Bank this is The News Leader ABC 7 by Witness News Riders are left stranded some for hours when down wires stop New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains in their tracks today at Ground Zero a new viewing platform opens it's designed to give families of the victims of the Trade Center attacks some privacy and he has turned 50 this week but he's no old man we'll take a look at how Mr Potato Head the original spudman has stayed a favorite all these years way to go Idaho good morning you're looking live
across Central Park thanks for joining us on this Sunday February 10th and thanks for joining us as well good morning I'm Scott angler and I'm Lisa kagy Michelle Charlesworth has the morning off shaving up to be a nice morning it looks like yeah we kept hearing about the rain today and we saw Lee in the Cranberry shirt and we know that means one thing and Valentine's Day it's almost Upon Us Lee Goldberg in the mood for love as always at Tavern on the Green on the upper west side hey Lee all rig
ht Lisa Scott good morning morning what's a here break out this red shirt and here it is for you today we're on Tavern on the Green it's our annual trip to the tavern for Valentine's Day celebration and this time got a little separation between the show and Valentine's Day so guys we got some good GI gift ideas uh to get your Valentine ladies too all right let's go and give you temperatures out there this morning weather's going to get interesting today satellite first of all showing some clouds
are moving in if there's any sunshine this morning it is fading behind the clouds as they thicken today how about your temperatures to start the day good news is we're just about about freezing everywhere except for Newberg Monella but we'll be warming up nicely enough so that we'll start to see rain rather than any snow or frozen precipitation later today so clouds thicken today anytime after about 3 or 4:00 there could be a little bit of drizzle or spotty shower along the coast we'll wait unt
il tonight to see steadier rainfall but at least is mile big changes for tomorrow though much more wintry we'll be back from Tavern on the Green we'll celebrate Valentine's in a little while for now Scott and Lisa have more on the news of the day all right Lee we'll see you a little later in the newscast first up in the news this morning a commuting nightmare for thousands of people on the rails in New Jersey amtr crew spent the night struggling to repair power lines pulled down by a freight tra
in we get the very latest from Tina Hernandez live at Penn Station Ty good morning Scott good news today it could have been a lot worse Services back on both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit that's as of 5:30 this morning but if you've got your bags packed be warned there's still some scattered delays especially if you're headed to new work airport now repairs are still being made after garbage piled a little too high on a freight or knocked down some crucial wires it virtually shut down all train
service on the East Coast yesterday at about 5:30 p.m. Amtrak says at least 2,000 of its customers were affected some stuck on trains for 6 hours but again things are looking up today be careful though if you've got to go to New York airport call before you come the number for New Jersey Transit is 9734 n174 and the number to call for Amtrak is 1 1800 USA rail reporting live outside Penn Station tyena Hernandez ABC7 Eyewitness News all right Ty thanks a special gesture of concern this morning fo
r those who lost loved ones in the attack on the World Trade Center the city today is opening a separate viewing platform it will give those people a chance to pray and reflect without having to face the crush of lines and the sightseeing crowds a counselor at a Mount Pleasant school for troubled teenagers remains hospitalized in serious condition this morning six female students are accused of torturing the woman and setting her on fire the suspects laughed and smiled as they were arraigned on
second degree attempted murder charges Friday night the attack happened on Thursday at the Pleasantville Cottage school police say the girls punched and stomped the 32-year-old counselor doused her with alcohol set at Ablaze and then poured bleach on her face the suspects who are 15 and 16 years old were denied bail and remain in custody two young sisters who perish together in a fire have been laid to rest following an emotional service in Newark the father of the girls was able to attend but t
hat over the protest of prosecutors Joseph Martinez is free on $150,000 bail he is charged with leaving the girls alone last Sunday night while he drove their babysitter home and that's when a four alarm fire roared through the five buildings killing six-year-old Destiny Martinez and her 8-year-old sister Tasha 5 months after the attack on the World Trade Center New York's bravest are still bearing their own Lieutenant Kevin fer avenging company 33 and John tyy of ladder company 9 were both from
the same Greenwich Village Firehouse tiy's funeral was held at St Charles Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island fifers at St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church in Queens they were among the 343 firefighters killed last September controversy rages in a Brooklyn neighborhood over ad Deli a group of Muslim merchants in burrow Park have filed a $32 million lawsuit against members of the hidic community the Muslims claim they are being targeted and that some in the community are trying to run them ou
