our goal for the great lakes authority are to foster innovation and expand the core u.s. manufacturing, industrial, and agricultural bases. we intend for it to promote new advances in renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, and hydrogen, while helping us conserve and steward our environmental assets. it should also -- various agencies to help us produce this plan for the future. finally, the great lakes authority provides a new opportunity for american progress and i look forward to the true possibilities this authority will unleash. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady yields back. the chair will now recognize the gentleman from arkansas, mr. womack, for five minutes. mr. womack: madam speaker, it is with profound sorrow and endless appreciation i rise today to honor the life of detective paul newell of the benton county, sheriff's office in arkansas. he was one of arkansas' finest law enforcement officers. a man who lived his life driven by a call to serve. for more than two decades, he donned the badge. more i

i always said the great lakes shouldn't be a partisan issue and thanks to rob they have not been. we found ways to work together on the issue of trade as well. we fought for american workers when we served together in the house and then continued a strong working relationship when senator portman left to be the us trade representative under president bush. in the senate we partnered to ensure american workers have a level playing field, that included a great congressional delegation trip to vietnam and south korea where we met with trade officials and i got to see how much he is respected by world leaders. strengthening our supply chains, securing funding to revitalize communities, promoting recycling, planting trees, funding our community health centers, keeping plastic pollution out of the great lakes, there is no end to the number of issues we work on together. i am going to miss you. i have valued your friendship and working relationship, you made a difference. i know you are going to enjoy spending more time with jane and jed and will and sally. watching more michigan games,

, then picked up moisture from the great lakes and deposited those little strips of moisture downes, ie at the end of lake erie and lake ontario and typically vulnerable snow belts, like buffalo and watertown, new york, saw about 150 plus centimetres of snow in some locales and was kind of the second act. so, for the most part, the storm's done for everyone else, except these two very localised communities seeing the brunt of the impact. ok, so you say the storm is pretty much done for everyone else, just you give us an overview of conditions right now. so i think in buffalo, things are finally beginning to wind down but i've got to say, in terms of blizzards... you know, blizzards in general are bad, you have to have at least if three hours of winds about 55—60 km/h, or worse, and visibility is down to about 500—600 metres. for this, what's happening in buffalo, they saw about two or three days of winds gusting to hurricane force, visibility�*s down to five metres, for an extended period of time, which is a type of condition — you can't even go outside. so to see that for so long

now, get this — we are surrounded by bodies of water, major great lakes in where i am, the province ofo now, good news — no longer under any weather watches or warnings, no winter travel advisories but i'm still advising those watching and those that toronto now, good news — no longer under any weather watches or warnings, no winter travel advisories but i'm still advising those watching and those that are heading out for, of course, christmas eve dinner and celebrating christmas with their families to bear caution, take it easy. we're still dealing with black ice, we're still dealing with really cold temperatures and those in and around south—western ontario heading towards the major great lakes region. but — get this, david — it's the cold winds that are coming off of those major great lakes that are kicking up the lake effect snow machine, that energy, and it is causing not for just a white christmas but a blizzard activity that is relentlessly delivering endless snowfall. people are going to be digging out for the next few days. and what has this meant for your, and other people's,

i one, i think the wonder of the lake shore is great variety of experiences that you can have up and own the shore from pristine environments like preserved areas like the ridges here to rocky or the lakes or waves or steadily sculpting cliffs and and cas like. this one at cave point county park to intriguing old lake shore towns and cities. algoma manitou, sheboygan, milwaukee just to name a few. this is a this is a photo lake shore state park, right in milwaukee. it's taken by our sun. and it appears in the travel guide of my lower lake michigan shore section of the book. well i hope that my book, with its travel guides, will help you to fully enjoy exploring the lake michigan shore as well as 18 other waterways covered in the book and i want thank you it's been a it's been a pleasure being here today i can sign a copy of the book if you wish and right now i'd welcome any any questions that you might have. thanks again. yes. along did you worked on your book? this one took about well took to two seas two years fall and spring seasons. i primarily work the fall and the spring. when i

we've served as cochairs of the senate great lakes task force since 2017, and we've gone to bat together on behalf of our beloved lakes, time and time again. we've introduced and passed legislation to stop invasive species from reaching and destroying our great lakes. when the trump administration tried to slash nearly all the funding for the great lakes restoration initiative, we fought back together and won. since then we've reauthorized the program and celebrated when we secured $1 billion through the bipartisan infrastructure investment and jobs act. the single largest very much ever for the great lakes, and it would not have happened without senator portman. i've always said that the great lakes shouldn't be a partisan issue, and thanks to rob they have not been. we found ways to work together on the issue of trade as well. we fought for american workers when we served together in the house, and then continued a strong working relationship when senator portman left to become the u.s. trade representative under president bush. in the senate we partnered to ensure that american worker

