Commercials again. Thats nice. Around here, Clear Conditions to start your morning. It is cool. Its usually the case on calm mornings. Cold air settled down in some of the valleys. We have freezing or slightly below freezing readings along the south plat river this morning. Thats the case for the beginning of the morning sunshine here today. Well give way to fair weather clouds pushing up close to 70 late this afternoon. Its dry a its raining moderately to heavily in arizona and new mexico. Flash flooding is a concern in west central new mexico. That rain begins to move into south western colorado by lunchtime. It will be snow at higher terrain. Then tonight and tomorrow, well see showers move up to foothills perhaps and then long the i70 corridor. A little heavier in south eastern colorado. Not around here the storm is going to track to our south and east. Western colorado. More than an inch of total liquid possible out of this. Well see how much snow that could mean. At 6 02, sky 9 o
Michigan avenue. No shortage of excitement out there right now. Before the hours long parade started, hundreds of thousands of people flooded into grant park along Lake Michigan and some of the cubs in the spirit celebrating a huge win for the history books. So up next, grant park. Heres a sight to see. Lots admiring what happened. Getting ready for todays festivities, they change the color of the river for st. Patricks day. Blue. Very fitting. Check out blue bird skies over the flat irons now. Mainly sunny and dry. There are parts of colorado that will finally see snow. Well. We see more blue in the sky. Temperatures in the 60s and upper 50s in Northern Colorado and well county. Around the metro area, temperatures in the mid to low 60s. Your highs today are still above normal for this time of of year. Upper 60s and 60s and low 70s. Near the divide, 40s and 50s. Dry. Temperatures in the 50s by the time you may want to take jackets for the stands. Dry across most of the state. Were seei
Hikers in japan. We have the latest on the efforts to find the missing hikers and get them off that mountain. Protestors filled the streets of hong kong, defying the government call to end their blockades. Riot police have withdrawn after tiring tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im erica pitzi. Stephanie sy is in chicago where she will bring us the latest on air travel problems. President obama now admitting u. S. Intelligence underestimated the threat posed by isil and overestimated the iraqi armys ability to stop it. Meanwhile, House Speaker john boehner said the airstrikes arent going to be enough to beat isil, warning america may need to send in Ground Troops. There are reports that the latest round of u. S. Airstrikes may have led to civilian deaths. What are you hearing . Dell, thats right, those reports are coming out of the syrian observatory for human rights, its a london based group. They say the strikes
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with a heartbreaking story out of oklahoma where a College Softball team trip ended in tragedy on a busy interstate. Four young women were killed after the bus they were on collided with an 18wheeler. All the victims were members of the Softball Team at North Central texas college. The youngest of those killed was 18, the oldest 20. And tonight back in texas their tightknit College Community is gripped by a profound sadness. Kerry sanders is in ardmore, oklahoma, tonight for us. Kerry, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. The womens Softball Team was about 40 miles shy of their destination when their bus was hit by a tractortrailer that crossed that wide grassy median down there here on interstate 35. The crash happened on a stretch of interstate 35 in oklahoma where the speed limit is 70 miles per hour. A tractortrailer headed north, a College Teams bus driving south