t of business the Turkish store owners say they have received threats certain vendors are refusing to supply the store and we have a story just developing in Israel a pair of gunmen reportedly has opened fire in the southern city of BBA at least five people are said to have been wounded but there is some confusion about how the shooting began Israeli Army radio says the gunman open fire in a school other Reports say the gunfire started in a restaurant we'll have more for you on the story as the
information comes in Scott and this morning a gesture of Goodwill tops our Roundup of the war on terror Afghanistan's interim government is releasing over 300 Taliban prisoners interim leader hammed carai says None of the prisoners was in a command position with the Taliban and there is still no word on the whereabouts of kidnapped reporter Daniel Pearl but police in Pakistan say they do hope to free him soon Pakistan's president is accusing nuclear rival India of orchestrating ating that kidnap
ping and here at home the FAA has given a thumbs up to a bombproof baggage container it's designed to withstand the force of an explosion expanding and then returning to a normal size new unit would be used inside cargo units of bigger airplanes in Britain this morning condolences continue to pour in for Princess Margaret the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth died yesterday in a London Hospital after suffering a stroke the second daughter of King George V 6 Princess Margaret was fondly remembere
d as a royal Rebel in the life of the party Princess Margaret was 71 years old if you've already given up on your new New Year's resolutions you have a second chance Saturday celebrated the Chinese New [Music] Year brightly colored dragons wound their way through the streets of Lura Manhattan's Chinatown during the New Year's parade this year marks the beginning of a new century for the Chinese the year 4700 the Year of the Horse happy New Year if you celebrate I never stood those dates we'll ge
t it though all right now the time is 7:07 coming up on Eyewitness News Sunday morning explaining some of the myths of miscarriages we've got some answers you need to hear also ahead getting in tiptop shape for Valentine's Day we'll show you some couples who should have no problems at all and Lee Goldberg will have your ACU weather forecast grab a cup of coffee we're coming right back tonight at 11 on ABC 7 Eyewitness News To Catch a Criminal check fingerprints DNA and now his brain s's on call
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one couple left competitors are allowed a two-minute break each hour to drink some water and perhaps apply some chapstick and maybe some banaka if they need it the winning couple proved their love and determination by kissing for 10 and a half hours you got to be kidding me for their efforts they want a trip to the Bahamas no word if they're actually going to stay in the same room or if they've had enough of each other at this point I'm done with you oh man I'll tell you well speaking of meltin
g Hearts that's where goldber is outside with the melting hearts and a melting Cupid at Tavern on the Green what a setup Lee isn't this great this is part of the ice C just look how sweet we're going back to high school a little bit little little justess plus Lee action there Mom at home she's du on Friday I could get a call at any moment oh my good my Valentine there yeah I know actually it was a Sunday show that my other little girl was born and uh had to leave the Sunday show Midway in all ri
ght well we got one of the ice sculptures here in the garden of Tavern on the Green got a big valentine celebration coming up on Thursday is seating at 5 and 11 going to tell you all about it or right near sheap Meadow or a Tavern on the Green I mean New York Landmark going to tell you all about it but yeah notice this ice I mean it's dripping here it's melting I mean where temperatures are around 40 this morning there's just no winter for Valentine's Day let's go ahead and talk about our foreca
st first of all temperatures this morning are starting in the upper 30s and lower 40s it's not very windy out just the clouds are thickening up at this time so let's go ahead and look at the satellite picture and what you're going to notice is already some low clouds are coming in from the ocean we got some high clouds coming in from the the West we can advance this and notice the clouds are thickening at this hour the rain is now getting into Ohio see it's pretty far away let's give you a timel
ine on the rainfall first of all we should be dry through the first part of the day anytime after 3 or four o'clock there could be a shower a drizzle maybe even a touch earlier than that as you go through Northwestern New Jersey let's Advance this to between about 7 and 9:00 we start to see the steady rain come in and really we wait until later tonight for a good bot of rain that could probably be about a half an inch to an inch of rainfall Advance it again and we get rid of it by the morning ti
me windy colder I conditions during the morning commute north and west could actually be some snow showers could be a little dicey there definitely windy though that's the big story tomorrow so my forecast map looking at damp conditions especially by dark about 50 and then the storm moves through cold Gusty wind that early morning high of 40 we just go through the 30s even if we get the sunshine back tomorrow which we should actually by midm morning a wintry wind here's my forecast inail for tod
