in color on this map is a warning of some kind, and that goes all the way down to central and southern florida, where there is a wind-chill advisory. warning,rth a freeze even a hard freeze warning for parts of northern florida. if you go all the way up to eastern montana, look at this line that comes all the way down. you have continuous winter weather, some kind of advisory or alert for almost 2000 miles. that shows you how far this cold air is reaching. with the exception of some lake effect snow, it is very dry, justin arctic air mass has worked its way down. -24 is what it feels like. the windy city -20. here is what i want to focus on. tonight is the cold, tomorrow was cold, not going above freezing. wednesday will also be cold, but a little warmer, 33-ish. this is noon wednesday. we're watching a well another system -- a weather system. look how much there is. a lot of steady yellow and dark blue, that is heavy snow and rain. wednesday night, 48 hours from now, it will be very close to us area the models keep it away, but we are watching this. if this moves 100 miles to the west, the fo

southern florida. >> yes. [ laughter ] >> sorry. >> no freeze warnings in l.a. they are like70 degrees. >> so florida, not california, it's cold. >>> we are looking at rain out there. look at this. our live camera from richmond bridge definitely showing moisture but also want to show you san jose. it's drier there. just some cloudy conditions. so let's take you to hi-def doppler and show you what's going on. across the south the only areas getting the rain would be in the higher elevations, near the santa cruz mountains, just a light drizzle right now going on. palo alto, you may start to see a little bit more rain but right now, there's just a lot of mist in many areas so it's not the best for the air. also heavier rain coming down just east of san leandro. just past over 580 castro valley also getting some rain and same with hayward. it's calmed down a little bit but you're going to continue to see scattered showers. martinez it's raining there now. concord also raining there. if you are driving out this afternoon, the rain should ease up a little bit. the nor

well, for example, here in miami in southern florida this is the coldest weather in three years. juston here in the us, it turns out this morning was the coldest day in over seven years, when it dipped down on the fahrenheit scale to 39 degrees. called at about three celsius or so. —— call that about. so it was very cold, people were surprised, people were bundling up. i think it will be a novelty for a couple of days but then people will be wanting the warmer weather to return. john, thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. an explosion in the afghan capital, kabul, has killed at least fifteen people. the interior ministry says it was a suicide bomber, but the target was unclear. the so—called islamic state, has claimed it carried out the attack. the us state department has announced it's suspending almost all security assistance to pakistan because, officials say, it isn't doing enough to combat islamist militants. they say the payment freeze will be in force until islamabad takes more action against the afghan taliban and their allies the haqqani n

these are all wind chill advisories from canada all the way down toward southern florida. right around the fort myers area. areas there under a wind chill advisory. same thing with areas like houston. snow, they can see more snow around the charleston area than us. for us it's the cold. look where the low temperatures go. wind chills by early tomorrow morning about where they are right now. below zero in many areas. stepping out the front door for the kids at the bus stop, for you at the bus stop or for you heading in layers, layers, layers, try not to have any exposed skin because it is that cold. 28 is what i'm going for in the afternoon. sun and sunny and cold. the wind chill may not get above 18, 19 degrees. still a cold day. 35 on wednesday. we get above freezing right now. that's the way it looks. we're not going to stay there long. we go right back to below freezing on thursday. 27, windy and cold. chance of snow on thursday. but this storm, let's take a look at it. we've talked about the jetstream dipping all the way down to the south. that allows the storm to stay

look how far this drives down into southern florida.s snowing in tallahassee. it's below freezing orleans, jackson the freezing mark of 32. shy town, minus 1 and 8 degrees for us in philadelphia. there's the cold with the polar vortex over us, by next weekend, winds shift out of the southwest, here comes the january thaw, it begins friday and lingers through saturday and sunday. by the 15th it's starts to get mild. it may come roaring back in february, there could be a two week stretch where we have comfortable temperatures, 50ss, upper 40s and low 60s. windchills today zero to minus ten frigid. 16 is the forecasted high. going hour by hour, it doesn't matter, it's just really cold. lunchtime, 13. 2:00 p.m., 15. same number by 4. overnight tonight, mainly clear, frigid minus four, outlying suburbs, minus one in philadelphia. when you take a look at the numbers and stack them up against the records every location will break a record tomorrow morning. philadelphia minus one. the record low is 4. allentown, minus 4. atlantic city, minus 3,