preventing invasive asian carp from reaching lake michigan and all of the lakes and tributaries of the great lakes basin. we worked for many years to fast track this funding, and thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure law, the army corps of engineers has the resource it is needs to begin construction on this project to help protect illinois waterways and every lake and tributary in the entire great lakes basin. just last -- this last year i was proud to secure over $8 million of community project funding for various projects in joliet, including $3.5 million to support the work being done to replacing aging service lines in our plumbing. so that every resident in the joliet area has access to safe drinking water. these are just two of the many projects in joliet that i have had the honor of working on throughout the years, what's more important is that joliet has given the chicago suburbs everything that the joliet area has given to the chicago suburbs, the blues brothers concert at the old joliet prison was faight cam top wrap up my time in joliet, and one that representing one of the many reaso

minus 40 degrees on the centre. us then is the distant question to canada and a blizzard about great lakes. thanks the late effects. know basically all that whole airport right now. great. nice pick that was your from the route to the warm water below. does that is heavy snow with about $150.00 centimeters about low parking force. when gus for about 37 hours is down to 0 and about $24.00 to actually $36.00 people. so far, confirmed from asked on here the region is used to cold weather and get all those people died. what does this tell us about al preparedness for these extreme weather events? i think a couple of different things. i think one of the unfortunate reality is that oftentimes people base their future preparations on past experience. and that doesn't work because of something called survivors buys. basically, none of us have ever had a conversation with someone who died in athens asked because they're no longer ra a, so we had to reinforce to one another. we needed to last. i will make it again, but that doesn't always work every store. mr. every storm has different pastors and s

minus 40 degrees on the centre us then a sort of distant question to canada and a lizard about the great lakes. thanks you later. thanks. know, basically all that cold air or why sounds great nice. that was your, from the relatively warm water below does that is heavy snow about 150 centimeters in buffalo. hurricane or when gas for about 37 hours is down to 0. and about 24 to actually 36 people. so are confirmed for mass on here, the region is used to cold weather and yet all those people died. what does this tell us about al preparedness for these extreme weather event? i think a couple different things. i think one of the unfortunate reality is that oftentimes people base their future preparations on past experience. and that doesn't work is something called survivors buys. basically, none of us have ever had a conversation with someone who died in athens asked because they're no longer ra a, so we had to reinforce to one another. we needed to last. i will make it again, but that doesn't always work every store. mr. every storm has different hazards and supposed to live there for 4060 years

it was choked off from the rest of the lake years ago to build a railroad causeway. >> the great saltup. climate change is responsible. you know, developers are responsible. and it just goes ”" -- and it just goes over top of people's heads, right? so, what we're doing is using this imagery as a way to kind of go, wow, look at this. this is really happening. stephanie: footen also sends the data he collects to biologist bonnie baxter. >> the water is way out there now. stephanie: we meet her on the southern end of the great salt lake. it is eerily qui and smells of brine. i feel like we are in the ddle of just a dead zone here. >> if we see larvae in the water, or pupal casings, there are sharpies to write on. stephanie: baxter brings researchers from westminster college to gather specimens weekly. >> these mounds should be covered with mats of microorganisms that do photosynthesis and bring the sun's energy into the lake system. but you can see that they're dry and they're not green and they're out of the water. even the ones in the water are not healthy, because they're too salty. t

a very heavy snowfall making its way across the great lakes, a lake effect snow. they're going to see upwards of 2 feet of snow in some parts of that area's all that cold air just rolling across the great lakes and producing all the snow and dump a knee on the east side. out ahead of that, you've had some very strong gusty winds, some coastal flooding, some heavy rainfall. we're not done just yet. you've got blizzard warnings continuing until sunday morning along parts of new the right along the great lakes there, as we're expecting that heavy snowfall to continue overnight tonight and probably into christmas morning, too. and behind that, you've got all that cold air that really is affecting much of the united states. many people without power. now freeze warnings all the way down in the florida is that cold temperatures continue to head south. here's the very latest on some of those numbers right now. you're -14 degrees in bismarck, north dakota. those cold temperaturhs now made their way to the eastern seaboard. they were in the 50's early this morning. now tha

