The natural ice boulders weigh up to 50 pounds each. They sort of look like giant frosty basketballs. Look at the sky there. A winter phenomena at the lake shore. And before we go here, just in to us at cnn, an autopsy shows that a russian boy adopted by an American Family died by accident. Russian foreign officials accused the boys parents of abusing max helping to lead to his death but the District Attorney in this texas county where maxs family lives, they say the medical examiner found the boy had an internal laceration caused by some kind of blunt trauma to his stomach. The m. E. Found the bruising on the boy says it was selfinflicted. The big board, 14,079. There it goes from that high back in october of 2007. Were still waiting for that high to kick back in to 14,164. That does it for me. Have a wonderful weekend. Wolf blitzer starts right now. Hey, wolf. Brooke, thanks very much. Happening now, a lastminute meeting but no deal. Now 85 billion in drastic budget cuts that are abo
Lovers. Damon harris, former member of the temptations, has passed away. According to his daughter, the 62yearold singer had been battling Prostate Cancer for the last 14 years. You may remember harris joined the temptations at the ripe age of 20. Replacing one of the groups original lead singers. I was telling my team today, ill never forget it, one of my very first concerts as a little girl was seeing the four tops and the temptation, together right here in atlanta. Heres a little more. You make my life brighter and that does it for me. Im brooke baldwin. Live at the cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Lets take you to washington. The situation room with wolf blitzer begins now. Brooke, thanks very much. Were standing by to hear from the House Speaker john boehner and were waiting for anyone here in washington to suggest a real actual compromise that will avoid those devastating forced budget cuts. Its one scandal after another as Pope Benedict begins his final work as leader of the w
Hello again, im fredricks whitfield. You are in the cnn newsroom. A look at our top story right now, all about daytona. Nascar Driver Jimmie Johnson takes the win there. Johnson won his second praise race in the daytona 500, becoming the tenth driver to win americas greatest race multiple times. We will go live to the Winners Circle in a moment. The pope led the people in prayer for the last time today at the vatican. An emotional crowd gathered to hear him speak but his resignation comes at a time when the vatican and the Catholic Church are in the middle of other controversies. More on that straight ahead. Just five days until forced spending cut go into effect. In this country, 85 billion in cuts will impact defense and social programs if congress and the president dont reach a budget deal. And oscars fever hits hollywood, the biggest and best awards show in tinseltown kicks off just two hours from now, we will have a red carpet preview straight ahead. But first, lets talk about tho
Companies Work Together more than people think. But the big thing here is that you know, science and technology are very closely related. And when youre building these Information Technology companies, the market rewards you and you can make a lot of money. But a lot of folks who are doing such extraordinary work in science dont have the same opportunity, and because of that, i think it would be a shame if a lot of folks were growing up trying to figure out what they want do dont choose to go into such critical work because of that. If by having these prizes we can give incentive and can kind of make some of these folks a little more wellknown as figures that some younger students want to grow up to be like, then were doing our job here. Thank you for joining the conversation this we on your money. Were here every saturday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 3 00 p. M. And weekdays at 3 30 p. M. Eastern. Find me on facebook at facebook. Com alivelshi. Tweet me alivelshi. Have a great w
Live. Good to see you. How is it going . Really well. The bulls are in charge today, fredricka, bouncing back from the biggest twoday drop of the year on wednesday and thursday. The strength is because of positive sentiment related to hewlettpackards results last night. They werent great but they werent as bad as expectations. Hp shares are up 12 and its the biggest gainer on the dow by far. Traders refer to this, though, as sort of a dead cat bounce and thats when stocks have fallen so much over a short period they have nowhere to go but up. So that doesnt necessarily mean that this rally will last until next week. The market is up 115 points as we get the closing bell. We have a busy week next week. Home sales, Consumer Confidence and Fourth Quarter gdp comes out next week. Ending the week on a high note, gives us a nice impetus and encouragement for next week. Felicia taylor, have a great weekend. That will do it for me, im fredricka whitfield. See you throughout the weekend. Right