prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now they re meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a news conference, and you ll be seeing it live here on cnn, so stay tuned. also in the news, secretary leon panetta is in the eyes of the storm. he will be visiting with troops and governors and tribal leaders in afghanistan. he won t see the rebel who went on the killing spree there. military investigators want to know if alcohol was, in fact, a factor in the cold-blooded shootings of those 16 afghan men, women and mostly children. toxicology tests on the suspect are not yet complete. authorit
it melt using ice melting machines to melt the snow piled up all overtime city so they can have room to put the new snow when it falls. the rain will turn to snow so more snow on the way and ice, too. shepard: some towns is been cut off. the problem is in nome, in northwest alaska where they are trying to liver 1.5 million gallons of fuel to nome that had a shipment coming in, in the fall and now the only ice breaker in the fleet is leading a tanker to russia to deliver the ice going influence 2 of ice to get there and conditions are rough at 50 degrees below zero wind chill factor there and they will get to a file away and the tanker will deliver all this fuel. they were supposed to have the
still be nibbling at the top tier. coming up, we re going to talk to senator pat toomey about the super committee s deadline. also debbie wasserman schultz will be here. and penn state, a sad, sad story. let s go to bill karins for a check on the forecast. yesterday all the buzz was about the huge super storm hitting alaska. the pictures are coming in, but a lot of people saying it doesn t look that bad. this is western alaska, not many people live in this area. the storm is now gone, this is what it looked like in nome at the heart of the storm. 90-mile-per-hour winds, drifting and snow throughout the area and a 10-foot snow surge in the downtown area. this was literally a hurricane blizzard, but not a lot of infrastructure to destroy. let s discuss what we re going to deal with in the lower 48.