that was the kansas nebraska act. this group marched over to franklin pierce's house and demanded pierce support their plan to organize the new territory of nebraska to permit slavery. there it is. southern democrats have one thing in common northern democrats don't. and interest to expand slavery. this is ominous. this shows the politics of the party through this political culture were becoming increasingly sectional. what year was the kansas nebraska act? >> 1854. prof. balcerski: what year is the civil war? >> 1865. prof. balcerski: that is when it ends. >> 1861. prof. balcerski: the kansas nebraska act is 1854. the civil war starts 1861. that's only seven years away. look, this becomes the civil war. what do you think of this example? go ahead. >> i think it's more politics. you have northerners battling for their views. if they all live in one house, that is how they got their job done. prof. balcerski: well said. the power of the domestic sphere and politics. other thoughts on that? remember these guys. the f st

kansas. nebraska. great lakes. a little bit of cloud cover tomorrow. certainly more than today. not enough to ruin the the celebration that ended at the stage at civic center park. and now to the ground level. the players lined up in the fire tprubg. that's von miller riding with peyton manning. his daughter. mrs. bowlen. once on stage we heard from the usual team leaders. miller. peyton manning. elway. and head coach. had this to say. >> it took everybody on this stage. every guy on the football team. and i can tell everyone out there that nobody played harder than the national football league than the broncos. i'm so proud of them. >> coach remained humble throughout the celebration. also for this phone call. he took. >> . mr. president how are you. >> not as good as you. >> . quite the compliment there. comparing the broncos to the 1985 bears. and that defense. president obama followed up tw this tweet. >> . see you all at the white house. >> as for daytime tv. von miller stole the spotlight. super bowl mvp. onto the set with elen. he answered questions about cam newten. also

in and kansas nebraska they could see up to 20 inches of snowfall . for us tonight it will be chilly . and then a shower mainly after sunset it could be heavy at times tuesdayc and then ending midday wednesday we will still be mild until wednesday evening . with falling temperatures, snow showers possible until thursday and with the coldest high and 32, that's not too far off from normal with mid- 30s . a very rare looking ravishing is caught on video and one of the most recommends models in the world is calling it quits.. >> that and more anti- sedition of the update, the world health organization wrapped up a meeting about the zika virus that is spreading across the americas, the mosquito borne viruses virus is linked to an increase ino birth defects in brazil prompting travel warning for pregnant women or those who plan to become pregnant, w who estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of zika in the americas in the next year. >> cdc says it is done looking into e. coli outbreaks linked to chipotle restaurants initial outbreak in october 2 mo

by tomorrow morning early, the heaviest snow is to the east but blizzard conditions are in the kansas/nebraska border. early tomorrow. add lows of eetra time. >> there are those wind vectors. watch this, they start to weaken as the storm moves away and the snow starts to diminishes but still even in the late afternoon, strong gusty winds out near the kansas border. teens and 20s expected across the state so bundle up. snow, wind and very slick tonight. many areas especially between now and 5:00 a.m. picks up another 3-4-inches of snow and a bit more in the foothills. the snows lighten up but the damage is done. it's going to stay windy and cold and plenty of extra time and patience. sunny and cold wednesday, thursday we see the temperatures above freezing and forecast. if you have not downloaded that snow cast app available for the iphone, not yet for the droid, it's a great product and does well at point pointing the forecast. i'll be catching a quick cat nap tonight and be back in tomorrow morning early to join dale and jason and get you on your way and tell you to go back to sleep. >> mothe

parts of kansas, nebraska, all parts of the high country blizzard warnings in effect. the avalanche danger is really high, so an avalanche warning is in effect through tomorrow morning. now the temperatures out at dia, 21 degrees, but it feels like 10 degrees out here in the the 20s. so it's cold out here. let's take a look at the weather across the state in northern colorado, 20s, teens and single digits in the high country and look at the rest of the afternoon. we do have some very cloudy with light flurries, but our temperatures are really going to tumble once that sun sets. we'll hang onto the clouds a little while longer. overnight we'll see clearing and temperatures will drop to the single digits and the cold air will settle in. a look at futurecast shows when the snow clears out of the eastern plains because they're under that winter storm warning and the the winds are gusting up to 30 miles per hour. we've got whiteout conditions for our friends in the eastern plains. through 10 p.m. the snow wraps up. we hang onto the clouds. in the high country still some lin