so travel just not advised across the great lakes. this is where we're expected to be dealing with most of the snowfall, especially on the eastern side of lake michigan back on up through ontario as well as lake erie. these are areas that again have picked up numerous amounts of snow and nearly 2 feet expected neared buffalo. that snow is coming down through the ohio valley. heavy bands. moving through the miami valley and back on up into the great lakes as we speak. so please heed the warning. don't travel if you don't have to. max? >> britley, thank you. >>> while millions of americans are bracing for the worst weather still to come, people in the plains and midwest feeling the frigid impact. lucy cavanaugh reports from denver, colorado. >> reporter: millions of people experiencing the peak of what the weather service is calling a once in a generation type event. others still bracing. the bomb cyclone producing ice and snow is impacting more than 105 million people across the country. winter alerts from coast to coast for snow and ic

something called a bomb site loan, and he just rapidly intensifying low pressure system over the great lakes. the cause a flash reason. east wide arctic side. you're eco parked across, sent to us that grow live it's nose and broad temperatures down to minus 40 celsius on the north. such us winds to probably 90 to 130 kilometers per hour. and then the 2nd back occur in buffalo. latex knows totally about a $150.00 or more centimeters in roughly $24.00 at least dead. and it's been, you know, that said a year full of extreme weather, as we've just seen in that report all over the world. is there even worse? you have to come to think so the questioner was asking is whether or not this particular event is tied to a human plan, a change when it comes to buffalo. so there are certain things we can link to climate change, certain things we can't change because weather course is sort of what you get in climate when you expect in the case what happened. buffalo, i think that, you know, if we were seeing more water temperatures in the great lakes and we would be saying yes, lightly, more snow fall and s

black ice and really cold temperatures and those in and around south—western ontario the major great lakes cold winds coming off those lakes that are picking up the lake effect snow machine, the energy, and it's causing notjust a white christmas but a blizzard activity that is relentlessly delivering endless snowfall. people are going to be digging out for the next few days. find out for the next few days. and what has this _ out for the next few days. and what has this meant _ out for the next few days. and what has this meant for your, and other people's, christmas plans? and other people's, christmas lans? . , and other people's, christmas lans? ., , �* , and other people's, christmas lans? . , �*, ., plans? really, it's about location- _ plans? really, it's about location. for _ plans? really, it's about location. for our - plans? really, it's about i location. for our christmas plans in toronto, it means that christmas is back on schedule but if you're in and around areas like the major great lakes, the east and north—east shorelines of these regions, you are snowed in and not going an

right now there's a real fair up in buffalo and then some of these great lakes regions. apparently, the lot of people thought may be the, there's a kind of a low friday night and people thought maybe the worst is over and it is the holiday season. people are determined to travel. and a lot of people think that's just hundreds of people, maybe stuck in that cause may have been stuck in that cause overnights and now in the mid afternoon, eastern standard sex, you know, people who and stuff, that's a real real, real concern. right, right now it has to be said, i can add some granularity as we like to say to those they slight cancellations because what we're also saying is despite that tale which is always increasing flight cancellations, and delays. people are still going to the apple that determines to make that christmas and just tell them to see their families, i guess, and so on. so, but this would have said the optic there when we 1st started looking at the statistics this morning, there were $2352.00 flight delays that was going up in since iraq router 3 or 4 hours to

tonight, the arctic blast is tightening its grip as the deadly storm takes aim on the great lakes, leaving path of destruction. rescues on flooded streets in new york city, pile-ups on icy roads in the midwest and massive amounts of snow. in buffalo, up to five feet is expected to fall with wind gusts as high as 60 miles an hour near white-out conditions left hundreds of drivers stranded the roads so dangerous, emergency crews had to halt rescue operations after two-thirds of rescue vehicles themselves got stuck >> this may turn out to be the worst storm in our community's history. >> now, a travel ban is in place and the airport shut down until monday across the country, slick roads and white-out conditions leaving a trail of car crashes and traffic pile-ups in ohio, crews are cleaning up friday's 75-car pile-up on the state turnpike kentucky's governor pleading with drivers to stay off the roads. >> we are having dozens upon dozens of accidents across the state, interstates as soon as we get them cleared, we have another issue somewhere around the state. >> the weather not just wreaking

we are expecting more snow today in parts of the great lakes and adirondacks. fect snow is going to be quite the machine cranking out the snow. that is why we could see 1 to 2 feet east of the lakes. that is the forecast. we will talk more about the holiday forecast coming up. for now, peter and kristen, back to you. >>> thank you, somara. >> brittney griner is waking up at home fors first time since being released. on friday, she posted on instagram gratitude and saying she plans to return to the basketball court again. we have priscilla thompson with the latest. >> reporter: this morning, brittney griner is back home in phoenix just in time for the holidays. the two-time olympic gold medalist shared the news on instagram along with photos sharing her first step on american soil and moment she reunited with her wife. speaking out for the first time since she returned a week ago. the last ten months have been a battle. i dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going, griner wrote. the u.s. special envoy who secured a

