rapid city, 57, but by tomorrow those temperatures nearly cut in half. power outages across detroit we're going to have to continue to deal with that older air pushing towards those folks there, by sunday look at how chilly it is only 19 in rapid city and temperatures falling back into the 30s. we really hope those folks get their power restored very soon. we have an area of low-pressure developing in the gulf, and it will spread rain from pensacola, florida, into new york city as we track into this afternoon, tomorrow and on sunday, the area heaviest hit by the rain, savanna, georgia, this is all i-95 territory. if you are traveling there, you want to take it easy. not a cloud in the sky. they definitely need the rain. it is the driest year on record. and we have red flag warnings and advisories in effect aloss los angeles and ventura counties. the winds will be whipping up to 45 miles an hour. and we'll be dealing with low level of humidity. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we are following developing news concerning the nsa. a court ruling no

feels like 19 degrees in rapid city. 5 below in minneapolis.he high temperature in minneapolis 0 degrees. >> it can be dangerous on the roads. >> thanks maria. >> horrible tory to tell you about. an iraq veteran gunned down christmas shopping for his parents. jim vester was killed responding to a craig's list ad for an ipad p. police arrested two teenaged brothers and charged them with murder for allegedly shooting the 12 year military vet at an apartment complex. he leaves behind a wife and a 1-year-old son. in the wake of his death nendz set up a fundraising $11,000 in the last two-days. >>> according to a best friend two newlyweds they were busted in a thrill kill and returned to the scene of a crime to watch as pennsylvania pops comb for evidence. he and his bride lured a man to his death with a craig's list ad. the victim was hired to be the woman's quote companion. the newly will newlyweds picked man up before killing him and disposing of his body. >>> a nurse on board of a delta fig flight say he and others did everything they could incl

in rapid city, south dakota it feels like 17 degrees below zero. feels like 15 degrees below zero. 11 degrees below zero. this is widespread out here you can see mine not as well. we are talking high temperatures in the single tdigits. it gets worse as we head into thursday. single digits expanding. not in the single digits but 11 degrees only. by friday high actual temperatures below zero in far go. in billings montana 6 degrees below zero. you can see how widespread the cold will be. only 31 degrees 30s across louisville, little rock. this will be a widespread event over the next several days as the cold air remains in place across parts of the lower 48. additional snowfall expected across western colorado to exceed a foot. we are looking at 6 more inches of snow across the dakotas and minnesota. another big concern thursday into friday as the front moves south and east is we could be seeing icing out here across parts of the middle mississippi valley and parts of the southern plains as well. that will be a big issue with power outages and travel

bismark at 11° and rapid city 11 as well.you can see where the cold front is right here where the temperatures drop down quickly away to the north. when you factor in the wind this is what it really feels like below freezing. >> and below zero for rapid city -1*6°. if you are driving you want to bring warm clothes because you if breakdown in temperatures like this it could be extremely dangerous. i will bring you more later on. >> we'll see you then. thanks devin. >> a civil rightscontroversy in dallas. after a government's investigation the city is accused of discriminating against racial minorities and the disabled. >> technologfollowing a lengthy investigation. the letter charges that the city's affordable housing practices have divided dallas by race and income in to two distinct sectorses. northern who can pay higher rents and south dallas. a dallas non-profit who pro meetpromotesfair housing practi. >> she is not surprised by the find. findings. dallas has a history of racial segregation in the city and this is the late

below zero in rapid city. five below in minneapolis. it is moving from the south and then to the east. the pressure change because of a lot of things happening in the avenue is there. high-pressure and a couple of low pressure areas are coming in. it is still 70 degrees in raleigh. that is crazy. the front has passed through the metro area. we will get some clear air and some sunshine tomorrow. we have some advisories and some watches to talk about. there is a new storm watch. are concernedes with some of the icy snow falling now and have been you. out west.e clearing there are thousands of square miles of when chilled advisories. same areas. it will be to warm up by a few degrees. those areas will get all rain. but everybody else could get snow, sleet, or freezing rain. mostly cloudy in the morning. temperatures in the 30's. cold air. dry air. in the afternoon it will clear out here it temperatures will -- clear out. temperatures will tank. and the blue is some areas of rain in the southeast. there are some warmer temperatures. and som

