look at the west coast. i want to show you this, an area of low pressure, this is going to be the troublemaker. just kind of situated off the coast of the pacific northwest. then we have our pineapple express. you ll hear that a lot over the next couple of days. that s this long stretch of moisture off the pacific. so an unlimited amount of moisture. then we have this area of low pressure that s going to add that cold air. it gets the lift up over the mountains and we have enormous snowfall totals already. this is a single day event. we re anticipate thing is going to last at least until midweek, just before the christmas eve holiday. some of the reports coming out, now these are backed up into the sierra nevada. about 9,000, 10,000 feet. 15 inches of snow. charlotte lake, 30 inches of
said the fact that this was a stand alone bill, that may have been the key. it was clean, not attached to spending or anything else. it was just do you support this or do you not. and what we saw last week is it wasn t going to pass the senate, certainly attached to a larger defense bill. it was attached to a defense authorization bill that had a number of controversial items from things dealing with guantanamo detainees to abortion, as well as this don t ask, don t tell issue. and it failed. so the house went ahead and passed a stand alone measure, and that is what cleared the senate today. as we speak right now, supporters of this bill in the senate who voted for it are holding a press conference. i was just listening in. we heard joe lieberman, who caucuses with democrats. he s really been the leading voice on this, one of the co-sponsors of this legislation, and he just was telling reporters that when an issue like this comes up, he said it s not about them, meaning gay