so far hundreds of flies have been cancelled. the roads are certainly slick, making for tough driving conditions. once the storm passes, the winds could disrupt the iconic macy s thanksgiving day parade. the very latest on this, let s go to nbc meteorologist it could have been worse. really? if it had been snow a lot of this was just rain and came in the middle of the night so that was okay for a lot of east coast areas. this storm is just rocketing up the coast. georgia you re fine, florida, you re fine. it snows in greensville, south carolina. it s also mixing in with snowflakes in charlotte, north carolina. so that doesn t happen all that often. the worst at the airports, right where we thought where the highest volume is and the rain, you d expect these delays. one to two-hour delays with this big storm going through. if that s as bad as it gets, we re doing okay. much of the heavy rain is existing new york city. it s now shifted north heading up through boston and in mai
special day. thank you for joining us. hello to you and thank you for covering this historic event today. jamie: we re talking about it from all aspects. from you, i m really curious to hear what today means for you. i was standing about this place 50 years ago. i just left in greensville, north carolina and greensville, south carolina trying to use a public library, trying to use public facilities. that day black soldiers had to sit behind the prisoners of war from texas to florida, you couldn t buy ice cream. people of black, white and brown determined that was not right and good and that had to end. it did not end until the next year. john kennedy was killed and legislatively we had a civil rights bill of 1964. that was that dream. then the right to vote was the next dream. white women could not serve on
i just left greensville, north carolina and greens field south carolina trying to use a public library and public facilities. that day, black soldiers had to sit behind the prisoners of war from texas to maryland we couldn t use a single public facility. we lived under a racial time that people red, white and brown determined that was not requested agood and that had to end. reporter: leadership brings special responsibilities and president obama understands that today as he achieves the right balance to pay homage the reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. who was one of that era s preeminent pas pacifists on the of military action on syria and
harvest is the earliest on record and it is on track to be at least 15% smaller than last year. that drought also choking barge traffic along the mississippi river due to lower water levels that can affect all of us. elizabeth in atlanta with the latest. reporter: this all started in the winter when we saw little rainfall and snowfall in the northern states. now we are seeing extreme drought conditions translated to a shrinking mississippi river. what does that mean? bottleneck traffic, closed sections of the river and much less cargo transported to our marketplace. last week nearly 100 toe boats were backed up along an 11 mile stretch stretch near greensville, mississippi traffic is now moving intermittently. the mississippi river is the primary highway for barge traffic it takes up and down the united states from grain, corn, soybeans and scrap metal
of hours, a fresh s.w.a.t. team. they had one overnight. they switched out. the new ones are back in there. they are trying to get into this bunker. let me tell you, randi, this is a pretty tough bunker to get into. it s built into the side of a hill, a steep hill. built on the ledge, so it s hard to get up to it. they have a chopper circling around keeping an eye on things and dropping off supplies to the tactical team. they believe it s very dangerous. they do keller is in there. they did see lights on in that bunker last night, and signs tell them there s some sort of life going on in. this is a tactical situation and they are working hard to get in. bob, what about tear gas? we understand they tried it once. they weren t sure tear gas all the way in to him. any word they may try that again? well, what they did was launch some tear gas in there yesterday. nothing really seemed to happen. they believe keller may have a gas mask on. you ve got to remember, this is a guy