0 it was a visit he made to washington shortly after he became president, and i remember he came to the washington post, and there were several of us waiting to greet him. i didn t know if he spoke english at the time, so i introduced myself to him in spanish when he got to me in the line, and he shook my hand and looked up at me and kind of grinned and said, hello, my name is hue. it kind of cracked everybody up. he was very loose and quick in that way. he had this odd television show that he did. this was, of course, before he fell ill, but he would do a television show for hours every week. i believe it was on sunday nights called hall ovenlt presidente, hello mr. president. and it was this stream of consciousness talk show where he would sing and he would just kind of rant for a while and he would joke. he would answer callers. it was just a very kind of odd something that the cubans are very good at. now fidel castro is well into his 80s. he s no longer the president in cuba.
great to see you here today. we are live in washington, d.c., covering a huge event for this city and a huge event for the entire country. president barack obama s second inauguration. you can just see the beautiful picture behind us. so much going on around the nation s capital this weekend. cnn you can be sure is covering it all. parades, concerts, and religious services all of it leading up to the big main event, president obama s inauguration ceremony coming up on monday highlights of that event, the swearing in, of course, and the inaugural speech. white house correspondent brianna keilar joins me to talk more about this. first of all, let s talk about the speech. i understand that the president s still working on it. so what are the themes? what s the focus? he is still working on it. he ll be doing tweaks till the last minute. right now he s doing some major tweaks and he s been writing this during the day in the oval office but also at night after sasha and malia
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are questioning the timing behind the revelation. house majority leader eric cantor said an fbi employee told him in october about the petraeus affair. by that time an fbi investigation was already under way. the fbi told the director of national intelligence james clapper on election night, according to a senior u.s. intelligence official. the white house says it was notified the day after the election, and the president the following day. that doesn t make sense to house homeland security chairman peter king. this seems to have been going on for several months yet now it appears they re saying that the fbi didn t realize until election day that general petraeus was involved. it just doesn t add up. the new york times reports the fbi actually started its investigation late this summer. the house and senate intelligence committees were also caught by surprise. are you going to investigate why the fbi didn t notify you before? yes
extreme weather center. good morning. good morning to you, soledad. it certainly is cold around the country. all right, yesterday alone, 170 record low high temperatures, meaning the afternoons were well below average. st. louis only 51, should have been 68. places that should have been in the 60s were well below average. so freeze threat today. you can see kind of how widespread it is from the upper midwest to texas through the mid-atlantic. places like ohio, running about a week and a half ahead of schedule with their first freeze. it s well below average and certainly a little bit earlier than normal. coldest thus far of the season, we saw it begin last week in the northern plains and upper midwest. now migrating into the south and east. today really kind of the coldest of the low and then temperatures will warm up. so there is certainly a relief in sight. looking at the next six to ten days forecast, look at this, how much of the country will be above average. other tha
country. all right, yesterday alone, 170 record low high temperatures, meaning the afternoons were well below average. st. louis only 51, should have been 68. places that should have been in the 60s were well below average. so freeze threat today. you can see kind of how widespread it is from the upper midwest to texas through the mid-atlantic. places like ohio, running about a week and a half ahead of schedule with their first freeze. it s well below average and certainly a little bit earlier than normal. coldest thus far of the season, we saw it begin last week in the northern plains and upper midwest. now migrating into the south and east. today really kind of the coldest of the low and then temperatures will warm up. so there is certainly a relief in sight. looking at the next six to ten days forecast, look at this, how much of the country will be above average. other than really the northeast and northern new england, that will be just about average or slightly below. te