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now, but a million people are on the way to fill it up for americas biggest celebration. and 2012 arriving hour by hour around the world. live pictures here. happy new year. hon congress. just three days until the iowa caucuses. cnns political editor paul steinhauser is in the thick of it live in des moines, iowa. whirlwind day ahead, im sure, for you, right? >> no doubt about it, nonstop on the campaign trail. this is the end of december in iowa and it should be cold. lets start w...

It is true, its difficult having this name. i am brace it. i freely embrace it. its so much part of me, its part of the campaign slogans. i use vote for weiner, hell be frank. vote for weiner, hes on a roll. who is boehner fooling? what am i like anthony weiner? im serious, brother, embrace it. you know what i mean? >> 34 past the hour. welcome back to "morning joe." look at that weather. ugh. oh, god, is winter every going to end? >> no, its not. about six, seven, eight inches of snow up in ver...

Tiny amount. so were told to scrub them down with soap and water. for those living here, this is the new reality. at least for the moment, everything has changed. lee cowan, nbc news, tokyo. >> as if there wasnt enough to deal with in japan, search teams and survivors are now facing a blast of frigid weather. heavy snow and freezing temperatures are blanketing the disaster zone. officials say its just the latest obstacle to findi ing people alive. nick walkers at the weather channel right now. n...

I-5 northbound lanes near seattle were shut down this morning because a tree crossed the highway due to strong winds guffing at times up to 50 miles an hour. winds are shifting from sacramento. a lot of rain is turning to snow wp you could see one to three fresh feet of snow up in the sierras. i wind warnings posted for the higher peaks of the sierras. thats storm number one. a weak storm in the central part of the country, and a quick shot of air in the northeast before your warmup coming from ...

So the severe weather threat is ending, we do have no watches or warnings up. just a batch of rain that were dealing with over the northeast and the mid atlantic. still dealing with some thunderstorms there, and this is whats left of this system. as this low pressure just sort of keeps meandering back through the ohio valley, we are going to get bouts of rain for the northeast. so thats whats left of the storm. rain, pesky rain not really looking at severe weather, but the rain will pile up, and...

Idea. ive got tim birchy with the army corps of engineers and you guys had your work cut out in the last week. how do you prepare for an event like this? >> it starts early. we monitor snow up in this part of the world and we knew we had a threat as far back as january and then we put together the organization and asset we needed and started a few weeks ago and the forecast moved the crest up to today, actually. in about four days we had to crest what we were going to do in a couple of weeks int...

Portions of the central plains earlier now. its moving through the mississippi valley. a little bit of snow up in portions of minnesota and the dakotas right now and also some gulf coast storms as well to greet you on this tuesday. temperatures throughout the northeast, look at this, kind of a poo-poo platter of temperatures. 20s, 30s and 40s all the way from great state of maine down through the mid atlantic and back through the northern plains. 50 already in k.c. and memphis and 60 in new orle...

Snow up in vancouver. that should be corrected by the way in two weeks, im told. >> our hearts go out to the luger from the former republic of georgia. have you heard anything about that track? they say now it is safer, they put up a buffer. what are you hearing. >> im hearing they put up the buffer and theyve also had many number of runs, practicewise and competitively. this is now day three. no major injuries. there have been crashes but thats the nature of the sport. it might be a blame game ...

>> it was blustery. >> it was really blustery. it was like a winter wonderland where up in vancouver willie says it is 48 degrees and actually the rain is blowing sideways. that really gets you in the spirit. >> no, weve dipped now down joe to 42 degrees. its getting downright frigid here in vancouver. but like i said, theyve got snow up in the mountains where lindsey vonn and the rest will be skiing about three hours north of here at whistler. theyre not too concerned about whats happening here...

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