"It's Getting Worse Day by Day"
CHETRY: Time to say good morning to New York City. It's 29 degrees right now. A little bit later going up to a high of 42 degrees, but there is some rain in the forecast for later today, so bring the umbrella. Forty-eight minutes past the hour, and welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Time now for your "A.M. House Call," stories about your health. New research shows that taking regular naps during the day can actually boost your brainpower. In a recent study, scientists at the University Of California Berkeley found a group of adults were able to remember more after a nap than those who were kept awake all day. They say that, in some ways, your body actually and your brain need time to reboot. Anti-retro viral drugs could dramatically slow the spread of HIV- AIDS, according to a leading expert on the disease. The drugs are currently being used to help those already infected live longer. More research still needs to be done, but a prominent epidemiologist who's working to stop the spread of AIDS in Africa says that we could effectively stop transmission within five years. And more than 30 years after the first test-tube baby was born, researchers say there were only a few medical differences between those kids and children conceived the natural way. The findings were announced Sunday by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some test-tube babies do run the risk of birth defects like lower birth weights. Researchers say test-tube babies now account for about 4 percent of all live births, so back to the napping study, can you nap during the day?</s>ROBERTS: On occasion, I kind of just go -- I mean I don't have any planned naps.</s>CHETRY: It's the only thing that keeps me going. I try to lay down for an hour.</s>ROBERTS: But the test-tube baby study is interesting, too, because I think there are about three million of them in this country. Not many over the age of 30, so they still don't know what the extra long-term effect might be, but so far, things look pretty good.</s>CHETRY: Yes. It is. Very promising.</s>ROBERTS: Okay. So, things look good on the reproductive front, but how do they look on the weather front? Not so good. Rob Marciano is tracking the weather for us. He is in Atlanta this morning. You have a rainy night there, Rob?</s>ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We did. And across the southeast, it was rainy and stormy, that's for sure and still storming out across parts of the southeast. Not a bad day to take a nap if you have the time and the luxury of that. One storm here and another one, very El Nino-like storm that rolled through Southern California. That is now rolling through parts of the southwest. If you are traveling today, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Charlotte, those are your two big deals as far as where I think we'll see, in some cases, over 60-minute delays and to a lesser extend the New York Metro, but tomorrow is going to be your bad day. All right, a sliver of snow across parts of the Western Great Lakes. Most of the accumulating snow I think is going to be north of I-80, but where it is accumulating, it will be fairly heavy, and therefore, difficult to move and shovel. Four to eight inches expected across these highlighted counties where there are winter storm warnings out including the City of Detroit. Here's your thunderstorms that came through Atlanta last night. We'll see some clearing today, but no severe weather warnings with these particular storms, but they were pretty heavy and dumping quite a bit of rain and thunder and lightning. All right. Vegas through Phoenix, seeing some showers and some higher elevation snows with this El Nino-like system, 52 degrees. It's chilly in Las Vegas. It's going to be 44 in New York. When this storm gets to you, guys, tonight and tomorrow, as I think you mentioned, it's going to be mostly in the form of rain, but just drive a little farther north, up in through upstate New York and Northern New England, it will be all snow. John and Kiran, back over to you.</s>ROBERTS: As long as it falls in Vermont and New Hampshire where they've got mountains that's good. Thanks, Rob.</s>MARCIANO: Exactly. See you, guys.</s>CHETRY: Thanks, Rob. Still head, this morning's top stories, minutes away including what could be now a damning piece of evidence against Toyota. Did the carmaker choose millions over saving lives?</s>ROBERTS: And 10 minutes after, Glenn Beck telling Republicans it's not enough just to not suck as much as the other side. Is that a warning to the GOP and whether the crowd really wanted to hear it?</s>CHETRY: And at 18 minutes after, they can still punch you in the gut. They just have to tell you it's coming. Credit card companies playing by new rules this morning what to look for in your next bill. Those stories and much more at the top of the hour.