up without power throughout the midwest from dallas through little rock and west of memphis up to paducahund and more to come. airports will be very slow today. even with the fog in the northeast and all that, yes, but even if your plane is not in the northeast and maybe coming through maybe one of these midwest airports that will being affect later on today. it's all gone for saturday. the only bad news there is another storm system that could affect the northeast especially d.c. and baltimore for sunday and into monday with more ice. we're in a very cold pattern when it tries to rain on top of cold air that is always a mess. >> a mess indeed. thank you so much, chad. >>> coming up, we will take a complete look back from nelson mandela's life from childhood and beyond. our special coverage of madiba continues. >>> this morning we are looking back at the life of nelson mandela. a courageous soul with unmatched grace and dignity but his willingness to use force as a young man that changed the course of history. we get more from cnn's robin curnow. >> reporter: nelson mandela's struggle for

we're talking anywhere from paducah in through just east of dallas.e the concern for the major ice storm. over half an inch of freezing rain makes power lines weigh 500 pounds. we have two waves of this coming through as we go through the weekend. here's the first guide. look for the big u"u." notice there is one almost identical to it just behind it. this guy kicks through saturday in through sunday. you're talking about power lines being down. temperatures below freezing. and a second wave coming behind it. who knows when they get the powerback up with temperatures 40 degrees below. >> freezing rain doesn't even offer fun. it's horrible. >> dangerous in every way possible. >> thanks, indra. >> slow work until they get the lines back up. people will have to be patient. >>> the engineer in the bronx train derailment, remember, he says he nodded off. does that make it an accident? will he face charges? we'll take you through the latest in the investigation. >>> and check out those teeth. oh, my goodness. ever wonder what it looks like when a shark come

so again, the area of greatest concerns is the darker purple shading from outside louisville to paducah and little rock, memphis. this starts later on today, more or less this evening. then all day tomorrow. the northern edge of this will get some snow, too. so oklahoma city will get a little snow, st. louis, indianapolis and start as sleet and heavy crunchy snow on top. even dallas has winter storm warning. the temperatures, billing, montana, a high temperature today of zero. goose egg. >> it was warm walking in today. >> east coast is warm. rain coming. we're just lucking out. >> coming up, "morning joe." president obama grig income and equality into the spotlight. but is there a realistic legislation that can actually make a difference? when we come back here, we huddle around the cooler. why a $50 million lottery winner may be the luckiest winner of all time. we'll be right back. # before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter for making more than her minimum payment

east ward toward paducah could see over a quarter inch of iegs which could lead to power outages. nasty situation for folks over the next couple of days. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. >> it's nasty in denver where folks are used to the cold. 45 flights were canceled at denver's airport yesterday. temperatures are expected to drop well below zero through tomorrow. the storm dumped several inches of snow there and several feet in higher elevations. rick salinger reports. >> reporter: winter was back and with a vengeance. no day to be out unless you have to stock up on necessities. >> yes, i did. i bought ice cream. >> reporter: perfect for day like this. >> absolutely. >> reporter: at a local hardware store, they were offering remedies for the weather and advice. >> make sure your doors are open underneath your seats so the excess heat from the house can get in there. >> reporter: temperatures are not expected to even reach the freezing mark until the middle of next week. down the road one trucker learned the hard way what a cold snap means. >> that's what happened rig

continue friday afternoon to paducah and western sections of kentucky. north of the ice, we're going get snow. three inches in oklahoma city, knife springfield. two to three in st. louis. one to two in pittsburgh. huge impacts for everyone on the east coast, by the way, almost all rain out of this. so we're not too concerned with the eastern seaboard. >> thanks so much, bill. moving on now to new information on the tragedy at sandy hook elementary. late wednesday, new town, connecticut, released some recordings of 911 calls one year ago. a shooter walked into an elementary school and killed 20 first graders and six adults. nbc's jay gray reports. >> reporter: the 911 operators were steady and focused as callers describe the chilling events unfolding in handy so yy elementary. a teacher says, somebody has a gun. they're still running. they're still shoot. sandy hook school, please. a custodian described the shattered front window. during the call, gun shots rang out in the background. he tells operators, i keep hearing shooting. i keep hearing popping. th

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of course we saw ice, we have seen record break temperatures but i want to show you paducah, kentucky, over 3 inches very extreme rain down towards the south for many locations. also yesterday was a record-breaking day in terms of temperature for many people across the northeast. new york city, central park 72°. their past record was in the 60s. well ahead of that. washington 72, pittsburgh 72 and cleveland reached all the way to 73, once it goes through the temperatures are going to be dropping, you can see we're already cooler than we were yesterday at this time, about 14 diaz cooler here in new york and we do -- flying tomorrow and this is what it looks like judge minneapolis up towards parts of maybe even detroit as we go towards wednesday. the snow is not going to be extremely heavy but still a concern on tuesday as you can see and then by wednesday, well who is going to have a white christmas? it's really going to be people across parts of michigan up the up as well, we do have some fresh snow towards the west and we are looking at places such as minneapolis, you're going osee a

