bill karins returns. stay with us. >>> president obama declared five oklahoma counties major disaster areas and has spoken with the state's governor to offer assistance from the federal government. nbc's tracie potts joins us with more. good morning. >> reporter: richard, good morning. his message to the governor was if you need anything moesh whre what we're sending, call me directly. new information from the white house includes management teams, urban search and rescue teams, support, assistance teams, disaster assistance teams for people who have lost loved ones and lost homes in oklahoma. now, that's from fema, the federal emergency management agency. the president will be speaking later this morning, and we've learned that he is also going to be sending fema director craig fugate to oklahoma to oversee that effort. the small business administration is getting involved. they've got damage assessment teams already on the ground to try to help those families get back on their feet. and survivor assista

this is going to be the best week in the pacific northwest. >> listen to bill karins. it's a heat day for you. people have snow days in the east. they've got heat day there in seattle. >> at least a three-day weekend. >> i'd take it. looks beautiful. >>> "downton abbey f" fans, they're working on an entire range of products to be released this year. official apparel, homeware, stationery and furniture. bill's going to get some of those old hats. >> the dresses. >> i didn't want to say anything there. jamie foxx has been offered the daddy warbucks role. fox's name will not actually be daddy warbucks. the character's updated name is benjamin stacks. you get that, $100 bill. >> nah. >> what would you pick, then? >> i don't know. i'm not that creative. >> we've got time. another two minutes. the paramedics who tried to revive michael jackson was called as the first witness in the ongoing wrongful death case, recalling the scene in chilling detail. the paramedic said jackson clearly had not been breathing for a long time and resembled someone who was, quote, at the end stag

i'm richard lui along with bill karins. you have a good weekend. >>> break news, flames rerupted in a well known san francisco restaurant this morning and what we are hearing from the crews on the scene. >>> and we are also following the break news that could affect your commute. b.a.r.t. is experiencing major delays. mike will have all of the delays. >>> out in force as police crews are expected to be out in the streets. >>> and a man from cupertino and what his wife is telling us. >>> and high fire danger as the temperatures are going to rise. hot wind and weather expected to increase. that danger all over the bay area. we will have a look at that change in the forecast.

. >>> nbc's bill karins is here. bill, more cold and rain for the northeast. what is going on? >> the northeast and northwest. the two corners of the country are just kind of fridged headed into the holiday weekend. the way it's set up there, it's not pretty. we had one to two inches of rain in areas especially north and west of the portland area. and it's still raining this morning. the white on the map is even some snow in the higher elevations of the cascades. that's i-5 for you right there headed into portland northwards. just on the slopes headed up into the mountains. there's the cold upper-level low spinning over top of seattle at this time. it's ever so slowly going to move to the northeast during the day today, but it's going to take a while. and it brought chilly air with it. it's 45 this morning in boise. we're at 49, a pair of them in portland and seattle. so it's definitely some jacket weather. even san francisco is at 49 to start your morning. how does your forecast look for your getaway friday? we're okay in california although it's on the cool side. that on-shor

i'm richard lui with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a great monday. . . >>> breaking news, a shooting on the peninsula kills a teen and wounds two more. we'll have the details next. >>> we also have new video out of the midwest of the cleanup following a string of tornadoes there. we will have the latest details on the rescue efforts coming up. >>> the new worries on the bay bridge that have experts thinking a major quake could turn deadly. >> new details about the bay area woman accused of setting a hillside fire, putting several homes out there in danger. >> welcome to monday morning as we take a live look outside at the illuminated bay bridge, monday, may 20th. this is "today in the bay."

you hurt my feelings. >> that sounds like bill karins.e has faced taunting, prance threatening injuries, but ridicule, ha, take you this, unbelievers. prancercizing is viral. it involves ankle weights, a spri springy rhythmic way of forward. this was created back in 1989. >> she seems to be in good shape. who are we to judge. >>> time to dig deeper into our top political stories. joining me is kevin sorilla. let's start with poll numbers, a new poll found that obama's approval is down to 45% from 48%. what do you think are the key factors driving the numbers? >> i think independents are the key factors. among independents he has a 57% disapproval rating versus 48% -- that's down from 42% just a month earlier. i think that independents with these three controversies surrounding the white house now are driving these numbers down. >> now, john mccain is making headlines after a secret trip to syria. he wants the u.s. to arm rebels there. is he being too hawkish or hasty on the issue? >> i think john mccain has been consistent on his stance o

and we're joined by bill karins. is it unusual for them to stay put like that? >> usually they move a little bit. they can stall out for a long period of time is very unusual. and yesterday we had another big one. that was a large one, seems like a significant one that went through the good rich area of michigan. but thankfully, i haven't heard of any serious injuries or fatalities from the 18 tornadoes yesterday. so that is great. but today, i don't think we're going to be quite as lucky. it's a very dangerous day in the central plains, one of the days where they're telling the residents of kansas, oklahoma, and texas, make sure you have your tornado plans in place. review them with your family, you have to get underground, know to get your family to safety. if you have friends or family in the area, this is a moderate risk of severe weather, this is where we could experience those big, strong tornadoes that happen a couple of times every year. hopefully they'll be in rural areas, but if they're not, we have to be prepared. and this does include the population

