Blizzard whips northern Plains; travel difficult

In Montana, the Army National Guard dispatched two helicopters to help locate motorists stranded by a snowstorm in the southeastern part of the state.

"We do know we have some motorists out there, but we don't know where. So we have a serious situation," said Charity Watt Levis, a spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Transportation.

Crews rescued stranded motorists, including a family of three, that had been trapped on a highway in northeast Wyoming.

Up to 30 inches of snow had piled up in South Dakota's rugged Black Hills, and the storm system also had generated tornadoes.

The blowing snow cut visibility and piled in drifts as high as 4 feet in parts of Wyoming.

Transcript of President Barack Obama press conference: No direct mention of climate change or global warming; he hints that the cap and trade scam isn't going to be implemented any time soon

We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses and less dependence on foreign oil.
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I think cap-and-trade is the best way, from my perspective, to achieve some of those gains, because what it does is it starts pricing the pollution that's being sent into the atmosphere.

The way it's structured, it has to take into account regional differences. It has to protect consumers from huge spikes in electricity prices. So there are a -- a lot of technical issues that are going to have to be sorted through.

Our point in the budget is, let's get started now.