as a congressional supercommittee scrambles with less than a week to go to shave a little more than $1 trillion if our books, new figures show how deep a financial hole this country is in. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends the national debt for the united states has now passed the $15 trillion mark. or roughly $48,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation. that s the first time the united states has passed that number according to the website, usdebtclock.org, who said our debt has soared 267% in the last 11 years. let s talk about the final days of the reign of regis, his final show with kelly ripa is tomorrow, ending 28 years on daily morning television. yesterday, his friend, david letterman came to pay his
everywhere you see the red triangles is where we had the tornadoes reported. a widespread outbreak and a lot of damaging wind with the storms. they re over with. the only thunderstorms we have to deal with now, just went through jacksonville, florida, they re going to sing down towards daytona beach and orlando and tampa throughout the morning. no tornadoes today. just your typical garden-variety thunderstorms. now in the areas of the east, heavy rain yesterday, miserable airport delays, now we ve got some clouds left and some showers. that s the kind of weather you re going to have today. so around d.c. and baltimore and philly, you are going to see a little bit of light rain. so if you don t want to get wet at all, do carry the umbrella. heavy rain is over, on and off showers for the big cities and the temperatures will be about ten degrees cooler today than yesterday. so add a layer, either the heavier jacket or maybe a lighter coat underneath or something like that. middle of the c
michael cammalleri for the first goal of the game. price did it all, an assist ant a 25-save shut-out. that s your first look at sports, i m fred roggin. let s get another look at the weather. let s check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins. you say that like you already know what the weather forecast is, and you re not interested. i checked weather.com. it s a good source, but if you want another opinion, you can get it here. good morning, everyone, temperatures are falling in we re returning to a normal fall-like weather pattern. buffalo to pittsburgh, on the eastern seaboard, be ready today for some light shower activity. yesterday we had the heavy rain, there s just a little bit of drizzle out there. you notice a little light green popping up. special i had here in virginia, that s going to continue through d.c. the chesapeake and some of it may clipรง here southern new england, long island and out towards cape cod. that will be about it today, it will be a cooler day,
you ll see storms throughout the morning commute and eventually they ll work down to i-5, tampa and orlando, you have thunderstorms today in your forecast. no more tornadoes, nothing like what we saw yesterday. so the east coast, we had the heavy rain yesterday, all through the mid-atlantic. up through southern new england. most of that is gone. there s still a little bit of damp weather, though. we re going to have showers in the forecast today, from virginia up through the chesapeake. it s not going to be heavy, just going to be light, maybe drizzle at times or light showers. but as the temperatures fall, it s going to be kind of a cool, raw day. so probably still want to use the umbrella if you re in the coastal areas. the cool air is going to be the story over the next couple of days. it is a very cold morning out there in the morning plains. this map shows us the compared to yesterday. and just about everyone is colder than yesterday, new orleans is 16 degrees colder. the general
the fact that the parrot can actually call norman out by name. can i hitch a ride, norman? who knows. now let s check in with bill karins for the weather channel forecast. have you ever been in tennessee, smoky mountains? nashvegas, of course. if you re going to be heading up there this weekend, the leaves are starting to change up in the smoky mountains. it s moving south to the high elevations of the appalachians. lower elevations you ll probably have to wait a little closer to halloween. it is that time of year. and we have some rain out there, probably bringing down some of those leaves in a few spots. les watching thunderstorms around dallas/ft. worth. all the heavy rain yesterday was further to the south in the carolinas, georgia, now it s starting to shift northwards. so areas that were dry are now wet including the busy i-95