fort bragg, crescent city. ronald thompson, haven't heard from you. what are you sleeping in he's usually spot on letting us know how much rain they are getting. i've seen some rain, .75 up there. rain working its way south, mendocino county,lake county, that's a sign that the deep moisture is heading this way. it will get here. there's really not a lot on tap here for us. maybe .25 for some. .10 or less for others. let's hope that picks up a little bit. it would be tomorrow. the main impact would be tomorrow. lack how mild it is. upper 50s to near 60. get a south wind. you get the low level cloudiness in there. you can see that but we need this to drop south. there are signs that it's slowly doing that. you can see a little bit up towards mendocino county, lake county. nothing yet in sonoma county. if anything, it's very, very light. for you, cloudy conditions. a lot of reports of drizzle all the way down to gilroy, as a matter of fact. 47 tahoe, 47 up in reno. 55 ukiah. 58 sacramento. this system will bring beneficial snow to the sierra but probably

you can see rain around eureka and reno and to fort bragg and we have a winter storm watch in the sierrarow evening through thursday evening poll up to a foot of snow. today, clouds and a sprinkle is possible and 54 and mostly cloudy and 58. clouds and near 70 in sack machine coe and fresno and to the south more sunshine and low-to-mid 70's los angeles and 83 in palm springs. leyla gulen? >> the commute is almost like the time-lapse with not much traffic but just some construction. on bay bridge in the westbound direction, traffic in the westbound direction will be wrapping up. eastbound direction we have lanes blocked off until 6:00 this morning and we have afternoon closings. in the east bay yesterday, the lane closures were because of the ongoing project so if you need to make it to the maze westbound is short drive at four minutes and 880 southbound from fremont to san jose is 14 minutes 280 northbound at cupertino is a short 11 minutes. >>> janet napolitano will hold a chat today with a panel of u.c. students discussing toppings of interest including tuition, undocumented students,

fort bragg, the army's largest base, is also closed for nonessential personnel. scott, temperatures in this part of north carolina will not get above freezing until thursday. >> pelley: manuel, thanks. in the upper midwest today, we saw a tragic example of how dangerous this weather can be. jamie yuccas of cbs station wc northern plains dip to 46 below zero. jamie yuccas of cbs station wcco in minneapolis has our story. >> reporter: wind chills on the northern plains dip to 46 below zero. one driver who slid off a road west of minneapolis froze to death. mccloud county sheriff scott raymond: >> the driver made a decision to walk home and never made it. >> reporter: icy highways and blowing snow contributed to more than 350 crashes around minnesota. any moisture on the road immediately freezes, creating black ice. >> we see black ice form, actually, when the exhaust from vehicles driving over the roadway freezes, and it doesn't typically happen until those temperatures get well below zero. neither one of you guys are hurt, though, right? >> reporter: minnesota sta

much of this is not hitting the ground yet, around fort bragg it's going to move down towards the bay area, in the sierra there is rainfall hitting the ground there are pockets of snow but in lake level near tahoe it's raining at the moment but that is going to give way to snow as well. back to the bay area, over 24 hours just trace ams of rainfall. up to a couple hundredths of an inch. here comes better-organized rain, starting at 7:00 this evening, we'll see a cold front sweeping through. by 2:00 a.m better organized and steadier rain heading to all parts of the bay area, at 5:00 a.m there will be pockets of rain behind that. could be slow and we do have more showers to follow. what is coming later in the accu-weather forecast in just a few minutes. >> spencer, thank you. we'll have a live report on conditions coming up in just a few minutes. >> state fish and wildlife is taking steps to protect fish from the effects of the drought declaring seven river asks streams off limits. for salmon and steelhead fishing. the san river they have closed the smith river and the eel and van dusen

much of this is not hitting the ground yet, around fort bragg it's going to move down towards the bay area, in the sierra there is rainfall hitting the ground there are pockets of snow but in lake level near tahoe it's raining at the moment but that is going to give way to snow as well. back to the bay area, over 24 hours just trace ams of rainfall. up to a couple hundredths of an inch. here comes better-organized rain, starting at 7:00 this evening, we'll see a cold front sweeping through. by 2:00 a.m better organized and steadier rain heading to all parts of the bay area, at 5:00 a.m there will be pockets of rain behind that. could be slow and we do have more showers to follow. what is coming later in the accu-weather forecast in just a few minutes. >> spencer, thank you. we'll have a live report on conditions coming up in just a few minutes. >> state fish and wildlife is taking steps to protect fish from the effects of the drought declaring seven river asks streams off limits. for salmon and steelhead fishing. the san river they have closed the smith river and the eel and van dusen