. >>> police in southern florida are searching for a person of interest after two explosive devices were detonated inside eagle ridge mall in lake wales, about 30 miles east of tampa. no one was hurt in the explosion. police found two pipe bombs near the entrance of a store and a book bag with other undetonated explosives inside. police are searching for a man seen running from the area at the time of the explosion. >>> this morning, cardinal newman high school will open for the first time since the bay area fires. >> we are live at the school to talk about what is happening today to welcome to students back to the school. >> reporter: many times, students are not excited for the return of school but today will be different. cardinal newman and more schools will be reopening their doors three months after the north bay fires destroyed those schools, portions of those schools. more than 600 students have been attending classes at four different locations while the campus here was cleaned up and portable classrooms were installed. at cardinal newman, students will return to 22 new portable

i mean, really only southern florida and southern california escaped cold weather. everybody is dealing with it. what everyone is focusing on is this system developing off northern florida around jacksonville and southeast georgia and off charleston. that's expected to develop rapidly and deepen as it heads to the northeast. and northeasterly depending where a location is. if it stays to the west, it will be a big snow -- as i cold windy system. that's the main focus. we have a system on the way. i'm always reluctant the first system coming through a long stretch of high pressure. usually falls apart, but this one holding together. but we have a ways to go. this isn't a morning event, but a late afternoon. lightning strikes associated with that. a possibility exist on that. if we can get that to come in and not go south and north. cloudy in the morning with rain later. not much in the morning, but later this afternoon, it could late. this is late this evening into late tomorrow -- we'll focus on santa rosa. it doesn't look like a lot. as you can see going through thu

a new high speed train in southern florida hitting and killing a second person in its first week of servicewas trying to cross the tracks north of ft. lauderdale. happens days after the train hit a woman in the same city. police say the security gates were down in both cases. bright line records they're cooperating with investigators, a crane removing an airliner from a cliff in turkey. the plane skidded off over the weekend and stopped short of the black sea. all 168 people got out aboard safely. the news continues with shepard smith after this. woman: i'm a fighter. always have been. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd backed by 15 years of clinical studies. that's why i fight. because it's my vision. preservision. >> shepard: president trump this afternoon says he thinks his chief of staff, john kelly, is doing a

melissa: deadly winter storm slamming the entire length of the east coast from florida to maine. southern states digging themselves out after this rare event. tens of thousands of power outages are expected before a deep freeze sets in. we are live in the weather center and on the ground, where the storm is hitting the hardest right now. >> never seen snow. first time, last time i saw know. was about, a long time ago. >> i don't really even know how to drive on the road like this in this type of weather ♪

. >> brown: the 30-year-old monet lives in southern florida and has worked with carrie mae weems beforeou, you don't say no, you just say yes. >> brown: another young artist saying yes was john edmonds, who showed a series of photographs of young black men. >> there is a different way of entering and thinking about politics and you know political art, art that's not blatantly about sort of sending a message but more so inviting the viewer to kind of contemplate on their own sort of mindset. >> brown: do you think an artist has a responsibility to address political issues overtly? >> it's an artist's responsibility to be mindful of the political climate there, because photographs and images they; have a great amount of power. >> brown: that ¡climate' for the people here meant a response to growing divisions within the country. >> for me donald trump has really brought something forward to bear on us all. he's brought forward very clear ideas about what america should and shouldn't be, at a moment and for that reason i think that his election has been absolutely remarkable and necessary b

southern florida and a little bit of the southwestern us, that is all about it. we are all in the deep freeze. watching for potential accumulating snow across the bay, salsbury, ocean city, the winter storm watch is coming up and we'll have some headlines for the potential of the snow that could be disruptive thursday morning. not expecting it here in d.c. or points west. the cold is going to be denied. the search is on tonight for two men who police say tried to kidnap an eight year old girl this morning in a toe mona park neighborhood jim and sarah, good evening very scary for parents, especially considering today is the first day back at school for many kids who were off during winter break . i want to show you the area where this took place. police say right at the very end there you could see there are three police cars that are monitoring that area over off of elm and pine. they've practically been there since school has hazlet out around 3:00 this afternoon and they've been canvassing the area since that time making sure that parents and kids walking are s

