a winter storm warning is lifted in chicago but heavy snow is falling across the northeastern united states and also freezing rain could falall in and around maryland. so that could cause some icy roads. that could cause very hazardous driving conditions. quite chilly across the north. minus 22 degrees on monday in winnipeg. new york city at 8 with rainy weather on monday. as we go into the next four days, temperatures expected to drop significantly. minus 22 on monday winnipeg. you could feel like minus 36 because of the strong winds. temperatures could go down to minus 21 on thursday as well. and washington, d.c., 9 on monday for the morning low, down to minus 2 degrees on thursday. bundle up. here's the extended forecast. >>> that brings us to the end of >>> that wraps up this edition of nhk "newsline." thanks very much for joining us] watching "france 24." time for 60 minutes around the world. these are the headlines. the syrian army inches closer to retaking full control of aleppo from the rebels. but with that army focused now on recapturing the second-biggest city in syria, another h

by comparison, here, across the northeastern united state, it still is going to be a lot to chip away at the extreme or exceptional drought up in the new england area, but here, it may not look that much different, but at least a little bit of betterment, improvement, whether it comes to our drought status. still, majority of us are falling between that moderate to severe level of drought status. but, you know it, does look at this point like actually we ends up with more rain down the road here. so upper 40's, through the course of the weekends, other than the breeze it, looks like great weekends for decorating, plans, tree decorating, any of. that will by early next week, a.m. sprinkles possible monday but tuesday, look like the necessary best chance for us to see some soak rain, as we get ever closer of course fine tuning that, so you want to stick with us, of course, meisha, over to you. >> katie, so weep got a friday on tap. we've got sunshine on tap. we've got dry roadways on tap as well. and actually looking pretty good a lot of construction we've been talking about all morning

united states and also into canada. a low pressure system continues to move north into the great lakes and that will bring rain and even the possibility of snow. temperatures chilly in the northeastern areas of the united states. back towards the west, we have a couple areas of low pressure system rolling through. chance for more snowfall into places like colorado and nebraska and also into kansas. meanwhile, another low pressure system bringing in the possibility of freezing rain along the west coast. be on the lookout for that freezing rain. just a nasty scenario and you can't get any traction in those cases. try to stay home if at all possible. looking at very chilly conditions along the eastern seaboard and looking at temperatures down into the single digits for new york and 10 in d.c. and atlanta at 14 and snow in denver with a high of 10 below zero. now, wrap things up with a look at east asia. a decent amount of snowfall over the past four hours. saw 24 centimemeters of snowfal. we havave more possible sea efft snow in place and this is not thee end of the story, n not ju for thursday, but another system possibly moving into thursday and the weekend. more snowfall into the no

. >>> let's go to northeastern areas of the united states, now people there are experiencing a severe winter storm. meteorologist robert speta joins us with the details in world weather. >> yes, let's start off here, especially across the great lakes heading through the northeastern u.s. we are looking at fairly heavy snowfall. not just the snow that's coming down or the accumulation with it. see the pressure gradient right in here and with it you have that lake-effect snow kicking up, quite unstable. a few areas around buffalo, new york, actually reporting thundersnow, that's that snowfall with a thunderstorm mixed right into it. definitely some pretty scary sights. it's making for some rough travel conditions as well. i'll show you some video we have coming out of indiana first. see numerous traffic accidents there. the good news, there was no injuries reported in this pileup. several trucks pushed off the road on one of these highways. just very slick conditions. the temperatures have also, by the way, been a big issue. in ohio, you see they're cleaning up a mess there, too. windch

50 years after his death at a northeastern, ivy league school, which is about as far from lenny bruce's hollywood as it is possible to get in the continental united states, people are gathering to discuss his, i mean a scholarly discussion on his life, his career, and a celebration of his life. i tend not to refer to lenny bruce as a comedian. i call him a humorist, because in my opinion, he is up there with mark twain, robert benchley, will rogers, the best of them. i think he is the most important humorist of the 20th century. my name is tom deacon. thank you. [applause] >> can you please elaborate on what you see as the dangers in free speech on the campuses, whether it is limits of too much political correctness and things like that? i want you to elaborate on that a little bit, please. ms. hefner: sure. i live in chicago. i think all universities are grappling with this, and where is greg? stand up, greg. greg is the founder and head of an organization called fire, and we work together through the foundation and around first amendment, and you should make a point of finding greg after this session when we are on coffee break because we used to supp

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