nbc meteorologist bill karins will have more in just a few minutes. >>> bill cosby's slow motion fall from grace under sexual allegations took a more serious turn tuesday. he is ordered to stand trial on criminal sexual assault charges. the icon is facg s date. >> reporter: cosby is fighting criminal charges that he sexually assaulted former temple university employee andrea constand in his pennsylvania home. in court, a former detective read a statement she gave police in 2005, detailing what she said happened the night of the assault. cosby invited her over for dinner, according to the statement. offering her wine and unspecified pills. he urged me to take them. constand told detectives it made her dizzy. i got scared and i thought i was having a bad reaction to something. i had no strength in my legs. cosby then started to inappropriately touch her under her shirt and pants as she slipped in and out of con shunness. she told detectives that when she came to, my bra was up by my neck. cosby gave to police a statement in 2005, he admitted sexual contact occurred, but said it was cons

meteorologist bill karins will join us in just a few minutes with more. >>> world famous theoretical physicist steven hawking says that while he may have a handle on the inner workings, understanding donald trump's rise is something entirely different. in fact, he says he is baffled by it all telling good morning britain, quote, i can't. he is a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator. hawking has made no secret. joking about his intelligence. hillary clinton spent memorial day with her husband marching in a parade of her adopted hometown of chappaqua along with governor cuomo of new york. while bernie sanders spent his day campaigning in california where there was a brief security scare after animal rights protesters jumped over a barricade at an open rally. it was dealt with by the secret service. he thought he had california to himself, but the clinton camp announced a major change in her campaign schedule. she will return to the golden state on early which is earlier than anticipated. a new poll from the public policy institute shows the two candidates in a

bill karins from the holiday weekend. another busy week for you ahead. >> the rain in texas. if we have any bad flooding or anything. two years ago, texas was in that horrible drought. now it won't stop raining. as far as yesterday went, we didn't see too many areas that were completely rained out but in the mid-atlantic less than ideal. this area was soaked. this was all from left spoiinni off the coast of north carolina. cape cod clipped early today. numerous areas of showers and thundershowers from minneapolis to iowa and continue this morning. the bigger picture does show we are okay in the southeast and get scattered storms in areas of florida. as far as the rainfall the next three days. one area up in moisture from the tropical storm will plague us in north. areas of texas we deal with the most rain the next three days. possibility of another 2 to 4 inches at most. not enough we have flood watches but the potential for isolated flash flooding the next couple of days. the warmth is on today and probably one of the warmest days of the week for the east. that is a look at

'll get the late -- we'll get the latest from bill karins. >>> the cincinnati zoo is defending its actionsfter a gorilla was shot over the weekend. the zoo's director says the gorilla had to be shot so they could rescue that 3-year-old. now there's growing outrage. nbc's blake mccoy reports. >> reporter: outrage over an incident at the cincinnati zoo. when a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure saturday. for ten agonizing minutes onlookers watched including the boy's mother who cried out to him. >> mommy is right here. >> reporter: at one point, the 420 pound male silver back named harambe dragged the boy through the water. >> mommy loves you! >> reporter: zoo officials opened fire, killing the gorilla and rescuing the boy. zookeepers defended their decision. >> naturally, we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly. but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: on social media a firestorm. people upset the gorilla was killed. many blamed the boy's mother who runs day-care center. an online petition has 200,000 signatures urging she be charged with negligence. in a facebo

let's bring in meteorologist bill karins. good morning to you.let's get a sense of what the the weather was like in this area at the time. wore pushing nine hours -- we're pushing nine hours ago, so it was dark, middle of the night. any reports of odd disturbances? >> we haven't heard of anything. no reports of turbulence or bad weather in the region. this satellite loop goes back 12 hours. go back to the beginning of the loop, there were some clouds over southern portions of italy but that was it. the radar contact was lost north of egypt and it was clear then and now. we're in the middle of the day in this region so excellent visibility for any of the search vessels that are in the air or down at the surface. and the other thing people are wondering about is the temperatures in the west -- eastern portions of the mediterranean are very warm. these are 68 to 70 degree water temperatures here. if the plane did happen to go down in this area, alex, people can survive, you know, 12 to 20 hours in water before hypothermia would set in. also the dept

