flakes flying into northern illinois. this will fill in overnight. the heaviest coming in chicago after midnight. so, a good call to cancel schools there tomorrow. by 6:00 a.m., detroit, cleveland. all day long. it hugs the i-90 corridor right through central new york. albany gets it by 6:00 p.m. warnings up from montana to michigan. a tight gradient of 6 to 12 inches of snow across northern illinois through northern parts of ohio. david? >> rob, thank you. >>> next, to south korea tonight, the first competitions of the winter olympics already under way. a u.s. victory already. the opening ceremony set for tomorrow, of course. but the fireworks have already started. an american figure skater reportedly turning down a meeting with vice president mike pence. and a flap over who will carry the u.s. flag in the opening ceremony. abc's matt gutman, in south korea for us. >> reporter: the competition already under way before the opening ceremony. in curling, two americans siblings besting a pair of russians. the official russian team banned because of a ma

that three inches possible anywhere through much of iowa, northern illinois, chicago, northern indiana. notice how large of an area is at least going to get an inch of snow out of this. you know, a little fresh coating, a lot of areasmperatur areas of new england as the cold air that was in the plains heads for the northeast. we'll take a look at the week ahead forecast. pretty big storm midweek for the east coast. >> oh, boy. thank you. >>> fast forwarding into monday, president trump and first lady melania traveled to cincinnati where the president will visit a factory and out to the republican tax overhaul. the first lady will visit a children's hospital. >>> on tuesday, spacex is planning to launch the "falcon heavy," the world's most powerful rocket on its first test flight. spacex says it is capable of carrying the weight of a fully loaded jetliner with passengers, crew, luggage, and fuel into space. >>> this week, "today" looks back at some favorite and memorable olympians to find out what they've been doing since the games. firste the games. first speed skater dan janzen. we'll

in northern illinois several horses and other animals had to be rescued. dozens of homes are surrounded by high water. in wichita, a driver had to be rescued from a submerged vehicle in the arkansas river. flood warnings are posted from texas to indiana. >>> well, coming up on the "morning news" now, calling out misconduct. how the nba is helping workers report problems in the workplace. >>> and terror scare. a suspicious letter is sent to prince harry and meghan markle. this is the "cbs morning news." . then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, seriou

lake bluff is located in northern illinois, a little more than an hour north of chicago. it's a picture-perfect midwestern small-town complete with a village green and a little beach along the shores of lake michigan. in fact, during the first world war it was proclaimed the most patriotic town in america for the efforts of its residents to support our troops abroad. donna made her home in lake bluff and in june of this year she filed a comment in the fcc record and it began hello, i would like to comment on internet freedom. she went on to ask the agency asked it to repeal its net neutrality calling them and exploitation of the open internet and this stunning this stunning because she died more than 12 years ago. those are three brief tales and those stories are not unique because people from across the country from every political persuasion have found their names and addresses and identities stolen and used to file fake comments in the fcc net neutrality. they include senator jeff merkley, usa today communist edward, deceased actress patty duke, 13 -year-old in norther

i would like to call everyone's attention to another father daughter dance in northern illinois happeningather was an army soldier and died in a noncombat accident she is being taken to the dance by an army national guardsmen in they are being escorted by a veteran motorcycle club in the police and firefighting. i would love for that to get attention because that's the kind of father daughter dance i would like. [applause] greg: dave, i doubt you have an anecdote as wonderful as that and i will say that desperate. >> i don't. greg: they couldn't find -- about the congressman they couldn't find an actual hunchback. america, i have a head injury. i think. you need to find an actual hunchback for the hunchback of notre dame. >> if you ever do a spinoff of the show, call it america, i have a head injury. for some, that had been in ithaca, new york. i spoke at ithaca college last night and i kid you not i went to the urinal and in front of the urinal there was a sign for environmental justice. it just never stops. greg: did it because you off? [laughter] i still got it. even with my head injur

across the plains and through the midwest. 12 million people under winter storm watches through northern illinoiswhere from 8 to 12 inches of snow through the plains. and tomorrow evening, into friday morning, we're expecting some heavier snow from cedar rapids right through detroit. going to be airport delays and school closings friday. kids, three-daweekend. woy o >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. snow and ice this morning. a slippery commute. icy cessions for much of the philadelphia area. snow and ice farther north and west. eventually it'll change over to rain. the afternoon temperatures will be warming significantly after some icy conditions in new jersey 50 with rainy skies this afternoon. rain will be coming down this afternoon. the suburbs in philadelphia ice and snow in the lehigh valley will eventually change over to rain with a high of 37. sunshine is back tomorrow. have a great day. >> and that's your latest weather. >> don't you love a snow day? >> oh the best. >> al, thank you. >>> still ahead this morning, we have an in at a popular auction for women trying to have

