with all of the attention, doctors and the decision on what to do. it s unclear whether tua tagovailoa will join the dolphins playoff chase this season. let s get a check of the weather right now. let s head over to our meteorologist angie lassman. cori, we re on a temperature ride with temperatures. we ve seen it in places like denver where we ll hit 50 degrees this afternoon. yes, that s above average. just six days ago, that was 25 degrees warmer. we were at 24 below in denver a few days ago. minneapolis getting above freezing. indianapolis, 41 degrees. everybody in the east basically going to see the upward trend in temperatures and will be above normal as we round out basically 2022. 46 for boston, atlanta, up to 64 in the afternoon hours. if you re out and about for the weekend, temperatures in places like new york into the low 50s to mid-50s. muscle is eventually going to get into the 50s, too.
we ll watch for minor flooding with the snow melt there. otherwise, we turn our attention to the west coast where the next system is going to work across the country. it does bring snow to the rockies, potentially heavy rain, and severe threat on thursday. these are a couple plots that we could see, travel trouble, houston, dallas, with systems across the south. not a good potential for tornadoes but good potential for flooding, cori. thank you so much. still ahead, as beijing lifts its covid-19 quarantine measures, the united states is weighing new restrictions for visitors cupping from china. we ll take a look at what the biden administration is considering, coming up next. show your sore throat who s boss. mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours. i m jonathan lawson
time now for business. for that, let s bring in cnbc s arabile gumede from london. arabile, good morning, stock trading is flat as traders head into the new year, what can we expect in the final trading days of 2022? yeah, good morning, cori. so one thing is for sure, that trading will definitely dominate the trading picture paper lot of markets have been looking at recession fears for the coming year. that has been really key for market participants wondering then if the interest rate increases that we have seen in the last couple of months will impact the economy. and how badly that may begin to do so, particularly in that first quarter of the year, where we may see lower interest rate increases. but still, we may get them nonetheless. another thing that has been on the market front, that has indeed been china reopening its economy as well. yesterday, we got news from china saying they would allow
a point of high anticipation. let s talk about what s happening with these airlines, canceling thousands of flights as those winter storms and staffing issues continue to wreak havoc across the u.s what s the latest there? yeah, cori, so many flights have unfortunately been halted and stopped, canceled across the board. if we get down to some of the numbers, right, 17,000 u.s. flights canceled since last week, wednesday. 3,200 u.s. flights canceled on monday alone with close to 5,000 being delayed as well. it is due to the bitter cold, those high winds and snow which has slowed operations across some of these airlines almost completely you re even seeing deliveries not being made, the likes of u.p.s., dhl all saying that things are going to get a little bit worse and that there will be delays when it comes to their deliveries, flight cancellations have eased a little bit but southwestern is saying that the melt down has continued and