rapid city right now feels like minus 10. if you're traveling on any of these highways you definitely want warmer close in your car. if you break down on these roads it's going to feel and be very dangerous for you to get out there and change that tire. now we have a lot of warnings in place. winter storm warnings all across the board for the northern tier states because we're going to be getting a lot of snow as well. now tomorrow the snow starts to move a little bit more towards the great lakes. in this region up here, northern minnesota and wisconsin, we're talking about anywhere up to a foot of snow in that region as well as in colorado, eight inches of snow for you. >> wow, thanks. brace yourself. >>> test scores american kids are not doing any better than a decade ago. but the rest of the world is pulling ahead. breaking down the numbers coming up. >>> also the price of cheap leather. we'll take a look at the toxic chemicals spilling into one nation's water supply. is the curve. there are no published reports this morni

you don't want to be outside in rapid city where it feels like minus 21. 9 in kansas city. feels like 16 in dallas. people are urged to stay off the roads. they had some of that icy mix over the last 12 to 24 hours. it has not melted. people cannot drive. part of the energy across the west, that's going to bring snow across the four corners. even some of the lower elevations of southern california. if you can believe it. we are going to see record lows tonight across california. winter weather advisories. some of this energy is going to continue to move eastward. we'll see several inches of know in the midwest tennessee valley. tonight, clear across the northeast. cold air still in place. look what happens. there is our low and wintry mix sunday to monday. this is going to continue to the overnight into monday's drive in. when you see pinks on the map here, that's accumulating ice. anywhere from 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch of ice on the roads. on the power lines. if this comes true, we could be dealing with power outages for several days, even weeks. then we've got heavy rain and

three degrees in denver and rapid city.older right now in dallas than it is in syracuse, new york. and itpotent cold front sliding through our area. if your travels take you into dallas, oklahoma, missouri, all of those areas will be dealing with a lot of freezing rain and ice. and i'm afraid freezing rain and ice will be a concern for us as we head into the latter half of the weekend. >> we will see you in a few. happening right now, metro says it is working on a $2.9 billion budget proposal at their meeting. fares would rise about three percent under the proposal. standard bus fare would kris -- would increase 15 cents more. and parking would increase by $.25. >> it is about creating a budget that balances the source of revenue between the jurisdictions in the form of fares. it is a very modest fare proposal. >> they will review the proposal and vote on whether to move forward. if approved, it will take effect july 1. noon, policeew at say 30-year-old brian blain of manasseh seem to be racing his car along the franconia s

eight below in rapid city, 15 degrees below zero at great falls, nine degrees below and this is goingthe south. the cold air is coming slowly and steadily overnight. this is just ahead of the cold front. it looks to us like the heaviest rain will be tomorrow night. but you won't have to go farther west. it may be hard to make all of these out. there are a lot of dark purple areas under the threat of an ice storm. we will clear out of this on saturday. temperatures fall into the 40s. and a new surge of moisture will come onto the jetstream. sunday looks to be very tough. drizzle,ome patches of and we zoom in on the satellite radar. indication of patches of rain, this kind of breaks up, slowly with falling temperatures. that is where everything starts to change. we have the most steady and heavy rain coming in and it will be frozen, clearing out very quickly with a few snowflakes early in the morning. tomorrow is a transitional day, starting with rain, and then we have more on what comes this way, with mild temperatures. andave them for tomorrow monday. in between is going to be cold, t

down right cold, you can see the distinct line of temperatures to the north of rapid city and omaha. omaha one, tulsa 50 above that. that's going to be the differences that continue to get more extreme. that's where we are now, temperatures comfortable farther in the southeast but chilly to the north. a good blast of arctic area continue friday will keep the storm system developing for the midwest friday. it's really going to get going as it tracks over into texas, arkansas, louisiana, even stretching up toward illinois. saturday's the day we will see the greatest temperature difference in tornado valley. we're going to see powerful thunderstorms bringing hail and gusty winds, a lot of rainfall and look at how warm it gets on the east coast. it's going to feel balmy. our main focus for severe weather on the weekend is going to be a bully over northern louisiana, over into parts of mississippi. but really, any of these highlighted areas can get a strong thunderstormle that could cause power outages and blustery winds. we're going to be watching out for flash flooding. in the meantime,

and up to 43 mph in rapid city. that's when you get the white out conditions. we want to be careful out there today particularly along i-94 where it will be a chili day back towards fargo and the indiana and detroit and that cold air making it's way south and east over the next several days. this area will push into the midwest, ohio and tennessee valleys and then towards the east coast. by tuesday look at how chilly it is across portions of the north central plains. our other major weather maker, gathering strength across the gulf coast bringing heavy rain across i-10 and later on to i-95 j. >> a new city in china has everything that you want. plenty of stores, schools, lots of brand new housing. the only thing that it doesn't have is people. al jazeera america's andrew thomas explains. >> reporter: six years ago all this was farmland. now there are tens of thousands of apartments, and plans for many more. shendoa lives in one. in her apartment only four argumentapartments are occupied. >> it's too quiet. on weekends or weekdays it's the same. you don't see an