this is the ten year anniversary of the northern illinois university shooting. what in the world are we waiting for? you know, 20 children, 6-year-olds, so it's time to make changes. if our elected officials will not do what it takes to reduce gun violence in this country -- and there's no one single magic wand. we have a lot of policies that need to be looked at. assault weapons ban, identifying people who are at risk of violence, you know, looking at access to weaponry and looking at where we carry and who carries. you know, there is not a single magic wand that is going to solve this. but we need to start something. and in my opinion, i think we change our elected leaders who are not doing their job to keep american citizens, school children, people who go to church, you know, people who are walking down the street, we need to make changes in this country. and i hope it happens in a big way in 2018 and i'm going to work on it. >> lori, let me also just ask you at a personal level, obviously you've seen today just over the course of this hour while you were wa

there's a little weather maker here with some snow working through iowa and parts of chicago in northern illinoisnd indiana. most of this is misses us to the north. we just get some clouds coming through late tonight, early tomorrow morning and temperaturesto will drop back into the teens for millville, allentown, reading. 24 for philadelphia. again as those clouds build late at night. as we start our tuesday morning, lots of clouds in the morning. there could be a couple of snow showers up towards the poconos. but we go back into the low 40's tomorrow afternoon as that sun returns so a nicer warmer day tomorrow and then wednesday morning it is going to be a mess in the morning rush hour especially philadelphia off to the north and west with snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain down to the south but as warmer air takes over it will all flip to rain for everybody even the poconos as we get into the afternoon so the afternoon fairing much better for that commute on wednesday. there are already winter storm watches up for the poconos carbon and mon pro county. nothing to the south. more than likely s

somebody walks into a classroom at northern illinois university and started shooting up the place. lost my mind. good lord, he was in a war, and now he is at home and you think he is safe, and someone walks into a classroom in the middle of america and starts shooting up. you can have armed guards at every elementary, middle school, high school and college, community college across this country might be a good idea, but it is going to be highly expensive, especially since the administration is cutting the education department by 10%. maybe they can take some of that $700 billion for the military and employ that, but that asely, i feel -- long as the republicans are dominating the federal level, nothing is going to be done to eliminate this support. there is only one clear law, at least in my position, that would help, and that would be a total ban on the sale come you manufacture, -- sale, manufacture, and possession of automatic weapons. the judiciary ranking member came to the floor yesterday, and this is what he said the house should do about gun violence. [video clip] >> i want

laura went to northwestern -- excuse me -- northern illinois university. in college she worked two jobs to pay for her college tuition. keep in mind she's ineligible for federal financial assistance because of her immigration status. in 2016 laura graduated with honors with a major in justice studies. but then she was stuck. laura wanted to become a lawyer but was unable to pursue this dream, mr. speaker, because she was undocumented. six years -- long years later in 2012, president obama established daca and laura's life changed. n 2013 laura received daca, enrolled in law school in southern illinois university. in law school laura won the moot court competition. how about that? and was selected for the order of the baresters of the honor sore site. after college laura received her law degree. over the summer she passed her law exam and just last month laura received her illinois law license which she's proudly -- you see, laura never gave up on her dream of becoming a lawyer and thanks to daca and her hard work, this dream has become a reality. now laura

misses california altogether but that of course will follow the same sort of pass through northern nebraska to illinois chicago minus two knots a sniper tension here not in the appalachians still looking fine here as like cloud gathering on the gulf shores the showers possible here i think shows of right even possibly thunderstorms but south of that is still fairly quiet you don't pick up much from the satellite picture a very shallow shower clouds just hitting the coast of nicaragua honduras and possibly costa rica that's true for the next two days that's the right sort of thing for this time year was temp is steadily in the breeze in the middle twenty's for the smaller islands maybe thirty one in kingston jamaica. for the nomadic jock a tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry will never be able to get a top up in the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. and dangerous to the ices of them as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life a little bit longer are sometimes luser cattle in the they will die of cold or because of the storm r

misses california altogether but that of course will follow the same sort of pass through northern nebraska to illinois chicago minus two knots a snow potentially here not in the appalachians still looking fine here as like cloud gathering on the gulf shores the showers possible here i think showers of rain even possibly thunderstorms but south of that is still fairly quiet you don't pick up much from the satellite picture a very shallow shower clouds just hitting the coast of nicaragua honduras and possibly costa rica that's true for the next two days is that's the right sort of thing for this time year is temp is steadily in the breeze in the middle twenty's for the smaller islands maybe thirty one in kingston jamaica. bay the scene for us where on line what is american sign in your mind that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join a sunset there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's been out to just

