maine. new york city could see an inch or two. we could see an inch or two of snow in philadelphia. with that, you will have very powerful winds. a lot of these along the coast, we have ice chunks. that could impact the coastline as well. here are your latest snowfall totals expected during the storm. the brunt of it is is supposed to hit by friday. >> okay. very good information for all of us to have, jennifer. thank you so much. now to this. in peru, a horrifying bus crash that killed 48 people. the transport chief said a transport trailer rammed the back of a bus forcing it to fall off the cliff known as devil's curve. an initial investigation shows both vehicles were traveling too fast. >>> in new york city, we now know they will install 1500 protective barriers in high-profile locations. it is a response to a disturbing but growing trend of cars being used as lethal weapons by terrorists. you'll remember back in october eight people were murdered. nearly a dozen injured when a man drove a rented pickup truck down a busy bicycle path near the world trade center. >>> the top priz

news." >> ninan: good evening. i'm reena ninan. there are wind chill advisories and warnings tonight from georgia to maine. the new york city airports today tied and broke single-digit record lows, not factoring in the wind. chicago tied its record of 12 straight days below 20 degrees. coastal communities like duxbury, massachusetts, flooded in thursday's nor'easter, are dealing with dangerous ice. before the thaw, it's going to get a lot worse, with temperatures finally bottoming out sunday morning. here's brook silva-braga. >> think of it as, like, opening your freezer, but that cold taking over your whole house. >> reporter: the blast of arctic air has taken over whole sections of the country. >> it felt like we were in the middle of siberia, or something. >> reporter: in philadelphia, an apartment fire, battled in subzero wind chills, killed two people, including a firefighter, caught under collapsed debris. >> i'm here since thursday. >> reporter: at new york's j.f.k. airport, weather-driven delays fueled frustration. many passengers complained they spent the night in the terminal without flight information or access t

maine. in new york city there was a water main break at jfk flooding a terminal adding to delays.o recover from the snowstorm last week. a lot of people spent the weekend taking out. >> the first thing that goes through your mind is the car and how we will have to dig it out. >> a lot of animals are suffering in the cold. fish have been turning up in florida because they cannot handle the cold water. >>> in washington dc, tom steyer is making a major announcement about his political future. he has funded a campaign calling for the impeachment of president trump. he was considering a run against california senator dianne feinstein and there is speculation he may run for governor of california or president. this morning the washington post says they interviewed tom steyer and he told them he will not be running for any political office this year. he says he will spend $30 million to help democrats get elected to congress in the midterms. >>> former state senator mark leno will fire -- file papers to run for mayor of san francisco. this will be to fill out the remainder of the late m

maine. in new york city a water main break at jfk airport flooded a terminal and added to the delays.he airport is trying to recover from the snowstorm last week that stranded thousands. a lot of people spent the weekend digging out. >> the first thing that goes through your mind is the car. >> even animals are suffering in the cold. dead fish have been turning up in florida because they cannot handle the cold water temperatures. >>> flu season is worsening in california. so many people have fallen sick that many california pharmacies have run out of the flu medicine tamiflu or they are in short supply. emergency rooms are filled to overcapacity as the death toll rises. as of friday 27 people younger than 65 have died in california since october because of the flu. flu season gets worst in february. >>> oakland school district students go back to work -- school today. now led tainted water is a problem at oakland schools. healthy black families inc. says recent testing shows at least 45 oakland schools and child development centers failed to meet the guidelines for lead in drinking wa

. >> from georgia to main, yesterday, new york city airport tide and broke single digit record lows it, doesn't factor in the wind. temperatures should start rising after this morning, though, correspondent brook silva bragga reports. >> the coal takes over your whole house, that is has taken over sections of the whole country. >> felt like we're in the middle of siberia or something . >> many complain they spent the night in the terminal without flight information or sack zest to their bags. >> this is the wore ending to the holiday season here in new york. >> mount washington new hampshire the windchill was 906789 air temp minus 37, blowing a bubble and watching it freeze, that was pretty cool, too. , guess odes by the appearances, the river isn't safe to walk across, no such concerns for ice skaters in chicago. >> i want to go back to texas. >> but parts of the south are chilly, too. >> cruisers on the norwegian break away sailed into the storm during their return trip from the bahamas to new york, passengers say the ship started leaking, the cruise line apologized saying the weathe

