they have a race against time. once the sun goes down they have to clear out of there. it s very steep terrain we re talking about. those two skiers that died are part of a team of seven skiing in the back country of aspen. two made i out, three sent to the hospital, one released and now they found these two others. this all happened yesterday evening, at the end of the daylight hours. now the rush today was to go out and see if the search and rescue could get to them. once they got to them figuring how to work this part out. take a look at susan matthews from the lake county office of emergency management. she talks about getting to these two people. the two persons missing were wearing beacons. the ground crew was able to find the beacons on them. the first team that went up had
john muller and diana perez. merry christmas, everybody merry christmas eve, that is. can you believe it? i cannot. it is upon us and my tree is only halfway decorated. only halfway decorated? are you going to put on the music and have marshmallows in hot chocolate and do the whole thing? i think the problem is i have to work and it is hard to get into the spirit when you have an abbreviated day. you have a 1-year-old that wants to snatch everything off the tree. that s what we re going to do i have never been up this early on christmas eve morning. how about christmas day? i guarantee for santa when i was a kid not sleeping just because i was so excited. let s make pretend that s what we are doing. sounds like a plan. let s get it to. as the clock ticks toward christmas morning, retailers are hoping for a last-minute rush today and hoping it will boost their sagging bottom line. sales are down more than 3% over last year. shoppers hold on to their money. ho
steve: news by the numbers. powerball edition with two people. us. brian: right. 105,000, that s how many tickets are sold every minute in 42 states. expect a rush today for the record $500 million jackpot. next. steve: 83 million. that s how much has been spent in florida alone on powerball tickets. that s more than any other state. in the past, the sunshine state has only produced four winners, perhaps tonight will be the night for that guy. brian: thanks, steve. i ll pretend you tossed it back to me. first, 38. that s how many winners hail from indiana, making it the luckiest state in the country. sorry, 49 others and commonwealth of puerto rico. steve: who is your winner? indiana. brian: i get it. who will toss to gretch. ready? steve: gretch. brian: i was going to choose. gretchen: thanks for the jinx, guys. rhode island governor lincoln chaffey backtracking now after his spokesperson earlier this
the broader public for good reason. it s also a lack. it s always what s missing. he came in above this other guy but we re searching for somebody else. we still haven t found what we re looking for. it would be remiss of me not to ask you about a controversy involving a student sandra fluke and rush limbaugh. rush today apologized for calling her a slut and a prostitute. it s what some described as a vacuous apology. yourself as a socialology professor, you re part of that community, what s your reaction to this kind of controversy and the attack on a student of your community? it s ridiculous. i m proud of her. i m glad she spoke up and spoke out. it s courageous in the catholic circles that she spoke from. her love from the catholic faith
very disheveled, very sweaty, looking like she had quite an interesting time inside. there were photos of her where her legs were bloody, so, you know, raised a lot of questions at the time. you see her and go, all right, well, whitney houston is known to be a little strange at times and so we didn t think anything of it at that moment. but now looking back we re going, okay, was this some kind of telltale sign that something was going on inside and the other interesting fact was we ve had many videos of her coming out of these medical offices in beverly hills over the last couple days as well. it was very eerie to the michael jackson, we got him coming out of these same medical offices time after time before he passed away. megyn: what can you tell us about her daughter, there were reports that she d been rush today the hospital, and there was a suggestion one of those times she d been rushed this prior to whitney s death and she had also been found in a bathtub near unconscious? is t