i believe the northern district of illinois is one of those. it's unlikely they would be put in that position. what's key we need to watch the pressure on rosenstein to see if that is a possibility and to see how people are positioning themselves in that position. it tells us about the thinking behind the scenes. >> telling us what took place before rachel brand left at the doj. joining us now national security analyst jeremy bash, the former chief of staff at the cia and the department of defense. so i just want to play off that conversation and get your initial thoughts about the departure of miss brand and more significantly why average americans should care about this given the role she plays potentially in the russia investigation. this is a big opening. >> i know rachel brand. i went to law school with her and have known her 20 years. she's a professional, a conservative, served in the bush administration. she has had significant legal posts, and she was very highly regarded in legal circles. the thinking if the president was going to fir

misses california altogether but that of course will follow the same sort of pass through northern nebraska to illinois chicago minus two knots a sniper tension here not in the appalachians still looking fine here as. clouds gathering on the gulf shores the showers possible here i think shows of rain even possibly thunderstorms but south of that is still fairly quiet you don't pick up much from the satellite picture a very shallow shower clouds just hitting the coast of nicaragua honduras and possibly costa rica that's true for the next two days that's the right sort of thing for this time year with temps is steadily in the breeze in the middle twenty's for the smaller islands maybe thirty one in kingston jamaica. i am doing this for the benefit of people. so they see the importance of guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. one of the really special things that working for others here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know it's very c

the plains and through the midwest. 12 million people under winter storm watches through northern indiana and illinois to 12 inches of snow in the plains and tomorrow evening to friday morning we're expecting heavier snow from cedar rapids through detroit. going to be airport delays and school closings friday, so kids, >>> but not for the bay area. we are feeling some really warm temperatures and that continues again today with our highs heading up to the mid 70s for san francisco and oakland and 73 degrees in livermore today. san jose 77 and 80 in napa, 82 in santa rosa. the next several days we will gradually get cooler temperatures moving in but that also comes along with gusty winds and still no rain as we head through at least next tuesday. >>> that's your latest weather. >> don't you love a snow day? come on. >> the best. >> thank you so much. >>> still ahead this morning an in-depth look at a popular option for women trying to have children what you should know about freezing your eggs. >>> also ahead, dylan is reuniting some of the most unexpected winter olympians ever. we're talking about the

was the one who called race for kennedy there were three states out, illinois, minnesota, and california. andt, he knew how northern minnesota my relatives iron range and boat he called it and guy in new york for the ap says i have three words, two words for you guyses in minnesota. be right. [laughter] and they were. so he interviewed everyone are from ginger rodgers to famous coach of the bears to ronald reagan so that is deep in my roots is -- is is a free press, and free information and accurate information had. so that's what brings me to this issue at my core. the second reason i'm so interested in this is that i spent eight years as the lead prosecutor in the county about a quarter of our state's population and i did a lot with white collar and making sure that we have an even playing field when it came to criminal enforcement and i say that not to it scare everyone. but more to make the case that i would look at things that it didn't matter if someone committed a crime with a crowbar or they committed a crime with a computer. it's still a crime and that our erlaws have to be sophisticateds those that are br

if you're in iowa, illinois, southern michigan, you'll get a coating of snow out of this. peoria, milk, chicago, and in northernortions of indiana, still some winter storm warnings left over in areas of montana. it's light snow developing during the day today in iowa, this afternoon in illinois and this evening into indiana. not a big deal. snowfall totals are only about 1 to 3 inches out of this, just enough to make it slippery for your commute. it will be belong around to 18 today in chicago. let's take a look at our week ahead. we start off quiet on the east coast. but then we get had this storm coming. a big rainmaker in the southeast, even thunderstorms out of it. a lot of these areas are dry so it's needed. interior sections of new england could get nailed wednesday, wednesday night, talking about enough possibly for a school closing and delays by the time we get to thursday morning. big cities like boston and new york, you look too warm. mostly a rain event for you. maybe snow on the end of it. big cities, i-95, not too bad travel. even the airports with a lot of wind, a lot of rain could have some probl

northern indiana residents had to evacuate their homes as the water rose. the mayor of elkhart says his city hasn't seen flooding like this in 45 years. in illinois south of chicago drivers stranded in rising water had to be rescued. >>> funeral services for billy kbra ham will be held a week from tomorrow in charlotte. graham is being remembered as the most widely heard christian evangelist in history. >> there is only one way that men can get to heaven. >> graham died yesterday at the age of 99 in his north carolina home. he was a confidante of presidents and reached millions with his pioneering reach. he wanted to be remembered first and foremost as a man of god. >> i said, daddy, what do you want on your tomb stone? he thought. he said just preacher. >> reporter: he'll be buried at the billy graham library on tuesday. he'll be buried next to his wife. >>> and now to the olympics where american women's hockey team won gold, but it took an exciting shoot-out of first in an olympic women's final to do it. this gives the united states a gold medal. 21 medals in all. dana jacobson is in south korea with the details. good morning, dana. >> reporter