ay high temperatures getting close to 50° a shower or two during the afternoon a steady rain at night tonight again periods of rain and that Cold Wind by Dawn and could be a good rain for our reservoirs as well that's good news your 40 is your low and it's your high as well cuz temperatures will plummet through the day into the 30s an early shower could even be a snow shower north and west then it's Gusty and colder on the five day winter on Monday then back to seasal but by the time we get to T
uesday wind is a story through the week especially Monday through Wednesday we should be seasonable into late week we're in the beautiful garden of Tavern on the Green we're with Lanny who's been with Tavern on the Green for a while and get your big valentine celebration again always great to come here and this a new New York Landmark tell us about Tavern absolutely like you said we're right across from the Sheepfold right and in 1870 this was built and you could see the original structure as a
Sheepfold this is where the Sheep lived and grazed and this all was grazing land hence sheep Meadow across the street and in 1934 Robert Moses who was the mayor at the time decided to turn this into a restaurant right it was a restaurant up until the 70s when it got a little dilapidated Central Park wasn't what it is today Warner looy bought it added $10 million the glass and clothes dining room yeah that's and really turned it into what we know today and reopened in 1976 and it's been flourishi
ng as one of the nation's highest grossing restaurants since when did the animal kingdom landscape come into play throughout the years uh one of the Roy's added more and more topiaries um Kong is one of our feature topiaries War ly grew up in Hollywood father was mvin ly who directed The Wizard of Oz so he was always a child of Hollywood like the entertainment factor and so we just like to brighten things up a bit all right always great to come for Valentine's Day we got a 5:00 and 11:00 seating
on Thursday right yep reservations are open reservations are open for the 5:00 um and the 11:00 the 11:00 is the greatest deal $42 per person three course meal 17 piece big band Orchestra with dancing it's a great way to spend the evening so come on out all right little sampling of that food coming up in a little while Scott Lisa back to you sound good oh yeah that's what I'm talking about all right thanks Lee you bet it is now 7:14 ahead on eyewitness news making yourself up for your sweethear
t this Valentine's Day we'll have some tips for men and women but next having a miscarriage can be a herring experience with we come back we will try to clear up some of the myths of why women miscarry and later in sports an East Coast battle between St John's and Yukon we've got all the highlights our first the state of the black World Conference the focus of like it is today on ABC 7 I think it is clear that join the millions using Dex natural to lose weight it's the dietary supplement that he
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y for the NBA as the League's finest put on a show Marvel Scott has that plus your Olympic update in this morning Sports wrap and good Sunday morning everyone the United States made the home crowd proud on the first day of Olympic competition in Salt Lake City we can't show you the events but as a saying goes of pictures worth a thousand words in women's Mogul skiing Shannon Barky of Tahoe City California became the first American to medal in this year's Winter Games she won the silver but the S
hocker of the day was pulled off by American Derek par he won the silver in men's 5,000 m speed skating well leading up to today's NBA All-Star Game the highflying slam dunk cont test took Center Stage yesterday in Philadelphia no there was no Vince Carter no Michael Jordan still there was plenty of air up there the Nets Jason kid soaking in the allstar energy Jason Richardson Golden State Warrior golden right there on that dunk and then Gerald Wallace up and over teammate Chris Weber and that's
good to head to the finals but it was there where Richardson took home the crown with this reverse jam and wow right on target as he's your Slam Dunk champion from under the rim we head to the shooting range where the Kings P stovich went bombs away in yesterday's Three-Point Contest he found the groove and edged out Steve Nash and Wesley person in the finals to Win It Well to hockey where the Devils continue to fight back into playoff contention Saturday in Pittsburgh another positive step for
ward call him old call him injured but he still is Mari Lemieux and he's still got game no score in this one through two periods then pens Alexi morz off beautiful no look backhander pass martan brur it's nothing Penguins pen goalie Johan Hedberg was a lock in front of the net saving the first 33 shots on goal but the doubles broke through in the third Brian rafalski shot is deflected by Bobby hoik into the net that ties it at one and we're going to overtime and it was there with 8.6 seconds lef
t H sets up the one-time Brian rafalski blasts it home the Devils pull it out winning 2-1 in overtime well it's time to put on your sunglasses as we head to Hawaii for the NFL Pro Bowl a patriot iotic opening on a picture perfect Saturday in Honolulu but then again they're all perfect out there Michael stran approved as he caught some rays the NFC LED early then Curtis Martin behind Jets teammate Kevin maw scores to give the AFC a 14-10 lead Raiders quarterback Rich Ganon picked up his second st