by building these satellite centers, we'll be able to treat more troops. >> at fort bragg.ganizations out there. 100% of every penny goes to building these facilities. we have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. arnold fisher, great patriot, is the builder of these facilities. he's out there. we built three already. this would be the fourth one. we have five more to go. it's a $100 million campaign. these treatment facilities are saving lives. pete is a fine example of this. sit here with a man who received the purple heart. these two guys have been wounded in action and for him to be able to say we're donating half a million dollars, people who have already shed blood for our country, for our freedoms, it's a great example for people listening to get involved, to go right now to their phone, text that name purple to 20222 and help us raise the rest of this $50 million. >> even ten bucks, right? >> yeah. it really does help. one final thing just from us is people say, why isn't the government doing this? that will be a question out there. it's because they're doing what

battlefield that was diverted to littletown in western kentucky because the confederate general braxton bragg's full army was headed north and he was to go wait for the full union group that was going to be a pretty good battle. he went up there with a couple hundred troops are not completely surrounded by the confederate army of about 50,000. he held them off for several days waiting for the union troop that never came, the union army that never came. eventually negotiated a surrender in that office has ever been done and warfare before. he went to the confederate camp and saw that the confederate officer he understood was a gentleman and asked for advice. i'm sure you put something to the effect i am not militarily trained. what would an officer do in a situation where i pretty much told not to surrender, but you say you surrounded me with 50,000 men and a couple, maybe 500. can i see proof that your army is as big as this? and as an officer, sir, this is not how wars are fought. bitterness mrc said it took a liking to this man who wouldn't have led him astray for anything. they gave him a to

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if you're up north say fort bragg may be you might be in line with more than just clouds. temperatures coming down a little bit. the trend is to cool it down a little bit. here's sal. >> good morning, we are looking at a commute that's actually doing pretty well. you name the fog. just beware it's there. right here in oakland it's pretty clear. drive times are doing pretty well from the coliseum to oakland taking you about five minutes from crossing the town -- downtown about five minutes. your live drive time the -- 12 minutes from the toll plaza to san francisco. the traffic continues to move along pretty well. 5:01 let's go back to the desk. >>> a russian man with bay area ties has been arrested in pennsylvania for possession of a weapon of mass destruction. ktvu's tara moriarty with more on who he is and the connection to the bay area, tara. >> reporter: he graduated from carlmont high school and now he has been found with a bomb in his apartment. the penn state freshman and russian citizen was arrested and charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction in altuna

while having fun sledding, cindy bragg and her two children are realistic what all this means. >> montgomeryublic school should be open tomorrow. kids have been off since monday with martin luther king and tuesday a professional day that became a snow day and i think they're ready to get back to school. at least the parents are. >> reporter: you may have to make up missed school days. >> yeah. maybe. >> what do you think of that? >> i wouldn't like that so maybe go to school tomorrow. >> reporter: it's no longer maybe. you will be going back to school tomorrow on a two hour delayed basis. the latest here in rockville. >> thank you. school officials across our region are trying to figure out how to handle the snow days we've had this season. in the distribute the academic calendar has three built-in snow days and so far already used up five. that means there will be two makeup days now tentatively set for june 20th and the 23rd, extending the school year by two days. fairfax county, days built into its calendar, too, like d.c. has used up five so far. school officials there scheduled two make

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fort bragg up to crescent city.ur observer ronald thompson up in crescent city said a dismass, a disappointing .01. [laughter] >> if crescent city is only getting a .01, there's not much. there's been a little bit in lake county, mendocino county. a little fog here. mostly cloudy day. there will be very, very light rain to the north. 50s on the lows for most. there is a lot of upper 40s. novato, napa and santa rosa. but for the few locations, you can see some of that cloud cover streaming in. but again, very, very light rain. probably looks better for wednesday night into thursday. that will be the best opportunity by far because after that it doesn't look like there's much. for the bay area, it looks like a cloudy, mostly cloudy day. temperatures are starting to cool down a little bit. you would expect that with more of a west wind and a lot of cloud cover. some thick fog in spots kind of late to the party. cloudy to the north. maybe a few breaks to the south. a mostly cloudy day. mainly 50s on the temperatures. a

