citi can help you write it 2@ >>> threces to pnfuloll many not ery and ery sine st local y and sw in rd eporter: it faio a old dealue abie. rep alesmana fo see'y. ith the nd andhe a-- m pae a re 3 repteth cessiodo? a littlef ite. reporter: areffs ours cut at in amic woeshis wo . red 8,000 year. >> timand chilen a it. >> reprk for si a now e a number ofees that started and became manageme his is a time ucti ramps itdizz torysumes hocolate more tha pieces of ev ans like to pamrthei h apparently. >> awfulents that go into ceer. g depart to go banas. repter:ing as all of thessem producti here, if yo ol, the bonb roo these s most tested ow lgha wo here? r: andhis ty. presge oe ur cndy dribbling the o top. to peoe wolo for companylly tning. hand work isn't ther >> y. t of tender lo oes into the eporter: from cand th francisco, wa c 7 news. sweet, indeed. by thes interesting, a whol subsidiary o the vestment com by warren. >>> the chriirit and well in ric of needy who regid and toys le of ag lined around the giveaway the ymca on t. goodies were to 6,000eople. many leets ifot -- nts say f th

thanks for your service to us, mike see deal in erie, p.a. tonight. >>> when our broadcast continues in just a moment, it's known as the wonder drug. is there yet another reason, however, to consider taking an aspirin every day? >>> later, a star on the football field and later in all of our living rooms. remembering the man we called dandy don. rooms. remembering the man we called dandy don. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it's more than just oil. it's liquid engineering. and then there's most complete. like what you get from centrum silver ultra women's, the most complete multivitamin for women over 50. it has vitamin d, which emerging science suggests supports breast health, centrum silver ultra women's. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i can join the fun and games with my grandchildren. great news! for people with copd, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both, advair helps significantly improve lung funct

frigid winds create a giant frozen sculpture on the shores of lake erie. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with rounding the bend. in a rare bipartisan push, the senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a proposal that will prevent a new year day tax hike for millions. still house democrats say they'll try to make one more change before it's a done deal. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more on that. >> lynn, good morning. they're making a last-minute push to increase a estate tax credit in the bill. today look for two separate bills. first of all, the house wants to pass exactly what passed in the senate with the exception of a higher estate tax. if that passes, the whole thing goes back to the senate, and we could possibly see some serious delays. but there's a second vote to pass exactly the same version of this bill that passed the senate, and if that happens, it could immediately go to president obama's desk. so be on the lookout for both of those today. also tod

i used to be a reporter in erie. lake-effect snow not so much fun. >> you think they'd be used to it. i don't know how they were blind sided by this. >> she was saying with the rain, there was a sheet of ice and leading to accidents. you can't drive in ice. no matter what. >> still, nothing new in buffalo. come on. be on top of it. >>> reynolds wolf is on top of it all for us today. >> john, funny you bring that up. i was speaking with joe lowe here in the studio and mentioned this is buffalo. why having the activities and the issues? not the idea of the lake-effect snow but how quickly and how rapidly it began to stack up. the volume is the thing that caused the issues and it is still coming down. starting to get ahead of it. certainly good news. we saw movement on parts of 90 but the problem is we're seeing more of this into both saturday, sunday and possibly into monday, also. like a giant weather machine. we have the prevailing wind out of the west. lake erie is relatively warm and it heightens the evaporation as

frigid winds create a giant frozen sculpture on the shores of lake erie. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. we begin with rounding the bend. in a rare bipartisan push, the senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a people that will prevent a new year's day tax hike for millions of americans. still, despite the inclusion of a provision to provide jobless aid to many house democrats will try to make one more change before it's a done deal. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. house democrats are making a last-minute push to make that estate tax. one would pass exactly the version that passed in the senate with the exception of a higher estate tax. if that happens everything goes back to the senate and looking at possibly long delays in trying to get it done. the second would pass exactly the same version that came through the stat and very likely go straight to president obama's desk for his signature. also today, the senate has begun debate on the repeal of don't as

