. >>> let's get the forecast from paul williams. paul, good morning. >> good morning, diane, kendis. the same low pressure is going to vary toward the northeast, but before it does that, it's going to cause big time problems and quite frankly, havoc throughout both of the dakotas. going into minnesota as well as wisconsin, nebraska, and into omaha. we're expecting windy conditions. winds accelerating between 40 to 60 miles per hour with or without an actual storm. kendis, diane. >> our thanks to paul there at accuweather. hope people are hunkering down in the overnight hours. >>> the other big story this morning, president trump signing a new version of his travel ban after the first one triggered a fierce backlash and legal challenge. >> protesters are outraged over the revised order. they were joined by new dnc chair as they gathered outside the white house last night to voice their opposition. abc has more on the ban. >> reporter: the white house tweeting this photo of the order. the media not allowed in. a far cry from the fanfar

accuweather's paul williams has been tracking all that for us throughout the night and he joins us liveyou, as well, diane, kendis. right now, we have active winter storm warnings in effect for the baltimore, d.c. area, philly and over towards boston. but an active blizzard warning for the heavily populated areas around new york as well as eastern portions of pennsylvania, going into jersey. this storm will intensify quickly with snow amounts between 2 to 3 inches per hour causing big drifts so think about this. between one to two feet of snow in the heavy populated area. kendis, diane. >> paul, great to see that that lineup of how much snow is expected, but this is -- it's a blizzard. so there are many different factors you should be concerned about, correct? >> well, that's correct. you know, there's something that often gets lost. i'm kind of glad you brought that up. not only are we concerned about the snow but because this is a such a powerful two for one as we mentioned earlier in the lead, this storm is actually combining with one that's coming across the ohio valley region so th

oklahoma, the start of what's expected to be several days of severe storms according to accuweather's paul williams. >> we're looking for stormy weather to continue to be the case as we have a deep dip in the jet stream. unusually warm air to the southeast so that will set the stage for more storms. >> the weather even impacting the worlds world. columbus ncaa viewers blacked out from seeing the critical final seconds of the north carolina/kentucky game because the local cbs station suffered a massive technical failure amid a tornado warning. the station airing those final two minutes on a tape delay. we'll talk about what they missed in those final two minutes a little later on in the show but as paul said there, severe weather expected again today. the biggest concern is through memphis and mississippi valley. isolated tornadoes and damaging winds are expected. >> then a surge of warm air on tuesday for the northeast. nearly 60 degrees in new york city. 73 in d.c., 80 in raleigh. i can't wait. >> yep. >>> all right turning to our other top story and new reaction from the u.s. overnight as russian

because the there is a new storm heading his >> let's get the forecast from accuweather's paul williamss. paul. >> good morning, kendis, diane. looking out for a round of severe storms, to rumble its way throughout portions of texas and into oklahoma. expecting damaging wind up to 50, 60 mile per hour winds. hail between an inch in diameter or bigger. flash flooding likely along i-20, i 10, i-35. potential of tornados, to days night, down towards dallas and san antonio. kendis, diane. >> powerful storm slamming australia. cyclone debbie, it is called, just made landfall, packing wind gusting as high as 155 mile an hour. sustained winds. 110 miles an hour. >> tens of thousand of homes are without power. many people have evacuated tropical northeast coast because the storm is moving so slowly officials worry could do major damage. many businesses, and most schools are closed. >> mauove on to politics. top democrats asking the republican leading the house investigation into the russian election meddling to recuse himself. calls for chair nunes to step aside, sparked by revelations that nun

>> details from accuweather's paul williams. good morning, paul. >> good morning, diane.t is going to be pleasant in the south east. severe storms will wreck wednesday afternoon into evening. severe storms will gain momentum throughout the daytime hours lead into the evening time. here is kpthe exact area of concern. strong wave of storms. dallas, houston. bisecting, louisiana, and arkansas, on the other side of it, wednesday night when all the rain will shift over. giving tornado thousands.. the battle to overall health care is not over yet. during a white house reception for senators last night. the president predicted a bipartisan agreement will be reached soon enough. >> i know we are all going to make a deal on health care. that is such an easy one. i have no doubt that is going to happen very quickly. [ applause ] >> the president also gave a shoutout to house minority leader, chuck schumer and in another nod to democrats, he also promised to talk about infrastructure. >> president trump its expected to sane a bill repealing a series of the online privacy regulation