so let look at it as shep mentioned ex-blizzard warnings in effect for kansas, nebraska, iowa, southernseeing not only snow but winds in excess of 45 to 50-miles-an-hour. we're expecting six to ten inches in much of the hawkeye state but southeastern portions could be mainly a rain event so the cutoff between rain and snow is sharp. but the wind gusts are go to start overnight tonight, blizzard warning in iowa starting at 3:00 a.m., and again, shepard, 40, 50 miles-per-hour, for an extend length over time, and that means travel is going to be difficult, if not impossible, overnight and tomorrow. >> and problems in the thought, thoughq+[vç;4qrfferent ones. >> glad you brought this up. we're talking about iowa and the paris but the severe weather event is perhaps a tornado outbreak for dixie, ohio valley, tennessee valley, mississippi river valley so getting into tomorrow afternoon, around this time, we're probably going to be starting to see some of the thunderstorm watches and tornado watches as we are expecting tornadoes, perhaps an outbreak tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening.

christina other states receiving the combined 10- million dollar grant include-- kansas, nebraska and wisconsin. reporting live in studio-- christina grijalva-- abc9 news jenna: a new study done by the environmental working group claims that voluntary conservation practices to protect iowa's water supply simply don't work. the study looked watersheds over the course of three years. specifically the group watched two key farm conservation practices. buffer strips are pieces of land near water ways that keep farm land further away from streams and rivers. grass waterways collect excess water within farm fields. the environmental working group says that farmers added both practices when commodity prices for corn and soybean were low.... but removed ose practices when prices were up, basically wiping out any conversation gains made. one of the co- author of the study tells a-b-c 9 that iowa spent more than 200 million dollars of tax dollars in 20- 15 alone with nothing to show for it. " how many more billions can we spend, without seeing any real progress without changing the approach? an

looking anywhere in the northern tier, kansas, nebraska, iowa, those areas seeing a nice round of snow. for us, just a rain event. us here, highs likely to be in the 70's. to mid 70's today. 70's again tomorrow. even with the rain coming our way. here's the cold front moving through mainly tomorrow afternoon. that's not an ideal time necessarily. look for thunderstorms to pop up along that line and if we do see storms, they could be severe potentially. we're not looking at a whole lot of energy in this system but there is a pretty good difference between the warm air and the cold air so that usually gets the severe weather going. look for gusty winds and also some heavy downpours of rain as that line moves through tomorrow. 73 tomorrow. the sunshine returning. >> we are loving it today. thank you, jonathan. the super bowl hype is at a fever pitch. before the players butt heads with each other, they had to take on the media. plus it looks like trouble in the classroom could keep one perspective player from hitting the gridiron at williams-brice. gervais. >> monday night football turns i

here's the storm over the central plains bringing in blizzard conditions across iow iowa, kansas, nebraskae main bolt of energy with this gets september off to the northwest of us. which means we get on the warmer side of the storm. and in other words, we'll look strictly at a rain producing system out of this. 39 is our temperature at philly international and temperatures dropful the sun comes up well after 7 at this point that said it won't be as much of a black ice situation in the city and the closer you get to freezing mark through mount pocono and allentown a lot of snow melts. if anything looks wet or icy it could ice never those communities. watch for that. we head to next couple days with a roller coaster on the thermometer. tomorrow looking to be recor record-breaking day in terms of temperature. 64 we're shooting for and record to beat is 64 in 2006. >> and it's almost like indicatesy i'll take the rain if it will be 64 in february. i'll take it all day. >> good morning, everyone, happy tuesday to you. all right. well right now the roadways are nice and dry. very pleasant outsid