it comes off of lake erie and it can stay together and with the wind coming down over the mountains and in to frederick county, we just saw that today with these bands coming across. this was different than the snow that came across from richmond back up to dc this morning and points to the east. winter storm warning in place for our mountains and back in to western maryland. they would pick up as much as 8 to 15 inches of snow and locally here, some of it could pile up to 20 inches of snow and that will go in to affect until tomorrow night. or be in affect until tomorrow night. very cold. teens in the suburbs. winds will continue to gust west northwest 15 to 30 and this is what it looks like for tomorrow. we will have some sunshine, clouds, too. a few flurries from time to time. and wind chills tomorrow, six degrees to 18. it will be cold and stay windy and our five-day forecast, this is the coldest in a long time. without know on the ground. 29 tomorrow but feels like the single digits in the teens. 31 on wednesday. still feels like the teens and the 20s. and then some snow is possibl

i would urge you to be very supportive of this project and keep your eris open. thank you. >> the lady before me said that there was contention at last meeting. you've got a chance to see what people think. the management has as much popular support as the east german communist party the day after the wall fell. i have served on a number of boards over the years. the market failed because it was overpriced, poorly planned, they did it their way because they failed. i served six years on the board statewide. hud also serve to on the board in the 70's. this is a good place for developers to get jobs. this whole situation shows a little planning, a lot of things that they don't want you to see. one of the girls handing out pamphlets was harassed. the management does not want you to see that they engage in tactics that are illegal. you should be holding meetings out there when you're dealing with groups like this. that is the truth. and a sermon. >> the transportation plan as proposed is not acceptable. they're adding synchronized lights and more roads and need adjus

. >> and we had to show you with this lighthouse on lake erie! encased in ice, this is what happens when crashing waves and icing temperatures combined at the cleveland harbor. through the west pier lighthouse. it looks like a big, beautiful ice sculpture. >> we have our own wicked weather on the way, with the stormtracker 4 radar. and with the scattered light rainfall pushing in. most of this is a drawing this before it hits the ground. and the showers will not move in until overnight. the stormtracker 4 radar is showing steady stream of moisture coming in from the coast and pulling and from the tropical moisture. and that will continue to get steady shots up moisture into the weekend and next week. futurecast, as you head of the weekend, we are going to be seeing widespread shower activity. and picking up in intensity. heavy rainfall. santa rosa, and by 6:00 p.m., pockets of heavy rainfall located through. by 11:00 p.m. on friday, santa rosa, continuing to saturday morning. saturday afternoon, widespread shower activity. and early sunday mornin

over the last 12 hours we have seen the snow, lake-effect snow machine continuing, coming off lake erie, western pennsylvania, parts of washington, western maryland they have cloud cover and maybe a little more snow today. here we have a clear sky. lots of sunshine. temperatures only reaching 30 degrees. today's forecast will have winds gusting 35 to 40 briefly from time to time. sunrise, 7:19. sunset, 4:47. a look at tomorrow and into th weekend in ten minutes. >>> live pictures ove the american legion bridge. right side of your screen, outer loop. left side, inner loop between tysons corner and rockville pike. the latest information, 395 to the 14th street bridge. no concerns. thers the outbound. looking good. capital beltway, south of town, reports of a broken down vehicle on the inner loop between route 1 alexandria and the interchange at telegraph road. starting off quietly >> a northern virginia man is behind bars accused of threatening to bomb the metro system. he posted the threats on facebook. tracee wilkins joins us live in arlington where the man lived. good morning. >> repor

behind me here is lake erie. and cold air is whipping across that relatively warmer water creating what's called lake-effect snow. dumping snow through the region, closing some schools and delivering a wintry mess. a frigid air mass from canada continues to bring in early blast of wenter from the great lakes to florida. this massive system has dumped more than a foot of snow from holland, michigan east to cleveland, ohio. erie pennsylvania and syracuse new york. >> you can get snow at a rate of two, three inches an hour and until the wind shifts the lake-effect snow band won't shift. >> reporter: in cities like buffalo, new york and waterbury, connecticut, traffic was at a virtual stand still. >> this is awful. i have to take my son to the doctors and took me an hour to shovel in. >> reporter: not just the snow that's leaving folks frustrated. along the eastern seaboard the thermometer is in free fall. some places 20 degrees below normal and combined up to 40-mile-per-hour winds. >> this is very unusual. to see t

not just in buffalo, but back towards erie, traverse city might get decent snow. and when you go a little bit farther back to parts of the midwest, it will pile up there, as well. some places easily in excess of 6 to 8 inches of snow. the reason why, this is your big weather machine. the area of low pressure pulling that cold air in from the north. but for the great lakes, just that prevailing wind from the west and northwest that will make all the difference. not a problem parts of the southeast. high pressure will keep you high and dry. but back out towards parts of california and into oregon and washington state, it will be a combination of rain and low lying areas, but high into the sierra nevada. more coming up and, tony, let's head back over to you. >> so we have challenged our i-reporters and that large i-report community to help us create a matchup of items mentioned in the 12 days of christmas. so on the third day of christmas, my true love gave to me three french hens. so here we have this i-reporter's version of three french hens. they may or may not be

