when we go into strasburg, i mentioned the second army, part of the 600 group sweeping up in into strasburg. there was a very deliberate and well organized effort to find out how far the germans are in the atomic research and the extent to which they are capable of pulling off something like the manhattan projects. and we knew it through various interesting intelligence means that strasburg is one of the centers of german thinking about this. there were physicists and others in strasburg they are. we captured a lot of documentation. most of the fish got away, but they left behind their stuff because we were in the strasburg equipped. it showed what had been suspected but not knowing quite clearly in the documentation would very quickly to roosevelt personally for an interesting chain of correspondent that the germans couldn't do it. they didn't have the wherewithal. they were way, way behind and there was no evidence that there was anything even approaching the german atomic tom. so, that allowed us to be less anxious about that aspect of german warmaking. you know, would we have dropped th

here is new market, strasburg, front royal, winchester down toward harrisonburg. speaking to a meteorologist friend down there. not snowing yet but by 6:00, 7:00, we'll be seeing the snow down in harrisonburg. it is taking a little while for the atmosphere to moisten up completely. but it is coming. back to the weather computer. any snow that we get, certainly going to stick. it is cold. temperatures running in the mid teens in hagerstown. winchester is 17. it is 15 at andrews. 16 in manassas. thanks to the warmer waters, annapolis, washington, reagan national and pax river, all in the low 20s. locally, we've got 22. gaithersburg and leesburg at 19. bwi, 18. alexandria at 20. a northwest wind at 5. that's nothing compared to the last few days. snow is marching in from the west to the east. gotta show you how quickly it is going to get here. by 6:00 a.m., it is coming. by 10:00, knocking on the doorstep. it is with us this afternoon through this evening and then it gets out of here tonight. dropping. it looks like maybe one to three inches areawide. areawide. gotta

we're beginning to pick up the beginning echoes to strasburg. this is not reaching the ground. it has saturated the atmosphere. you have to go down roanoke, points south and west of there. i'll show you this. darker blues that are coming in to charleston over toward southwestern virginia and kentucky. those are reaching the ground. it will take a little while for the atmosphere to moisten up. winter weather advisories have been -- they start to the south and west and go until 9:00 p.m. tonight. jefferson county, west virginia up through the panhandle here. also into washington county, maryland. you're not in the advisories. everyone else is. we're looking at a little snow. i'll get there in a moment. 22 right now. cold enough that anything that falls is going to stick. 18 gaithersberg. it is 15 in winchester. the air is also a little dry. that's one reason that early snow will evaporate. look at the relative humidity. 55%. you have a spread between the dew point of 8 and the temperature of 22. 14 degrees. for us to get a good snow going, we have to moisten up the atmosphere. we

rises just getting bigger and bigger if portugal falls which is on the lip of everybody here in strasburg that will be a disaster strikes the spanish economy because those those two countries are interlinked so severely in economical terms so when i don't know whether portugal or spain falls first but when the one falls the other one will do as well. he is coming to you live from moscow now let's get to some other world news this hour and a suicide attack. military bases in two afghan cities leaving thirteen members of the security forces dead in the northern city of those shoot up again when gunmen stormed an army recruitment center and army brass outside another recruitment center the main one in the country and ambushed in a separate incident on the outskirts of kabul the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks in which five assailants were also killed. but you want to get your general ban ki moon has rejected a demand from the disputed ivory coast government the u.n. peacekeepers should leave the country incumbent president. she was the u.n. over his rival. both candidates

rises just getting bigger and bigger if portugal falls which it is on the lips of everybody here in strasburg that will be a disaster strikes the spanish economy because those two countries are interlinked so severely in economic terms so when i don't know whether portugal or spain falls first but when the one falls the other one will do as well. well the back to our top story number the roots where opposition supporters of staging a rally to protest against what they say was a rigged presidential election that's no i talked to all of these cartridges are of a who's a lawyer in the capital of minsk now only a country the police use stun grenades we believe to disperse demonstrators heading towards where you are in here only but if you are here and president i come back i know it's a phrasing cold here in the belorussian capital minsk thousands of people have come out to protest what they believe was a falsified rigged presidential election if you can see behind me they're moving down one of minsk central avenues press vick ms ali as they see or independence avenue they're trying to block off

rises just getting bigger and bigger if portugal falls which is on the lip of everybody here in strasburg that will be a disaster strikes the spanish economy because those those two countries are interlinked so severely in economical terms so when i don't know whether portugal or spain falls first but when the one falls the other one will do as well. let's now have a look at some other stories from around the world people have been going to war wounded into a time in afghanistan for taliban militants stormed another recruiting center in the northern city of could do with two of them detonating suicide vests they ensuring fire fighting lasted five hours local officials said and the second attack militants ambushed a boss carry on officials to the center of kabul the tyler has claimed responsibility for the tux. at least twenty seven people have been killed after an oil pipeline exploded in the central mexican state of said two people were injured while schools of houses were destroyed in the blast a government spokesman sad the first explosion occurred as a tenants were made to steal gas o

live for us in strasburg thank you. for the verdict in the second trial of. won't be announced until the twenty seventh of december the court was to deliver its conclusion in the second trial of the former you cost tycoon earlier today artie's diary a pushover has more. we're right here in front of the court has where the reading of the verdict was due to storage at ten am moscow time this morning however when the journalists turned out they found a note on the door saying that the reading of the verdict has been postponed until the same time ten am on the twenty seventh of december the spokeswoman for the courthouse couldn't give any more details she confirmed the postponement but didn't couldn't explain as to why this happened we have heard that of course he is currently serving an eight years term to the biggest tax fraud in the country's history this is the second case against the health of that post he and his partner blood will live with if they are charged with stealing two hundred and eighteen million tons of world worth twenty seven billion u.s. doll

they are official four or five players way and remember no strasburg next year. >> and they are alsothe same division as the phillies. they are going to have to face that pitching staff 18 times next year. >> with we saw the cliff lee signing and him going back to philadelphia. it is a shorter contract but you are talking the same amount of dollars. i know the nationals wanted to go after cliff lee. if you are spending that kind of money, is it better to put it into a top pitcher or a guy like jason worth. >> probably better to put it into cliff lee than jason worth. all front line pitchers are off the market. >> the other part of that is, if you want to bring a front line pitcher n you have to do what did you with jason worth and that is overpay them and then have you guys like us saying they overpaid him. that is the only way to get a premiere guy. >> there is for with a cliff lee was coming here. he wants to win and in way he is going to win in washington. >> he took $50 million less and turned down the yankees. how much do you think it would cost to get him to come here. >> it is

so it needed me to find out about the nazi period, strasburg in world war ii. and about what it's like to be an american diplomat in the modern world and so on. and i must say, i loved it. i loved to give myself a level of information about my subject, which allowed me to imagine things i otherwise couldn't have imagined, you know, and i thought it enriched my own work as a writer. >> host: in one of your books you wrote that imagination is a cartography of the mind. >> guest: well, i do think -- you have to understand the shape of your own mat. -- map. every writer has a different map and their journeys in their mind go according to that internal cartography. the question i was talking about who has the widest ranging internal maps but sometimes people can make due with a very small part of the world. if you think of an american writer like william faulkner or eudora welty, flanary o'connor, they were able to take tiny corners of the world, you know, oxford, mississippi, in the case of faulkner and fictionalize it and find a lifetime's worth of depth and narra