bring in more moisture even into over toward the midatlantic. warm in the southeast. wet in the northeast and more precipitation and the form of rain and elevation snow in the pacific northwest. heading onto wednesday, wet conditions for the great lakes toward the northeast but dry across the southern tier. we still see the active weather going on in the pacific northwest. lots of sunshine for the central and northern plains, as well as the southern plains. as we head over to friday when he are expecting to see is warm conditions creeping back up in to the nation's midsection. more wet the and very active weather for the northwest. rain, maybe upper elevation snow there. we will see wet conditions into the northeast as well but a lot of people will get into the field and at least get field work done. stay tuned, we will have more weather in the next half hour. . >>> i realize many of you may have just eaten but i will be bringing up a topic today that may provoke a strong visc era l reaction. i'm talking about the first day on our farm. like any start up the first day

active weather over the great lakes, some over the coastal carolina's, high pressure over the midatlantic to keep us high and dry. as we go into the later part of the day saturday and into sunday a new weather maker will push in. warm to the south and east. this will arrive in maryland through the day tomorrow. up in to the 70's. more rain, it's not there tomorrow. scattered showers, a developing frontal boundary to the west that. will start to make its way in on saturday during the day. even down into morning we could get coastal showers and into the afternoon there is the boundary, hopefully sparking showers and thunderstorms, saturday night. optimistic we will continue to see the waves of precipitation up the coast into sunday. it's rain that we need even though it'll be the weekend and it'll be cooler behind that boundary, sunday into monday cooling down quite a bit. overnight down to 50, clear sykes, fog overnight into tomorrow morning, sun and warmer tomorrow. 74, not bad and tomorrow night down to 55 degrees. clouds on the increase. all right. let's check out the seven day forecast

chilly rain set up, classic set up here for late spring when we get the wedge of cool air over midatlantic and a rain system developing. it means rain and cloud cover will over spread that chilly air and it'll not be a lot of rain but just a sort of chilly, damp showers on and off tomorrow night and perhaps lasting into early saturday morning. here is the trend, the best timing right now. the late night computer model run. clouds in tomorrow. look for showers by four or five. on and off hit and miss showers into saturday night. don't cancel any plans, just bring the umbrella. then the sunshine that will let temperatures get back in to the low 60s. improvement on the way. this window of late saturday into early sunday where we will see the chilly rain source, over night 36, frost north and west. tomorrow we will just say 57 with the clouds rolling in and the chilly start. then tomorrow night that's where we get the cool, chilly rain showers that damp chilly night situation. improving weather is on the way quickly. look at this sunday afternoon. 64 degrees. then the sun and the warmer temper

notice how warm it is in the central part of the nation, yet here in the northeast and midatlantic regiontemperatures very cool. we won't get into the warm stuff. we will get a little piece of it and then some chilly air will be drawn down out of canada for the end of the week. here is our forecast for tonight. clouds, chilly conditions, a few scattered showers and in some cases just sprinkles. north to northwest winds eventually. 10 to 20-mile-per-hour winds tonight. 42-47 the overnight he low. tomorrow all that is gone. sunny skies, breezy and cool. north to northwest winds, 10 to 20. some of the gusts will be stronger than that. 57-62 the high. temperatures similar tomorrow to today except we will have the wind to contend w winds gusting to 30 from the north a four-foot chop on the open waters of the bay. the statewide forecast calls for a lot of sun tomorrow to get the temperatures near 60. the breeze will make it seem chillier anyway. futurecast shows the showers coming through overnight. just a brief visit and we dry out during the day tomorrow. we're in the clear for all of monday

below normal temperatures for the great lakes, northeast and midatlantic from louisiana, mississippi,ck across texas and the four corner area and up to north dakota expected above normal temperatures, about low normal for western washington and oregon. precipitation next week above normal from the southwest great lakes back to nebraska, some good news for that area and the very dry areas of the northern plains, below normal for the dry areas of the southeast and also into the southwest. let's go out to the next 90 days, i know this is a little different than some other forecasts but i believe it'll be a little cooler than normal this summer for the great lakes and the northeast. above normal for the time you gelt to dixie and much of the west. expected to be above normal. nine day outlook below normal for the western third. west texas westward and then a small area, tennessee valley and on up in to the eastern great lakes of above normal. mostst of the corn belt i'm expecting near normal for this coming summer. >> you had entered earlier about being below normal temperatures, cool sum

