that was big. mike barnacle, you and claire mccaskill. great time was had by all. she is great and legitimate baseball fan. she s great. coming up next, the top stories but first here s bill kairns with a check of the forecast. what s it look like? that s coming. spring fever is on its way. first we have a rough morning. eastern north carolina 12 were hurt by a tornado. but not these two gentlemen. they did the opposite of what storm chasers do. they floored it when they saw a tornado forming behind them while they were leaving work. this tornado was on the ground for awhile in eastern north carolina. you can see they high tailed it out of there. let s show you what we re dealing with this morning. heavy rain right over the top of new york city as we speak. there s a thunderstorm, lightning strikes with it. moving over long island, into connecticut shortly. i-95 into new york city, it s going to be a slow drive over the next hour.
this time he ll make sure harry stays clothed. i m going to be spending the entire day with prince harry. and so, believe me, nobody s going to be get naked if i m spending the entire day with him. kristy will be babysitting. pro president obama sits down with telemundo today. and george w. bush and wife laura were among those in attendance at the baylor basketball game. they met and posed with the teams. and that s your morning s dish of scrambled politics. turning now to the weather, bill kairns joins us. is spring coming? slowly. it s going to happen sooner or later. maybe april, mid-april. it s on its way. it s a cold start. we re a little concerned with the cold temperatures in the southeast. we have freeze warnings in effect. that s because a lot of our beautiful flowers and azaleas
from the additional waves, it ll the hours. the other thing that s got attention is the snow. snow totals have been upped in most areas. you can see the big storm off coast. as far as what we re dealing with with the snow. the white is the snow. notice philadelphia on the upper left side of your screen. you you could see some of the highest totals. gets reports of snow mixing with the rain.even reports of sleet. lots of areas outside new york city are going to significant snow out of this. breaking out over much of coastal connecticut. so how much snow are we talking about? the possibility of three to six inches. if not a little more to the east side of philly. even new york city outside the p to four inches. and the other big impact is going to be the winds. they re alreadyting 40 50. and the peak of the storm up to 70 miles an hour. a lot of people are going to lose power in this region after they just got it back on from sandy. and certain people still don t have it. this is insul
ace, roy halladay will take the lead for the n.l. so yin yu wins it with a birdie on 18, a first major title for the 21-year-old south korean. the home run derby all about sluggers hitting the long ball. but for a moment, a kid with a glove stole the show. cano hit a moon shot for his final out of the first round. several ball boys were there to make the catch. but one of them came up big, diving grab, sign him up. cano may have the title, but that kid has a memory that will last for a lifetime. and that s your first look at sports, i m mario solis. for another quick look at the weather, here s nbc meteorologist bill kairns, he has your weather channel forecast. we were talking about bad hair days. we we? i know nothing about that. if humidity bothers you, today s not the day for you. try to stay in the ac, if you can. starting off your morning, driving to work you may need the
variables at this point. it isn t because of lack of planning. bill kairns is here and how serious is this threat? serious enough that there are meetings going on on what they re going to do for the next couple days if this does rapidly develop. beginning of hurricane season and this is an area where they can develop. caribbean located off the yucatan and off the coast of hondurases s yucatan and off the coast of hondurases and that is where ou tropical wave is drifting. the gulf of mexico right now, clear as can be, all the clear weather where the tropical wave is. currently the gulf is protected by a huge area of high pressure, which, by the way, provides all the dry and hot weather we re having and that will change as it drifts up towards the yucatan. here s the timeline on it. the hurricane hunters will fly down into the system as we go throughout the afternoon and they ll let us know if this is a tropical depression or not.