temperatures will feel like 29 below in bangor, maine, 10 below in new york city, even down into the carolinas we are going to feel wind chills well down into the lower single digits. as for records, sunday morning we'll see several records broken across major cities. zero in philly, 1 in new york, 5 below in boston. the good news is by sunday afternoon a warm-up will move into the midwest and it should make it to the east coast by monday. lester? >> dylan dreyer, thank you. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. michael wolff, the author at the center of the storm and in the president's crosshairs after writing the book about life inside the trump west wing that left jaws dropping. the white house has pushed back hard, calling it fiction. but wolff is having none of it. standing by his work and doubling down. we get details from nbc's kristen welker. >> reporter: today president trump pelted with questions about the book "fire and fury." >> mr. president, what do you say to michael wolff? >> reporter: showing restraint but earlier taking to twitter to unleash some fury of his own, callin

. >>> a water main break caused added problems that new york city's biggest airport, with people reelingfrom a snowstorm. about 3 inches of water in terminal four at jfk, incoming international flights heading to the terminal were suspended, and passengers who had landed were forced to deplane, to other parts of the airport, the port authority says that it was probably related to a recent snowstorm. baggage has been piling up at the same airport because of the storm, many frustrated travelers had to wait several hours for the luggage, if they could find it is all. >>> guess who is back in the news, o.j. simpson, tonight, a new lawsuit that he could file in the next few days. cbs eye on the community... presented by target. art and history spark connections across cultures, igniting curiosity, conversation, and inspiration. the asian art museum, with the support of target, celebrates the unique achievements of asian art and cultures providing a catalyst for discovery and dialogue. the asian museum is here to make asian arts and culture relevant to everyone's life. to be culturally literat

new york city. a broefken water main caused hundreds of cancellations and delays even for some domestic flights. >>>resident trump may not be getting a warm welcome when he attends the ncaa championship game in atlanta, the naacp is asking people to wear white and hold up signs. >>> and the annual consumer

new year's bellringing ceremony. >>> from coast-to-coast, let's take a live look at times square in york city where performances are already underway. the crossroads of america. the main street of the u.s. there in times square. look at them bundled up. it is 11 degrees right now in new york city. you can see the breath coming off of her as she is singing in the audience. everyone has the gloves and hats and scarves. an estimated 1 million people already crammed into the security zone to watch the iconic ball drop tonight at the stroke of midnight, less than 6 hours away in your city. >>> they have to and all up because they are braving some of the coldest temperatures in decades. >>> have more the security measures taken for tonight celebration. >> reporter: as many as 2 million people are here in new york's times square ready to bring in the new year. around the world, the festivities are already underway. happy new year. [ cheering ] >> reporter: 2018 has officially begun as midnight passed in china, hong kong, and australia. in sydney, they lined the harbor to watch the massive display. a rainbow waterfall on the bridge celebrating the legalization of same-sex mar

maine stranded in boston had no idea what a police captain was about to do for them. nicole borelli has the story. >> reporter: this family stuck at north station just arrived from new york cityd, maine, but weather delays unexpectedly changed their plans. >> we ended up missing our train out of north station by five minutes. >> reporter: there is a twist. the family had been in new york because 19-year-old corey had just undergone a surgery on her brain just four days prior. exhausted, they only wanted to find a place to store their luggage. as they waited the two to three-mile-per-hours for the next train he asked officers for help. captain kelly mccormack didn't want the family to sit in the cold. he knows just how difficult postop can be. >> my wife is a transplant recipient. >> reporter: he loaded the family into his cruiser saying they could stay with him as he went to go get gas but after gassing up he kept driveing. >> we got to lindfield where she realized, are you driving us to portland and i said, yes, this is a kidnapping but it's legal. >> there were no words at that point. we were so thankful. >> reporter: about two hours later the family was safely back in main

degrees for your high temperatures tomorrow and 17 for massachusetts we continue to look at maine rather and new york citye teens. this is not with the windchills. we continue to look at breezy conditions and gustingen gusting conditions over night. over night we'll have cold conditions and of course, of any melting that you may have from that snow. that's going to cause a lot of problems we are not done with the snow and we are still, of course, not done with the storm surge along the coast. much to be watched at boston harbor right now flooding is really big along the east coast we'll be watching that for you guys for sure. >> back over to you guys >> that was depressing but we won't hold it against you. >> thanks. >> what's your new year's resolution lose weight or quit smoking. >> a difficult challenge for 2018 we'll tell you straight ahead. >> does competition for diners kickoff a price war. and jeff sessions ramping up the war against marijuana. all that and much more coming up on "power lunch. don't move for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for th

snow is creeping in on the new york city area towards long island, long island under a blizzard warning as is boston as is coastal new jersey up towards connecticut and maine that is going to be the case throughout the day today and it is going to be daytime, people are urged to stay off the roadways, you saw what happened in buffalo with a few inches of snow on the pavement and people don't know how to drive. just essential workers need to be out there. we want to make sure first responders have a clear path if they need to be out there. snow is starting to wind down. this is a very powerful system. you have heard bombohgenesis, the pressure will drop 24 mbar in 24 hours, that might double. for a very powerful system blizzard warnings unaffected for millions of folks to maine including boston and here is the forecast radar. we are going to see an excess of eight inches in new york city, some places could see 12 to 18 inches so listen to your local forecasters and we will keep you up-to-date. i will be busy in the plasma. i expect the snow to fly within the hour. >> stay inside all day and watch janice dean, that is what people should do. thank you so much

maine. looking at these spots. new york city,ig 3-inch range.mbers are going to be me sible even for those big philadelphia. but blizzard from cape cod and the islands to the northern coast of maine. e this. >> thank you so much. >>> north and south korea are talking for the firstars. demilitarized system overnight. kim jong-unhe's open to sending a delegation to the games in ach when he also told the u.s. he has a button for nuclear weapons then president trump responded on twitter last night. i, too, have a nuclear bigger powerf powerful, and my button works. there are signs they may be mis this week. >>> president trump is also threatening to cut off aid to negotiate a peace deal. he pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollar as year, we get no respect. why should we make any of these massive rethem. his u.n. ambassador nikki haley also pressured the palestinians. we very much don't want to have a peace process. noin palestinians now have to show their world that they want to come to the table. as of now, to the table, but they ask f

maine. >> no one anticipated it would get this cold and stay this cold this long. >> new york city issuedode blue for the homeless. shelters are open to anyone in need. they added 450 new beds. ceo of new york city rescue mission, craig mays. >> it has really been very demanding on us. then you think of those we serve how, it is a matter of life and death literally for them on the streets. >> reporter: airlines resumed flights after thousands of cancellations. but a waltter main break at jfk sunday create at nother mess. in door chest rcester, fires bua home in a block of ice. fire fighters frosted over during the fight. in the nation's capital, power outages and ruptured pipes are delaying the start of classes monday at howard university for at least a week. >> the so you don't want students to go there, start freezing. take as the way from the learning environment. >> reporter: the clean-up could take days in some areas. in boston, a major obstacle are streets that turned into rivers full of floating ice chunks. >> with gusts of wind more than 100 miles an hour, new hampshire's mount wa

from south carolina to augusta, maine and as far as south as dato datone, beach. new york city 27 below. turn it around in the afternoon you say it's got to get better. not that much better. not a day you want to be exposed. here's the last thing, actual air temperatures sunday morning, if philadelphia drops below zero it's the first time since 1944. >> thanks. >>> on to other news this friday night. new fallout open the book about the white house. the publisher rushed it to bookstores today. steve bannon turning on the president and his family. president trump is tweeting about bannon nicknaming him sloppy steve. the president is going after the author and the author saying he spoke to multiple members of the president's inner circle. he says they told him the president is like a child, does not read or listen. here's cecelia vega tonight. >> reporter: president trump headed to camp david for the weekend. as for questions, he wasn't having it. >> we're making america great again. thank you very much. >> reporter: the new book taking his white house and it seems all of washingt

maine. winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. >> what is quite clearhis is a ser is where, serious, serious storm between the low temperature, the strong wind, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. reporter: snowplow crews are cram ling to dollars the roads. bee hp the snow the temperatures are plummet bringing with it the potential for the damaging ice. lauren blanchard reporting for "chasing news." bill: continuing with the team chaser coverage of what i am kagging the snow ocane. thank for joining me. the jersey shore is really getting hit. how are you doing? how are your residents? reporter: you nosh three residents are hunkered down with a tremendous amount of wind here. we got wind gusts while the snow is coming down. so our biggest concern were are power outage that's the storm may cause. . >> sade: got ask this you. you are notroid about beach temps today. any razz zis throughout on the beach thinking about doing anything? reporter: you, he we have one or two that walked the boardwalk. they are smart enough to walk wit

