an ice pick. there are 30 million americans under some kind of flood alert today. dallas now has their wettest november on record after a record november and may and october. we need it to creep up another degree to start the melting process, but by and large here in oklahoma city, most of the roads and sidewalks are ice free. you are not very good at using an ice scraper as i just witnessed. reporter: wow. i m joking, mike. come on. reporter: brutal. we re following a developing story this hour coming from mali, there s been another deadly attack, this time on a u.n. base in the northern part of the country. that s next.
worshippers worshippers. an ice collapse has turned deadly. one person has died and others were injured. this is something that we ve seen the last couple days with the heat building across the northwestern corner of the u.s. when you think about ice caves, it gradually begins the melting process, and you compromise the stability of the ice. the highs have been in the 90s the yellow line into the 70s fahrenheit where they should be. the celsius scale, 22 celsius is where you should be the mid to low 30s celsius is where they have been. this pattern becomes very, very dangerous. we want to take you out towards granite falls, washington a short drive from seattle, about an hour and a half s worth of driving, and you get to the area of the north cascade mountains. tourists go for hiking. it s a two-mile loop to get into the ice caves.
stake. cnn s ted rowlands is there for us. ted? reporter: wolf, take a look at this. it s absolutely incredible, this ice jam. we re on the banks of the kankakee river an hour south of chicago. look at these massive chunks of pipes they go on for as far as the eye can see. just a few days ago, they weren t here. the river was frozen, but it was smooth. what happened was we had a few days of warm weather, which started the melting process and got the ice moving, and then it froze up again. and this is the result. the problem, of course, the danger of this is that the massive force that this ice brings with it as it moves down river, you can see huge tree limbs that are in this ice because they were trees that were on the banks of the river and now they re in the middle. the concern, of course, is the homes. you look on the side of the banks of the river and there are homes where the ice is coming right up to. we were talking to people living in this area all day long, they re concerne
people are stuck without power. it will be there throughout the weekend. on monday a dramatic warm up and high temperatures in the 40s and entire area and that will produce a rapid snow melts and we ll stee rain on monday from storm system and that will speed up the melting process and produce isolated flooding ins of new england . harris, another warm one in stoir for us. warming centers opening up and cold temperatures that we are about to face tonight. i am sharis falk harris falker thanks for watching. huckabee starpts in 60 seconds. but news of the big dig in the north east. the storm is blamed for six deaths now. tramp bands are limpt airports
in the 50s. some of the snow melting as well as the additional rain falling. we have flood concerns all up and down the western slopes of the cascade. flooding potentially to iowa. we ll watch that closely. the high temperatures for the day today. you see the cold air there, warming up in the south. part of the south. 48 in atlanta. that will continue the melting process which is welcome news for so many people. back to you. shannon: all right, rick. thank you very much. two republican heavyweights hit fox news sunday. they are both names that have been thrown out as possible 2012 candidates. new jersey governor chris christie and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. we get their take on what to do about the ever expanding deficit coming up. plus, a new miss america has been crowned. find out who she is and how she is already set a new record in pageant history next. host: could switching to o really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance?