joining me now is nbc news meteorologist bill karins. generation, that's really for people in northern new england. you think of northern new england, they have seen it all. they've seen huge blizzards and snowstorms and ice storms, and arctic outbreaks. when you talk about those people seeing a once in a lifetime temperature, that's when it gets really significant. where do we sit right now, this morning, the coldest air was located over the great lakes, still cold in chicago, windchills at 1. the worst has now blown through buffalo into northern new england. burlington's at negative 9 temperature, windchill is negative 34, and northern maine, negative 39. i've just heard a report that there's a four alarm blaze at an industrial complex. imagine being a firefighter, going outside and going to a blaze when it is negative 39 windchill. i mean, i can't even imagine what they're going through with that. here's a closer view of northern new england's windchills. this one jumps out of course. negative 94. you're like, what? that's the top of

. >>> let's bring in bill karins now. he is tracking this storm. , what are we in for this evening >> lester, the snow in the mountains in these low elevations has been the wow, but now we're to the part of the storm that's very dangerous. we have torrential rain over downtown los angeles and into the mountainous areas outside of l.a already one to three inches of rainfall. flash flooding is happening now or imminent we have life-threatening flash flooding and flood warnings including los angeles and santa barbara areas, so this will be a danger right through the evening. small streams, creeks, landslides, mudslides all possible as we go throughout the next couple of hours, and then the storm is not done we take the storm sunday into the middle of the country with a severe risk for oklahoma city, areas of wichita falls, maybe even isolated tornadoes, and the final stop for this storm heads up monday night and tuesday into new england and the northeast. lester, we're going to see a snowstorm. >> all right, bill karins, thank you. >>> in 60 seconds ye

bill karins, time it out. when does the worst arrive? >> starting now. freezing rain, areas of snow and blowing and drifting snow. highways closed. waiting if there are tornadoes out of this system, too. line of storms over st. louis currently. tornado watch in affect until 6:00 central standard time. not reported yet. 15 minutes, st. louis gets the all clear. freezing rain broken out from areas in southern wisconsin, northern illinois. an ice storm here in lower portions of michigan. could be where we get more extreme item totals where our computers are pinpointing from detroit to grand rapids. quarter inch of rice on trees, causing minor damages, minor power outages. blizzard warnings roads lossed in wyoming and south dakota now picking up in minnesota. four inches of snow in minneapolis. 12 more falling tonight through tomorrow morning. just beginning of the worst part of their storm. >> meteorologist bill karins, thank you. >>> president biden is on his way back to washington after three days in eastern europe. >> major goal of that trip, shore up su

bill karins, guad venn nag gas. , maybe we can send guad a hat. >>> breaking news from the federal reserve. the central bank has raised interest rates again in an effort to try and tame inflation. >> this time it's only going up by .25 percentage point. that's the smallest increase in nearly a year. senior personal finance kpt sharon epperson joins us. how significant is the rate hike this time around? >> it's smaller than the past rate hikes we've seen. but it is significant bringing the target rate to a level we haven't seen in about 15 years. so we or looking at what the fed chairman is going to say about whether we're going to see on going increases as was indicated in the fed statement. what he said is it's a problem if they do too little and then inflation swings back. >> they're in a crazy situation, trying to find the goldilocks moment. consumers, credit card olders, mortgage holders, everything else, what does this .25% moan? >> it means a significant amount considering they're not done yet. at least that's

meteorologist bill karins is tracking all of it for us. bill, let's start with the east coast warmup. how high are the temperatures going? >> 50s and 60s. reports in the mid-atlantic of pollen. the leaves are coming out in areas of virginia, like three to four weeks early. it hasn't been much of a winter. now we're seeing these warm really unbelievable warmer temperatures. it's not just isolated on the east coast. this goes to the rockies. denver, 53. rapid city, 62 degrees. minneapolis, 46. this is almost 20 degrees warmer than you should be. it's not just one day. it's going to last almost all week in some cases. madison, 46. detroit at 50. d.c. near 60. boston at 48. you get the idea. we don't cool off until the end of the week. >> you're also keeping an eye on the west coast, two systems out there. what do they bring? >> different story. we got snow in areas of arizona on the room. a snowstorm coming into the pacific northwest. even portland tonight could go from rain over to snow. we're going to see these two storms bringing significan