lakes, ohio valley and the -- precipitation expected to be above normal fort eastern great lakes, midatlantic the northeast with near normal for much of the corn belt. far southern portions of texas and louisiana and from nebraska, kansas, on into the western states, probably below normal. john even near normal would probably be good for this area. >> normally these are the high rainfall months, so -- really want to get them open. >> thank you mike. spirit of the heart land. we've talked a lot about the early . >>> we have talked a lot about the early arrival of spring for many parts of the country. coming that warm weather with birds. the birds that make their way to spend the spring and summer in the north. in colorado our good friend caught up with a group of sandhill cran es as they make their way north. >> it's kind of neat. >> it's interesting. >> i was just amazing. amazing. don't you think? >> we are at wildlife refuge a 15,000 acres refuge and we see -- the sandhill cranes as they go from southern new mexico and head north. . >> pick me up at three in the morning to photograph the th

midatlantic confirms the average price hit $4, up two cents from wednesday, six cents higher than the national average, and 32 cents more than a year ago. the reason why? >> oil refineries are switching from their winter blend to the more environmentally friendly but costlier spring blend, so motorists will now see prices rise at the pump. >> a.a.a. says despite rumors, they don't anticipate prices will hit the $5 mark this season. do you know of a good deal of gas prices around maryland? down load our new iphone app. >> today a fresh look at the still struggling economy. millions of americans are still out of work, but economists think we could see a significant number of jobs added in the latest jobs report out today. 11 news reporter tara mergener joins us live from washington with this project economy report. good morning to you, tara. >> good morning to you, sarah. the news is a mixed bag. employers are adding jobs, but the unemployment rate is not expected to budge from 8.3%. >> in this economy, job hunters say patience is key. >> being hopeful and realizing that it's going to b

want to show you what you can expect as it moves north, it's going to look very similar in the midatlantic tonight and into tomorrow the northeast. from the video to the graphics. a major nor'easter taking shape. it will be rain along the coast. any big cities from d.c. to boston, it's going to be rain. you go inland, it's going to be wind and snow. how much? let's look at how much rain falls. 2 to 4 inches in the red color you see here. 1 to 2 from albany to philadelphia. there's a reason for that, some of it is going to mix into snow and up to a foot of snow, just south of buffalo. are you seeing that heart of really heavy snows? oh, my goodness, the 20 to 40 mile-per-hour winds all of the way back to chicago. this is a massive storm. it's going to cover a huge amount of population. we'll be tracking it and we'll have more in this broadcast coming up. back to new york. >> such a bizarre winter and spring. ginger, thank you. we should say that there's a reason that ginger is in chicago. we'll explain in a little bit. >>> right now the overnight headlines and ron claiborne, a lot of storie

there's going to be a couple of different storms that dive through the midwest and out through the midatlantice heading out to the ocean. while that's happening, they're going to get very strung out. and this could set up just to the south. and we wouldn't get very much out of it. the way it's looking now, they're going to move on top of us. and if that happens, we've got another round of decent rain heading our way. friday into saturday. and another storm saturday into sunday. so the forecast comes together like this. on waters right now. pretty nice out there. but we have small craft advisories through 11:00 tonight. those winds pick up tomorrow afternoon ow -- out of the west. took the slight chance for a shower early. anything will die down overnight. 39 for our low. and tomorrow, up to 68 degrees. a nice break in the action tomorrow. before that next storm moves our way, with rain thursday. we were really down in our rainfall numbers. we have a pretty decent chance over the next few days to really build that up once again. and i know it doesn't make for the prettiest of days around here.