new england coast, blizzard warnings have been issued up through maine. winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. >> what's quite clears this is a serious, serious storm between the --the very low temperatures, the strong winds, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. >> reporter: and snowplow crews are scrambling to clear the roads now that the snow for the most part has stopped. the real concern is the temperature just plummeting bringing with it potential ice. ken, julie? >> it looks cold just looking at you. i just checked, lauren. it's 21 degrees in atlantic city right now but with the wind blowing it's supposed to feel like 4 degrees. i imagine you can vouch for that. >> reporter: yeah. if anything, it feels even colder and as the night has been going on, it's gotten noticeably colder throughout the day and i'm sure in the next couple of hours it will be even colder when i talk to you next. >> all right. lauren blanchard in new jersey tonight, lauren, thank you. >>> chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at what's going on out there, bill. >> a classic nor'easter. it's ju

things are just getting worse at jfk airport in new york city. a water maind the airport to shut down one of the terminals for much of the day on sunday. international arrivals were halted for hours. nearly 150 flights were canceled. hundreds more delayed and all of this on top of the problems already caused by thursday's devastating winter storm that backed up flight schedules for thousands of passengers. now back to the wiseguys. >> does a democratically elected government, doesn't have the ability to impose upon itself discipline that would normally be imposed by each of its citizens in their lives individually? >> the record is mixed on that. >> i do say go back to the 80s and 90s, you have the kremlin and the legislation was limited on how much you could spend. we have had attempt to cap the spending. that's one of the reasons defense got slashed. we haven't done the big picture yet for entitlements, but i haven't given up on these things. there is a pendulum to these things. it does take cycles. >> does it take stuff away from people and still be popula

new england coast, blizzard warnings have been issued up through maine. winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. >> what's quite clear is this is a serious, serious storm between the -- the very low temperatures, the strong winds, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. >> reporter: and snowplow crews are scrambling to clear the roads now that the snow for the most part has stopped. the real concern is the temperature just plummeting bringing with it potential ice. ken, julie? >> lauren, you're talking about power being out in parts of new england and the east coast. it's so cold. how are people staying warm? do they have petroleum to heat their homes? >> reporter: well, that's what officials are very worried about. they want to make sure that with power outages, people don't get too cold. they have been telling folks to call authorities to make sure that everyone knows if the heat is not turned on in the building, that's what we heard from the new york mayor earlier that if their building didn't have heat to have the city bring it on. we have also been seeing warnings from folks like the weat

. >>> as if travelers don't have enough to deal with, a water main break flood add baggage claim area at jfk airport in new york city on top of an already iconic weekend that included two planes bumping into each other on jfk's tarmac along with delays and cancelations. >> reporter: travels were stuck on the tarmac three, four, five hour or more yesterday. some reporting no bathrooms, water and no food. people have slept in the airport for two days. the problem is there's a backlog of flights following the storm on thursday. too many flights landed to at the same time, over with themming the system and there were not enough gates. they had to bring in portable staircases to get people off the planes on to busses to bring them to the terminals. at baggage claim, people waiting for hours to get the bags. many people left the airport without them or arrived at their destinations like europe to find their bags never made it following a collision between two passenger airplanes on the tarmac at jfk saturday. no one was injured, all in all, 94 flights were cancelled, and 17 flights are diverted. huge delays in a statement

have travel plans thursday morning to take you in and out of philly, new york city, boston, providence and the areas farther north to maine. snow will be measured in a foot in spots there in the day. that is something we are watching. here locally. let me show you what one of the forecast models talks about looking at the snow. i don't think we see anything from d.c. to the west. but areas like easton, 1.3. southern maryland you could get an inch or go inches of snow. but the overall big picture in the advisory in our area, again the sound of my voice we don't have any of the winter weather advisories in the area. the winter storm watches posted well to the east. so keep that in mind. i'll watch this closely because it could go the other way by 50 or 100 miles. tonight, clear skies and very cold. up to 33 tomorrow. another cold day. well below average. potentially time period or two we will get above freezing by a degree or two. late tomorrow night to early thursday is the abc7 day forecast. showing you where the snow is. then we cool down again and go beyond the seven-day forecast. it's another cold plunge on the way. th

