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Good morning? Lost & Found. More than a week after they vanished <갑자기> 사라지다, the mother and her two daughters are found alive along a snowy road in rural Oregon, but the father is still missing. This morning, the desperate effort to find him. Is he a man with a plan? President Bush’s pick to be the new Defense Secretary 국방장관 Robert gates facing some tough questions from Congress today about the war in Iraq.

 

And to the Moon, Alice <1991년의> 미국 TV 드라마 제목! NASA announces it wants to set up an international base camp on the moon. And it could be a giant leap 도약 for mankind 인류 today, Tuesday December 5, 2006. From NBC News, this is TODAY with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, live from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza.

 

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An early taste of winter in Chicago for Dominique McCallister and her son Gavin. “Here we go!” But also an early start to what could be an expensive season. “You don’t think about putting your thermostat 자동 온도 조절 장치 up until it’s snowing out. And I think that you think about what’s gonna happen with that bill in 2007.”

 

Last week’s pre-winter storm, a cold dose <비유적>약간의 경험 of reality here where traders set the price of natural gas. It jumped 8% last week. Heating oil prices are rising, too. And this could be just the beginning. “Over the course of the next few months, you’ll probably see natural gas prices go up and that’ll affect you in the form of higher heating bills at home.”

 

It’s all supply and demand. More demand for energy with the onset 착수, 개시 of winter means tighter supplies and higher prices. That happens every year. But there maybe more to it this season.

 

More demand than normal this season, the experts say. In part, because the economy is strong, so the amount of fuel on hand <구어> 남아 돌아서, 수중에 is falling unusually fast. The Energy Department predicts a typical family will spend $945 on heat this winter. That’s down from last year when supplies were much tighter because of all the hurricanes. But up 10% from 2004 and up 25% from 2003. And that’s despite long range forecast calling for a mild winter. “The northeast, the Midwest, and the northwest could all have above normal temperatures.”

 

But Dominique McCallister is bracing 대비하다, 마음의 준비를 단단히 하다 herself, just in case. “I absolutely have lowered my thermostat.” And if the heating bills get too expensive, Well, some things are still free. For TODAY, Scott Cone, NBC News, New York.

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