outside of the north pole in alaska. i understand that santa is on twitter and facebook and now he has gps for the sleigh, but you look so old-school, and not you, but behind you looks so old school. yeah, good morning, and gee, merry christmas, tamron. this sleigh right here in particular has been with santa for a long time, so he has opted for gps as a backup system for rudolph s nose which has been his official navigation source for generations. what is remarkable about santa s operation is just the working conditions that they must, you know, survive in. here it is around 10:45 thursday morning, and we are now first getting our first light of the day, and it is not going to be for long. the sunlight around this time of the year is less than four hours a day, and because we are so far north, and as you can tell by my breath, it is fairly cold out here, and here we are with the thermometer and it is not lying, and it does not feel like it
base in wyoming and it lasted about 45 minutes. we re told the air force lost contact with some 50 nuclear warheads or nearly one tenth of the known u.s. stockpile. today on studio b, a nuclear weapons expert explained that such a thing is rare but really not unheard of. any time you lose command and control of 50 nuclear missiles, it s a big deal. it doesn t happen very often, but it does happen. it means that the equivalent of one thousand here hiroshima bombs was out of the control of the air force. shepard: so far no signs of foul play. there was a backup system in place. trace gallagher with more on this. do we know how this happened, trace? shep, the exact cause of the power failure is still unknown, the military expects there was a breech of capables that run well benote the air force base in wyoming. even though the military says they have backup systems and it does they can still shoot these missiles off, this thing set off
saying very soon, imminently, was the word i think they used and it does not necessarily mean we ll see drilling right away and companies will have to prove they have a backup system to prevent significant blowouts like we saw in the gulf several months ago, watch for the space on that story, breaking now from the white house, in the meantime, a brand new effort to get drivers to put down cell phones while behind the wheel and the campaign is called phone in one hand, ticket in the other not good. right now police departments in syracuse, new york, and hartford, connecticut are getting federal tax dollars to enforce the program. we wants to know whether or not it is working, laura ingle went out and checked it out and is here now and what did you find. reporter: the pilot program that you mentioned, called phone in one hand, ticket in the other $400,000, going to put extra officers out on the streets. be on the lockout for people using their phones and they ve written up 10,000
stations are off of the air and blacked out after showing reports of shoes being thrown at the pakistani president during his visit to england. the managing director of one station says that it angered the ruling pakistan s people s party and the activists are threatening cable operators who refuse to block the station s signals. homeowners just got a $3 billion, yes, $3 billion reprieve and that is how much the obama administration is helping unemployed avoid foreclosure. it will offer a loan for jobless borrowers who are at risk of losing their home, and the loan is good for two years at a maximum of $350,000. and astronauts have wrapped up a critical space walk and they removed an ammonia pump that failed ten days ago and they are expected to install a new pump during a third spacewalk next week. a backup system is cooling it,
industry, one out of every three homes really depends on it, it s a $70 billion a year industry. so some of these shrimpers now are getting temporary work here, but for the oil workers, they want that moratorium lifted, they want it lifted now. a very odd position to be in, really, lobbying for the industry that has caused this spill. martha, back to you. martha: steve, thank you very much, steve harrigan with the very latest for us this morning from new orleans. listen to this, a bp employee is now speaking out and saying that workers aboard the doomed rig found a flaw in a crucial safety device about a month before the rig exploded. now, that employee telling a federal investigative panel that there was a leak of hydraulic fluid from the blowout preventer. he said he told his supervisor but he s not sure if that information got to the federal regulators as the law would require. he says also the leak by itself should not have kept the blowout preventer from working since it had a bac