it s expected to follow the exact same pattern for another round of punishment this weekend. we turn now to meteorologist pad dram javaheri. about 130 million people under alerts, advisories and warnings. a multi-storm setup over the next couple days. one coming in in the next 24 hours and another one late this weekend and early next week. if it s not heavy rainfall it is a wintry mix or heavy snowfall across parts of the midwest and also the intermountain west and parts of the northwest as well. the current storm brings in heavy rainfall across portions of the south. north of st. louis into parts of the great lakes it becomes all snow. all this have pushes on in towards the east as we go in later on tonight and early tomorrow morning leaving behind four to six inches of snowfall across that region. plenty of flooding threat in place as well from nashville down towards birmingham, even northern portions of mississippi and even areas of arkansas where
florida, huge early voting state. we get a lot of vote and get it fast. 100,000 right now. rick scott, the challenger, running ahead now. all of this coming from one county. pasco county, in 2016, was the county we looked at, the gulf coast region. said something is happening here for trump. just early vote. just early, but when donald trump, pasco county, north of st. petersburg, a lot of retirees and a lot of folks from the midwest. come down to gulf coast. in pasco county. early on here, not saying read anything into this. keep an eye on this going. this is the question we re asking tonight in a senate race and governor s race is can scott perform at the trump level in places like pasco county or does it recede. go back to where mitt romney was in 2012. was enough for trump in 2016. getting our first. this is another one to keep an
north of st. george utah, the black mountain fire has scorched 5,000 acres and threatening towns near minners west of u.s. 15. they re a couple days away. trying to hold on until we get some relief and get some additional ground forces in place to help put the fires out. in california, the pawnee fire has been burning. 22 structures have been burned and 56% contained. firefighters are worried hot dry weather into the weekend could mean the danger isn t over. since january, there s been more than 28,000 fires across the u.s. burning more than 2.2 million acres. with expected dry conditions the next few months, firefighters could be in for a long hot
again, helped the nasdaq hit a record high. back to you. thanks so much. let s get a check on weather with the bearer of bad news, nbc meteorologist bill severe weather karins. i hate ruining mother s day, picnic plans you have been planning and then have to change the plans. worst in west texas. we have heavy rain, thunderstorms, producing hail. 10 million at risk of severe storms today. watching late day for chance of tornadoes from childress towards oklahoma city. they have a good helicopter pilot if they get tornadoes on the ground, if there s a close enough range, they ll show them on tv. see if that happens. kansas city, north of st. louis, chance for big hail storms late today. time this mess. slow moving storm going through the week. there s today s storm. going to tomorrow, watch dallas to memphis. friday, thunderstorms and heavy rain for kentucky, tennessee and maybe some isolated stronger
impact that this area near st. louis, north of st. louis, west of st. louis, people there dealing with all of this water as they have some dry conditions. but some really cold conditions approaching. what we understand from authorities is that the worst is still yet to come. some rivers in the area have crested. but a lot have not. and so there is more water to come and the hope obviously is that some people are really taking the evacuation warnings seriously. i want to bring back our meteorologist who is not only monitoring this from the weather center but this is also his hometown area. and tom, we re looking these pictures are stunning and i was just talking to one mayor who said, he was dealing with one guy in his community and an elderly gentlemen, who refused to leave his house. and then when, you know, when we see helicopters here, obviously monitoring the scene, a helicopter went back over and could catch a heat signature out