking as much these days. >>> plus it's no wonder she gave up being governor when you hear the salary she'll be getting for her reality tv show. >>> arenas could be headed to jail, and one of the longest goals you'll ever see. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here's some of your top headlines this morning. >>> in mississippi a federal judge ruled the school district violated the rights of a teenager when it canceled her prom instead of lett

the rockies looks just fine. that's a quick look at the weather forecast. now here a quick look outside your window. thunderstorms are possible today in nashville. we're not talking severe weather thankfully. maybe strong storms and gusty winds. indianapolis, light rain for you. 54. dallas, a cool 62. that's your thursday forecast, lynn. >> thank you. >>> well, starbucks bubbles, honda sizzles, and man's best friend goes wireless. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus two more revelations, two more big blows to the marriage of sandra bullock and jesse james. >>> two more teams punch their way to the play-offs and the nets win. wait, what? yeah. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> social security is now at its brink. the new york tiemgs reports for the first time ever more money in social security benefits will be paid out than is received in payroll taxes. that wasn't expected to happen until 2016 at the early

. >> mostly 50s in the pacific northwest and the rockies. 57 in minneapolis. 52 in chicago. 48 for detroit today. 60s in new york and baltimore. 75 in miami. 67 down in dallas. >>> almost every girl loves a good shopping spree but it's not nearly as much fun if you can't show off what you got. >> that's right, brag about it a little. teens and tweens across the country are going viral to show off their fashion finds. there are more than 100,000 of what they call these hall videos on youtube showcasing every purchase from lip gloss to designer duds. >> sisters elle and blair are some of the biggest video stars. youtube pays them for those videos. they have hired a hollywood agent and they are planning to appear on "seventeen" magazine. >> you basically have to be told what to buy by these people? >> it's sort of like -- no. hasn't your wife ever come home and said, look at this sweater, i got this for this amount. look at, this i got this for this amount. >> yeah, and i zone out. >> right, that's why she needs this. that's why women created it. we'll be right back with more "world news now.

developing off the rocky mountains. all snow when you get to colorado.hite. the blue and the green and the yellow, all heavy rain and you see that around kansas, missouri, iowa, more rain stretching into oklahoma and northern texas, too. 10 to 18 inches total for you south of denver to southern new mexico. not quite as much when you get around the panhandle and western oklahoma panhandle. the next 48 hours snow south of denver your snow tapers off in the mile high city and then the heavy snow has already fallen. still there hanging around tough through colorado springs and pube low and stretching down towards northern parts of new mexico. stretching through oklahoma and kansas. kansas city, lots of rain and be there for the entire day. the unfortunate part of othis, a lot of snow and soils are saturated and along with one to two inches of rainfall. snow melting and now heavy rain coming in and it's going to be a bad sit washz in central missouri. that's something we're looking at. more rain around oklahoma city and stretching into dallas. weak area of lo

in the meantime, it should bring some snow around the rockies this morning and some rain on the plains. none of that for us today. not even much cloud cover out there. we are clear, mostly sunny skies. we do have some gusty winds out there this afternoon. the temperatures are in the upper 50's right now feel a little bit cooler. how high are the winds gusting? about 24 miles per hour out at the airport. on the eastern shore, winds generally at about 22 miles per hour. take that statewide tour and find out what the afternoon holds for this all. hear, we will top out at about 64 or 65 around baltimore. take it on over to the bay bridge, over to the eastern shore, over at ocean city, it looks like about 61 degrees. that puts us above the normal. the normal is 57 degrees. the average low is 36. tonight will be somewhere around that range. 83 is the record high in 1929. your forecast for tonight, 35 in the outlying areas. a 34 downtown. generally clear skies. high pressure is in firm control and that means fair skies for us. we have an area of low pressure to our west out -- it will drag al

nice spring skiing for the rockies out here but it's moving out into the central plains and bringingm a lot of spring snow for kansas, nebraska, iowa. and even the texas panhandle, they will get in on the act as this storm brings in the cold air and shift across to the east. overnight tonight, clear skies for us. we are tking about 47 here in town. you get outside of town, as usual, temperatures will be cooler. there may be a few spots tomorrow early, early in the morning that could touch the upper 30s or so. then we will warm up quickly with the sunshine. we will go 74 in the city. warmer today. jackpot for frederickburg, temperature of 75. centreville 74. closer to the water temperatures will be in the mid- to upper-60s to around 70 degrees. we start off sunny and we will end up sun tomorrow through the -- end up sunny tomorrow through the day. the next five days not bad. the next couple are darn near perfect. 74 tomorrow. 72 sunday. again, showers sunday will hold off until late in the evening or early early monday morning. it will be wet monday. we will have showers moving throug