power outages are likely for much of the great lakes region and the northeast. we have already seen those power outages. 158 million people are still dealing with wind chill alerts that arctic air was no joke. really cold temperatures are still settling into places a far south as tallahassee look up into places like st. louis. it's just four degrees for the feels like minus five in omaha. this spreads all the way out t philadelphia it's just feeling like two degrees through the day today. you can see those temperatures tomorrow, not much of an improvement, but we are at least above zero in a plac like st. louis it's going to be 12 degrees fo the wind chill it's really bitter cold. we talked about the powe outages and the concerns comin with that with these dangerously cold temperatures. we are hoping people are doing okay there is some gradua improvement. i think this is what a lot o folks want to hang out to. we will see those start to get back to a more normal value in the 30s and 40s. that will feel much better tha it does right now. there is still 49 millio

the warmer waters of the great lakes, we get that lake enhanced. when we factor in the winds with the snow that may not be falling all that hard, but continues to cause whiteout conditions, hence the blizzard warnings all across the northern plains, and across the great lakes. >> well. busy night for you. >> absolutely. >> take care, to you soon. >> > one little word that could make a big difference, when we come back, vladimir putin uses the war word as an war in ukraine. we'll explain why that is a big deal. lily! welcome to our third bark-ery. oh, i can tell business is going through the “woof”. but seriously we need a reliable way to help keep everyone connected from wherever we go. well at at&t we'll help you find the right wireless plan for you. so, you can stay connected to all your drivers and stores on america's most reliable 5g network. that sounds just paw-fect. terrier-iffic i labra-dore you round of a-paws at&t 5g is fast, reliable and secure for your business. get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds can help your business get a

. — it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border — 27 bodies have been recovered theremore are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mexican border. montana has experienced the coldest weather, with temperatures dropping to —45. the most impacted residents live here in buffalo, upstate new york, where half of all deaths have been reported. the state's governor says they are at war with mother nature. anyone who declares victory and says it's over, it is way too early to say this is at its completion. the severity is downplayed now and right now it

that's going to be a slow mover, spinning over the general area from the midwest into the great lakes go through the day on thursday. be on the lookout for that. snow in chicago, toronto, rain into new york, d.c., back toward the west, really cold weather here, denver with two partly cloudy skies on thursday. quick note on the doha forecast with the world cup wrapping up this weekend. dry weather, highs in the mid-20s as we go through saturday and sunday. across japan, it's been a winter storm type of set up. we're talking about strong winds up to 105 kilometer per hour gusts with snowfall amounts quite high as we see this low pressure rolling on through. we're looking at snowfall amounts up to 60 centimeters ponl friday morning, gusts 126 kilometers per hour were many chilly weather through sapporo the next few days. hope you have a good weather wherever you are. ♪ ♪ . >>> and that wraps up this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard, so stay right there. ♪ ♪ >>> this is "newsline biz," i'm ramin mellegard. now, the

drew: let's look at your wind chills right now across the great lakes. in a lot of areas. 24 below in kansas city, -31 in chicago. this cold air will be migrating to the northeast later on tonight. feels like -12 in new york city and -7 in atlanta. we have a warming trend getting underway right now. 40's and 50's for us. partly cloudy skies later on today. we will go into the 50's and 60's and even warmer during the holiday weekend. christmas, we are pushing the upper 60's by the afternoon on sunday. kumasi: down to the wire, what's included in a sweeping spending bill that is very close to passing through congress just hours before a possible government shutdown. reggie: under house arrest in palo alto. the new development in the financial fraud case against ftx founder sam bankman-fried. kumasi: customer confusions. how employees are benefiting from the modern-day digital tip trend. reggie: but first, this live look outside. (♪) this season, you can spend less and make holiday dreams come true at t.j. maxx, marshalls and homegoods. with amazing gifts f

the great lakes, we've got the lake effect in full swing. the storm, that bomb sign clone, now has moved up into -- cyclone, has moved up into canada. giving us strong winds, and this is what it feels like, feels like -13 in biz mark -- business mark. bitter cold all the way down to the south, and look at these numbers through the afternoon, feeling like 26 degrees in pensacola at 5:00 today. what a christmas over, right? as we go through christmas day feeling more like 20 in pensacola, 19 in knoxville. amarillo, 30. it's going to feel warmer in amarillo than it will in pensacola. the bitter cold air continues to spill well to the south. houston feeling more like 23 degrees. you can see why it's a concern when we've got the pour autoage -- power outages in place. all of this air will start to warm up next week but, boy, it is a cold day right through the weekend. and, griff, over the great lakes places like buffalo have already received 27 the inches of snow over the past 2 two days, looking to add another 2 feet of snow there as well as hig