raight allpro MVP he threads it to Colts tight end Ken dilger for the 18 yard touchdown the AFC was up 2813 at that point the NFC rallied but came up short when the Patriots Tai law ped off Donovan McNab and he's going to head towards the goal line on the Nifty run back now watch before he goes down he dishes it to Guess Who Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and you think this guy wants to get into the end zone watch as Lewis gives a free ride to everyone and finally crosses the goal line the AFC hola
their way to a 3830 Victory well let's dance on over to college hoops St John's Avenged an earlier Big E lost to Yukon last night at the Garden coach Mike Jarvis got the most out of his shooting star Marcus Hatton here he dials in from serious long distance for three of his game high 34 points but nothing's ever easy this one went on to overtime tied at 72 there haton gets a little help from his friends off the Miss Eric King with the pretty followup the Johnny's walk-off winners 85 to 83 and t
hat's a look at sports this Sunday morning I'm marll Scott have a great day okay thanks a lot marll and coming up a look at Mr Potato headed 50 years old we'll be right back on Business Week the movie business everything from top Studios to bankable stars and Oscar picks that's this morning at 10: here on ABC 7 folks this is amazing this man has pulled a 20ton semi truck and trailer a quarter of a mile using nothing but his teeth I've never seen anything like it Bob talk about guts he's closing
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st moniki I believe in the quality of the parts and service and the people who stand behind them my family is too important to trust suest anybody at minate you'll get a lot but you won't pay a lot no matter where I travel home is the best destination of all if I trus in my muffler breaks and shocks to the pros at maniki I know I'll always get there at miniki you'll get a lot but you won't pay a [Music] lot welcome back this week of main stay in children's toys is celebrating a milestone yes Mr
Potato Head is celebrating his 50th birthday we have Ira hernow with from Hasbro he was here to talk about the history of Mr Potato Head and uh we have a special Potato Head guest as well we'll get to him in a little bit but let's just talk about the popularity of Mr Potato Head why he's a spud what makes him so popular oh Mr Potato Head has been popular for 50 years uh it's it's just a great toy it's lots of fun uh kids can play with it so many different ways he's got a great personality he's a
a movie star he's been in Toy Story he stars in a comic strip I Mr Potato Head really is the the quintessential spot is he popular now among the young kids you know obviously over 50 years he's been popular sure is he as popular today as he was 50 years ago oh even more so uh Mr Potato Head started out with well he was actually just a potato yeah we have a A Relic here the old Mr Potato Head Right he was actually a real potato and he came with plastic parts that you stuck in and over the years
he kind of evolved where we had different ones in the 60s and the 70s and now even this year we've got our 50th Anniversary Mr Potato Head and you know kids love him they continue to love him every day and like I said he's just he's a lot of fun so what else do we have up here I see a whole bunch of different Mr Potato Heads is this sort of the evolution of Mr Potato Head yeah actually it is the evolution of Mr Potato Head like I said we started off where it was you you had to supply the potato
yourself was a lot of parts and then we've had different feature Mr Potato Heads so we've had our jumping Potato Head in the 60s and then in the 70s we kind of changed it up a little bit and then we're even looking at our 50th Ann iversary Mr Potato Head and in a collector's tin which is a lot of fun and of course Mr Potato Head is also in publishing he's got books he's in a comic strip which is really exciting for us so he's a he's been in movies he's been in movies he's a very versatile Spud h
e's uh he's kicked the Habit he doesn't smoke he he lost his uh his pipe so he doesn't have his original pipe anymore but he's let's talk about the old Mr Potato Heads Are they collector's items now oh absolutely if you own one of these what's it worth oh you know there are there are potato heads on eBay for hundreds and hundreds of dollars from the original with the original parts and the original packaging um there's a a lot of Mr Potato Head collectors out there in the world so if you have a
Mr Potato Head and he's you know in your attic somewhere or in your basement pull him on out he might be worth some money you should pull him out and play with them that's the best part of Mr Potato Head kids love the old one they love the new one but yeah you should pull them out and take a look it could be worth a lot is this still an important toy for Hasbro oh Mr potatoe head is clearly a a very important toy for us we're all about our core Brands we're about the things that we can continue
on with year after year he's our corporate spok Spud so he's on all our stationary and all of our letter head and it's cool on my business card so that's a lot of fun the Mr Potato head's great very important product for has all right we actually have the real Mr Potato Head in the studio today if we can pan over he's a little stuck here because he's got these Mr Potato Head in real life has giant immovable sneakers which are like cement blocks but that's him I don't know if he talks or what he