an inch of large hail coated streets in denver meteorologist bill karins will have more on there severeather outbreak in a few minutes. >>> bill cosby slow motion fall from grace over an avalanche of criminal sexual assault charges. the comic icon is facing the possibility of a ten-year prison sentence if convicted of a crime that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago. nbc's stephanie gosk has the story. >> reporter: once america's dad now turned defendant. bill cosby needed shins to walk into court. the judge ruled there is enough evidence to go to trial. >> we are going to move forward on the case and look forward to getting a trial date. >> reporter: cosby is fighting criminal charges that he sexually assaulted former temple university employer andrea constand more than a decade ago in his pennsylvania home. in court a former detective read a statement that constand gave police she had happened the night of the alleged assault. cosby invited her to dinner and offering her wine and unspecified pills. he urged me to take them. constand told the detectives the pills made her dizzy.

. >>> let's go to nbc's bill karins. let's talk about the weather in the area. granted it was a night flight, but we have not heard mention of -- unfortunately, we don't have bill quite yet. we'll ask him about the weather there, but with regard to the details of one, what we do know at this point, 66 people on board the plane, ten of whom were egyptair officials. three security officials and another 56 passengers as kelly was reporting 30 of them egyptian and we want to stress no americans on board this flight. we have had that confirmation by the passenger manifest. this is an a-320 plane that has been described as a work horse and nbc's tom costello returns with us. this plane was put into service in 2003. that doesn't make it an old plane, does it? >> no, not at all. i would say relatively, you might call it a teenager. that's not an old plane. it had about 48,000 flight hours on it according to airbus. it was traveling -- you know, we talked about the 37,000 feet number. now we're hearing from the greek air traffic controllers it was traveling at 519 mile pe

thank you, bill karins. still ahead, elon musk does it again. spectacular launch of another spacex rocket. "way too early" is coming back. >>> this morning, spacex successfully launched a japanese satellite into space and landed its rocket booster on a ship in the atlantic. the falcon 9 rocket launch and landed for the second time taking off from the florida's cape canaveral. it was remarkable. take a look. >> one, zero. liftoff of the falcon 9. >> we have launched from space launch complex, cape canaveral. we are going supersonic right now, passing through maximum dynamic pressure. vehicle has completed the throttle down and throttled back up. >> and it looks like we have -- [ applause ] >> that is cool. >>> arsenio hall is suing sinead o'connor for suggesting he provided prince with drugs. in a facebook post on monday the singer said that investigators looking for the person who supplied prince with prescription drugs should question hall. she also accused the comedian of drugging her years ago. the $5 million defamation suit states he has not

bill karins is back in action this morning with more on how much longer the severe weather will last. >>> it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early." >>> good morning. it's wednesday, may 11th. i'm jonathan capehart. to the latest on the severe weather, at least ten people were injured when a large tornado tore through western kentucky yesterday. officials say it destroyed homes and businesses in mayfield and dumped hail across the state. it came just a day after tornadoes tore through parts of oklahoma and this morning, we're seeing just how much power one twister packed when it hit the south central town of katie. take a look. >> a farm right up here. don't, please, don't hit that farm. holy -- man. that's a violent tornado. oh, my gosh. that's the most violent motion -- oh, my. get across the road right here. oh, no! it's hitting that farm. no. oh, no. oh, no. come on. be okay. man, oh, no. oh, my god. look at that. >> oklahoma governor mary fallin has declared a state of emergency in 16 counties to expedite resources to the hardest hit areas. >>> as a fait

nbc's meteorologist bill karins is here with the details. >> good morning. we are continuing our active week. the amazing pictures of the tornadoes from monday and a few yesterday in kentucky. today an isolated tornado or two but large hail is more of a threat. west virginia through the mountains and thunderstorms in central texas greeting you early this morning. areas further to the north, soakisoak kansas as they have intensified overnight. omaha, expect a rainy morning. the afternoon, here is a severe risk. 22 million from iowa to illinois and almost the state of missouri, back down through this area that is in oklahoma and texas. that is where we have our enhanced risk of severe storms. this is a late afternoon, into the evening. maybe the late evening areas. this enhanced risk isolated tornado, biggest threat, baseball-sized hail and the possibility of damaging winds. abilene, north of dallas and sherman, wichita falls and mcallister to ft. smith. the timing doesn't show a lot impressive and by 7:00 nothing out there and looks like the storms will follo

