millions of people are waking up to alizzard warning as a winter storm wreaks havoc inla areas from the greas. more than 1,000 flights g cancelled between chicago o'hare and can kansas yesterday. major airlines like united, delta and spirit are waving change fees for those willing to travel later thiweek. >> reporter: good morning. in just last few hours that winter storm warning was switch to a blizzar warning for a lot of folks in chicago. that's a s to come.worst is yet the massive storm hit as more than gift million americans are heading home giter the thanng holiday. wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour >> at some point there was no visibility. huge buses stuck on the road. >> reporter: overwhelming cars and canceng and delaying flietsz. kansas declared a state of emergency. >> in my 19 years off t aoper this might be the top five across kansas in this area. >> reporter: they shared their view of whiteout conditions on twitter. >> this is so scary. >> this is ridiculous. >> reporter: they sought shelter gas station until the storm passed. >> you couldn't see anything, not eeven a foot i

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so right now inner it's the grea pristlays indiana. >> reporter: godonald trump goi with a lot of confidence and with the numbers. 15 point advantage according to our polling. he says this is a wrap, it's over. that the other two republican candidates have no chance. ted cruz hoping that is not the case as he makes information stops in indiana today. this could be make or break for him even though he's not naming donald trump. he's telling the people of indiana that their vote is critical as he puts in possible.giving in to evil he's only down four points ins mentioning clinton in his last event last night. clinton is focusing on appalachia, she'll be in west virginia and kentucky today, but still fighting for indiana where bernie sanders is hoping to make a tstand and talking about the fact that it will have to be superdelegates that he has to pull over to his side in order to win this thing. >>> tracy potses live on capitol hill for us. virginia is throwing more support behind ted cruz. 10 of virginia's 13 at large delegates will go to the texas senator in the case of a contested republica

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and they were accompanied by the grea andmother. their presiding judge was ready.stina all dressed up for her daughter ofomes the her paternal out aunt, and then joined by her old brothers, sakara is ready to go to her forever home. like a four-year-old and six-year-old that were next, their dads were very proud to become their new parents. next, fe siblings. heaven, chanel, hakeen, hayden and jeremiah. all being adopted by their own aunt and uncle. then twins. den was anxious to leave his chair to say -- >> thank you. >> reporter: and right behind them, the lovely viviani with her two parents. then came cory who loves to travel with his new cods. is five years old and loves legos, unicorns, cars, dinosrs and dragons. more twins on tap next. the two-year-os are being adopted by their maternal aunt who is thrilled to become their forever mom. then there was aerial who joins a mom, sad, and big sister. st to come forward, a familiar face i c., the mayor who said she always knew she wanted to be a mom someday. >> i dedicated much of my adulthood to being a public serv

you know, grea to have him here. we're roommates and playing together. played along "madden" last night. great have somebody you're comfortable with and it's a blessing. >> dwayne has a really good nd understaing of the game. so i don't think anything's caught him by surprise. heens a junkie wh it comes to studying. we're roommates so studying together. he's teaching me, i'm teaching him. when you're a student of the game, doing pretty good. >> did a great job. put all the wor in and when terry spoke we listened. great admiration for him, how he prepares and works and just beinger able to be clos to him throughout the season, and him at d.c. great for my career. >> reporter: and haskins telling me he wish there's were more. from redskins park n forews 4 eeorts. >> won't get slp playing "madden" together may surpryou. i wasn't great at math. no need advance calculus to figure this out. consistently inconsistent reached the third month of the season and yet to have more than a two-game winning simple addition. three-game winning streak. need to win two str

now, joined by her daughter, grandson but also grea great gr daush daughter, the elderly thrill seeker took the plunge. with three generations by her side, the daring geat grand mother led her family to a soft landing. it was a safe landi a of course that's allhat matters, right? >> you would have a heart attack tomorrow if i did that. >> just thinking about it. >> would you do it? >> yeah, no. not going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. not if i don't have to anyway. >>> i'm christina brown, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on younbc station. >>> our time right now is 4:54. we have 72 degrees here in the nation's capitol. good morning. welcome to "news4 today" on this 26th day of august. i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. we begin with breaking news. a lie yacht of the senate, ted kennedy, has died. the news is now making political heavyweights mourn. kennedy was diagnosed in with brain cancer in 2008. this comes the same month of his sister, eunice kennedy. he was the third longest serving senator in histor he as 77 years old. me death of senor t

