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Its over. havent done it so far today so we should be okay. actually, throughout the streets of downtown oklahoma city theyre starting various hotels and businesses cleaning up the sidewalks so people can move along. thats what the cleanup is. havent seen a lot of snowplows or anything on the road just yet in downtown. but the good news is temperatures are supposed to get up above freezing. >> there went a guy behind you. >> reporter: hopefully the -- >> there went a guy behind you. >> reporter:...

Roadways. its also one of the reasons that youve seen people racing to the grocery store to stock up on everything they need so they can hunker down for the next few days. >> very smart. not the first time everyones been hunkering down this winter. its been a tough one. thanks so much, ed, well talk to you soon. t.j.? kate, its been one of the biggest questions. suppose president mubarak leaves? who fills that void in egypt? who becomes the new leader in egypt? this is a band political movemen...

>> heather: look at what creative kids are doing in utah. they are getting ready for a science and technology competition and the winner walks away with a trophy made of legos and, the 56 teams are designing and building robots, using legos and, the kids have to program the robots to do tasks. and so far one has come up with one that does your homework -- not one thats come up with that yet, but i know theyre probably working on it. >> gregg: all right! >> gregg: it certainly has been a brutal w...

It earlier as the attacker versus the absorber, saying carney may be an absorber. >> i thought, i thought brit was wise as usual. i agree with that. i agree with steve, too, that carney is a great guy. i think look, the two things you have to have if you are a good press secretary is access to the president. and the willingness to talk to the press and give information to the maximum extent you can. robert gibbs absolutely has access, total access. a ball of the president. has been with him sinc...

>> bret: mort, brit described it earlier as the attacker versus the absorber, saying carney may be an absorber. >> i thought, i thought brit was wise as usual. i agree with that. i agree with steve, too, that carney is a great guy. i think look, the two things you have to have if you are a good press secretary is access to the president. and the willingness to talk to the press and give information to the maximum extent you can. robert gibbs absolutely has access, total access. a ball of the pre...

As stale presentations go, he did everything wrong. no chart, no power point, actually no point save depressing one. he did not bury the bad news. he seemed to pound it. the sales that werent turning around, the market that werent rebounding. beyond offering hope that the markets might rebound and sales might turn around, he didnt put a timeline on either. he made no sales forecast, or said anything you would think his boss liked. he talked about how he had cut to the bone and cutting any more w...

To get a better idea of what authorities are facing. this is a pretty tough area to search for anything small like a child. okay? the island, like i said, is about five, 10 miles away from where he was last reported seen, his elementary school, its accessed by one bridge out of the portland area, u.s. 30, and when you get there, its very, very rural, there are farms there, but pretty treacherous cascading range out there. you can see mount reniere, mount st. helens, mount hood. a lot of research...

Get a single republican to support this thing. what happened? >> well, in a word, shep, the republicans stuck together. they even attracted one democratic defector ben nelson of nebraska to keep this bill off the senate floor and at least in theory the subject of continued negotiations. those dragged on all afternoon with the chairman of the senate banking committee christopher dodd of connecticut hunkering down with the panels ranking republican richard shell -- shelby of alabama. the dodd bill...

>> absolutely. >> speaking of tsunami, betty, preparing certainly in hawaii for this thing. it is on its way, moving at about 500 miles an hour. folks on the hawaiian i lanlds already hitting the grocery stores and stocking up in preparation for it. it could be either being out of their homes or hunkering down for a little while. the scheduled arrival time of the tsunami in hawaii is 11:00 a.m. local, 6:00 a.m. local, which is just a couple hours away. theyll sound the sirens and try to get peop...

Through this when the snow started on friday -- yesterday. that was the only day. so for a lot of people they couldnt get in. that meant a lot of teleworking for people and the change of the idea of the snow day as well. if you look, a relatively small number of federal workers are even capable of it in the district. 2009 if you look at the offices report it say is 102,900 out of 1.96 million. 17 million in the country can do it as of 2008. those are actual employees, not contractors. this does ...