the low passing off the coast of cape cod, very heavy bands of snow in maine, canadian wrap around snowfall bands over new york city, long island and in our area it is still not done snowing. much of the air eighth is. much of the southeastern pennsylvania a light snow or flurries up toward lehigh valley. we have decent snow bands over portions of new jersey, one shifting north out of ocean county right now but another one has developed, here over salem, cumberland cou along i40, so that could slow out and about tonight. like we best, bet toys stay inside unless you absolutely need to go outside. i do have positive news, winttoning for adelphia has just been cancelled as well as winter weather advisory to the north and west what does remain is blizzard warning that is red shaded area along the new jersey shore and down into portions of delaware, reason they kept that in place because we have lowisability and very, very winds. you don't need falling snow for blizzard conditions occur. very difficult, if not impossible travel through much of the south jersey tonight. a lot of it is due to the win. winds gusting 35 mi

in maine you're looking at these spots. new york city, right now you're in that 3-inch range.numbers are going to be possible even for those big metro cities from new york to philadelphia. but blizzard possibilities exist from cape cod and the islands to the northern coast of maine. we're going to keep an eye on this. >>> north and south korea are talking for the first time in two years. they reopened a cross-border communications system at the demilitarized system overnight. kim jong-un said he's open to sending a delegation to the games in a new year's day speech when he also told the u.s. he has a button for nuclear weapons on his table. then president trump responded on twitter last night. i, too, have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful rng a powerf powerful, and my button works. there are signs they may be preparing another missile test this week. >>> president trump is also threatening to cut off aid to the palestinians if they don't negotiate a peace deal. he tweeted yesterday, quote, we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollar as year,

new york city. >> there are three main points in here that the white house thinks will appear to conservatives.ne, $25 billion for a border wall. that's 15 billion more dollars than what democrats were considering. >> but they waste that much every day. they can find anytime the couch cushions up there in congress. >> and two other things the white house is saying should be appealing. they're going to curb the diversity lottery system. president trump wants that gone. and like yes said, the end to chain mie dwraition in the sense that we know it now. people would be allowed to bring in their spouses and children and be able to foster some sort of legalization for them but not for their parents nap's a big part. there is a lot here for the republicans and democrats. you would think it would spell compromise but there's not enough. instead, everybody is focusing on the things they can't get over that they need to see changed before they go and vote. >> it will be interesting to see what happens from here. it is a lot of borde board monee border wall. but the complaint is i heards them saying i do

maine. boston 5 to 12 inches. we will continue to monitor that situation for new york city where the snow just started falling.ack over to you >> thank you very much we are keeping a close eye on the energy market as the storm makes its way through the east coast. joining us now is steven shork good morning a lot of moving parts when it comes to the energy part of the story. start with nat gas what do you expect with the price of natural gas. >> nat gas has been a perplexing market over the last two months. we had a good start to the winter the heating season and this is your highest demand season for natural gas prices. but up until about a week ago, natural gas prices have been in a freefall coming into the end of the year and start of this year, we have seen over the last week, week and a half, a 20% rise in natural gas prices interestingly enough, as this storm has made its impact and as we have the forecast, very good heating demand over the next two weeks. natural gas prices kind of stalled last -- yesterday. so we're looking at an area where we had that 20% rise, we're now back into an area below $3 dec

new england coast, blizzard warnings have been issued up through maine. winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. >> what's quite clearorm between the very low temperature, the strong winds, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. >> reporter: and snowplow crews are scrambling to clear the roads but behind the snow the temperatures are plummeting bringing with it the potential for very damaging ice. sarah, jim. >> all right, lauren blanchard look at the wind whipping around back behind her. >> no kidding. >> thank you. >> so we've been talking about all of that. sue is standing by. >> i tell you she looks cold, doesn't she? and sometimes the folks at the beaches say these nor'easters are worse than the hurricanes going on by. there goes our system. we've got a few pictures to show you of how everything looked around the region today. not just here but obvioly down the east coast. winter emergencies for new york, allegheny river in pittsburgh has a lot of ice on it. everywhere flights delayed and you can see flooding in massachusetts causing road closures from coastal flooding with this huge sto