look at rapid city, minus 8. we're talking about a 90 degree spread. 22 in kansas city, 30 in albuquerque. when you factor in the winds, it feels like 11 in kansas city, 13 in dallas. we have another round of ice on the way. i also want to point the attention that we could see record cold as south and west as southern california. fresno, 27 degrees. we could see snow in fresno since 1998. we have one storm that's exiting, a lot of energy with this western system and another ice storm on the way for parts of the south and into the mid-atlantic and even the northeast. we're looking at snow for the sierra nevada and then we could see a few snow flakes in around around l.a. if you can believe it. this energy is going to combine with that very cold arctic air and then another low pressure that forms across the south and that's going to give us the potential for the next ice storm sunday into monday as we continue to watch this northeast and the mid-atlantic, a wintery mix but again a lot of warm air overriding shallow

this is sustained wind rapid city right at 38. gusts up to 43 mph within the last couple of hours behind this frontal boundary we'll see wind. this is the snow depth chart, with that wind pushing in we're going to see a lot of blowing drifting snow with continues across i-94. if you're traveling across the east where millions are still out power, cold air on the way. and the air scoop swoops south d eastward. temperatures will be plummeting. chicago at 14 degrees, and you factor in the wind chill and temperatures could be anywhere between 10 and 15 degrees below zero. another system impacting the east coast and gulf coast as this area of low pressure gains strength as it pushes into alabama, mississippi and georgia. later on tonight we'll see damaging winds, hail and a chance of isolated then as the system continues to push north and east towards southern georgia into north and central portions of florida. slow go on i-10. back to you. >> a modern city with no people. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. here

close to 30 below in rapid city and close to 1 in minneapolis.e storm moves farther east wednesday into thursday this front stalls out. bitter cold air up north, now we're getting some warm air up over that cold air. this is freezing rain on thursday. and then the rain continues to spread east through the mid-atlantic. stephanie? >>> dave thank you for. waing. a ruling has been made on detroit's bankruptcy filing. we'll have more on that at the top of the story. i'm stephanie sy "inside story" is next. for more you with always head to our website, aljazeera.com. ♪ >> president obama says the healthcare.gov website is significantly improved. the administration said the site can now handle 50,000 people at once and 800,000 users a day. that's on the could called front end as people browse the site. but the back end is still a work in progress. that's where the real business

out there at least another couple of days. 21 for minneapolis and chicago. 15 degrees warmer for rapid cityd you are 38 right now, so that can feeling pretty balmy for you. the colder temperatures of 27 in detroit, and in canada, thunder bay, 8 degrees below zero. friday a much quieter day overall. travel is looking good unless you are traveling through north idaho, you will get some snow, otherwise things are really settling down until we track that next storm. >>> thank you. >>> the spirit of giving got a little energy boost in starbucks this season. more than 400 starbucks customer decided to pay it forward by buying the coffee of the person behind them. >>> if you stumbled upon $300,000 in cash, would you give it back? a las vegas cab driver is being hailed for doing just that. he said he thought someone left a bag of chocolates, he looked inside and found six bundles of $100 bills. >> why? because it does not belong to me. i'm not interested about this money. and i just want to do the right thing. >> and he did. the cab company awarded the driver a thousand dollars and dinner for two,

look at rapid city, minus 8. we're talking about a

. >>> part of that deep freeze includes rapid city, south dakota. will be 29 degrees. >> that makes absolutely no difference to one of the city's postal workers. he just may be the nation's coolest, or should we say coldest, mailman. >> joe mchale tells us why. >> reporter: stewart joyce is just like any other letter carrier. he walks door-to-door, delivering mail. he gets in and out of his mail van. but he wears something that almost no one in their right mind would wear when it's this cold outside. shorts. >> well, it's just more comfortable to get around in. you know? if the weather's raining or something like that, your pants get wet, even if you're wearing a jacket. as long as your core's warm, i'm good. >> reporter: rain, sleet or snow -- >> pretty much all the time. >> reporter: well, almost all the time. there is one exception that will cause stewart to cover his bare legs. >> it gets negatives. negative 10, 15, i might go different. >> reporter: that means, just once last week, this letter carrier covered up. >> i always thought there was so