snow for parts of the great lakes, midwest and stretching as far as to tennessee and northern parts of mississippi as well heavy rain for the northeast that could cause coastal flooding and inland flooding as well here's one of those impacts. damaging winds this is really problematic, because we not only could see winds up to 50 miles per hour but oftentimes that will lead to power outages, downed trees, and that causes problems especially when we're talking bitter cold temperatures across the area with power outages, something we'll have to monitor. >> there will be a lot of headaches and problems for us, thank you very much angie. >>> now to the u.s. supreme court who's dealt a major blow to thousands of asylum seekers at the border. they have issue d a temporary stay to keep title 42 in effect for now. t the administration's position is that title 42 is not needed anymore. governor abbott says it would help prevent illegal immigration. >>> at least two people are dead in northern california after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked humboldt county, about 200 miles north of san francis

snow likely across many of the great lakes there as well. and that is going to dump a lot on the eastern half. but cold air just really dropping in from the arctic in his sagging all the way the south are usually doesn't get there even into houston. wind chill warnings possibly talking about a wind chill -15 degrees. i mean, that is unbelievably cold and dangerous cold. here's a look at some of the temperatures much of the northern tier right now. we're looking at la scala to -20 degrees right now in casper. -18 degrees. a sioux you're looking at a -12 degrees. 11 degrees in norfolk. as you move further south, those temperatures moderate a little bit. but even into texas now we're talking about some very cold below freezing 14 degrees in dallas. 27 degrees right pow in houston. and you throw in those gusty winds of 50 plus miles an hour and those wind chills really going to be dangerous. all right. let's get you back out west. a lot of folks headed to the high country that all area want to enjoy the holiday. there's a cold front that's begin

we're not looking at a ton of snow widespread except off the great lakes.ck behind it. the snow will continue to fall through chicago and the midwest today, moving up across the great lakes. notice how it's mostly rain, heavy at times for the east coast. and then back behind the system where the cold air is, continued snow all weekend long off of the great lakes. especially across michigan and into western new york and northwestern pennsylvania, too i would say we will get two to four inches of snow. when you have wind gusts 40 to 60 miles per hour, it blows the snow around and you cannot see to drive add to that lake enhancements we're adding two to three feet of snow in the lake-effect snow zones. we are also looking at the win gusts 40 to 60 miles per hour. above 60 in buffalo. boston will see 56-mile-per-hour wind gusts we're also going to see two to three inches of rain and coastal flooding so flooding and coastal flooding for the east coast, too. just about everything you can get from the storm system. peter? >> thank you >>> to washington now, ukrain

have to keep an eye out for the monster winter storm moving through the northeast back through the great lakesffect snow, arctic temperatures surging down into texas where temperatures will be in the teens and 20s, windchills colder and let's not leave out the pacific northwest where rain and mountain snow is going to create travel troubles, as well. that's a look at t the weatherer acacross the c country we'll geget to your r local fort in the next 30 seconds how am i looking? looking good! ththe most cauautious driver w we got am i there? no keep going how's that? i'll s say when now? is ththat good? lots of cars have backup cameras now you know those are for r amateurs there wewe go like a glolove, girl (phone chimes) safe driving and drivewise can save you 40% with allstate click oror call for a ququote todayy >>> good friday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. it's still looking a little smoggy out there in san francisco as we are seeing the fog trapping the pollution, and it is unhealthy to be out there especially as we go into the morning. the north bay, the coast and the bay as well

blizzard warnings up for northern plains too the great lakes, winter storm warnings, great lakes regionn parts of the northeast, we may see these expand east. there are blizzard conditions, snow is likely one of lesser factors with this storm. it will be wind and this bitter arctic coal cold, look at windchill alerts for over 100 million americans from canadian border all the way to northern gulf coast. this is a huge problem, how widespread this is. as we head on through the next couple days, these are not windchills, they are air temperatures, watch this forecast. you can see clearly where that arctic air. is marching across the coun country -- 2 p.m. central time, omaha 6 degrees below zero, dallas down to 23 degrees, st. louis at 8, you watch that cold front continue to progress off to the east, this takes over the central and eastern part of the country this now friday morning, 6 a.m. central, nashville at 4 degrees above sere qzero and indy fe4 degrees below zero, and dallas at 14 this is generating a lot of problem that is with arctic air. and windchill. thursday to friday, this