this first system is headed north unless you're watching us at fort bragg, this may give us some raint for us it's just going to give us clouds. it has increased the low cloud dock and definitely some fog. a lot of high clouds, mid-level clouds say coming in. a mixed bag of sun and clouds. more clouds to the north, more fog to the south. there will be a cooler week on tap. there'll be some rain in the north. the question is will we get some rain. .01. that would be like drizzle. let's not get too excited yet. warm air a loss. still there. shallow fog so some of that dense fog is playing into the dense fog this morning. zeros for a few, 40s and 50s. 50sfo, 50 oakland so held up because of that. could probably have a beautiful sunrise here with some of the high clouds comeing in if you don't have the fog. there's our system. this one is driving north. it's the one up here that we'll be banking on for wednesday and thursday. it'll be cooler this week. we'll see a cooler pattern and lots of fog. there'll be rain in the north. could we get toilet -- could we get it to the south? we will se

yo can see fort bragg point arena. so there is hope here. amazingly cold. frost and freeze warnings out to new orleans. and there is freezing rain and snow. this is something we may not see for a long, long time. 55 ukiah. and they say fog as well. 57 sacramento. snow level in the sierra will start way up. winter storm warning starts tonight. a lot of humidity. if yo do anything, you will feel it. it's almost florida like here. light rain to the north. that winter storm warning goes from friday. so snow level way up but then it will come down. 60s on the temps. everyone will be really close here. i don't think it will be that big of a spread. oakland 62. st. helena -- san leandro in there. 60s on the coast. much of the peninsula around 63- 64 degrees. and cloudy today, tomorrow. light rain will take us into thursday. and then the cold air arrives. and look at the lows on friday and saturday. >> don't forget you can follow steve and the rest of the news team online. they are also posting updates to facebook and twitter as we get them. >>> football fans that

. >> let's say, just hypothetically we pick fort bragg. i think that is currently the army's largest base. let it go there for a couple of years. the judges are there, the jags are there, the people are there. >> i will do far to the highest command. >> you have six different convening authorities and 50,000 active-duty soldiers there. you have a combined number of cases prosecuted there that exceeds all the rest of the cases in the united states army. exactly what holly has said, i think it would be a concern. you would pull it away from all of those commanders over to one part of post and it would become like trying to get a medical appointment at the hospital. you are not getting that day after tomorrow. >> originally too i was open to the idea of a pilot project. i didn't come to this with an adverse approach to the proposal. i said, if everybody thinks this could be, let's try it out. i now reversed my view about that. i don't see any reason to do it. if you give me a reason to do it, i am ready to do it right now. where is the confli

bragg, about ten minutes away from getting into ukiah.change going through the rest of the morning. starting off in the north bay the rain will drop in probably just before lunchtime, the timing hour by hour and by 11:00 the rain band moves through san francisco and into the south bay. by the time we get to 1:30 in the afternoon near fremont but notice how the rain starts to break up as the system slides south it will weaken somewhat. lingering showers tonight and then tomorrow clearing skies. the system while it will bring rain, not a lot. most of the accumulation is north of san francisco and you can see that there about a tenth of an inch maybe in the north bay, so not a whole lot expected out of this system. the weekend will start off with some showers. i do want to point out the big pattern shift starting monday. high pressure's going to build back in once again and our temperatures will get soaring back into the 60s and 70s especially by next tuesday and wednesday, those temperatures are going to climb on up once again. today chance

because the confederate general braxton bragg was heading north, and he was to go there and wait for the full union troops that was going to be there for a pretty big battle. but he went up there with just a couple hundred troops and got completely surrounded by the confederate army of about 50,000. he held them all for several days waiting for the union troops that never came, the union army that never came. eventually negotiated a surrender by -- i don't know if this is ever been done in warfare before, he went in under a flag of truce to the confederate camp and sought out the confederate officer he understood was a gentleman, and asked for his advice. i'm sure he played something to the effect of on not a militarily trained, what should an officer do in a situation? was pretty much told not to surrender, but you say you have surrounded me with 50,000 men to my couple, maybe 500, can i see proof that the army is as big as it is? and this officer said, sir, this is not how wars are fought. later in his memoir he wrote i took an instant liking to this man and wouldn't have come into

>>> fort bragg center, text purple to 20222. >> these guys will join us in the after the show show. have a great warm day. see you back here tomorrow. temperatures. we are talk way below zero. the frigid weather freezing everybody from cars to pipes. some rivers have turned to ice this morning. martha: 3 degree in my car. i'm martha, stay indoors if you can like we are today. subzero temperatures blanketing much of our country. down 30 degree in chicago and minus 23 in minneapolis, minnesota. 25 degree in tampa, 14 in new orleans. bill: rick, where are you? it's minus 19 degree with the with, how does that feel? >> reporter: it feels like fargo. it's painful out here. you mentioned some of these dangerously low record breaking temperatures. it was 16 below in chicago without the with. you add in these withs and look at the map. the upstate new york minus 38 and that's causing burst pipes and power outages. and this is no time to be losing your heat. but that's happening for thousands of power customers across the country. power companies are asking people to conserve energy. a lot o

