congress, it is hard to have a one-on-one fight with someone who s so much more popular than you are. absolutely. i would not be surprised if we see kick the can down the road legislation repeatedly, not just with this but obviously with the continuing resolution to finance the government, that kind of stuff, it s all going to be three-month, six-month extensions. frustrating. but we re talking about it. very good to see you both. thank you for being here. let s go to the weather and the inaugural forecast calls for cool temperatures. even some snow perhaps in washington, d.c. but it won t be the coldest inauguration ever. our meteorologist is here with the forecast. hello. hi, alex. chilly temperatures will work into the d.c. area over the course of the weekend. right now, things are pretty standard. we re not seeing anything too hot or too cold over the country. most of the temps in the area are in the 30s. you can see the jet stream is going to drag down cold air from
wildfires. in arizona, the flames are now moving away from a historic mining town, but they are burning through even more land. abc s paul beban has the latest. good morning, paul. reporter: good morning, rob and diana. yeah, it is bad and doesn t look like firefighters will get any help from mother nature any time soon. the forecast calls for more heat, high winds and there is zero chance of rain. in the rugged mountains of arizona, the fires are burning almost completely out of control. the gladiator fire near the historic mining town of crown king may not be the biggest, but it s just 5% contained and growing fast. i saw it from a little flame and it just engulfed the whole mountain. and that really that really hurts my heart. as soon as we turned the bend, there were flames engulfing the car. reporter: as if the smoke and flames weren t bad enough, fire crews near crown king are being warned to watch out for snakes and abandoned mine shafts. the national weather service
authorities believe that man could still be alive but possibly incapacitated. possibly he s fallen and broken a leg. he hasn t been able to get us to that way. but the terrain is such that it s making it a tough search. that man s name, guillermo pino. until now, temperatures there have been mild, but today s forecast calls for much chillier conditions and even some wet weather on top of that. this next story makes you think about the next time you order an omelet. new safety questions about one major producer of the eggs that make their way to so many of our breakfast tables. the conditions at one of that producer s farms is being called, quote, deplorable and intolerable. abc s brian ross investigates. reporter: in its promotional videos, kreider farms points to his pennsylvania dutch heritage and says its huge egg-producing facilities use state of the art equipment that can spot even a speck of dirt on a single egg. we have egg-xacting standards. reporter: they are all t
cold. these hardy ukrainian ice fishermen were out on the dneper river looking for dinner. you have to dress warmly and drink tea, he advises. dramatic scenes in bosnia, where helicopters are being used to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands left stranded after more than six feet of snow fell on remote mountain villages. in neighboring serbia a state of emergency has been declared because 70,000 people have been cut off by the heavy snow. the scene is not as cataclysmic in rome, but it is unusual. the city s biggest snowstorm in 30 years. even the pope donned an overcoat to bless pilgrims. here in england the? he paralyzed air travel and stranded the country s snow-clearing fleet. but one person undeterred by it all was the queen, who met with her adoring public after a special church service to mark her 60 years on the british throne. hip hip hooray. reporter: as for the chill no, relief in sight. the forecast calls for dry and bitterly cold weather right across euro
the web. we begin in south carolina this evening with a fast-change republican presidential race. fast as in overnight. our new cnn time orc poll tonight shows mitt romney leading here by 10 points. 33% for the former massachusetts governor to 23% for the former house speaker newt gingrich. but, and this is important, the final 24 hours of our polling suggest a gingrich surge. my sources in several republican campaigns tell me tonight their numbers, too, are detecting a significant shift, a shift that benefits gingrich heading into the final hours here. want proof? a senior romney campaign aide described this to me as a troblsome development, and the response from team romney was immediate. a touch new tv ad labelling gingrich an unreliable leader. that would blind side us and undermine our conservative agenda. chaotic decisions. erratic behavior. want more proof? former pennsylvania senator rick santorum also sees a gingrich surge, and he broadened his attacks. whe