and my cochair on the great lakes task force, working with her and all members of the task force we made a lot of progress fighting harmful algae blooms, invasive species and so many other issues important to our constituents around the world's largest freshwater resource. thanks to senator kane, mike cochair of the education caucus working to challenge congress to do more to address the nation's skills gap and promote the jobs act, provide individuals the skills they need to get good paying jobs, those skills are needed and we need to focus more on how we ensure we are not just spending money to send young people to college but also getting them the industry recognized skills they need. senator coombs, barra, and whitehouse on the national conservation caucus, you've been great partners on legislation to combat wildlife trafficking, concert forest and develop strategies to protect treasures like the delta in southern africa. i appreciate senators warner, kings, senator alexander for working on the restore our parks act which is finally addressing the massive maintenance backlog at natio

of systems, the first a line of heavy snow stretching from the rockies all the way over to the great lakes and leaving a deep layer of snow across the midsection of the country in the great plains. also moy system pushing in from the south, all combining for a bomb cyclone as they call it out on the eastern seaboard. it is going to be a rough go from the great lakes, the plains over to the eastern seaboard. and if you're heading to the south, out for wind chill advisories all the way down to the gulf south itself. southern mississippi, florida, and even louisiana tapping into all that here in the bay area. we do have that line of showers that makes its way into night. the downside of it pretty minimal. it just got to make a few wet spots. if you are driving overnight tonight. but honestly, mother nature timing it out just right for us. after the evening commute today and after you've all settled in for your thursday evening, showers move really quickly out of the region and friday, saturday and sunday set to be dry. really nice and mild holiday weekend. today's daytime highs mostly in the

stronger wind , with that snow, blizzard warnings are in effect from the northern plains to the great lakes into parts of new york, now. along the lakes, where visibility will drop down to a quarter of a mile or less. keep that in mind. the heaviest snowfall expected to be up around the great lakes as the wind, that cold wind moves over warmer waters and we could pick up roughly 2 feet of snow, especially toward buffalo and watertown. watch that closely as we move into the holiday. current snowfall through the ohio valley, heavier bands expected reports of columbus into cleveland as we are getting that transition, now. not only through the ohio valley, but right on up into the great lakes as we talked about with like enhanced snowfall, which causes big travel issues, not only on the roadways, so if you can, stay indoors, the best advice i can give you, but also into these more populated areas, some of our bigger airports like boston and new york and back into chicago. >> thank you very much, we will be watching it very closely. while millions of americans are bracing for the worst weather,

the storms, almost unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the great lakes near canada to the rio grande. along the border with mexico. 2 thirds of the country is under weather warnings, high wind, so the mercury plunged to minus 18 degrees celsius on friday in el paso, texas. where sub 0 temperatures are rare because the space in the u. s. was the remote montana town of harvard, which hit a low of minus 39 degrees, rising to minus 28. just before noon jabber. chauncey report the, the bronze of the storm on saturday was hitting upstate new york and the great lakes with snow full and high winds, many enough strand in their homes for christmas. i lived in what you might call the stereotypical american suburbs. you can picture that and i cannot walk to the sidewalk in front of my house about 20 meters from my front door. thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state has lost power for a period of hours. and they are just coping with extra blankets. and lots of christmas sweaters disliked individual ban on driving in some areas. there were is

yes, we're going to get 6 to 12 inches in the great lakes. it's about the winds with this storm, and the winds will bring that cold air all the way down to the gulf coast. dallas negative 2 for friday morning. by the time we get to christmas eve morning, negative windchills in the northeast and even central florida, lester, freezing cold. >> all right, bill karins with our update there. thanks, bill. >>> now to our other top story. at least two people were killed and 11 injured when a powerful earthquake struck northern california early today, damaging roads, homes, and businesses, and leaving many still without power this evening. miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: jolted out of bed and into chaos. residents in humboldt county, california waking up this morning to their lives turned upside down. >>>> structuraral collapse with entrarapment. >> reporter: a powerful and d deadly 6.4 earthquake damaging homes, destroyiying businesesses, and severing roads. >> it broke a window and several cracks in the building. >> reporter: striking

it's blustery in the upper midwest, the northern plains, the great lakes. northeast from new england into the tennessee valley once again. so that flood threat does continue more snow in the rockies as we near friday, we're looking at still wet conditions in portions of the northeast could see some snow showers in the inteor parts of the northeast, the great lakes, into the upper midwest. back to you guys >> michelle, thank you >>> faster growing, more perfectly shaped how scientists are stepping in to create the ultimate christmas trees. that's next on "early today. thig on all the gifts you need for the gifts that keep on giving. because while they have no idea what's going on here... -hi. -...a little something of their own will get them in the spirit. they don't know why you'd ever leave the house like this... but they'll happily hold down the fort while you're gone. -smiles! -and let's be honest, they'll never understand this whole situation... but they do get this. thank goodness. great prices. happy pets. chewy. do you struggle with occasional nerve

