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Wk wick released hundreds of thousands of pages of u.s. military and diplomatic documents. the snow in new england is causing a major headache for some schools. there are concerns about roofs collapsing. hartford, connecticut, firefighters are trying to clear snow off the roofs. officials are deciding not to take chances. robin, i know you have been tracking the storms, the weight of that snow unexpectedly causes roofs to cave in. >> in a lot of spots it is on the roofs all winter long especia...

Fire-breathing snow creature, oh, my. jeanne moos on the crazy winter weather. >> having to abandon your car on lake shore drive in you chicago is bad, but not as bad as your cars nose rubbed in the snow. there were accidents like this one in salem, new hampshire and roof collapses. but as some things went down, others went up and up and up. this 35-foot snowman in champion, new york, has a snow cone for a nose and a swimming pool for a top hat. its enough to give frosty button envy. these butto...

Sitting down for dinner and heard their own roof give way. >> snaps and pops and cracks and you hear -- hear it creaking? >> yeah... >> something may happen maybe while you are here. >> eric: they had to move the equipment to another fire house until their own building can be reinspected and that roof repaired. >> jamie: neighboring massachusetts has seen 100 residential and commercial roof collapses, just in the last four days. in boston, firefighters spotted buckling walls and cracks at a skat...

Collapses, partial collapses, and, just structural damage. we have seen connecticut get hit hard by this and here in massachusetts, more than 70 buildings have been hit, partial collapse or some sort of structural damage that authorities have had to go and look and check in. it is also a dangerous situation. look at video from a school, from yesterday, the roof collapsed, in georgetown at an elementary school at the percenty elementary school, and there were kids in the building and they were lu...

On this? >> it takes several forms. american business by and large is not hiring. they may not be fire iing jobs e created in the year, but you have over a million people entering the job force. given the enormity of the financial collapse that produced this recession, those financial collapses could be deeper and longer recessions. i dont know if we have the programs yet that will be job creating and that is the thing that were going to have to focus on and the only additional input into the ec...

And across the middle east. lets move along to this. here is something su definitely do not see every day. listen to that. and watch this. the whole building collapses and thats not the only one buckling from all that snow you got in the northeast. were going to have more pictures. thats next. also, first it was the restaurants. now can you guess where else theyre banning smoking in new york steg? >> he hmm. that is ahead.

To pick ourselves up, dust the snow off, and thats why we have my friend jeanne moos who shows us how its done. >> reporter: having to abandon your car on lake shore drive in chicago is bad but not as bad as having your cars nose rubbed in snow. they were accidents in salem, new hampshire, and roof collapses, but as some things went down, others went up and up and up. this 35-foot snowman and champion, new york, has a snow cone for a nose, and a swimming pool for a top hat. thats enough to give ...

Get back to the breaking news out of egyptian but thundersnow, fire breathing snowman and roofs falling in pieces. jeanne moos has this most unusual mon stefr a blizzard in the united states. >> reporter: having to abandon your car on lake shore drive in chicago is bad, but not as bad as having your cars nose rubbed in the snow. there were accidents like this one in salem, new hampshire and roof collapses but as some things went down others went up and up and up. this 35-foot snowman in champion...

Republican house. it hurts president obama in this way. we assume that the supreme court will fast track this. hear it and decide in the fall, in the fall. that goes right up into the presidential campaign of 2012. if he has a loss like that on his resume going into the campaign, it cant possibly help him. >> if the entire law is found to be unconstitutional, he has to start all over, that is a different issue. just the mandate part, there is a lot of room for compromise. there is a lot of room ...

Go back to ground zero with a republican house. it hurts president obama in this way. we assume that the supreme court will fast track this. hear it and decide in the fall, in the fall. that goes right up into the presidential campaign of 2012. if he has a loss like that on his resume going into the campaign, it cant possibly help him. >> if the entire law is found to be unconstitutional, he has to start all over, that is a different issue. just the mandate part, there is a lot of room for compr...