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A lot of snow. bu weeen strange weather patterns. and they say its unlikely to change according to the long-term forecast. >> i guess the up side is the beautifully unseasonably warm weather. the down side is, you know, crazy outbreaks like the one we saw last night in michigan. >> theres always a down side. >> yeah. >> here is your friday forecast. more thunderstorms across the midwest and chicago and southern wisconsin. sfro orleans to nashville and tallahassee. 70-mile-an-hour winds and hail ...

Inmates earn one day off their sentence for every six days they work. but the job does have its down side. >> this is the biohazard bin. two gloves on. watch out this with this particular bin. you see all kinds of stuff. you see tampons attached to an underwear, you see like do do stains. discharges from people that might have something. you just got to get it in the wash. >> javier perez has been working in the laundry for a couple of weeks now.

>> folding machine makes everything the same size. so when you have five items on a shelf, you get five items across the shelf. have you a dozen inmates folding, one is going to fold so wide, another will be a little wider. >> pacing ourselves today then. >> working in the laundry is considered a privilege. inmates earn one day off their sentence for every six days they work. but the job does have its down side. >> this is the biohazard bin. two gloves on. watch out this with this particular bin...

>> theres no question that we have our work cut out for us. but this say public health crisis and were responding. >> reporter: on capitol hill, drug makers testified over regulation is partly to blame for drug shortages, not greed. >> manufacturers do not and would never deliberately reduce the supply of essential medicines. >> reporter: for this family and those like this, political finger pointing will do little good the next time their loved one needs an ambulance. >> shes an integ...

everyone. this is "early start." im ashleigh banfield. r >> i>> im r >> i>> i zoraida sa. it p it is 5:00 a.m. in th. lets get started. there athere are new satellite showip showishowing irantr site. thp this this is the same asked barbara starr will update the story for us. >> get out your best sunglasses because that, while pretty, aint great. its a solar storm and its actually slamming us here on earth right now. the pictures are terrific, but you know what, this could affect your s...

if that sounds familiar, its because many call it the model for obama care. although romney himself said he would repeal that law and let each state find its solution. the supreme court is going to hear a case this month on whether the federal law is, in fact, constitutional. if it takes full effect as scheduled in 2014, it might get a sense of how the law might change things if you look at massachusetts. you could do a lot worse if you look at how things have gone there. in her mid 20...

im in front of an apartment complex where six people lost their lives. ill bring you the whole story from here and from the whole area in the south and midwest that was hit by these deadly storms. >> and winner take some. mitt romney wins michigan but splits the delegates with rick santorum. romney also picking up another state. this all happening right before super tuesday. and after three days at sea without power means no lights, no toilets, no showers and infested waters, a cruise ...

Optimism. last week the blue chip index flirted with 13,000. yesterday the dow rode a surge in the economy to cross a threshold not seen since before the great recession. fueling yesterdays rally, a swell of consumer confidence in february driven by improving job prospects and an upbeat overall attitude about the nations economy. for instance, johnson and johnson added 5.5 points to the dows crucial rise. microsoft had the biggest percentage gain a among the 30 stocks adding 2%. tech shares adde...

were following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. >> we ...

Because romney is weakened in his own home state and newt said a couple of weeks ago if you cant win your own home state you should get out of race. thats not to say that romney wont do exactly what romney tells him to do. i dont expect him to start, but it will resonate throughout the media. people will be talking about why romney didnt do better. what kind of a threat conservative candidates are, so that is a net plus for the gingrich campaign going forward. >> so at this point i dont really s...