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Flying 90% of the normal monday schedule. in other news, more hot and dry weather is in the forecast for parts of texas today making it harder to contain the wildfires here. one of the fires scorched every inch of a 10,000 square acre farm. and they lost 15% of the cattle herd and nearly all of the grazing land. a massive prison break in afghanistan and hundreds of prisoners escaped through a tunnel, and taliban leaders are claiming responsibility saying that 541 prisoners got out, but nato says the number is closer to 470. a spokesman for the afghanistan president karzai calls it a traged...

Spoke to him this past weekend for the first time since he was captured. earlier today on "studio b" folly's father told us how the son is doing. >> is he a strong young man and he said that he is being treated with respect and was being fed, has a bed, and a small cell where he can walk a little bit but is not being let out to do much of any other movement. >> shepard: his relatives tell us jimmy folly has not explained why officials are holding him. in fact, why they are holding the other journalists and him. a prison break in afghanistan and a hue humiliating one as hundreds of militants, m...

Our final story tonight, guns. in the weeks since the tucson shootings, there's been a fear felt by many in this country. fear that the government will take away your firearms and there will be more restrictions. so how are the states responding? by making it easier to get them? let's go to minnesota where republicans are pushing a -- they want to eliminate the state background check required to purchase a gun. a house panel has approved the repeal and they argued that the state check is redundant. and here's what they mean by redundant. last year 541 people applied to buy a gun in bloomington...

Our final story tonight, guns. in the weeks since the tucson shootings, there's been a fear felt by many in this country. fear that the government will take away your firearms and there will be more restrictions. so how are the states responding? by making it easier to get them? let's go to minnesota where republicans are pushing a -- they want to eliminate the state background check required to purchase a gun. a house panel has approved the repeal and they argued that the state check is redundant. and here's what they mean by redundant. last year 541 people applied to buy a gun in bloomington...

Got delays at the major airports there. major delays at both o'hare and midway. we are hearing southwest has canceled most of its flights out of midway, all of its flights, in fact, until about tomorrow morning. snow is expected to continue in chicago, through the evening. i've been talking to some people in the chicago area, they say that, in fact, 4 to 5 inches so far, nothing too serious, but it's still coming down, it's coming down strong. let's go to washington, that's another place we're covering. our reynolds wolf, we'll talk to him in a minute. there's more snow coming. in. the storm...