CNN Daily 1/2 (2008.12.25)

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Shear tear at the ski resort at Canada
A support tower for a gondola system snapped in half, leaving more than fifty people trapped in cable cars dangling in mid-air.
Officials at the site says two of the gondola cars fell from a mid-low distance into a bus stop and house.
But fire fighters, manahatton rescue personnel had to use rope, lines and ladders to rescue other skiers trapped in below zero temperature.
The first thing we could think about was our children.
Everyone in the car was pretty composed.
The guys were really get with me.
I wasn't as so composed as the rest of them, but they worked really hard to call me down
We spent next few hours kind of try to stay calm.
For myself, I am done skiing for the week, I still had a few more days, but we are gonna go up and I don't think I am gonna go up again.
My husband and friends feel like they are gonna go, so they are ok with it, but I am done for now.
I'll actually stake a day off go back in two days.
Officials say no one was seriously injured and no word yet on the cause of the structural failure if you imagine a investigation is going on.

A cold icy mass for much of the nation and you know, it's not even winter yet.
The national weather service issued winter weather advisories for all but eleven states yesterday.
In Newhampshire, crews are still out, working to restore power for more than 1000 homes and businesses.
The last wind storm in New England left hundreds of thousands people in the dark.
And in Kenzas snow road triggered a mass of traffic pile up.
Near Lowrence lots of damaged vehicles but again thankfully no serious damage was reported there.
In Flagsstaff, Arizona, motors are struggled to get around in a foot of snow.
Snow clouds are out, but national weather service says more snow is on the way.
and with all the snow and ice, snow ploud drivers will spread almost anything to give drivers a good grip, but garlic salt?
In Ankeny Iowa, a spice company donated nine tons of the seasoning to help with the city's salt shortage.
and yes, the street is probably more aromatic than usual

a new state budget proposal in NY is a wake up call for everyone in the city that never sleeps
governor David Patterson's new budget aims to increase spending by 1.3 billion dollars
much of the gross comes from new fees targeting everything from downloading music to shipping sodas
The new ipod tax targets the sale of downloading music and a new 18% on soda and sugary drinks tries to discourage people from drinking those high calorie things
there are also new taxes on a satelite tvs. spas, movies and sports tickets

They are called a ultimate cases.
Crimes that are decades old and investigators typically working without modern luxuries like DNA that we hear so much about
the reason these crimes are actually tied to Nazi atrocities and federal investigators
Thou they never must be forgotten more now from CNN's Brian Tod.