new england coast, blizzard warnings have been issued up through maine. winter weather emergencies have also been declared including in new york city. >> what's quite clearthis is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature, the strong winds, the driving snow, everyone should take this one very seriously. >> reporter: snowplow crews are scrambling to clear the roads and behind the snow the temperatures are plummeting expected to bring with it the potential for damaging ice. in atlantic city, new jersey, lauren blanchard, fox news. >>> all right. let's head over to cape may. my goodness. you heard kathy, it's cold out, right? it's just going to get worse. and remember schools have already begun announcing they are closing tomorrow. you can see them scrolling at the bottom of your screen. also on our website fox29.com. ♪ ok, so with the award-winning geico mobile app, our customers have 24/7 access, digital id cards, they can even pay their bill- (beep) bill has joined the call. hey bill, we're just- phone: hi guys, bill here. do we have julia on the line too? 'k, well we'll just- phone: hey sorry. i had you muted. well yea let's just- phone:

maine. you can see new york city right on the fine line where i think the long island area is going to be dealingt eight inches to maybe a foot of snow maybe a little less for new york city, but still we have plenty of snow out there. and this is going to be the story through the day today. we've already seen the blizzard conditions lasting it has to be three hours we are seeing the decreased visibilities thanks to winds up to 35 miles per hour tough conditions out there like i said, guys, behind this much, much colder conditions you'll want to get the snow shovelled up today, if possible. back to you. >> we're waiting for the cold. thank you very much, angie >>> the president has weighed in on the dow's big milestone today, tweeted "dow just crashes through 25,000 congrats big cuts in unnecessary regulations continuing." we thought he might press the button on a tweet when it happened at the open >> not the big button. >> not that button >> another button. this lines up with what we're seeing in today's market dom was highlighting the gain in financials, leadership in financials we've seen. not

to new york city and one of the main attractions is of course the statue of liberty. this is as close as they can get right now without taking one of the privately operated ferry tours. take a look at this. this is the sign visitors see when they arrive here. here's the official twitter account. the statue of liberty and ellis island closed due to the appropriations effective immediately and until further notice. a lot of parks and monuments are still up in. the government trying to avoid a replay of what happened in 2013 when veterans were seen being turned away from their memorials. washington d.c. open-air parks and monuments are open including the war memorials and even the smithsonian museum and the national zoo i stayed open and they will be open on monday because of prior-year funding available. be on monday, they don't know at this point. even though the government is planning on keeping a lot of sites open, many will not be staff. visitor centers and bathrooms will have to be closed. back in new york for those who bought tickets months in advance to see the s

maine, down through boston. long island, not quite new york city but long island. coastal new jersey. into the delmarva peninsula. some warnings will be through friday morning. snowfall totals. we're looking at 3 to 6 inches in philadelphia. 6 to 8 inches in new york city. it's going to be hard to keep track of these. it's a very light snow. because it's very granular. very powdery. when these winds kick up, there's blowing and drifting. hartford, we're looking at 7 to 10 inches of snow. there have been big problems with mass transit, especially the rails. the switches are getting clogged up with snow so they're having to slow down the trains. providence, 8 to 14 inches when all is said and done. boston, 10 to 16 inches of snow. and they've had their second highest high tide since 1978. they've been watching this. portland, 12 to 15 inches. we've had snowfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour. as this system pulls away, the next thing we're going to be looking at, the wind gusts. wind gusts of over 60 miles per hour. you combine this with the high tides along massachusetts and maine's b

new york up through maine. it's really what happens behind this system that's going to be the bigger impact. future tracker windchills friday morning, 11 below in new york city. the same in boston. 21 below in syracuse. feels like 12 below in chicago. and this cold air is not leaving the great lakes any time soon. back at home, it's about our next chance of showers. live doppler 7 along with satellite will show you a couple of returns off the coast. it's tomorrow that to see showers hit the 4. a light system that lingers into friday morning. as the system moves through tomorrow evening there could be the chance of a thundershower. it's not a soaking event by any means. your 12-hour planner on your wednesday will show you dry for the morning commute. showers move in midday. and by the evening commute we'll have those scattered showers with us. temperatures in the 50s. so plan some extra time tomorrow evening as you go about your commute. the seven-day forecast, the next seven days, a chance of a thundershower tomorrow evening. a scattered shower thursday. still the chance is there even into friday morning. then it moves out. by saturday and sunday and early n

