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i'm meteorologist mike seidel in oklahoma city.ore on the storm and its impacts and where it is headed coming up. >>> and grounded in reality. an airline strike leaves travel plans for thousands up in the air. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm alex wit and welcot here on saturday. >>> just a few hours before president obama's expected to arrive on capitol hill, it is a very busy saturday there. these are live pictures of the house rules committee where they are setting the terms for tomorrow's health care vote. nbc's luke russert is live for us on capitol hill. luke, what happened here with this 11:00 a.m. appointment we had to hear from antiabortion democrat bart stupak but now he's postponed the press conference. what do you know about this? >> there's certain lay lot of rumors flying around here on capitol hill. but an aide to mr. stupak said it was mainly a scheduling conflict, not necessarily a policy conflict. negotiations are ongoing between mr. stupak and the democratic leadership. another democrat i spoke to speculated perha

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 a volcano erupted overnight. the good news is that no injuries have been reported. but, look at this, police declared a state of emergency. three iceland air flights bound for that country were actually diverted to boston. the volcano la

for more on the weather, let's head to the weather channel's mike seidel live in atlanta. good morning, mike. what a beautiful, beautiful picture. >> yes. and get out early today. rain is moving in early for the cherry blossoms. a storm through the middle of the country head iing to the ea coast, causing a lot of issues there, monday and tuesday. here's the spin in the atmosphere. we've already had 56-mile-an-hour wind gusts clocked this morning northwest of nashville in clarksville, tennessee. and now the rain heads east and this line is going to fire up this afternoon. severe weather including the potential for hail. we have some small hail in south central kentucky. more showers getting back into nashville. the line heading to atlanta this afternoon will likely slow down flights. but look out late this afternoon, this evening, and then after you go to bed tonight in the carolinas we'll have a is he veer weather outbreak. we may have straight line wind damage and potentially some tornadoes. remember to have that noaa weather radio cranked up. here is the storm heading to

record setting rain and the worst flooding there in more than 100 years, the weather channel's mike seidel is in cranston, rhode island. mike, good morning. the rain is easing there but problems i understand are certainly not over. >> reporter: not by a long shot. rain has finally shut down. even some sunshine this morning but behind me, this is the pawtuxet river, here in cranston is across the river, the other side in -- in parts of rhode island where the river has come up now to 20.76 feet, an all-time crest now, 12 feet above flood stage. it is still coming up, coming up another inch in the past couple of hours. yesterday and monday, heavy rainfall, that's why we've had unprecedented flooding. historic totals in providence, nine inches of rain in two days. over 16 inches so far in march, now the wettest month on record, forcing residents out of their homes, some for the second time in two weeks. the bad news is even though the sun is back out, the rain has stopped. it will take until at least early next week before these floodwaters come back down. this morning many roads and bridges a