damming assessment of the police response to the uvalde school shooting, what a newly released report reveals about cascading failures of leadership and decision making as 21 students and teachers were murdered. breaking news in donald trump s georgia election case. the hearing just scheduled on the misconduct allegations involving fulton county d.a. fani willis, and the special prosecutor she hired. also breaking news on the crisis in the red sea, we have just learned that the u.s. has launched a fifth round of strikes on the houthis as tensions rise in the region. and ready for launch, we are live at kennedy space center as four astronauts prepare to blast off. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin on the ground in uvalde with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i want to get into this extensive report from the justice department about the failures inside the walls of robb elementary. what more can you tel
The winter weather is coming to New York and the National Weather Service has upgraded its Winter Storm Watch to a Lake Effect Snow Warning for parts of the state.
"And to get where we are even today is still way ahead of the pace in 2014,” remarked Dan Neavreth, Jr., commissioner, Erie County Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Services.
that occurs when cold air blows over warmer lake water, picking up more moisture and leading to higher snow amounts downstream. climate experts warn water temperatures in the great lakes grow increasingly warmer each year, shortening the length of time ice covers the surface during the winter. i just want to remind everything that there is a lake effect warning still in effect. this thing is still moving. so we still need to take this seriously. reporter: polo sandoval, cnn, buffalo, new york. cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins us now live from the cnn weather center with more on all this. derek. laila, these snow totals i m g about to show you are just mind-boggling, but you ve got to see this almost an elevated view time-lapse of a snow squall. this is the lake-effect snow band moving over downtown buffalo earlier on friday, and you can see the extreme whiteout conditions that just basically inundate and take over the city. this is a very narrow band of