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now let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins.d morning. >> that was a long sports. somewhere jonathan capehart's sitting there going thank goodness. >> thank god it wasn't me. no, he's comatose right now. >> probably is. we had some snow over the weekend in northern portions of the great lakes and the northeast. we still have a little bit this morning. this is a cold shot for this time of year. we're only one degree away from the record low in new york city right now. we're at 43. we dropped to 42. it's 32 in columbus right now. very cold air over areas of the ohio valley and the northeast. hopefully you didn't put the winter gear away for the kids because they need it. even through the rest of this week, d.c. is having one of the coldest mays they've ever had. it's only going to be 58 and rainy on tuesday. wednesday, 63. it should be averaging the low to mid-70s in d.c. this time of year. and there's no signs of that really until the end of this week. also our friends down around corpus christi they're have had very heavy rain o

. >> and bill karins has been talking about the depth as well. and he said that in his words, he would not consider it too deep. in comparison, for example, to the malaysia flight in the search for that debris and that aircraft we'll talk with bill about not only the depth of the water but also the weather conditions which again he described as excellent, part of the analysis i'm sure. officials are looking at as well. now joining us, former nfsb senior air safety investigator, greg feith. it seems like with many breaking news stories, we have a flood of information at the beginning and then there's a lull with this story as well i see the similar news pattern we've seen where we're waiting to get a few more details to verify a few more things that may actually be the case which include this debris that's not been verified and there are photos that we're working to verify as well but we may have a focus point where -- whether it's some of the assets from the united states being sent over, greece, france, or egypt who are now focused on this one a

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meteorologist bill karins is here, more severe weather? >> memorial day weekend won't be as ack sievtive. the story this morning is what happened down in south texas about a half hour, hour outside of houston, this brenham, texas, 9 to 12 inches, few spots, even more than that, some areas, i would say about 16 to 14 inches, one of the accumulations, 13.6, very impressive in 12 to 24 hours. flash flood emergency issued for this area. finally, it has cleared out, more towards waco and dallas, but not as heavy as you head to the south. how does memorial look. pretty good. saturday no problems whatsoever. getting warm and toasty today and tomorrow. all the stormy weather there in the north. southeast coast lines, nasty beach problems, north carolina to northeast florida. sunday, okay, just a stray shower in california, temperatures look nice through >>> good friday morning. we are tracking warm 80s inland today but check out the extended weekend ahead. possibly 90 for the south bay on sunday. 92 on memorial day. mid 90s in yuma and phoenix. so

bill karins, tell us what's going on. >> oklahoma, texas, we continue the theme this spring. it hasn't spread up into nebraska. humid air further down to the south. dallas and fort worth, showers and storms that thankfully died off. this line is now weakened. later on today, we're going to do it all over again. it is trying to slice through texas, 16 million people at risk in total, including 2 to 3 million in the orange area, enhanced risk of severe storms, greatest chance of damaging wind will be, austin area, and almost down into san antonio. even corpus christi to houston will get rain. texas has been the bullseye. going back to a year ago, in the last year, 70 inches of rain, that's 24 inches above normal. two feet in addition to what they should have. they're not alone. corpus christi got nailed yesterday. dallas is about nine inches since march 1st. san antonio, over a foot. many of these are five to ten inches above average. over the next three days, more rain throughout the region. possibility of another four inches in areas of central texas, very impressive stuff. b

. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> another threat of tornado as soon as. >> yeah, today may be worst than yesterday. we have one super cell that produced all those yesterday in kansas, interstate 70 there that we were concerned. luckily they survived. no fatalities, a lot of structure damage. today, 70 to 80 miles per hour wind gust, racing through wisconsin and st. louis. bigger news, what happens this afternoon and this evening, once again, we have a huge area at risk. that's why we have 28 million people, the state of texas, to minnesota. the greatest concern, though, for tornados is this area here in southern nebraska, central kansas, and then as we go to friday, get away day for the holiday weekend, houston, tle shrevepo shreveport, 17 million at risk, the middle of the country, you can't just get the thunderstorms without the water starting to add up. we'll see the possibility of 4 to 5 inches of rain in east texas. if we get that much rain, we will go et somee south, still feeli