. >> two were given in rapid city this morning. this is the second one we have gotten here. i have heard stories of -- reports of them being received in other communities such as omaha, chicago. >> gold bar has the words the perth mint australia printed on the face valued around $1,500. so pretty nice. >>> kpix 5's newsroom is filled with some very, very talented singers. >> yeah. who knew? and around christmas people are always singing. so here's kpix 5's morning team wishing you a very merry christmas. >> chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪ >> jack frost nipping at your nose yuletide carols being sung by a choir ♪ and folks dressed up like eskimos ♪ everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe ♪ helps to make the season bright ♪ tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight ♪ >> they know that santa's on his way ♪ >> he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh ♪ >> and every mother's child is going to spy to see if reindeer really know how to fly ♪ >> so i'm offering this simple phrase to kids from one to 93 ♪ and although it's been said man

changes in different cultures and norad tracking santa's movements right now it looks like he's over rapid citycoln, nebraska and heading towards wichita, kansas. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> sending first-class mail will cost you a little more next year. the price i've stamp will go up 3 cents in late january, making it 49 cents. the u.s. postal service hopes to recoup about $2.8 billion in losses from the increase. the post office has been struggling for years as people have opt for electric i go mail and bill payment p in the last fiscal year the postal service lost more than $5 billion. thousands of holiday gifts will not arrive in time for christmas, u.p.s. says it's been overwhelmed with an unpredictably large number of packages this year, severe weathers third dallas fort worked area added to the delays, no delivery on his christmas day but workers will sort through items to be delivered on thursday. a fantasy train display is entertaining visitors to our nation's capitol this holiday season, it's now running to the u.s. botanic garden and it's quite a sight to see. al jazerra spoke with the garden's exe

new road to the yemeni government has cut outs from rapid city in conventional terms of the successful campaign the offensive against al qaeda al qaeda is to claim the funds to the province's if yemen. the response to golf course is quite predictable when i am al qaeda. of course or if your keys in the story if you like the commitment of forces whereas i am faced with a conventional almost what's interesting facts from yemen on the phone. the toxin in the past two years. their response will be to move away from convention will say that one before white from people in towns and cities which is what you do to contribute again. now he's very effective at killing or attacks on the way reporting on the worship is caught up in the crossfire. that is this is the amount of time all in all of the christian community. celia and religious officials played for action to protect finished kristin's with a group of still being held by rebel forces to bring its becoming just that. next let's take a couple of lists of focus and was having ukraine and rushes for mississippi love rob describe the actions

it feels like nine below in denver, one below in rapid city and the actual high temperatures today reallyarming up a whole lot. minneapolis, your actual high just zero degrees, 20's across chicago, kansas city, denver and rapid city and it's going to stay very cold out there throughout this week. head over to you. >> when your high is zero degrees, you know it's really cold. maria, thank you. >> thank you. jon: usually they are fierce competitors. but now apple, google and facebook are uniting to protest to the federal government. eight big technology companies joining forces to call for limits on government surveillance. this after revelations of aggressive data collection by the n.s.a. fox business correspondent is here with more. joe? >> that's right. world's most famous tech companies are pushing president obama and members of congress saying they strongly believe current laws and practices about surveillance need to be changed. a.o.l., apple, facebook, google, linkedin, microsoft, twiter and yahoo created the coalition. they said we understand that government has a duty to protect th

bismark, 13. 16-degrees in rapid city, it is that arctic air that is moving south, combines with that. wind gusts starting to see those climb over 20 miles an hour. 21 mile-an-hour wind gusts in fargo. so this will create some very bitter cold wind chills. look at those numbers plus how that air will effect the entire country, that's all coming one the national forecast, i will have that later. >> dave, thank you. still ahead, the controversy brewing over bear hunting. wow. why these dogs and this sugary concoction that you see there, are considered down right unfair. trapped under water for three days the dramatic rescue caught on video. >> are you smarter than a 15-year-old? a door makes four rotations, in one minute. it can hold two people in each of the three sectors. sow how many people can walk through in 30 minutes. jonathan bets has the question suching american students, and news anchors next on al jazeera america. >> this isn't a new channel, this is a watershed moment in media for america. >> this entire region is utterly devastated. >> people our here are struggling. >> th

