. >> accuweather's justin povick joins us with the latest. good morning. >> diane, kendis. good morning to you, as well. we're tracking a big system over the south plains. later on today, there could be more tornadoes, reports of damaging winds and also large hail. that's in oklahoma city to dallas. further north and west, heavy snow impacting denver with up to half a foot before it's all said and done. showers continuing throughout the northeast causing delays from new york city to d.c. diane, kendis, back over to you. >> our thanks to justin at accuweather. vice president joe biden wrapped up his surprise visit to iraq. right now he's heading to rome set to deliver a speech on his cancer initiative at the vatican today. the vice president will not discuss stem cell resear international diplomatic trip but a high school field trip interrupted by a frightening incident on an illinois highway. the engine of this charter bus caught fire as it carried a spanish club everybody champaign, illinois to check chicago. a replacement bus eventually got them to chicago. the cause of t

accuweather's justin povick joins us with the latest. >> good morning, justin. >> thanks. and good morning to you, as well. as we come to a near close for the workweek, we've still got friday, of course. it looks like our weather's going to be turning quite wet througut soaking showers throughout the afternoon. even some rumbles of thunder further off to the south toward dc and charleston. dry air holds for another day into northern new england. severe weather chances are increasing again over the south plains. late today into tonight. that's from dallas to amarillo, large hail, damaging winds a huge concern here. i'm thinking as we edge toward friday, perhaps an even larger area of severe weather with attorneys now possible. again over the south plains. diane, kendis? >> justin, thank you. >>> turning now to the race for the white house and donald trump unveiling his foreign policy plan. trump read from a teleprompter and refrained from off the cuff, remarks, a rarity. he vowed to put american interests first defeat isis and rebuild the military, but he was kind of short

accuweather's justin povick joins us with the latest. good morning, justin. >> thanks, good morning to you. looks like wet weather chances are ramping up again for the northeast later on in the afternoon. york city, philadelphia and d.c. the dry air will hold, though, into north of new england. thunderstorm chance returning to the south plains later on this afternoon into tonight, again, that's from dallas on westbound, large hail, damaging winds and very heavy rain possible. diane, kendis, back to you. >> we have breaking news from north korea now. what's believed to be a missile could one day reach u.s. bases in asia. has crashed during a test launch. it's the second failure of this kind in the last few days. >>> an american flight had to make an emergency landing after a midair collision with the bird. strong enough to leave a crater on the jet's nose. that measured two feet across. bird strikes as you know fairly common. this one seemed more serious than usual, so the pilot decided to warn air traffic controllers. >> it looks like we

. >> accuweather's justin povick joins us now with the very latest. good morning, justin. >> diane, kendis, thanks and good morning to you, as well. we're tracking a big storm system over the south plains. later on today i think there could be more tornadoes, reports of damaging winds and also large hail. that's from oklahoma city to dallas. further north and west heavy snow impacting denver with up to half a foot before it's all said and done. showers also continuing throughout the northeast causing travel delays from new york city to d.c. diane, kendis, back over to you. >> our thanks to justin there. >>> the fda has granted commercial tests for the zika virus. until now patients asking for zika virus blood tests had to go through government health departments. well, now this new test developed by quest diagnostics should be available to doctors across the u.s. in the coming week with results available in three to five days. >>> three people with ties to the couple responsible for the terror attack in san bernardino are in federal custody this mornin

. >> let's check in with justin povick joining us with the latest. >> thanks and good morning to you. we are tracking more severe weather in the south plains later on today. again, many of the hard hit areas from just a couple of days ago. tornadoes, all those modes of severe weather again possible along with very heavy rain which could trigger more flash flooding. lots of tropical moisture meeting up with dry air. much of oklahoma and texas will be under the threat zone this afternoon and also into tonight. northeast, the showers much wider. they will be problematic in terms of causing slippery conditions travel delays along the 95. more rain this weekend with the severe weather continuing in the deep south. back to you. >> thank you. >>> turning now to politics and what was a wild scene outside a trump rally in southern california. >> hundreds of protesters jammed the streets in costa mesa last night. they stomped on squad cars, hurled rocks and blocked a highway entrance ramp as police in riot gear swooped in. many of them were protesting trump's stance on immigration. inside the r