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so i wake up rested. [ male announcer ] unisom. fall asleep faster. sleep longer. >> welcome back everybody. we're giving you a long distance shot of san jose. we'll check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> we can tell you parts of the northwest getting hammered with snow this morning. that massive winter storm dumping more than a foot of snow and brought heavy winds to the region yesterday. that caused a number of car crashes in washington state, but we're happy to report no serious injuries. the storm causing delays at the seattle airport and that had a ripple effect at sfo where of course we're monitoring the travel boards. we'll let you know if anything happens again today. >> meteorologist christina loren joins us now on the set. we need that rain. that snow. a little bit. >> we'll take it all. >> we're going to get hammered. i don't like to use that term unless it's absolutely necessary. we're 2ing to get slammed with rain, friday night in particular, also sunday looking very, very wet. today the first of three storms starting t

so i wake up rested. [ male announcer ] unisom. fall asleep faster. sleep longer. s id m ba llral,was unl id m ba llral,was vet.veou >> take a look at our h.d. doppler radar. some clouds are picking up snow in the clouds. i don't think it is hitting the ground. a couple flakes might be coming down. the radar from dover and sterling going up in the clouds there is picking up ice crystals. snowstorm is not coming down to the ground. we don't have any reports of it. west wind 13. yesterday the winds were into the 30's. still a breeze out there. we had a high spike again. again we had this warm thing. then we pick up a little bit into a rain situation by tuesday. ad -- at least we're not going as high as we were last week. in the teens in far western maryland this morning. not surprising for this time of year. a couple may be coming down. there is snow other language the front. off the open waters of the great lakes. the real weather disturbance is out of missouri this morning. we have a front from the north. breezy and cold. not as strong as yesterday. 1

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so i wake up rested. [ male announcer ] unisom. fall asleep faster. sleep longer.irst anymore. it's booze day tuesday, the new year of 2012. almost meatade a mistake on che. >> i did on one, but i'm getting the hang of it. we listen to you. when you write us and tell us things on our facebook page -- >> curse us out. >> we listen. that's why we're starting off the show with pets. it's the last day of our cutest pets contest, you guys, and so you guys have been flooding our facebook and stuff with entries. anyway, this is the last day. up until -- >> midnight eastern -- >> 11:59. try to get it in by midnight. here are some of the dogs that have been coming in. >> bentley. from naperville. >> is that an ipod? >> he's chewing on something. >> here's lily the cat. from brooklyn. >> hoda, people can send in -- >> i like the cats. then this one. >> ayn except egyptians, cats were divine. >> yeah. sara's going to give you more of the info we need, but we'd like to have the rest of your fan pictures, not that we've already chosen, because we haven't -- >> because we don't