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Major snowstorms are set to bury the mid-Atlantic states this weekend after record snowfalls in December. Last month California was awash in rain. The Gulf states have seen heavy weather lately as well.

Steve Bartman deflected a foul ball during a playoff game in 2003. The Chicago Cubs went on to lose that game, and Bartman's fellow fans vilified him. A new documentary asks whether Bartman can forgive those fans for making him a scapegoat.

San Diego has an urban forest whose greatest expression is in Balboa Park. Mike Marika showed me some trees in the park that inspired Dr. Suess and some trees that dwelled in the tombs of the pharaohs.

Forecasters Predict Wet Weather Through March

A bad harvest and fires in Russia have pushed wheat prices in this country higher. While that's good news for farmers, it's bad news for food producers. Bakeries and other businesses are facing higher costs -- costs they may not be able to pass on to consumers.

Host Bob Edwards and Ken Hackett of Catholic Relief Services discuss the looming hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. Hackett says millions of Africans already are affected by drought and could be without food by March. Making the problem worse is the AIDS pandemic. He says relief agencies desperately need more help from international organizations and donor countries.

Little information is coming out of Syria, but stories from Daraa, where the protests began, have emerged as Syrians cross the border into Jordan. One Jordanian shop has become a sort of word-of-mouth news bureau, where Syrians discuss the loss of loved ones and encounters with soldiers.

California is headed to another dry winter as recent rain did not deliver on its promise of much-needed water. A senior says last week's rain was helpful for agriculture but did little to ease the ove

There’s some positive news on the water front. State officials say they’ll be able to deliver about 50 percent of the water requested by California farmers and agencies this year. The initial allocation in December was only five-percent.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium before the U.N. General Assembly and laid out his vision for a new world order free of the "hegemony of arrogance." The U.S. delegation boycotted the speech, a day after President Obama addressed world leaders from the same stage.