snow. take a look at this. i meerngs it s serious. six or even inches of snow on the ground at this point. still good snowball snow. this is not too bad really up here except for this driving when you get passed this. melting pretty fast. the warms are still warm. 30-degree drop in temperatures yesterday. the roads are still warm. a lot of this is going to hit downriver from here in missouri and illinois where they ve already been dealing with flood conditions. that s going to be a major concern as this really crazy spring system continues to make its way across the country. john? all right. may 2nd, so wild. so thick it s obviously affecting our communication with jim. you know, the place he s talking about downriver, they didn t have any water last year. last year was a big drought and this spring they re getting a lot of water. for more, let s go to jennifer delga delgado. just a couple hours ago jim
they ve only had snow fall down four times in may throughout the record books. four times. this is rare. may is not for snow. jennifer delgado, thanks to you. 11 minutes after the hour. a new round of tension to tell you about this morning with north korea after the sentencing of american citizen kenneth bae to 15 years hard labor. bae is a tour operator from washington state accused of attempting to overthrow the north korean government. our senior international correspondent dan rivers is live in south korea. dan, attempting to overthrow the north korean government. those sound like pretty serious charges against a tour operator. yeah, they are. and we don t really know what exactly he did to generate those charges. we know he s been in and out of north korea a lot running these tours from china where he lives. we know that he had a valid tourist visa. it s not like previous case where s people have either mistakenly wandered in or illegally entered north korea. he was he sho