here in erie, expecting 3 feet on the ground by tomorrow. not only cold air, but the cold air going south. take a look at the jet stream, a big dip, all the way down to the florida keys. and that's opening the door for the coldest air of the season. it will be even colder by tomorrow morning. look at those temperature departures in miami. about 25 degrees. 43 is 3 off the record. meanwhile, a lot of us -- through cold and windchills. we could see a record tomorrow in orlando, tamron, of 29 degrees. meanwhile, snowing and blowing today and tomorrow here off the lakes. back to you. >> all right, mike. hang in there. thank you. >>> and president obama called chinese president hu jintao overnight to take a strong stance against north korea's aggression. this is as they flout warnings from pyongyang that any military exercises could push the two nations to the brink of war. >>> iran is declaring that it can now produce its own uranium powder or yellow cake to make its own nuclear fuel. this announcement came on the eve of today's first global tal

. >> this is highly unusual to get it althe way to lake erie. that is usual. it's almost unpredictable for it to happen like that. all due to the very intense winds gusting 35 to 40 miles per hour. lake-effect snows into pennsylvania. they have made it this far south. bay effect snows, moisture evaporatingff the chesapeake bay. cold winds turning to snow showers on the eastern shore this morning. closer here, as we look at the radar, a patch of blue. a snow shower is moving out. southern ward, northern prince george's. it is frid. right now temperatures are only in the upper teens to near 20 degrees with wind gust toss 30 miles r hour. windchills are in the tee t just single digits. in fact, windchill 10 degrees in washington. that's what it feels like. winds are gusting to near 40 mis per hour farther to our west. we could get an additional gusting to an inch from passing snow showershrough midafternoon with strong wind gusts and highs near freezing. a look at tonight, tomorrow and the next couple days. >>> tom, could be a tough one. folks over in virginia se

there is some light defect snow coming down from lake erie, and it looks like we could see some of it this afternoon. it will not be a big deal, but we could see the white stuff in addition to the bitter cold. 26 is the actual temperature downtown. only 23 in westminster. 25 at the airport. the real temperature is much worse. it feels like 7 degrees in westminster. 18 with the wind chill factor downtown. the gusty winds are on average 22 miles per hour. they could reach in excess of 45 miles this afternoon, which is why the national weather service has issued an advisory until 10:00 p.m. overnight. the wind usually dies down overnight, but not so because we have high pressure at the surface. the gradient gets the wind kicking. there is a chance for flurries this afternoon. we are in the mid 20's right now. we will not talk about that freezing. it could be the coldest night of the season. we are dealing with low wind chills. we will not get out of this for a while. we have the cold air streaming well to the south. 30 two degrees in places like west palm beach, florida, which breaks a n

thiss a frozen lighthouse on the shores of lake erie. frigid winds blew water spray on the lighthouse and froze. making it look like a huge, giant ice sculpture, so is it cold there? yes, it's cold there. stop complaining, eun. >> why? what did i say? >> the shores of lake erie. >> i'd never survive. you know me. but it's so beautiful. isn't it? how cool is it that it can just rm that way. >> looks like a gingerbread ice house with a lot of frosting on it. >> the art of mother nature, tom. >> tons of ice on that lighthouse. that thing hopefully is well built. because it's taking a heck of a beating. good morning'm meteorologist tom kierein. no snow in shingn. leading edge of this snow is not reaching the ground. radar scanning the sky locally, showing that much of thiis a drying out. radar is picking it up aloft. but by the time it reaches the ground much of it is dried out. the dark blue area is likel reaching the ground now here on the radar where we see in parts of the shenandoah valley, and in the highlands of west virginia. that are