bill karins will have more in a few minutes. >>> right now, bill cosby's slow motion fall from grace under an avalanche of sexual allegations take a more serious turn tuesday. cosby is ordered to stand trial on criminal sexual assault charges. the comic icon is facing the possibility of a ten year prison sentence if convicted of a crime that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago. nbc's stephanie gosk has the story. >> reporter: once america's dad, now turned defendant. bill cosby needed assistance walking into court despite his lawyer's best efforts, the judge ruled there was enough evidence to go to trial. >> we are going to move forward on the case and look forward to getting a trial date. >> reporter: cosby is fighting criminal charges that he sexually assaulted former temple university employee andrea constand more than a decade ago in his home. a detective read a statement she gave police in 2005 detailing what happened the night of the alleged assault. cosby invited her over for dinner according to the statement. offering her wine and unspecified pills. he urged me to take

bill karins standing by to give us the forecast or the feud. bill, how is it shaping up for the holiday weekend? >> a lot going on. we have a lot of bad weather, but the weekend looks calmer. let's show you what happened in texas yesterday. one early tornado, during the early morning. you can see little flashes there. those are the transformers blowing as the winds tear apart the power lines. the big story that developed later in the day and continues this morning is the flooding. we have had a ton of rain. this was around the austin area. bryant, texas, college station, north of houston, this entire region of southeast texas has gotten pummelled by endless thunderstorms over the last 12 to 24 hours. let me take you to the weather map. this shows you how much rain has fallen. see the bull's-eye over the top of brenham, 16 1/2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. that's a foot and a half of rain. this is the flash flood emergency for the area. they're doing water rescues. they're telling everyone to stay at high ground wherever you're safe. don't

. >>> well, now, time for a check of the weather with bill karins.good morning to you. >> good morning to be in the middle of the country. that's going to stay that way for the next couple of days. all right, a pattern has developed. we have our storm system off the west coast, plenty of clouds, periods of showers, drizzle, you can see the spotty showers on the radar. wider view, middle of the country, clear as can be. yesterday, 90 degrees in central canada. that's the warm air flowing right up to the north. east is very messy too. we call it an omega block, because the jet stream makes the greek letter of the omega. so storms on both coasts, that's why it will be this way for two or three days, and then slowly come out of it. airports delay likely there today. severe weather, already seen that near orlando and tampa, miami this afternoon. all the warm, beautiful weather, dallas to san antonio, minneapolis and even boise. the coast is not completely miserable. 72, sun and cloud mixture at time, of 64 in seattle. northern plain warm, still at 78. jus

bill karins is with us to show us and track what everybody can expect. >> monday, a big outbreak, yesterday, a minutei outbreak. already this morning, golf-ball size hail in the omaha area, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. this is kind of the appetizer to the bigger event later on today. so the storm we're watching is the one that's actually spinning up here in areas of montana. this is a storm that has plagued us and caused the severe weather, and the front ahead of that will give us some issues. this will cause snow in montana. that's a big change for you. as this cold front sweeps to the south, thunderstorms ahead of it, strong storms impacted today, all the way from st. louis, south of chicago, iowa, wichita falls, near the dallas area, south of oklahoma city. that's where we could see baseball sized hail. seattle, you look great today, one of the best forecasts in the ding today. 89 for sacramento. often the case when the west is dry, it's stormy elsewhere. >> bill, thank you for the update. >>> a scare in new york city involving police, and taylor swift. >>> plus a pizza place may

bill karins has a look. >> the sheet lightening is so beautiful. that's pretty neat stuff. no tornado videos none yesterday of any significance. that's fantastic. overnight, we had large hail reported in texas, and pouring rain into little rock. today will be a case of a lot -- not a lot of severe wet. watch some additional storms, isolated severe, some hail, damaging winds, but nothing too devastating. areas much alabama, mississippi back up to the ohio valley. let's dig into the forecast today. unseasonably warm, boise, 85, seattle, 08 today. san francisco, a little more marine influence, that's you're only 65, interior areas will be mild. how does the weekend look? we only get two more of these early summer like days in areas of the west. notice 89 on friday in portland. 84 in seattle, and then, you know, it's beautiful during the week and then as you head towards the weekend, the upper level low moves in. showery type weather, dropping 10 to 20 degrees. pretty nice in most areas of california. on sunday, we continue in the northwest with some showers. that's your nation

let's go to bill karins. let's take a look what is going on in the mediterranean. >> yes, eliminate what could have happened and the search that's going on and weather conditions for that. this goes over the last 12 hours, the latest image here. it shows clear skies and where the plane was lost. no weather problems whatsoever. in case everyone -- the hoping of finding survivors, water temperatures, 68 to 71 degrees. about 12, 40 hours, big range, someone could last before hypothermia could set in. a block box, it is relatively shallow. air france went down, and that black box was found in 13,000 feet. it is a good possibility we'll be finding and hopefully find out what happened. as far as the weather goes, up in the northwest, storm system went through yesterday, numerous showers, northern idaho, cascades, maybe about a quarter to half an inch, no raining the entire day. but definitely on the cool side. the only heat, down to the south in southern california. even southern california will cool off in the day

