captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to all of you. hope it is a good morning where you are. welcome to the early show. i m maggie rodriguez. and i m harry smith. good morning, everybody. this morning a young girl who was in the news a couple of years back is in the news again, though, for a very different reason. this is the girl who had the hiccups for five weeks. you remember that? well there she is yesterday in court. she is in jail, accused of murder this morning. and her mother says it s because of that case of the hiccups. she calls it the curse of the hiccups. is this a defense she might use in court? we re going to bring you legal analysis and all the details of this story coming up this morning. first, though, with just one week to go until midterm elections, candidates are turning up the heat. and one democrat even turned on president obama. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest on that. nancy, good morning. reporter:
early this tuesday morning, dangerous drink to be outlawed. early this tuesday morning, october 26th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to all of you. hope it is a good morning where you are. welcome to the early show. i m maggie rodriguez. and i m harry smith. good morning, everybody. this morning a young girl who was in the news a couple of years back is in the news again, though, for a very different reason. this is the girl who had the hiccups for five weeks. you remember that? well there she is yesterday in court. she is in jail, accused of murder this morning. and her mother says it s because of that case of the hiccups. she calls it the curse of the hiccups. is this a defense she might use in court? we re going to bring you legal analysis and all the details of this story coming up this morning. first, though, with just one week to go until midterm elections, candidates are turning up the heat. and one democrat even turned on president o
gloves. fox 5 s wisdom martin in the studio now with more on the drug and the pulse of the campus tonight. a lot of people we spoke with tonight say they ve never even heard of dmt and it caught some students by surprise their classmates were making it in the dorm. how big of a problem is this drug and how common is it on college campuses? it s the talk of campus, three students busted for running a drug lab on the ninth floor at prestigeous georgetown university. i was shocked. i felt my school s reputation was damaged and it really does not reflect the average student here. i think it definitely does hurt the reputation because now i think amongst other college students and even nationwide we re just going to be known as the dmt school. reporter: some of the students we talked to did not know the people involved and had no idea what dmt was. i had never heard of anything like that before, you know. i m a senior. we ve never had any problems like that in the past.
it s really a concern for a lot of the people living in the high-rise buildings, particularly the city, because they ve asked that everyone remove anything they might have left outside, perhaps the halloween decorations, the patio furniture. anything, once it s lifted can become a projectile. the city is filled with glass as well. haven t heard any reports of that so far this morning. the line is all moved through. we did see gusts up wards of 50 miles an hour at o hare airport. as many as 300 flights were canceled as a result. a ground delay program in effect. right now down to 30-minute delays in and out of o hare. a lot of stranded travelers trying to get from a to b and catch up from this morning. as far as the afternoon commute, that should be better here in chicago land. i would expect the high wind warning will be carried into tomorrow. winds will be around 25 or 35 miles an hour even tomorrow with the gusts approaching the 50-mile-an-hour mark. we re also tracking
a live look outside. another beautiful picture of the jefferson memorial this morning. mild temperatures, though. 62 degrees right now. tom says that s close to our average high for this time of the year. not that we re complaining. we ll keep the mild pattern going throughout much of the week ahead. mild. near 60 in washington and prince george s county. montgomery and fairfax the 50s. and it is mild throught the entire region on this monday morning. except out of the mountains a few locations there dipped into the chilly 40s. it won t last long. there s mild air about to sweep into the mountains as well. as long as we see this continuing trend here we also have continuing isture moving up out of the gulf of mexico. and this is going to keep things wet here for this afternoon and overnight tonight with passing showers. maybe some thunder, too. but between now and midafternoon we ll stay dry. just thickening clouds. highs in the mid-70s. maybe a few sprinkles. a small cha