bragg. this would normally be the morning rush hour. you can see there's hardly any traffic as the army's largest base is also closed for nonessential personnel. plows are working around the clock in north carolina to clear the streets. >> icy, so definitely i stopped, but the person behind me ran right into me. >> reporter: many communities are experiencing conditions not seen in years. now towns are rolling out rarely used snow equipment. in south carolina many schools are closed. the governor declared a state of emergency. freezing rain is blamed for traffic accidents, bridge closures, and power outages. still, the severe conditions aren't stopping some people from enjoying the unusual weather. >> we're used to snow so hey, we've got it, you know, half inch, or whatever. >> reporter: but authorities are warning residents about icy roads, temperatures in this part of north carolina will not get above freezing until tomorrow. charlie and norah? >> all right manny, thank you. and the snow from that southern storm reached new york's long

a little system coming into the north has given some very light rain from fort bragg up to eureka andent city. crescent city has only had .03. we've had some around here. a lot of reports of drizzle. low clouds. there are some breaks in the clouds. morning fog, drizzle. partly sunny skies. definitely some sunbreaks. clouds saturday. clearing sunday and then next week early next week looks sunny and warmer after saturday. rainfall for san francisco for january so far, a whopping zero has fallen. there was a .01 in the city. but officially at mint hill, nothing we've never had a dry in san francisco. the driest was .026 back in 1921. i will tell you the extended outlook does not look promising, we should get over 4 inches of rain, 4 plus in january. february has had one dry month. that was 1864. there's never been a dry march. there's still hope. but i will tell you, we need more than hope. we need a pipeline of moisture to come in here. a lot of low clouds in place. the system, weak system is giving us a lot of low clouds. temperatures starting off much warmer. mostly cloudy. drizzle.

i am from here in fort bragg where a lot of special forces operations are going on and i see on the news reports that only the 3 times he had asked for the help. what about august 16 and a couple weeks after that when general carter ham had offered to give it to him, over the phone and in person, and stevens denied it? the housen to that, of representatives and congress actually cut 10% of the state department's budget, $300 million. everybody is going after benghazi for the 5 people who died. what about the people who died under bush, and cheney, a draft dodger, 2.5 times worse than clinton? america, have a great day. for greg is here to protect you. host: felix is talking about that spending bill and the cut from what the obama administration wanted. the ranking republican on the intelligence committee, saxby chandler's, tweeted this out. ,ost: that is saxby chambliss republican from georgia. steve king from iowa host: that is steve king tweeting that out. senator ted cruz, potential contender for 2016 marco rubio,n another potential 2016 contender, put out this statement saying the co

bragg in north carolina, the last u.s. troops left iraq, and crossed the border into kuwait.s. more than 4,500 american lives and $800 billion. even for those who thought the war was won, debate on that very point continues to this day. according to u.s. intelligence officials, radical sunni forces that are linked with al qaeda raised their flag in the town of fallujah just after the new year. and fallujah is key, because it is the site of two of the bloodiest battles during the iraq war, in an area u.s. forces fought to shore up before leave iraq. reports of fallujah falling into the hands of al qaeda has left american soldiers who fought so hard for its liberation despondent, with one former army captain tweeting, could someone smart convince me mat black flag flying over fallujah isn't analogous with the fall of saigon? because, well, if there is anything that is quintessentially american, it is our military, and their goal can be seen in their very mottos. so when something they have fought for so hard falls and u.s. ambivalence to putting anymore boots on the ground runs

bragg were seriously hurt when a van hit a tractor trailer loaded with logs. soldiers. five are in critical condition. police cited the van's driver for failure to yield. the driver of the log truck was slightly hurt but refused medical treatment. >>> number 3, rock 'n' roll legend phil everly has passed away. ♪ wake up little susie wake up ♪ . >> you know the song, the everly brothers soared to the top of the music world in the late '50s, early '60s and they influenced he ed hits like the beatles. everly's wife said he died of complications from pulmonary disease. phil everly was 74 years old. >>> and a whiteout, still feeling the effects of a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow in some places. the storm is being blamed to seven deaths including a wisconsin man who succumbed to hype mow thermia. >> more than 700 flights canceled today. 500 have been delayed. many airlines are waiting fees for travelers forced to reschedule their plans. >>> across the country, officials are warning people to stay off the roads as bone-cold temperatures move into the midwest.