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nbc's nialaa charles is in minneapolis and bill karins.nesotans used to snow and cold this time of the year. what's different about this and how are they bracing? >> reporter: cynthia, today the governor issued emergency executive orders for the national forward, the state department of transportation, and the state patrol so that they can start prepositioning equipment and also coordinating highway rescue plans, and that's something that people are trying to drive home, officials are trying to drive home to the people who live here. like you said, minnesotans consider themselves used to this type of weather. but with more than two feet of snow expected and wind gusts as high as 45 miles per hour, it's going to make a dangerous condition for drivers who have a very difficult time seeing. so with that in the case that people do decide to drive anyway, if they get stuck or get into an accident, it will take longer for crews to get to them. so the governor urging the residents here not to take this lightly. and although they may consider them

and bill karins is here in the studio tracking it. it's going to be quite a night for a lot of folks. >> lester, this is some of the most extreme weather in our country's history in northern new england right now, especially at the higher elevation. it's obviously dangerous for anyone going outside, frostbite or hypothermia in minutes in some cases. 24 million people, and it's reall from connecticut northwds it's northern new england that's getting the bite of this this isn't a misprint. the top of mount washington has a negative 106 windchill right now, a record for them the wind is gusting to a category 2 strength with a negative 45 temperature. it's extremely cold in northern vermont look at maine. northern maine is already at negative 45 so when you wake up tomorrow we're in the negative 45s it slowly gets better during the day tomorrow, but the really good news, lester, by the time we get to sunday, it warms up into the 40s. >> no chance we can skip saturday and go right to sunday? >> no. >> all right bill karins, thank you. >>>

guys. >> let's turn to bill karins now. who is going to get the worse of this particular blast of cold air and how long is it going to last? >> it is already here. now a question of how long will it continue. it looks like tomorrow afternoon, things will relax dramatically, in the areas that are getting hit the hardest. 25 million, the areas here in northern new york, all through areas of the capital district, vermont, new hampshire, maine, most of massachusetts, most of connecticut, rhode island, those are the warning areas and the areas we're worried about people going outside and getting too much exposure and frostbite and at worst hyperthermia, too. the wind chills now in the negative 11, three, dc, not too bad, dc, cold and not that dangerous and once the sun sets, those areas will see the temperatures dipping, and then we'll see the extreme dips in areas to the north. we're already in the negatives, upper 30s, to negative 42 right now, in northern maine, and northern vermont, is negative 32, and so you get the idea, w

let's go to our nonground hog weather expert, bill karins.out, like the potential for a frost quake, what is that? >> let's get to the numbers, and then we'll get into the frost quakes or ice quakes, some people will call them. the area of concern that it could be generational, that's happening now in northern portions of new england. it's not going to be boston to hartford to new york city. it will be very cold, dangerous if you're outside without your skin protection, not like what they're dealing with in northern new england. things have improved dramatically in the great lakes, minneapolis, the windchill is 19. that's an improvement. the coldest air is now located in northern new england. i'll zoom in and show you all of our weather observation sites. the first that jumps out is mount washington. three people living out there. weather observers, 6,500 feet, and negative 94 windchill. the wind is gusting to 120 miles per hour. that's pretty insane, and they actually said if they walked outside their building, they would take one minute for

. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you, and so let's get a forecast now from bill karins. ood, you're going to have your air conditioner on tomorrow in d.c. it's wild. let's get to the bad stuff. now we're at the peak of this massive winter storm, it's massive in size and intensity. the freezing rain, no one wants to be in freezing rain. you don't want to lose power when it's cold and wet outside. you don't want to drive in it either, slip and falls on the sidewalks and driveways, sending people to the hospital. that's likely from areas north of chicago towards milwaukee up to madison is and all through the southern half of michigan. we've also got a nasty mess of snow, then sleet changing the rain through central pennsylvania. that's treacherous driving too. and that will be heading through new england in the northeast as we go throughout this evening. here's the ice forecast. when you get above a quarter of an inch of ice on trees, that's when they start to snap and break. this area from ke detroit just north of chicago, those are the greatest areas of concern. as far as

