the texas panhandle will start to see severe thunderstorms on your late friday. houston at 22. denver at 13. you're looking at washington, d.c. take a look at this. it's going to be on the rise. chicago 11 degrees above your average range. washington, d.c. finally reaching the norm at 15 degrees on your sunday into the double digits finally from that cold winter you had. denver will be a different story. one degree due to another cold system moving in. that's for your high. here across western hemisphere we have another tropical sky clone. this is sandra which is now a category 1 moving towards the easterly direction. it's not going to be directly hitting any land masses, it will be affecting the solomon islandss with very stormy conditions. severe weather warning is in place. you can see how heavy the rain could be and the low lying areas could cause flooding. we'll keep a close eye on this system for you. out towards eastern continental asia we're talking about the warmth here. northern japan will see se thunderstorms and mixed precipitation. that will be quickly pulling away

. >>> last week in the texas panhandle, this happened. e first news organization to show you these pictures. look at this. oil and gas workers were fracking in hempville county, texas. that is, they were forcing water and other chemicals down a pipe into the ground at very high pressure to get at oil they otherwise could not get at. but in this case, this happened. last week, something went wrong. and the casing failed. a seven-inch-wide pipe failed catastrophically, basically explosively and that launched what they call the frac stack into the air. javeling it into a nearby truck, as you can see in this picture. amazingly, nobody was killed. there was only one injury associated with this accident. one concussion. oil industry veteran bob cavnar who blogs put us on to in this week. this is incredible. that frac stack which went flying which hempville county is part of the truck -- it's like a blowout preventer, you might remember from the "deepwater horizon" disaster. the frac stack is supposed to function sort of like that, to keep the we

. >> here, the far edge of his 68,000 acre ranch in the texas panhandle. since wind power is still in its infancy, and the financial markets are tight. $10 billion gets you how many turbines? >> $10 billion. oh, i'll have about 2,500. >> yeah, and that'll produce how much power? >> it would service me and 300,000 homes. so it's big. it would be the biggest wind farm in the world today. >> so what's the risk? >> well, the risk is just like the risk we just experienced in the last 30 days. i mean, if the markets fell apart on you, i mean, you could be left holding the bag in that deal. and, you know, you wouldn't be able to finish the project or something. that's the concern i have. >> what's the balance for you between, "i'm doing something for america," and, "i'm doing something for boone?" >> oh, you know, no question. i'm rich enough. i mean, let's don't talk about boone. but i don't want to-- >> what do you mean, don't talk about boone? boone thinks about boone. >> well, let me tell you, i sure as hell don't want to lose. i'll tell you that. but getting

before that five teenagers were killed in a fiery crash at an intersection in the texas panhandle.ice say their suv ran a stop sign and come identified with a fuel tanker whose driver was severely burned. and in ohio investigators say an suv took a curve too fast and flipped over into a small lake, killing six of the eight teens in the packed vehicle. >> i don't know if she lost control, she jerked, or how fast she was going. >> reporter: car crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers ages 15 to 20, according to the national highway traffic safety administration. at tag ert's driving school in georgia, teenage students are given a quick reality check. hat do you tell teenagers about driving on the roads? >> the first 15 minutes of class, i have the students randomly, it's every third student is what it is. and i have them stand up. and then they have them look around in the classroom, and i said all right. this is a third of the students. the first year you drive, a third of you will be in an automobile accident. >> reporter: accidents caused by everything from distracted

before that, five teenagers were killed in a fiery crash at an intersection in the texas panhandle towndumas. police say their suv ran a stop sign and collided with a fuel tanker whose driver was severely burned. and in ohio, investigators say an suv took a curb too fast and flipped over into a small lake, killing six of the eight teens in the packed vehicle. >> she sped up. i don't know whether she lost control, she jerked or how fast she was going. >> reporter: car crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers ages 15 to 20, according to the national highway traffic safety administration. at tagert's driving school in georgia, teenage students are given a quick reality check. what do you tell teenagers, first thing, about driving on the roads in your class? >> the first 15 minutes of class, i have the students randomly, it's every third student is what it is, and i have them stand up. and then i have them look around in the classroom, and i say, all right, this is a third of the students. the first year you drive, a third of you will be in an automobile accident. >> reporter: a

the texas panhandle, we are talking about severe storms popping up.ut in the pacific northwest once again but sunny in the south, cloudy in the northeast and temperatures once again running 20 degrees below average for this time of the year, for chicago. high today, 34 degrees. minneapolis, 25. atlanta, 52. that feels really bad here. let's talk more about this snow. we have video coming out of milwaukee. now we do know that opening day is two weeks away. this is miller park. look at this video. john, zoraida. you're seeing them shoveling big-time snow out of there. they have to get this all out of here the next two weeks. you better hope there is no more snow. i am not endorsing milwaukee brewers. >> good for you. >> not saying they're a bad team. >> we all want to head to our baseball games but the snow will be a huge impediment. >> baseball is happening. mother nature better catch on. >> it is. >> all right. thank you. >>> still ahead on "early start" we'll go back to ramallah where president obama has arrived for talk with his palestinian presiden

severe storms are also possible from texas right on over into the florida panhandle where we could seeail and tornadoes. especially tonight. >> i'm tempted to boo you but i won't. >> we know it's not her fault. she's just the messenger. >> let's get a check of the morning's other top stories. jenna wolfe is standing by. >> we're going to start today with a tragic scene at the airport in alabama where a 10-year-old boy was killed when a big sign weighing hundreds of pounds fell on top of him. the boy and his family were walking through birmingham international airport when the digital sign came down on top of him. the 10-year-old boy could not be saved. sad story there. >>> president obama is on the last leg of his middle east trip spending a few hours in an ancient city before heading back home. he pledged to help jordan deal with the influx of refugees fleeing the civil war in syria. >>> historic meeting between pope francis and his predeces r predecessor, pope benedict. the two will have lunch together. that will be a power lunch. a meeting of this kind has not happened in at least 6

texas, the size of baseballs. imagine that coming down from the sky. so there is a threat of some of that today. you can see the tornado watch across parts of the panhandleorgia. that is in effect until about 10:00 this morning. heavy rain is falling all through the carolinas and the rain is going to continue to come down heavy at times today. with the threat of, again, that hail. an isolated tornado is possible, too. other than that, it's all about the snow. a foot of snow is possible across parts of indianapolis, and that will spread eastward as we go into monday. so the snow across pennsylvania and virginia, that's not going to move in until much later on tonight. and then, we will see perhaps one to three inches of snow in the new york city area on monday, lighter snow showers, and cold weather surges into the northern plains. we should be close to 60 degrees in northwestern or >>> here's a pretty view from san jose this morning. mainly clear skies. temperatures close to 45 in san jose but 30s to low 40s across the north bay. by the afternoon everybody at least in the mid-60s around the inner bay. close to 70 in fremont and san jose. low to mid-70s i