Clouds in as well as the warmth tomorrow. I will let you know when the next frigid drop is coming and when the warmup is coming too. Laura the iowa caucus, and the worldwide attention, is now just a few weeks away, but the political focus for iowans this week lies closer to home. Kccis grace provenzano tells us whats on tap in the state legislature. Grace laura, its a new year and a new session, but there are old issues hanging in the balance, like education. Several iowa lawmakers made stops at the capitol sunday afternoon as they prepare to gavel in tomorrow morning. Senator liz mathis says k through 12 Public Education funding will be topping their list of priorities. Last years session went long over the issue of education, as lawmakers couldnt come to an agreement. That ended with a 55. 7 million budget compromise. But Governor Terry branstad later vetoed that measure in early july, to the disappointment of lawmakers and state. Senator mathis says in addition to education, iowas m
Be running theme for couple of days. We had nearly 2 feet of snow. Thats all going to melt away. So it will take some time unfortunately, certainly as we know, it has been taking a lot of time for many of you folks that might still be snowed in, even couple every days later, just, so much clean up to do. So, bear with the crews. I know theyre trying their hard toast get everybody cleared out here. But it is a pros, we start things offer by taking you outside though. What you will notice right on the tail end of the loop, little pink showing up here going west on the turnpike here. Go out toward the harrisburg, starting to see freezing rain, and actually, little blip of pink right over berks, Lancaster County within the last say half hour or so has been enough for the National Weather service to issue freezing rain advisory, in short, until these temperatures get all across the board above freezing potentially will he see speckles coming in of freezing rain, freezing rain advisory issue
I promise. There. A flood advisory for much of new york and new jersey. We are seeing moderate coastal flooding out there. Here we go. Most of new jersey and portions of new york flood advisory some spots more than two inches of rain has fallen. Be cautious on the roadways. Ponding and localized flooding is happening out there. As far as the coast lines coastal flooding is happening. Reports of moderate flooding in new jersey along nasa county the south shore there coastal flooding in effect until 10 15. As far as winds today they will also be an issue gusting 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour in some instances gusts could be as high as 50 Miles Per Hour. On top of all of that of course it is still raining out there and that will be the trend until roughly noon maybe a little bit sooner steady rain afternoon and early evening and we are anticipating record warmth. A high of 60 would tie the record set in central park back in 1876. Record warmth today but dont get used to it. Well talk about this
Temperatures mainly in the 30s. 36 in kerri and 38 in holly springs. 36 in roxboro, 41 in raleigh and 28 in Southern Pines so we do have a wide range this morning. This morning expect mainly 30s, 46 at lunch time, 52 at 4 00 but any time through the afternoon you can expect the rain to fall and at some places its going to be heavy at times. We have a complicated weather pattern in our forecast. We are going to talk about that. Brian mims in for brian shraeder because hes over there. Good to be here. You said it a moment ago quiet commute this morning. It is that way so far. We are not seeing any accidents or delays. Lets zoom on up i40 westbound coming in from Johnston County and see what conditions are like. Traffic is thickening but moving along at regular speed. No problems. This friday morning. I40 and jones sausage traffic moving along just fine. Nine minute drive. Heres i40 in the fortify zone at lake wheeler we are seeing some thickening of traffic there but it is moving along a
This is nevada newsmakers. With host sam shad. A no holds barred political forum. Now from the nevada newsmakers broadcast headquarters here is sam shad. And back on nevada newsmakers were delighted to welcome to the program for the first time the brand new political reporter seth richardson. Nice to have you on the program sir. Thanks for having me. We were saying before we went on air that you came from illinois. And you covered president obama from the beginning of his career i did not cover president obama. I take that back. That you covered i did have the pleasure meeting him as a state senator, u. S. Senator. And as a president. Now i did cover him as president when i was in dc for a little while. But kind of got to see his story unfold from the beginning all the way up until now. And what are the differences if any, in barack obama since day one. Hes always had that ability to rally people. Its kind of been ongoing. Would say as well and you see that in his policy proposals. Any