arizona in and wyoming and are expected to hit further eat. utah and cholera doa. gust higher than 100 miles per hour blew debris everywhere. >> our house is swaying back and forth and the kids are screaming and the power is off. >> reporter: this morning, after more heavy winds overnight, fire crews worry small blazes couldbecome wild fires. >> firefighters are staffing up southern california including the department over 200 extra firefighters. >> reporter: despite the seriousness of this, some are harnessing the wind for amusement and others enjoy the day off. abc news. >>> the black eye in thick fog resulted in a deadly pileup. one person kid and more than a dozen injured. there were three chain reactionsinvolving 176 cars including a school bus. 50 cars were towed from the scene. justin berk joins us once again. going back to the previous story, simple question. what causes the santa ana winds. >> record high pressure sliding down to the northwest and a storm in the deep wealth and when funneled together you increase the pressure gradient

high wind warnings and advisories are issued for utah, nevada, wyoming arizona and new mexico and the winds are more than severe. these are dangerous. potentially deadly, just in. >> over 100-mile-per-hour winds. but the headline and maybe footnote to the story is it is the strongest in a decade. it happened before but it's a little rare. that's officially across the high mountain peaks. check this out across the great lakes passage affrontal boundary. colors -- passage of a frontal boundary. clear shot here of snow across michigan. and passing towards looks like toronto and eventually off towards buffalo and syracuse. they are below normal for the snowfall this time of the year. they will catch up. closer to home we will get high cloud out of the system. that's it when you notice the high clouds even contrails from the overhead plane traffic today, the signal that slightly cooler air is working in. we start off cold at 23 in towson and 31 by the water in annapolis and looking back west there's the storm pattern. follow the wakeup window a mild day in store. slight chill this weekend

high wind warnings and advise is have been issued in utah, nevada, wyoming, arizona and new mexico, and are expected to eventually hit further east, oklahoma, missouri and indiana. in utah and colorado, gusts higher than 100 miles per hour blew debris everywhere. >> our house is just swaying back and forth. and the kids are screaming. and the power's off. >> reporter: this morning, after more heavy winds overnight, fire crews worry that small blazes could become wildfires. >> firefighters are snapping up all over southern california, including our department. over 200 extra firefighters. >> reporter: there's some harnessing the wind for their amusement, while others stay inside and enjoy the day off. tahman bradley, abc news. >>> as we mentioned earlier, power in some towns is not expected to be fully restored until sunday. >>> new fallout from the hazing death of a college band member. four students have been expelled from florida a&m university. their dismissals are linked to the death of robert champion. but the school isn't specifying what exactly they did. champion was found dead o

an advisory being issued for nevada, wyoming, arizona, and new mexico. now back to greta. >> $342,000 for travel and hotel rooms. $74,000 for dinners and that's only te beginning. fannie mae and freddie mac just spent more than $640,000 to send employees to a convention. the same mortgage company that taxpayers spent $450 million to bailout how do they defend this lavish spending? >> i don't think we did as good a job as we should on that mba program. die think it's a legitimate business expense and it's good we sent a lot of people there? absolutely. it's a very, very efficient way to interact with and educate a broad range of seller servicers. >> and we spoke with him. >> would you care to elaborate? maybe some of the american taxpayers thing money was wasted. but you said the conference was important. >> i don't think i really have anything additional to add to my testimony. i think i covered everything we felt was important about that conference. >> probably something you would do next year? you said it was important to be there, but perhaps some of

the result-- hurricane-force gusts that spread destruction across utah, wyoming, arizona, new mexico and colorado. overall, more than 300,000 homes and businesses lost power, including los angeles international airport, where all the lights went out briefly. scores of trees were downed all over the west onto power lines, cars and homes. >> we heard a crashing sound like an airplane hitting th house, and you can see the hole that the tree brought in. it shook the house like an earthquake. i actually woke up thinking it was an earthquake. >> holman: the damage had utility crews out in force today across the region. and fire crews still were busy, especially in california, battling at least a dozen wind- blown fires. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: today's jobs report underscored again that hiring remains far short of what's needed. the newshour's economics correspondent, paul solman, has been asking employers why they are reluctant to bring on more employees. here is his report from tennessee, part of his reporting on "making sense of financial n

, new mexico and wyoming. a wild windy west that's expected to continue through friday. >> and again red flag warnses remain in effect through at least tomorrow here in southern california. as we know, that means the fire danger remains high as well. that's the latest high here in pasadena, stephanie stanton, nbc bay area news. >> we saw the conditions in the other state, certainly a lot worse than what we're seeing here. what's our status of the wind. >> right now, it's a long duration event. we're finding wind gusts topping 50 miles per hour at this time. i thought, this is an interesting look at how widespread there wind is here. over 5 miles of wind watches and warnings covering california and nevada. we're out of the wind warning criter criteria, we started to see things weakening a bit. still expecting the worst to be in those hills about 1,000 feet tonight. some of the top wind gusts over 90 miles per hour in mt. hamilton. los gatos oakland and livermore winds in the 40 mile per hour area. for tonight,