we have a trouble spot in the middle of the country with snowfall in parts of the rockies but in thens into parts of the northeast a chance of severe storms for arkansas, portions of tennessee, mississippi possibly before the day is over, even louisiana and into missouri. all of this driving off to the east later on for tomorrow. but for today much of the eastern seaboard looks good. out west looks nice too. temperatures, 53 degrees the high in washington, d.c. 64 in atlanta. 42 in denver. 77 in phoenix. 79 in los angeles. that is a look at your forecast. let's take you back over to the news desk. >> that was fast, reynolds. thank you. >>> pardon the pun but it's been a, well, fluid issue since 2006. restrictions on just how much liquid a passenger can carry on to an airplane. >> despite predictions the rules would have been eased by now they continue and that's why knowing the rules before you get on the plane or before you get to the airport is key. >> reporter: more travelers are carrying their luggage onto planes these days. that makes knowing the rules for bringing liquids and g

this is dropping south across the colorado rockies and dumped quite a bit of snow.t seems to be winding down. it is transitioning more ithe just thunderstorms. the futurecast shows that for most of the day tomorrow, it stays dry. 11:00 going in the midnight, scattered showers breaking out. pretty decent rain being forecast during the friday morning rush hour. there is that little bit of snow on the northern fringe of this precipitation. the rain is ending friday afternoon. saturday looks like it will be a sunny day with temperatures coming down after tomorrow. 64-69 thursday, when out of the south 6-12. they will have more rain a little earlier. 67, dry weather at ocean city until very late tomorrow night. there is a small craft advisory up to the day, increasing out of the south. bay water temperatures are hovering right about 50. it will turn chillier with 49. sunny skies on saturday. rain again on sunday afternoon and monday followed by lots of sunshine. >> it feels a little less like hockey whether every day, but tonight's matchup will make you feel ready for th

the latest satellite picture shows a storm centered over the great plains and rockies, and skies areclear across the south and mid-atlantic states. now later today the snow will continue to pile up across eastern colorado and western kansas, and some strong thunderstorms are possible from southern missouri to northern texas. >>> in sports, denver is struggling to win a second seed in the nba's western conference playoffs next month. but the lowly knicks surged past the nuggets for a 109-104 win. that's the second straight loss for denver. and charlotte outscored washington in overtime for a 95-86 victory. that was win number 36 for the bobcats, a new franchise record. charlotte is also fighting for one of the last three playoff spots in the eastern conference. >>> nfl commissioner roger goodell will meet with quarterback ben roethlisberger of pittsburgh. the steelers player has still not been charged, after a college student accused him of sexual assault. roethlisberger's lawyer says he committed no crime, and police have withdrawn a request for a dna sample. >>> and sudden death isn

satellite picture, radar combined, the storm is coming out of the rockies.is just pushing eastward, big thunderstorms through kansas city, big thunderstorms from oklahoma city back toward dallas and right now, high clouds pushing our way. we'll have high clouds tonight. we'll call it partly cloudy tonight. all right, we'll do the zone forecast, all six zones on our website at wusa9.com. 60 in cumberland. the rest of us have clouds, but mild. 71 in culpeper. 68 in manassas and downtown, we are talking upper 60s. flirting with 70 down toward andrews and toward la plata. st. mary city will be very near 70 degrees. next seven days, upper 60s thursday, breezy, there's your rain and showers thursday night and primarily friday morning. we are back in the 50s though on friday with sunshine, we are back in the 50s on saturday. sunday, another system comes through here, kind of a weak system. rain and showers sunday afternoon, lingering showers monday and then we rebound very nicely, lesli, because we are in the mid 60s on tuesday and back to 70 next wednesday. >> we

satellite picture radar combined the next storm will come out of the rockies and move to the plain states tomorrow and then move to the ohio and tennessee valley on sunday and that will bring us rain on sunday, sunday night in to monday. meantime we say good-bye to this storm. clearing to the west a few showers in southern maryland and that's about it. zone forecast, in the 40s. for win chest and martinsburg and leesburg. but 50 culpeper, 48 manassas tomorrow with sunshine. downtown around 50, 51 for annapolis. 50 andrews. 50 waldorf and low 50s to southern maryland. next steven days. bright buries crisp tomorrow, 50 and low 50s on sunday , rain and showers develop. lingering showers on monday and 58 and then four beautiful days. low 60s on tuesday, nine across the board now as we finish out next week. near 70 on wednesday. mid-70s on thursday and almost 80 next friday. first 8 of the year. >> love that. we will be talking about that but what we are talking about right now is the arenas ' sentencing a lot of people want to know was it fair. >> right. i don't know. do we know the full deta