illinois. he spends his summer, as he cabin did at his family's or up in northern michigan. he did not know what he wanted to do in life. short, a long story college was going to be out of the question. his sister was a year older, but so they both ended up graduating in 1917. she got the nod to go to college. hemingway talked about it, but ultimately did not go. he had some influences that kind of pointed him towards journalism. he had written for the high school paper. there was a family friend who encouraged him to think about newspaper work and he had an to college with an editor of the kansas city star. hemingway did not like his uncle all that much and put off the decision for quite some time. he tried to get hired in chicago , but got turned down and finally at the last minute, he said, yeah, i will go to kansas city. he had a friend of friends he there was ah and friend, the guy named carl who happen to have a job in kansas city working for at this point, more than 100 of 2017., mid october andngway gets on the train comes to kansas city and starts working at the kan

illinois. but that next system that we were mentioning, david, this one going to bring heavy rain, i'm talking two to three inches of rain, to a drought-stricken southeast, but it's that northern part where we see the snow and ice start wednesday through wednesday night, that's when i think i-95 needs to pay attention. and that evening commute, because snow, six to ten inches for places like bradford, pennsylvania, through say greenville, maine, and ice on top of it from tulsa to jefferson, new jersey. >> ginger zee with us tonight. ginger, thank you. >>> we turn next here to new questions tonight about your money, hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars and how the pentagon is keeping track of its spending. an independent audit finding that the pentagon's accounting failed to provide a paper trail for hundreds of millions of your money in construction projects. mary bruce on the hill tonight, tracking your money. >> reporter: tonight, questions about how the pentagon is keeping track of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. >> nine supply chains, 2,300 weapons systems and about 5 million items. >> reporter: at issue, expense reports for construction projects. $384 millio

i-74 in illinois but that next system, this one going to bring heavy rain. i'm talking two to three inches of rain. but it's that northernthrough wednesday night. that's when i think i-95 needs to pay attention. and snow, six to ten inches for places like greenville, maine and ice from tulsa to jefferson, new jersey. >>> and speaking of weather, it looks favorable for today's launch of a superpowerful rocket. the first ever test flight of what spacex calls the falcon heavy. it can produce up to 5 million pounds of thrust. >> just so you know that's the same as 18 747 jumbo jets. it will be capable of sending a spacecraft to the moon, mars and beyond. today its cargo will be a tesla roadster, which is owned by spacex boss elon musk. this is the biggest thing to be launched from that same launch space since we sent astronauts to the moon. two of the rockets are going to land in the ocean, one on land once they get back. first time a car is going up there. and if it's a complete bust, that launch pad, which goes back to the kennedy days will be out of commission for nine months. >> musk said it's a huge risk and if it doesn

illinois joins us. also with us former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama joyce vance., let's start with you. you've read it. is it a bust? why gatorade on the lawn? >> you there, joyce? >> i am. so the memo is really a stark rebuttal to everything that we saw in the nunes memo. the takeaway after you finish reading it is that the republicans when they put together their memo left out so many important details -- >> what's the most important? >> probably the fact that the steele dossier was not the basis for the fisa warrant that the fbi sought. >> joyce, can you clear something up? there's people that i respect that are attorneys that are republicans that are just dumbing down this process so much and one of the things that insults me the most is that when they say oh, well, these judges didn't know the nature of opposition research. this professors a complete ignorance in the process and suggests these fisa judges aren't -- don't have clerks that haven't read this all this a thousand times that don't find the weaknesses in the petitioners' memo and the judge is like "

because of people like patrick corellis who was shot in the head ten years ago at the tragedy at northern illinois university. luckily, patrick survived. since that day, he has been a leader in illinois, fighting for commonsense gun reform. i have come to know and admire him for his efforts. no one should have to go through what patrick went through and so many others went through on that day in dekalb, illinois, ten years ago. we owe it to patrick and the other n.i.u. victims and family and community members, and to the hundreds of thousands more across america who have been killed or wounded by guns this past decade to keep trying to reduce the tol of -- toll of gun violence. maybe we can't stop every shooting, but if we do our best to keep guns out of dangerous hands, we will save lives. i intend to keep doing my best to achieve that goal. mr. president, i yield the floor. and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask una