. >>> the first ever nonstop flight between asia and boston arrives sunday at boston's logan airport. they expect round trip flights on its 787 dreamliner will save passengers six hours of travel time. would be nice. >>> coming up, the penguins bite the dust, the bruins stay alive, and the knicks ground the hawks. >>> plus after a sudden act of violence, you might expect to see in a hockey game, a los angeles laker face as very long suspension. ouch. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> that's kind of the knockout punch we're dealing with in western pennsylvania and western new york. your historic snowfall report coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports last night in the nhl, the l.a. kings knocked out vancouver's top seeded canucks to move on to round two of the stanley cup playoffs. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> hi, there, good morning. before the stanley cup playoffs began the canucks and penguins were the odds-on favorites to meet

air ways flight to logan airport. they'd called the parents and asked the parents if they could come to the airport to receive their son's body but the parents lived so far away they couldn't get there in time and they asked if i could go in their stead to receive the body and i said of course. our state capital is close to the airport, got in the car, went over to the airport and on to the tarmac. this jet came in and stopped in front of the terminal and the people disembarked and the conveyor came down and all the luggage came off. finally when everything was cleared the casket appeared and it was brought down the conveyor and the soldiers that were there picked it up. i put my hand on my heart and the state troopers who were there with me saluted and as i was standing there and looking at that casket as it was put in the hearse, i happened to glance at the terminal. up there to my right is a big glass wall at the u.s. airways terminal at boston airport. it seems the people who came off the plane saw all the police d

curtly 82 at boston logan airport. 85 right now. you can see the temperature changes back to the west. 54 in chicago. we will not get this chilly, but up in a change as the high pressure moves in and this will get pushed out tonight and more seasonable weather will be here over the next few days but another push for weather. here is the timing of the front. we will see the changes overnight, mid 70's. wednesday, the high-pressure will bring in a little disturbance to our south. wednesday afternoon, thursday and friday, the high pressure will return. partly cloudy, comfortably so, 73. 60 at midday. cooler in the suburbs. 70's midday. 30% chance on wednesday. partly sunny skies and we will repeat the same on sunday. >> we will be sorry to see today ago. thank you. we will see you shortly. this is really exciting because we're celebrating a remarkable honor for want of our colleagues politico. >> matt just won the 2012 pulitzer for his editorial commenics. his work is desecribed as some of the best in the business. he has been a finali

airways flight to logan airport. the have asked the parents if they could come to the airport to receive their son's body, but the parents could not get there in time. they asked if i could go instead to receive the body. i said of course. our state capitol is close to the airport. we drove over and went out on the tarmac. the u.s. airways jet stopped in front of the terminal. people disembarked. the conveyor came down and all the luggage came off. finally, when everything was clear, the casket appeared. it was brought down the conveyor. the soldiers that were there picked it up. i put my hand on my heart. the state troopers who were there with me saluted. as i was standing there and looking at that casket as it was in the hearse, i happened to glance up at the terminal. up to my right is a big glass wall at the u.s. airways terminal in the boston airport. it seems the people who had come off the aircraft had seen the police cars out there, so they had stopped against the glass wall to see what was happening. people w

airways flight to logan airport. they called the parents and asked the parents if they could come to the airport to receive their son's body. but the parents lived so far away they couldn't get there in time, and they asked if i could go in their stead to receive the body, and i said of course. our state capitol is close to the airport. we got in the car and drove over to the airport, went under the tarmac. this u.s. airways jet came in and stopped in front of the terminal, and the people disembarked. and then the conveyor came down and all the luggage came off. finally, when everything was cleared, the casket appeared. and it was brought down the conveyor, and the soldiers that were there picked it up. i put my hand on my heart and the state troopers who were there with me saluted. as i was standing there and looking at that casket as it was put in the hearst, i happened to glance up toe terminal. and there's a big glass wall tt boston airport. it seems that the people who had come off the aircraft had seen all the p

so far, so good at the new york airports and up towards logan.he snow that continues from rochester southward. buffalo, new york, still warm enough for all rain to you. eventually today you'll go over to snow. even pittsburgh will see a period of snow. with a possibility of 1-3 inches on the grass. but looks like the heaviest snow totals in the higher terrain just to the east of buffalo and pittsburgh. so by april standards, this is an historic late, late spring snowstorm. forecast for today, northeast, on and off rainshowers. middle of the country, beautiful. hot out west. near 100 today from phoenix all the way up towards las vegas. and we should see dry weather for all of the rest of the country. the only trouble, right there in new england, and especially western p.a. and western new york. good luck in the snow today. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. clu ♪ ♪ [ lauer ] this is our team. and unlike other countries, it's built by your donations, not government funding. and now, to support our athletes, you can donate a stitch i