headquarters. the east coast and the nation mid-section slammed by major winter storm today. the snow dropped snow and freezing rain and bone chilling temperatures outside. the storm resulted in six track deaths. airport reports hundreds of canc layings and delayed flights. and the nation joining ohio to say good by to the last of the original astronauts, john glenn. they moved to a packed auditorium in ohio state university. joan glenn was 95 years old. now, back to watters world. now, back to watters world. so when i started 18 months
below. authorities say the cars may have been icy cause may have been icy roads and weather may have been the cause of the roof collapse at a restaurant and forced 50 people to evacuate from the eagle restaurant in indianapolis. thankfully no one was hurt. and meanwhile temperatures are on the rise across the nation s mid section and the east coast following the bitter blast of frigid cold that we had yesterday. snow and freezing rain has this is weekend. accidents in and so far sadly at least nine deaths are blamed on those slick roads and the weather also causing hundreds of flight delays, and cancellations across the country today. so stay safe. the united nation security council voting later today on a resolution to bring immediate said to syria. the measure calling for u.n. humanitarian staff to monitor the crisis ini aleppo and report how many
we have an olde we have an olde here s what s happening. the republican field of candidates is now down to 12. former new york governor pataki officially ended his race for the white house. he entered back in may but never caught fire and poll numbers hovered at 1%. he had a difficult time raising money for his campaign his decision coming before the first primary in iowa. one for the record books is how meteorologists are describing the storm system pummelling the nation s mid-section the past several days. the torrential rains are being blamed for 18 deaths and rivers at illinois and missouri are at the flooding stage and several
problems in a hyper local sense. their main streets are dying in some cases, there are a lot of boarded up stores. low capitalization stores secondhand shops. dollar stores. the cities are doing pretty well. you can tell the infrastructure is there. iowa is paradoxically becoming kind of an urban state with most of its people living in urban metropolitan areas. you saw, you know some of the people talking, talked about how their kids didn t want to stay in the state. iowa has that in common with the mid-section of the country. they have a 12 system that does very well in the rankings nationally. they send their kids to a network of very good state colleges and universities and then they leave iowa. and that s been a challenge that s been noted by governor after governor in that state and
it s not hot there. that s perfect. save money for the club. but the deals are hot. so that s what is important. there s a lot of club going in miami. when was the last time you were at a club? i know about a lot of things that i don t actually personally do. that s the nature of reporting. you listen to rappers talk about the club. this is quickly spiraling out of control. courtney i m sorry. but thank you for being here. thank you for having me. happy fourth of july. we ll see you again soon. so this is the weekend for fireworks. of course let s just hope they re not coming from mother nature. dominica is here if your forecast. heat out in the west and storls through the mid-section. that s going to stick through the holiday weekend. we re stuck in this pattern and we ll start with the radar. storms are firing up from the ohio valley to the southeast so the main threat with this is going to be flooding rain and isolated wind gusts. so damaging winds.