southeast and@id atlantic states and skies will be mostly sunny this afternoon across the plains and the rockiesin sport, the los angeles clippers had a good fourth quarter against utah. eric gordon had 24 points as the clippers held off the jazz 108-104. los angeles has now won four of its last six games. >>> in cleveland, lebron james had 22 points as the cavaliers pounded the new york knicks 124-93. the 31 point margin of victory was the largest of the season for cleveland, which has had the best record in the league. >>> dirk novitsky of dallas had 27 points to lead a second half charge against charlotte. the mafs have won eight straight games and beat the bobcats 89-84. that spoils charlotte's first game since michael jordan agreed to buy the team. >>> and in college basketball, west virginia's desean butler scored 22 points in hess final home game. west virginia is peaking in time for the big east tournament next week, but georgetown has lost information out of five. the final, west virginia 81, georgetown 68. >>> when we return, we'll take another look at this morning's top stories. >>> a

then sunday, this next storm out in the rockies comes in. so the rain chances come up again.'s forecast brings it colder, rain, maybe snowflakes tapering off. temperatures in the 40's. low 40's, they should tick there for a few hours and drop off into the 30's as we get deeper into the afternoon. future cast shows the rain stepping out of the area here and eventually some clearing skies as we go through evening hours. overnight, 25-32 for low. north winds lighting up at 5-10. future cast shows a good day on saturday, as we get into sunday we begin to cloud up again. here's that next storm coming in. moisture, rain chances increase, saturday afternoon and saturday night, and sunday night especially, and then we hope to clear things out on monday. here's the seven day forecast. 48 today. we've already gone past that. some of you are already in the 30's. then 50 tomorrow and we start out 25, at least there will be some sunshine. monday afternoon, and then tuesday, wednesday, thursday dry and the temperatures bounce back up into the 60's. >> in today's educational alert, they hop

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> it was a long and rocky road, president barack obama refused to give up on health care reform, and this week his efforts were rewarded. house speaker nancy pelosi says it never occurred to her that it would not pass. colby, you said from day one that you thought the president succeed. what did you know that we did not? >> what caused me to maintain that position was looking at obama the candidate, the presidential candidate, who came from nowhere but showed a steely resolve in winning the nomination, winning the presidency. this is a consequential individual. he showed it with the health care bill. what i said he did not have, he ended up having, which is to o'neal in the house, and he had that in nancy pelosi -- a tip o'neill in the house, and he had that in nancy pelosi. >> is this a game changer for the president? >> absolutely. do biden said this week that had he not gotten this, the president would have been done. especially considering what happened on january 19 in massachusetts, where he looked like he lost the year

. >>> it's springtime in the rockies but doesn't look like it. folks along colorado's front range including denver are digging out from up to 20 inches of snow. the wet, heavy snow also caused problems with downed trees and power lines. >> now the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> bit of a chill in the air. >> yeah. coming in especially by this time tomorrow evening. we will get a good high temperature but tomorrow evening cold front. rain and windy on friday. chilly stuff. almost done --. >> spring. >> let's take a look outside. pretty nice night. traffic getting along fine. i tell you nice dry roads. that will be the case for the morning. tomorrow evening we might get in a generally dry drive but tomorrow night rain, friday morning rain. 48 right now. winds calm. humidity low. 56% right now. take you out to mount eerie. blue skies, beautiful middle part of the day if you had a chance to get outside and enjoy it. you were one of the luckies ones. few more clouds toward sunset. it was

that big storm system coming out of the rockies.unshine along the gulf coast. got nice folks here from armani. >> it's worldwide water week and we're supporting the unicef cap project. basically every bottle that you buy we're donating $1. >> they can get more information right here. all righ >> looks like it is going to be a beautiful wednesday. mostly sunny skies. we will make it into the mid 60's. >> got the birthday girl right here. let's go to meredith for the block. >> he just said "hi, ann." he loves all the ladies, i guess. al, thank you. >>> up next, should cheating spouses ever deserve a second chance? what our experts have to say right after this. [ rewinding ] at hellmann's, we search for the best sources to make our mayonnaise. we use eggs, vinegar and oil rich in omega 3. ♪ for the quality that could only be hellmann's. hellmann's. it's time for real. and, now introducing hellmann's light. it's made with 100% cage free eggs. and a kind of pressure behind my eyes. i'm wondering if you've ever been checked for cortical s