even down to the south and parts of central and southern florida, we're looking at temperatures only in the 50s. could see continued rain. we're not going to get a break until thursday. it is going to a short one before we see the third blast coming in. hallie? >> michelle grossman with that slightly depressing news. >> i know. sor sorry. >> appreciate it. >>> we want to turn to costa rica. 12 people, including 10 americans, were killed when their plane crashed into the base of a mountain. multiple americans died. state department didn't give more information. a woman named tamara jacobson said her brother, bruce stein berg, and four other family members were among the dead. we're joined by tammy leitner in key biscayne. >> reporter: two people on board were pilots and the ten americans, all did die in the crash. five of the americans, as you mentioned, were from the same family. they had planned a family vacation. they were the steinbergs, and they were from scarsdale, new york. >> what do you think we're going to see later on this afternoon? >> reporter: you know, it is hard to tel

the wind chill advisories now go all the way down into florida, southern florida. just north of ft. myers that are under wind chill advisories in those reegions. we are no longer under wind chill advisory, but they come back saturday. notice 2 at 11:00 in d.c. 7 below 0 in hagerstown. waking up tomorrow morning just to some brutally cold numbers. everybody in the north and west or 5 around d.c., even with the 5 and 10 mile an hour wind that's where the wind chill is going. tomorrow around 3:00 in the afternoon we're only in the teens. just like today, tomorrow is going to be another frigid afternoon. high temperature around 28. sunny and cold, not as breezy during the late part of the afternoon. but again, even 5 to 10 mile an hour wind gives us those wind chill in the teens. here's the next couple of days. above freezing on wednesday. we can all rejoice and celebrate that. 35 degrees, if we can get there. now, the big deal is on thursday with a chance for some snow coming up on thursday. we're going to be tracking this storm system along the coast. temperature around 27 degrees. it

they're going into the 20s, into the 20s all the way into southern florida. >> that's where the redskinsng. [ laughter ] >> oh, yeah. >> coming up in sports, skins packing up and heading to the off season again. a lot of questions remaining after a disappointing finish. >> but first here's peter alexander with a look at what happens' ahead on nbc nightly news. >> coming up tonight on nightly news, frigid cold temperatures making for punishing start of the year for the eastern half of the u.s. wind chill advisories as far south as tampa. there is little relief in sight. al >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right. ball drop, it's over, see you later, guys. i guess we're going to be seeing kirk playing in i'm betting orange this time next year. >> that's what you bet for next year. now you're sending the whole team to florida. you have plans for everybody. leon has it all figured out and he's from cleveland, go figure. 2018, shot back at you. hello, 2018. as leon mentioned the ball did drop at 34midnight. for the redskins it dropped literally and figuratively. the intersection of

florida, like a southern tip of florida, southern arizona. that is it. those are the places.ve now is clear skies. it's cold. let me take you to tomorrow. let's start to tomorrow morning. focus on this down south. the weather system working on up. this is roughly 24 hours from now. we are still dry. you don't have to worry about anything for the morning commute, evening commute other than being cold. tomorrow evening look at the colors on this map. this is a very aggressive system that will be building and rapidly strengthening in intensity. the good news is most of it looks like it will be offshore. however, some of that sliding in. if it wobbles west. not taking much to get us more snow. we will see a lot more. 20 to 30 p.m. chance of snow for d.c. metro. most of this is in new england around boston. areas like that will get more than a foot of snow. you are watching "abc7 news before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesn't have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesn't get us all killed, ben. what's so good about fios anyway? uh. what's so great abo

well, in the southeast today, all eyes will be on what happens with that ice storm in southern georgia and north florida. eventually it will break out into some snow throughout the carolinas. the cold air is in place in southern areas of new england waiting for the storm late tonight. >>> of course one of the biggest dangers is going to be the high winds with the storm, power outages and the cold air behind it. i'll tell you how cold coming up. >> all right. a lot to watch. bill, thank you. >>> the nation's biggest jackpots have swelled to a whopping $858 million. an eye popping mega millions 361 million. nobody one. it swelled to an estimated grand prize of $418 million the next drawing is on friday. so, if your game is powerball, tonight may be your chance. the next monster jackpot of over $440 million. >> 2018 is shaping up to have more female candidates for public office than ever a devastating bus crash at devils curve. r a quick and convt clean, try swiffer wetjet. there's no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and lock technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. it's safe t

