This year is similar to 1996 when we had record tight supplies and there was poor spring weather and the market was rallying, rallying. That year, the market peaked on April 30.

Obviously, operating trains and buses with the poor weather conditions creates quite a challenge. We've been getting lots of distress calls from bus drivers who are stuck. We have many tow trucks working to free buses. We are doing all we can to keep buses moving.

My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only topic where people here felt comfortably expressive, and my father could go on earnestly, seemingly forever. When the current weather was exhausted, there was all the weather that had occurred in recorded history, weather lived through or witnessed by a relative, or even heard about on the news. Catastrophic weather of all types. And when that was done, there was all the weather that might possibly occur in the future. I'd even heard him speculate about weather in the afterlife.

It's going to take more poor weather in South America, or some other news event before they would become long.

We took them all out on the court, because there's one thing I didn't want to get saddled with is someone who couldn't play ball. That's the first thing that breaks down as far as the authenticity is concerned. They went to boot camp for two to three weeks prior to shooting, where they were just drilled for a long, long days, which helped somewhat, but you can't make an athlete. If they couldn't play ball, I knew I was just screwed.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.