we're dumping snow in the rockies and the leading edge, we're seeing rain filtering into wisconsin and minneapolis and it's going to move into the warmer temperatures. we expect to see the potential for thunderstorms with some of the mixing of the air late sunday and monday. it lingers into tuesday. while this is going to take a while to get here, it will take a little while to leave. we'll see the rain and we'll dry out in a gradual warm up for next weekend. the south wind on the bay at five to ten knots and no advisories in affect. 74 and sunny, warm, nice. 46 tonight and clear, calm and mild. seasonably mild and pretty warm tomorrow. 72 degrees and for the next five days, 66 monday, 54 tuesday and the temperatures take the hit and we'll level out wednesday. 62 wednesday and 60 thursday. >> all right, up next on eyewitness news saturday morning. cause of death revealed for the 8-year-old boy who's body washed up on a seattle shore. >>> grocery store secrets and organic food. can you trust the labels. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,3óúoúoúo >>> welcome back to eyewitness news saturday morning on t

snow on i-15 and 25 in the northern rockies, mostly in montana and much of wyoming. and flooded roads in the midwest. >> if you are flying today, it should be easy going. there are no weather-related airport delays to report this morning. >>> well, teachers and parents are taking a look at a troubling, new report on how poorly boys are doing in school. while gis e gaining much stronger math skills, boys are falling farther behind in reading. ron claiborne hamore details. >> reporter: this report is very good news for girls. but it describes what amounts to a crisis for the nation's boys. >> there's a consistent pattern here that says boys are not learning how to read as well as girls. >> reporter: the findings by the center for educational policy show a consistent pattern. in every state in the country, at every grade level studied, girls dibetter in reading than boys. in some states, thgender gap was staggering. in virginia, middle school girls did than boys in reading by 15 percentage points. in new hampshire, also 15 points. in new york state, girls were 13 points

. >> reporter: the cruise line industry may have had a rocky 2009 for booking cabins and pulling in the big numbers but it's been full steam ahead for this year and looking into next. cruise lines are touting new and improved ships, better deals and more variety when it comes to enticing new and retu customers. the name of the game is getting the first time crser on board so they get hooked on the experience. only 20% of americans have been on a cruise which is why they are seeing so many companies pull out all the stops and come up with out of this world cruises to break the mindset of what people think a cruise is really like. >> each of these ships has tried to out do each other in the kinds of things they put on board. you're getting ships with 20 restaurants on board. even ten years ago that's unheard of. and you have bowling alleys and you've got all kinds of entertainment facilities that were never figured before. >> reporter: rock and roll themes. sports theme, movie theme. even a knitting theme. if you can think of it it's probably o there. cruise line operators athey're listen

check out the system in the rockies. it will bring rain thursday night and friday. tony has the scoop on all of it. >> the weekend should be fine heading out to the vineyards over there. i have been there myself. i highly recommended. typical spring maryland weather coming up over the next couple of days. today will be nice. temperatures are at 45 degrees of the airport. the forecast for today is mostly sunny and pleasant. it will be on the breezy side, but not bad. high-tech image around 64 degrees. if you take the boat out today, be careful because the waves are choppy and a small craft advisory is in effect. clear tonight with temperatures in the low 40's. during the day tomorrow, things will change. the system that she was talking about is getting closer to us. if rental the stalled to our south. temperatures are dropping off toward the end of the week. we will have a chance for rain starting thursday night and into friday. we should clear up by the time we hit the region. 65 degrees today. a good chance for rain thursday night. and friday. that will clear up in

snow in the northern rockies. a mix of rain and snow in south dakota, nebraska and utah. >> 54 in salt lake city. 68 in albuquerque. 83 in phoenix today. mostly 60s across the midwest. highs near 70 from boston to baltimore. and uppe60s from atlanta to dallas. >>> supreme court just advertises have long been depicted as serious and intelligent. now someone has turned them into child's play. >> the entertaining law journal givenback.org has been churning out bobbleheads of justices past and present. rehnquist, sandra day o'connor and others. >> up to 2,000 of each one is made. greenbag says there are not just toys and they are not for sale, they are given away. >> i'd like some of those, those are cool. >> they are cool. wouldn't it be funny to bach into one of their offices, a supreme court justice, and see one of these in an office? >> that bastion of seriousness with a bobblehead on the desk, that would be funny. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." ♪ [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time

