accuweather's paul williams has the latest. morning, paul. >> thanks, reena, phillip. a blizzard is brewing throughout the midwest. by the time we get into monday night, we'll see the tail end of this blizzard begin to evolve and move across kansas, nebraska and sliding across iowa and wednesday morning with road closures, near zero visibility, blowing and drifting snow and dangerous travel. now, it won't necessarily be that way everywhere throughout the east coast and southeast, temperatures it 10 to 20 degrees bob the norm for this time of year. then a good thing becomes a not so good thing. greatest risk of severe weather rock down to new orleans with a clans of tornadoes in the reena, phillip. >> all right, paul, thank you. >>> gas prices continue their downward trend toward their lowest level in six years. the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide is now $1.80. that's down four cents from last week and 25 cents since this time last year. the national average has been below $2 now for a month because of increased supplies an of crude oil. >> well, burger kin

re's accuweather's paul williams. hey, paul, morning. >> thanks, kendis, reena. th same adly storm is not gog to die out anytime soon. this low pressure system that' rely the controlng mecnism will create a mix ofnow the cold side of it. torrential downpours throut the ohio valley region. this is the rts we havto watch out for. 's gng to afft florida, georgia, south carolina, going into virgia. we're looking for anher even where several tornadosre lilyo form. so, please, continueo stay tuned. kendis, reena. it'ing to be a long ght. thank yopaul. >>> two pe he died in a house exosion ar seattle. ast ort powerful it sent debris 30t into the a. you see what's left there. amazing, theictures. people up to eight miles away inveigators om the a have joined the search foa cause. >>> vestigators say they found sevel reasons why takata air bags have ilated with too much force in e past. those air bag explns he usedt leasten death worldwide. scientis say their use of a certain chemical without a dryi ant increases theisk of explosion after lonterm exposure to heat and mois

accuweather's paul williams tells us the storm is taking aim at the great plains and the midwest. good morning, paul. >> thanks, phillip, reena. winter storm brewing with disruptive snow throughout utah, colorado, new mexico and arizona where danger crosswinds, snow-covered roads and treacherous travel. and then the blizzard evolves the midwest, hitting hastings, up towards omaha, reaching towards green bay by wednesday morning. we're looking at a combination of blowing and drifting snow, travel being very dangerous. road closures in abundance. so, hold onto your hats, this is a real one. reena, phillip? >> okay, paul williams, thank you so much. >>> something new coming to oregon. drive- drive-through weed. yep. hear this out. oregon is opening a pot store with a drive-up window kind of like mcdonald's but for pot just across the street from the hospital. local officials are excited, saying it will help boost so-called green -- is that what they call this, green tourism? >> green tourism. >> yeah. sounds like eco-friendly tourism but it's another word for pot. and the drive-throug

here's accuweather's paul williams. morning to you, paul. >> thanks, reena, kendis. snow-covered roads will cause delays along 35 as well as i-80 from iowa into minnesota and into wisconsin. and then there's part two to this same bothsome storm. wet conditions now. we're not just talking run of the mill wet for the entire mississippi valley region and the ohio valley region. we're talking about one doozy of a storm. covering tennessee all the way up towards pittsburgh and we're talking about torrential downpours, gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour with the potential of tree damage and power out ands. super bowl cell thunderstorms likely to occur. the most southern part of the same storm will create additional gusty thunderstorms and travel delays in the deep south. kendis, reena. >> thanks to paul there. >>> here's something we all needed to know. bed bugs in different parts of new york city are genetically different from each other. seriously. scientists looked into this. they say that in mapping the dna of bedbugs here in the big apple, they found they're isolated

we're going to get more now from paul williams at accuweather. paul, good morning. >> good morning to you, as well. you've heard the phrase hot mess. this is going to be a cold mess for the deep south. we're looking for significant icing to happen throughout charlottesville over towards asheville with dangerous travel expected in the area you see highlighted along with power outages. and that's not all. we go to the deep south where we're expecting flash flooding with torrential downpours from nashville towards atlanta towards jackson and reaching as far as south as new orleans. and that's not all. there's a sequel to this thing. it's going to reach up towards the northeast by the time we get into tuesday. we're looking for that same area of flash flooding and heavy downpours with severe weather expected down in the deep south. it's going to reach all the way up towards richmond and eventually slide its way up to boston. kendis? reena? >> thanks. >>> we're going to warm things up right now and calm things down with what is definitely one of the mo