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center of the country where there's numerous alerts and blizzard warnings through portions of kansas, nebraskaiowa, minnesota, and that's from the storm system that will eventually head our way. no blizzard. no snow, period. for this storm for us. and it definitely is a large system. it comes through with a lot of moisture as well. here's where it is now bringing in the snow and bringing in heavy rain. and that rain is what we really end up with here in the days ahead. let me go to future weather take a quick peek at the time stamp. a few showers nudge in earlier. for the most part this is wednesday event and especially wednesday midday time frame towards evening right now is how future weather is pegging this as far as timing goes. there's heavy rain throughout the day and as a result it could lead to flooding. there are, in fact, going to be flood watches that take effect in our area tomorrow afternoon. basically for central sliver of our region. one thing good with every passing day after you hit the winter solstice you start to add time on to the amount of daylight you have. tonight sun se

the midwest where they are action under a blizzard warning and some locations like parts of kansas, nebraska, iowa, up through even parts of minnesota. we are going to skirt by with some showers tomorrow and heavy rain. right now, we are not talking about rain outside. lots of sunshine, 47 degrees. our high average high temperature this time of year should be around 37. as we go through the next 12 hours, in and around the boston area, you will see temperatures near 50 degrees in some locations before we fall back into the 30' s through the overnight for a clouds will begin to crease as we had through the overnight hours into first thing tomorrow morning from our approaching system. we drop act into the 20' s for merrimack valley, 30' s in boston. upper 30' s on the cape. tomorrow, we have a southwest wind to start, offense returning to the north and west. bump into the mid-50' s tomorrow. what happens is this. high-pressure pulling away. tomorrow, we start out dry. the morning commute should be a dry one. towards lunchtime, when the rain comes on through, it continues to fall study for that

up into kansas, nebraska, iowa, before it is all said and done. and out ahead of the system, in the warmer and the more moist air, we will end up with severe weather. quite an outbreak expected of severe thunderstorms, late this afternoon, into this evening, back out into the tennessee valley, all the way up into the ohio river valley in the deep south too. so, not only will there be a raging blizzard, but there will also be significant amounts of severe weather later today. here's future cast, we're clear, lot of sunshine through the day, clouds coming in, few showers possible overnight tonight and tomorrow morning. hopefully tomorrow morning, most of the rain stays back out to the west. we get early commute in. this comes across, see, by one, two, 3:00 or so, this is band of showers maybe even some embedded thunderstorms in here. not worried about anything severe. but that will swing across. that will be it for the mild temperatures for awhile. then once that, the cooler air will come back in, talking about 40's, and 50's, for the rest of the we

kansas, nebraska, iowa, blizzard warnings throughout back here around the cold side of things, we're going to be on the warm side of things on this one. let's put everything in motions, low pressure this morning tracking through kansas, missouri, it's going to drag a powerful cold front through here tonight. first we get the surge of warm air by this evening temperatures are going up as the leading edge of that warm air comes in late this afternoon, that is when we shower. as the cold front approaches late it evening, that is when ourance chance for rain and storms will be at the highest. low pressure will track through chicago, and cold front, 11 if i 50:11:50, and -- 11:50, and we tomorrow instead of going up. a little sun through the middle part of the day, late day clouds return, and the colder weather sticks around on thursday, we're in the marginal to slight risk of, an enhanced risk, higher risk southern indiana, and western tennessee. that is where things could get really rough. we don't have the ingredient for severe weather, some of them, not all of them. there's a marginal

the heaviest will be off to the east, kansas, nebraska kicking `p with this activity. we will still see some snow throughout the early day tomorrow, you can see ii starting to break apart by about 5:00, a little more clearing in the northern half of the state as well as the southeast corner and by wednesday, we say hello to the sunshine again. luckily here in colorado we don't have the dray days very often -- gray days very often. we have the upper 20s on the southeast corners and teens and 20s in the mountains. -`we're going to go from 28- degrees and decrease quite a bit and staying chilly overnight. teens, about 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so as you get the kids ready for school. i know a lot of them are ready for a snow day, there's a chance on the eastern plains. i'll show you the snow totals in a little bit, but for those of you going to school, make sure you bundle up. on the eastern plains a little warmer, and mostly 20s in the high country. right there the central mountains is where we are looking for decent snnw to move on and the western edges of boulder and