. >> bill karins here with us now. you were speaking with one of the residents down that way, too. >> it doesn't matter how many times you see this stuff. the power, you can't fathom it. it's like me stepping on my kids' legos, disintegrates. this is why it was called an ef-4. this used to be where a house was located. that house just removed. that usually happens with at least ef-4 or ef-5. estimated winds up to 200 miles per hour. path length was almost three miles long and about half a mile wide. incredible stuff. now, afar as the west goes, a weak storm moved through yesterday. temperatures have cooled off dramatically in many areas of central california. we're still rather cool in the northwe northwest. we've even got clouds down around san diego. there is light rain this morning. a lot of it's avoiding the cities. i-5, you'll be in and out of showers today. not horrible. temperatures cooler. even l.a. only right around 70 expecting severe weather. bakersfield and yuma, the two warmest spots on the map. >>> unfort

i'm richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. . . >> what was supposed to be a joyous celebration turned tragic. members of a bridal party caught in a deadly limousine fire. we will hear from the driver. >>> police out in force in downtown san jose frying to keep cinco de mayo celebrations from boiling over >>> what said to be an israeli rocket hitting syria. what capital lawmakers pushing the president to do. >> right now, we will push our cameras outside for a live look spanning over san francisco. quite the way to start the week. it is monday, may 6th. this is "today in the bay."

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thank you, bill karins. >> where have all the beer drinkers gone?ve got surprising new stats. >>> we'll show you what's called the most racist commercial in history. >>> a foreign country is beefing up their air power with a multibillion dollar purchase of 100 f-35s. "early today" is back in two. >>> welcome back to "early today." the fbi is looking for these three men in a possible connection with the september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. investigators say they were on the grounds that day but not considered suspects. >>> the first american settlers turned to can balancism during the winter of 1609 and 1610. the skull of a 14-year-old girl found near jamestown settlement had cuts that are consistent with butchering for meat. >>> heavy rain caused massive mudslide in florida with mud in this home piling up as high as four feet. luckily no one was home. >>> may day protests in seattle turned violent with police. using pepper spray and flash bombs to disperse the crowds. rocks were thrown at law enforcement. it was one of multiple p

i'm richard lui along with bill karins.s for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good wednesday. >>> new images of the devastation of moore, oklahoma this morning. young children simply socked by what today found when they emerged from shelter. we'll have the latest details. plus -- >> families have lost homes. trs nothing out there. it's defensive station. >> we hear from a man who lived in the area when the tornado struck. >> and a live look outside. golden gate bridge. it's wednesday, may 22. this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area this is "today in the bay." >> good morning.

i'm richl richard lui along with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day on this nb . . >>> new this morning, british prime minister, david cameron, just spoke minutes ago, about a deadly terror attack on the streets of london. the new details we are learning about the brutal killing next. >>> also, we finally have some answers. the new details we are learning about the shootout that killed two santa cruz police officers. >>> looking for your help. the chp needs to talk to you if your commute takes you to livermore. >>> right now, he we take you live outside. that is a look at the bay bridge. we are talking about san francisco. indeed, we are getting closer to the weekend. it is thursday, may 23rd. this is "today in the bay."

i'm joined by bill karins and richard lui. there's a yearly occurrence in new york?you've never seen before. the cross streets in new york city, we don't get sunsets for the most part except two times of the year. yesterday was one of them. if you positioned yourself down the cross streets, this view from 34th and 42nd street are the best, you get the sunset in between the skyscrapers. pretty cool. it has been stopping traffic. more and more people are finding out about it. it happened twice a year. >> the sun even moves faster in manhattan. >> moves in a new york minute. >> that's beautiful. we rarely see natural beauty. >> the next is july 13th. >> so they're pretty close together. richard, you spoke to college graduates? >> i was doing a commencement speech at ccf, i had them all do the harlem shake. >> no you didn't. >> yeah, there they are. all 500 plus students. >> they did it? >> the parents in the stand were like what's going on here? >> the harlem what? >> are you taking this video? >> i am. >> i take exception to the fact that you told them do it but that y