. >> let's get the complete forecast from accuweather's paul williams. paul, good morning. >> thank you, kendis, reena, we are tracking a very dangerous storm that is sliding throughout the midwest. now we're expecting it to move from denver right into nebraska and kansas into iowa and right up towards wisconsin. talking about problems with whiteouts, significant road closures as a result of this, blowing and drifting snow. now, that's the cold side of this system. the warmer side, we have a serious threat of severe weather covering the deep south entire lower mississippi valley region which includes mississippi, alabama, as well as up towards louisiana, but right here where we see the greatest risk along the mississippi river a targeted area of possible tornadoes and tuesday, travel delays up towards minnesota. >>> a business headline. google's parent company holes the top spot on the list of world's most valuable companies. when the market opens this morning, alphabet will be worth about $544 billion. that's about 6 billion more than apple. the iphone m

accuweather's paul williams shows us what's aheaea good morning. >> thanks, kendis. was road closures from minneapolis down towards omaha. snow accumulation measured in feet, not just inches. underneath all of that snow. the icing that's happening on the roads complicating matters. so we expect widesesead ravel delays. minneapolis down towards des moines covering i-80, i-35. then that same storm system will then cause problems because of the wet weather throughout`the ohio valleregion. kendis, reena. >> thank you so much, paul. >>> chipotle faces more legal challenges following a series of food-borne illness outbreaks. e company has been t t subject of a criminal investigation since last month. executives reveal heavy been served with mother subpoena covering a much broader range of questions. sales at the restaurants were down 44% in the final quarter of last year. for thought. for the next two weeks, the fast food giant will be featuring books as a prize in happy meals. the petite paperbacks are specially sized to fit into the meals and there are four titles includ

>> paul williams has been surfing at the beach in new the ocean is crisp and clear today. and he wants to think it that way. >> now they're making it unsafe for everything. >> the illegal dumping of materials by a -- part of building a pipe to carry river flood waters away. >> we weren't there to catch it. the dumping could have >> you can see the honor going project mitigates flats. over the weekend they sounded the alarm. >> it's up to us as surfers and beach goers to watch it. immediately a public outcry. it was rapid and spit -- after receiving calls about the unauthorized dumping. the material was sediment from dredging. and it was silt and clay like, unlike sand. >> i just hope they clean it up or find a way. the beaches will be ruined when they do things like that. >> the contractors was moving the ears. and dep is testing the site to make sure it's not contaminated. megabaker, hughes hughes. >>> a notice of violation was issued. >>> supervised heroin, the unconventional approach to fight a problem plaguing the >>> and the dash cam video. the same technology could h

here's accuweather's paul williams. morning, paul. >> good morning to you too, kendis, reena. we have a mixed bag of precipitation that's going to cause significant complications along i-5 as well as i-0. heavy rain is going to power its way into northern portions of california and transition into rain and snow. and that's going to reach up into a good portion of oregon, nevada and then scattered snow showers reaching a little bit further to the south and we're watching out for snow developing in the upper elevations between 6 and 12 inches there. >> thanks to paul. >>> a major highway is closed this monk for at least another day in western colorado. it's a big deal. a rock slide in a deep and narrow canyon cut off interstate 70. get this. it's forcing a detour of almost 150 miles. the tractor-trailer rig was damaged in the slide but there were no injuries. plans are to reopen one lane tomorrow afternoon. drivers should expect some long delays. >>> no injuries just inconvenience following an earthquake in california's sierra nevada. the 4.8 quake knocked items off store shelve

. >> the complete forecast now from accuweather's paul williams. >> thank you. we are tracking a very dangerous storm that's sliding throughout the midwest. we're expecting it to move from the denver area right into nebraska and kansas into iowa and right up towards wisconsin. we're talking about problems with whiteouts, significant road closures as a result of this blowing and drifting snow. now, that's the cold side of this system. the warmer side we have a serious threat of severe weather covering the deep south, the entire lower mississippi valley region which includes mississippi, alabama, as well as up towards missouri, arkansas and louisiana. right here where we see the greatest risk particularly along the mississippi river that's where we're seeing a targeted area of possible tornadoes and to the north on tuesday, travel delays up towards minnesota. kendis, reena. >> okay. thank you, paul. so the next winter olympics are in two years. but they're probably a little too soon for this young snow boarder. >> she's sloan henderson and she's only 14 months old