national map, you can see the gulf states to the south, guess what, this will shuffle its way up the midatlantic'll see a really nice influx of warmer air and that's going to really boost our temperatures as we head through, into the extended forecast. in the meantime, mild for today. ridge of high pressure, as i mentioned, building in the so the sunshine does return for this afternoon. we are talking highs into the upper 60s. a little cool tonight, however. 44 overnight. and that's going to set us up for a chilly start to your monday in the morning as well as you get ready to head out. patchy fog this morning, clouds, mostly sunny by this afternoon and warmer. very light northerly wind 5 to 10 miles an hour. tonight, mostly clear, cool in the overnight hours, and that's going to transfer right into a very chilly start to your day on monday. northeasterly wind flow, 5 to 10. here's your five-day forecast. chance of storms on tuesday and wednesday. later in the week, headed to the mid-80s. >> thanks so much, gwen. >>> in this morning's sports breakfast, washington capitals starting the second ser

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preparing for the unimaginable, after last summer's midatlantic earthquake, it is not such a stretch.aryland's first-ever large-scale earthquake drill. >> reporter: those who have trained if are years to save lives in a disaster gave towson university nursing students a quick course on life and death. >> all right. what do we got? what do we got? >> she is bleeding. >> be very careful. she's a little wobbly. >> are you still having a little trouble breathing? >> we're used to only having one patient in our clinical setting. whereas here, we're supposed to get hundreds. >> the 5.4 earthquake rocked the washington monument and brought down bricks and stones for the drill. the scenario for the towson drill is stronger. >> the area hospitals, overloaded. and there was a need for an alternative fuel treatment site. >> they learn a little about gnarl disaster and emergency preparedness and emergency response in classrooms. but it's nothing like being overwhelmed in a chaotic situation. >> reporter: while no drill can recreate the chaos for the real thing, it does lay the foundation for what

forecast, after a cold start, it's a mostly sunny and pretty nice afternoon from the northeast, midatlantic all the way to the southeast for the augusta golf tournament. no problem for today's round or sundays. we'll see some late-day showers and storms in texas and also on the west coast where we are dealing with rain. but how does your easter sunday forecast look? for all the easter egg hunts and searching for the basket, we are looking very nice out there with showers in the great lakes and some late afternoon storms in texas and oklahoma. overall, i think this weekend is probably an "a." almost perfect. back to you. >> we like to hear that, bill karins. >>> still ahead, doug the math. one state may change its rules for delegating votes for the primarieses. >>> and i sit down with tina brown who reveals a softer side, in fact, how she reacts when her daughter sends her a text message in the middle of an important meeting. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well, shoot, that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer

the electric grid to provide energy as needed across the northeastern, midatlantic part of our nation. that's an idea that's sort of out there. but we need to be thinking boldly. the postal service needs to be doing that. the -- i think one of the better pieces of our amendment, and this came from some of the more progressive members of the democratic party and kind of joined up with some of the more conservative folks on the republican side, but the idea that the postal service needs to be entrepreneurial. they need to be more innovative. and when they come up with good ideas for making money, including like the idea we talked to at the luncheon caucus we had today. how about vote by mail. in two states today -- oregon, washington -- they vote by mail. what does it do to voter turnout? i think we're told by senator cantwell in her state last year, two years ago in the election, they had 72% voter turnout. this year they're expecting 84% voter turnout. this is a country where we're lucky to have 50% of the people who actually turn out to vote and we can see what it can do in those two

for tomorrow, we're looking at plenty of sunshine into the northeast and rain in the midatlantic states the pacific northwest. warm texas into the southwest and the paul newman camps have changed their name. >> serious fun network. >> what a great man he was. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. bright sun and a new dleu sky. live view from the sky watcher camera. a bit of a breeze at the camera level 300 feet above northwest washington. the temperatures are up around 40 now after a very cold start when we were at or below freezing in much of the region. later today, near 70. a lot of clouds tomorrow. maybe a shower during the afternoon. sun back thursda >> and that's your latest weather. and don't forget, you can go to your weather channel or your weather.com and get the weather whenever you need it. matt? >> all right, al, thank you very much. christie brinkley made her broadway debut last year as roxy hart in the hit show "chicago." she went on to play that role in london's west end, as well, and starting this