now with a little bit of the westerly wind today at least places like rapid city have recovered someack in the 20s. but how is this going to impact your holiday? of course we have another one just around the corner, as we get out maybe for boston, 28 is the high for wednesday on a holiday itself. we will see new york city high of 30 but watching the ball drop about 25 degrees out there and looks like the east coast will have sunny skies and that cooperates with all the people trying to get out there. as we mentioned the temperatures have certainly gotten cooler and some of that air is spreading into the northeast over the next couple of days and it will be spreading southward as well and i will tell you how cold the temperatures will be today in a couple minutes and back to you. >> reporter: damaging new accusations are being levelled at the national security agency. the german magazine dare spiegel says nsa has a highly skilled hacking team that specializes in quote getting the ungetable, the team is known as taylored access operation and the high-tech spies intercept computers and

is it going to feel like 16 below in rapid city? close to 50 below? 8 below in kansas city. below in chicago. yes. until midweek and beyond, do we start to see any moderation at all. look at this arctic blast, pushing down. the jet stream allows all of the cold air from the poles to slip in. in maryland, they're going to feel balmy at 16 monday. minneapolis will stay in single digits if the 14 makes it there. and chicago, finally back into the 20s as we start the workweek. but, boy, is that cold air in place. and it's happening in california, too. they have a lot at stake. the lemons, citrus, the oranges, all going to be sprayed. the wind machines are on. this is in fresno. it's a problem all week. and look at the freeze warnings throughout california. even close to the coast. 22 sacramento. 5, early tomorrow morning, in reno. it's going to be 5, the cold. had plenty of tweets from people in florida. we're in the 80s. that's nice for you, orlando. 83 for a high today. >> so, 5 in reno. >> 5. >> you were impressed by that. >> tahoe, even colder. >> do you hear the attitude in

dangerous amounts of cold. 29 degrees the current windchill in the city of denver. 20 below in rapid city air not just pay stay put but expand through parts of texas, arkansas up into ohio are going to deal with cold temperatures. highs only in the 20's. in louisville, little rock and also the city of dallas by this saturday and a dangerous situation also setting up with some of the cold air at the surface. we have warmer temperatures over riding that cold air at the surface. we will be seeing icing out here from texas including the city of dallas all of the way up to ohio with anywhere between a quarter of an inch to about three quarters of an inch, heather and ainsley. that means power outages will be possible including arkansas, missouri and slippery roadways. it will be a huge concern with possible car accidents as well. send it over to you. >> thank you, maria. >> other stories, the man accused in last month's shooting at lax is being denied bail at his first court appearance. the judge saying he is a flight risk and danger to the community. he is charged with killing tsa officer her

omaha 22, rapid city only at eight. we are looking at scattered snow showers.ooking at overcast skies, it's quiet and calm. heavy snow across milwaukee. that will die down. the heaviest of the rain across the south-east, making its way into the caro linas, where we continue to deal with gustier winds as we track in as the front makes its way offshore. a wet weekend. we had to deal with heavy rain, the heaviest situated between little rock. some areas saw as much as six inches of rain. back to the heat. look how warm it is in savannah. 81 degrees, spreading all the way to the. >> -- i 95 core dar. tonight a cool down. dealing with ice across new england and maine and i 95, the white and green mountains from vermont. treacherous travel - be careful on the roadways. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york. i'm jonathan betz with the headlines. tens of thousands of refugees a fleeing three homes in south sudan. u.s. citizens have been evacuated to juba. u.s. envoys are meeting with government officials hoping to end the conflict >> thousands are on the str

those snow showers push away, that's where those cold temperatures are bismarck only getting to 9, rapid city the same. john the wind chills will be minus 20, minus 30°. definitely a dangerous situation. >> kevin, we'll talk to you later. >>> lessons learned, what officials are finding from the newtown 911 tapes. >>> plus whales trapped in shallow water off the florida coast. >> in ten days it will be one yore since the massacre in newtown. since then an emotional debate has been waged over whether or not to release the 911 tapes. ldges america has decided not to -- al jazeera america has decided not to play the vrd yoa of those calls. randall pinkston reports. >> i heard seven calls of 911, at about 9:35, a woman who sounded frightened reached the dispatcher saying she was inside the school building and had glimpsed someone running down the hallway with a gun. they're still shooting, she said, sandy hook school, please. there was also a phone call from a school teacher hold up in the classroom with her students. she reported hearing gun shots in the hallway. the dispatcher said keep everybod