we have freeze warnings up to southern florida. windchill advisories and warnings all all the way from north dakota to eastern maine and south carolina with the core of the cold air focused from the midwest to new england. these are forecast windchill values of 15 to 35 below zero for tonight. for tomorrow night and even into sunday morning we'll see a little bit of a reprieve here in the midwest late on sunday but still feeling like 10 to 25 below zero. record cold territory, too, in terms of high temperatures. teens and single digits today and for saturday. but there are signs even though the cold will hang on from the northern plains to the midwest that we get a bit of a break with a mid to late january thaw from the east coast. back to you. >> danile, thanks. >>> airlines are working to clear backlogs. all three major new york airports were crippled yesterday. laguardia and jfk reopened last night, but newark airport is just starting to reopen this morning. there were more than 100 diversions yesterday including this massive ai

this storm has already moved across florida and the southern tip of georgia and it will continue up toe north just outside of the eastern seaboard and it will intensify as it gets toward boston and maine. as early as 7:30 pm tonight southern maryland will see the first few drops of flakes. by 2 a.m. snow moves into the eastern edge of dc. by 5 a.m. tomorrow there will already be a light coating of snow and we will continue to see that fall through the morning rush hour. 7 a.m. light to moderate bands of snow and the further east you are the better chance you have of seeing that snow make its way in. a lunch time the system does push to the east and by the end of the day the snow is out of here. we will have a trace up to an inch around the leesburg area. 1 -2 inches in the dc area. 4-6 inches around the area. your 7-day forecast is calling for cold air to stick around especially friday and saturday with highs only in the teens and morning low temperatures in the single dig i just drank tons of water a proall the time, it was never enough. my dentist suggested biotene. i use the biotene

look for sunny skies with a few showers in southern florida. happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. we do still have some patchy dense fog in parts of the bay area and we will get some sunshine today and some warming temperatures in the mid to upper 50s, even some low 60s for the south county. as we go into the day tomorrow, our next round of rain will be here. starting in the north bay. we'll see it by late morning into early afternoon. then it works its way into the rest of the bay area by the evening commute. we'll still see some scattered showers in the forecast between tomorrow night and throughout the day thursday. >> all right. that whole jeans thing -- how old do you have to be to stop wearing jeans? can i wear jeans? yeah. that's what i'm talking about. let me ask this gentleman. he's probably about my age. do you wear jeans, sir? >> all the time. i'm 70 years old. >> that's what we're talking about. all right. i want you to get your "start today" "deal of the day." jill martin has a month lo

even southern states like florida have had unusually frigid temperatures. winter is not just court ting things complica here. this moose in western canada got into a chilly situation in a deep snow drift. a group of people on a snowmobile spotted it and came to the rescue. it took 15 minutes of taking was -- before the moose yeah, got to say it -- back on the loose. for more, my colleague katty kay spoke to a former nasa scientist who is at the university of georgia for her program "beyond 100 days." she started by asking him to explain what a bomb cyclone actually is. >> it is really just a storm that intensifies really rapidly, it drops in pressure 24 millibars or so in one day. a millibar is how meteorologists measure pressure. when you hear the term "bomb," think of a rapidly intensifying storm. it is something in our field for a long time, but it is quite new to the media and public. katty: does that explain why it is so cold in washington? >> well, it is cold in washington, a couple of reasons. the simple answer is it is winter and we expect it to be

you know it's bad when it even snows in southern state of florida. the bbc‘s katty kay has more. america in a big way. a massive storm, which goes by the ominous name of a "bomb cyclone," is rolling up the eastern seaboard. millions of americans could lose power, thousands of flights have already been cancelled. the truth is, i have no idea what a bomb cyclone is. i had never heard of one before. all i know is we've been freezing for a week, and i don't like it. and the bad news is, it's about to get worse. that's because we're about to be hit by the evil weather twins, the bomb cyclone will usher in a polar vortex, which makes you wonder, are these tourists on washington's mall hardy or crazy? it's pretty cold out. freezing! my nose is numb, and so is my right hand. my fingers are frozen. i'm cold. we're from florida, so it's really cold for us. yeah, we're not used to this. i think i'm wearing four layers. actually, things haven't been much better in the sunshine state, it snowed there for the first time in nearly three decades. but at least these students know it will get hot