. >>> for more on the weather we're joined by nbc's bill karins. is that part of the country facing any more dangerous storms in the next few days? >> not any time soon. they are getting a break. a good time for the cleanup and figure out what happened and where we go from here. the scientists were all on the ground yesterday giving us the details of how intense they thought this tornado was. this was a map literally put out by the national weather service in norman, oklahoma. four surveyors on the ground, teams of two. and they did find that it was ef-5 damage as we've told you there at the briarwood elementary school. max winds of 200 to 210. the blue coloring is where it was ef-0. ef-2 in yellow. the intensity changed dramatically as the tornado was on the ground. these storms are always evolving. it was an ef-5 for a very short period of time. notice the bright red. that's when it was ef-4. almost the worst of it in the strongest this tornado was was unfortunately when it was right over the most populated areas there right around moore, oklahom

right now bill karins, if we have him.talked about it a little bit in our last block, about the history. i got my tornados wrong, you corrected me. give us a sense of how this storm compares to the other big tornados. we think of joplin, we think of what happened in 1999. >> in our lifetimes this is right up this. i mean, right up there with joplin which i thought we wouldn't top for a long time. we didn't top -- it was 1947, the tri-state tornados, until joplin. that's how long we went until we had one that was considerably big like that. joplin goes down as the most expensive tornado ever too, $2.8 billion was the insurance estimates on that one. and that's top worldwide all-time. the moore tornado in 1999 is also in the top six. we've only had six billion-dollar tornados in the world history. this one's going to be a billion dollars, imagine that. we've only had seven, two of them went through moore, oklahoma. that's how random this is. like winning the power ball twice in a row. the odds of moore, oklahoma, being hit b

nbc's bill karins has been up all night tracking the severe weather. bill, good morning. do we have risk of other tornados developing in the next few days? >> yeah, we could sit here and talk about this moore, oklahoma, tornado forever. it was just that historic, will go down in the record books. there's no time to really think about it now. we need to try to save more lives possibly today with another severe weather outbreak. the recap of yesterday, we ended up with about 16 preliminary reports of tornados. again, the main one that did all the damage was the one in moore, oklahoma. the one up there in missouri was also a little bit on the strong side. here's a look at the tornado path that we dealt with. now, this is actually a comparison of the path back in '99 that went through moore, the ef-5. and also what we dealt with yesterday which will most likely be an ef-4 high end or ef-5 when they make the final determination in the days ahead. but the green track was the one that went just to the north side of moore. that was in '99. and the one yesterday went just to the s

bill karins, thank you so much for the very latest. and of course we hope the best as they go through what they have to today on the ground. back to chellie mills who is staying with us. how are they preparing for the day ahead there in moore as they continue the certainly and rescue based on these estimations what the weather will be? >> i think that we're all just hoping he's wrong honestly. i don't know that they can handle that right how. it's one of these things, i've been in oklahoma for a long time. i grew up here. i worked in the market for a long time. and it never ceases to amaze me the damage of a tornado. they rebuild, they stick together, they help one another. but right now, these people need help. and they don't need more storms. they really need to be able to get into their homes to save what they can. also to just begin it that process of rebuilding. and i believe it not only causes fear, but it just causes discouragement and it makes people wonder when am i going to be able to move on. i don't want to just go through

bill karins is back with another look at this severe weather. i understand more is possibly on the way. >> today could be just as bad as yesterday. yesterday was amazing. if you were watching the helicopter pilot in oklahoma city flying as the huge tornado was on the ground. it was incredible stuff and broadcast there live on the weather channel and in the oklahoma city area. today widespread severe weather everywhere in yellow has a chance of severe storms but area of red that has the greatest chance of seeing more tornadoes. more specifically we're looking at tornadoes forming late this afternoon, early this evening somewhere with supercell thunderstorms near oklahoma city, wichita falls and storm motion across interstate 44 and across interstate 40. those are the big interstates that will be in the way. tulsa and by the time the storms get to arkansas and southern missouri, we'll watch for widespread wind damage. again, we could have more big strong tornadoes on the ground live on tv later on this afternoon into the evening. that's your natio

