10:00 and then it will be gone. today in the 60s. not bad, rain for buffalo, pittsburgh, erie, all of ohio. we got soaked this weekend, down through areas of the tennessee valley, also through mississippi, that continues from dallas to shreveport. the wet weather spot today. as far as the cold goes, it is out there. but you have to go to colorado and the northern plains, where this morning, willie, minus 7 in denver. that s where the cold air is, it will get to the east coast this upcoming weekend when we end this warm spell we ve been under. a high of 13 and snow in denver. not pretty, but it s coming our way. welcome winter, bill karins, thanks so much. sports now, the defending super bowl champs got a big test yesterday in the swamps of new jersey. the packers visiting the giants and adding to the legend of aaron rodgers. skip ahead to the fourth quarter, a one-point game, aaron rogers in the red zone. a bullet to donald driver. rodgers fourth touchdown pass of the game. he
at two. a crucial game five in arlington, texas. it was great to see him get cheered. gave nolan ryan a home run after the runs. to football. the tim tebow era, denver has officially begun. it didn t start pretty, but ended nicely. fourth quarter, broncos down 15 points, tebow in the red zone on the third and three avoids the sack and throws the touchdown. so they get seven points with the extra point and then an on-side kick gives them the ball back and the old tight-end throwback with 25 seconds left. they still need this two-point conversion, though, to tie the game. tebow walks it into the end zone, we go to overtime, and when denver kicks a if that thing could ve gone 70 yards, it was at the top of the net from 52 yards. denver scores 18 unanswered points. 18-15 is the final score with 2:44 left in the game.
member of the dog pound coming up next. but here s the top of the hour. what would you say if you had just 20 minutes to defend your life? that is the question of american student amanda knox and she will have to answer that question because tomorrow she s on. she takes the stand in her own defense with her freedom hanging in the balance. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has been watching this appeal trial for us from perugia and matthew, i said there people here appeal and take the stand to defend yourself, this is not going to go like a normal case in the united states where someone takes the stand and they re going to be asked questions. no. they call it the pleas of innocence here. both amanda knox and her co-accused accused and convicted already of course of murdering meredith kercher in 2007 will get about 15 minutes each. it s not been confirmed that rafaela will make a speech but definitely amanda knox, tomorrow morning, is going to be sta
left off. big debate tonight. there s no denying this guy, texas governor rick perry, is the republican partly front-runner for president. we have a brand new poll. rick perry sweeps it it. have a look with me. republicans choice for president, rick perry 12 points ahead of mitt romney. sarah palin, ron paul the only others in double digits. then this one, best chance of beating barack obama, perry by a long shot, over mitt romney. strongest leader, perry and once again double digits ahead of romney. most likely to get the economy moving, say it with me, rick perry. a rick perry sweep in this poll. that debate tonight, as you now know, from tampa, 8:00 p.m. eastern time, co-hosted by cnn and the tea party express. eight republican ready to go. joins me from austin, texas, the guy who knows rick perry like no one else, we ve discovered here, wayne schrader of the dallas morning news. wayne, as a guy who s dofred rick perry for years and years, are you surprised to see him roc
hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. breaking news we re covering now. new developments this hour from the conflict in libya. we re working to confirm several reports that one of the sons of toppled leader moammar gadhafi has left libya and may have surfaced in another country. live now from kabul, afghanistan, our senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic, you know that saadi gadhafi may have left. you apparently know him personally, you ve had e-mail exchanges, et cetera. what are you learning about his where abouts? reporter: what we know from the minister of justice and ministerial spokesman as well is that saaad gadhafi has crossed into niger. they say he was allowed into the country for humanitarian reasons. niger is to the south of libya across part of the sahara desert. we do know and i do know from talking to saadi gadhafi last weekend, exactly a week ago today, that he has split essentially with his family, with his father and with his brother. it