%reahowers west of us.now lake erie, ontario. for us, we may gettflakes in the overnight tonight s well. breaks in the clouds for tuesday. but wednesday to thursday, watching the next storm arriving %-for snow howers. the chance 19 tonight. remaining snow showers overnight. %-gusting to 30.15 to 20, tomorrow, sun and clouds in the afterroon. temperatures around 30. then more clearinggwednesday. thor thursday with chance for snow showers. friday and saturday clear up with temperaturessin the 30s. @ >>well, college guys have been@ checking outtcollege girls, and vice-versa siice the beginning of time. so it only makes sense thaa in today's orld eventually itt3 wouudd lllgo online. rate bu.commis a ew website that allows boston university students to rate each other, online..3@ even pload pictures, ann comments. but the whole thing is raising questions about privacy and @%disgusting, degrading, kind le the old frat house connersations. except that it is there for the whole world tt see. >> school districts in western alaska are goin

residents in upstate new york spent much of the day digging out from under four feet of snow fed by lake erie. poor visibility and high winds forced a ban on driving in the city of randolph, and forecasters say the grisly blast isn't over yet. they are expecting more heavy snowfall through friday. so be glad you're on the west coast. now for a look at your national regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with the forecast. good morning. >> earlier in the season, the cascades and sierra mountains with the heavy snow. now the lake effects. quite a start to winter. i can definitely tell you that. this morning, windchill value in orlando, florida, is 26. so that's an indication of, this is just -- looks like a january or february map. we're still only in the beginning of december. scratching their heads wondering what's the rest of this winter going to be like? the eastern half of country or most of the country is very cold, this big ocean storm has poked warmer pacific air over the west. unfortunately coming with it is rainy conditions. a lot of rain out there this morning. espe

still talking lake-effect snow in syracuse and rochester and erie, pennsylvania. our main concern will be gusty winds. especially in cities like boston. as for the southeast, the picture perfect travel day on deck with high pressure in control. cool and dry. my advice would be to travel early on in both the south and the midwest because snow is on the way. already we're talking snow by christmas eve from chicago down through st. louis. back to you, rob and vinita. >>> now for the rest of your thursday forecast. also look up to a foot of snow in the rockies. it will be a wet day around the pacific northwest with some scattered showers. >> 40s from seattle down to albuquerque. and 63 in phoenix. low 20s fargo and minneapolis. meanwhile, 34 in detroit. a cold 45 in dallas. 55 in new orleans. atlanta just shy of 50. 36 here in the big apple. >>> following last weekend's snow, london's heathrow airport should be up and running at full capacity today. that is not stopping the controversy over why it took so long. the airport's top manager is surrendering his annual bonu

these pictures also tell you how frigid the temperatures have been on the shores of lake erie in ohio. this is not a joke. this is a real lighthouse that became incased in ice because the wind has been blowing lake erie on to the lighthouse. it instantly froze. it looks fake, doesn't it? absolutely incredible. [ male announcer ] this is james. the morning after the big move starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now... and maybe up to 4 in a day. or, choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. smart move. ♪ [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. together we'll make her holiday. that's why only zales is the diamond store. where you can get up to $1,000 off now through sunday. for adults, stelara® helps control moderate or severe plaque psoriasis with 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. in a medical study, 7 out of 10 stelara® patients saw at least 75% clearer skin at 12 weeks. and 6 out of 10 patients had their plaque psoriasis rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infec

. >> once they're in lake michigan, there's nothing to stop them from going to lake superior, lake erie, lake houron. the whole system will be overrun by these fish. >> reporter: they feel the carp who have no farm predators, will wipe out the salmon, perch, trout and wall eye that now dominate these waters. the carp could be a catastrophe. >> if these fish are successful in the lake, they will literally put my sport fishing business out of business. >> reporter: the risk is so real the stakes so high, that the obama administration appointed a so-called carp czar to marshal government forces. >> there's never been an effort this big to try to stop one of the great lakes invasive species. this is a really large well orchestrated effort. these carp are bad news. we need everybody's help to stop them. >> reporter: so how did such an invasive species get here in the first place? >> well, carp certainly didn't swim here from china. we brought him here for really good reasons. for cleaning catfish ponds as an alternative to chemicals. >> reporter: but they escaped during arkansas flooding in

coming off lake erie they ride up the algeany plan toe and dry out. we have a little hit back towards montgomery county and another hit near salisbury and he essentially that's it. snow showers and flurries. nothing accumulating around these parts. but there will be the bitterly cold win as low pressure churns up and spins across northern new england and eastern canada. the wind will increase during the afternoon as we expect high temperatures essentially stuck in the 20s with wind chills that can be stuck into the single digits as gusts reach 45 miles per hour. you can see the storm winding itself up, up towards the northeast. and with that in mind, we watched the jet stream work to the deep south opening up the floodgates of cold air all the way down to florida this morning. we are watching a little disturbance to the west that may ride the upper level winds, could stay just to the south. we may get clipped by that. but that would be a thursday event. there's a possibility we do get a little snow. but the forecast models indicate we may have flurrie

