Comet in just hours. Well, a good wednesday morning to you, im reena ninan. Im t. J. Holmes. Begin with the spreading arctic chill over most of the country. People waking up to temperatures in the 20s as far south as texas. And below zero in the midwest, heavy snow giving an early taste of winter. Brandi hitt with the details. Reporter slipping and sliding into winter early. Bitter cold in the upper midwest, causing nearly 500 crashes in minnesota alone. Including this truck barrelling into a troopers car. How everyone walked away from that is just short of a miracle. Reporter digging out from just under a foot of snow. Tractortrailers unable to move on the ice, and dozens of flights delayed. With crews deicing planes in denver, where tuesdays High Temperature reached a record low of 16 degrees. Arctic air down to texas by the middle part of the week. Reporter some embracing the seasons first big chill. Others, not quite ready to dust off their winter wardrobe. Brandi hitt, abc news. W
Cottman and algon avenues in northeast philadelphia. Police say the two cars collided just before 4 oclock this morning and the force of it was to the point that one of the cars ended up on the lawn of Northeast High School. Both drivers had to be extricated out of their cars werent rushed to the hospital with multiple injuries. Lets turn now to david and karen for weather and traffic. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Were off to a mild start this morning. Its real that last gasp of mild air before the cooler stuff arrives later today. You can see there is some cloud cover around the area to start out and in fact there is also some dense fog thats popped up in areas close to the coast, dense fog advisory until 10 oclock in all of our coastal counties where visibility is below a quarter mile. This goes until 10 oclock this morning and current visibilities are pretty low down along the coast. Under a quarter mile in some spots. Were now seeing that fog migrate a little closer to ph
Well, a good wednesday morning to you, im reena ninan. Im t. J. Holmes. Begin with the spreading arctic chill over most of the country. People waking up to temperatures in the 20s as far south as texas. And below zero in the midwest, heavy snow giving an early taste of winter. Brandi hitt with the details. Reporter slipping and sliding into winter early. Bitter cold in the upper midwest, causing nearly 500 crashes in minnesota alone. Including this truck barrelling into a troopers car. How everyone walked away from that is just short of a miracle. Reporter digging out from just under a foot of snow. Tractortrailers unable to move on the ice, and dozens of flights delayed. With crews deicing planes in denver, where tuesdays High Temperature reached a record low of 16 degrees. Arctic air down to texas by the middle part of the week. Reporter some embracing the seasons first big chill. Others, not quite ready to dust off their winter wardrobe. Brandi hitt, abc news. Well, this cold front
i m tamron hall. news nation is following several big stories this hour, including the new mitt romney/nbc news interview and the latest on decision 2012. right now, live pictures of the florida courtroom where it has been a dramatic day in the casey anthony murder trial. casey anthony s mother cindy has been on the stand all day. and she is still there now. earlier, she broke down as prosecutors introduced perhaps their biggest piece of evidence so far. the 911 call cindy anthony, the woman you are looking at. the call she made after finding out her granddaughter caylee had been missing for weeks. earlier, she described what she said in that call. i lost it. i just went into the room and started yelling at casey. what do you mean she s been gone? why didn t you tell me? nbc s kerry sanders has the latest from orlando. it s so interesting because we know it was cindy and george anthony who defended casey in the media after she was formally charged. really stood there an
cars and 18-wheelers, moms and truckers backed up and buried in as much as 3 feet of snow. i just want to be home. they re all home from a snow day and i ve been working for i ve been up for like over 24 hours. i want to go home. from the official throughway radio, it was saying, oh, traffic is heavy, it s stop and go. and we d been stopped dead for six hours. yeah, where was the go part in that? while the north end of the city got a relative dusting, the southern end got slammed. this is how lake effect snow operates. even in a place like buffalo, there is such a thing as too much snow in too short of time and more of it is in the forecast today. for a check on that, let s go to reynolds wolf. it s amazing the way the snow totals varied wildly within a few miles. but how about that thunder snowstorm. you ever see anything like that? it does happen occasionally. it s not a common occurrence. it s dramatic, seeing as how the sky lights up. we already have lake effe