. >> meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all for us. bill, let's start with the storms in the south. when will they be most severe? >> right now. just in the last hour we started to see numerous tornado warnings popping up, nothing confirmed yet, we have three separate tornado warnings, a new knd tornado watch that includes nashville, tupelo, jackson, meridian and hattiesburg. a closer look at the northern tornado warning near dixon, kentucky. interstate 40. this line of storms and that tornado storm is heading toward the general nashville area, about 30 to 45 minutes away. we'll keep an eye on that one closely. memphis, you're in the clear, all set. same for little rock. greenville, mississippi, all clear. we'll watch that line of storms heading for alabama and nashville and later tonight toward montgomery. the tornado threat, the area of greatest risk where we see the tornadoes popping up now. or tornado warnings. that's in areas of mississippi and this early this evening in areas of alabama and slice there, southern tennessee. we stil

nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us. you warned us about this. time it out. who should be bracing for another round of winter weather? >> it's going to start in california and it's actually where it's happening now. i-80 is closed, blizzard conditions across the sierra. manmouth mountain, it's so windy they only have 6 of 25 lifts open. the main lodge is even closed because they're getting such high wind gusts along with heavy snow. so that's the storm system that's kicking down through central portions of california. eventually that will shift down toward los angeles with a rainstorm later on tonight. they will get a little bit of snow in the mountains outside of l.a. but not as much as the last storm. this is really a big event for years of the sierra. that's the purple color, the blizzard warning. and we will see the storm moving toward utah and also arizona tomorrow. we are going to see a significant snowstorm, flagstaff up to 2 feet of snow, cedar city will get about a half a foot of snow. the grand canyon could get 6 to 12 inches of snow. as far as rain

to help us make some kind of sense of all of this, i want to bring in bill karins, msnbc meteorologistthis morning saying i don't know what's going on. we don't go out this early, but we did. >> it's not like we're doing march in february. this is a march type storm, severe weather, snow, you kind of expect that as you head into the springs months. usually february is a straight and narrow winter month. here we are, four tornadoes reported today. nothing as bad as what we saw yesterday, especially around norman, oklahoma. and we have one tornado watch we're watching closely. our radar watch is showing debris in the air. our radar, which scans the sky, usually it sees snowflakes or hail or rain drops but it's seeing foreign objects in the air. that means a tornado likely touched down, sucked up some of the debris in the air and through it in the sky. that's what the radar is showing. we think there has been a tornado between cincinnati and dayton, ohio. we'll continue to watch that and give you updates and find out if anything horrific happened. hopefully not, hopefully just minor damag

washington, but let's start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let's take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we know at least 3,000 people are dead. it's very likely that number, horrifically will go up. rescuers on the ground, countries around the world promising to send help as well. the quakes took place near the turkish city, pretty large, population, more than 2 million people, people as far away as egypt and israel felt this thing. that's the difference between new york and chicago. i want to get to molly hunter, covering everything with the rescue and recovery push on the ground. molly, walk us through it. >> and really you are repeating the key words here, search and rescue. we are still looking for survivors, and there's a massive effort right now in turkey, you mentioned 3,500, that is the n

bill karins joins me now with where it is headed next. are the significant areas of concern right now? >> we're done with the severe weather portion of it. now it looks like what we should be dealing with in february and that's winter weather and cold windy weather too. it is just amazing how many storms we had this winter that we have been talking more about tornadoes and severe storms than we have about how many inches of snow or ice or blizzard conditions. it just has been one of those wild, warm winters. so the areas on the map of greatest concern, right around the quad cities, the davenport area, that's where we have winter storm warnings, kids get the day off of school in most situations. it is snowing pretty hard in that region. now that band of heavy snow shown in the blue and white there, around madison, that's where you're going to have -- wait the storm out. by tonight, you'll be fine, dig yourself out and you should be safe to travel. air travel is not fun, though, in areas wrapping around this storm. there is a lot of wind, s

