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Good morning, im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. water, power, and some of the oldest living trees on the planet, all are threatened by a huge wildfire thats still growing in yosemite national park. on the ground, 3700 firefighters hard at work, in the air, aircraft dropping water and retardant on the flames as the fire gets close to a key reservoir and hydroelectric generators. lee bentley is on the phone this morning, good morning, lee. >> good morning. >> so, everybodys sayi...

Are focused on is stopping that legislation. >> i think that working on that right now. good to see you. thank you, sir. >> well, fox weather alert and winter storm has created very dangerous road conditions up and down the eastern u.s. take a look at this. this is memphis, tennessee where crews said they had to carefully push some cars across the bridges because the ice had formed on the roadways way too quickly. those icy conditions extending as far as south as mississippi. farther north, incl...

>> how tall is it? >> i would say 370 some feet. >> many people thought it was an actual cliff. i guess the word fiscal -- >> some people thought it was a movie or the guy from cheers cliff. >> janice dean has the weather report for us. >> some people say it feels like an avalanche out there. >> you can see the temperature change. 25 degree difference in new york. thats why people are angry. what happened to our warm temperatures. 31 in nyc, 32 philadelphia. we are talking about witnessed chills...

world heard of osama bin laden there was shake omar, a blind egyptian cler irk who was the spiritual leaders of the 1993 world trade center bombers. he was later convicted of plotting to blow up other new york city landmarks and is serving a life sentence in the u.s. but now a surprise development. egypts first democratically elected president, who will be sworn in tomorrow, is vowing to free him whom he calls a political prisoner. our cnn senior international correspondent, dan rivers...

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