the polar express continues, all the way down to the states of texas, southern states to florida, it will continue tomorrow. 6 below now no chicago, 7 in boston. we have the cold air in place, guys, and we also have some snow coming up that could impacts parts of the northeast. we'll talk more about that. >> all right, michelle, thank you. >>> an ominous new year's message from north korea's dictator, he is making new claims about his country's nuclear weapons. in his annual new year's address, kim jong-un warned the u.s. of his country's nuclear capabilities saying the entire united states is within striking range. at the same time, kim jong-un made a new overture to south korea saying, quote, we should ease the military tensions between the north and the south to create a peaceful environment on the korean peninsula. nbc's kelly cobiella has the latest from seoul. >> reporter: kim jong-un in a rare appearance unleashing an ominous warning. the whole of the u.s. main land is within our firing range, and the nuclear button is on my desk. it's not a threat, he said, but a reality. the

we get sideswiped and wednesday morning seeing snow and ice in parts of southern georgia and northern florida, this will be moving offshore about 250 miles offshore. it looks like the model consensus and this track could change a bit and it brings accumulating snow into the region by thursday morning. i think the thursday morning commute will be a problem. winter storm watches are posted for all the counties right along the shore. since this storm is 250 miles offshore. those will be the areas greates beginning late wednesday night impacting the morning commute eastern new jersey, out of here by thursday afternoon. we talk about snow accumulation totals and the brutally cold air behind the system in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >> thank you. the sustained accuweather temperatures are take a toll on the vehicles, aaa mid-atlantic says that it hit a six year high. we stopped by liberty auto shop where they are busy changing out dead batteries, richard says to best combat the wear and tear take action before there is a problem. >> go to the local garage and check your antifreeze

. ♪ >> well, have you noticed unless you live in very southern, florida or out on west side in californiat is freezing outside frigid temperatures continue to grip wide swaft of the country from pink and purples you're in deep purple you're in deep cold. here's that weather map where windchills bundle up we mean that is obvious isn't it and snowstorm by the way, is brewing we are told off the atlantic coast. and if it it pushes east it could be a major storm up and down i-95 corridor, oh boy looking forward to that. or more for us on that, potential storm about three minuteses from now. let's take a quick look at the stock future for you all pointing green check out dow up 116 points at 24851 and s&p and nasdaq point to a nice significant start to the new year but bigger winner of last year 2017 there it is, the winner is boeing up 89% last year. and other side biggest loser of last year was g.e. down 45% struggling to get out of $17 a share mark right now. but we begin with donald trump agenda president trump, the president back at the white house now. coming up, one of the big issue he'

starting to take shape t hasn't developed but, it is already spreading freezing rain in northern florida, southernel. here is what is supposed to happen t shore and strengthens as is it moves northward, throughout the day to early tomorrow morning, it is cents parallel to our coast,ar enough off shore, at least that's the way the models n givf it, the worse of it is expected in mne and new england, cope just amounts of snow, and very high winds, blza us, when that storm bombs out, meaning, the pressure dropsat storm. >> so, the winter storm warnings already upcoast, inclux county, delaware, cape may counn county and the eastern half of burlington, for gusts of 45 miln hour or more. so here is the timing of 11:00 tonight, it starts to spread into southern delaware, we hav by 2:00 in the morning, when we start good day at 4:00. it is still snowing when does io our area? maybe by rapidly exits by 9:00. that is the latest,r composite r models, what we're seeing when that is in, when it iow much? three to 6 inches to the south and east of us, one to metro area, and less than an inch, if anyth us. so, a

is bringing frigid wind be freezing rain and snow to unlikely places like parts of northern florida and southerneras captured overturned car, the roads are not the only travel affected several airlines are cancelling flights into an out of the south. >> think about it. people around here go crazy when we get like a dusting of snow and they can't drive. down there? they're really not used to seeing snow. >> i understand that it got above freezing in charleston, stuff that we do. we have a lot of treatment on the roads i notice from our saturday snow that we had and the snow around here as i mentioned at 5:00 will not be worth calling out the national guard for. but different story at the coast if you're watching us at the beach, you're under a blizzard warning and it could be a lot bigger out there, and wind whipped to be sure. i want to show you again the winter weather advisory but more importantly those blizzard warnings in effect in the red so you can see that that is very significant development and also this pink is a winter storm warning r the blizzard warning is to make sure you're aware

rain and snow beginning to develop around jacksonville, florida and southern south carolina. this low in intensify scoot up the coast and by tonight probably around 11 o'clock or so we're going to start to see that snow push into the shore and by tomorrow morning it likely is pushing at least cleft to philadelphia and maybe through the i-95 corridor as well. we'll show you all of that and give you accuweather forecast for snowfall amounts coming up in a second. karen. >> all right, dave. and we start with our breaking news in cherry hill. a water main break in a busy area right on route 70 near kings highway. the action cam has been on the scene showing us right now. we see the cones out there. we can see police. they've got workers out there already trying to deal with this. now, traffic's getting by on 70 eastbound in cherry hill but the left lane is blocked. we see the cones set up and of course where you've got water you've got ice. can you see that on the side of the road? that's why they've got that left lane blocked. there was water on the road, slippery in that area s

