…3/4-10: somewhere in America

34º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…GAQ; easier transition for student teachers from CNM to UNM; the Lobos won an important game last night, they are the Mountain West Conference Champions; fraud charges against Thornburg Mortgage executives, who stole $80 million; car carrying four teens slammed into a fence last night, injuring two of the victims; violent Santa Fe shooting & robbery; corpse found in S Valley ditch; was our MGR out yesterday, or today?; no tie today, to help ease the coughing; no PICU Admits; Channel 13 on UNM campus; we remain in Code Purple; Dr. Waldman still writes his notes;

flurries for NYC, Boston, Portland, ME & Cape Cod, also in Rapid City; windy in P’town; freeze warnings for parts of N FL; rain in Reno, SLC & Boise; ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; snow in the Sierras; temps from 30s to 70s;

no social security bonus checks for retires; because of a bad harvest, tomatoes will not be added to fast-food hamburgers; a snow ‘Venus de Milo’ is considered obscene, so its creators dress her; Capt. Sully retired, the man behind the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’; five people survived after a helicopter crashed in the UT MTN; more sexual harassment claims being filed by men; Safeway Potato Salad may contain salmonella; bacteria found in hand sanitizers that are manufactured in Puerto Rico; the price of lobster is ‘too low’?; more runaway Toyotas reported, even after the repairs were completed; the DOW ended up; two PA teens were killed by a high-speed train, in a double suicide pact; more American women are dying within 42 days after giving birth, this type of data not seen since the 1970s, more females are obese and have pre-existing conditions, such as diabetes; AL GOV wants to shut down electronic bingo parlors; three people, two of whom were police officer, were shot at the Pentagon METRO stop, shutting down the subway system;

two passengers were thrown overboard when a series of rogue waves struck an ocean liner while in the Mediterranean; the water reached 26 feet high; another aftershock in Chile, but no tsunami waves; fire at a Taiwan factory following yesterday’s quake, more aftershocks are being felt today; oil is $80.20 per barrel; gold is $1,132.60 an ounce; two ferries stuck in the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea; Iraq has 19 million registered voters, and 6.200 candidates in the upcoming election; Swedish man arrested for having a fake pilot’s license, and was flying planes; coins found in Syria from the era of Alexander the Great; the US has placed a $5 million bounty on a MX drug lord;