teresa scanlan. >> terry: teresa scanlan. the new miss america at the age of 17. 17. the youngest winner since the very first badge general in 1921. the winner that year was 15 should have been called missy america. she wins $50,000 scholarship and the runner up gets 25,000. miss california finished in the top ten. >> two news items out of the monterey aquarium two baby penguins have hatched and you can watch them grow up. one hatched last week and another hatched on tuesday. they're available for viewing via a nest cam. kind of like national geographic meets reality tv. we have a link it to on abc-7.com, click on "see it on tv". they're so funny. >> leigh: your excited about this. >> terry: i am. >> leigh: you may not be able to see the nest cam because of the fog moving in. it's clear in a lot of areas. this is what's our high definition tam cam. looking towards san francisco. clear there the golden gate bridge reporting fog, and a lot of fog towards the east bay. dense fog advisory for much of the bay area until 11:00 tomorrow. 45 right now in napa. 51 in san franc

teresa scanlan. p. >> congratulations to 17-year-old teresa scanlan, she is the youngest miss america crowned since margaret woreman won back in 1921. the beauty from scottsbluff, nebraska, won a $50,000 scholarship and a year long run with the title during the pageant's 90th anniversary. miss arkansas was the runner up in that contest which featured 53 contestants. >>> mix hollywood super stars, ego inflating awards and the golding globes. >> looks like we'll be close to 80 degrees in l.a. today. here it's foggy to start your morning. details on the dense fog around the bay area coming up in a few minutes. >>> good morning to you. this is a live look from our camera on the ground on treasure island. very foggy out there. but it is supposed to be warm and nice later on today. stick around. >>> haiti is still digging out of the rubble of the catastrophic earthquake one year ago, but disease and death continue to plague the population and hamper humanitarian operations. "today in the bay" joe ris so th

nebraska's teresa scanlan won the crown this weekend.ear-old said she will register as an independent next month when old enough to vote. >> scanlan's goal is to become a politician. and she said she's headed to law school. and the 50,000 miss america scholarship will certainly help. >> she is in fact the youngest to win when they changed rules in 1973, allowing 17-year-olds to compete. >>> coming up next, the stories we'll be following today. including drenching and damaging rains in the northwest. stay with us. [ breathes deeply, wind blows ] ♪ something wrong with your squeegee, kid? uh, i'm a little sick. sick?! you gonna let a sore throat beat you? you're fearless! this building is tough, but it's never seen the likes of you before. are you going to be a champ or a chump? a champ! show me! ahhhhhhhhh! atta boy! ahhhhhhhhh! [ male announcer ] halls. a pep talk in every drop. with triple soothing action. [ bell dings ] so my old contact lenses would sometimes move out of place and blur my vision. my eye doctor said there's great news

. >>> and finally there she is, the new miss america 17-year-old, teresa scanlan, ms. nebraska. she was chosen as miss america 2011 last night here on abc. she's the youngest to win that pageant in 90 years and the first ever from the cornhusker state. and in the words of bianna golodryga, congrats. an inside joke. >> inspired words. you know, there was this kayla martell who was miss delaware. she made it into the top ten even though she has this disease, alopecia. she's bald and wore a wig. she still made it to the number 10. >> did well in the balloting among americans. >> yes. >> she was the crowd favorite. >> her too. >> i still can't get over the fact that miss america was born in 1993. >> yes. that's depressing. >> bizarre. >> yeah, it is. >> oh, well. >>> let's go now to jackie meretsky also born in 1993. she's going to do the weather. >> oh, dan, you are my new best friend. >> happy 17th birthday. >> thank you very much. let's talk about the extreme flooding in the pacific northwest. if you're wondering why we've got these heavy rains, well here it is, the pineapple exp

here she is, miss america. 17-year-old teresa scanlan took home the crown last night. she's the second youngest winner in the 90-year history. she's 17, by the way. the first winner from nebraska. and finally to look that good, she likely eats her fruits and vegetables. parents of this tot are introducing her to grapefruit juice. she tastes the juice and then after a few seconds realizes just how sour -- oh! her reaction is adorable. in the next video they give her tabasco sauce and she throws the spoon at them. just kidding. >> janice huff is here with a check on the weather. >> i hope no one gives me that when they don't like my weather forecast. good morning, y.erodyb we're going to start out across the west. first you can see the rain across east texas. we swing westward and they are getting hard hit across the pacific northwest. the pineapple express continues. moisture from the hawaiian islands thanks to la nina this year. four to six inches of rain expected and possible land slides across the western sections of washington and oregon. it will be a nasty day ther

and here she is, miss nebraska, 17-year-old teresa scanlan is the new miss america. she's hoping some day to go to law school and eventually become a politician. that's what she says. in sports, yesterday's nfl divisional play-offs were not for the birds. the atlanta falcons whose feathers were plucked by the green bay packers who scored 35 unanswerd points. the final 48-21 packers. in the early contest second-half turnovers plagued the baltimore raferns enabling the pittsburgh steelers to mount a dramatic 31-24 come from behind victory. for the rains it's never more. for this season anyway. but the steelers will go on to play the winner of today's afc play-off game between the new york jets and the new england patriots which you can see right here on cbs. now today's forecast. expect either rain or snow in the northwest. over the southern plains and around the great lakes. in the northeast, the cold will continue beyond tomorrow's martin luther king jr. holiday. and a winter storm could arrive by midweek. the rest of the country it will be mostly mild and dry. >> i