high wind watches have already been posted for nebraska and kansas. another push of warm air arrives by saturday. 50's for the southern half of the state today, 40's up north. tomorrow it is going to be really mild, widespread 50's and 60's across the state. in des moines right now, 33 degrees, headed for 58 degrees. of the weekend, the weather stays quiet and mild with highs in the 60's and 50's. eric: watcher step this morning if you are walking the dog for re-freeze. shaina: we do have one accident we want to tell you about at mlk and 4th avenue in des moines, so keep that in mind as you are getting ready to head out. also if you are going to be around downtown, state wrestling is there so there could be some backups. 1200 thomas beck road, 3000 evergreen avenue, 3500 urbandale avenue, 4900 northwest beaver drive, and 800 northeast 50th avenue. controversial elizabeth: the time is now 6:54. news to go, new stories for your thursday, president obama is going to cuba. he will be the first u.s. president to visit cuba in nearly 90 years, going in mid-

here on the four corners region bringing quite a bit of snow to parts of colorado and parts of kansas and nebraska and it's this storm system that will bring us some showers and possibly even a few thunderstorms as we head into wednesday afternoon and wednesday evenings less time in all of you a future casts of the clock looking at partly cloudy skies temperatures around sixty degrees here are some showers rolling through by nine o'clock showers moving into western parts of hampton roads by rubble of a clerical person showers and even a few possible heavier downpours across north carolina notice with this from sliding through temperatures will start the fall will be in the upper forties as we head to the eleven o'clock hour with winds coming in the north and northeast tomorrow will start today with mostly cloudy skies temperatures in the forties will see some partial clearing us to move to the afternoon highs only topping out around fifty to fifty two degrees so some twenty degrees cooler than when we were today with highs well into the seventies we head into tomorrow evening the clouds soar to ro

shady chef the country are next storm system back in the central us lots of snow from northern kansas into nebraska and that snow spreading in to iowa so this was one of the concerns that the caucuses was that bearing down on iowa and now the snows really movie in turn allow the candidates wanting to get out of iowa before that comes settling in the rain also pushing farther south through kansas into missouri and this system is going to drag the front to our area ahead of the front temperatures will really warm up again tomorrow in the better chances for showers and storms tomorrow here as well. today the storm is from st louis rain and snow in chicago snow from minneapolis. beautiful if you travel to the northeast. what can run you all and for the southwest us sunshine for our labors whether around sam francisco will focus on our region in temperatures today again staying much closer to normal generate low fifties maybe mid fifties for seventy one area skies will be partly sunny to mostly sunny for awhile this afternoon but we will see increasing clouds tomorrow and chances for showers and storms

lincoln's retirement from politics was never 100%. 1854, stephen douglas engineered passage of the kansas nebraska act in congress, which end theght would an crisis by giving people a chance to vote in new territories on whether or not to allow slavery in the areas. the problem was that he was only allowing white people to vote on the state of people of color. what people could move from one territory to another and continue of proving slavery. this allowed lincoln back into politics. dream andrican opportunity was to be preserved, he believed they had to be free for free labor, which he defined as "free white labor." in 20 54, populations 854 was white. it was going to be a place where people got their own land, brought personal industry to bear, there were limited opportunities. sovereignty, as defined by stephen douglas, was the opposite of democratic choice and meant that the possibility of slavery was going to be brought into a pristine territory where america had proved it was democratic. became point, theory politicized and he realized he had to take action. againstyears, he railed the idea