meteorologist bill karins is here, more severe weather? >> memorial day weekend won't be as ack sievtive. the story this morning is what happened down in south texas about a half hour, hour outside of houston, this brenham, texas, 9 to 12 inches, few spots, even more than that, some areas, i would say about 16 to 14 inches, one of the accumulations, 13.6, very impressive in 12 to 24 hours. flash flood emergency issued for this area. finally, it has cleared out, more towards waco and dallas, but not as heavy as you head to the south. how does memorial look. pretty good. saturday no problems whatsoever. getting warm and toasty today and tomorrow. all the stormy weather there in the north. southeast coast lines, nasty beach problems, north carolina to northeast florida. sunday, okay, just a stray shower in california, temperatures look nice through the holiday bumping up into the mid 90s in yuma and phoenix. some of the best weather will be found in the west over memorial day weekend. >> all right, to those traveling, good luck. thanks. >>> s

. >>> nbc meteorologist is here, bill karins. >> you want to pay for the laugh. it is not the mask. it's her. >>> talking about severe weather, we're in a pattern through the upcoming weekend, the east will get hotter, and in the west, it will be on the cooler side. not, you know, wintertime cool. worst weather is along i-70, hail producing, thunderstorm heading right over you. today, threat maps does have an enhanced risk, not many strong or even high risk this spring. we've actually been pretty lucky so far. today won't be horrible outbreak. a few tornados out of this and some pictures of really large hail. on wednesday, we do it again. spread it further to the north to iowa, minnesota, st. louis, if we're going to get a tornado day this week, likely it will be thursday, heading towards the busy highly populated i-35 corridor, watch that come thursday afternoon. today's forecast, many areas of the west remaining in the 60s and 70s, phoenix, cool, comfortable day. warmer in central washington state than any where else, in oregon or idaho. this weather pattern will stay with us unti

. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with your start of the week weather. good morning to you, bill. >> good morning to you. we're mid may. i've seen pictures of snow in northern new england, torrential rains down in corpus christi. that's where we'll start with. flooding potential is very high down here. thunderstorm this is morning. some areas picked up nine inches of rain in the last couple of hours, mostly rural sections not corpus christi itself. that's where the worst weather in the country is. later severe thunderstorms will break out in oklahoma. not so much tornadoes. large hail. could drop baseball-sized hail here in western oklahoma. not too many people are at risk. that's also a rural area. but we'll watch that in oklahoma city late tonight. tomorrow big population center will see storms, wind damage and hail will be the threats. not so much tornadoes once again. the rest of the country, the week ahead will not be too hot. it's not even going to be too cold either. we're kind of in between. stormy weather in the middle of the country early in the

nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with the latest on what seems to be shaping up as an active week. bill, what's going on? >> this will probably be our biggest tornado week. yesterday, 20 separated tornado reports. in the dallas area this morning, that is no longer severe. just a lot of lightning with that. we have our big trough in the west, keeping you cool and chilly out there. more severe weather in areas of central kansas, oklahoma, all the way through texas. enhanced risk for 14 million people. maybe even a few strong tornadoes. all the cool weather is kept in the west, northwest. temperatures in the 60s. for the most part areas in the 70s. even cooler than normal in the desert southwest. phoenix at 91 is cooler than you should be this time of year. we're still going to watch thunderstorms really lingering in the middle of the country for the next two days. severe thunderstorms are again likely from oklahoma down to dallas. tuesday looks to be a little bit more of the same in areas of the west. scattered showers in the rockies. temperatures 60s to 70s. it's not cold you like

. >>> now over to bill karins. good morning. >> good morning. have you seen has to pictures?pback whale, always impressive. they were swimming in the shallow waters of san francisco bay. unprecedented numbers have been spotted, likely due to the high concentration of anchovies and other school of yummy fish during the incoming tides. >>> yesterday was the best day of the year for many people in new england. syracuse hit 80 degree, albany, new york, hit 80 degrees so it was the warmest day of the spring. clouds begin to move in as this cold front marches to the east. there's a good clearing behind i. everyone in the midwest and the south, look for a pretty decent day here. as far as the weather pattern this is going to kick through and we may get minor severe weather. not a lot, but a little bit. areas of greatest concern are around eastern north carolina and also as we go from st. louis to kansas city. isolated large hail and some gusty winds from the areas. that's later on this afternoon, towards this evening. for today, beautiful weather from oklahoma to texas. the southeas

