a pep talk in every drop. >>> december 14, 2000, wichita, kansas.lanket of new-fallen snow lay over the prairie. it was a deceptively calm start to the holiday season because a crime spree had already begun. two men with guns robbing and terrorizing unsuspecting victims. a baseball coach on his way to the store, a cellist on her way home from a rehearsal. now police were about to get a call concerning yet another attack. and the victims this time, five young friends. at 2:45 on december 15, detective kelly otis was about to call it a night, when something on his police scanner caught his ear. >> there will be a total of four victims. >> when they said they had the four bodies in the field, i went in, told my wife i was home but leaving again and took off and headed to the hospital. >> according to the dispatcher, a survivor who had been shot in the head had given key details to the 911 operator about her attackers. >> one is tall and skinny and had hair like buckwheat and had on an orange and blue sweater. >> the bodies were found near a soccer fiel

the other is in wichita. sometimes it is the zip code that cannot be read. other times the ink has smeared. >> we have become known as scribble specialists. >> close to 1100 workers decipher addresses. they can zoom in on images. >> it is nice if you can get it where needs to go. >> they know or letters to santa are supposed to go. >> we send it to the zip code in alaska. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. kim dacey checking on your morning commute. a couple of accidents in baltimore county. lions gate drive remains closed. in dundalk, german hill road, another crash involving a pedestrian. the cleanup from that does continue. we are up to speed on the major roadways. six minutes on 95 northbound between 100 and the beltway. 895 southbound looking good between 9the 95's. the roads are still a little wet. this is old court road. this is 895 at the harbor tunnel. moving just fine both north and southbound. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. good morning. a mild start to the day. 50's around baltimore. c

it's great to be back in wichita.his is my second consecutive book with a strong kansas connection. i don't know what that means, but i seem to be drawn to your state or of leased darker chapters of your history. i'm going to try to be reasonably brief tonight and leave lots of time for questions because this is a topic that tends to arouse a strong feeling and i like to hear those and have some discretion, so please don't be shy when i'm done. maybe if we can dim the lights a little bit for dhaka pictures. is any one near -- great to. i brought some pictures for your entertainment. i have to say first i had a lot of fun writing midnight rising, and one reason for that is i got to spend a lot of time in harper's ferry, which is really my kind of town. it's a very picturesque place where strange things still happen. my first research trip i was on my way to the archives and a park ranger told me there was a john brown beard growing contest going on up the street. [laughter] not a fast paced spectator sport, but still i

wichita and kansas city, the temperatures are not cold enough for you for snow. notice it taps into some of the cold air here, but out ahead of it, there's a lot of warm air. for everyone that suffered through a cold weekend up here in new england, you're warming up as the storm is going to take a lot of warm air from the south. don't forget a chance of strong storms today in texas, too. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. although storms will form later this afternoon into this evening, we could have a long looind line of straight winds. st. louis, some of that wet weather will move your way today. the blizzard is mostly in rural areas. travel will be very difficult in those spots. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> the death of north korea's ruler shakes world markets, the price of gas keeps falling and zinga putters. >>> plus, it was the only film to shine in an otherwise disasterus weekend at the box office. >>> tim tebow looks for another miracle. the packers' run at history comes to an end. and will the

. >>> news comes to us from knsw in wichita, kansas, where in nearby kendall a severe winter storm saw one postal worker saddling up just to get to work. a blizzard buried roads and residents under heavy snow but that didn't stop the postmaster from living up to the traditional mail carrier motto. she rode her horse through two miles of whiteout conditions just so the little town of 60 or so people could get their mail. there you go. >>> i'm lynn berry and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> 4:28 is your time now. it is a chilly morning out there. meteorologist veronica johnson is going to join us in just a moment to tell us about this real winter that is settling in. good morning to you. >> welcome to news 4 today on this thursday, december 29th. we begin with breaking news out of silver spring where university boulevard is shut down right now because of a deadly car accident.. it happened after 3:00 this morning at the intersection of university and herring drive. only one car was involved in the accident. we're told three women were

