in history. in fact, it s gotten so bad the state will be the first in the nation to issue hefty fines for people caught wasting water outdoors. joining me now karl parker. let s start with mike who has more on what has become california s drought emergency. what are the warnings there, mike? the warnings are dire, tamron. it s a story building for a couple of years. somehow it s been out of the headlines for a month or so people forget about it. the story that happened last night snuck up on people. because of regulations now passed unanimously last night in a late night meeting it will be hefty fines for people who violate water conservation measures for things like washing your car our watering your plants or wlaun a hose that doesn t have a shutoff. washing off cement, letting runoff occur from the watering outside watering practice. having a water or water feature that doesn t use recycled water.
each of the violations and they re now violations to be enforced result in a fine of up to $500 and for water suppliers the fines could be $10,000 a day if they ignore or defie any court-ordered conservation measures. these are a series of drastic steps, the state, as you point out, are in drought conditions. more extreme than records that have been kept in the late 1880s. governor jerry brown twice declared a extreme doubt emergency. in fact, water use ticked through a year ago this month. we ll see what happens. it s set to begin on august 1st. thank you. karl, let s talk about the weather today. coast to coast just a mixed bag of things from the drought to the rough thunderstorms we gnaw this area. what are we getting today? well, today we re looking at heavy rain across a good part of the northeast.
ministers are asked to approve the drafting of 8,000 more soldiers. what can you tell us about that? that s right. they were calling the ministers by telephone in their homes to call up the 8,000 more reserve soldiers. they finished it and they agreed. israel approved the calling up of another 8,000 soldiers. it brings the total close to 50,000 reserves soldiers called up to join the army mass on the border with georgia stay. orders for ground invasion. many people are not on the board. they ll be intelligence. many are combat engineers. it suggests their getting ready for some kind of incursion into gaza. we heard new comments as you saw from secretary of state john kerry. he s saying our concern is to have a legitimate fire see if we can find a way to stop the conflict. from all reports today, including the information regarding thousands more new israeli troops perhaps being called up. it doesn t seem if as we re at the point where it could ceasefire could be reached i
freezing rain here in south central pennsylvania and also just outside of philly. we have seen a bit of snow in the new york city metro and also newark and la guardia. here is the heavy rain and as that drives up from the south, it is going to include quite a bit of wind. the winds could gust as high as 50 or 60 along the jersey shore and up into new york along the next several hours. 6 to 12 inches of snow and a large swath as much as a foot of snow in western parts of new york. steve, back to you. thank you, karl parker. the good news is it puts us all in the holiday spirit. i guess we will have an interesting spin cycle here with crystal on location. sitting here at the table, i guess we all kind of went and did what we do for the holidays. i had a good time. i went with my family.
to make a difference. if there is a way to combine the fiscal cliff and a way to arm those who will be full verable to losing the payroll tax in 30 days and have their gun bought back. wey category combine every possible proposal in one. ask that is an incredible idea. i am here in washington and my fellow cyclists are up in new york, it doesn t matter where you are this holiday week. you are probably talking about the nasty weather. that s what we are talking about here too. weather channel meteorologist karl parker takes his turn in the cycle. next.