. >>> let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins.hat say you about the weekend? >> nothing too violent, sunday, some storms in the central plains. this morning though, we had the really nasty line of ostorm, thousands of lightning strikes headed from new orleans overnight and now knocking on the door around panama city. that will blow by in the next half hour. wait until that blows by until you head out in northern portions of florida. as far as the rain today, areas of southern georgia, alabama, even mississippi, on and off showers and storms. by 5:00 p.m., we're concentrating on the rain, scattered storms back up to cincinnati. then tonight we track this storm into the mid-atlantic region. so evening plans in north carolina or through virginia, you may get rained fourth a short period of time. by 9:00 a.m. saturday morning we're focusing the rain on the mid-atlantic region. belmont stakes going on in maryland on saturday. it looks like heavy rain early in the morning. then as we go throughout the 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. time period a lot

. >> here's bill karins. >> one of my pet peeves. >> make tiger great again. >> write a blog about ite had a pictures of a funnel cloud trying to become a tornado. this is in felt, oklahoma. they call that an elephant trunk tornado. as far as that -- that's when it ropes out at the end stage of the tornado as it gets weaker. we had strong, gusty winds and some large hail. this roof awning at a gas station looked like it was about to go. it was shaking pretty good. but it did hold up. there's the oppressive hail near sherman, texas. storms in texas, it's oklahoma or texas. oklahoma in the clear. but the storms are inching down to the dallas-ft. worth area and we'll watch them over top of you, most likely 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. today, 16 million people at risk. storms are not widespread, they'll be scattered but could be over to houston during the day today. the gloomy may continues for the mid-atlantic. you had one or two nice days here in d.c. now all the summers are headed through roanoke, areas of charlotte about to get wet too and this is over the top of the mid-atlantic today. to make

bill karins is back in action this morning with more on how much longer the severe weather will last. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early."

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bill karins is here. i think people are wond plane, if weather made a factor. >> first thing people looked at. thunderstorms or turbulence. the weather was clear over egypt was clear. no storms. the water temperatures off the coastline of egypt are very warm, about 65 to 70 degrees, so if the plane just happened to go down there and survivors in the water, people would be able to survive a long time in the water temperatures that warm. >>> bring it back home. today, thunderstorms over south florida and once again in texas. this is where the concern is today. if we get any strong storms and damaging storms it's in south texas from houston to san antonio and corpus christi. this area has seen daily rounds of thunderstorms and the case this afternoon and evening. thankfully the tornado threat is very low. this is mostly a rainmaker the next three days and sweeping across the southeast and then up into the mid-atlantic on friday, into saturday. looks like a rainy saturdays for delmarva south wards into the no

nbc's meteorologist bill karins is standing by for us. how is tuesday looking?orning, but there's -- >> that's how i look in the morning. >> yeah, right. >> u-g-l-i you have no alibi. >> these are pictures from pennsylvania, and it added up enough that they were out there shoveling it. all right when you're shoveling in shorts though. that was in red lion, pa. so this morning, this storm that brought us -- those conditions yesterday with the hail and the heavy rain now that is lingering right over just south of new england. new england today is cloudy, it will be cool. one of the chilliest days you'll have in a long time and d.c. is clearing out. 80s to cleveland and boston at 62. that's the rainy, cool, chilly weather. in 24 hours from 60s to near 90 degrees in new york city. so it will be kind of a shock to the system to be that chilly, wet and raw and then on thursday, looks warm. even into the upcoming holiday weekend. no signs of cool weather. we're in it now. so, you know, everyone always complains. you always here, we didn't have a spring. well, maybe thi