. >> southern snow, dipped as far as tallahassee, florida which hadn't seen much of any snowfall in nearly three decades. while it wasn't a whiteout it was an unusual sight for tourists. gus krall visiting charleston. >> wild. never seen palm trees with snow on them before. wind could cause power outages for southern coastal commune teet communities. ice on trees and purr lines, threatens to weigh done and snap them. the savannah area, received anywhere from 1 to 4 1/2 inches of snow. amounts not seen in decades. though it tapered off. you can tell by the partly frozen fountain behind me the threat remains. roads could refreeze over night. and below average temperatures are expected to last in the southeast, through the weekend. jeff. >> manny, thank you very much. could be a tricky commute. for kids in louisville, kentucky, hockey is generally played indoors. but, they are getting a rare treat this week. as ponds have frozen across the area. folks in chicago are used to cold weather. but this is a long stretch even for them. if the temperature does not rise above 20 degrees by saturday, c

as a member of the national labor relations board, working as the us attorney for the southern district of florida and serving as the dean of the florida international university school of law. college of law, excuse me. that breath of life experience served as an excellent foundation for his current job as united states secretary of labor, where he works to foster, promote and develop the welfare of wage earners, job seekers and retirees of the united states. it's an enormous responsibility, secretary acosta manages 7000 federal workers charged with this task across our nation. i was pleased when secretary acosta came to south dakota for the first of our four workshops and i've been impressed with his commitment to working on behalf of today's labor force and for his vision for the workforce of tomorrow so please welcome our guest speaker, secretary alexander acosta, the us secretary of labor. [applause] >> thank you for the introduction and thank you for the invitation to join you again. as some of you know, governor new guard has been very active in the workforce front. he serves as the departm

you see that one piece of energy bring something snow to parts of northern florida, southern georgia and it moves right up off the coast bringing us snow by thursday morning. big problem with the timing for the thursday morning commute. and the center. the storm is 250 miles off the coast. what this mean the most pronounced effect is along the coast. we have winter storm watching right up the eastern seaboard including all of our counties right along the coast. this is where i expect the highest snow amounts. as far as the timing, the nor'easter the snow begins late wednesday night probably around 10:00 11:00 and the highest impact will be the thursday morning rush. the hardest hit eastern new jersey, all over thursday afternoon and then we are dealing with some biting winds and talk more about that and the snowfall amounts coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. >>> with the extreme cold tends to make water pipes burst. the 30 inch water main break in west conshohocken is causing widespread problems in parts of montgomery county tonight. chopper 6 hd was over balli

it's now in the carolinas, southern georgia and florida, if you can believe it.hills are very, very cold. a lot of kids in the south loving the snow but not able to play in it very long because it feels like temperatures are below zero across a lot of these southern cities. pensacola, it feels like 8 for you. radar as you go forward in time, it moves on out for today. so by this evening, pretty much everyone should be wrapped up except for maybe the eastern side of north carolina, the utter banks. so high temperatures today, not even getting to freezing in a lot of cities. 23 in cincinnati. 36 in charlotte. 30 degrees your high temperature in atlanta. but there is some light at the end of the tunnel. this cold air is going to work its way out and warmer air will replace it and by sunday the mild air should stretch to the east. john and poppy? >> jennifer gray, thank you very much. >>> coming up, tick tock, tick tock. a key group of conservative lawmakers not sold on the current republican plan. might they derail its passage? we'll talk to one of the members of th

florida. the snow and a wintry mix that spreads into georgia, even louisiana. southern saw snow early this morning. the computer snow totals shows the wet weather arriving at 11:00 tonight. that's going to give us a dry day. look at the accumulating snow that happens by this time tomorrow. that's 7:00 tomorrow morning. an inch in philadelphia, three inches in avalon. and it will still be coming down. this is the current thinking. still expecting the heaviest totals along the coastline into jersey, pulling away in the afternoon. a sharp cutoff in delaware and south jersey. two to four inches, and then farther north and west, one to three inches. even one inch will make for very slippery conditions tomorrow morning. the gusty winds take over, and brutal cold comes into play. today, not so bad. 31 the high this afternoon. cold tonight, down to 23. 28 tomorrow afternoon. the snow steady in the morning, disappearing in the afternoon. from the skies, it will stay put on the ground unless you shovel it. dangerous cold. 8 degrees on friday. 4 on saturday. very cold. sunday morn