. >> accuweather, paul williams is tracking it all for us. good morning, paul. >> good morning, kendis, diane. bracing for severe storms to hit texas, oklahoma, oklahoma city, going into arkansas, louisiana, wednesday, during the day. damaging winds, hail, between a half inch in diameter to 2 inches in diameter if yesterday is any indication. flash flooding and tornados. shift to the mississippi vally region throughout the evening time. the same low swinging to the north will bring soaking rain throughout the midwest, causing flooding, kendis, diane. >> thanks. president trump made good on a promise to roll back president obama's climate control regulations. it wipes out restrictions mandating climate. the president said a newer era in energy production. >> how about this? why don't we get together. we'll go to another place. you will get another job. you won't mine anymore. do you like that idea? they said no we don't like that idea. we love to mine. that's what we want to do. i said, if that's what you want to do, that's what you are going t

accuweather's paul williams is tracking it all for us. good morning, paul. >> good morning, kendis, diane. looking out for another round of severe storms to rumble its way throughout portions of texas and into oklahoma. we're expecting damaging winds up to 50 to 60-mile-per-hour winds, hail, between an inch in diameter or even bigger, flash flooding likely along i-20 as well as i-10 and even along i-35 and watching out for the potential of tornadoes tuesday during the day towards oklahoma city and tuesday dallas towards san antonio. kendis, diane. >> now to the major developments overnight including new presidential tweets and a top congressman under fire. >> the head of the house intelligence committee is looking into russian election meddling but is now facing growing calls to recuse himself an devin nunes confirmed he met with a secret source on white house grounds. democrat i say he's too close to president trump to run an objective investigation. >> and the president took to twitter looking to shift the attention to the clintons. but

. >> let's get the forecast from accuweather's paul williams. good morning. >> good morning, diane. kendis. looks like this storm is going to have a second half or second part to it unfortunately. looks like deadly storms will spread throughout not only ohio valley region down into the tennessee valley region, covering tennessee. travel along i-40. deadly throughout the day. specifically in the afternoon. it will carry its way done to georgia, into alabama as the well as the mississippi. and in addition, we are looking for carolinas to have todamagin. >> as we mentioned in the headlines. it is ash wednesday. starts off the lenten season. >> provided an image you normally don't see. this happened at a metro station >> he was dressed as jesus. forgot to calculate the clearance height for the cross there. he did manage to finally get himself and the cross free. headed off to the city's rose monday carnival. >> just imagine that scene. >> he knows the cam raise on him too. like jimmy kimmel, good thing he is a carpenter. anything wrong with the cross, he can fix it. >> even if you are p

. >> let's get the forecast from accuweather's paul williams joining us. endis, diane. looking out for a round of severe storms, to rumble its way throughout portions of texas and into oklahoma. expecting damaging wind up to 50, 60 mile per hour winds. hail between an inch in diameter or bigger. flash flooding likely along i-20, i 10, i-35. potential of tornados, to days night, down towards dallas and san antonio. kendis, diane. >> powerful storm slamming australia. cyclone debbie, it is called, just made landfall, packing wind gusting as high as 155 mile an hour. sustained winds. 110 miles an hour. >> tens of thousand of homes are without power. many people have evacuated tropical northeast coast because the storm is moving so slowly officials worry could do major damage. many businesses, and most schools are closed. >> mauove on to politics. top democrats asking the republican leading the house investigation into the russian election meddling to recuse himself. calls for chair nunes to step aside, sparked by revelations that nunes met with a secret source

. >> tracking the storm all night though lucky for us, we have accuweather's paul williams for us. paul, thanks so much for staying up late with us. and what do we know so far? >> what we know right now is this is just the beginning and the final chapter is yet to be written. we have a low pressure system that's going to intensify as it moves to the north. whiteouts rate of 2 to 3 inches per hour. which means we could have some areas receive one, two, and even three feet of snow in some areas. we have the threat of thundersnow. if this isn't enough, this low combined with the other one that moved across from the midwest, there's another part of this that's really a big problem. we have strong winds along the entire east core. 40 to 60-mile-per-hour winds that will accompany this storm system as it strengthens and moves up the east coast. so yes, it's a serious storm. it is a meteorological monster and it's ripping its way right up paul. but the big question now, how long will this all last? >> okay. i'm glad you said that because we talked about it being difficult to track initially