we go through the next 24 to 36 hours, the ice forecast anywhere from dallas through little rock, paducahhis could do a lot of damage. we're talking about downed trees, power outages possible. all of the above as we go through late on friday. >> jennifer, keep an eye for us, if you will. thank you for that. >>> he is the quarterback of the number one college football team in the nation. and he's also being considered for the heisman trophy. jamison winston is being investigated for rape right now and his life could take a huge turn in a matter of hours. details are coming up next. [ female announcer ] ladies and gentlemen i'm here to say a few words about the power of baking stuff with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels. let's close our laptops and open our ovens. these things don't bake themselves. we have to bake them for one another. we can bake the world a better place one toll house cookie at a time. nestle. good food, good life. waiting for your wrinkle cream

out ahead of that rain band but the rain itself caused significant flooding especially around the paducah of snow in kansas and over 25 inches reported in northern wisconsin. and of course, the whole freezing rain event. a lot of people without power across the northern tier and there is another weak system coming through tomorrow into christmas day. generally light snow showers but plenty of cold air. it will add up to modest amounts of new snow. some of the highest totals will be in the 3 to 5 inch range. if you don't have power, it's too much of a bad thing. that's definitely something that we're watching carefully. back to you in new york. >> mark elliott, thank you. weather in popular culture, 2013 was a bit of a wild year for pop culture, self-ys and breaking bad. it was the year pop culture attacked us like a shark, flung out of a sharknado and left us damaged psych logically, looking at you miley. the author of "critical mass qus", you say lou we is the comic of our time. let's give them a preview. >> it's beyond anything i can imagine. a woman saying yes to a date with a man is l

look at the area again that we are talking about pretty much ba due take almost east -- paducah half an inch or nor of freezing rain. we talk about the power lines falling and the branches falling off the trees. possibly power outages as we go through the weekend. there goes a second wave. even though we get the first wave that kicks through today and through tomorrow, behind it comes almost an identical system for the second half of the weekend. that is going make it so dangerous. >> a whole lot of weather affecting a big chunk of the country. thanks, indra. >>> president obama declaring an end to the war on budget deficits and pledging to fight the deficit of opportunity for the poor and middle class. in a speech wednesday on his economic priorities, the president said the federal deficit is under control and doesn't present a serious threat to the economy. he focused on the gap between the rich and the poor and making the case for raising the minimum wage to more than $10. while extending unemployment benefits. >> we know that we're going to have greater and greater portion of our

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millions of people through this pink area, including memphis and paducah, all without power.wolf, there's another system behind this one that, in fact because of the jet stream stays really in the same place. it's a big dip down through here, back up through here. another storm could -- on sunday. with ice for you. bad news that it's d.c. >> you and i lived in buffalo. we know how to deal with snow and ice in buffalo, but i've lived here in washington for a long time. we don't deal well with it here. some folks are going to say this is all about climate change, global warming, the extreme weather fluctuations or whatever. what is your sense -- how extraordinary is this? >> this is probably a once in a three or four-year event for december. knolls a big event for january, february or march, so not really record-breaking, but we'll get so many people in the way of the ice storm. this is not -- this is not a 500-year event. >> chad myers with the latest. we'll try to stay warm here in washington, and in atlanta. thanks very much. >>> coming up. >> a refrigerator? well, it's a sc

right now, anywhere from portions of indiana to kentucky, even arkansas, through little rock, truman, paducah evansville, we've seen quite a bit of flooding anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain and an additional 2 to 4 inches are possible. it's what you call training showers which means they just keep going over and over the same locations and they're not making much forward progress, so the same areas are getting rain for several hours and so it's producing flash flooding in those areas. evansville has been one of the harder-hit areas where they've received more than 2 to 4 inches of rain. and we're going to continue to see it come down in that area as we go through the next several hours. so, taking a look at the rainfall reports, first off, we've seen number 6 inches of rain and truman, arkansas, almost 6 inches as well and macon, arkansas, almost 5 inches of rain, so quite a bit has fallen and more is to come in the next couple of hours. rosa? >> jennifer, stay with us, we'll get back to you in just a moment. >>> but let's head out to kansas city where they could get 3 to 6 inches of snow

paducah, kentucky, you're warming up, too. look at the ice and snow above it.nd right back here, you'll start to get the cold and windy stuff behind that low pressure system. it's very short-lived. 63 for little rock. 54, kansas city. dallas, close to 70. houston at 72. corpus christi, 77 for you. the mild weather holding on for a little b >>> good morning. i'm mike nicco. the big story sunshine, breezy, healthy air. you bet. we've got it in mid to upper 50s. pretty close to average. here's your accuweather seven-day forecast. some frost inland tonight. and abo >> this weather report brought to you by folger's. and coming up next, i'm going to show you guys driving conditions for the weekend. so many people hitting the road. >> that's important. >>> coming up, new lifestyles of the rich and famous. they're younger and more ostentatious than ever. >>> and free from pain for your high heels? and could it be a spray? we'll hear from the doctor and could it be a spray? we'll hear from the doctor behind it. at waking people in the morning. let me show you how grandm