this is a half inch to three quarters of an inch of ice possible in southern portions of georgia and north florida. think of the pine trees, think of all the damage that could do during the day today. and then on top of that we'll have the snow allthrough the ca in the south they're not usually prepared with the trucks and salts like they are in the north. a lot of major impacts even though it's only 2 to 4 inches of snow. >> wow. >> we'll be ready, hopefully we will. bill, thank you. >> mine is bigger than yours. that is how president trump is responding to north korean leader kim jong-un's warning that he stands ready to use his nuclear button against the united states. president trump tweeting last night, i, too, have a nuclear and more powerful than his. and my button works. major papers immediately grabbed onto that saber rattling rhetoric which launched criticism from the left and right. california congressman salweil tweeting help me put this lunacy in check. this is not normal. the secretary of state condaleeza rice under george w. bush said spoken like a petulent 10-year-old. >> north kor

just how massive this storm is, we go to northern new york and then to southern -- the southern states. in floridar instance, tallahassee is seeing its first snow in nearly three decades. several school districts cancelled classes this morning, not used to that for sure. nbc 10 chief meteorologist tammie souza joins us with not only the timing but the track of this huge storm. >> the track has wobbled back and forth. we've had snow totals that have been upwards of maybe 6 or 8 inches in philadelphia down to 1 to 3. we're settling in now on what we think is going to happen and some of us will get really big snow totals and especially high winds coming in with a blizzard warning, especially everybody along the shore, the jersey shore and delaware beaches. i guess you can say after that deep freeze what could be world series? well, how about a blizzard. the blizzard warning, all the counties in red, that is the jersey shore and beaches of southern delaware. where you see the purple we have winter storm warnings, including southern jersey. northern delaware, philadelphia and the lower pennsylvania sub

we've seen a lot of car accidents and a lot of bridges and roadways are closed across north florida and southernia. so definitely be careful out there. this is going to rapidly intensify, as it heads up the coast. it's what we call bombogenesis. it's when a storm lowers 24 millibars in 24 hours. and it is going to do that by tomorrow. which means it will bring some gusty winds along the coast and heavy snowfall. here's the radar right now. across southern georgia, you can see the purple is ice and then some snowfall. it's basically going to turn all to snow by the time it gets into portions of south carolina, north carolina, and as we menti mentioned, we could see blizzard-like conditions especially along the coast, northern portions of new england, where we could see hurricane-force winds, anywhere from 60 to 70 miles per hour with gusts even higher. it's going to be a dangerous situation over the next call of days. 2 to 4 inches of snowfall expected across portions of the low country. some isolated amounts, even more. and then i think for the northeast, it's really going to be eastern massachu

so, you can see already freezing rain into northern florida, southern georgian the east coast from this storm. the closer you are to theill see. we have a winter weather advisory, that went up thisg, for our further inland counties, but it does not not yet. we will see what happens later on in the day. timing of themidnight, it is starting to edge into the area. by 3:00, 4:00 in the the coast. hasn't made it inland yet. it just as a slightly westward track, we coulet more accumulation stay tuned looks like the worse of it, at least for off shore. the snow amounts will go with one to metro area. three to s, along the shore, and it could be next to nothing in the in the lehigh valley. now back to this morning, it is 16 degrees, wildwood four in mount pocono that's where we have a but, it is still very cold, in mmorning, so we may make it to freezing today back to the 20's we've seen, throughout this whole cold snap, which started eve. if you recall. but then we are back to mday, tuesday of next week. but between now and then, bob kelly, it is brutally cold, starting tomorrow afternoon. >>

so many sal have dorans working in southern texas and state of florida as the state recovers from hurricane irma. most of them are working. the u.s. chamber of commerce even issued a letter to the department of homeland security urging the department not to end temporary protected status of sal salvadorans that they pay $100 million a year in property taxes. center for immigration studies they pay half a billion dollars into the medicaid program each year. now they will have to leave. never able to reap the benefits of that. contributions are pretty broad. mostly in the construction industry that we'll feel a hit if they are all forced to leave the country. >> host: finally since you are in florida, want to ask you about another group of people, several 100 how strong now, they're already americans, coming to the mainland, coming to florida, in great numbers, puerto ricans following the storm. what is the impact to the state of florida of that large influx right now? >> guest: florida is a big state. we can handle, we can handle a lot of people coming in. we're used to waves of people comin

