From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I'd like to bid you all the evening.

Good morning, good afternoon, where you may be in the world's time zones, each and everyone covered like a blanket by this program.

Coast to Coast a.m. I'm Mark Bell. My honor and privilege to be escorting you through the weekend.

We will first look at the world news in a moment.

Bleak as it normally is.

Speaking of strange, tonight here in the desert,

oh, by the way, tonight's webcam photograph is indeed of our desert.

We live out here in serious, serious desert.

Take a look.

A photograph was taken.

That's Ramona, of course.

That's my car with Ramona on the far side,

and our real desert in the background.

It was taken between Baker, California, and here.

It's a few miles away, actually.

I told you, we live out here in serious.

That's where all this stuff happens.

Just over the hill there, area 51.

So let's look quickly at World News.

Laura Bush waded into the middle of Middle East tensions on Sunday

during a chaotic visit to sacred religious sites where crowds and hecklers

grew so rowdy that armed guards had to be called in to restrain them. America's first

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