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nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. >> they need a break in louisiana. we saw pictures from jazz fest. it was nuts down there. they had one round of rain after another. they have one more that's going to come, then they should get a little bit of a break. at this hour, middle of the night, numerous showers and thunderstorms in east texas and louisiana. a lot of these rivers already in moderate to major flood stage. they really need a break in this region. the other story today is going to be severe weather threat. at risk of severetoxtrely low. mostly wind damage. from maryland all the way down there the nation's capital, washington, d.c., to richard and roanoke into the upstate of south carolina. slight risk of severe storms. marginal risk of severe storms. let's time this out for you throughout the day. this morning, no severe weather. we will see obviously some low visibilities, a lot of gray, gloomy weather, especially from d.c. to new york. maybe minor airport delays. the roads should be just fine. by the time we get into the afternoon, the storms b

bill karins is here. >> looks like an alien abdu abduction. >> i didn't check my poswerball number yet. thanks for ruining it for me. >>> let's talk about the stormy, gloomy weather pattern. you have to hold on to the northeast and mid-atlantic maybe until sunday or monday to get nice weather out of this. right now, two storms. one cleared through florida yesterday so at least you get good weather in the southeast. one storm off the atlantic coast and another behind it and the middle of the country is gorgeous and high pressure protecting you. we are sandwiched in the mid-atlantic and northeast between these two storms for at least the next two or three days. the rainiest weather today in virginia and north carolina. there will be scattered showers and drizzle up through new england but not a soaker type of day. tomorrow, the storms begin to merge and it's going to be mostly like a nor'easter type storm and come up the coast and we are going to see bands of rain spillering inland from pennsylvania to d.c. on friday so friday is not a fun day for travel at the airports or anything regar

bill karins, i know you want one! >> there was over 150 million hits. >> she is so excited about getting her chewbacca mask. >> now gone, sold out forever. big halloween hit, i'm sure, too. >>> we are watching thunderstorms once again this morning and a pattern we are getting thunderstorms in the afternoon and continuing to the evening and die off as we head towards the morning hours. northern kansas dealing with strong storms and possibility of strong hail. 19 mon general thunderstorms from texas to the minnesota area. but concentration of the strongest storms the one that could do the most damage in areas of oklahoma, especially western oklahoma and much of the state of kansas and much of the state of nebraska and trying to sneak out into areas towards denver. the enhanced risk the best chance of seeing any tornadoes and no outbreaks are expected today. isolated strong storms, especially damaging hail is the biggest risk. the other story is the warmth is moving north. 82 states are forecast in washington, d.c. their

nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. usually they say if you can't see the bottom of it, don't drive through it. >> get out. that is what is happening tonight. there have been a lot of water rescues taking place in texas. people have been getting their vehicles stranded and people going to observe the flash flooding going on down just to the south of college station. this is an area of great concern. a flash flood emergency for this region. they have gotten a ton of rain the last 12 hours and another band, slow moving thunderstorms moving over the same exact areas where the crews are out there doing water rescues already. we have had a crazy amount of rainfall in this area. this is houston area here. that hasn't been too bad but north of houston, this area of between 10 to 16 inches of rain. that is 15 inches of rainfall our doppler estimates and large area and this is where the water is everywhere. imagine a foot of rainfall in about 12 hours. that is why we have flash flood emergencies for this entire region here and f

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nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with the latest on what seems to be an active week already. >> it will be, yeah. 27 tornadoes reported yesterday. a lot of those were up close and personal. a lot of them were in rural areas. that's where the storm chasers and everyone likes them. we didn't have any significant damage whatsoever. we made it through yesterday, but we still have three or four more days this week we could see tornadoes doing damage in more populated areas. for today, as we start the early morning hours here, wichita falls has a really nasty thunderstorm that's kind of s moving right over the top of it. we could see flash flooding problems there. also, this line, as it heads towards interstate 35 towards sulfur springs, that's where we could be watching wind damage. that's this cluster down here. there's another cluster moving through areas of south dakota, nebraska overnight that no longer looks severe. we could still see a lot of lightning strikes in the next couple hours. we're going to redo this all over again. this storm will be a slow moving one this week. okla

bill karins is here. he's been watching it all. >> that was a scary one. >> it has been a big one. in talking to you, you say this could be connected? >> this was a long track tornado. this was on the ground -- all those pictures you saw, were mostly the same tornado in the different stages. it was on the ground more maybe half an hour last night. this is at 7:00 p.m. right there. that's the hook echo on the super cell thunderstorm. there's abilene. we showed you the pictures right near there. this is when the storm was at its peak. right here is when the tornado crossed interstate 70. south of junction city, about 1,000 feet of railroad tracks were torn apart. so the main railroad line across kansas, they had had all trains stopped. it will be a while before it's all fixed. now, we have some of the strong storms across the midwest. we have had 50 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts and that's headed to lacrosse here shortly. and the atmosphere is very primed and we'll have additional storms this morning and then another round this afternoon. 28 million people are at risk. enhanced risk

