for westerners who defected to is sis. the middle east research institute has been examining tweets and they found that they re missing all the comforts of home. this one, take a look, who says that she misses starbucks because the coffee in syria is so wretched or how about this tweet which says all the salon shampoos and conditioners are just no good. 39 minutes after the hour. heavy rain expected for some folks today. maria mow thrown is tracking it for us. we re tracking heavy weather with parts across the western u.s. across parts of the eastern u.s. while we re looking at quieter weather in terms of any precipitation, we have a few light showers across parts of the northeast and could be seeing steadier rain out there. very blustery conditions will be in place. in the northeast wind gusts potentially greater than 30 miles per hour. that could cause some issues at
them over the course of the next couple of days. there are new massive late winter storms moving across the country, could drop a foot of snow two days before spring begins. sneaking in what is hopefully the last winter class. maria mow lean ace live from the fox weather center to tell us. reporter: more winter weather in store for parts of the mid week the great lakes and even into the northeast, including parts of the mid atlanta as well like virginia and the state of west virginia. a lot of winter weather to pass. we do also have extreme heat across southern sections of the country like over in and antonio, today, keep in mind it s not officially spring yet, you ll be seeing a high temperature at 93 degrees, possibly record heat across parts of texas. further north is it cold enough to seeing no fall. gusts of 50 miles per hour overt upper midwest.
the minneapolis area and wisconsin we have several blizzard wharpbgs because of the strong winds and also because of the snow. we are talking white out conditions on the roadways, very dangerous stuff out here and also blowing snow. on the southern side of the system severe weather with tornado, damaging wind gusts, large hail possible in a pretty big section of country, kentucky, tennessee down into parts of the florida panhandle. stay alert out there. you could be looking at pastor made does. in the northeast winter storm warnings in effect, upstate new york, connecticut, rhode island all the way up into maine because we ll be seeing more snow out here. martha, the higher accumulations of over a foot are snow in new hampshire and maine, lighter accumulation for the south. martha: a little bit of spring skiing up there. maria thank you so much. bill: here is another storm, duly plans for america s budget crisis emerging now in both the house and the senate. the house budget stpaeur pa
it could feel a little cooler than that. anyone headed out to time square you ve got to bundle up, and jon as we head into new yore s day to kickoff 2013 we could see a couple of snow showers but no big deal and the high temperature should be a nice toasty 35 degrees. jon: 35. okay. you re going to see those people out there tonight with no shirts on, the guys. reporter: they are already out there. they ve been out there since 9:00 this morning lining up. jon: i don t get it i really don t. but each to his own, this is america it s a great country. maria mow lean a thank you, happen here new year. reporter: getting ready for one big party out there. definitely. finally the countdown to the new year is the count town to the fiscal cliff from capitol hill to the whoufplts you can see senator harkin there on the floor of the house area, efforts to hammer out a deal before its too late. what is really at stake. sevens are on the floor as you can see talking about the negotiations. we l
readmitted for problems that could have been prevented and those institutions will be penalized for that under the new law. bill: parts ever the southeast under a severe tornado threat pwhrout on my powerful storms rolling through parts of alabama, georgia and the florida panhandle. maria mow lean ace live in the extreme weather center. what is going on out there. reporter: good morning, everyone. we are tracking an area of low pressure that will be bringing in heavy rain and the possibility of severe weather across portions of the south. this is the same storm system that produce aide loft flooding across parts of texas, louisiana over the weekend dumping more than 7 or 8 inches of rain in some areas. expecting a lot of heavy rain from the storm system and already saw that across portions of the south. it should weaken a little bit as far as the heavy rain goes over the next 24 hours. we are seeing it occur across parts of kentucky, eastern portions of tennessee, parts of the caroli