. >>> news comes to us from knsw in wichita, kansas, where in nearby kendall a severe winter storm sawostal worker saddling up just to get to work. a blizzard buried roads and residents under heavy snow but that didn't stop the postmaster from living up to the traditional mail carrier motto. she rode her horse through two miles of whiteout conditions just so the little town of 60 or so people could get their mail. there you go. >>> i'm lynn berry and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're off to a chilly start. temperatures by dropping into the mid 20's. it will feel better today because the wind is calming down. things are going to feel much better. we have some snow showers making their way back into the mountains. dry conditions today. we will talk temperatures when we come back. there are going to get much better. >> a noticeable cooler 28 degrees on tv hill. a police officer is in shock trauma after a crash on the beltway. >> less than a week to go before

wichita and kansas city, the temperatures are not cold enough for you for snow. notice it taps into some of the cold air here, but out ahead of it, there's a lot of warm air. for everyone that suffered through a cold weekend up here in new england, you're warming up as the storm is going to take a lot of warm air from the south. don't forget a chance of strong storms today in texas, too. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. although storms will form later this afternoon into this evening, we could have a long looind line of straight winds. st. louis, some of that wet weather will move your way today. the blizzard is mostly in rural areas. travel will be very difficult in those spots. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> the death of north korea's ruler shakes world markets, the price of gas keeps falling and zinga putters. >>> plus, it was the only film to shine in an otherwise disasterus weekend at the box office. >>> tim tebow looks for another miracle. the packers' run at history comes to an end. and will the

scott sipel from wichita kansas, wishing my family a merry christmas and happy new year's. year's. >> axelrod: over the course of the year americans will generate 250 million tons of garbage. one man's trash is another man's treasure. especially in fort worth, texas. >> they need blue jeans and tennis shoes. >> axelrod: like so many of us this time of year jeff ferrell has his minds on gifts. gifts for his wife karen, nothing but the best. like this necklace from nieman marcus. >> i wore it to the christmas party. it was the hit of the evening. >> axelrod: but for ferrell, top shelf is the bottom of the dumpster. >> it makes you think about not only our consumption, but what we do with things when we don't want them anymore. >> axelrod: ferrell a sociology professor at texas christain university, is a professional dumpster diver. >> part of my ritual each day of riding and teaching is a two- hour bicycle ride i hit about 50 to 100 dumpsters. >> axelrod: for years he has been a texas sized recycler finding all kinds all kinds of things on his refuse ride. >> it's still has t

. >>> well, this comes to us from knsw in wichita, kansas, where in nearby kendall a severe winter storm saw one postal worker saddling up just to get to work. a bliss saturday rocked becky's town last week burying roads and residents under heavy know, but that didn't stop the postmaster from living up to the mail carrier motto inspired by the pony express. she rode her horse through two miles of whiteout conditions just so the little town of 60 or so people could get their mail. >> you want me saddling up? >> when you say you can't cross the brooklyn bridge through six feet of snow, i'll be saying -- remember that story? >> as you call in sick. >>> i'm lynn berry and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> at a ski resort in germany, you'll be praying for more than just good powder. a church made entirely of ice and snow was erected at the resort, commemorating a church built in a similar way 100 years ago in the same town. the more than 85-foot structure has a tower over 62 feet high and will be used for worship, cultural events and as a to

it is 18 degrees in wichita. considerably warmer than they were last night. but that cold air has sunk all the way down through texas and is going to be moving in our direction and after tomorrow, we'll only see temperatures rising to the 40s during the day. we are thinking there will be enough snow tomorrow night to maybe coat the grass here in the metro area, more significant accumulation out to our west, certainly in the higher elevations. this is where the snow potential will be the greater. where you see the dark blue as our area of low pressure moves up and away from the area tomorrow night. but maybe as close by as the western suburbs here, we could get enough to cover the grass. more significant accumulation out to our west, but you get out toward washington county, an inch or two there and in the mountains, maybe 4 to 7. certainly the higher an elevation you go, the more you will see. east of 95, that's mostly going to be rain. for tonight, more showers are going to develop later. steady temperatures will stay only in the mid 50s. it's been so mild a

we're starting to see the change from rain to snow, from midland out through abilene and north, up to wichita falls, you'll see some snowflakes. here's the cold air. the wind chill this morning is minus 7 here in nebraska. it's the opposite on the east coast. if anything your biggest weather concern is fog this morning, a lot of dense fog in southern new england, down outside of new york city, philadelphia and d.c. so be careful driving with that. there's no wind chill at all for the east coast. so enjoy it, probably a day or two more of this. temperatures, 80s in florida, 70s up through the carolinas, 60s from d.c. new york city near 60. the cold air entrenched, minneapolis to chicago. down in areas of texas today. that's where the transition is. thunderstorms in houston and new orleans, but colder and chilly back in dallas, so aditi, very interesting things going on so far. winter looks to take more of a grip around the country by the weekend. >> we'll brace for it, thank you, bill. >>> all eyes on europe this week. stocks to watch on wall street and even for italian politics, right now thi

