and all of that is moving up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. there will be travel delays today. no doubt across the eastern third of the country. tomorrow things start to clear out but for the next, you know, 12 to 24 hours it s going to be a trying day. on the back side of, this that s where we ll see the snow across the appalachians, higher elevations the great lakes and interior northeast. by saturday it s out. now, will there be a white christmas? there are your historical white christmas probabilities. for us across the east coast a green christmas, a wet christmas. if you move across the northwest and rockies, that s where we have got some snow for christmas day. back to you. brian: thank you very much. steve: go to our nation s capital live by the miracle of satellite technology. sarah sanders joins us from in front of the house. sarah, almost merry christmas to you. good morning, merry christmas to you guys. steve: thank you very much. we know the house has passed
everything behind me in the yellow are severe thunderstorm watches. everything in the red are twornstornado watching at this point. arrive at late as 11:00 p.m. time this out for you. drill down on, this the entire line, everything you are looking at in the yellow this is currently a severe thunderstorm warn storm which means winds up to 60 miles per hour. every one of these pink areas that s a tornado warn storm. this is running toward the coast. if we time it out unfortunately it will arrive at some of the largest population centers right in the heart of rush hour. i will put this in motion for you. sometime tamp up in the corner 4:00 p.m. running up to 6:00 p.m. looking at line of big storms philadelphia, new york, up toward the boston area. we get on the back side of, this you dos in the clearing off in the overnight hours. more rain on the back side and unfortunately for folks through the dmv stretching up toward philadelphia possibly a flood situation for them. more shepard smith