thankfully, residents were unharmed. >>> nbc's bill karins is here with the forecast. this is crazy weather. >> yeah, that was another big tornado yesterday. it picked up huge hay bales that weighed hundreds or maybe thousands of pounds and tossed them. thankfully it was over the farmers' fields. no fatalities. we have another classic setup with the warm, muggy, humid air coming off the gulf of mexico. the storm that went through the west coast on memorial day has now arrived in the central plains. along with it, a fast jet stream. we'll have an area of severe weather in yellow and an enhanced area of severe storms and the possibility of strong tornadoes in the area of red from kansas to oklahoma. and that unfortunately does include the oklahoma city area, norman and also that moore, oklahoma, area. it's the first threat they've had since the big one almost two weeks ago. as far as the west coast goes, a new storm has moved in overnight, and rain has moved in with it. this one will move up along the oregon coastline into washington state during the day today. this rath

bill karins, nbc meteorologist, you see stuff like that just charging through the doors like that. >> that's a perfect example of a flash flood. that's what you'd see in a canyon, like in arizona or las vegas or somewhere. >> and the power of the water right there just bringing down the doors. >> looks like a levee must have broken loose. well, we have an unsettled forecast for one more day in the northwest. then your reward weather goes all the way out through the weekend. first, yesterday we did have more severe weather. we had 23 tornadoes. thankfully, didn't have any injuries and didn't have any fatalities. none of them hit any big population centers. that was fantastic. a lot of cleanup from the damaging winds. what's left of those thunderstorms is now raining hard over areas of kansas and into missouri. i'll tell you what, one of the biggest rivers in the world, definitely the biggest in our country, the mississippi river is going to see a major flood as we go throughout the next week and a half. maybe a top five all-time flood for areas there just north of st. louis. that's goi

. >>> nbc's bill karins is here with a look at your tuesday forecast. good morning to you. and we hope it's a little nicer. it's been good. what am i saying? >> in the northwest it was great. california wasn't quite as nice or our friends in nevada. temperatures, as i said it yesterday, seattle had a chance of being the hottest spot of any major city in the country. it was 87 in seattle. you smashed your record high which was 79. unfortunately, your friends in phoenix wouldn't cooperate. and they decided to tie you at 87 degrees. still quite a feat there that it was about ten degrees warmer in seattle than even las vegas. here's a map of the united states. a little differing view. we call it an x-ray of the atmosphere. it shows you the amount of moisture in the air. we have three cutoff storms, one in atlanta, one over the plains and one over california. these are very slow moving. actually, the one over atlanta is the same one that produced the snow last week in the midwest. so the one over california still kind of a broad cutoff low. spinning right over coastal areas of c

. >>> now for a look at the national weather we turn to bill karins. >> the snow and then the fires in the west. it's a lot of extremes out there. it continues this morning. it's snowing in six states on may 3rd. that's crazy. it's never happened before. the temperatures are still very cold in the midwest. still snowing in rochester, minnesota, where they picked up a foot yesterday. it's still snowing outside of des moines 37 they had snow in omaha and des moines and as far south as arkansas overnight down there in the ozarks. there's a the lot of heavy rain for our folks in north florida. if we're dealing with flooding concerns, the biggest concern will be areas near st. louis and down to the boot of missouri. estimates up to three to four inches of rain. you can see the heavy rain south of jackson around daytona beach area. we could see a lot of heavy rainfall also. the forecast, the kentucky derby on nbc this weekend, maybe some showers. >> thanks so much. >>> do you want to know how to measure real happiness? we'll tell you how. >>> plus warren buffett did something yesterday that

bill karins joins us now with a look at the tuesday forecast. that's a whole lot of money. >> that's a whole lot. >> we could do a lot with that, couldn't we? >> have you seen the powerball lately? a few areas are going to get wet. midatlantic especially. still dealing with cloudy, gloomy weather. you had rain yesterday in virgina. more moving through from richmond northward. good chunk of rain from delmarva region. starting to creep toward washington, d.c. slowly. that will move to the north. eventually all this rain will move up through new england the next couple of days but it's a very slow process. rainfall totals over the next 48 hours. today is mostly d.c. later on tonight, tomorrow in philadelphia and more rain tomorrow afternoon around new york city and hartford. the majority of it today is virg virginia, maryland and delaware. temperatures, pretty seasonable. light jacket this morning for most people. carry it home this afternoon in texas, all the way through the midwest. gorgeous day for you. not bad in florida either with low 80s. ov

bill karins is here with a look at the forecast. it's been rough this week. >> we had a huge tornado yesterday. possibly ef-4 tornado. but it was in a rural area. didn't take out any towns or cities and that's why it's not making big news. they have these vehicles meant to go into these tornadoes. they were on a dirt road and the tornado went right over the top of them. they had a wind gauge on top of the car that registered 150 mile per hour winds when it snapped and broke. so it was at least 150 miles per hour. look how violent. the cars weigh about 10,000 and are designed to go into the tornadoes but it's never been tested like this before. it did not lift off the ground. one door did pop off. there were two people in the car. pretty crazy stuff. we had 14 tornadoes yesterday. we had a little mini tornado outbreak, but it was in rural areas. we have that complex that produced that tornado rolling through missouri this morning. no longer producing tornadoes, but a lot of lightning strikes with it. you can see about 2,000 there. th