news4.t >> a grea tip there. thank you. >>> here's a quick reminder if you need a ride home. lyft is offering free rides to help disturb drunk driving. we'll link you to it in our nbc washington app. >>> turning to our weather now, the all important forecast.on jackie menti we may be seeing some severe weather out there. we're o a roll. >> we're looking ahead to what we should expect and when. >> wait and watch what will be happening. if you see mother nature bringing fireworks, you want to make sure you get inside. h wee some showers and storms out there. we're showing some of these mostly into northern virginia accident back toward the blue ridge. some shower activity around fredericksburg. you can see what' all of this is on the light side. we only saw a couple of storms. most of us stay dry. a very unsettled pattern. it is working our way. a dry morning start. mother wi spread storms tomorrow and a good chance of a few severe storms with very heavy rain. we'll time it up for your hou by hour. we'll talk about your chances in your area. >>> we've been working for you, keep

and there you can see the cold aistrea streaming over the grea lakes.here's no significant chanceno for but i can't rule out a little bit of flurry activity during the middle of da so mainly clear skies now. the skies will turn partly to mostly cloudyy.uring the there you can see on future weather a hint of a passing snow shower or two during the course of the day as temperaturesom fa he mid and upper 40s now down into the mid and upper 30s by as early as about 6 or 7:00 this evening. there's your planner fors tomorrow well. more sun but more wind tomorrow and even colder. highs in th 40s today, highs in the 30s tomorrow. what about that weekend snow chance? future weaer extended out into the weekend now. saturday morning will start off dry. might have some sunshine, but close auickly move in snow is likely to be in place by the time the sun goes down on saturday. the best time to accumulat snow will be overnight saturday night into sunday morning. sunday afternoon, the snow should be tapering off by mid to late in the afternoon and it should all be out

a little dip over the grea lakes. cool from new england to the great lakes. but pretty dry. this isn't a weather pattern that you see a lot of wet weather or a lot of big storms. a lot o quick-moving storms with some louds. tt's all we're going to deal with today. we've got cloud comp heading for area was kentucky and also tennessee, down here throughhe great lakes. you're not going to have 100% sunshine but i wouldn't expect a lot of wet weather, either. in this weather pattern. only traveling out west is where you're goin to have issues. san francisco, fine exand a lot of dry areas will see damp weather this week. one of the bigger stories this weekend was the heat continuing near-record highs in areas like little rock and memphis. been an extraordinarily warm year. and that's going to continue. anywhere south of the boundary, that's where it's going to be very much like summer oer the next couple of days. here's how your forecast looks, as i mentioned, summerlike in areas like dallas at 85 today, new orleans georgia at 83. much of alabama, mississippi, arkansas, well abov

no matter the weather, i will be a grea game for sure.une into the2011 nhlinter classic right here on nbc 4. should be an awesome game. >> yeah. two atlanta tlaeshs fans took their love for hockey to a new level. they were married during the intermission last night's game. the mcot walked the bride down theaisle. isn't that romantic? following the wedding, the uple got zamboni rides. the thrash hers went on towin, 3-2. >> the bridal pay is wearing thrashersjerseys. i haveseen it all. >> sports theme wedding. >> that isdedication. >> ti 4:54. >>> coming up, new wys to get fit in the new year. we'll show y what you nee to know to shed the pounds and keep them off. >>> if you plan to drink champagne, we' s [ female announcer ] mostomen in america aren't getting the calcium they need. but yoplait nts to change that. onlyoplait original has twice the lcium of the leading yogurt. at's 50% of the daily value ♪ so pass on the new and we can help close this calcium gap together. to get you started, we're giving away a million free cups at yoplait

grea performance. >> we're missing the most one. chris: comeback of the year. >> obviouslyersonified, bill clton. >> yeah. >>hen he came into the -- i spent a lot of time into the press room tse ds. fortunately i wasn't there when he came back. bill clton walks in andasy as pie for the next hf hour explain what's real lifen shington, in pitics is all about. chris: which is? >> take the deal. >> otherwise you go down the drain. ta the deal. the gestures, whole thing. so happy. >> you can never gorong with bill clinton. joing howard, why not. chris: we'll be right back wi our big question thi week, who had the very best year of everybod you y hav heard his name alady. be right back. chris: welcome back to our annu award show. who had the very best 2016 c13 chris: welcome back to our annual award show. who had the ve best 10? we have four nominees o our own but you may have had others. our four, tea party movement itself, changed wal the flip side, replican leadership in theongress like mitch mcconll and john boemiter. big year for the

