but atlantic canada, you could see a significant blizzard. quick look at boston, of course, where the heck is spring? wednesday in the 30s. we could get several inches of snow for boston. the good news is as we head into the weekend, 50s and 60s in new york city. so there's your silver lining. >> that's where the heck it's been. >> hopefully, fingers crossed. >> how strong are those winds off the shore? >> winds, gusts over 100 miles per hour. could be stronger than hurricane sandy. mainly offshore. of course, we'll keep you posted. a little more to the east or west could mean more snow, more winds for us. >> that's true. >> oh, dear. all i got from that was cold, cold. >> cold and stormy. >> thank you, janice. >> we asked who's sitting on the fence in your life. >> that's right. your best tweets coming up next. hey kevin...still eating chalk for hearburn? yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! the exped

it's now affecting the new england states and atlantic canada with blizzard conditions, as well. within the next 24 hours things will be clearing up in the northeastern u.s., and temperatures will be gradually warming up in to the weekend. look at this. washington, d.c. is going to be 4 on wednesday for the high. jumping up to 17 degrees on your friday. warmer than average temperatures. in the mid teens finally in philadelphia on thursday, as well as friday. now finally over asia, quite settled over the northern areas of china, but air qualitywise it's not good. and in fact, air quality is at the hazardous level in the beijing area at this moment. clear weather for the korean peninsula but rain is coming down over the southern half of japan. thunderstorms likely for the pacific coast. will likely linger into the tokyo area by tomorrow morning. warm weather will continue into the next couple of days across much of east asia. tokyo 23. more like may. and still over 20 degrees going into the rest of the work week. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this hour on "ne

degrees, but the heaviest of the snow will come across coastal portions of massachusetts into atlantic portions of canadaagain, blowing drifting snow the major concern. back to you del. >>> loosely translated, the next time you see a ground hog you know exactly what to do. thank you forzeera america. i'm del walters in new york. "the stream" is next. and check us out 24 hours a day by going to aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> hey, i'm wajahat ali, and you are in "the stream." hooungs -- houston is grappling with another oil spill and alaskians are looking back on the last exxon valdez disaster. ♪ >>> lisa fletcher is out on vacation, but we have my man julio stepping in talking to our

tracks are pushing the storm across the sea and strengthening and developing and impacting atlantic portions of canada the coast, we could be seeing snow. in the nation's capitol and philadelphia and up to new york city also boston. it is going to be cold and certainly we are watching this system developing. >> that can't be correct, haven't you seen the calendar. it is supposed to be spring. >> it is supposed to be. >> that is the show. thank you for watching al jazeera america. is >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i am jonathan betz with a quick look at today's top stories. three people are dead and 18 others are still missing after a massive landslide at washington state emergency workers tried to reach an areas where crew bulletin crews heard cries for help but the mud was so thick, workers were forced to turn back. >> crew bulletin crews in texas are trying to hit bulletin clean up an oil spill. around 160,000 gallons could have spilled from a cracked tank. >>> the united states bulletin u.s. department of health and shoe bulletin human services says they are expecting a search bulletin search b

we would not develop the tar sands in canada, but we wouldn't open up the south atlantic to new drilling way this administration is allowing, and we wouldn't drill, obviously, in the coastal plain of the arctic refuge. those are important choices but choices we have to make if we're serious about avoiding disasters like the exxon valdez and deepwater horizon oil spills. so these are difficult choices but, again, we think we're up to it as a nation. we need to lead on these issues. so hopefully if we do all those things, we save the planet, and we won't have to come back here in another 25 years lamenting oil spills that have happened in the future. so with that, i think we just want to wrap it up and open it up to any questions you guys have. >> so -- [inaudible] houston chronicle. the discussion about the technology and prevention of oil spills and accidents to the extent that we do drilling and continue doing drill anything sensitive areas, looking at the arctic the regulators are developing, you know, are developing arctic standards, seem to be taking a very long time, and the indicat

absolutely crucial juncture from an economic standpoint the routes to the atlantic in the entire development of the interior of canadadepends on being able to get past that point. of course the french recognize that and they want to use it to get independence for themselves. and the recalcitrance to any economic projects that would benefit the interior and ultimately a french-canadian up rising in 1837 that led the british to decide they had to create a new political system of high centralization that democracy but also with checks and balances. they couldn't get british citizens to migrate to canada to help develop the interior if it was and to a talk or see but they met needed to be limited because the french were inherently not in agreement with the aspirations of the british government and needed to be effectively diluted in terms of their impact on economic policy politically. the canadian constitution is basically a mechanism for diluting french resources. first of all let's talk about democracies. democracies tend to have very low at expropriation so they have a lot more credit typically. some democracies howe

