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Have is fossile fuel. so the idea of putting solar panels instead of real infrastructure and running water and electricity and modern sewage and modern hospitals is insane. it is completely taking reality on its head -- >> neil: isn't that -- aren't they trying to take a look -- the cold blast is the latest reminder, it is 800 degrees below zero -- that this is the way to stop this. what do you think of that? >> they think -- they say in there they can stop future storms. they say they can stop the devastatingesques of global warming. the lower 48 -- they excluded alaska because they had a rec...

we begin this hour with a very important change in the presidential race. according to our brand new cnn/orc poll, a majority of the nation's voters now say they want to re-elect president obama. take a look at this. the president has 52%. he's seven points ahead of mitt romney who's at 45%. just a month ago the president in our poll was ahead 49% to 46%. significantly the president now according to our latest poll is above 50%. our polls also show what voters think of mitt romney's potential vice presidential picks. let's bring in our national political correspondent jim acosta. he'...

>> i was originally charged with contract murder and drug trafficking and gun charges. i joke about it sometimes and say the only thing they didn't get me for was sex offenses. >> even though spring creek houses the worst and most disturbed offenders in the state, outbreaks of violence in the prison are surprisingly rare. >> we have assaults but they're not as many as like the lower 48. you know, we have the same mindset and same type of criminals. here they'll walk up and talk to you and we'll deal with issues and problems and we help them out as much as we can. >> prescott. >> yeah. >> do yo...

Drought. we're seeing dry conditions pretty much across most of lower 48. when you add the hot temperatures to the drought conditions, nights good situation right now in parts of the central plains. you mentioned nebraska, kansas and also parts of missouri. that is where the core of the heat is right now. 101 in kansas city and mid 90 necessary in rapid city and 88 in minneapolis. you are not too bad but as we head through the next several days, we'll continue to see the heat sticking around. hot temperatures are not just forecast today, but monday, tuesday and into wednesday. high pressure re...

But first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning, mika. breaking news off the coast of japan. we had a sizable earthquake. a 6.8 magnitude. almost a year to today after the horrible one with the big tsunami. thankfully no big tsunamis expected with this one. those were almost magnitude 8 or above 8. that's a big difference. we'll watch it to see if anything develops. maybe local tsunamis, but nothing like a year ago. in the u.s., lower 48, feels like june out there and it will today and through the upcoming weekend. the exceptions out there on the west coast. and the reason ...