our own kevin tibbles remains on station there tonight. kevin, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, it's that time of year again here in fargo. the red river is rising and the sandbags snake on for as long as the eye can see it. it's a rite of spring many here are beginning to tire of. they wage the annual war against the water. warmer than usual march weather has brought high levels of snow melt and the red river creeps dangerously higher by the hour. on the front lines, hundreds of student volunteers slinging 30-pound bags of sand on to make-shift levees. not in class, but still working. >> team work, cooperation, hard work, many hands makes light work, learning about your community, learning about needs out there. lots of things. >> reporter: for home owner marjorie sloshman the teenage volunteers are heaven sent. >> the young people are amazing. they're enthusiastic and thrilled to be helping. they are saving our community, they really are. >> reporter: some 1 million sandbags, 750,000 already deployed where volunteers

we'll get a look at it now with kevin tibbles, who is live in moorehead, minnesota. let's get that look right now. are things looking okay, better than expected? >> reporter: people who live along the red river can be excused today for thinking they might have somehow been transported to venice overnight. as you can see over my shoulder, street signs that normally would be on streets. that would normally be carrying traffic are completely under water. they have been for days here as the red river continues to creep up. it's come up about two feet over the last couple of days. there is some good news to report today. that is that the predictions for the crest of the red river are mitochondria lower than last year's 40-foot redded river surge that caused a lot of anxiety up and down the red river, especially in the fargo area, on the other side of moorehead which is where i'm standing. when this thing crests tomorrow, that measurement has been dropped further to another half foot down to 37.5 feet. they've got sandbags on both sides of the river. people living on both

kevin tibbles, thanks so much. >>> let's head west to the snow battering the plains today.bc meteorologist bill karins is following the latest developments for us. the question is who's getting hit the harde esthardest? >> not us. it's all good for us. everyone is too giddy about it. it is not fair. not nice. let's talk about what's going on in the middle of the nation. this is where winter is in full swing. it is a great shock to the system. we had the great warm-up in the 60s in the plains. now the windchill is it 25 in dallas, it is 9 in denver with snow on the ground. oklahoma city is snowing with a windchill of 14. everyone in the east, you better appreciate that, because our friend in the midwest are just dealing with what feels like the middle of winter. the snowstorm is not a huge snowstorm. you can see white on the map. that's just a little area of snow but it will cause significant impacts along the border right where arkansas, oklahoma, kansas and missouri all meet there. that's going to be the worst of it. some portions of pring field, just north of fayetteville

you too, kevin tibbles. thanks so much. >>> as the residents in the midwest are bracing for the flooding, the plains is putting up with a snowstorm. let's get the latest details now from nbc meteorologist bill karins here in the studio. where are the biggest trouble spots? >> denver from yesterday cleaning up. from oklahoma up through kansas city. i feel guilty. i'm trying to figure out if i'm wearing shorts or not this afternoon. we're looking at windchill. the windchill is 5 right now. it's 5 in denver this morning. it's extremes from the east coast to the middle of the nation. look at the windchill in dallas. it's 29. oklahoma city, a windchill of 14. this is just one last plunge of cold arctic air that's headed all the way down to san antonio this morning with a windchill of 38. so we talked about the cold and then we have the snow. i think the cold actually may be a bigger story than the snow. we're getting some snow out of this which is more of a nuisance, stuff that will melt in a day or two. to be th

for "today," kevin tibbles, nbc news, evanston, illinois. >> kevin interviews everybody that way. >>>d the gold medal winning u.s. men's bobsled team and they helped us out with a dog segment. he found a friend for life in 2-year-old bailey, a golden retriever, adopted him. >> he was traveling so it took a while to get together. >> they've been ereunited in colorado. they instantly had a connection. bailey just loves steve. >> he'll be -- mostly he lives in park city. he goes out to the olympic training facility in colorado as well. they'll have a good life out there. >> he says it is a lot of wilderness and open space out there. >> steve was looking for a pet. it was perfect timing all around. so cute. >>> up next, hoda and kathie lee go prime time. but first, this is "today" on nbc. how about over here? hmm... let's go back to the left. uh... waffling is back at dunkin' donuts with the return of the waffle breakfast sandwich. two oven-toasted waffles with a hint of maple, complete with fluffy egg, a slice of melted cheese, and now with delicious sausage. so hurry in today because it

>> kevin tibbles, thank you. >>> we want to get a check of the day's rest news stories and for that we'll turn over to peter alexander at the news desk. >>> we begin in oklahoma and the southern plains where residents are spending the first full day of spring digging out from a deadly snow storm. mike seidel in tulsa, oklahoma w the latest. good morning. >> peter, the last day of snow and wind here in tulsa as yesterday's upper level storm and warm air dumped on the area. let me take you back to oklahoma city yesterday. you throw in heavy snow and 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts you get a whiteout. not an ideal start to spring time. it wasn't only oklahoma but missouri. metro area husbayarareas had ni snow. the icy roads let to three traffic fatalities. here in tulsa we had four and a half inches and another one to two inches on the way but, peter, by tuesday the temperatures back in the 60s. tough to see the record highs yesterday in new york. back to you. >> that's the case from there. mike, thanks very much. >>> in iceland, hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate their homes after