southern illinois, enkentucky and nearly entire state of indiana, covering roads, damaging buildings and forcing some to evacuate their hopes. the threat of severe weather and more rain continues throughout the day though as the storm is going to be working its way eastward but to the north, it is just the winter that won t go away. two weeks into spring now and the snow is falling again, making for some icy roads on this morning s commute. around a foot of snow is expected by end of the day for parts of minnesota as well as double digit snowfall for parts of wisconsin and upper michigan. the good news, julie, they are expecting temperatures into the 50s this weekend and possibly into the low 60s at some point next week. julie: garrett tenney, thank you so much, live from chicago. jon. jon: 6 0s sound good. julie: i m looking forward to that. jon: new details about the woman accused murdering her boyfriend with the stiletto heel.
congress is cancelling business today. missouri and indiana have already seen heavy snow leaving roads a mess as the system moved through parts of the deep south, it left behind heavy ice and slick roads. already causing trouble there. let s go to the bbc s meteorologist bill karins. bbc s? nbc s. sorry! i m so sorry, bill. i let the secret out. listen, bill, am i going to get back to d.c. later this morning? you want the new england forecast first? you don t need to send me that far. take you across the channel? let s talk about what we are dealing with here in the d.c. for the most part, washington, d.c. is on track for 6 to 10 inches of and for march a huge ordeal. only once have we had a double digit snowfall in march in d.c. and a superstorm in 1993. if you re heading outside right
i ve seen 27 inches when lived in chicago, but this is a big one. it s been so quiet. this is going to be a very serious storm. we re talking about several inches of snow. let s take a look at the surface. we have one storm that s departing. the main event is right here. heavier snow will set up across chicago. it s been light snow so far. we ve had about four in the quad cities and a few in southeast wisconsin. the low will get a lot stronger going through the afternoon. we re going to find increased snowfall rates there in chicago. that s going the dropdown to northern indiana. we could be talking about double digit snowfall amounts in northern indiana. we ll see the snow lift up through the ohio valley with