cities like kansas city, oklahoma city and wichita, all the snow should stay farther to your north withansas city being the closest to it. so, at least some people will definitely be looking at a white christmas out of this. it's been a very cold weekend, definitely felt like winter, finally, and up through new england, but it will warm up today after a chilly start. we will get back up into the 40s in most cases. chances of showers late in the day, pittsburgh and buffalo. we did see snow this weekend. syracuse picked up an inch, cleveland picked up five inches from lake effect, but still no major winter storms are heading this way, at least through the workweek. by the time we go through this afternoon, also watch out for thunderstorms from dallas to san antonio. now for that little tease. a lot of our computers are hinting that a christmas eve storm coming up through the mid-atlantic and new england, looks like it could be cold enough for one of those surprise -- not a surprise, but when you wake up christmas morning in new england, you may have snow on the ground. >> i like that! >>

and i-35, from wichita to des moines. wet on i-10, along the gulf coast. i-20, from st.ouis to pittsburgh. and i-40, from little rock to nashville. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in kansas city, memphis, chicago, new orleans, and atlanta. >>> the search for a missing little girl enters its fourth day in maine. ayla reynolds was reported missing by her father last weekend. >> now, relatives of the child's mother say they were worried about the girl's safety before she disappeared. abc's duarte geraldino reports. >> reporter: on monday, the maine warden service opened its search effort for a little girl on the banks of a stream a few blocks from her father's home. residents canvassed the neighborhood looking for her. no amber alert was ever issued. >> we were not notified that ayla was missing approximately 10 or 11 hours after she was last seen. >> reporter: some time between 8:00 friday night and saturday morning, she seemingly disappeared. on saturday, her father, justin dipietro, reported that she was not in bed and could not be found. she was last se

take a look at the eastern half of the country. 44 in wichita. 39 in cincinnati. there's no warm air but there's also no frigid air out there. temperatures about where they should be this time of year. that's going to be the trend over the next couple days. expect that to continue for the next few days and into the weekend. high pressure dominating. nice and cool with plenty of sunshine. tomorrow, the highs shift to the east. more sunshine tomorrow. a cool afternoon but rather nice. temperatures at or below the average high. on wednesday, the high moves down to the south. we see sunshine. then it gets nice and mild with temperatures in the 50s ahead of the cold front. the next cold front brings a chance of rain. it won't be until thursday. most of us should stay on the dry side. don't expect it to be a wash out like late last week. this evening, clouds. chilly. we are down to 28 in frederick. maybe i need to redo the numbers a bit. tomorrow morning waking up to cold numbers, 22 in colder areas. 33 in the city. bundle up out there. seasonably cold. hey, it is winte

louis and wichita, and this morning, that cold air, temperatures around denver were some 15 to 20 degrees below zero. watch the temperatures over the next couple hours. as we get into the afternoon here, we will see the numbers fall and the temperatures will fall by early thursday morning, and 40 degrees for a temperature, and then they will continue to head down. i think the cold air will come rushing in a little late to meet up with most of the moisture. the best chance of snow on the backside of the system will be up to the north, around frederick county and loudoun county. >>> occasional showers today. midnight, still some wet weather around the area, and tomorrow we will look at moderate and heavy rain moving through the area, and tomorrow i cannot stress enough, it looks like a soaker across the area where we could pick up an inch or two inches in spots. here is wednesday afternoon around 2:30. anywhere you see shading of yellow, that's moderate rain coming through areas of d.c. and waldorf. and the spots right now that could pick up most of the snow will be west of the blue ridge.

