do what s right, not only in health care but also with infrastructure. it s pretty clear, and i think pretty noncontroversial that we need to improve our roads, improve our bridges, improve our rail service, improve our airports. it would provide an awful lot of jobs, it would be a great stimulus to our economy, it would help grow the economy in significant ways, providing those jobs for millions of americans. now, these are common sense things i think the american people want us to focus on. i know that s what i hear here in my district in st. petersburg in clearwater, florida, i m going to a barbecue right after this interview today in the south side of st. pete. we ll hear more from the people that i work for, my boss if you will, and they always tell me, charlie, you know, work together, do the best you can. try to do it in a respectful way. and that s how we re trying to comport ourselves. in fact, that s why i introduced with representative mike johnson of louisiana a republican,
he s enshrined as part of a tradition that includes babe ruth, lou gehrig and joe dimaggio. and his unique brand of wisdom will live forever in american culture. lawrence peter berra was born may 12th, 1925. his parents raised him in the hill district in the south side of st. louis. the son of a brickyard worker he left school after eighth grade to work in a coal yard. a friend gave him his lifelong nickname. he said berra looked like a yogi in a hindu themed movie and it stuck. in 1943 he signed with the new york yankees. but baseball would have to wait. with world war ii in full swing, yogi joined the navy, volunteering for duty on a rocket boat that capsized during the d-day invasion. i thought it was like fourth of july. i was only 19 years old. it was, i thought it was beautiful. and i was standing up there, said you got to get your head down here, son. berra was discharged in may of 1946. by the end of that baseball season he was wearing pinstripes. berra anchored the yanke
around. they re getting rid of the snow. six flags, one of the big amusement parks there on the south side of st. louis, winter wonderland with that foot of snow. they re opening up tomorrow! they are going to clear it all out and hopefully melt it away today, too, but you know, this is a big holiday, a lot of kids will be off from school this weekend, so they re trying to get things prepped and ready. good luck with that. we re dealing with another cold morning in the deep south. what else is new, just like yesterday, but it s actually not quite as bad. we re in the low 30s, but at least we re not below freezing. so, very cold in the southern half of the country, but like yesterday, with the sunshine, you ll warm it up. it s not that frigid out there. 28 in minneapolis, not really that cold in new england, so it s chilly, but it s not freezing. we re actually close to normal for this time of year. the one good thing i ve been pointing out about this march is very can t had a lot of to
those go now from detroit to chicago straight down north of st. louis, just to the south side of kansas city. all ofentral missouri is goingm travel today. now all the way into oklahoma city this morning. now, as far as snowfall accumulations, you can draw a line from oklahoma city to chicago, then chicago to detroit. everyone in that zone is going to pick up 1 to 2 feet of snow during the day today and tonight. then we extend that line from detroit to buffalo, syracuse, albany to boston northward up to portland, maine, burlington, vermont. everyone there should get 1 to 2 feet of snow. just an incredible event. south of there, the other major concern, may be the worst of it, ice accumulations. the pink is significant. the purposele is damaging. indianapolis has a chance for a half inch to an inch of ice with windy conditions. that will bring down trees and power lines. that extends north of columbus, south of cleveland, just to the south side of st. louis. lynn, one of the things we r
cnn is your hurricane headquarters, this video if our ireporters, mark rosetta, shot on the south side of st. maarten as earl approached earlier in the week. a powerful storm of category four is closing in on the coast of north carolina. that s the kind of thing you can expect. look at the waves right now. it looks very calm out on coastal north carolina right now. but reynolds is going to explain to us why this is, is such a serious storm. there s something about this, reynolds, i m no expert, no meteorologist, but i ve seen many and they don t look as tight or as organized. this thing is compact. does that matter? what s interesting about this is you ve got a center of circulation, but if you look at the outflow, it s a fairly large storm. and when you take a look at it, this is a satellite image that