main flu strain. >> and gio benitez outside mt. sinai hospital here in new york city, where doctors say they are seeing a spike in flu cases. and gio, do experts think wild temperature changes we've seen across this country are hurting our immunity when it comes to fighting the flu? and the other question we're getting from a lot of people, if you get the flu shot now, how soon before it takes effect? >> reporter: you know, david, in fact, experts are actually trying to figure out if there's any relationship between the flu and those extreme temperature changes. but you know what, regardless, they say, get that flu shot. it's not too late to get it. they say it takes about two weeks to be fully effective, so, the sooner, the better. david? >> gio benitez. and we'll stay on this flu. >>> in the meantime, we turn next tonight to the outrage after a teacher was arrested at a school board meeting for questioning the superintendent's raise while teachers were not getting one. a marshal insisting the teacher leave the room, handcuffing her in the hall before she was then bo

the main reason comes from 7,000 miles away in new york city. >> the draft resolution has been adoptedusly. >> reporter: a series of increasingly tough sanctions approved by the u.n. security council in 2017 put the squeeze on north korea and as a result its largest trading partner china. these sanctions more than anything else have come to define u.s.-china cooperation under president donald trump. and yet, few expected both sides to work together after trump's devicive 2016 campaign. >> whether it's china with our trade agreements no, matter what it is it seems that we don't seem to have it. >> china was a favorite target of the republican candidate who accused china of "raping the u.s. economically," and for failing to solve the north korea problem. but an april meeting in florida change the president's tune. he got on well with the chinese president and a calculation was made. the administration would back off on trade issues in the hopes of chinese help on pressuring the kim jong-un regime to stop developing nuclear weapons. result? three rounds of sanctions all approved by chines

new york city should stay out of the bulk of it, maybe one inch for new york. boston could get a couple of inches. coastal maine, four to six inches. again, not a blockbuster event, but all of this, of course, is going to be coming down for a lot of folks during the morning commute. we know the commute going to be impacted. how about the windchill advisories? in place, windchills down to 0 in spots across the south. birmingham sits at a goose egg this hour. atlanta at 8 degrees. notice where the cold front is, where it's going to get significantly colder in charlotte. 40 is what it feels like at this hour. working in broad, not the perspective. colder in the south than even across parts of the northeast at this hour. big-time arctic chill moving in. >> a wicked winter. thanks. millions of parents saying, just let the kids go to school. >> i know. >> please! >> not another snow day. >> too many snow days. >>> ahead, a deal on government spending increasingly in doubt. republicans can't agree on their own proposal. now more democrats say no deal without a plan for d.r.e.a.m.ers. the deadline now only three days a

maine. >> no one anticipated it would get this cold and stay this cold this long. >> new york city issued a code blue for the homeless. shelters open to any one in need and they added 450 new beds. ceo of new york city rescue mission, craig mays. it's been demanding on us. and life and death for those on the streets. roim airlines resumed flights after thousands of cancellations. a walter main break at jfk airport sunday created another mess. in dorcester, massachusetts flames at a five alarm fire burst out of a triple decker home frozen in ice. thick icicles weighed down power lines as firefighters frosted over during the fight. in the nation's capital. power outages and ruptured pipes are delaying of start of classes at howard university for a week. >> don't want students to go, start freezing. takes away from the learning environment. in boston, an obstacle. rivers full of floating ice chunked. with gusts of winds more than 100 miles an hour. new hampshire mount washington was the coldest place in the country on saturday. >> right now up to 14 degrees below zero. with a 55 below wind c

temperatures continues sunday from south carolina to maine -- >> i never anticipated we'd get this cold and stay this blue for so long. >> reporter: new york city has added a cold blue for the homeless and shelters added beds. >> it's really been very demanding on us, and the it's a matter of life and death literally for them on the streets. >> reporter: in dorchester, massachusetts, flames on a five-alarm fire. firefighters frosted over during the fight. in the nation's capitol, power outages and ruptured pipes are delag classes monday at howard university for at least a week. >> you don't want us to go there and start freezing and take away from the learning environment. >> reporter: the cleanup could take daus. in boston, major on stam calls, streets that have turned into rivers with floating ice chunks. with gusting winds at more than 100 miles an hour, new hampshire was the coldest on saturday. >> right now we're at 14 degrees below zero and 55 below. really cold instead of bone-chilling cold out there on the >> that was mel oliver reporting. >> in southern california this morning, heavy rain and wind threatened to trigger mudslides. resid