get to yuma kkand southwest kansas or southwest nebraska -`and blizzard conditions area. in the mountains still a little bit of snow is falling. the snow is low and kind of high, it's in the valleys. the radar beam shoots a little higher above the snow. one thing that is not very high is the temperatures. teens and 20s. six below zero. and across the state temperatures are going to stay about at these levels. they will not see it warm more thaa a few egrees throughout system. the center of the storm is headiig way across the state. snow is covering i-70 and it is take a look at c-d.o.t. camera. i wann to show you this accident where somebody was going. spun out. could see the trail where they spun out and stopped right here. can't quite tell if they hit the barrier or not. but that is one of the accidents we've seen. we've seen a lot of these spin out crashes. sometimes they get going, and sometimes they have to bring out the police. this is one of the accidents causing the biggest delay. the right lane is blocked. you can see the tough driving conditions down to the sout

blizzard warnings in effect for kansas, nebraska, and iowa. luckily, the worst weather expected to arrive in iowa at the caucuses are winding down. it is going to be heading this way, luckily not in the form of snow. we could see a few thunderstorms around. joel: three. we all love that word. if you live in durham, you can take advantage of some free recreation programs. the pilot programs start today. that means the fitness center, open jim, and computer lab at the resource center will be free if you live in the city of durham. starting march 1, even more programs and activities will be available free of charge. ringo starr and his all-star band will be performing saturday at 7:30. ticket prices start at $50. they go on sale this saturday. anna: that is such a fun place to see an outdoor concert. joel: come on. anna: perfect. one of the most famous models of the world calling it quits. joel: then, the seal shortage is putting the break on production. where the automobile assembly anna: saving money when it cjoel: new details this afternoon in

for theost famous kansas-nebraska bill. he supported. pierce supported it. it repealed the missouri compromise line. as a result of supporting the clinical system is fine. because of that him he lost a lot of support by supporting the bill. even at the society, there's the actual pen used in the signing of the bill. talk about the aftereffects of him signing the bill. you mentioned that he was particularly not approved in the north. ranked the once candida nebraska bill as one of the most important pieces of legislation. factors that led directly to the civil war, what happened in the north was that slavery became a moral issue. the idea that the missouri compromise which they thought closed off slavery north of that line forever had been repealed come in upset many people in north. as a result, franklin pierce was not renominated. the only democratic president cannot be nominated after serving a term. host: before we talk about other things, the case that shows the panel, what is the significance of his military presence? guest: he served as a general in th

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in sections of kansas and nebraska and iowa. not good news for many voters. look at all the snow. tuesday morning, 11 :00, bull's-eye, right there on nebraska and iowa. stronger storms possible. and then the snow continues on the way up to the upper midwest and even into portions of minneapolis-minnesota. how much snowfall? some areas could get more than a foot. most of our model showing 14 to 20 inches possible. slightly less fry well. good news. but it will still be pretty intense. here some of the things we could see with this storm system. warnings ashley cover 1800 miles, more than if it will fall in many places. and the reason the blizzard warnings are in effect is a we we are very happy it is not coming our way in terms of snow. but we will see some effect from this. absolutely. it will be a maker of severe weather across parts of the ohio and tennessee valley tomorrow. but for us, it will arrive in a weakened state. as this front comes our way, it comes through right around rush hour wednesday evening with a band of showers, isolated thunder and lightning, dusty wind, heav

up to 18 inches of snow for kansas into nebraska. part of minnesota into iowa up to a foot of snow over the next two days. for tomorrow we're also watching the threat for severe weather from the gulf coast all the way up to the great lakes. and enhanced risk for severe weather will be in this area with orange and this is where we could even see some damaging winds even tornados possible for the day tomorrow. the storm system will move toward here and for more on how it will effect us, back to you. >>> area of low pressure goes to norh and west that means we're on the warmer side of the storm this means all rain in southern new england. even far northern new england we see snow going over to mix. we will drive that mild air back in on wednesday with a gusty southerly wind gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour. a good slug of rain wednesday. most up to an inch of water gust 30 to 40. quite common. may exceed 40 miles per hour. down through the cape and islands but even in boston souther i will wind gust close to 40 miles per hour. there's th