let's turn now to paul williams from accuweather who has the latest on where the system is moving. paul. >> good morning, diane. kendis, unfortunately the deadly storm still has the another chapter left to it. look for another round of severe storms to plow its way throughout the ohio valley region and at the least produce some torrential downpours throughout portions of the northeast and rainshowers all the way up towards maine. we are expecting another round of possible tornados. deadly tornados. damaging hail. and wind. accelerating up to 65 miles per hour or even worse. diane, kendis. >> all right, thanks to paul. more news coming up, including the ceo of uber, call the on camera. lashing out at one of his drivers. what triggered this exchange and what he is now saying about that video. >> and of coachella, hard act to follow, no doubt. wait until you hear who is filling in. we'll fell you that later in the skinny. >> yeah, we just learned that. i pinky promised my little girl a fabulous garden party for her birthday. so i mowed the lawn, put up all the decorations. i thought i

. >> accuweather's paul williams is tracking the storms for us. paul, good morning. >> good morning, diane, kendis. we still have the same low pressure system that's going to bear more towards the northeast but before it does that it will cause big-time problems and quite frankly, havoc throughout both of the dakotas. going into minnesota as well as wisconsin, nebraska and omaha expecting very windy conditions, winds accelerating between 40 and 60 miles per hour with or without an actual storm. kendis, diane. >> paul, thanks. >>> president trump is making progress on two of his key campaign promises. >> yeah, things are very busy in washington. the travel ban 2.0 and republicans have released their long awaited plan to replace obamacare. here's abc's lana zak. >> reporter: after campaign promises to repeal and replace obamacare -- >> immediately repeal and replace obamacare. >> reporter: republicans are unveiling their replacement plan which would eliminate the said mandate and begin pulling back subsidies as well as create tax credits to buy insur

accuweather's paul williams is tracking the conditions for us. paul, good morning. >> reporter: kendis, diane, the problem is mother nature's is going to feed more fuel to these wildfires in two way, first of all, the wind still this morning very active between 40 to 60 miles per hour. and here's the second half of the helping of these wildfires becoming worse. we have a drought pattern that goes back to august 2015 and go through the time line and notice all the yellows and oranges dancing across the area affected. it's been dry systemically for a long period of time and it continues to do so continuing to make the problems even worse. kendis, diane. >> all right, north of the border residents of a canadian town are seeing pink. not just this tie but tap water. >> it's about that color, though >> the town's 1,000 residents vented about their weird water. you can see it there on social media. town officials are now apologizing. >> they say a recent chemical treatment is to blame. authorities insist that the water is safe and the problem is nearly

. >> accuweather's paul williams explains to us now how it will come together later today. >> good morning, mara, kendis. i want to prepare you for this monster of a nor'easter. first we have widespread cold. high pressure system to the north will bring that cold air coming in from canada. then we will have a strengthening of the jet as it dips further and opens the door for a couple of low pressure systems to meet right here towards the northeast, major impact throughout the northeast covering d.c., new york, as well as philadelphia, up towards boston and the entire northeast. now, get this, we are expecting whiteouts, gusts between 40 to 60-mile-per-hour winds tuesday into tuesday night looking at power outages, travel crippled to a standstill to nothing and perhaps even 24 inches or two feet of snow in some areas. kendis, mara. >> the storm is already causing problems at some airports. >> nearly 1,000 flights are already canceled today. and dozens are delayed. most of them coming from chicago's o'hare and midway airports. expect those delays and cancellations to hit major east coast hub

accuweather's paul williams gives us a look at challenges facing the crews. kendis, diane. the problem is mother will feed more fuel to the wildfires. two days. first of all, the winds still this morning, active between 40 to 60 miles an hour. the second half of the helping of the wildfires becoming worse. a drought pattern that goes as far back as august 2015. go through the time line. notice all yellows and oranges, across the area affected by the wildfires. been dry systemically for a long period of time. continues to do so making the problems even worse. kendis, diane. >> thank you. a wildfire out of control in southwest fl fla. t -- florida. two homes deep stroistroyed. 30% contained. jut side of kansas city, a tornado damaged nearly 500 homes in oak grove, missouri. the powerful twister injured 12 people as well. packed wind speeds of 152 miles per hour. and tore through nearly 12 miles. >> to the mississippi gulf coast where at least four people are dead after a fig railroad crossing in biloxi. rescue workers scrambled to pull victims from the heavily damaged bus. do

paul williams is joining us. good morning. >> good morning.rms to rear its head, covering from the portions of indiana, with thunderstorms expected to rumble through indianapolis. then we have a high pressure system that's going to keep it pleasant through the north part of the country. and a round of severe storms to redevelop over texas tuesday into wednesday night. >>> we're going to turn our next to a possible civil war brewing within the republican party as president trump takes aim at democrats and conservatives for sinking the health care bill. >> as the blame game heats up, the white house says it's now ready to reach out to moderate democrats, this as trump supporters and protesters clash from coast-to-coast. more now from abc's david wright. >> reporter: provocation and anger at pro-trump rallies' across the country, from huntington beach, california, all the way to the jersey shore. anti-trump activists sought to disrupt marches to make america great again. his troops are in disarray over the failure to pass health care reform. >> w

paul williams joins us now with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: you're right. every storm's dressed like a starp dressed disaster. that's what we have going on right now. right now we have the storm that's actually creating this thick line of freezing rain and sleet. now initially we're thinking perhaps if the storm eases closer we may get a break. we're not getting a break at all. take a wider view of what's happening with this storm. this indeed is the monster that is. we still have active right here in purple all of these counties which include several states still under a blizzard warning. that means we're talking about blowing snow, drifting problems and we're talking accumulations averaging between two to perhaps even four some of the models are now saying four inches per hour. when this begins to crank up. a lot of folks are saying what's the big deal? we're not seeing the big oomph of the storm just yet. hang on, okay? it's on the way. we're watching out for accumulations, for example, in some areas between 12 to 24 up towards the boston area and then w

. >> luckily we have accuweather's paul williams keeping an eye on it for us and has been all night and he has the latest now for us. paul, good morning. >> good morning, kendis, diane. we are expecting major impacts and closures along i-95, i-90, i-81 and i-80 for the rest of the day as this low pressure system strengthens as it moves along the east coast. now, as that occurs we're looking for a rate of snow between 2 to 3 inches an hour which means in some areas we're expecting significant or excessive blowing and drifting snow, and just how much, imagine this, between a foot to two feet in some of the major populated areas, as well as new york going down towards the philadelphia area, all the way up towards boston and possibly reaching bangor, but not only that, we're going to be concerned about very gusty winds as this low, this nor'easter strengthens as it moves right along the east coast. we're looking at winds to accelerate between 40 to 60 miles an hour. big-time problems, power outages likely and not only that, a surge from the water has actually created concerns for flooding a

accuweather's paul williams tracking it all. paul, good morning. >> today the calm before the storm, before it hits the northeast. it's going to tag the north central part of the country today. but here's what's happening in the northeast. cold air injection. and then warm moisture coming out of the south. and these two will melt together into a monster of a storm. it's going to set us up for widespread temps 10 to 15 degrees below norm. since we have so much moisture and an abundance thereof, here's the problem. between 12-24 inches. you can see along the major cities right along the east coast, towards portland, and this is monday night going into tuesday night. keep in mind, we're talking about major whiteout. winds gusting 40 to 60 miles per hour. so we're talking about crippling delays in cities and along the interstates. mara, kendis. >>> we're going to focus on washington, d.c. where it is deadline day on two major issues. first up, the president's explosive claims that phones at trump tower were tapped under orders from f

accuweather's paul williams has the details. paul, good morning. >> good morning, diane, kendis.no, san francisco area, strong winds, between 40 to 60 mile per hour winds. associated with the sweeping through of the front. going to cause downed trees. and power lines. difficulty travel, along with even blowing dust. that low and that front will sweep across. then begin to bring the strong winds into arizona going into new mexico and throughout southern portions of utah. diane, kendis. >> paul, thanks. >>> the house intelligence chairman is facing some growing calls to recuse himself from the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election. >> this after it was revealed that devin nunes met with a secret source on white house grounds. democrats say he is too close to the administration to run an objective investigation. abc's cecelia vega at the white house. >> reporter: top republican leading what is supposed to be independent investigation into russian election meddling facing serious question as but impartiality. house intelligence chairman devin nunes now