. >>> let's shift gears and get a check of the weather here with meteorologist bill karins who is here for that. this week has been kind of rough. >> we have to hand out vitamin d. at this point. back of sunshine in many areas of the northeast and mid-atlantic and that continues this morning. another batch of light rain heading up over new york city this morning and it's in new england. then there is a reinforcing storm now moving through areas of chicago and towards indianapolis with some rain. we are heading into a weather pattern that is called a blocky weather pattern. this is what we call it omega block. a lot of great weather in the middle of the country and two storms. one on each coast. the weather can't really move as it typically does from the west-to-east. what you see is what you get over the next couple of days. unfortunately, for the east coast, that is going to mean more kind of rainy and gloomy weather and periods of light rain and even into the weekend. slow improvement over the weekend improvement for mother's day. cool temperatures throughout the southeast. how about

but first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill, freezing. >> it was ugly, right? a beautiful spring up to this point and all of a sudden the northeast gets cold, it was damp and rainy all weekend long. and this is not going to be a fun week, either. first let's start you in louisiana. this is where we had the dangerous weather over the weekend. we had a lot of flash flooding, numerous events that were canceled at some point, the jast jazzfest in new orleans had horrendous weather, a muddy mess. there was a lot of water in places that is not expected to be. so, unfortunately, this morning, more rain in louisiana and east texas. severe thunderstorm watch up until 9:00 a.m. this morning. large hail possible. thunderstorms just rolled through ft. worth. now they're heading through the dallas area. travel through louisiana, be careful. we expect another 1 to 2 inches of rain and eventually it moves to mississippi and also into areas of alabama. now the other story, the mid-atlantic region, today is going to be a severe weather threat day. 19 million people at risk. thi

let's bring in bill karins to focus in on the weather conditions by the simple definition of it.e're told it was good weather at the time. >> yeah, it was perfect weather at the time which is a little surprising. we haven't found more during the daylight hours today. the weather wasn't a factor taking the plane down. we've had clear, perfectly clear skies and now unfortunately sunset will be here in two hours and 20 minutes. they had all day with perfect sun conditions and hardly any clouds to spot. you know if you go within two more hours and it starts getting dark, the odds of finding anything overnight, it's so much harder unless they infrared can pick up something. even that would be cooled off to whatever the water temperature is in the area. the flight path, the x shows where we lost it on radar. it's still clear for last two and a half hours of daylight. here's the search area and things get interesting. we've had conflicting reports. we had one report about 130 miles something was found in the water to the south-southeast of karpathos, which is very close to where it was

let me bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins on what the weather conditions were like in the mediterraneanrnight and now. >> these pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together. let's start with the weather in the flight of the plane. the yellow arrows show you the path it took. the x is generally where it went off the radar. conditions had been clear and are clear. it's now 3:30 in cairo. sunset at 6:44. only three hours left of daylight. if we're starting to get some of those findings, they have three hours to send as many boats and planes in that region and see what's in that region. this is the search area in general that's you're looking at. as we come off the island of crete, the island of karphathos. this is where they're saying 130 miles to the south-southeast of there is where they had the reports of some of those findings. that takes us down in general right about this vicinity in here. that's about south-southeast. that's pretty close to where it was lost off the radar screen, maybe a little further to the northwest of that location. that's -- would make sense. as far as th

more on the severe weather, bill kari karins, you've been busy this week. >> all of those were with the same tornado. all of the pictures you just saw. numerous tornadoes, you know, formed and reformed. >> talk about a super cell. >> exactly. this was it last night. 7:00 p.m. when we started watching the tornado forming right here a little hook echo right there. as it began to cross and head for interstate 70 we had our tornado emergencies. chapman, kansas, scary. looked like the thing was heading through the middle of the town and went a half mile to the south of there and where most of the homes were damaged. very mature storm in junction city, scared for you too and the storm weakened. by the time it got over you you had a hail storm. impressive stuff last night. today, cluster we iowa getting a lot of the thunderstorms and wind damage a problem overnight tonight. towards tomorrow, we will reload the atmosphere and possibility of a minioutbreak. 28 million people at risk and enhanced risk in texas and enhanced risk same spots over central kansas, north kansas and southern half of are