it is on the mouth of lake erie. and it is completely encased in ice and snow. this is a working like house that uses solar lights. but they are having a tough time using -- doing their jobs through the ice. >> the lighthouse keeper is not happy inside that. >> you need to get some supplies. >> each winter when we get these storms -- these early winter cold patterns. stay tuned. outside tonight and today -- now what is left of our snow is long gone we still have some clouds. they are breaking up a little bit. that is the reason there is a range of temperature. our temperature stayed below freezing. i mentioned how dry the area is in the crystals that formed or really fine. they formed an were so much that our total amount of snow was about 10 -1. let me show you what it was like early today. isn't this a great time lapse? there was the snow with the visibility going down. looking out towards washington. as we went through this afternoon it was only a few hours that cost the big problems. look at the temperature is right now. folks in frederick at 9 degrees. we g

ery wet christmas. rhs ay o ll righ now. iewom the a c. g alg thembarcaderoe have paymennd rain here in fran to portion of th bay a let's go to liv dop almost eveht now from northh aaching over to the ell. we close i bit north bay ths som dopourarealdurg, wnpo act hesant nifint n inheant e lacng a mainlyoder fll witket hea act t wh we he is cemereal thseradar banp snowthe layer temperature rt thisoment generlow tomid 50's around b here's our hi it ton tobe heavy inme show diminis and ives onmase's the come poytsold dthe fronta hat we see right no and coight. startrecast animati 11:0ght at whicht the rainevenmore wide spread moves inland i produces so heavy downd of the front start to weak ep it movesnland so thavierctivity give way to moderate rainfarly rs and pthrough tomor followed fo of the day bf. high tidelden gate. 11:20 tong. to t fall some conce about strea and crt but don'lood ad shd so t the goodnews. howersaper way to dryingns. by 5:00 o'clorrowainfall total to inch a and t elevatio fromartersh ofape. sierra snow w advisory o'cl

bone-chilling winds blew the icy waters of lake erie onto the lighthouse and other navigation markers, encasing them completely in ice. forecasters say the arctic blast could last another week, which means more time to admire nature's work of art. positive spin on it there for you. >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> i wouldn't wand to be underneath that when it melts. >> or the captain of a boat, either, the navigation equipment, it's not good. >> they fight with that all the time though in the really cold climates. this arctic outbreak hasn't hit the west coast much. it's been mostly eastern half of the nation over the month of december. now they're getting a winter storm overnight ice storm in kentucky and now snow in virginia and north carolina. we have our own little weak system that has moved into southern california. we've had light rain on and off in los angeles overnight and now down towards san diego we're starting to watch the showers. and even in central portions of arizona

these are snow bands all the way down from le erie. it's rare for us to get lake effect snows. one came from montgomery county a half hour ago and dumped half an inch of snow in some locations that is still in place-here comes another band in northern montgomery, snowing moderately on 70 and 270. that is advancing to the south and tend to go dry as it moves south. as a result of the bands coming in, we have a winter weather advisories in prince george's, montgomery, howard, frederick, carroll in maryland. this is until 9:00 this morning. look at the temperatures. near 2degrees throughout most of the region. single digits windchills. the winds, peak winds30 miles per hour. they're going to increase today. over 40-mile-per-hour gusts. a few passing snoshowers laying down the dust. and it's going to be cold into the rest of the week. jerry, how is traffic? >> other than that, it's a lovely day. good morning to you. good morning, everyone. folks in virginia, u're probably saying what snow? there is no snow, for the moment anyway on 66 that i could find. from manassas on in, we're i

images like this one along the shores of lake erie. as a lighthouse near whiskey island, ohio. water splashing on the structure froze, creating a unique picture. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with tom tasselmyer. >> the deep freeze continues. temperatures are dropping back again. 30's all we down to miami. in baltimore, we are running five to six degrees below normal. 32 degrees for the afternoon high. 19 and the morning. is at 6cord low degrees in 1962. the skies had cleared up third with clear skies and lighter winds, temperatures will be chilly. 18 in westminster. 15 in frostburg. heading towards morning, the skies will be clear and the winds will be down around five miles per hour. the temperatures will fall just before sunrise. sunrise at 7:20. 12-20 degrees. the national weather service has expanded the winter weather advisory. it has been advanced north to include anne arundel and howard counties. not quite to baltimore debt, but the storm track is shifted further to the north. the more substantial snow may make it up here. we are talking a one to three inc