for christmas, the silver lining to all of it is that for a lot of folks in the upper midwest and great lakes interior northeast, very well might have a white christmas. sandra? >> sandra: that would be great once you get there to get the snow. looks like it's going to warm up in the northwest in to christmas and temperatures drop sharply. it will be cold. hunker down. >> drop like a rock. >> sandra: thanks, kendall. you can follow the latest on the fox weather app. you can download it for free by using the code on your screen or stream fox weather on your favorite connected tv device. hope we get you where you're going. millions of twitter using voting elon musk out. he asked the question, so now what is his answer? and to the russia ukraine situation in a new call for negotiations. how is that being received in ukraine? we'll have a live report. every year we try to exercise more, to be more social, to just relax. and eating healthy every single meal? if only it was this easy for us. so how many vaccines have you given to people? me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her b

by thursday, that storm drives east ward, heavy snow throughout the great lakes, and wet roads along with strong winds along i-95. by friday that storm clearing out, but much colder air running in on the back side could make for a very slippery christmas eve and a lot of snow throughout the great lakes, kate. >> matt, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, hundreds of americans are finally evacuating from a popular tourist spot in peru after finding themselves stranded in the middle of nationwide violent unrest. some had to take drastic action instead of waiting to be saved. molly hunter has the details. >> reporter: tonight, the peruvian government says most of the foreign tourists trapped at machu picchu have been evacuated. some of the american tourists making their way out on foot. about 300 people aboard this evacuation train later stopped in its tracks, unable to pass. evacuees forced to walk around massive bolders. that's american brian vega, captain in the miami-dade fire rescue, who's been stuck at the base of machu picchu for almost a week. after four days of hiking last week, am

. >> in colorado stretching all the way up into the great lakes region. this one really is packing a punch in right ahead of it, too. we have a lot of moisture working its way up from the south on up into the pacific. combination of these moy systems is resulting in winter storm warnings across a wide swath of the midwest. frost advisories. freeze warnings in just a push of cold air making for frost advisories and wind chill advisories all the way down to the gulf south. so from the gulf south, the cold temperatures down there, the snowfall across the midwest, the rockies, the great plains. and of course, all this moving to the northeast really is causing a travel headache for a whole lot of the country comparatively really quiet out here on the west coast. we do have some showers that are about to be dropping into the region. come tonight. this is our only line of showers that will be seeing ahead of christmas. and mother nature is timing it out. pretty conveniently for us. this first round of rainfall pushes in really after the sun goes down tonight aft

the snow with this storm is not that impressive by standards of the great lakes. we will see some areass 6 to 12 inches, but f we get that snow and the freeze coming behind it watch out, black ice is going to be a huge issue as we go throughout the day friday. >> all right. bill, thank you. >>> let's get to the release of former president trump's tax returns and new accusations that the irs failed to audit mr. trump properly. ryan nobles is following this. ryan, what are we learning? >> reporter: well, lester, that may be the biggest revelation. under the trump administration the irs failed to audit the then president's taxes which is agency policy. they also show that the trumps paid zero dollars in taxes in 2020 and then only paid $750 in taxes on two other years. now, the reason for this lack of tax liability is because the trumps claimed millions of dollars in business losses. now, republicans were very critical of the release of the trump taxes saying that it sets a dangerous precedent, but democrats counter that this situation is unique, and they are now pus

agreed to evacuate the northwest territory they relinquish their claims and exclusive control of the great lakesnd the american naval victory on lake erie and lake champagne left britain england never resumed of american, the war of 1812 once more a necessity for a strong navy maintained in a state of constant readiness lacking adequate naval strength we could not lift the barking. >> invasion had been stopped on lake champagne and new orleans but it was not stopped in the chesapeake bay which was american naval strength washington had been burned, the chesapeake lost and emphasized a disastrous result of lack of training and discipline. but america could take pride in her fighting ships and men. the trick is in smaller vessels had more than held their own all four runners in great modern fighting ships. the ships of 1812 fighting defenders of our great republic.