bill karins is here. what's happening with the storm? >> it's only small. actually missed minneapolis for the most part. it's just to the east side of town. some good news out of the unbelievable cold in the midwest. but as you go throughout your day today, just this map is kind of -- you wonder what month we're in. the windchill's 15 in denver. there's windchills down into the 20s, all the way into north texas. in the beginning of may. it's not just icing. it's raining and chilly in kansas city. the midwest has all the issues out there. the white on this map is snow. there's snow falling from oklahoma, colorado, kansas, portions of nebraska, iowa, minneapolis and wisconsin. seven different states that right now, you could find snowflakes in. as far as the worst of it, just to the east side of omaha, that blue shading is heavy, wet snow. from des moines northward. it's snowing good in ames, iowa. and to the north, a snowy morning for you. anywhere east of minneapolis. so, again, the city of minneapolis avoided the heaviest of it. they're not complaining, i'

for more on the storm, bill karins is here. you have new video of the tornado itself. >> this is probably the most photographed and, you know, videoed tornados of all time. this was an angle and view i never seen before. this is from a storm shelter at ground level. >> unbelievable. >> it looks like the tornado is across the street. the tree across the street loses all the branch and leaves. it wasn't right underneath where the fff-4 and 5 damage is. at one point you see tires flying through the air along with a ton of other debris. >> power of that storm is just unbelievable. >> just shows you how fast and quickly it happens, too. yeah, $2 billion. that's no surprise. yesterday thankfully we made it through another day without any tornadoes, that's two days in a row. we saw a lot of wind damage though and a lot of hail reports. upstate new york and areas of pennsylvania got nailed two days in a row. today will make it three. we also have a slight risk of severe weather there in north texas and areas not far from oklahoma city.

let's go to bill karins. bill, this severe weather it like from wisconsin all the way down to the south, right? >> yeah. now we go further south. the dallas area is included into today. i'll show you how far north it s it is absolutely amazing. the storm tracker technology is so great right now. i was just incredible watching all of this in live real time yesterday. the huge tornadoes on the ground. and with how strong and powerful they were, it's amazing we only had one fatality. we didn't have more injuries. mostly the tornadoes yesterday were rural areas which significantly help number tornado watches throughout right now. we have 24 reported tornadoes yesterday. making a total of about 45 or 46 over the friday, saturday, sunday time period. we're going to see more today. as brian was mentioning, the area of greatest concern in red here from denton to oklahoma city. the tornadoes will form. brian, they'll spread across the state of oklahoma once again. almost the same spots that we dealt with yesterday. >>

bill karins? >> i predicted the bulls were dead yesterday? thought i was in a lot of trouble. they actually did pretty well. >> considering. well, the thunder on the break against the grizzlies. let's start there. game five. this comes down to the final seconds. griz up two. kc's kevin durant with a chance to tie things up. off the back of the rim. he misses the jumper. memphis hangs on to beat the top-seeded thunder without russell westbrook. they advance to the first western conference finals in franchise history. watch out. it could be memphis verse heat. speaking of the heat and bulls, dwyane wade was questionable after doing the jumping jacks with his ailing knee and follow up jam. i wish i was questionable like. that. >> he was solid. >> dwyane wade scored 18 points on bebron. lebron finished with 23. they get a nice little rest before the next series. >> let's go to hockey. chicago has one team left, right? the blackhawks got four goals, including two in the third period. they trounced the red wings. now the bruins, this bruins-rangers

thank you, bill karins, we appreciate the information and the update. we're going to be talking to the mayor of moore coming up. also, governor fallon will be here, as well. and continuing coverage of the devastation in moore and the surrounding areas. this is, again, unlike anything i've seen. >> it's epic. we'll be right back with much more straight ahead. [ jennifer garner ] why can't powerful sunscreen feel great? actually it can. neutrogena® ultra sheer. its superior uva uvb protection helps prevent early skin aging and skin cancer, all with the cleanest feel. it's the best for your skin. neutrogena® ultra sheer. the traffic was backed up...then the rain... i's sorry honey, but i missed the flight. luckily, i was able to book a room. yeah, if that's what you want to call it...ooooohhh... i mean, yes! yes. definitely. a great booking room at the last booking second. i'll probably just grab a sandwich and go to bed... i love you booking.com booking.yeah! >>> this is a neighborhood that has well-built homes. these are brick homes, framed homes. and so