junction in the country from an economic standpoint, quÉbec, the route to the atlantic, and the entire beloved i think you're a canadapends on being able to get past that point. and, of course, the french recognize that and they want to use it to get independence for themselves. so it was actually an experience with this early system and the french canadian recalcitrance to any sort of economic projects that would benefit the interior and ultimately a french canadian a price in 1837 that let the british to decide have had great a new political system of high centralization but democracy but also with checks and balances. they couldn't get bridge citizens to migrate to canada to develop the interior but they needed it to be a limited democracy because the french were inherently not in agreement with the aspirations of the british government and needed to be effectively diluted in terms of their impact on economic policy politically. the canadian constitution is basically a mechanism for diluting french influence. coming to the end now, some quick takeaways from what i can tell you. of course, this is just scratching t

sovereignty the north atlantic treaty organization is to me later that sunday and brussels to discuss the matter by eu ministers are to hold an emergency session on monday another development canada says it's pulling its ambassador from moscow over the crisis. meanwhile on the saturday the un security council held its second emergency session over at the tensions. ukraine's a un ambassador asked members to stop the aggression against his country saying that the number of russian troops already inside ukraine is increasing every hour. un sec gen bonding would have spoken with the butter content and here's what he had to say about the conversation. see the movements and i'm gravely concerned by some of the recent events. i've taken up. four setback with you when you didn't compromise uniquely sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. the disc was shut to restore calm. add prosciutto and the media the escalation of the situation. ford has less to prevail and battle was pg forty tour ending this crisis i appear to present twenty two what does he get into next title with your story is you can. the moscow russian sentiments all runs high in several parts of ukraine several

when we left canada, mind you, this is going back almost 20 years, there was one mri scanner in the entire atlanticn for 4.1 million people. i was floored he would have access to that care. truthfully, not every child with a fracture needs an mri, but the option was there. but just to be fair to the canadian system, they do a very good job at pramary and secondary care, but when it comes to tuckary care, they have care -- >> the kind of care your wife needs would be difficult to obtain. that what worries people about obamacare. it'sigate to have wellness checks and preventive health care, but when you're faced with something like you are, that's pretty troubling. you have demonstrated an extraordinary amount of faith and courage. we appreciate you sharing your story and we pray for a successful outcome in the treatment you're going through. i am glad you got your coverage restored. you don't need that pressure on top of fighting the disease itself. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>> while katherine got her coverage back, she was not able to get her original plan she had before obamacare

of the atlantic coast is content to find dramatically but the next couple of days and then produced a lot of the strong winds for the north east as well as bullies or conditions while on to canada and new england states by wednesday evening said gary missed a teacher for both sides of the few to think and act and temperatures are going to be quiet will for the north east only minus the high in chicago on tuesday to meet increasing your speed and wednesday eight minus six the crease with our temperatures on the same day now finally over europe we have a couple of assistance one is of thinking idea of your income is high in france with heavy snow showers and heavy rainfall as well as very strong winds. whatever funnel cloud over kobe shaq has a large hill in the country. missy for the central part of the magic of reading as well. instead of going to be two centimeters while one area the conditions and ninety km north of the likely as not to consummate a couple trees is almost crawling. and temperatures are not that innocent when the western part of the euro. we want to cross the teeth and he retreated into thinking this week of rainy weather. mom's got it into place but plenty of

happening in the united states and in australia and canada would know that there are too many problems to go forward with this at this time. across the atlantic the e.u. parliament has voted for time for environmental checks on oil and gas exploration but it's clearing shale gas this has angered green politicians who insist leaving out franking represents a major setback among european countries it's britain and poland who are pushing most aggressively to develop the industry with spain and romania following their lead yet other states like germany france and bog area have decided to put a hold on it. lumbered says turning a blind eye to fracking will backfire on the u. . unfortunately agreement we managed to get from parliament with our member state governments leaves out that compulsory element it's still very much up to the individual member state how they're going to do that and we think that that's a real error this is why we think this failure to really make environmental impact assessment compulsory for shell gas development is a real lost opportunity in the european union. so ahead for your not international why brits mortified overfu

. >> the coldest spot in the whole country, the mid atlantic up to the north-east, behind the weather system bringing in the colder air from canada. the winds abated. but washington d.c. colder than billings. in record territory, new york 23. the record is to. we are at least in that. if you feel cold, you are not acknowledging it. the wind abate. we'll see through the course of the day the mid section of the country warming up, fuelling the severe weather that we'll see later today. >> thank you. it's a ruling that could revolutionize college sports. a federal agency decided that football players can create a union of college athletes. erica. this is unprecedented. >> it is, and could have national implications. it centres around a school attorney for the players behind the case argues that college football is a commercial enterprise relying on labour to generate billions in profit. >> ladies and gentlemen, you are in north-western wildcats. >> in a game-changing position a national game relations board found north-western footballers qualify as employees, meaning they have the right to unionize. the scholarships, compensation,