maybe a foot of snowfall in buffalo, erie, syracuse before all is said and done. don't forget parts of michigan with the long lake-effect snow action with the winds of the west and northwest. in terms of buffalo, winter driving there is just horrendous. people stuck out on the major o through fares and rough in a lot of places. computer models give us an indication of what we're seeing there. color code up here. six, eight, ten. some of the spots from buffalo southward to erie and the drive extremely difficult time for you. the west, seeing more of that develop. another storm system in the rocky mountains. look what it provides. snowfall, southwest of minneapolis into fargo. some places up to eight or ten inches of deep. chicago, probably missing out on the snow but, again, we are talking early in the season. that will soon change. a quick look at the forecast. a lot more to share with you coast to coast. that's moments away. don, back to you. >> thank you. >>> today could be a pivotal day in the battle over the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. this hour,

i rise today to honor a great leader in erie, pennsylvania, antoine girabaldi. he has been a dynamic force in higher education and throughout the community. since 2001, he has worked to ensure that they remain a world class university. his visionary leadership has helped gannon's enrollment grow by more than 24%. with his wife, he has led revitalization efforts in the downtown erie area to make a vibrant thriving neighborhood. their work benefits not only the students of gannon but the whole of the community. i am grateful for their commitment to our city. antoine girabaldi is a pillar in the community and it is with grateful heart we wish him the greatest of fortune as he takes on the role of president of the university of detroit mercy next year. his service and leadership in erie will be greatly missed and we thank him for all he has done. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pr

we have rain in the forecast just about ery day. it won't be quiet as heavy at some times like monday before that next system comes in. tuesday, wednesday, that's the one where the ground saturated, that could cause power outages. thursday we see the whole system wind down. temperatures the 50s the entire time. >> santa claus made an early visit to children in oakland this morning. under that santa suit is a traffic officer. the officer arrived on a police motorcycle to pass out toys. some 75 gifts were given to children. thiss the fourth annual toy give away for the traffic's division. it's with money donated fro the oakland police motorcycle drill team. and there was plenty of holiday cheer at verdi elementary in north richmond. the staff was handing out toys to more than 300 students, all part of survisor john joya's giveaway. two individuals adopted the school and purchased to for every student. how can santa be in two places at one point? next up, friday's perfect pet. mike is going to introducus to fairbanks. honey...? [ mom ]

heavy snow coming off the lakes once again today, cleveland, erie, buffalo, syracuse, you could get into snow squalls. here's that light snow set up over a good portion of long island this morning. there's at least a coating out there on the ground, maybe up to an inch. it's a slippery cold snow that's on the pavement and the sidewalks so be careful heading out to the car and driving. windchills will get your attention. minus 3 in buffalo. highs won't even get up to 32 so, lynn, as advertised the coldest day so far this winter. >> thanks so much. so how did kate goslin get along with sar czar palin when they were out in the wilderness shooting reality tv? you may be able to guess. >>> plus, it was supposed to be gwyneth paltrow's special day but lindsay lohan and her mom had to get involved and get snarly. [ manager ] you know... i've been looking at the numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i'd like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job. what i'm saying... excuse me? alright, fine. no, you don't have to do it.

speaking of lake erie, you got lake erie right here. that's where the moisture is coming up and mixing with the cool air and causing the snowfall. we have good news for the time being for buffalo. a little bit of sunshine might pop up around the city. that's good news. it's going to be a very brief break for the time being because we do anticipate it will start up again with the prevailing wind from the west northwest and more snow possibly into the weekend, not only saturday and sunday, maybe even monday and tuesday. we will see snow begin to development across parts of the midst west, portions of the cornbelt and minnesota and pars of the dakotas and iowa before all is said and done. we have the winter snow in the central and northern rockies and sierra nevada. no question it will be nice and comfortable for you in parts of southern california. los angeles, 69 degrees, 66 in vegas, 78 in phoenix, and in chicago, the breeze picks up into the afternoon. 42 in new york, 58 in atlanta and 69 currently in new orleans. that's a quick wrap o

