trustees. i appreciate you know the comments, we have excelled in as let and athletics, we have a national championship attitude across the campus, our staff a go beyond. while running an efficient institution, we run cheaper and more cost efficient ththan our peers, our goal to make sure every student they are retained from freshman year to sophomore year and graduate and live a great happy, healthy successful life. trey: speaking of that, there is something i hope i have title right, emerging scholars program that impacts our i95 corridor that is important part of
been cutting the mustard for four generations. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. half the country tonight staring down some of winter s worst in all its forms as we head into the weekend. from close to a foot of snow predicted in the northern plains and the midwest, these pictures from iowa where several inches are already on the ground with more to come the carolinas bracing for ice and even high wind and fire warnings across texas to eastern new mexico in all 64 million of us are under winter alerts from a system spreading from the middle of the country into the southeast and then up the i95 corridor where big cities like washington and philadelphia could also get snowed on while the northeast and new england face another round of brutal cold. our dasha burns has the very latest. reporter: tonight the monster winter storm already hitting north dakota
into the northeast. in the northeast, the heaviest snow will be interior northeast along the i95 corridor, a place like d.c. initially starts as snow then go over to rain. but very heavy snow in places like charleston, pittsburgh, very tough travel conditions through pennsylvania and on your way into new england. that s happening sunday into monday. the martin luther king jr. holiday brings some rain for us around boston, down toward new york, as conditions improve across the mid-atlantic. but heavy snow accumulations are likely to be somewhere between 8 and 12 inches, highest elevations get more than that. and the complicating factor in all of this, norah, is all of this accompanied by 40- toift-mile-per-hour wind gusts. o donnell: wow, mike bettes with a virtual look at what many americans will be seeing this weekend. mike, thank you. turning now to covid and the breaking news. the c.d.c. is updating its mask guidance. it comes as the surge of omicron may be close to a peak. but ho
be farther south. if you re in south carolina don t think because you don t see it here it won t happen this. is just a model run. we don t know exactly where it lines up. i pulled out for a zoomed out version. people ask what happens after this, towards sunday and monday you get the sense that s the track. so, we will see moisture across southern parts of canada and new england. we won t see it there across the i95 corridor. i think it will go primary around it the official track the next couple of days does not move much. saturday and sunday, monday then it moves quickly eventually. the next few days is the hard part. at least through saturday with the torrential rain falls. that s why we will see the flooding. thank you, rick, for the hard work. back to you soon. now to leland. i don t think you have dried out all day. no. won t driveway out for a couple
caught up in the water spout. let s get right to rob marciano live along the west side highway here in new york tracking it all. hey rob. hi david. this late june sun is as strong as it gets. it s beginning to bake much of the country. look at the heat building now. it s sparring up some storms that are strong across wyoming and south dakota. watches are posted there. look at all the extreme heat warnings. kansas city, memphis, st. louis. some areas don t have power from the storms they had early. in chicago temperatures will feel like over 100 degrees there. in indianapolis and nashville, this builds off towards the east sunday and monday along the i95 corridor. nearing 100 degrees actual temperatures then. with the humidity will feel much warmer than that. it can last at least three days potentially into the fourth of july holiday. check on your neighbors this weekend. rob marciano, thank you. overseas tonight, the u.s. military on the scene helping in the urgent rescue operati