In the charlotte area. A lot of you are in the teens so its 19. Hickory statesville 21 in charlotte. And 13 in boone right now. Yesterday evening if you get weather aall right on your phone you may have found theres a winter storm watch weather alerts. Some areas have winter storm warning. We do have slight changes to the storm forecast. So well talk about that in a few minutes. New this morning president obama says he will seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of antonio scalia. It will likely charge no a fight with republicans in congress. Just last night he said a nomination was bigger than any one big party with half a dozen of major cases before the court obama plans to fulfill his lee responsibility to nominate a successor in due time. Scalia died on a weekend trip to texas. He was 79 years old. Sparks fly. The ninth republican event took before the primary that could help decide who becomes the republican nominee for president. The republican president ial
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And for everyone it will be hazardous, moving back in. The advisories being reissued across at gainny and this for tonight and tomorrow. Wind chills below zero. The wind chill is 7 degrees in boone. Outside of the mountains, were around 30. The temperatures overnight you will see the Single Digits up at the slopes you will see into the low 20s here in the piedmont. Well add vance it one hour to 8 00. Really cold. 23 degrees. Thats the way it is now. And the big storm on monday. More on that in the first alert forecast. Back to the breaking news. Crews are trying to fix a gas line cut by fiber contractors in a neighborhood. That left families without heat. Highland creek neighborhood. He has a update. Reporter paul, im told the crews will be here to get the heat back. The gas line should be repaired soon and reactivatingselves will not be a quick process. Im told by a representative that the gas line was cut by subcontractors working for google fiber tonight. They have been here trying
A car with a woman and her baby inside plunges inhe water. And more bad blood . Anotherr kanye west taylor swift feud this morning over racy music. C. She says she gave her blessing. Her team says not true. It doesnt look like she is ready to shake it off. Today, saturday, february 13th, 2016. Because we got badad blood we used to be mad love romm nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welclce to today. Im erica hill. And im craig melvin. Not a person on the plaza. We have a a nch of hand warmers ready to hand out. And a bunch of airplanes. He needs to get somewhere quickly. We do have folol over here. We will see them in bit. Look at t t temperatures around the country. Minneapolis, 6 below zero right now. That is just the temperature. That is not how it feels outside. It i i understandably chilly here. Dylan checked the temperature in new york. Its whwh . Its 21 with the windchill of 11. That is it. It will not warm up. It will get colder. We
Are turning to the storm system that will be coming in for monday. The good news is the weekend is going to stay nice and dry but its going to be on the colder side. As we get into the start of the week echoes of the colder air in place it will cost no fall better area has cleared out across the region. Temperatures 344 degrees in the wins are switching to the northwest. They will gradually pick up throughout the overnight hours a become rather breezy tomorrow. During skies and temperatures headed into the 20s overnight but with the colder air filtering into the region we will see temperatures holding in the 30s. We will stay nice and dry with lots of sunshine saturday and sunday but eventually theres going to be precipitation coming in and it does look like we are going to have some snow starting off sunday night and it looks like it will continue monday morning. Depending on where you are at it will determine what you ultimately see from the storm system. Looks like they will start o