i want to bring in bill karins. how much warning did everybody have down there and what happened? what was the confluence of events that you were seeing and watching as you saw these tornadoes form? >> the sheriff led to it. you can see the storm formed right over the top of granbury where we saw the fatalities and worst of the damage was. from there the storm tracked toward cleburne. how much lead time did they have? 7:42 p.m. central time is when the tornado warning went off for the granbury area and when the sirens went off and tornado was coming down to the ground. all indications are that it came down over the top of granbury in the city limits there. it's a small town of 8,000 people. a beautiful lake that runs through it. that's when the tornado was reported. they had about 12, maybe 14 minutes of lead time with a tornado sirens going off. most people got to their safety rooms or hopefully to their safe destinations or drove out of town as the storm was approach. that's why we only have six fatalities. the pictures of the devastation through the town you would expect more p

and for more on that bill karins is here. >>> yeah, but 106. >> the water was probably frigid too. it had never been this warm this early in the season in the midwest. these are phoenix like. even warmer. it was 106 in sioux city. 104 in esterville, and omaha, 101. you weren't far behind in the desert southwest. temperatures are slowly coming down now. the triple digits are done for a little while. now we're into dip kal northwest weather with a lot of clouds, hit and miss showers every afternoon, and coolish type temperatures. temperatures only in the 60s in the no hot. >> yeah, it is beautiful out there. for the northwest, two beautiful weeks of may, and now it's back to normal. >> back to reality. the country's deficit is dropping faster than expected, and important news if you take a pill to help you sleep. >>> and pilotless drones are introduced. >>> other stories making news. leaders on the independent panel on the attack of benghazi will testify before congress. thomas pickering and admiral mullen will answer questions from republicans who called their findings flawed. picke

. >>> nbc's bill karins is here now with look at the weather. you have new video of the tornado. >> going through yesterday i was searching than 19-year-old kid took the video from a storm shelter. this is charles gafford at his friend's house. i don't know if there's a crack in the storm shelter or whatever the tornado was going over the top. he didn't go through the ef-5 or ef-4 damage but he was very, very close to the center of that tornado. incredible pictures. his mother isuoted as saying if she was there he would not have taken that video. she was at work. yesterday we got away with a pretty decent day. we didn't have any tornadoes or strong thunderstorms. a lot of large hail and within reports in pennsylvania, upstate new york and through the higher elevations of virginia and north carolina. humid morning up and down the eastern aboard. a lot of showers and thunderstorms through central georgia and further to the north and rain coming on to the shore of coastal carolinas. showers and downpours in areas of ohio, virginia and west virginia

nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with a look at this.oing on with in weather inspect it's supposed to be the unofficial start of summer. >> the snow in the northeast is very strange for this late in the year. for a lot of those areas, the ski resorts say they were opened and offering free skiing for whoever wants to trek up that way. unfortunately for our friends on the west coast, a new storm has moved in overnight and the rain along with it. the green is areas of rain. it's raining pretty good now in all of northern coastal california and is trying to push i-5 at this time. if you're up there, eureka, redding, you will have to deal with red as we go throughout your memorial day. further to the north, we get a bit of a break. it's not steady around eugene yet, but steady in your forecast, on and off showers especially for the first half of today. for the portland area, the wet weather is moving in as we speak. here is a look at your gloomy memorial day forecast. seattle, late rain for you. northern california through oregon, and eventua

for more on the weather we're joined by bill karins.o go back to chris kelly, how many middle school dancers dance to that school. >> they probably still do. it gets you going a little bit. sad for everyone in the midwest. this storm system has caused a lot of problems with this extreme temperature changes. now we have freezes heading as far south as oklahoma and north texas. we're still going to be dealing with it this morning. minneapolis has actually been spared slightly. omaha had a couple of inches of snow. white and blue is where it's still snowing very hard especially northern portions of iowa in the northwestern sections of the state. minneapolis is being spared from the storm. the heavy snow band set up just to your east. va narrow band. underneath that band from austin northward to west side of eau claire you can expect six to ten inches of snow. just east of minneapolis and just in the north there of des moines those are the areas that will be shoveling and by the way the pain in the midwest is the gain on the eastern seaboar

