look for icy conditions in the mid mississippi river valley. heavy snow in the central plains, rain in the pacific northwest. sunny and cool, midatlantic

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live noise on the mississippi river. nal sound on the river boat set. >> before tv and what you do before radio this wasorm pulling you to the river. >>reporter: now let us pull you captain steve doesn't have a dream job. it's one of a kind job. that's a signature call from 265 foot long huge riff steam boat old technology in new form. >> i think she lost a lot of and a half gate by the seat of the pachbilitys new technology and gps and sharp navigation. newer people don't know how the old people did it. >>reporter: it's a tourist attraction yes but discerning one get away from the superbowl crowds. escape in space and time. 7 miles down and 7 miles back over some of the deepest water of the mississippi. this is no digital rendition that is a giant paddle wheel turning the 16 rpm driven by steam engine so old that it came from another boat in previous century. >> when you start into a job and you like what you do then i guess you can make it life long. >> frankly the working of the antique machine fascinated us. like a li

on your way to your new minimum wage job you want to take the alternate route around the mississippi river through canada. [cheers and applause] but -- [cheers and applause] but the biggest -- i believe the the biggest failure of the night was how a balma kept unloading his work to us. >> we must do more to combat climate change. america must face the threat of signer attacks. america must remain a beacon to all who seek freedom. we must all do our part. we can get it done. now is the time to get it done. now is the time to do it. >> jon: ug. >> stephen: uhg. arrgh. that sounds like a lot of work, man. why do we -- why do we always have to face our global challenges? why can't america take a personal year? just some time to get our (bleep) together. maybe focus on our music, throarn home brew? -- learn to home brew? whatever. no, no. [cheers and applause] no, whatever. i guess we'll address our challenges. of course, obama was just the opening act for fortnight's mai- for the night's main event the long awaited rubio address given by florida senator and board certificateified minority marc

severe weather across the lower mississippi river valley.vy snow, near blizzard conditions in kansas and nebraska. that will be headed our way late-night. we will start to see clouds increasing and wintry mix will be possible especially north and west of the d.c. metro area on friday. the moisture will be very limited. a better chance of rain saturday. today's forecast, mostly sunny skies with a high temperature between 40 and 45. jamee, how about traffic? >> i am loving the early ride across the woodrow wilson bridge, american legion bridge, and this looks good. the house fire in the glenarden area of maryland, inside the beltway, south of 704, so you might see fire and rescue units responding. no problems on the beltway at 50 the john hanson highway getting through cheverly into town, this looks good too. back to you. >> thank you. 24 degrees. >> next we will explain how the weather puts a snag >> fans are mourning the loss of actor lou myers. >> the 76-year-old actor was best known for his role on the tv show "a different world." the died

israel to a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the mississippi river and the greater the niger delta letter to recently launched the salvage on development company monday. enjoying the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing and maiming and he said people. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's trying task force he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continental for a deal that would permit them to return. about . this my wife. so we need development schools i just all. know. the group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference. that will. go through so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in the sun in the water tell them to arrange themselves. and. then go. to the. she could laboratory tim curry was able to build the world's most soph

reporter: it would stand 40 feet tall and six lanes wide 3.5 miles of it running between the mississippi river the city's iconic st. louis cathedral. [ church bells ] >> jackson square, the highway. gone. no access to the river. it's over. >> reporter: and the damage wouldn't end there. >> all you see in front of us, all these trees, all the grassy grounds are gone. this is an up ramp to an elevated highway. >> both the mayor, the governor, the city council, all wanted that elevated highway in the worst way. >> reporter: so a small group of new orleanians went to war. >> we were the underdogs. >> reporter: until reinforcements arrived from san francisco. >> they wouldn't accept a nickel. they came on their own to save the city of new orleans from an elevated highway based on their experience in san francisco with the embarcadero. never seen anything like it. >> reporter: the san francisco brigade's best weapon, one single image. >> we had a photograph of the embarcadero as it passed in front of the ferry building in san francisco. and we juxtaposed a drawing that we did of the vieux carre rive