. >> two were given in rapid city this morning.ve gotten here. >> it has perth mints australia on the face and valued at $1,500. >>> a taxi driver got a reward for honesty. a poker player left $300,000 cash in gerardo's cab on monday. the taxi driver did the right thing and took the money to his boss to be returned. >> all i want to do just give all the money to the company. i want to give the cab drivers a good reputation. >> police and officials from another casino were able to link the money to a prominent poker player who then got it back. the taxi driver got $1,000 for his honesty from his boss. >> good for him. >>> 5:54. in the next half hour, we continue to follow breaking news. the alameda county sheriff's office now on the scene of a christmas morning murder- suicide. we'll have the latest. >> reporter: it's a long- standing tradition here in san francisco at glide, feeding the needy and homeless during the holidays. we'll take you live to the preparations for the big feast. ,, female announcer: female announcer: sleep tra

across the dakotas and minnesota where there's a wind warning, gusting up to 60 miles per hour in rapid city. towards chicago winds of 22 in the windy city and there's a snow pack in place. blowing, drifting snow across the dakotas. it will be very chilly out there as we track into tomorrow. right now we are at 26 degrees. 39 degrees in minneapolis and over the next several days. the wind and the cold air will continue to sink south and east. by tuesday the cold air will reach the east coast. in the south-east it's warm. there's a lot of instability in the atmosphere. a lot of moisture as areas of low pressure tracks north and east. it tracks down past mississippi, georgia. heavy rain, and we could see storms turn severe with winds, rain and isolated tornados, a different story across the south-west. winds picking up across los angeles. >> thank you, a different story in south america. it's a red alert for parts of argentina. people are protesting after two weeks of a heatwave caused many to lose power. we have this report from buenos aires by danier schweimler. >> temperatures in buenos air

. >> august 27th, 2011, rapid city, south dakota. a beautiful summer day in the city of presidents, where just west of the city, the mountain range, home to the famed mt. rushmore. police officer kathleen phillips is on routine patrol when at 7:25 p.m. she hears an emergency call over the police radio. a man has lost consciousness. philip, just blocks away, immediately responds. her dashboard camera rolling. >> please, he's dying. please, dear god. >> i got out of the car as quickly as i could. ran up to see what's going on and saw a man unconscious in the passenger seat. >> 44-year-old jeff seamans driving through south dakota with his family is in full cardiac arrest. >> he looked pretty ashen, gray in color. he wasn't breathing. he was slumped over to the side. >> i need help getting him out of the car. >> his wife patricia is on the phone with 911 as his stepdaughter lilly anxiously looks on. phillips knows she has to act quickly. >> he needed to have chest compressions. i grabbed an arm and tried to pull as hard as i could. i di

dozens of cars, like these, in rapid city, have been spinning out of control and running off the roadse bracing for blizzard conditions and up to 18 inches of snow from the dakotas to michigan. the icy blast is threatening citrus growers across california. farmers have been scrambling to insulate their crops, wrapping trees, spraying water and using wind machines to circulate warmer air. forecasters say they could see record lows by tomorrow evening. cold enough to jeopardize those crops. >>> the arctic weather system is moving coast to coast putting windchills in the danger zone. >> let's get the latest from accu-weather meteorologist jim dickey. good morning, jim. >>> good morning, john and diana. extreme cold on tap for the nation's mid section and much of the west. an arctic the air mass dives in out of canada on the fringes of that colder air an area of low pressure is drifting toward lake superior. we're going to see snowfall in the upper midwest again today. for a bull's eye, 6 to 12 inches of snow. duluth, three to six-inch range into minneapolis. the cold air surges to the wes

rapid city down to 13, wind chill factors much colder than that. the animals feel this wind chill. your face feels it. your car windows, house, don't feel the number. but i tell you what, if you were outside or your pets are outside please take care of yourselves and your pets tonight. because they can't take care of themselves. make sure they have some type of shelter from this wind chill. wind chill advisories all the way from international falls all the way down to the south. please keep at least half a tank of gas in your car. even though this car was upside down, they didn't get tose it. if you're stuck in the snow and all wheels are down, you'll be able to use that fuel, at gasoline. to keep yourself, keep the car running, keep yourself warm and make sure the snow doesn't get near that exhaust pipe. there's the map i started with. here's the next storm system. you don't want to see this. this is saturday, another icy mix, snowy mix and rain down to the south. that's the big cities again saturday into sunday another storm coming, john. >> i think the scientific term for the st