there's going to be ice and snow event for places like dallas, little rock, memphis, paducah, ohio.wer lines. to the north of there, eight inches of snow. this is still 72 hours away. it takes a long time to figure out whether it's going to be left or right of the path. i tell you what? there will be an event that will take the mid-atlantic states from the ohio valley down to texas by surprise if you are not paying attention thursday into friday. there will be snow and ice on the ground again. >> we'll stay in close touch with you as the week progresses. thank you. >>> now to some of the hottest stories in a flash. we call it rapid-fire. roll it. first up here, star dancer sentenced to six years behind bars for master minding an attack on a ballet director. remember in january, someone through acid on this guy's face, which nearly blinded him, by the way. the russian dancer told the court he wanted his boss to get a beat down for not giving him better roles. >>> in kentucky, my favorite story of the day. they value their liquor there. someone made off with 65 cases of a rare bourbon

about, accumulations of about half an inch or more, some places like dallas and little rock, up to paducahthis is going to cause major problems as far as downed power lines, trees, a lot of power outages could be the result of this. farther to north, we're looking at snow through springfield, oklahoma city, and we could see anywhere from 4 inches or more of snow in these parts. so we have freeze watches and warnings and ice advisories going on all across the deep south. and this will continue not only for tonight, brooke, but as we get into tomorrow as well. >> okay, jennifer, thank you very much. and from the cold to at least some encouraging news for all of you watching this progress, these stranded pilot whales off the coast of florida. well, we have now learned that a number of them are moving into deeper waters, but experts say this is still a pretty tough situation for these whales. coming up next, we'll talk live to a man who knows a lot about this kind of thing, here he is, philipp cousteau. he's watching the situation. we'll talk about the challenges involved in this kind of opera

paducah and memphis. most will happen later tonight and into your friday. top of this. nothing major. a couple of inches. >> bill, it looks horrible. coming up new andy poling snows younger americans aren't enthusiastic about obama care. we'll talk to two of those millennials who are making their voices heard. that's next on "morning joe." [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? the answer is... 3 million homes. by 2030, investments in energy efficiency could help americans save $300 billion each year. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. waiting for your wrinkle cream to work? clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it targets fine lines and wrinkles with the fastest retinol formula available. you'll see younger looking skin in just one week. one week? that's just my speed. rapid wrinkle repair. and for dark spots rapid tone repair. from neutrogena®. [ babies crying ] surprise -- you

you could see more than a quarter inch of ice in the zone of purple from dallas to paducah and kentucky. that ice could cause big problems, not just for roadway travels, but it will start to weigh down on those tree limbs, branches break and power outages could become a problem. this is going to be the zone we watch through friday big time icing potential . that's your national forecast. "squawk box," more of that next. every day we're working to be an even better company - and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america. bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u.s. than any other place in the world. in fact, we've invested over $55 billion here in the last five years - making bp america's largest energy investor. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> right now, it's time for the executive edge. this is our daily focus on giving business leaders a leg up. microsoft moves to assure international business customers on spying. the technology giant says it has never turned over any data like this under t

paducah, kentucky down towards san antonio, texas. saturday, straight line winds, heavy rain.a tornado cannot be ruled out. by sunday, we'll see the threat shift from the east. the carolinas through florida, we'll still be talking about that threat for the weather in the northeast. a lot going on as the next systems make their way across. i'll be a busy little camper. >> a tornado any time is horrible. normally it happens in the springtime. >> right. >> in this weather, these temperatures, it just -- >> you can get a peak this time of year but never a good thing come december. >> thanks, indra. >> sure. >>> a new look for facebook. the social network giant set to launch video ads that run automatically but will will facebook users react? >> plus, the mma, mixed martial arts. i love it but it's causing controversy. a battle of the sexes playing out inside the ring. they win, they got us talking about it but at what cost? details ahead in the "bleacher report." mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once

anywhere from a quarter of an inch to an inch of ice, ice, starting tonight from dallas all the way to paducah still very cold out there. marcs you travel cautiously. we're not expecting to thaw out until we hit about lunchtime today. especially up in the north bay where it was really cold this morning. we're still at 52 degrees there later on today. 52 for the east bay. right around 52 in the south bay, and temperatures are going to remain cold for one more night. we have a freeze warning in place, for tomorrow morning as well, and then showers move in tomorrow night into saturday morning. remember to dress in layers as you wake up tomorrow. . >> and that's your latest weather. what happened to willie? >> he went outside, folks with willie watchers on. >> where are the goggles? tell me about the goggles. >> we wanted to make sure we got a good view of you. >> willie watch off my halloween costume. happy birthday, your before ithday? >> my birthday. possibly we're best friends. >> we can work on. those girls have been looking for willie all morning. >> so cool. >> thank you for coming out here