central gulf on into the mid mississippi river valley. more rain in the pacific northwest. dense fog along the california, southern california coast and we're expecting plenty of sunshine in the central rockies. th >> good morning. it will be cold. wind chills running in the single digits and teens. >>> by the way, willie was in florida this weekend. take a look. we've got some video of willie right here. >> exciting. what have we got here? >> oh, we don't have it. never mind. >> what was it? >> here it is. there we go. >> oh, yeah. >> willie! >> see what i mean? >> little maker's mark. >> too much of this guy and that's what you end up with. al, thanks, i guess. >>> up next, the latest jeopardy team tournament champ. we love this guy. the best final jeopardy response ever scribbled down. he is with us right here after this. ds card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone but her likes 50% more cash, but i have an idea. do you want a princess dress? yes. cupcakes? yes. do you want an etch-a-sketch? yes! do you want 50% more cash? no. y

all right, gang, the mississippi river, mississippi river got a lot of dirt up there, and that dirt all flow southward and as it flow southward, what happens to the length of the day, to new orleans, okay? hey, so what? it turns out, the distribution of the earth, if we change the rotational inertia, what will happen to the spin rate? it will change also, decrease one, you increase the other, ain't that neat? so you've got a whole lot of stars out there, and all these stars are all coming. they are slightly, slightly rotating, okay? and as they rotate, they gravitationally come in, and they get closer and closer and closer. now what do you suppose happens to the rotation rate of this new galaxy being formed as these stars all start to get closer to one another, take a guess. what's going to happen to the rotation rate? spread right out into a nice big disk honey and that's the way it is. so when you look out at astronomy, astronomers all the time interested in angular momentum because they know what's concerned. whatever angular momentum a galaxy has at one time, it will have that same

take a look at this beautiful sunrise over the mississippi river, just gorgeous.inutes ago the sky was orange, a little bit blue and purple. there are some clouds settling in here, but it's warming up. a lot warmer than it was yesterday morning. and let's take a live look now at the super dome. of course this is where all the action is going to be on sunday, super bowl xlvii. new orleans, this is the 10th 10th super bowl for new orleans to host the super bowl, but the 7th at the super dome, the first three were held at tulane stadium. there are more than 76,000 seats there at the super dome, so lots of fans are going to be piling in to watch that game. >>> now, we're hearing from the coaches, jim and john harbaugh, they are going to hold a joint news conference in about an hour from now. can't wait to hear what they have to say. this marks the first super bowl to feature the brothers as head coaches. they'll share a podium at a new orleans hotel for their final media session before the big game. they're rumored to have had dinner last night for before. and on mond

but until then, let me give you another shot of the sun coming up over the mississippi river. live in new orleans i'm joe fonzi. >> thank you for that. make sure you stay right here with ktvu for continuing super bowl coverage. look at our ktvu team, they will bring you live reports on the big easy in every newscast leading up to the big game. don't forget sunday night after the game switch back here for channel 2 for a live local post game show with all the fans in the bay area and new orleans. >>> we are getting a new look at an over night fire in oakland that left dozens of people in the dark. claudine wong is out there in the neighborhood this morning where it happened. and just spoke with someone the person that called 911. >> reporter: we have new information, new video, new details for you about this over night fire that is being called suspicious. let me give you a look at some of the damage. these used to be cypress trees. the flames shooting off these were 30 feet in the air. if you want an idea how hot it burned, all you have to do is look at the car that was parked

of the foothills of colorado and the texas panhandle, consolidating into the lower and middle mississippi river valley. that will spell a big snow again for them to go to snow. as far as we are concerned, we are fine tonight and tomorrow and they will also impact our area on tuesday. don't put that umbrella too far away. temperatures are chilly now. nothing cay i.38 in fairfax. 40 in old town and 39 in bowie. winds will diminish and it will be cold as we are tracking that storm for tuesday. most of the precipitation in the metro area at least past the morning rush hour on tuesday. coming home will be a different story for them and that the winter storm watches have been there on monday night and tuesday. and for us tonight winds will diminish. winds will calm down becoming northwest at 10. so most folks will hit 32 or below. 30 in rockville, 29 in fairfax tonight for the low. 32 in springfield and 30 for the low in college park. less wind that will be feeling pretty nice. high temperature 29 to about 60. the weather alert is green tomorrow. yellow alerts on tuesday. wet and windy with the tempe