five below in great falls, two above rapid city. denver is six degrees. metroplex, aorth friend of mine down there says they have widespread advisories and warnings for icy travel, just up, north, plano, the big story. sliding east is the cold front with the rain, falling temperatures, clearing skies. the low pressure that follows the storm system saturday, snow through the lakes and the interior of new england with the cold front, then we clear out nicely. the cold air ships over and sets up shop up and down the coast. right now, let's hear from president obama. 1964, nelsonal at statementosed his saying, "i have fought against white domination and i have fought against black domination. i cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve. be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die." nelson mandela lived for that ideal and made it real. he achieved more than could be expected of any man. today he has gone home. we h

minus 23 is what it feels like in rapid city. feels like 9 in chicago. single digits in kansas city. this cold is going to hang on. so first round of weather moving off the east coast. we are seeing a little mix here once again across the arklatex. we have some energy moving in across the west that's going to help this next storm system really get its act together over the next 24 to 48 hours. future radar, we're going to see some snow over the four corners. fresno, you could get measurable snow as well, the first time since 1998. temperatures 27 degrees in fresno, california. then we watch the future radar. a mix of snow, rain and sleet. we could have another ice storm on our hands affecting million also of people sunday into monday. look at the forecast precipitation. where you see pink on your screen, that's where we could see some measurable ice on the roadways. on the power lines, we could have power outages for days, if not weeks, if this ice storm pans out to what we think it could. again, the radar is going to show you where we see the potential

as you step outside in bargo it feels like minus 35 and minus 14 in rapid city. minus six in biz mark. definitely another day to dress in the layers. into the north-east mild. 40s as you head out at the hour. it will turn colder. milledest air in place. >> thank you so much. >> anti-government protests continue in turkey. protesters are calling on the prime minister to step down. on saturday the prime minister accused a us-based muslim cleric of issuingest rating the corruption flow. here to weigh in is james jeffrey a former ambassador for turkey and visiting fellow at the washington institute. he's in washington d.c. >> good morning. >> the prime minister attended a rally of supporters, essentially blaming the investigation on a foreign plot. could this be a diversion? >> of course it is. these corruption scandals cannot be questioned in the sense that there's absolute evidence that a great deal has happened and the police and the judiciary are trying to get to the other part of it. recep tayyip erdogan on the one side and a cleric, fethullah gelun, an recep ta

rapid city, you're at 22. temperatures in the single digits across much of the north.aying, d.c. yesterday you were at 58. right now you're at 41. definitely feeling like christmas as we roll into the next 24 hours, and much of the country is going enjoy very calm conditions for christmas day. mostly sunny and staying cold in the north. >> cold in the north, of course. jennifer gray, happy holidays to you. >> same to you. >>> we've all heard the christmas class iic "it's the mt wonderful time of the year," but the economy doesn't have everyone thinking it's the happiest season of all. >> ask americans if christmas is a great or the best time of the year. a few years ago, this is the answer you would get. 49% would say yes, it is. jump forward to 2008, it drops down to 43%. today we're at 42%. so what's happening? is this the grinch? no, something much more basic we talk about all the time. the recession and the slow recovery at work. here's how we know. we said to people, are you going to cut back on gift giving this year because of the economy? a whopping 62% said yes

casper, minus 30, rapid city minus 30. billings 28. denver, take a look at that, shep, windchill of minus 23 by tomorrow morning's commute. >> even in denver. bring those animals in. going to get a lot of snow to that area too, huh? >> we're about to have a really big mess. there's been a lot of snow across the central rockies. that's going to taper off tonight. we'll also see it taper off eventually here toward the northern plains tonight. get ready northern plains, next sunday, monday into tuesday i think we're going to see even colder air come in ultimately behind this system when it's done. down here across parts of the southern plains, mid-mississippi river valley, get ready for a big mess that's going to happen starting into tomorrow evening through friday and saturday. a slow-moving system. we're going to see a big stripe right here, shep, with a lot of sleet and maybe some freezing rain. doesn't matter how good of a driver you are in the winter, freezing rain on the roads you will crash. so we get a rough one down across parts

rapid city down to 13, wind chill factors much colder than that. the animals feel this wind chill. your face feels it. your car windows, house, don't feel the number. but i tell you what, if you were outside or your pets are outside please take care of yourselves and your pets tonight. make sure they have some type of shelter from this wind chill. wind chill advisories all the way from international falls all the way down to the south. please keep at least half a tank of gas in your car. even though this car was upside down didn't get to use fit you're stuck in the snow and all wheels are down you'll be able to use that fuel, that gasoline, to keep yourself, keep the car running, keep yourself warm and make sure the snow doesn't get near that exhaust pipe. there's the map i started with. here's the next storm system. you don't want to see this. this is saturday, another icy mix, snowy mix and rain down to the south. that's the big cities again saturday into sunday another storm coming, john. >> i think the scientific term for the storm that hit us today was sort of not much today.