there's a wicked snowstorm going on across portions of kansas and nebraska and iowa as well. places like denver and colorado springs, they are getting slammed with over a foot of snow out there. the ski resorts are loving that. if you are in the miami ski club, you have to love that. once the fog burns off, 82. good for the boaters. the surf temperature at 76. a little bit of a bump out there on the bay waters. other wise, not a bad boating day. slightly cooler friday, saturday, sunday. that's your forecast. >> thank you, john. >>> and of course the weather always plays a role with the traffic. you have to watch with the fog and the following distance. >>> absolutely, always use your not much slowing you down other than the fog. there's the southbound drive with the taillights. the head lights are heading northbound. no accidents or construction with broward. let's talk about the one accident you have on flagler street and northwest avenue. you are going to see an accident with injuries there. you might want to go 8th street instead. then, we have left over construction on th

nebraska, kansas, down through oklahoma. tomorrow, some 20's to the north, 30's through ames. 40's in southwestern iowa. look up close by the 70's are. oklahoma, 70. mid 70's in the panhandle of texas. that warm air is going to glide in here a little later in the week. futurecast, doing a good job with this band of snow that will try to move in early tomorrow morning. very light around the i-35 corridor. clouds hang around most of the day. i think we will some clearing tomorrow night and then a little bit of sunshine will move it on thursday, probably not as widespread as it is showing on futurecast. a band of clouds will move through thursday night before more sunshine arrives on friday. temperatures tonight, with that thaw, down to 24 degrees. tomorrow, southeast winds 5-10. a little light snow to the north. temperatures, 36 degrees. thursday, 56. partly sunny skies. records this time of year are in the upper 60's. the record is 68 in 1981. i know you're looking at friday. 60, it will be a beautiful day but a very windy da

it's going to affect the folks in the denver area, sliding throughout central portions of nebraska, going into kansas, just about all of iowa and then wisconsin. not only there in the deep south, particularly along i-55, greatest risk for severe weather and tornadoes. kendis, reena? >> thank you. if you prefer to get your forecast from a rodent, punxsutawney phil does his thing later in pennsylvania today. if the famed groundhog sees his shadow, legend says we'll have six more weeks of winter. if he doesn't, we can expect warmer temperatures. what's it going to be, kendis gibson? >> we haven't had six weeks of winter yet. >> you think we're going to have six weeks. >> one storm, but we'll see. >> you think he's going to see his shadow. >> i get my forecast from him and the farmers almanac every year. >> we've all seen military or

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@we have winter storm watches, @warnings and blizzard warnings @from northern kansas and @nebraska and portions of south @that will take place as we head @through the day tomorrow. @things are going to be kind of @getting exciting there on the @wintry side of the storm. @now the warmer side of the @storm is going to be equally as @exciting potentially tomorrow @as we anticipate a severe @weather outbreak into the gulf @coast states and the northern @area which is the possibility @of severe weather does sneak @ohio. @we may hear thunder tomorrow @night. @as it gross and intensifies, @you can see this heavy snow @that spreads through the @central plains and a lot of @rain and thunderstorms begins @to line up in the south and by @5:00 p.m. @tomorrow, this is how things @likely are going to be looking. @there hasn't been much action @in the state of ohio. @tomorrow will be a great day. @we'll start partly cloudy and @it will be dom breezy as we @anticipate temperatures around @50. @we'll start the clock here. @this is 5:30 tomorrow night. @a few rain chances here and @there. @temperatures

get into monday night, we'll see the tail end of this blizzard begin to evolve and move across kansas, nebraska and sliding across iowa and wednesday morning with road closures, near zero visibility, blowing and drifting snow and dangerous travel. now, it won't necessarily be that way everywhere throughout the east coast and southeast, temperatures it 10 to 20 degrees bob the norm for this time of year. then a good thing becomes a not so good thing. greatest risk of severe weather rock down to new orleans with a clans of tornadoes in the reena, phillip. >> all right, paul, thank you. >>> gas prices continue their downward trend toward their lowest level in six years. the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide is now $1.80. that's down four cents from last week and 25 cents since this time last year. the national average has been below $2 now for a month because of increased supplies an of crude oil. >> well, burger king set to roll out a new treat sure to delight burger lovers available nationwide today. has all the standards. you see bun, paddy, vegetable toppings but extra long and caus

