right now scattered showers with thunder and lightning in southeastern ohio, kentucky and tennessee. it's the line in kentucky that will be affecting us and coming our way. it's about 8:50 or sore of away of getting in here. the leading edge will be sweeping on through. so check out the latest radar with the storm team 4 weather app when you're mobile. and there is our local radar, don't have any rain locally, just a little bit of scattered drizzle. temperatures only in the 40s. this is a weather alert day meaning we will have frequent updates all day long as it severe weather threat ramps up. unfortunately, there is a risk of some severe storms with damaging winds and hail and a slight risk of tornados later this afternoon. next a look at the risk zone neighborhoods most in line for severe weather at 6:11. what's happening with our traffic? >>> well, 270 is a little slow heading out of frederick toward gaithersburg but no reports of incidents. beltway running smoothly. beltway at braddock road, all lanes are open. and then again in prince george's county beltway at central avenue se

right now scattered showers with thunder and lightning in southeastern ohio, kentucky and tennessee.e line in kentucky that will be affecting us and coming our way. it's about 8:50 or sore of away of getting in here. the leading edge will be sweeping on through. so check out the latest radar with the storm team 4 weather app when you're mobile. and there is our local radar, don't have any rain locally, just a little bit of scattered dr

we have seen it in southeastern ohio and northern west virginia. these storms are firing up ahead of a cold front that will move east. sets up across the great lakes tomorrow morning and the east coast into friday evening. we are looking for widespread, storms wit likely, anywhere from texas up into the southern great lakes. we could also see heavy downpours, dangerous cloud to ground lightning, wind gusts near 75 miles per hour, and hail two to three inches in diameter. we are looking for threat of severe storms friday, too, but they will not be as severe as today. we still could see an isolated tornado, but there's a much less chance of that, and the whole storm system, lester, is gone by the time we get to the weekend. >> dylan dreyer, thanks very much. >>> history could be made as early as tomorrow in panama when president obama finds himself face to face with cuba's leader the first time since the two countries decided to improve relations, but ahead of their arrival in panama, violence is erupting in the street nbc senior white house correspo

we have flash flood warning and severe thunderstorm warning in southeastern ohio. tornado warning in northern ohio. a as we zoom back west look at this line starting out as a squall line. with a line of storms like thaw get damaging wind gusts but in the necessarily tornadoes this has split into super cells and we are seeing tornadoes across portions of missouri heading for chicago area in time for their evening rush and that can be a big problem in chicago. we will keep you posted on. that for us it is cold, cloudy we are sitting at 35 for feels like temperature. we are in the lower 40's. this is what it feels like. twenty-six in mount pocono right now with the wind. feels like 37 in allentown. lets talk about this warm up, overnight tonight, chilly cloudy 1:00 a.m. a couple showers moving through. start tomorrow morning in the 40's glummy, and nasty. you may wake up and think didn't kate say it would be 75 tomorrow? just wait. watch what happens midday. we will get breaks in the cloud cover, we will get southwest wind and quickly up in the 70's. the it may stay c

. >> i live in the very rich region of eastern and southeastern ohio hydraulic fracturing is a process with the implications we are concerned about the issues a day is there some confusion earthquakes are caused by hydraulic fracturing when it is really the deep well injection of the waste? could you comment on that? >> your governor of so hopefully we continue to give good vice. we all take this very seriously the information available today is hydraulic fracturing is not causing earthquakes. that is the information available in texas today. looking at the available science of steady came down on monday night but with the seismologist is going through we hope they present the study to us in the near future so we can ask a program questions they are in session right now they want to ask questions as well. looking at a deep water injection and seeing if that is a challenge. me but to rule out potential problems. >> will let me clarify for the record that there is no evidence yet that would indicate that hydraulic fracturing is causing the earthquake? >> and to control these issues out b