, new mexico and wyoming. stephanie stanton, nbc news, los angeles. >>> just a mess there. all right here's your "first look" at other news in america today. a violent robbery was caught on camera inside a florida residential complex. a suspect was recorded brutally beating the president of the home owners association who came to the area to address a noise complaint. after striking his victim on the ground and rummaging through his pockets, the thief escaped with an iphone. no arrest has been made. >>> police discovered a catch of stolen toy belonging to a trio of thieves in pennsylvania. the suspects went on a stealing binge across three states, filling their van with an estimated $50,000 in stolen goods. the crime spree came to an end when the engaged couple and the woman's 17-year-old son were caught stealing baseball cards. >>> and finally, a sparkling 89-year-old tradition continued just south of the white house thursday night. the first family lit the national christmas tree. looking great there. the pr

. >> reporter: the warnings remain in effect for california, utah, nevada, arizona, new mexico and wyoming. a wild, windy west that's expected to continue through friday. >> well, nothing like that for us. what are we in for, wendy? >> well, meteorologist veronica johnson is joining us live from storm center 4. she's going to tell us what's out there for us. i have a feeling it's nothing. >> nothing like that. wind around here is very, very light. in fact, that's going to allow us to have a very clear and cold night with the temperatures really radiating back out into space. we were talking the santa ana winds. i wanted to lay out on the west coast for you to show you how much real estate is covered by the powerful winds. california, nevada, utah, colorado, new mexico and arizona. these are some of the highest wind gusts i have seen reported today. they are around that area with fierce winds. whittaker peak summit, 97-mile-per-hour gust reported earlier today. those are the strong offshore winds. a huge area of high pressure in the pacific northwest. for us, again, a light wind out of the

, new mexico and wyoming. a wild, windy west that's expected to continue through friday. stephanie stanton, nbc news, los angeles. >>> wow, santa ana winds. >> stay there, news 4 at 6:00 starts right now. >>> gary giordano refused to say what happened to robyn gardner in aruba but he had nothing to do with the disappearance. >>> they kidnapped a maryland man in pakistan. >> two, one -- >> plus the stars are out as the national christmas tree is illuminated a short time ago. good evening, i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim handly. we begin with the republican race for president. herman cain plans to talk to his wife, face-to-face tomorrow before deciding whether to stay in the race. he has not yet made a decision. >> after the reassessment, i will say something formal over the next several days. there's nothing new here. no new questions and no new answers. >> steve handelsman just now with how mitt romney plans to deal with the current republican front-runner. steve? >> reporter: thanks. good evening. mitt romney

, new mexico and wyoming as well. the weather channel's jim cantore has more from pasadena, california. >> obviously the clean up continues in one of the worst situations they have dealt with. they are cutting this tree apart piece by piece and taking it and grounding up all the limbs. of course it's not just the part that's down. we are talking about the part that's still hanging. they are cutting that part of the tree as well and taking that down and grinding that. it will be a danger tonight when the next batch of 60 to 80 mile per hour winds move in. here's the situation. we have about 6,000 people here in pasadena without power. we haveç several of the roads blocked by trees like this that are down. it's just clean up. the winds have died down at this point and they are expected to pick up again today. thank goodness at least at this point we have no fires to contend with. pretty much all day tomorrow. >> thank you very much. now to decision 2012, there reports governor romney is ready to go on the attack again

from washington state, of course, illinois, wisconsin, fey, south carolina, arizona, idaho, utah, wyoming, maine, vermont, florida, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, we had new senators who have not had an opportunity to publicly either make a statement on it or cast a vote, they're in the middle. 27 yes, eight unknown, we're going to give the credit of the doubt, from merck lee, feinstein was a no but fukushima and the two nuclear power plants that are on the pacific ocean in california and the high level nuclear waste that's stored in ponds have her in a quandary. based pob the -- upon the representation of that state. tester in montana, unknown, lee of utah, brown, massachusetts, iyote, new hampshire, sheehan, new hampshire, bona fide noes. reid of nevada, heller of nevada, cabotwell of washington, bo -- cantwell of washington, kerry of massachusetts, sanders of vermont. so it's a chance to use the bully pulpit, my position as chame of the subcommittee, to help educate not only the floor, my colleagues, the speaker, those who are following us, that there's got to be a better way to stor

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denver is under the advisory and a blizzard warning in wyoming. winds specifically here, some of the bigger numbers down to the sierra extending to the southwest, we'll talk about the high wind64 degrees there. looking for snow in arizona, flagstaff is your spot. it will be much colder there. some snow and wind into the end of the week. >> thank you so much, todd. >>> also coming up, a stunning move by the world's financial powers sends stocks skyrocketing. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, hell hath no fury like a 6'9" nba free agent scorned. kris strikes back at kim. >>> coming up, two of the best go head to head in college hoops and a catch you have to see to believe. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry and here are some of your top headlines this morning. the fda is considering tightening restrictions on the amount of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer groups pushed for the crackdown. just yesterday consumer reports released a study findi