right now, it's 21 in omaha, nebraska. 26 in wichita. that's pretty cold. denver, colorado, 7 degrees. the windchill, minus 6. expected to go down to minus 15. that's the windchill in denver. that cold air is coming our way. first, the mild air ahead of us. 66 in raleigh and 66 in atlanta. the mild air ahead. it brings rain and shower activity during the day tomorrow. not a wash out. you could see the rain for an hour or two at a time. mild with temperatures into the low 60s. here comes the front. mild air to the south. very cold air behind it. here is our second storm beginning to take shape. late wednesday, it is going to move in more rain on wednesday. most of this to the north and west of i-95 should end as snow in some areas. we'll talk about accumulation in a couple days. not a big deal. i don't think it will pose a lot of problems on the road. it could come in time for thursday morning's rush hour. mostly cloudy this evening, nice and mild. 50 to 55 degrees. tomorrow the numbers not dipping too much. a few showers but not a wash out. more showers and

she was born in wichita. her mother grew up in augusta. her father was from el dorado. my kansas roots run deep. my grandparents served during world war ii. he was a soldier in patton's army. she was a worker on a bomber assembly line. together they shared the optimism of a nation that try umped over the great depression and fascism. they believed in an america where hard work paid off. responsibility was rewarded. and anyone could make it if they tried. no matter who you were. no matter where you came from. no matter how you started out. these values gave rise to the largest middle class and the strongest economy that the world has ever known. it was here in america that the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best products on earth. you know what every american shared in that pride and success. from those in the executive suites to those in middle management to those on the factory floor. you could have confidence that if you gave it your all, you would take enough home to raise your family and send your kids to school and have your h

showers just south of wichita. big area of low pressure here. that's the reason for those strong santa ana winds. high pressure to the north. low pressure to the south. those winds offshore, they just drive on down through the canyons from the highest of elevations down the lowest of elevations. those winds, easing off now as that low starts to make its way eastward. that whole weather system will start driving eastward. for us, what you're going to like a lot, is after this nice weekend, temperatures go up at the beginning of next week. then they start to go down. nice for december. when we get the rain, it's going to be a mild rain at the beginning of next week. for the weekend, we stay dry the entire weekend. saturday is the day with all the sunshine. sunday, we get some clouds. warmer conditions around here. your forecast for the evening, pretty nice one. 40 to 47. a starry sky for us. a cold start to the day tomorrow. you're going to need the coat. 24 to 37 degrees. tomorrow afternoon, your high about 51 degrees. another gorgeous winter day

we'll pull this out, in the nation's mid section, it's cold there too, wichita, kansas 27 degrees, 15 nebraska. albuquerque at 20, boise, idaho 16. look at great falls montana, five degrees there right now. and dallas 30 degrees. i mean, you know, there's a lot of cold air in place as we transition into december and the christmas holiday season. satellite and radar for the nation, not particularly active. some cloud cover across the plains and into the upper midwest, but here we've got mostly clear skies, some clouds up to our north, but that system continues to pull out. it'll take the remainder of the clouds with it. the five-day forecast, high today only about 46 degrees under sunny skies, rather breezy. in fact, i'll say gusty this morning, and then breezy later on. tomorrow not a bad day, 49 degrees, that's our average high. chilly over the weekend with highs only in the low- to mid- 40s. that's a look at what's happening with the weather. coming up in about 15 minutes tucker barnes will be here with your next forecast. julie wright joins us now with a look at traffic. julie. rep

host: next up, wichita, kansas. william, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. the reason that pipeline is being piped from canada to fort arthur, texas is that where we mainly export oil from. none of that oil that they claim is going to help our oil security or dependence or anything is actually going to stay here. going to end up heading overseas and out of this country. i get so irritated any time i hear america exporting oil as long as we're importing it from the middle east. i don't understand why our natural resources are being able to be sold by these countries when honestly they don't own them, the united states does. and, also when you turn around and you look at every time i hear these republic conditions lately and any time they hear the word democrat, automatically you're a economist or socialist or anything like that, i served in desert storm. i did my time. so, you know, i believe in the constitution and everything that it stands for, but i don't understand why if you want to talk about croney capitalism that's the thing republican party to a t. h

seven in fargo. 17 in wichita. denver right now is 2 degrees. so the coldest air of the season in the nation's midsection. we'll get some of that. we're for the going to get these single degree or temperatures in the teens but these temperatures in the 30s will work their way with in here. we'll get overnight temperatures in the 30s probably starting on thursday night the way things are shaping up. here is a look at our satellite- radar. plenty of cloud cover and as you can see, points south, we don't have much going on, just the clouds. up to the north, we have some rain showers moving through. there is a heavier bulk of rain off to the west -- west actually and southern portions of west virginia. all of this moving to the northeast. this frontal boundary slips southward and as it does, rain showers continue to move along it. we will have more rain later on today and even for a couple of days. that will kind. get caught up in the mid- atlantic. the jet stream pushes eastward. that is partly responsible for allowing some of that colder air to mo

