wales even today. winter nights in scandinavia are long but so are summer nights lots of extra time to party for centuries people in nordic countries have celebrated the festival of midsummer some of the age old fertility rituals associated with the festival are still practiced today. number two on our list of romantic customs an early morning walk through the countryside is said to bring luck in love or just pick some plowers and tuck them under your pillow at night a vision of your future love should appear in your dreams. dancing has always brought men and women closer together and that s still true today. but it s no longer fashionable to place a piece of locally grown food under your arm in this tradition imported from
intense. i spoke with jeremy bernard who was the obama secretary for many years and he said he would start planning months in advance sometimes for a dinner of this time. he would create three to four tables for the first lady to see, each set up with a different china or different plowers or different table ware and she can see what she liked and what her style would be. i would assume that s going on in the trump white house as well. there is a new social secretary, a woman named rickie lloyd on staff who was hired just a handful of weeks ago. this will be her first test in terms of setting the table literally in terms of what the white house does in terms of entertaining. from flowers to entertaining to seating to the china, you want to incorporate everything you can because these are the governors from all 50 states. it s a massive undertaking and considering the first lady s office right now is not staffed to the hilt the way the obamas
snow by the end of the day. if you can go to the magic cnn sign. i find out to what s happening in the temperature. it s 31 degrees here. we ve gone up half a degrees in the last hour. it s expected to go up above freezing which means this lovely white flaky skiable stuff turns to nasty, sleety, ugly rain. when i snows later, which it is expected to do, it becomes dangerous and the kind of place you don t want to be on roads in any i place. half an hour ago i was here for the snow. it s scientific. plowers have been all over the place. we have gone to lincoln. on the president s ruler, that s what we have. one thing you don t expect. franky did not stay home from work. you think you re going to get petty cab business? i pray to god i do. i think i do. people want to see the park in
been out working on these roads all day salting, plowing, keeping them pretty clear and one of the good things is that there has not been a lot of wind blowing it back over the road surface. we had a few winds, but it s not toot bad at all. some of the private plowers have been working hard today too, clearing driveways and things like that. i talked to one of them. here s what he had to say about all this. it s been a long morning. been out doing work-related stuff and snow plowing and plowing all day. absolutely plowing all day like many others have. they re glad to see the snow because they ve had a couple times where it hasn t been heavy snow. they haven t made a whole lot of money during the winter. there are some people happy about the snow, alex. en at kids too i m guessing. scott newell, thank you so much. overseas now and secretary of state john kerry says it s still possible for israel and the palestinians to finalize a peace agreement this spring. he maded that commen
run off. obviously a lot of the people in this area are hoping that continues. i m sure they can probably deal with the rain or the snow. we are about 20 miles outside of pittsburgh and have been seeing this. pittsburgh, obviously, snow as well. i spoke with a pennsylvania department of transportation official earlier. they said tonight they are going to have a full force, all of their crews, about 80 plus [ engine revs ] trucks, out in full force. about 135 people, mechanics, plowers, salt trucks working in 12-hour shifts, well into tomorrow. obviously safety is of a prime [ male announcer ] the mercedes-benz winter event is back, concern. they tell me that not only should you be careful on the with the perfect vehicle that s just right for you, roads tonight if you re out here driving but also, please let the no matter which list you re on. salt trucks, give them room to do their work. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] get the all-new 2014 cla250 public service annou