temperatures minus four in denver, colorado but the risk is there of blizzard conditions extending from kansas, nebraska minnesota and at the same time also this frontal system further towards the south is giving very heavy rain and risk of severe storms and even tornados, that is born in mind across alabama, mississippi, louisiana as it moves through and to get to wednesday there is heavy snow across the great lakes and across the sea board and the west another storm developing over the next few days. >> richard thank you, still lots more to come here in the news hour including a new twist this an alleged corruption scandal involving the malaysia prime minister and we hear from tour de france chris broom about mechanical doping and we will be here to explain all of that in sport. ♪ welcome back you are watching the al jazeera news hour and reminder now of our top stories and the syrian government has made gains during a major offensive in aleppo as talks in geneva to resolve the conflict continue and russia is now accepting islam at the talks, this is despite describing them as terrorist groups. and th

is the snow that lucy and iaian were talking about, you can see, all of this moving through kansas, nebraska, headed into/owe with a, where a blizzard watches are already in effect. soap it, definitely will impact tomorrow, and specially tomorrow night out there for the iowa caucuses. back here at home, just wet roads, and you can't see any snow on the street, in old city philadelphia, just couple of inches on the grounds in some spots, in the city, more to the north and west. it is 50 degrees after high of 59, the normal high is 41, the record high is 70 degrees. we'll have few showers, just linger, through the next couple of hours, the back edge is already over on the northern and western suburbs, front will clear the coast by 8:00. then skies will clear, and then all eyes on parts of central and western pa tomorrow. because guess what? it is groundhog day. i hope he doesn't look scared. because that would mean six more weeks every winter. as far as big update, allentown 9 inches of snow on the grounds, philadelphia just two, melting at rate of two and a half to 3 inches a day. heavy rain

red is blizzard warning and that's in kansas nebraska. in yellow it's a blizzard watch.r of hours this is going to turn red. it's not covered in here. and the thousands of journalists there from around the u.s. and the world may have to wait a day to get out but it looks like the timing is interesting. it looked like a tuesday event and tuesday event only but now the timing brings it up sooner. everything in purple is a good 7 to 12 inches and we have over a foot in some areas in pink. when you look at some of the models they creep it in a little earlier and a little earlier. this is 11:00 p.m. at night when some caucus goers are still out obviously. that's a good swath of snow. if we give you a time line, the western precincts, we believe the snow could start at 6:00 p.m.. 7:00 or 8:00, a couple of inches on the ground and when the wind kicks up that could enough to strike fear in some of the older and elderly caucus goeers not knowing what to expect when they leave the caucus. we know what blizzard conditions can do in iowa. >> one factor to consider. weather or no wea

support from the south, being from illinois, being totally distrusted, disliked, the father of kansas, nebraska which had been a complete failure -- a horrible disaster. douglas got no support from the southern democrats. there would be another convention in baltimore in june the southerners would nominate their own democrat. the current vice president of the united states, john c. breckenridge would become the southern democratic candidate. ultimately in the 1860 election we were so divided that were would be four candidates and four parties running for president. lincoln and the republicans, douglas in the northern democrats, breckenridge and a southern democrats, and then an independent party, middle-of-the-road party, that would today appeal to what we refer to as independents, which would be the constitutional union party led by a man from tennessee named john bell. four candidates. had been unified and there was no independent candidate. elected?coln have been abraham lincoln received in that election 39% of the popular vote. 39%. the other candidates received vote. 61% of the popular ele

heavier as you get into north western kansas, and even heavier moving up into nebraska and iowa as the storm spreads to the north and east, and i would say, amelia, it's tough around town, but you can't go in colorado on the highways. >> we have closures on 76. highway 86, and we will look at the closures in a minute. we will actually throw in good news here, and i-70 is all clear after the earlier westbound crash at havana that speeds are back to normal. we take a look here, and the area north of 50th, light delays because of the truck that spun right out. the car is perpendicular to traffic. the crash cleared there, and looking good. travel times on 225, almost up >>> all right, it's 5:50 right now, and a live look outside at i-70, and traffic is starting to pick up a bit, but it's a slow go wherever you are headed throughout the metro area this morning, and we have a lot of road closure on the eastern plains, and we will check with amelia in a minute. you can check out cotrip.org to see where the plows are. don't pass them. it's a realtime app. it's really cool. >> almost 500 closur