playing together in the backyard of their new home in the small town of mulvane, kansas, just outside wichitathen, in the blink of an eye, baby jesse makes a sudden move. before his father can reach him, he's gone. it's 7:04 p.m. when jesse's parents call 911, setting into motion a dramatic rescue effort that will soon require more than 50 police officers and firefighters. among them, firefighters dan wegner and tim daneen. >> probably got about ten feet from the hole, and we could hear jesse crying up out of there, and stuck our heads down in the hole and looked at him and sure enough we could see jesse's head and one arm above his forehead kind of protecting his eyes. he just cried. he just wanted out of there so bad. >> oh, your heart sinks. i have a couple children, and all of a sudden, my two kids popped into my head, and you just feel for the mom and dad. now i've got to get in rescue mode here. this is serious. >> crucial to the effort, a fiberoptic camera borrowed from a local company gives rescuers a close look at how jesse is doing. >> you kind of picture in your mind how he's posit

in wichita, kansas, a court-ordered medical exam revealed that birdie jo had a c-section scar and had her breasts with tape. in new york, another scam, another arrest. this one was even covered on television. >> can you tell us why you did this? >> i told you in court. >> can you tell us again? >> just to get a place to stay and food to eat. for the same reason. >> how'd you get away with it? >> well, i look young, and a lot of people tend to believe that i am young. >> what about all those hard-bitten reporters who with tears in their eyes breathlessly told the story in salt lake. >> everybody got suckered, up and down the line. >> reporter: chip got a front-page byline for breaking the story in the "deseret news." >> looking back on it we probably all said to ourselves, we should have known. it was too good to be true. >> all those letters, all those lies. birdie jo had done more than bruised some egos. birdie jo had done real damage. judge oddone, angry now, got ready for an already cynical public to turn its back on needy, itinerant children. >> people were calling from all over t

wichita falls had more than 100 days of 100-degree readings.ionwide, more than 6,000 heat records were broken this year. on average, the u.s. has three or four events every year that are considered major natural disasters. but this year, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration counted at least a dozen such events. based on reports to date, damages are expected to exceed $52 billion. weather around the world showed equal extremes. australia was hit with record flooding followed by one of its worst tropical cyclones ever. floodwaters also ravaged parts of thailand and china, while the horn of africa suffered its worst drought in decades. >> sreenivasan: we have more on this with two experts who watch the impact of weather closely. kathryn sullivan is the deputy director of n.o.a.a., the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. an oceanagropher and former astronaut, she helps oversee noaa's work on weather observation and climate sciences. and jeff masters is a meteorologist with the weather underground website. he joins us fro

she was born in wichita. her mother grew up in augusta. her father was from el dorado.o my kansas roots run deep. my grandparents served duringhe was a soldier in patton's army, she was a worker on a bomber assembly line. and together, they shared the optimism of a nation that triumphed over the great depression and over fascism. they believed in an america where hard work paid off, and responsibility was rewarded, and a a anyone could make it if they tried -- no matter who you were, no matter where you came from, no matter how you started out. [applause] and these values gave rise to the largest middle class and the strongest economy that the world has ever known. it was here in america that the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best products on earth. and you know what? pride and in that success -- management to those on the factory floor. [applause] your all, you'd take enough home to raise your family and send your kids to school and have your health care covered, put a little away for retirement. today, we're still home to the wo

from my father bought my accent and my values from my mother. [ cheers and applause] she was born in wichitaher was from eldorado. so my kansas roots run deep. and my grandparents served during world war ii. he was a soldier in the army. she was a worker on a bomber assembly line. and together they shared the optimism of a nation that triumphed over the great depression and over fascism. they believed in an america where hard work paid off. and responsibility was rewarded. and anyone could make it if they tried. no matter who you were. no matter where you came from. no matter how you started out. [applause] these values gave rise to largest middle class and strongest economy the world has ever known. it was here in america, the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best product on earth. every american shared in that pride and in that success from those in the executive suite to those in middle management to those on the factory floor. [applause] so you can have some confidence that if you gave it your all, you have taken enough to raise your family, send your

