freeman and ernie banks all in the same room and i try to get them to stop selling themselves short. plus this morning we re talking about politics. presidential politics in france. why? because one of the people, the man you are looking at there, who is believed to be the front-runner to be the next president of france is now sitting in a jail cell in new york. scathing details of how all of this played out. we ll have that for you. but welcome to this cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. let s start now with the case of saving new orleans at the cost of others. the latest on the historic flooding along the lower mississippi valley. now take a look at this. you see that picture? this happened yesterday. the army corp of engineers opened just one of the 125 gates at that huge morganza spillway north of baton rouge. this is something that has not been done since 1973. they could open two more of those gates toda
a chance of scattered snow showers through parts of northern ohio and the keystone state of pennsylvania. pittsburgh, combination of snow, sleet, and maybe a little bit of rainfall too. in terms of temperatures, randi, can it be better than this? 65 the expected high this atlanta, 51 in washington, 39 in new york. that s where the cold line comes through. back over to kansas city. 69. 44 in denver. 34 in salt lake city, and portland, 49 degrees in willamette valley. picture perfect for your sunday. back to you. thank you, reynolds. one of the premiere events of the all-star weekend is the slam dunk contest. the stars made it magical. today, the young guns pull out all the stops. check out the dunk that won it all for blake griff inch. the los angeles clippers star jumped over the hood of a car to slam it home. that is impressive. then he sticks the landing on
the new senator coming in from the keystone state of pennsylvania. $14 trillion debt that will dig $200 billion out it the debt commission s preliminary plan. most democrats and republicans have been blasting the idea. we could have gone to those guys to debate this but they are politicians so i was thinking of expert would know the benefits of taking one step at a time. so, naturally the you in addition terrorist twins came to mind. here to talk about the benefits of starting and doing it. what i love, you talk about better go slow and make progress than do anything at all. we are about small changes and in the secret to skinny, we are about simple small changes for a massive result. neil: some would say, well, if you are 300 pounds overweight
people of pittsburgh know this go to premani brothers, sandwiches the size of an actual baby, huge, huge sandwich, good place to go. there across much of the keystone state of pennsylvania picture perfect, our photographer scott is from pennsylvania, it s going to be a great day in lehigh valley and parts of the ohio valley for much of the southeast, high pressure is the dominating feature, a beautiful day across texas and the four corners, warm in phoenix and the strip in vegas but phoenix is called the valley of the sun for a reason, no surprise there with high temperatures going up into the 100s, no shocker for you. 104 in i have gas. 84 degrees in salt lake city. the next 30 seconds, 66 in seattle, 76 in minneapolis, 70s from boston to new york, much better day in the northeast now that earl is up, up, up and away. 84 in atlanta. 89 in new orleans. we re keeping a sharp eye on the
at that time about 40 miles west of detroit. not due from the video you see here, but in michigan, there were straight line winds and tree damage. we re not out of the woods yet. it s been a busy severe weather season. let s go over to the map. i m going to hop up and show you the severe weathermaker for the day. there will be two bull s eyes on the map. two areas of concern for us, one is right here in the central plains. you ve got the moisture coming in from the gulf, you have this area of low pressure that creates lift. you ve got the frontal boundary, two distinct air masses. cool air to the north, humid, warm air to the south. and that is going to make this atmosphere very unstable. but not just in this one spot. part of the entire state of new york, back in the keystone state of pennsylvania, perhaps even into ohio. now, in the southern half of