I'm going to be a From the high desert and the Great American Southwest I did you all good evening good afternoon wherever the case may be wherever you are in all

24 time zones it's great to be here I'm

Arbel and this is coast-to-coast a m i'd like to say hello to w n-a-X a

brand new affiliate w n-a-X in Yankton, South Dakota.

And I'd like to say hi to the GM there, David Onstead.

Hi David.

Thank you for getting us on for the people in the Yankton area.

And no doubt with that power power 5,000 watts on

570 on the dial probably most of South Dakota. Great to have you as the

affiliates continue to grow and grow.

All right, let us first take a look at the war news such as it is.

Anti-Teiban troops hunting for terror suspect Osama bin Laden said they clashed Tuesday with

al-Qaeda fighters near hideouts in the towering mountains along the Pakistani border. Hundreds of fighters piled into trucks and headed to the White Mountains south of Jalalabad for the battle.

Provincial security chief Hazarit Ali said he was assembling a

force of about 3,000 more men to join in the hunt for bin Laden. Now CNN is reporting tonight something pretty worrisome that the Taliban is now said to be in possession of a dirty atomic bomb. Now what this apparently means is

you get a high-grade fissionable material. I probably spent fuel rods, uranium fuel rods or something, you know, whatever

you can get your rotten little hands on. And you pack dynamite inside and you blow all the radiation all over the all over the place

Now I guess it would depend on what grade and what type of a material used, but that would be bad to be sure.

President Bush went to Florida and assured people out of work that essentially he feels their pain,

feels they, he used hurt, he feels their hurt,

but at the same time does not support any government help for the struggling tourism industry.

And I guess I in general agree with that.

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