we were coming from wichita. and from wichita to here should be about two hours.r many folks. they were gingerly driving around and slipping all over. we're still seeing this morning a lot of fishtailing going on. and the roads really aren't that clear. especially the side roads. they don't have, here in parts of southwest kansas, the trucks and the equipment and the crews, it seems, that they would need. sam? >> yeah, ginger. and the good news, as the storm pulls away from where you are, and works through the northern plains, there's only warm air that wraps around this. that snow leaves us hours from now, completely. it's tapering off now. and the wind and rain will drive east. plenty of warm air to deal with. this is not a snowmaker for any locations. here's where all of the mild air holds in about 71 degrees in some places, all the way through alabama. 60 near atlanta today. and you can see the thunderstorms that will be rolling through there. they're not really severe storms. but they will be fairly strong storms, capable of producing a lot of rain. in the we

fast forward to sunday morning and take a look, back over to parts of 40 and then toward wichita, stillhe situation will be kind of pleasant in kansas city. nice and dry with 49 degrees and 38 degrees with the dusting of snow and an inch or less in some places and 43 in new york, and 63 degrees for a high in atlanta, 49 in billings and 69 degrees in los angeles and 54 in el paso. t.j., your turn. >> reynolds, thank you. we'll see you here shortly at nine minutes part of the hour. a member of congress wants to prevent anyone taking drugs, using drugs, that person should not get unemployment benefits. the republican jack kingsman of georgia is the man behind the bill. he joins me to talk about that. stick around on this cnn saturday morning. [ cherie ] i always had a job, ever since i was fourteen. i could not make working and going to school work. it was not until the university of phoenix that i was able to work full-time, be a mom, and go to school. the opportunits that i had at the university of phoenix, dealing wh profesonals teaching things that they were doing every day, got me to

across the mid-part of the united states, 30 degrees in wichita. 17 in lincoln, nebraska. 0 in fargo,ery cold air in place across the country. here is a look satellite radar composite. we do have some cloud cove right across the plain states into the midwest, great lakes region. no cloud here but i do think that some of those cloud will infiltrate our area late in the day maybe during late in the day and evening hours. forecast for today and the next five days. today, not bad. 51 degrees for your high. then we get cooler again for the weekend into monday. highs only in the mid-40s. that's a little bit below normal. overnight lows in the 20s, 30s in parts of the area. tuesday, we mild up again if i can put it that way. let me just look ahead to the rest of that week. it's going to be chilly straight through the rest of next week as well. that's a look at what's happening in the weather. tucker barnes is in with the forecast. let's go to julie wright right now. we are getting word from v vdot of an accident. still having trouble removing the tractor trailer here. right side of the road

that's the first thing that might catch your eye, places like wichita, south of omaha, be even over to chicago where you're getting rain this morning along miracle mile. meanwhile as you make your way over towards the four corners, you see something different, not the rain but the snow. it is beginning to feel more prevalent, the highest elevations mere talis ski country, great there. flagstaff in arizona, we anticipate the snow is going to pile up in some places, up to a foot of snow in the highest elevations. but that's only part of the story. the second half of the story is the strong winds that will develop over parts of the four corners, some winds topping 50, maybe 60 miles per hour and that's into arizona and back into parts of say new mexico. but southern california, the winds are still strong there again today. santa anas roaring out of the northeast and as they do so, we've got a chance we might see more damage, tree damage, power lines. and with the very low humidity, the critical chance of fire -- again, the fire threat, and speaking of other threats, take a look at that. y

we were coming from wichita. it should take just over two hours. we were well over four hours.ways. we have seen the same thing throughout the morning hours. not just dodge city dealing with this. it stretches up west and northwest toward the colorado state line. sam? >> yeah, ginger. and the good news, if there is good news, as the storm pulls away from where you are, and works through the northern plains, there's only warm air kind of wrapping around this. so, it becomes a rainmaker. that snow leaves us hours from now, completely. it's tapering off now. and the wind and rain will drive east. plenty of warm air to deal with. this is not a snowmaker for any locations. even in northern areas. if you started with snow, you'll go over to rain with this system. here's where all of the mild air holds in about 71 degrees in some places, all the way through alabama. 60 near atlanta today. and you can see the thunderstorms that will be rolling through there. they're not really severe storms. but they will be fairly strong storms, capable of producing a lot of rain. in the west, nice, m

name from my father but i got my accent and my values from my mother. [ applause ] she was born in wichitar father was from he will el dorado. so my kansas roots run deep. and my grandfather and she was a worker on an assembly line. together they shared the optimism of a nation that triumphed over the great depression and they believe that hard work paid off and responsibility was rewarded and anyone could make it if they tried. no matter who you were, no matter where you came from, no matter how you started out. [ applause ] and these values gave rise to the largest middle class and the strongest economy that the world has ever known. it was here in america that the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best products on earth. and america shared in that pride and in that success. from those in the executive suites, to those in middle management, to those on the factory floor. [ applause ] so you can have some confidence that if you gave it your all, you've taken enough home to raise your family and send your kids and have your health care covered, put a lit

