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Thanks, carol. 32 minutes past the hour. time for our top stories this morning. a heaping cup of snow with a cold wind chaser. the it s on the menu for a big part of the country today. people in des moines, milwaukee, chicago, buffalo, syracuse, you may be seeing the worst conditions this winter starting tomorrow. the antarctic cruise ship is back at port this morning. one passenger praised the captain telling the philadelphia daily news how he turned the ship into the wind to stop it from rocking. and you can see there in the trip back to argentina the seas this thing was going through. none of the 88 american passengers onboard was hurt. and in the next hour, the nobel peace prize will be awarded to lou xiaobo. protesters are gathering in beijing as a ceremony in oslo is set to get underway. ....
like in the great lakes, that s what you get. lake-effect snow. the lakes are not frozen yet. and so it just provides moisture to add to the snow. and downtown cleveland already has a foot of snow on the ground from wednesday s surprise storm. that s nothing compared to what it s like in syracuse, new york, where streets and sidewalks still buried after a four-day pounding earlier this week. almost 5 feet of snow fell during a 98-hour stretch. we get a check of all the weather with reynolds wolf. it came early, and boy did they get a lot of it. it did. winter officially begins on the 21st of december, but they ve had the full brunt of it already. and some of the heavy snowfall in places we normal expect it, but it s been unusually high. now it s going to spread to places that haven t had a dose of winter weather yet. here s where it begins, in parts of the ohio valley, light snow and a little bit of sleet picking up, southward into charleston, west virginia, and b ....
the organizers are going to erect steel fences around the building to prevent an expected crowd of chinese people opposed to liu being awarded the nobel peace prize. liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence in china for calling for the subversion of state power. this is the first time in 75 years that neither the prize winner nor relatives will attend the award ceremony. in the history of nobel peace prize the anti-militarism journalist and winner of the peace prize, carl von ossietzky was unable to attend in 1935 because he was in jail for criticizing the nazi party. the united states has called on china to release this year s nobel peace prize laureate ahead of the award ceremony on friday. the house of representatives adopted a resolution by a vote of 402-1 on wednesday. the resolution congratulated liu for winning the peace prize and acknowledged his promotion of democratic reform in china. the resolution also urges china to free liu s wife and his supporters fro ....