the atmospher e up being a grea game for us, and we got ga that. >> the orioles and tigers will me again at camden yar at 12:07 today. theyl p against justin berl. > the front page of the bae sun reads "powerball th exactly what o's fans watc especiallg when the team sc eight runs on the tigers. the paper read, what a start. >>> right now the crowds of pr are dwindling on the sts of hong kong for the fit time in more than a week ju before the midnight de last night. hong kong's governor with the . the protesters wanted him out of offi. the been demonstra for the past several days wanting to candidates to be y th pre- before elections. therd be other reasons as to why we're seeing smaller crow this morning. thers a thunderstm that to clear off the street. also, i the end of a na holiday in china, so a lot of people have to go wo. we're followingl wai to find ou the talks between hong kong's chf executive and the pr will take place. aaro > happeni today, the father of two montgomery county ch askin for help to find his kids. theye bee missing for three wes now. theye last seen with their m

>> that's grea our farmers come from the community. we have a couple guys that we met.lked across to our campus. as i mentioned before, hope gets realized at the ark. they come over, they share tir insights about what they've seen. we get them trained. they start to work in the organic garden. today they're hired farmers for building bridges across the river. >> so this is part of your work force development. >> absolutely, there it is. it's exactly that. this urban farming work force development engine has taken off. the young man who now farms our space often says he had no idea that he would be a farmer in ward 8. but now he's pretty much evgelized others. so we see many more coming to find out about our farm. >> obviously this is a great service in wardow 8 which we kn is a foodes dt. >> we have one store for 85,000 residents. the fact we can provide the food -- and not only that, but provide the education to cook the food. we've partnered with our rtners on campus, d.c. central kitchen and chef t. to help people look inside their bags and make use of that food's in

grea next up, alex s. "hey, beto, if you couldn't be in public service, wwould you do with your time?" damn another fire question. e more of these bad boys and i swear i'm gonna tom cruise's this couch. well, if i couldn't be in public service, i think i'd just go back to my old job of being your aunt's hot boyfriend. you know, the one that makes yo everne go, damn aunt rita, how did you land that? or, if that's not an option, i just star in commercials for just for men, touch of grey. man, i'm aging gracefully. okay, last question. molly b. says, beto, you're known for cuing from time to time. but what's your favorite curse word in the bo? oh god, you know, i appreciate the question but i sworeff rsing because -- so, thanks anyways, molly. [ bleep ] with an extra side [ bleep ]. well that's all the time we have, thanks for tuning in, guys. i'm inspired by each and every one of you and i just got an email,nd i quote, "facebook's code of conduct --" gosh, facebook i'm really darn sorry. except no, i'm not m

garden-variety thunderstorms, not the super cells like they've been coping with in the grea here at national airport on a monday morning, does it feel like summertime this g?mornin 75 deees. here we are just after 4:00 in the morning. southerly breezes have been up all night. ty'll be with us for most of the day today. so most of the i-95 corridor is the mid 70s now. 75 in lorton. 77 for quantico. 77 in baltimore. once you're into the shenandoah valley, it's a bill cooler this morning. even -- a bit cooler this morning. even upper 60s is unusually warm for this time of year. your commute then for today will start off warm anddry. there could be a shower along i-81 as early as noon 1:00 or 2:00. most of us will have to watch the 2:00 to 6:00 time frame. here's more of the severe weather across the southern plains here. still a severe weather threat at this time of the night. remember, this is a long way to our west. only like 2:15 in the morning they're watching for severe weather in far west tes and eastern new mexico. it will be another busy severe weather day out there. for us, t aroundhe

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mom of five we told hi you about on programmerlier this year after graduating neaw school, she got grea. now she's ready for her first case and inspiring america. when this photo went viral back in april, she already had a lot to celebrate. >> it's always been my eam as a young child to become an attorney. >> reporter: graduating from law school, her five kids by her side. champs is a single mom, a high school dropout. t when she was pregnan with her fourth child, she lost her job, her f house, and ther of two of her children to cancer. that's when her pastor encouraged her to go back and get hde ee. she did that and much more. enrolling in law school. her kids banding together to help her through. >> the hardest was the crying. i hate seeing my ther cry. sometimes i wanted to cry but i had stay tough. >> reporter: her son wrote her is letter. >> there is nobody i'd rather have by my side than you. you're my peanut and butter and jelly to my bread, my syrup to my pancakes, i love you. >> reporter: this week, she found out she passed the bar. >> all the hours, all the days, all the t tea

