heather: look at this, a dramatic rescue at sea off the coast of california. the coast guard saving four crew members who managed to jump on to a life a sinking tugboat that went down yesterday in heavy seas. the crew made a call and activated the electronic positioning equipment before abandoning ship. the four were located by a rescue helicopter. look at that. they were plucked from the water. no injuries were reported. investigators are trying to figure what caused the boat to sink. gregg: some extreme weather to tell you about. heavy snow, freezing rain this weekend as a wide-spread storm slams the northern plains and parts of the midwest. a strong wind and drifting snow created blizzard conditions and are expected to make for pretty dangerous travel conditions during tomorrow s commute. forecasters say some could see up to 12 of snow with ice
performing her former co-star kevin costner who we haven t heard from so far this week, kevin costner will be speaking during the funeral services for whitney houston. and her former husband, bobby brown, has now officially been invited. susan candiotti is in newark, new jersey, this morning. susan, authorities are also making special arrangements to try to maintain some security, also maintain a perimeter around the new hope baptist church since so many will be in attendance? reporter: that s right. after doing a walk through of the church we re seeing some of the new security measures falling into place. for example, perhaps you ve noticed right away the biggest change, we re no longer allowed to stand in front of the church right across the street from it, but we have been pushed back across the street and behind a parking lot. the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that the celebrities and all the invite tees, some 1500 people, it s one of the parking
the snow can cascade down on the pedestrians below once in a while. it got particularly treacherous on the roadways yesterday because the snow came down warm and wet and froze. the bridges and the overpasses are usually the first to make the ice patches. that s where you see three traffic fatalities out of st. louis and one out of chicago here. there were patches of ice that people didn t see coming as they were driving along the roads. people can log onto the city s website and get onto the plow tracker and track the city s snowplows in realtime and get a rough idea when they ll get to there street and clean their particular street. the plows were out all last night. 500 flights were canceled yesterday. the kids that love so much to get a snow day this time of year didn t get one. schools are operating on regular
there was snow falling. you were wearing your elmer fudd hat or something like that. reporter: somebody is pretty excited about this game. i am too. i m excited that we have springtime weather here in the arlington/dallas/ft. worth area after ice and snow. it all went away. pretty chilly this morning but all of the ice patches we ve seen gone. a lot of steeler and packer fans out and about here in the dallas cowboys dallas cowboy stadium area at the arlington convention center as well. a lot out today. happy that it s springtime and the winter weather at least temporarily is gone, don. we re hearing maybe low 40s, chan of wintry mix tomorrow. but it s going to be inside. that retractable roof will be closed. that s not bad. 40s we can take it. that five degree stuff terrible. give us a rundown on what we can expect tomorrow, mark. reporter: well, two storied franchises, green bay and pittsburgh playing for the super bowl trophy. of course there s much more than just the game go
enforcement there, that constitutes a crime, crime of threat and intimidation, disorderly conduct for which he has now been charged. we ll continue to follow the events as they occurred today. and we ll update you as we get further information. after almost a week of extreme weather in the south, temperatures are on the rise today and it should help melt some pretty dangerous ice patches out on the roads that led to dangerous commutes for folks and deadly crashes. marie i can t molina is live with more. that s right. we still have, believe it or not, after about six days of the storm that hit the southeast last monday, today is saturday, still looking at some snow and some ice across parts of northern mississippi, alabama, and even georgia. you mentioned specific city, atlanta, georgia, where we saw plenty of flight cancellations