paul williams is joining us. paul,er good morning. >> good morning.n't been able to change washington in the first 65 days. if there's anything disappointing and an educational process to the trump administration was that this place is a lot more rotten than we thought it was. >> reporter: president trump blasted the freedom caucus and heritage foundation, tweeting, democrats are smiling. >> he's blaming you for saving planned parenthood and aving obamacare. >> at this particular point, no one has been more self-critiquing than me. >> reporter: the head of the heritage foundation had no apology, insisting the gop plan would not have lowered premiums. president trump, he said, i agree with you. we can now get a better bill. former trump associate roger stone confirmed he's asked the house intelligence committee to testify in public about his contacts with russia on behalf of the trump campaign. stone says he wants to clear his name. >> just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true. >> reporter: obs

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accuweather's paul williams tracking it all. >> today the calm before the storm, before it hits the northeast. it's going to tag the north central part of the country today. but here's what's the northeast. cold air injection. and these two will melt together into a monster of a storm. since we have so much moisture and an abundance thereof, here's the problem. between 12-24 inches. you can see along the major cities reaching all the way towards portland, and this is monday night going into tuesday night. we're talking about major whiteout. winds gusting 40-60 miles per hour. so we're talking about crippling delays. >>> we're going to focus on washington, d.c. where it is deadline day. the president's explosive claims that the phones at trump tower were tapped by president obama. and health care. >> reporter: two major markers set to hit on monday for the trump administr justice department to provide evidence to back up the president's explosive claims that president obama ordered illegal wire taps against his campaign. >> thank you. thank you, press. thank you. >> reporter: top members of co

paul williams has been monitoring fire conditions for us. good morning, paul. >> good morning.n the area where we need moisture the most between moderate, severe and even extreme in some areas. add to that the fact that our precipitation, we could see 50% less in this area shaded in yellow. and if that's not enough to perhaps hurt the problem. temperatures are expected to be higher throughout the south western portion of the country adding more to the drought and the heat and no humidity. >>> all right. it's more like summer has arrived instead of spring. today starts a busy week for the trump administration on capitol hill. the fbi director is set to testify before a house intelligence committee. >> and the confirmation hearings begin for the president's supreme court nominee. here's abc's richard cantu. >> reporter: james comey is due on capitol hill monday where he will likely be asked about the wiretapping allegations. this as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for donald trump to say i'm sorry. it's been days since the explosive charge that he was the victim

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paul williams gives us a look at the challenges facing the crew. >> reporter: the problem is mother nature's active between 40 to 60 miles per hour. and here's the second half of the helping of these wild fires becoming even worse. we have a drought pattern that goes as far back as august 2018. all the yellows and oranges effected by the wild fires. it's been dry systemically for a long time and continuing to make the problems even worse. kendis, dianne. >> and to the south another wild fire is burning out of control in southwest florida. two homes have been destroyed by the fire outside naples. it's currently only 30% contained. >>> meanwhile, a tornado damaged nearly 500 homes in the community of oak grove, missouri. it injured 12 people as well. packed wind speeds of 152 miles per hour and tore through nearly 12 miles. >>> to the mississippi gulf coast where nearly four people are dead after a freight train slam under ed into a charter bu. they scrambled to pull victims from the heavily damaged bus. it's not clear why the tour bus, which was heading to a casino, was stopped on the train t

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"the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. so does paul ryan have the support he needs to repeal and replace. isn't it d.o.a.? the senate anyways? and what happens if it fails, even with republicans in total control of congress? "the 11th hour" begins now. and good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 63 of the trump administration, and the president has suffered a defeat on his signature piece of legislation thus far. ever since seven years ago today barack obama put pen to paper and signed what became known as blair into law, republicans have vowed to repeal it and replace it. the white house, the nat asenat the house, the bill was pulled from a vote and they will try again tomorrow. "the washington post" is calling what happened today an embarrassing setback. as one seen year aide put it to the president tonight, one and done. if the fails, obamacare fails and the republicans will move on to tax reform and the wall. paul ryan was terse and notably did not predict he had the votes. >> for seven and a half years