does is can we get Mr Potato Head to do his thing kind of Bob he's a potato of a few words uh Mr Potato Head actually does his talking in a comic strip um which appears in hundreds of newspapers um every every day and uh we've actually got something really exciting that happened the creator of the comic strip Jim Davis who also created um Garfield has actually signed a comic strip for us the original 50th Anniversary comic strip and actually it's being auctioned this week for charity and if you
go to Yahoo auctions or yahoo.com then you can take a look and this is a signed Mr Potato Head uh comic strip so we're uh very excited about this and this is where he really does his best talking so what's the future of Mr Potato Head what can we look for in the future well like I said in the comics strip it talks about Mr Potato Head has a job now he's a toy tester and uh Miss p is also uh she's got a job as well and his kids chip and Julian are out there Mr Potato Head is going to tour the cou
ntry this year um he's going to hit over 300 Walmart stores this year in his Spud mobile which is really cool M potatoe head has got a lot going on okay thank you very much Ira hoods here from Hasbro the 50th anniversary of Mr Potato Head we've got it all right here we're going to toss it back over to Lisa on the said all right doesn't get any better thanks guys coming up in our next half hour of Eyewitness News Sunday looking good for that special someone we've got tips for women and men to hel
p make some Valentine's Day Magic also coming up New Jersey and Amtrak train riders were stuck for a time we're live with the latest and two trees get cut down in Central Park after they are found to be carrying a disease we'll tell you what plus Lee Goldberg getting ready for Valentine's Day he's back with your work week forecast stay with us why do I trust moniki I believe in the quality of the parts and service and the people who stand behind them my family is too important to trust just anyb
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ns Express you can replace your contacts and save call now for your free lens Express catalog time and temperature from Commerce Bank welcome back to Eyewitness News Sunday morning it is February 10th beautiful shot overlooking Central Park good morning I'm Lisa kagi Michelle Charlesworth has the morning off and I'm Scott angler we've been having some troubles out in New Jersey with amch trains and uh tyena Hernandez is down in Masson Square Garden right now with the very latest on that Tina wel
l Scott at about 5:30 this morning the rare tril s came alive after nearly 12 hours with virtually no service on both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit Travelers can now resume their plans but there are still some scattered delays especially if you're headed to Newark Airport that line is experiencing the most severe problems still now this all started at about 5:30 last night garbage at top of freight train knocked out some essential wires thousands of riders were inconvenience some stuck on trains
for hours with only free food from the bar cars consolation now repairs are still ongoing Travelers are advised to call before they arrive the number for New Jersey Transit is 973 491 7400 and the number to cont contact Amtrak is 1 1800 USA rail reporting live outside Penn Station TAA Hernandez ABC7 Eyewitness News well the countdown is on to Tuesday's special midterm election for the state senate seed vacated by Roy Goodman Democratic Contender Liz kruer Drew support from her campaign from us
Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer joining hands Krueger favors reinstating the commuter income tax and she opposes School vouchers meanwhile Mayor Mike Bloomberg was out stumping for Republican candidate John rabbitz rabbits is hoping to move up from the state assembly in a heavily Democratic District rabbits is viewed by many as the underdog in this race both candidates have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their campaigns those tree eating Asian longhorned beetles are back
this time targeting trees in Central Park The Beatles first appeared in 1996 in a park in Green Point Brooklyn now the parks department says two trees located in a wooded area near 59th Street are infested with the beetle those trees will have to be destroyed and officials warn more trees could be next New York City's estimated 5.2 million trees on Publican private property almost half of them are vulnerable to this voracious Pest and in urban areas across the country 1.2 billion trees are poten
tial Targets this is serious business workers are now checking half of Central Park's 25,000 trees for Beetle infestation and the parks department has set up a toll-free number for anyone spotting Asian longhorned beetles in their own yard that number to call is 1 800201 park it is now 7:32 coming up on eyewitness news this morning the Goldberg is outside with the latest on the weather forecast and also the latest on your Valentine's forecast that's right we'll have Lee and much more when we com
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mach yeah that is a a saying that some of us live by and Lee Goldberg is out of Tavern on the Green right now with some cooking tips for Valentine's Day I think that works for anybody Lee that's you know you got to feed you on this show got at least Ste last week I believe we had baby bag ribs at 7 o' in the morning getting ready for the Super Bowl this year a little bit more refined Chef Gary how are you good morning Le how are you good to see you here t on the green yeah another Valentine's Da
