Suspended brother curt on the sidelines for todays daytona 500. And countdown to the oscars. Hollywoods biggest night is just a matter of hours away. The 87th Academy Awards from the glitz and glamour to the behindthescenes drama and controversie weve got you covered live from the red carpet today, sunday, february 22nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Glad to have you with us im craig melvin alongside ja shell jones sheinelle jones, dylan dreyer is here. Do you remember when you were little you loved the snow . I cant even remember the last time i looked forward to snow. Dylan is in a unique position obviously. It is my kids were on february break all week. They literally said to me we dont want to go outside. I said we could go sledding we could do this it snowed yesterday over it. Completely over it. The problem is it is not finished yet. It
Nascar driver kurt busch sidelined just days before the daytona 500. A judge finding he committed an act of domestic violence. Any actions of abuse will not be tolerated in the industry. What will the racing champ do next . And countdown to the oscars. Theyre rolling out the red carpet this morning for the biggest night in hollywood. The newest reveals on who is performing and presenting. Bum, bum, bum. And how host Neil Patrick Harris is handling those preshow jitters as excitement builds by the minute. You can still be per cussive. Without sara . Good morning. Its oscars. Sara is live from l. A. Shell have exclusive behind the scenes material. We told her no talking, just waving. No, looking good, sara. Lets get to the top story. Another weekend, yet another big storm. This one from missouri all the way to maine. Tens of millions of americans caught in the cross hairs. The most urgent issue right now is the ice in the south. Look at these drives stranded on a highway all night long.
Tomorrow morning. Were waking up to frigid temperatures. Were waking up to clouds as well, 13 degrees in philadelphia. Look at allentown, zero 3 degrees in reading, 9 degrees in lancaster. Lancaster, 1 degree in wildwood. You look at the feelslike temperature, feels like 2 in philadelphia, 10 below zero in allentown 5 below zero. Radar showing us yes, we are tracking snow today. Snow develops later this morning into the quickly at least for the start of the storm. The future weather as we go throughout time here heres the approach of the snow. By noon north and west of philadelphia crossing philadelphia throughout the afternoon. This is a look at 5 00. If you have dinner plans, take it easy. You may have to plan for snow across the area. Then well see that warm air coming in. Well see that mix by 9 00 changeover by 9 00 if youre still out and about. Look to the south and east warm air by 9 00. We see that change over to rain. Everyone sunday morning will be waking up to a cold rain bef
Seaville 20. Ewing 18 degrees. A cold morning around delaware valley. The winds are not too much of a factor yet. Out of the south the winds will shift later this afternoon. They will roar well see gusts as high as 65 Miles Per Hour tomorrow morning. Powerful wind on the way. Wind gusts developing later this evening. Probably 5 or of p. M. Overnight tonight they approach 60 Miles Per Hour and that will create all kinds of problem expect to see trees, smaller tree limbs down, power out annuals are likely. With your cell phone or Electronic Device make sure its fully charged today, if you lose power it could be sometime before it restored. Thats the issue overnight tonight and into tomorrow. What were dealing is the snow squalls in advance of the arctic front. These are the squalls that will punchment city around 6 00 p. M. They will be very quick hitting a snow squall is a quick burst of heavy snow it could drop one to three inches in a short period of time. That will create whiteout co
Youre right that ice isnt going anywhere. We do gave you a six out of ten today because for the daytime hours, i think we will be dry see decent amount of sunshine, no precipitation, on ultimate doppler unlike yesterday at this time. Next clipper system in the ohio valley expected to arrive her in our area after sunset. So, right now, it is 14 degrees in philadelphia. But only a 3mile per hour wind, so really not talking about windchill, we will tomorrow but not today. 6 50 is your sunrise time, and we should see decent amount of sunshine like i said today. So those are some other temperatures as you are walking out the door in mount pocono one but it fells like below zero, four in reading 5 degrees in Lancaster Trenton has eight, two in millville, 18 wildwood, 13 degrees in wilmington. Not a lucky 13. So we stay in the teens throughout the morning. Watch out for black ice even more so walking than driving a lot of the streets were taken care of yesterday. Not a lot of sidewalks necess