this is in lincoln, nebraska, and -- it is warmer in topeka, kansas, and lincoln, nebraska, than here in florida. if you have friends family in still get cool pretty fast there. op friday morning, clear and school. slightly cooler to the north. jacket or switter for the morning. by the afternoon, they'll be taking it off. 46 to start in crystal river. a little chilly there. mostly sunny and dry. warming up to 60, up by 11:00. maybe you'd rather lay out by the pool. 70 druse by the afternoon. i want to alert you that the mid-70s to the nature coast. santa maria island, 73, and across polk county, my-70s there too with mostly sunny skies. we cowl see a few mid to high- level clouds as the afternoon progresses. i think our beaches see sunshine all day long. your high tide, 1:45 in the afternoon, low i tide, 1:41 in the evening. maple and oak are our top allergen producers. it doesn't look to be a washout, with you but we expect clearing out as we head into wednesday. gorgeous weekend forecast. 55 degrees, comfortably cool for the runner, and then sunday looking great too, keep those umbr

all the heavier snow is lifting off into nebraska and kansas. still lighter snows that might accumulate to another inch or two into the metro. that will continue for awhile. it's cold out there. we've been down as low as 20. and 22 was the warmest we have been. that was right after midnight. 44 and 17 the normals. 74 and 18 below are the extremes on this day. right now a very cold looking view from the roof of our building. 21 downtown. 20 at the airport and winds from the north at 20. again, these are not attacking us. indicators that show you the [ technical difficulties ] some snow showers. tomorrow morning we are just getting word that dps is closed for the day. denver public schools are closed for the day. see the strong winds, that will drive the windchills to feel like zero. and this dry fluffy snow will really blow around and that is on top of the fact we have icy conditions on the road surfaces. pretty much the worst look at the lows tonight. zero to five above. looking ahead aa extended forecast it just stays cold. i will get out of he

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ex andrew white transferred from kansas to nebraska...becaus e he wanted to be the go-to guy. on saturday, he was that and so much more....a nior as the huskers pounded penn state. from the opening tip, it was clear that white was finished with 15 first-half points....adding 20 in the second.... from deep, white was red-hot... a career high 6 three's on ten attempts....and to give it some context, saturday's 35 point performance ranktenth in husker history.. earlier in the week....he was challenged by his coaching staf.....and boy did he deliver... "i had an efficient night from the floor, but that is kind of what i expect to do just from an efficiency standpoint. it was good to get going, but more importantly my coaches just challenged me to have a really big game just because we were in desperation to win, so that more important. i feel good about the 35 [points] but i feel even better that i could help put my team in a position to win this game " nebraska returns to action on wednesday at indiana. a sunday matinee down in lincoln....nebrask a with hopes of fourth straight t

strong thunderstorms developing 3 out to the east of us in nebraska, kansas and down in oklahoma. it's a good thing the iowa caucus are today and not tomorrow because they will have a severe blizzard tomorrow in the hawk eye state. >>> the other thing we are dealing with are some very cold temperatures. we still have quite a bit of warnings across the state. most of the state is it under that winter weather storm warning just because it is not here does not mean it is not going to be coming this afternoon. the tempeeatures are chilly and do not expect much of a warmup. we're in the mid 20s, a few locations upper 20s and you degrees. lamar 37. where do we go from here? not much of a climb at all. by 2:29-degrees, topping out in the -- 2:00, 29-degrees, we'll continue to track that throughout this afternoon- morning. >> reporter: the roads aae not as bad as you might imagine. this is at highway 36 and wadsworth. snow mainly confined to the sides of the highwayss let me show you on some of the cdot cameras, at arapahoe and tech center. it is a little worst to the e- 470 and i-470. he