we're here on the banks of the mississippi river and the past couple of nights, fireworks a couple nightsot of fans showed up here and a lot of fans have gone inside the nfl fan experience, 850,000 square feet, it's at the convention center here in the big easy, fans can go through some drills, they can see some displays and learn about nfl history so i figured yeah i got to get myself a piece of this. i tried out the action at the nfl fan experience. punt catching contest. time to see what it's like to be ted ginn. i'm going to say if you go out there, make this catch, i think the 49ers have a good chance of winning. it all rests on your shoulders right here. are you okay with that? >> go ahead. >> the super bowl rests in your hands. jim harbaugh and everyone thanks you. i swear i was fast in high school. he's got cleats on. >> ready, set, go! uh-oh, uh-oh. it looks tight between one and three! and lane three wins! >> reporter: he got me. i was faster back in the high school days and boy i have a tough job in the big easy. this is what we have coming up tonight a treat for everybody, hou

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but pretty big area of precipitation from the east coast all the way back to iowa and the mississippi river. snowing pretty good in chicago. was raining there earlier. we just had rain. we showed you a pocket of ice out in the west and garrett county and also grant county, west virginia. but this is going to be a rainstorm for us. this is heavy rain. see the yellow? that's pockets of heavy rain about to cross over 66. heavy rain to the west of fairfax. we have a little bit of a break from alany down to silver spring. and east, west highway. that's going to cover up soon. we have more rain coming. 41 germantown. 41 in rockville. temperatures primarily arlington, college park, bowie, maybe 43 right now down toward waldorf. so we're looking at some good news. windy and wet commute home, but the rain ends before midnight and there's no flood advisory. we stay above freezing tonight. and we are rewarded tomorrow, a touch of spring on wednesday. so, tonight mostly cloudy, breezy, chilly. rain goes to showers around midnight. winds eventually become southwest 10 to 15. lows 38 to 44. tomorrow morn

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as the system moving in from toward the east, conditions will be looking up across the lower mississippi river on the eastern side of the deep south will remain quite stormy into your wednesday. so flooding risk is getting even higher. some of the precipitation wil also reach the mid-atlantic region including washington, d.c. out toward the northwest snow showers for the northern rockies up to eight centimeter is likely into your wednesday morning. highs not too bad in many locations. minus 3 degrees in winnipeg. that's about 5. actually much warmer than seasonal. meanwhile, 4 degrees in new york city. and 8 degrees in washington, d.c. you may be -- you could be seeing some snow showers from your wednesday night. all right. in europe rotating clouds are still affecting the central parts of europe. underneath it there's a lot going on. severe thunderstorms to the south and snow to the north. and because of heavy rain and thunderstorms and strong winds, flooding is occurring in some places including venice. let's take a look at some video from this area. heavier rains and snow continue to batter

. >> gasia we are in the french quarter on the banks of the mississippi river. you can see this giant logo set up for the super bowl. this area is called super bowl boulevard. this whole park on the waterfront in the french quarter has been transformed into a modern nfl showcase. but, burbon street, a short distance away, has not changed. >> a familiar face at candlestick park, super niner is here playings his banjo on bush burbon street. >> reporter: there are many of fans. her devotion has been handed down from her mother. >> my middle name is jo after joe montana. my mom is a diehard niner's fan. >> you can find it all. kroetures lurking on the sidewalk, drinking and some being carted off to jail. michael spent his day trying to get the autograph of jerry rice. >> after his interview i got his autograph and it was perfect, man. i saw him may and just to see him, he can still play man, he got it. >> reporter: many fans say they have tickets. face value is $800 and some are spending more than that. >> $5,000 a piece. >> you paid $5,000 for a ticket? >> yes. >>