degrees boston 24, out to the west, our conditions are -- this is kind of typical for winter time 29 in wichita and let's see 33 albuquerque, cool weather down to florida, tampa 49 and 50s earlier this morning miami. so if you have friend vacationing in miami for christmas holidays they have cool weather there. >>> a look at satellite radar cloud cover moving in rain showers you see out to the west now, out for chicago, should stay to our north. we are not expecting rain this is actually some warmer air trying to push into the area. we will go with partly cloudy conditions today, a lot of clouds during the course of the afternoon here we should be dry and we've air on the way afternoon highs, mid-40s and then bounce into the mid- 50s starting tomorrow, and nice temperatures and sunshine stick around for the weekend look at saturday and first day of the new year, sunday, temperatures in the mid-50s much colder by the way early next week highs tuesday and wednesday only 30s. start to feel like winter time next week. >> that is a look at your forecast, on time traffic and lauren demarco. >>> there

louis, 31 in omaha, 30 minneapolis, 37 wichita got to mention miami, 71 degrees there. all right here is a look at the national map frontal boundary rainfall all along the front extending from new england, down to central texas. by the time it gets here some of that rain breaks up showers this afternoon and this evening but i don't expect heavy rain or anything like that. here is your forecast today, next 5 days, 60 degrees today, with some afternoon and evening showers a little breezy late showers possible, tomorrow particularly from washington to points south, saturday and sunday cooler in the 40s. monday, sunshine, and 50 degrees for your high that is a look at the weather more coming up in a little bit. >> good deal let's check with julie wright. >> we have some serious problems on the roads. tyson's area where we find our crew in sky fox. outer loop of the belt way, after the dulles toll roads this where you are going to find some traffic able to squeeze by the scene of this accident almost in that construction area where they have been working for quite some time

she was born in wichita. her mother grew up in agus -- in augustus. her father was from el dorado.ndfather served during world war ii. he was a soldier in patton's army. she was a work on a bomb assembly line. together they haded the optimism a nation at triumphed over fascisim. hard work paid off and responsibility was reward and anyone would make it if they tried, no matter who you were, no matter where you came from, no matter how you started out. [applause] and these values gave rise to the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known. it was here in america that the most productive workers, the most innovative companies turned out the best products on earth. you know what? every american shared in that pride man that success. from those in the executive suites to those in middle manage to the those on the factory floor. [applause] soy could have some confidence if you gave it your all you would take enough home to raise your family and send your kids to school and have your healthcare covered. put a little away for retirement. today we are still home

they are building the b-29 in wichita.alk to one of the machinist and he said the engineers would leave on a yellow legal pad drawings the night before and we would machine them all night long by just looking at the drawing. we could figure out, these were farm boys he knew how to do this kind of thing. they did nothing left to save the world and it was not just the americans obviously. the brits holding the line originally and then the russians pushing the germans back. then i came home and they want to college in record numbers and built new industries. they gave us do our did news fives and built states like texas and california. got married in record numbers, went to college and then set about the 19 50s to achieve prosperity none of them believed they could have. and they resisted some of the changes but in fact is i remind people betty friedan was a member of "the greatest generation." she began to change the attitude about women in america. and the african-americans who served came back and that became the foundatio

mainly rain for oklahoma city and wichita. powerful of that will drop temperatures 20-30 degrees overnight. so santa fe, 35. roswell, 52. you can see the leading edge of that of. 46 in amarillo. 20 as the overnight low heading into the next couple hours. but looking at our future radar. it will be a quick mover. traveling will be impossible the next several hours. alisyn: for more on this winter storm, our affiliate reporter krqe's aaron schwartz is in las vegas, new mexico. tell us what you are seeing there. >> reporter: don't look for life here. 60-mile-per-hour winds and blizzard conditions expected to start. we are in a snow low. right now we are on i-25. it is closed. no access northbound and southbound. this is a major thoroughfare from people traveling from santa fe to albuquerque and denver. you can see cars lining up hoping for conditions to get better and they can get on the interstate' it has been closed for a few hours. we have sheriff's deputies and state police telling people you better find another way around. t