this storm as we talked about yesterday brought snow to northern florida and southern parts of georgia, south carolina, north carolina, as it is pulling up the eastern seaboard. and future tracker 6 showing that the precipitation will start to fall as snow around 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 tonight at the shore and start to hit philadelphia around the midnight hour and the leviest of the snow is during the rush tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. area wide and then it starts to wrap out and move out early tomorrow afternoon at 1:00, you can start to see the lighter colors from the west and it's gone late thursday afternoon and thursday night. this is how much we are expecting, when you think of blockbuster nor'easter, you start to see 12 and 18 inches and 20 inches, this is not that storm. it's a coating to inch north and west and 1 to 3 inches for most of the southeastern pennsylvania and the city of trenton and wilmington and dover 3 to 6 inches of fluffy snow and right along the shore that is where you see the jackpot the a half foot to as much as 10 inches of snow. then the dangerous part of the

. >> reporter: southern snow tipped as far as tallahassee, florida, which hadn't seen much of any snowfall in nearly three decades. and while it wasn't a whiteout, it was an unusual sight for tourists in the pal mato state. >> it's pretty wild. i've never seen palm trees with snow on them before. >> reporter: heading into tonight, winds could cause more power outragages along south coastal communitys. ice that's formed on trees and power lines threatens to weigh down and snap them. the savannah area received anywhere from one to 4.5 inches of snow, amounts not seen in decades. and even though it's tapered off, you can tell by this partly frozen fountain behind me, the threat remains. roads could refreeze overnight and below-average temperatures are expected to last in the southeast through the weekend. joaf. >> glor: many, thanks very much. could be a very tricky commute. for kids in louisville, kentucky, hockey is generally played indoors, but they are getting a rare treat this week as ponds have frozen across the area. folks in chicago are used to cold weather, but this is a long stretch

shape down here, gulf of mexico, and over florida, see the freezing rain already in northern florida and southern making a big mess therefore the entire east coast, we have winter storm warnings in effect, windchill advisories for after the snow ends. but, for us, it is ocean county, half of burlington, atlantic, cape may, sussex county delaware under this winter storm warning now, for tonight, into tomorrow evening, not only for the four to 6 inches of accumulation, possible, but for the 45-mile an hour winds that are possible, as well. so here we are, with the forecast for when this starts. 11:00 p.m. midnight is when it starts to spread into the area. and then we zoom in a little closer to show you it kind of hugs the coast, if it stays as far off shore as we are hoping it does, we will sort of get brushed by this storm with several inches, at the shore, and very little hopefully here in the metro area. but just a tiny bit of a more westward track, we could get a lot more snow than anticipated. keep that in mind making your plans, just plan for the worse, hope for the best, what we do. does lo

southern louisiana. that will be moving over to florida, bringing snow and ice, then up the coast line. tomorrow, cloud cover, briefly above freezing, 33. then a 30% chanc thursday morning. pretty sure that will miss us. the cold air will not. jonathan: jimmy kimmel is n on >>> from hollywood -- it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- david duchovny. from the bachelor, arie luyendyk jr. and comedian dusty slay. and now -- we're back. here's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: [ cheers and applause ] >> thanks for watching. thanks for coming. we are back

schools in tallahassee florida are closed today and southern georgia is concerned ice will make the roadsardous for the morning commute. kendis gibson has the latest. >> reporter: a monster winter storm taking aim at the entire east coast. >> this is not something that we experience on a regular basis. >> reporter: this morning parts of florida under a rare winter storm warning. schools closing today in tallahassee including florida state university and in jacksonville the airport canceling flights the city's mayor with this warning. >> these are conditions that we're not accustomed to here in jacksonville and we're encouraging people to stay off the roads specifically in those drive timessism to the north in georgia a state of emergency. areas of that state could see snow for the first time in a century. the storm is expected to hug the coastline dumping snow from the carolinas to maine. it comes as a blast of arctic air shatters record lows across the country. >> i can't even describe it. it's unbearable. >> i'm like two hats, two pairs of gloves. i don't know. >> reporter: wind chills