so wh ng it the >> you wait in thatng line ery long lintery is man says yo should do yo rich describedttery experettypressive sn 7 hat's more than millionlars. a wr book yoe your chances of winning the. comingideas. some of worked. someidn't work : hisest pea foreryfirst pick your n >>not quick reporter: sec your . >> on line su set or sets of you play have 97 c up befoty important. >>reporter: pi numbers and stickh them. you have to learn whaterslay how often play and so >> r not bu or had b we f comments in an on l for lottery ste your mone method. om line spen much asn affvery day. don't c numbers. what i to lose ecks? richardoick me for fridayght megallion jack >> let tak 7 >>reporterd religious rel >> 7. 45. mega balf 28. knows wh porter: nevindatstatistician she odds are bettserrated to court or he helpdnt the s rich wi little anm paragrap those odds. if he' about mine, be here tellext week toout it nextweek. this is los ne >> wouldn' nice?ds are pretty though. n't quit theday job is my advice sports. a y talk a lotteryng the >> t l why he is so let maple reacford huge aking win overy

again, from around erie to buffalo, cleveland, too. you can see the back edge of the precipitation now is sliding in to the area. what you see to the west in west virginia will stay there. after this little batch moves through, it's possible we will have a few flurries throughout the day and even this evening. tomorrow it is possible. if enough moisture get over the mountain you could encounter a burst where it looks like five to ten minutes it's coming down. just like this morning but in most cases this morning's snowfall will be more intense than anything in the next couple of days. use caution but you can see how the computer models want to toss a little moisture trying to streak in on the heels of northwesterly winds. i think the bigger news are the winds and the temperatures. average of 8 for the high. we are not going to see it the next several days. 30 for a high tomorrow. we will be in the teens at night and with the winds blowing single digit wind chills in a few spots. up to freezing on wednesday and just above that on thursd

down and it's just kind of a narrow band and believe it or not, this is kind of coming down off lake erie. there's a lot of wind blowing coming right down from the northwest picking up the moisture there and coming all the way down across 80 quinn one and really right down the potomac there -- 81 and really right down in the potomac there. if you're in northern sections of loudoun county and southwest frederick county around pointer rocks and right down the river on into town, hitch, that band right along the river there -- listen, that band right along the river there through maybe even part of southern sections of gaithersburg you might pick up 1/2-inch, even an inch because we're getting reports already this little band as dropped as much as a 1/2-inch of snow blowing around. just keep that in mind and tomorrow morning's commute could be complicated by there and there's a little snow on either side of it blowing out of there. let's show you were temperatures now because it's very cold, 24, still dropping in the city, 19 for gaithersburg and wind chill values in the single digits. windy

to the south,ys it's just ah, t of moisre,mo lreiterally a trai moving out from the sub tropics, ery juicyr,ai a iait's aimed right at central and southern californ right now, like a fire hose, it's going to go back and forth, up and down the coast throughout the week. we will see breaks in here, our first break doesn't come until monday. how much rainfall? for the lower terrain in the next 24 hours, probably on the order of a half inch to an in . in the higher country the hills around the bay, santa cruz mountains and santa lucia's you're talking about 2.5 inches of additional rainfall. overnight lows, actually pretty mild. not exactly tropical, slows down to 50 degrees for a lot of us. tomorrow we're going to wake up to rain heavy in some spots, just an outside chance for an isolated thundershower. very hit and miss, don't be surprised if you hear the rumble of thunder. the rain will slowly taper off late tomorrow and getting into early monday morning. so you want to see a break in the action. well, not much of one coming our way. 55 degrees tomorrow, and just about the same temper

that beacon has been standing on lake erie since 1911. a normal day the lighthouse guides ships into a nearby river. the coast guard issued a warning to boats who won't be able to see lights until the ice melts. >>> wow, looks like its teeth chattering cold over there. couldn't resist. >> forecast this morning, we have a lot of rainfall to talk about. we'll move around parts of the bay area and show you who is picking up what. moderate to heavy rainfall moving into the san francisco area as well as parts of hayworth, moving to the south bay, san jose looking at rainfall. a moderate to heavy band of rainfall moving into the morgan hill area. as we move to the east bay, rainfall moving in through danville, brentwood, livermore and stockton. plenty of rainfall in the north bay. moderate to heavy rainfall from middleton to santa rosa and san rafael area. and more rainfall moving in throughout the day. >> the satellite and radar shows plenty of clouds moving in. those clouds will contain rainfall. rain showers expected this morning. temperatur

