mind. i don t know. i don t know. i really don t know. this is a cat that meant a lot of things to a lot of people. i have tried to be very thoughtful and respectful of that. and if i ever felt that it would be appropriate, i think i would. i ve tried very hard not to make this mine. i tried to make this what i really honest live thought would be the voice of this cat. and it really belongs to everyone else. i m not planning anything. all right. we ll wait and see. we are looking at the iconic pictures. eric spiegelman, thank you so much and bless p-22. absolutely. we ll miss him. all right. i m sara sidner to for fredricka whitfield. thank you for joining us. it is 1:00 eastern time. we have breaking news for you. a deadly and dangerous winter storm is wreaking havoc across the united states. we are learning of new throeuf threatening situations unfoldings al we speak in upstate new york. officials there say there are hundreds of cars that are still stranded in buffalo
people in denver watched their temperatures plunge 47 degrees in just two hours as the winter storm moved through the region as the snow piled on, one resident asked his local station about the city rules for shoveling the sidewalk. he did get an answer and a welcomed surprise. rob harris from our affiliate kmgh has the story. reporter: got a call from kevin delaney. he was worried he could be fined by the city because he can t go out and shovel his walk today. so he came to tell him the answer. my photographer and dalton realized we re bundled up. we have shovels in the car. we thought, when we give him the answer, we ll also help him out. it s not good for me at my age to be here shoveling. it s kind of an issue for me. i don t have any young people in the house.
several wildfires burning in the state. to the south, the royal gorge fire threatens the iconic bridge that hosted tourists for so many years while up north lightning has ignited a fire in rocky mountain national park. you have a whole lot of people displaced. 40,000 people have been evacuated. virtually impossible to get a hotel room in the city and no one knows when things will improve. of course, going to be contingent on the firefighting effort, but, more so on the weather, the temperature and the wind. right now it s a little bit cooler, not much wind at the moment. let s just hope it ke we re looking at live pictures coming to us from our affiliate kmgh where you get a sense of how big this is. 40,000 people evacuated. this is a big, developing story. dan simons will continue to follow that there from colorado springs. thank you, dan. now, severe weather is blowing through the northeast today after a day of chaotic
from dallas, texas. we have a couple of things going on here. obviously health concerns over the people in richmond, california, near that refinery fire plus the financial hit we re all going to take if gas prices spike make above $4 a gallon. it has been going on for several weeks now. you blinked and it seems like you missed it. over the course of the last month or so gas prices have gone up about 30 cents, the national average now $3.66 a gallon, up about 30 cents and in the last month. the fire in richmond is just one of the problems. obviously there is a great deal of global issues and concerns that go into gas prices but what we have seen over the last few months is a disruption in service and flow of gas at refineries across the country from the midwest down to oklahoma where we have seen problems with pipelines and other issues and the infrastructure and this fire in california this week highlighted even bigger problem where now because of this fire many analysts ar
now almost up 30 cents in just a month. what s behind the price at the pump and what you ll be paying come labor day. the big one. startling new report out saying oregon could get rattled by a major earthquake just like the one that struck japan. a 9.0, not if, but when is the northwest ready? and robin hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. the mythical character now front and center in the political fight over your taxes. the president has a brand-new punch line aimed at mitt romney. it s like robin hood in reverse. it s romney hood. sherwood forest hasn t seen anything like this. newsroom begins right now. and good morning. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new details of heroism emerging this morning from that deadly shooting rampage near milwaukee. satwan singh was president of the sikh temple, and he died trying to protect his fellow worshippers. he was armed but only with a butter knife. police say he saved liv