that's the effect for this constituent from rapid city, south dakota. i had a constituent family from watertown, south dakota, who writes this. you need to know how obamacare is harming my life and health care. we were one of the families that lost their health care plan. we heard president obama say if you like your health care, you can keep it. that was a lie. our new health care plan is going to cost our family $21,600 a year compared to the health care plan of 2013 which cost us us $7,335.96. that is a 300% -- 300%-plus increase. we're a healthy family of six people. we are outraged and upset. madam president, these letters and calls to my office echo similar complaints from american families back home in my state of south dakota and all across the country. obamacare is costing this family more money and denying them the plan that they want. that is the real-life, real-world impact. this is really, if you think about it, pretty staggering. new health care plans going to cost a family over $21,000 a year compared to $7,335 today. a 300-plus percent i

we also have a little bit of that warm flow moving up to places like denver or rapid city for today,s, 50's, even by tomorrow, a couple more 60's cross the region and also a warm up north east coast, starting a little today and into tomorrow. but as we get into more thursday and friday, those temperatures could rebound into the 40's and even 50's, so at least there's a warm up there on the way. back to you guys. >> a warning for americans who take multi-vitamins, don't waste your money. three new studies published in the annalles of internal medicine suggest vitamin and mineral suppplements aren't living up to expectation it is. one found they do not risk death, heart disease or performance or improving memory in adults. at best, they say the suppplements have no affect and could cause harm in some cases. >> with christmas fast approaching, amazon.com workers in germany are on strike. the movement has spread to the company's facility in seattle. >> standing here, they are joining with one striking worker, for better pay and working conditions. >> we've been trying to get amazon to ba

rapid city, to kansas city, to st. louis. some of the snow totals you can expect.ful glasses. you can give me one. give me a blow. happy 2014. yes. let's get in there. >> happy 2014. >>> here's a look at what's ahead on the "gma morning menu." "hunger games" star josh hutcherson is given a huge welcome at a college basketball game. >>> and love them or hate them, we've all seen them. the viral ads that got us talking in 2013. we're going to hear your picks, too. >>> and macklemore & ryan lewis opening up about their breakout year. all coming up live here on "gma," in times square. the cut ♪ ♪ no need to chuck, donate or burn them ♪ ♪ just pack them in our flat rate box ♪ ♪ we'll come to your door and return them ♪ ♪ gifts you bought but never gave away ♪ ♪ or said you liked but thought were cheesy ♪ ♪ you don't even need to leave your house ♪ ♪ we'll come and take them, easy-peasy ♪ [ female announcer ] no one returns the holidays like the u.s. postal service. with improved priority mail flat rate, just print a label, schedule a pickup, and return those gifts at a

freeway infrastructure and other projects the bus rapid transit and another corridors, and the others that are going to serve the south east and part of the city in the eastern neighborhoods and other rapid corridors throughout the city and then finally, more of the policy or the way that we do business side of things is that a set of recommendations about the project delivery and both the approaches to the project delivery as well as the funding of the new revenues that it will take to deliver all of the projects that we know and need. and we identify our system research into ways to more efficiently, deliver both small and large types of projects and those are included in among the sftp recommendations. and we just completed a major round of out reach on these recommendations, and one of the key features of this round of out reach is that we partnered with about eleven different community-based organizations to reach, communities of certain, and non-english speaking communities and so we got a lot of broad participation in the out reach and to summarize the main things that we heard back, were first of all over all, we heard people write, in

major storm system plowing through the western half of the country today from montana to bismarck rapid city down to denver into salt lake city. we have winter storm watches, warnings, and advisories. talking about very heavy snow in eastern parts of montana, all the way through to parts of the upper peninsula of michigan especially heavy in colorado and in utah where totals could be as much as in places in the central rockies 2 feet perhaps. so we're talking about a wide swath of very heavy snowfall from this. and as the system exits, very cold air will move in from northern canada bringing temperatures anywhere from 20 to 30 degrees below the norm. this will be the coldest air of the season so far while it starts in the northern areas of the country, it's slow going to trickle east throughout course of the day. >> this morning, new video may shed light on the car crash that killed actor paul walker and a friend on saturday. sheriff's investigators do not believe they were racing another car. autopsy results could be released today. kevin frazier, co-host of "omg insider "is at the scene in