. >>> nbc's bill karins has the weekend forecast. bill, this is a crazy story. why are we having snow in may? >> extremes. i mean, in the midwest, people have snow days in may. an interesting story out of the northwest up in the bellingham area, there's actually a school, bellingham christian school, and here's their web site. school has been canceled for great weather today. three-day weekend. the principal let parents know earlier in the week that the forecast looks great and they wanted to enjoy what he called a promote positive school culture day. congratulations to that principal and all the other teachers and kids are jealous in the west. weather is as kwi eight as it could be in the west. florida through the midwest including more snow this morning. we showed you the picture of the fire weather along with the dry conditions and sometimes when the high pressure is situated like this, we get those gusty winds out of the mountains. that's the case again today. down in the coast, cooler in l.a. near the airport at 79. once you get into the city limits interio

. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with the forecast. and bill, are we going to have more severe weather this week? this has been a crazy spring. >> we definitely will. yesterday something rare happened. we had a storm chaser go through the center of a strong tornado. he actually purposely did it. this is what they call a tornado intercept vehicle. it weighs about 1400 pounds. and they estimated it was 150 to 170-mile-an-hour winds. i say estimated because at 150 miles per hour, the wind gauge on top of the vehicle snapped and broke. i mean, this is a vehicle meant to do this. it actually has hydraulics that lower it to the ground so the tornado doesn't pick up the vehicle. really crazy footage there. yesterday from northern kansas. it was a big tornado. and thankfully it was mostly over the farmers' vehicles. this is a picture of the vehicle to let you know what went through. it looks like literally a tank. it weighs like it, too. it has steel reinforcement on it. more storms are likely. more tornadoes as we go throughout this week. the

. >>> nbc's bill karins is here with the weather. >> morning. >> good morning, bill. a little wet one here in the east coast, huh? >> yeah, new york city getting heavy rain. we see sometimes the rible effects in the airports do make it all the way to the west coast. hopefully not today. we have a nice mild morning. no complaints temperaturewise at all. maybe going to get away without the jacket this morning. and this afternoon, we had a lot of rain showers pop up yesterday afternoon, call them diurnal rain showers. we won't see as much of that. the cold air begins to move into the rockies. there's a couple showers left behind. we'll see a few this afternoon especially nevada and utah in the higher terrain. this is about the only wet spot i could find coming out of the reno/take how ar ren reno/tahoe area. today's forecast, mostly dry for about everyone. partly cloudy skies. temperatures seasonal for this time p schs pasco, washington. >> very nice. >> we'll continue to watch the northwest and just wait till i show you the five-day forecast in portland, oregon. it's be

. >>> nbc's bill karins is here. >> we said there was a threat of thunderstorms in and tornadoes in texas. they were weak tornadoes. this is a amazing. twin tornados from the one storm. usually you never see this with stronger tornadoes but these were very weak, didn't do any damage whatsoever. nice picture from wayne grabber there in fairfield, kansas. from the severe weather that spread from kansas, to oklahoma all the way to texas. all the colors of green and reports of large hail that was predominant for those large storms. and storms pop up over out, nevada around even the mountains of california yesterday. that storm system is now leaving us, and we should be left with a relatively dry day. the exception just a little bit left there in the vegas area. we could pop up a shower or th mother's day. doesn't look as quite as warm and beautiful. not horrible. with the forecast, not far away, the weekend's not far away. >> exactly, we're two days away. we'll take friday. once we get to friday, we'll be good. thank you. >>> it wasn't your ordinary chewing gum but now it's being pulled off s

bill karins is standing by to talk to us about what we can expect for this area. bill, what's the forecast? what can people expect throughout the morning here and the afternoon as they're trying to come back out to their homes and try to pick up where they left off before the tornado came through? >> thomas, as you know, all morning long you have been dodging the thunderstorms. for the most part, they have been missing you to the south and not hitting you. just some light showers. we have more disturbed weather to your west. it looks like that has to come through. there's also a cluster of thunderstorms that's going to go through downtown oklahoma city. also a shower, maybe a rrumble thunder. there's been more lightning than rain, and if you look out towards the amarillo area, this is the storm that's going to cause the problems this afternoon in texas. new thunderstorms popping up, heading for wichita falls. eventually, they'll go through lawton, oklahoma city, and more. there will be maybe an hour, hour and a half period of rough weather in the moore area. not th

boris, thanks for get bill karins is back again. >> good morning, i mentioned the chance of storms tonightwe had a quiet may as far as tornadoes have gone. we had a few today, especially in kansas, oklahoma maybe down here in areas of texas, this area of yellow, we call eight slight risk of severe storms. these are very calm. again, it's been so quiet that any storms will kind of be a little different. as far as what we will deal with again later they could roll towards minneapolis, dallas, you are fine during day lite hours. it won't be until later in the hours, i think the worst of it will be around new york city this morning. if you are flying anywhere in your connecting flights, it could be a mess. >> lucky us. thanks, bill. >>> just ahead, huge numbers. watch nbc's telecast of the kentucky derby. >>> plus a timor of two toms. can you guess what? coming up. in her new volkswagen... before her passat had passed 30 different inspection tests, . golf with the president, senator chambliss, shot a hole in one. he started immediately bragging, like, how does that feel? obama is like, i don't