is this aned great lakes and northeast. is this linked to climate _ great lakes and northeast.d to climate change? it's one system and _ linked to climate change? it's one system and we — linked to climate change? it's one system and we have _ linked to climate change? it's one system and we have seen - linked to climate change? it's one | system and we have seen systems linked to climate change? it's one - system and we have seen systems this big back in 1973, 78, big storms forming, this one overland is pretty impressive, the one thing you have to look at, why is this such application of the pattern? it started in east central siberia, the cold and the snow that built up. all translated farther east and produced a big huge high—pressure centre up towards alaska. the connection is all the way from siberia into north america. what is causing these patterns? it's a pattern. maybe these marine water temperatures that are skyrocketing over the northern pacific and off the east coast, some of that has some influence and also influenced by climate change. there are a lot of other th

blizzard like conditions right along the great lakes bringing heavy snow there. we have zero visibility in areas toward cleveland and buffalo. they are continuing to see that power house of lake-effect snow push snow on the shoreline. the thing impacting so many more people is the cold weather. dangerously cold. 158 million people impacted. windchills from billings to florida. wind gusts at 61 miles per hour in buffalo. that is contributing to the blizzard conditions and lower visibility. the other thing we have to be concerned about is the power outages. we could see downed trees heading into christmas day. that could cause power outages. let's look at the numbers. kansas city. how are you doing? minus 13 degrees for windchill there. houston, feels like 10 this morning. in chicago, minus 18. new york is minus 5. a lot of us feeling the negative numbers. the chill sets up -- i'm sorry, stays around through the weekend. sunday morning with temperatures in the 20s and teens. look at the bitterly cold weather from the arctic and sticking around today and tomorrow. hi

pulse of snow for the up a great lakes and midwest. front picks up moisture once it hits the mississippi. we'll look ft. rains to development and an increase in the early morning hours, v.a., up i-90, prove and boston, rain can be heavy atay, annc fromes thug everything clears out, but everything turns co.esik minus 2 in duluth, 20 in cincinnati. temps 15 below average. >>> we're going to turn now to the economy, and we have news on jobs and gas prices. the new numbers tonight. employers adding 263,000 new jobs last month. unemployment unchanged at 3.7%. wages inching up. and president biden signing that bill to avert a catastrophic rail strike, welcoming the good news on jobs and on gas prices. what they're now predicting on gas by christmas. mary bruce at the white house. >> reporter: president biden today signing a bill to avert what could have been a catastrophic rail strike. >> rail shutdown would have devastated our economy. without freight rail, many of the u.s. industries would literally shut down. >> reporter: but the presiden

amy chris, the phenomenon of lake effect, snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean affects snow in main on the atlantic coast. the principal is the same cold moving over warmer water, creating intense storms. high winds, many whites out conditions in some areas, even where the snow fall had stopped. many remained trapped in their homes, homes where power outages are expected to continue due to the blocked roads. it's not just power lines down, even though there's a lot of that. it actually is substations are frozen and they now need to bring in equipment to repair the substations to get them back on line. they were bored. so some feeding they had no choice but to attempt to drive to circled warming stations. as their homes grew ever more frigid, despite advise, the driving in white house conditions could lead to death either from a crash or being stranded in the cold. and some did find themselves trapped in their calls with 2 days. fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska, new york and other states. bodies have been found in cars, non snow banks

look at these below 0 conditions from the great lakes up into the northern rockies where we're sitting in satellite and radar shows you those sprinkles. light showers up near the oregon border. the rest of the state is dry and mild. in fact, southern california is going to be really nice the next several days with warm conditions and we're comfortable enough for the bay area tomorrow, a little bit warmer and a little bit clear and sunday, the very warmest day of this forecast. we'll have some mid 60's for christmas day on top of all this. we do have king tides and that just means a couple of flooded spots right near the coastline right along the bay shore spots like the embarcadero. you may see some waves lapping up on to those concrete surfaces. today's daytime highs will be upper 50's to low 60's. pretty pleasant day. watch too much exposure to those a hazy conditions, especially if you have respiratory sensitivities. otherwise it is smooth sailing today. good one to get the final christmas shopping done. run all those errands or of course, take to the roads. it's going to be a busy

this was winter weather advisories across the great plains into the great lakes region. in addition to that, we're also seeing some really cold air plunging deep into the southern united states. and ahead of us, we will be seeing that continue to advance of this system on into the northeast towards christmas and that could cause some travel woes for you. if you're heading, especially elsewhere in the country. now, if you're staying in the west coast, things will be pretty calm here in california. we do have one lone chance of showers between now and christmas. that arrives pretty conveniently timed thursday night today stays dry. lots of sunshine throughout the course of the day. we're going to be seeing a dry evening tonight and a dry morning commute in the evening commute tomorrow for you. showers mostly arrive after that evening. commutes wound down tomorrow between 09:10:11pm. expect some rainfall. again, that's thursday evening into friday morning for the bay area drying back out into friday and staying dry through saturday for christmas eve and sunday for christmas