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we struggled but they have a grea defense and i tell you what, i take my hat offo this guy here, de shawn. he challenged me all game and sometimes i need a guy to step up and challenge me. even thoughe's young, he's not afraid to do that and it brings out the best in me. i'm just thankful to have him on my team. >> andrea: you took some hellacious hits, some legal, some not. ow did you wittand it? >> the hits didn't hurt. they were shocking for the most part. sometimes that gets you going into the rhythm of the game. i just hang in there, keep fighting. >> andrea: how vie tat was lesean mccoy to your offense tonight. >> he was great. we got great players on this team. these guys all have dere to be great. that's what you need. if they continue to have that attitude, they'll go down in history books. >> andrea: you want to give your love to this guy. why are you guys able to hook up? why are you back in rhythm so much? >> because we believe in ourselves a believe in our coaches and we'll never give up. we know what we can do. we know we're a great team. going to keep fighting. >> andrea: t

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they look grea 66 is a good example right now. 28 here near dulles airport, same situation. st looks slick. remember those bridges and overpasses always freeze first. and no doubt we' going to have issues with those as the morning commute rolls . 270 father hurley boulevard northbound, southbound no issues. just seeing some of that snow here in the grassy ar same situation, 15 before i-70 there in frederick. in springfield, outer loop of thebeltway, ramp to southbound 95 right side blocked by a crash, inn loop and outer loop of the beltway, no issues. eun? >> melissa, tha you. ro crews were out in parts of northern virginia ahead of this arctic bst treating allhe roads before they became icy. vdot officials were very clear that anything wet on the roads overnight will be ice this morning. so news 4 is on the roads right now checking out the conditions. >> news 4 adam tuss joins us reve now from the road. adam, where you and how sit looking? >> well, we are on fox mill road, aaron, in the okdon slash vienna area. you can see that this road is ig reald shape. melissa was talki

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grea o being with you this wednesday morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. ic may olly be spring, but blizzard conditions are expected to hit the central ains. a potentially record-setting storm is heading for states still suffering from flooding caused from lt month's bomb cyclone. areas of minnesota may see up to two feet of snow by thursday evenin crews atenver international airport say they are ready for they'reng snow, and urging travelers to check with their airlines about possible delays. .> what a me bill karins is tracking it all for us. good morning, bill. >> we have six states with blizzard warnings issued. we have 15 million people that are at risk of seeing the winter storm, including winter storm warnings, advisories andiz the rd warning shown here in purple. and we'll extend those later today in minnesota and wisconsin. re is the snowfall footprint. when we're said and done, it's snowing now in the rockies. today the snow is breaking out in the central plains. but it's this area especially in south dakota, into minnesota, this going to be one

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it will be a grea sad in stotur store. i want to let you know how warm we'll be today.ow to mid-80s. really depending on how much suo we get the back end of today's rain. some evening clearing taking place. you have any dinner plans, they are just fine. your weekend forecast, we have numbers in the low 80 plenty of sunshine on saturday and sunday. the most noticeable difference will bedi that of the hu. as we head into the weekend, we're dropping down into the low 80s. the norm for this time of year is around 88 degrees.ju a bit shy of that. we'll hit that on monday. notice how dry we are through the top and middle of next week. >> thank you. >>> a new recall involved this morning involvie ining takata a bags. >>> chris brown walks off stage afteris concert i florida and immediately arrested. th charges the sinege i had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. i serve in the general assembly and we work together across the aisle to get things done. and that's the way it is at ctca. what fred needed was a management tea not just to have a long-term strategy for quant

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. >> grea story to end our broadcast with.t bue'll check back in quickly with storm team 4 meteorologistdraper. >> now up to 73 degrees out there and warming to 78. a nice day of light winds and more clouds but mostly to partly cloudy skies but it is dry during the day. rain moves a in tonightund midnight. a high likelitod of abou 80% chance to deal with someain tomorrow. but plenty of dry time as well.l have rain around during the morning commute and then some scattered thunderstorms 3 between abo0 and 8:00 p.m. we return to dry weather not only friday, but saturday as well. on sunday some scattered late-day showers and thunderstorms are possible fore fath day. here is your ten-day out look. 70s today and tomorr and 80s and feeling like 70s but beautiful sunshine. mid to upper 80s osaturday and 90s on sunday. it is hot and starting to feel humid out there with late-day thunderstorms possible, erika. >> thank you, ma'am. that it is for "news4 midday." thank you for joining we're back on the air this afternoon first at 4:00. >> get ws and weather updates any time with the nbc washington a

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