will no longer run during skins, joining gm, taco bell and wrigley, who have also jumped ship. the show features teenage actors as young as 15 and depicts them doing drugs and having sex. a spokesman from skins tells mtv news we re confident that the episodes not only comply with all applicable legal requirements but also with our responsibilities to our viewers. all right, we ll let you take a look. here we go. going to do it with michelle? so, we re going to do a lot of drugs. better buy an ounce, then. minimum. hold on. i have to buy an ounce of bud? sure, there s a guy downtown. steve adubato is a media analyst and authors of what were they thinking and the soon to be released you are the brand. good morning. good morning, alex. you have to know, the season premiere, over 3 million, close to 3 1/2 million viewers, okay? there s a lot of controversy surrounding the show.
and i am an animal lover who does rescue. being a foster parent for dogs is very grueling. washing them is the toughest part. it causes a lot of strain on my lower back. i used to take tylenol and now i take advil, and it works quickly and it takes away my pains. [ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil®. temperatures are tumbling here in the northeast, creating some dangerously cold windchills. new york city could feel like zero degrees by tonight. along the new york/pennsylvania border, temperatures could call to 15 below. frigid weather is also blanketing the midwest. and we ve got the weather channel s ke seidel right in the middle of it in chicago, illinois, of course, where the bears are taking on the packers today. usually, it s a plum assignment, you and your nfl games, mike. this morning, maybe not so much. reporter: it is cold this morning, too, 8 degrees here on the lakefront in chicago. we ve got this snow band that s
and the new buzz word here in washington, or at least at of the white house, competitiveness, competing for markets abroad, alex. mike, in an economically related issue, another key issue, spending and the deficit. let s hear what the president said about that. we re also going to have to deal with our deficits and our debt in a responsible way and we ve got to reform government so that it s leaner and smarter for the 21st century. so, the first couple years of his presidency have been these big government initiatives. right. is that now going to take a back seat? well, even from right here at the podium behind me, robert gibbs has said many times that first two years, the focus was on legislation. the second two years is going to be on implementation. and you see the president moving a lot closer to the business community. remember, alex, during that debate over health care, during the debate over financial reform, the president, his surrogates all attacking the financial
amanda s stepfather talked a lot about how the time has been wearing on her and how she s been trying to occupy her time. the prison just got a much-welcomed ping pong table. she listens to music. she has a new roommate from eastern europe, but they re able to communicate in english. in fact, amanda has been helping other inmates with their italian while she continues her studies remotely through the university of washington. alex? trying to be, i guess, a model prisoner, at this point, anyway. thank you, michelle kosinski. in business news, a major milestone. apple says it s app store has hit the 10 billion downloads mark. this milestone comes 2 1/2 years after the store was created. the app store has more than 300,000 different programs that can be used on the iphone and ipad. and next month, the iphone will add verizon wireless as a carrier. you know how people say a big breakfast is good for you? well, a new study claims that s not necessarily the case. a group of german scie
a sure bet for all snow and some areas will get a lot of snow. indeed. thank you very much, mike seidel, for braving it for us. five americans lost at sea have been found safe on their boat after they became lost sailing from guam to the philippines. a rescuer says the 38-foot catamaran developed engine problems. all aboard are in fine health. rescuers are now escorting that boat to its original destination in the philippines. our world view this morning begins in pakistan with a deadly passenger bus crash. 30 people were killed when it crashed into an oil tanker. survivors say both vehicles caught fire so quickly that most passengers didn t have time to escape. in northern germany, a river is close to reaching record levels after weeks of snow and ice, rising temperatures and heavy rains triggered flood warnings in many regions. crews are using sandbags and pumps to push the water back into the river. another company has pulled its ads from the controversial, new mtv show