for example, the rocky top vote swap. the deal made to get the vote of a congressman from tennessee who voted against the bill the first time and is apparently going to vote for it this time. special deal for a hospital in his district. so the second measure that will come back to the senate is not exactly free of special deals. that is the proposal if the house can pass both these measures that the senate will take up next week. >> schieffer: so what will be your tactic? what will be your strategy? will you just offer a series of amendments to try to just drag this out? what will republicans do? >> well it's not a question of dragging it out. it's a question of making sure the american people know what's in it. we'll have all kinds of amendments on the substance. then of course there are special rules that apply to one of these so-called reconciliation bills that will be tested in the senate. it will be various rulings by the parliamentarian as to whether things meet the so- called byrd rule. those will be tested in vote

we have more mountain snow headed to the rockies. >> did you graduate?what do you mean did i graduate? i failed statistics, but i did graduate. >> did you play sports? >> did i play sports? i took a year of figure skating because i had to because i missed out on gym signup. i'm not proud of it but i did take a year of miss fitness as every cornell student has to. i just got stuck in figure skating. >> all right, dave. >> i'm just being honest. everything you also was full. >>> okay. still ahead here this morning, we'll switch gears. i'm sure we will discuss cornell again, but first, this really interesting story about this facebook burglary. we have a couple who is here this morning, very upset because they feel that hindsight being 20/20, they should never have posted on facebook where they were going to be because they believe one of their friends burglarized their house. we'll talk to them when we come back. [ announcer ] your dog's one of a kind. and now, you have the power to help significantly extend his healthy years. a groundbreaking 14-year stud

>> it's mostly going to be limited to the rocky mountains.have a fairly easy day of it. let's go right to the maps. the snowfall totals yesterday, many of these places over a foot of snowfall. you're seeing on the map a bit of a bull's-eye in the dead center of the map. the area of low pressure will bring strong thunderstorms to parts of the dallas ft. worth area. pretty good in some places but in parts of new mexico and into colorado could see heavy snowfall. and maybe even the panhandle of oklahoma. more on that coming up straight ahead. back to you. >>> also up ahead, surprising requirements that are very deep in the health care reform law. at 7:14, we'll tell you the changes you and your family will notice next time you visit a restaurant. >>> retaliation from china after google sensored websites. >>> at 7:40 eastern, america's growing weight problems. more american teens are at risk now more than ever. we'll look at the problem and how one 14-year-old is trying to turn her life around. it's ten minutes past the hour. ♪ ♪ >>> with the str

wants to turn the page on the rocky relationship with pakistan. she is meeting today is pakistani officials here in washington. she wants them to understand the u.s. considered them a key ally. >> our countries have had misunderstandings and disagreements in the past, and there are sure to be more disagreements between there are any friends or frankly family members, but there is a new day. >> anti-american sentiment in pakistan has been growing in recent year. many pakistanis are angry about drone attacked the u.s. is launching on suspected terrorts. >>> the usa today says there is a device that can tell how long a wait time is in information posted in airports across the country. civil liberty groups are expressing concerns about this. >>> we have a beautiful day out there today. have you looked outside? it's chilly, but the sun is out. let's talk to tom about how long we can expect thelear weather to last. >> throughout the day today and in through tonight, there will be a chance of showers. but until then we will have dry weather. we can squee

the second point we are in the midst of a policy transition that i rockies and american support and it'snot just about the troops. much of our debate i think is focused on troop training and last summer u.s. troops withdrew from the cities and there was a lot of hyperventilating what impact this would have and i think yes it is a fragile security situation but i think i rockies are demonstrating a willingness to take on a lot of their own internal secure the challenges. what i would like to see is more debate about the other elements of american power including economic development assistance, the sort of things the state department an expanded mission is at least set to do. we had to agreement signed by the bush administration before he left office, the agreement that laid out a timetable for the troops drawdown and a separate strategic framework agreement which mapped out a very comprehensive set of dot i's on bilateral relations and political economic social and educational ties and from my perspective these agreements were linked as the u.s. began to disengage militarily. it is neede

milder air off to the west in the central parts of the rockies.y wednesday, another frigid air mass coming southward. looks like snow behind the front, rain farther east, could be a fairly wet system. we're not sure at this point exactly on the track of that, but everything moves east. doesn't last long anywhere, but this sends chilly air southward a day or two. snow along the appalachian range as we head through the end of the week and also scattered snow showers through the great lakes. higher elevation snows in the northwest along with rain in the coast. we'll be back in the next half hour with the longer range out outlook. >> friends and i were talking after choir practice this week about the weather. this week has been the longest stretch of sunny weather since november. and like those millions of asian beatles crawling over our windows and doors, the biggest activity is watching for the early birds, not robins of course but those eager beaver neighbors who have traditional ly led the parade to the fields. we all know who to keep an eye on in