y coming up we got a great menu what you got plan you going to prepare for us this morning sure well today we're going to do a little variation of uh tartar salmon tartar but this this way this time we have it with smoked salmon SAR tartar so it's not uh it's not raw it's cooked already and smoked so we're just mixing it with some micro greens some fresh herbs some marinated cucumbers and we have a um mustard dill sauce and I'm just going to do a little bit of water CR oil on it just drizzles ar
ound to lighten it up a little bit we use this we use this holiday as a cuss between brazing items for the for the fall for the for the former fall and winter menu and bringing in some new ingredients like our suckatash which would be a spring vegetables to kind of Advent the um the the new season coming up this in particular could be incorporated into an omelet can we do that we'll do that in five 15 minutes all right it's good we'll go to the entree right after weather okay thank thank you Che
f all right all we're in a beautiful of course glass room here Tavern on the graen Valentine celebration coming up Thursday got a little time for gifts is is such a beautiful room got the original backpack crystal chandeliers absolutely beautiful and a really great setting Valentine's state two seatings on Thursday at 5 and 11 all right let's go ahead and give you your forecast our temperatures are starting the day on the mild side believe it or not our typical daytime High our temperatures righ
t now lower 40s let's go over to the weather M basically we're clouding over at this point we're going to take a flight into a storm that's over Chicago right now and let's look at that storm number one you can see it's 41 in Chicago right now the storm is basically over this is a position that we're going to be in probably about 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning look at the heavy snow that's going on in Wisconsin then to the north and west and if you can look at the upper leftand corner of your screen
you see it's 10 degrees in Winnipeg so there's a lot of cold air behind this and our temperatures will drop not to those levels but certainly drop as we go through the day tomorrow all right let's head over to the Northeast you see we got some high clouds that are strolling in right now we're several hours away from any rainfall if there's any spotty drizzle north and west after about 1:00 probably in the city and often on shower after 4 but the steady rain really holding off until after dark s
o it's getting a little damp this afternoon but certainly not a wash out until later tonight so the forecast map damp by dark we're up to about 50 with a a freshening souly wind that comes through and tomorrow morning's interesting because we could end as rain or snow showers Inland as we go through the morning hours then we clear out quickly in the big story will be that wintry wind gusting up to 40 tomorrow that high of 40 it's a little bit little bit misleading because that's early in the day
and then we drop through the 30s cold wind couple of snow showers then just turning sunny but the wind is the big story here's my forecast for today hi t temperature up to about 50° we'll look for some rain developing as we go through late that entree looks good we'll get through the forecast quickly thickening clouds Breezy late rain coming in 50 tonight the rain gets steadier and I really think we have an opportunity for a heavy period from about let's say 9 or 10 o'clock till about 4 in the
morning then a cold wind takes over with any luck we get about a half an inch to an inch of rainfall and maybe right along the reservoirs that would be great so we're Gusty and colder tomorrow we clear out we're only through the 30s most of the day we'll bump back up to seasonable levels still windy though for a lot of the week all right CHF Gary on tree time where do we get going okay Lee well what we're trying to do at Valentine's is a series of Duos so we have four main courses one this is be
ing one of them it's a stuffed breast of chicken with mozzarella spinach and some roasted tomatoes and a Panka which is a Japanese breadcrumb mixture with some basil inside here so it gives an opportunity to have a little bit of melted cheese on the inside that's on a bed of um excuse me it's on a bed of escarole and white beans and we have a brochette of shrimp and scallops on as I was saying before some uh suckes this is some spring suckes with corn and peas and fava beans all right good stuff
all the meals are in Duets and what sauce are you putting on before I this a this is a roasted red roasted red pepper and tomato and this one is a Chipotle Centro cream for the both Lisa will you join me for this you have your own Valentine don't you very tempting yeah I do have a valentine at home you two of them husband and son right thanks Lee we'll see you a little bit later well thanks for staying with us for most women getting pregnant is one of the happiest times of their lives but that
happiness can be darkened when a woman has a miscarriage but the reasons for miscarriage can be many joining us to debunk some of the midst of miscarriage is Rosie uh the rosie magazine Health editor Tracy korian semler thanks for joining us this morning now a lot of women think when they have a miscarriage I must have eaten something I must have done some sort of activity to cause this is that true absolutely it's not true usually that they caused it but there's a tremendous amount of guilt
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