nbc's bill karins is here. >> nothing better than having your home insurance company show up, try to explain what happened. then they get there and they're like -- >> hey, and that ice has to thaw. that's going to be a bad scene. >> get it out before it eliminate mamelts if you're lucky. over the weekend, especially mother's day, was hot in the intermountain west. it was warm in medford. vegas was at 98. interior sections of southern california were very warm. and that weather pattern continues. the exception over sunday was the northwest. a frontal system stalled, on-shore flow. hit-and-miss showers this morning. it's not going to bevy very wet pattern in the northwest. occasional hit-and-miss showers. we may get a few thunderstorms in the late afternoon. again, the hit-and-miss variety. then as we look towards the middle of the week, it goes to more of a zonal flow across the country, but that's still more of an on-shore flow from the northwest. that still means the chance of showers on the cool side of the jet stream. as far as california goes, temperatures will come down a little

i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who has the latest on what happened in moore. bill, so, sunday evening, we have one set of storms causing the tornado issue that we had in one part of oklahoma. was this all the same storm, was it moves this slowly? what made this one different? >> well, it was different because it actually was four days of the same storm, joe. we started this friday with a tornado outbreak in pretty rural areas. another one on saturday. and on sunday, we had one big one that killed two people. that was also an ef-4 outside of oklahoma city. and we'll have day five of our severe weather outbreak today. more tornadoes this morning, but this will be from a separate storm. i'll explain that. let me take you through. this is what happened in the last 24 hours. the red triangles are the tornados. we had about 16 of them, but we only took that one monster one that did this damage you see here. those homes in the middle were just crushed. like confetti chopped up. as far as what we dealt, is there anyone to blame? there just isn't. it looks like every pr

nbc's bill karins, i was worried about you, but you're by the weather center wall. lots of twisters. are there more concerns today? >> today looks fine. yesterday there were only three tornadoes reported. just happened to be one of them turned out to be a powerful and big one through a small town. the tornado warning was issued at 7:42 for granbury. as many as six killed, 14 missing. hundreds were taken to the hospital. the storms came through. then they rolled to the south here. they were actually big and strong when they went through cleborne. they said it was a mile wide at that point. again, the timing of it hit around 8:00 last night. then the mile wide twister at just about 9:00 local time in texas. luckily that was over a rural area. as far as the west is concerned we have a storm system moving on shore. there is wet weather here, especially northern california. you see light rain. nothing heavy but it will be a damp air mass. san francisco, some of the drizzle may move on shore. as far as the forecast, nothing heavy. definitely on the damp and cool side san

i'm bill karins. this is "way too early." thanks for being up with us this morning on this friday, may 10th. >>> did the intelligence community miss out when not sharing information? we'll hear testimony from congress. lawmakers move towards a compromise on immigration. while it could lead to a whole new tone in d.c. but first our top story, the man charged with kidnap iping three women and keeping them in captivity for nearly ten years may face the death penalty. ariel castro made his first appearance in court yesterday and we're getting a better idea of what charges may be on the way. >> reporter: for the first time since his arrest, the public saw 52-year-old ariel castro. the former school bus driver accused of an unimaginable crime. he stared at the floor, said nothing as prosecutors explained how he imprisoned three women and a child for nearly a decade in terrifying and brutal conditions. >> the situation has turned, your honor. he stands before you a captive. >> reporter: the formal charges, three counts of rape. the

bill karins actually was saying this tornado season seemed to be a slow one.e're on our fifth day of severe weather. talk to us at least prediction wise as it relates to this quick turn that it seemed we went under. >> we certainly did off to a slow start for the tornado season. this week has been a busier time. and that sometimes happens where we have a period of several days in a row where we get a lot of activity. looking down the road, it doesn't look like wonce we get through this, it doesn't really look active again after this for a while. >> so all or nothing where we were at a nothing and then all and back to a nothing point? >> and that happens sometimes. this has been -- if you look back just a couple years in may of 2011, the early part of may was incredibly quiet, and then we had the joplin tornado. then we were very active for a week and then things shut down again. that does happen this time of year. sometimes we're in that transition time where we're going to be getting into summer, and six weeks or so, and occasionally, we have these kinds of t