nbc's gaud vanegas joins us and bill karins with where it is all headed.reporter: the temperature is in the 20s, below freezing point as you mentioned. throughout the day yesterday we saw rain, sleet, all coming down and eventually this is what created what you can see behind me. it is like a giant ice skating rink, all over memphis. this is what the streets look like, everything you can see is covered in ice. i have a tool so i can show you how thick this ice is. anywhere you go on streets, you have -- about a quarter inch of ice and i'lliceicle that came off one of the buildings. now we have seen some vehicles, there is a bus about to drive through, it is very dangerous to drive. we had to selected a spot not too far from here where we were going to be set up today. we have all wheel drive vehicles that we were going to use to get there and we decided to stay in this area next to our hotel because the roads were so slippery, yet we have seen some vehicles driving around, but eventually, you know, everything froze here in memphis. and in fact, i'm pretty

. >> bill karins for us. and sam brock. thank you both. >>> president biden was in tampa this afternoon for the second and final stop in his post state of the union swing. he is there to talk about protecting and strengthening medicare and social security. and florida is also still considered by some a key battleground state and home to two of his potential rivals in the 2024 presidential race. mike memoli is in tampa with the president. how is he trying to build momentum from tuesday's state of the union? >> reporter: we remember where the republicans disagreed with him to sunset the programs. and president biden said that more republicans support more plans to undercut other health care plans. take a listen. >> republican congress have their way, the power we just gave to lower prescription drug prices goes away $2,000 capitol goes away. the insulin limitation goes away. they have been trying to get rid of the affordable care act for years and millions are on it. >> reporter: and he is referring to the inflation reduction

nbc news meteorologist bill karins is joining us now. bill, time this out for us if you can. what should we expect over the next 24 hours? >> we have another four hours of calm and then thunderstorms will start exploding in northeast texas and then we'll worry about big hail and after that have new storms developing somewhere near little rock or memphis and that is where we'll worry about the tornado threat. the storm responsible for this mess is our storm number two. storm number one is heading up into canada. it is done, over with. still a pretty good snowstorm ongoing in areas of colorado and will spread into the plains tonight. the night time tornado threat we are most concerned with, again, the storms from dallas, mcallister, then a new batch along the warm front forming here from little rock to memphis. it is in this area not only we have a chance of a tornado but maybe even one or two strong tornadoes. the strong, nocturnal tornadoes are by far the most deadly and scary and especially if they hit populated areas you can have disaster but if they don't, then thankfully

let me bring in nbc's george solis in new york, nbc news meteorologist bill karins is with us as well bill, they're calling this a generational outbreak. i just had friends come back to antarctica from antarctica. >> yes. >> it was warmer there. >> yeah, tonight and tomorrow one of the coldest spots on the planet will be northern new england. i looked it up, only northern siberia will be colder. like that's the comparison we're making. that's a bad comparison. so we've dropped all of our winter, our windchill advisories and warnings in the northern plains and great lakes. that's good. the worst of this is over for you, and now you begin to warm up, but the bulk of it is heading straight into areas of northern new england right now. this is mostly a northern new england problem. that's where they're going to see windchills that are very unusual, even for those coldhearted people. areas like boston, south wards, new york city. we kind of get this and typically, you know, a couple of times a winter. you notice already windchills negative 35 right now in burlington, vermont, caribou at ne

niala charles is with us in is -- in los angeles and bill karins joins us as well. >> imagine my surprisen i heard i was leaving minnesota for blizzard coverage only to come here to do blizzard warning comp. we usually don't get much snow in the mountains here in l.a. and right now we're report begun eight feet of snow at highest of peaks and by tomorrow and other areas five feet expected. a lot of snow and people are reacting. take a listen. >> i looked it up and saw that hollywood lake park had snow it's like a once in a lifetime thing. i've got to go it. >> i've lived in los angeles my whole life and i haven't seen any -- the locals are loving it because for us this is kind of a thrill, you know. >> unlike the minnesota so thens the people here in -- the california highway parole because even a slow amount of snow hand ice and ear at the lower end we're getting lots of railing an mud slides that people will be watching out for. >> six-plus decades since that california had a h seen snow. i think the hollywood hills will be okay but how will things be for west coast? >> reporter: things