main stay moving out. discovery communications sin moving to new york city in 2019. discovery recently announced plans to buy scripps network. layoffs, relocation decisions not yet been made. >> loudoun county sheriff's deputies are looking for the man in this surveillance video tonight. they tell us he grabbed a middle school girl on her way home from school in sterling last wednesday and touched her inappropriately. she screamed and he took off. >> and a big water main break in toe poem acmaryland, this on bradley boulevard between river road and mercy hollow lane. video from chopper4, water flowing down bradley. wssc working to fix it. >> as the me, too movement moves to and reverberates through washington -- hollywood, wrath ear -- rather, it is playing out in our public lives. >> a group is meeting in two hours to discuss this problem. >> how an area student is trying to empower you >> reporter: the problem is real. women verbally harassed, threatened, even sexually assaulted while using public transportation. >> especially late at night, coming home at 10:30, 1

maine and the new york area. the heavier snow bands are over ocean city through philadelphia and atlantic city. end of it, the snow is breaking up with only flurries left around many parts of virginia at this time. moderate snow is falling along fedexfield, it lightens up you go past that around college park and we are down to flurries. in d.c., half the city is getting flurries and the other half is getting a break. if you are around howard university, and florida avenue in nationals park, there are flurries and there is a break from it once you go further east of that towards the georgetown area. falls church is getting some flurries at this hour. we have flurries and gaithersburg and traveling further south i'll around the plate and walled off, there is moderate snow but going to stafford and fredericksburg, this is about to wrap up. you can see the snow moved over. in the eastern edge of stafford, you are about finished with the snow. it should wrap up by 11 am. i will show you what this looks like. by 10 am, lighter snow is here and heavier snow is a long ocean city. that is where melissa

new york city. a broefken water main caused hundreds of cancellations and delays even for some domestic flights. >>> president trump may not be getting a warm welcome when he attends the ncaa championship game in atlanta, the naacp is asking people to wear white and hold up signs. >>> and the annual consumer in las vegas. we're going to look at some of this year's hot devices. >>> and a sea of black flowed down the red carpet at the golden globes in the powerful protest of sexual harassment. actresses echoed the theme of female empowerment and that a new day is on the horizon. those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 8th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and that was such a powerful speech by oprah winfrey. there were so many people saying that was her opening speech for presidential run in 2020. oprah has said since that she has no plans to run for president. >> that's what they all say. that's what they all say. >> yes, exactly. >>> but we're going to start this half hour here on the east coast and the cold weather nightmare moving its way east. >> right now we're l

in new york city, a frozen pipe caused a water main break at the airport and disrupted operations already hampered by the frigid weather. and things went on as usual with the no pants subway ride in new york, but with hats, scarves, and gloves. >>> time is now 6:06, former state senator today mark leno will file papers to run for mayor of san francisco in a special election to fill out the rest of ed lee's term. tomorrow is the dead line for xn who is interested in running to file the paperwork with the city's department of elections. now acting mayor london breed announced she would be running among others. >>> local lawmakers say they have learned important lessons after the wildfires in fall. they have now drafted a bill that creates a state would noitification plan. counties would have to create local guide lines for a federal alert system that would send emergency text messages to cell phones in the area. they would also be sent through land lines and include media alerts. >>> zur aty could be handed over to federal officials after being acquitted of the death of kate steinly. he was

new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, 30 to 40 below. minus ten in lancaster minus ten with the wind in millville. minus 9 in atlantic city.s hour by hour for the i-95. winds gusting 30 to 35 miles per hour at times. air temperatures in the teens you combine the two you get air temperatures that like this. 4:00 p.m., getting close to zero and the numbers start trailing off after sunset. you can thank the polar vortex for this. you can see it on the water vapor shot. there's the vortex right there. the huge nor'easter came up the eastern seaboard it went this way, captain of the cold and drove it straight down into the lower 48. one degree in cincinnati. 39 in new orleans. 36 in jacksonville. even in atlanta there's no relief in sight. 2424 in atlanta. all of this scoots to the north as we head into next weekend once we get to the 15th, here comes the january thaw, the model is showing a two week steetemperatures well abovezing mid to upper 40s weeks. looks b we past the the cold might come charging back in february. windchills zero to ten below frigid 16 degrees that's the forecasted high. hour by hour, lots of sunshine, a