the erie sign to his life that made her believe something was terribly wrong. >>> saying goodbye to elizabeth edwards. somehow she was remembered today at her funeral. >>> a day of extremes, at least when it comes to weather. it was sunny and warm, in the inland areas, and now chilly and some fog in other communities. and that fog is only expected to get worse. how much worse? i will have answers coming up in your pinpoint forecast. >>> authorities in southern california say the house they burned down in a controlled fire on thursday is free of danger. the sheriff's bomb and arson unit sifted through the ashes and debris yesterday. the escondido rental home contained the largest cache of homemade explosives found in the u.s. and the officials say burning it down was the safest option. >>> mark madoff committed suicide today and his lawyer says bernie madoff's 46-year- old son is the latest victim of his father's monstrous crime and it happened on the second anniversary of the day his father's financial empire collapsed. terrell brown reports mark madoff was never charged in his father's scam

ery much.e had his i'dke secret c up. whythe pilot the whistlon black air security has dto go public web sitetion ratetel that can yourust the i'm mich real sto behind hotel r coming up on 7 on your side. another stord foaintdis sure to pack expected tomp some heavy short of time. sandy.e on coming papa.>> thanks. alsoet the hassl after returns. exchangegift and even g ex .s. isgoing publicshowing his fa tsaunch an i thhe video he shot sfoal headline torter georg warren o oursister s in . >> my ss lou andanline pilot. porter: s week chris lou is n an pilot. he's whoed thison tubeting out wves s flaw in air . found a dis what happenstairsd whathappens downst. airs th theector ray machines y are swipin card. >>reporterallything in this vi tha anservant ir own. >>aid that iis was going ttraction. this ist video and now i worldw, i was pret shocked. : the attractiorgelyame as a res of thesponse to video. when a team ofents and's deputyowed up on drite same drivewa askeu's wife sandr aboutattention th beenocused on h >> i husb

snow-covered on i-90, from cleveland to erie, pennsylvania, and western new york. icy with snow on i-94 from bismarck to fargo and the twin cities. and on i-90, from south dakota to wisconsin. wet on i-5, in northern california. icy on i-15, and 70 in the rockies. >> and if you're flying today, expect airport delays in san francisco, salt lake city and minneapoli >>> now, to a dramatic rescue by a quick-thinking highway patrol officer in florida. with the dash cam rolling, the officer first tried to use a fire extinguisher to smash through the window of a burning suv, after it crashed in boca raton. now, when that didn't work, he made everyone stand back, fired two shots in the window and pulled a passenger to safety. >>> police in california are still trying to figure out some solid answers about the mysterious murder of hollywood publicist ronni chasen. investigators are now doing ballistics tests on the gun used in yesterday's suicide of a person of interest in the case. they want to see if it's a match with the gun that killed chasen. meanwhile, chasen's will h

in buffalo, rochester and erie. >> a wet 43 in seattle. teens in fargo and the twin cities. 20s from omaha to detroit and the northeast. 36 degrees in atlanta. and 66 degrees in new orleans. >>> and when we come back on this wednesday morning, one megabank's new dress code. right down to the correct underwear. >>> and police on a lookout for a bandit that stole more than $1 million in casino chips. a real-life "ocean's eleven" heist. >>> welcome back, everybody. time, now, for a check of market activities, starting overseas. tokyo's nikkei average fell less than 0.1% today. meanwhile, hong kong's hang seng is sharply lower. and in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street, the dow climbed 48 points yesterday. the nasdaq inched up almost three points. >>> president obama will be looking for new ideas to jump-start job growth today. he's hosting a summit with chief executives from 20 companies, including american express, general electric, and google. education, trade, taxes and the deficit are also expected to top the agenda. >>> the fe

last night we had a little snow burst coming down actually off lake erie up to the northwest. i want to show you tonight that's not the case. so you shouldn't wake up tomorrow morning with a two- hour day delay for the kids. we have fair skies out there, temperatures are very, very cold. the wind advisory was canceled early. we just have the wind chill with advisory and that's back out to the west of us. community as long 81 and higher elevations feels like out there will be minus 5 to minus 10. dulles is feels like 3. in town feels like 9, frederick 5, hagerstown 3 degrees and it's going to be one more day like this, too a little bit more sunshine tomorrow but still very, very cold, forecast in just a bit. >>> investigators still working to figure out what started a predawn fire that killed six people in baltimore. maureen umeh is everywhere at 11:00. >> the fire raced through the east baltimore row house at about 4:45 this morning. a couple, their granddaughter and three children all died. the wind made the fire worse spreading it to other houses. 30 people were evacuated. >