let's go to jc monahan from our boston affiliate wcvb.ood morning, jc again. >> good morning, guys. listen, the east coast is still in with fantastic weather. the temperatures at or above average although slightly cooler than what you had yesterday. enjoy the nice weather because there is some rain going through texas and over to louisiana and alabama, and that rain, which could bring 1 to 3 inches, is going to move up the east coast later this week, so that brings changes there. for those of you in the northern rockies, the snow is falling a couple of inches, at least some places as much as half foot. great news for the start of ski season. >>> your sunday outlook in the next half hour. bianna? >> all right, jc, thank you. >>> well, british troops in afghanistan had a surprise visitor today. prince william showed up along with the british defense secretary to take part in remembrance sunday commemorations. lama hasan is in london for the story. good morning, lama. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. that's absolutely right. just a couple

monahan from our boston affiliate, wcvb, is here with morning. good morning, j.c. >> good morning, bianna. a look at the landscape has changed. you have to go back to 1991 to find a november storm that hit parts of the midwest this hard. this morning, across three states they're digging out from this unusually early winter blast. it was a prewinter wallop. the twin cities got the worst of it, with snow falling at an inch an hour, making road conditions miserable. >> it's pretty crazy. we've been seeing cars going sideways on the freeway, cars sliding through stop signs. >> i've lived in minnesota long enough. i should be able to do this, right? >> reporter: the heavy, wet snow made for heavy lifting and caused more than 100,000 customers to be without power in parts of minnesota and wisconsin. the storm also dumped up to 14 inches in northern iowa. and parts of the texas panhandle were pummeled with snow. >> it's cool and wet. >> reporter: all this, after a record-setting 68 degrees in parts of the midwest on wednesday. >> is it actually november

let's go to jc monahan from our boston affiliate wcvb.ood morning, jc again. >> good morning, guys. listen, the east coast is still in with fantastic weather. the temperatures at or above average although slightly cooler than what you had yesterday. enjoy the nice weather because there is some rain going through texas and over to louisiana and alabama, and that rain, which could bring 1 to 3 inches, is going to move up the east oast later >> good morning, washington. darren here. a live shot look dave zahren here. 42 downtown washington, a cool 30 degrees in man nasssass. high pressure still in but just to the west a cold front. that bodes rain for tuesday. until then, today's temperatures in the mid 60s. tonight not as cold. temperatures in the lower 40's. then for tomorrow, anoth >>> your sunday outlook in the next half hour. bianna? >> all right, jc, thank you. >>> well, british troops in afghanistan had a surprise visitor today. prince william showed up along with the british defense secretary to take part in remembrance sunday commem

monahan from boston's wcvb. j.c.? >> good morning, ron. i'm moving along.eading down to texas. greenville, texas, where yesterday, a microburst caused this damage you see here. this looks like amarillo, though, with the snowfall that's coming in. greenville, texas, saw a microburst with 65-mile-per-hour winds. amarillo, texas, saw snow yesterday. we continue with snowfall that goes up through the midwest. that's where we're already getting reports of six inches of snow in parts of iowa and over to parts of minnesota, as well. that's where the winter storm warnings are up. possibly double-digits for snowfall for you there. across the country, we have windy conditions out in the west, as you go south of l.a. there's red flag warnings on the east coast. gorgeous weather. get out and enjoy it. this weather report has been brought to you by dove hair care. dan and bianna? >> thanks, j.c. >>> this is a story we've been talking about offcamera all morning. does your mind have a tendency to wander sometimes? >> it does. >> happens to everybody. it's human nature. t

some of us may have been sleeping as some of that snow hit the ground but wcvb in boston does not ever sleep. they had those pictures ready for us. here's what's going on. a "gma" storm site will show it is a spiraling level of snow. there are little pockets of snow, the white and purple, the ice that's moving through connecticut, new york state, all over long island. the idea, that stays around for a while today. and the wind even will slow down your air travel. deep cold went to atlanta. tallahassee is at 31. columbia, south carolina, 32. look at new orleans, 32 degrees. a quick look at that storm system that left that heavy rain in san francisco moves into rockies with some big mountain snow today. >> in the next half hour, the great weather in places like chicago, oklahoma city. robin? >> look forward to that. thank you, sam >>> how well is the effort to improve fast food and offer healthier alternatives for kids really working? a new study by yale university is raising that very question. it says that while healthy options are available, restaurant servers rarely mention them to p

we're hearing from our affiliate there wcvb, they're reporting that a cargo area at logan airport inoston is being evacuated involving as i said possibly some type of cargo situation. we know that has been raising -- of course, immediately raises eyebrows these days. clearly new information coming in, developing. i want to get to chad, though, and see if we -- what's going on in the situation in the air there, chad? >> i'm looking at airplanes. they're still leaving. a couple planes here. here's the cape, obviously, cape cod. there's boston logan airport. plans still leaving at the time. if it's a cargo situation it may actually be in a cargo area like a u.p.s., dhl, federal express. >> very separate from the actual -- >> now, a cargo does go on to real airplanes, too. >> yes. >> what we will watch to see where all the ground stops, if there are anything. if anything else develops we'll know it. here's logan. many airplanes, many runways. i don't see anything on the faa website that says everything's stopped. we will get that immediately, though. not only are they sending it to us, t