bill karins, what the heck is going on? when can things get back to normal? >> this would be normal if it was middle of march. we get this severe weather and warm but it's unusual for the last week of february. at 82 in nashville and there's that 81 that we just hit in washington, d.c. by the way, it was 68 last hour and it just jumped up 13 degrees in one hour. now let's focus on where winter still is. it is remaining. it'll probably be there for about another month. the windchill in bismarck, negative 23. so behind this snowstorm that we are done with is some bitterly cold arctic air then what's brutal. as far as records go, we just smashed the record in d.c., it was 78. nashville, we are very close to that. record of 83. even middle of alabama, montgomery, we could hit 85 degrees, tomorrow, not as many areas will break records but we'll still be very warm throughout the southeast. then things kind of return to normal and i'll leave you with a little tease. it looks like a very snowy end to the month, first week of march from the great lakes through the nor

also joining me is nbc meteorologist bill karins with a closer look at what's ahead. emily, how are they preparing for this huge temperature drop? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. as you mentioned, it is cold enough here to cancel classes in several school districts in massachusetts, also in buffalo, new york, we're watching temperatures rapidly plunge. we started reporting this morning around 7:00 a.m., we saw the temperature about 23 degrees. well it has dropped at least nine degrees since then, we're well into the teens and it is only going to get worse. on top of the cold temperatures we're seeing whipping winds expected to reach up to 50 miles an hour in parts of new york and new england. we're seeing cities including here in boston take steps to try to offer some places of refuge. a lot of warming centers opening up across the region. also taking steps to make sure that buses and the trains can remain operational, storing those in tunnels overnight. chicago will feel like minus 20 today. tomorrow in boston it is going to feel like 30 below. and as you mentioned, j

the white house is facing criticism of the documents handling scandal and karine jean-pierre dodges questions at the podium. but bills it's not her fault. don't blame the press secretary. she didn't give us the document scandal, joe biden and merrick garland did. we are joined now. chief speech writer, ok, so you are highly qualified to weigh in on what we might hear from president biden tonight, bill. first your top line thoughts on how the president, two years in, should approach the nation and members of congress this evening. what should he do? >> well, what usually you do is you try to put forward your agenda in the most broad terms possible, meaning the most appealing terms to a large segments of the american public. i mean, you are talking to the american people, not just to your party. and so these little tricks for speech writers, you try to handle an applause line by writing it in a way that make you look bad if you don't cheer or you sit down or something. i don't know that president biden is going to follow that. he's given some pretty divisive speeches and i'm sure, i'm not sure there will be anything b

karine jean-pierre. >> john: bring in our panel, juan williams, and david avella, abby lowell is a very good washington attorney, just ask bill clinton, jared kushner or ivanka trump but seems to have tied himself up in knots, particularly the charge here, mr. mac isaac has admitted gaining access to our client's computer information without his consents. he has copied the data without his consent. if he didn't have the laptop, juan, how did he get the stuff? >> on the surface ridiculous, seems absurd. but the point, abby lowell is a good lawyer, making the argument the data was transferred to the laptop from somewhere else, or had his laptop and then sent it because of the technical possibilities, imported it to another device, i don't know. it does not make sense on the surface. >> juan, thanks, comparisons to hillary clinton's laptop no doubts, but i'm not. >> john: i thought it was a server. >> a different set of comparisons, when white houses get involved in scandals, whether it be the teapot, iran contra, that is the complete focus and the policy agenda goes out the door, and that's where we are getting to with the bide

to passing the george floyd bill have argued that there is no law that would have prevented the deadly beating of tyre nichols. does the white house agree with that? karine: look, i'll say this. when it comes to this issue, the police -- police reform and dealing with an issue that's certainly affecting many communities, the brown and black communities, specifically, and asking -- would -- would the george floyd in justice in policing act have changed anything? we believe it would have strengthened accountability measures which we think is important for federal it would give the department of justice expanded powers to go after departments that have patterns or practices of excessive force by its policing and other unconstitutional practices. it would require the department of justice to establish accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies. it would require officers to complete training on racial profiling and implicit bias and the duty to intervene when an officer uses excessive force. the president has asked to pass the george floyd act and organizations supported the reforms as well. and when they would not act, the president put forth an ex