i live in a very rich, shell rich region of eastern and southeastern ohio. and hydraulic fracturing has been a -- a process that has had profound economic positive economic implications to the people that live in appalachia ohio. i'm very concerned about some of the issues that we're talking about here today. and chairman craddick, there has been a lot of discussion about earthquakes here this morning. is there some confusion that the earthquakes are being caused by hydraulic fracturing when it is really the deep well injection of the waste? would you take a minute and comment on that? >> first and foremost, thank you for the question and i will say your governor and some of your legislators and regulators have been to the river commission so we can explain what we're doing. hopefully we continue to give you good advice as you are putting a vibrant oil and gas community together up there as well. we obviously all take seismicity very seriously and the information available today is that hydraulic fracturing is not causeing earthquakes. that's the information

the weather pushing into the ohio valley and southeastern states. it includes dangerous storms with damaging wind hail and possible tornadoes. this after the reports yesterday of at least 11. >> as we head into today and overnight tonight, sunday monday tuesday, we're into that period where we typically see severe weather. clash of the air masses and speaking of which, look at the northern tier of the country. 50s and 60s. the southern half we're dealing with very warm humid air. that's one of the ingredients we need and cool across the west as the storm systems come out of the rockies and give us those ingredients for severe weather. let's talk about it. we have tornado watch here until around 8:00 p.m. for parts of the ohio and tennessee river valley and several severe thunderstorm watches in effect. where we could see hail damaging winds and yes, even tornadoes. just because you're under a severe thunderstorm watch doesn't mean you can't see rotation. we do have severe thunderstorm warnings just starting to light up the screen here in parts of fl

ohio valley. that's the possibility for us this afternoon. to start with though the rain moving in at 8:00 this morning. you'll see light rain across delaware southeastern pennsylvania and into new jersey. then rain is going to be on and off this morning and into the early afternoon hours. and by 11:00 this morning, we could see some moderate showers in the area. so an umbrella is a good idea today. you won't need your sunglasses with the clouds overhead through the day in spite of the cloudy weather. look at temperatures in the 60s to near 70 degrees this afternoon. a look at your weekend forecast when i'm back in ten minutes. >>> bill ten minutes after 4:00 now. an early morning start to your drive. we'll see what you'll be facing out there with katy zachry and a look at all that's happening. >>> fortunately right now there's not a lot happening. that's typical at this time of the morning at 4:10. but in mount laurel at right 38 drive times are between route 38 and 168, in both directions 12 to 13 minutes. no problems to report on the expanse of 295 to the atlantic city expressway or the garden state parkway. on the pennsylvania turnpike i just got wo

ohio river valley today. tomorrow the rain moves through pretty quickly here in the northeast. we will have some wet weather still left around through the gulf coast into the southeastern at the cascades. an icy mix and snow that's what's go that's what's . >>> good morning to you. we're kicking off the new week with very chilly temperatures in comparison to yesterday. dropping by a good ten degrees in some cases. it's going to be nice out here though, at at&t park later on. 1:35 first pitch for the giants' home opener. temperatures in the low 70s for today in the tri-valley. same for the north bay. upper 60s for most of us as we get into the end of the week, temperatures are going to climb into the 80s. mid 80s at the end of the week. hope you have a great day. fantastic advice for you guys. go on weather channel or weather.com any time to get your weather. all right. now back inside. >>> now to "the voice" on "today." carson is busy with season eight of that vocal competition. she sat down with the coaches to talk about music, parenthood, and mo. ♪ >> season eight of the show. many of us have been here from the beginning. this is something that seemingly gets better

ohio river valley today. tomorrow the rain moves through pretty quickly here in the northeast. we will have some wet weather still left around through the gulf coast into the southeasternk at the cascades. an icy mix and snow that's what's going on aro here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. i'm bill henley. clouds to start with. get your sunglasses ready. skies will be clearing. the winds pick up and that will help with the warm-up today. 70s this afternoon. tomorrow, umbrellas will be going up. showers and 67 the high on tuesday. 60s with sunshine wednesday. clouds return thursday. up to 64 degrees. increasing clouds will likely lead toer more showers on friday but will clear out this weekend. have a great day. >> that's your latest weather. fantastic advice for you guys. go on weather channel or weather.com any time to get your weather. all right. now back inside. >>> now to "the voice" on "today." carson is busy with season eight of that vocal competition. she sat down with the coaches to talk about music, parenthood, and mo. ♪ >> season eight of the show. many of us have been here from the beginning. this is something that seemingly get