d.c., baltimore, philly to new york, a slushy inch. new york city just west of new york city, when you get to higher elevations, that s a different story. northwest jersey could pick up 6 to 12 inches. poconos could have a few spots above a first. harrisburg will be changing over to snow shortly and they should get a wet, heavy 5 inches of snow. if you stay with us on msnbc, you ll see jim canner to covered in snow by noon hour. where the bull s eye is later this afternoon into tonight is up through central new england, into northern new england. this is where you re not going to want to travel late tonight for any reason. manchester, as much as 10 inches of snow. springfield, 8. hartford, 8. through the cat skills, newberg, poughkeepsie could see over a foot of snow and is that will knock out a lot of power. not worried about high elevations. most of your leaves are gone. the valley floors, you get this much snow with leaves on the tree, we ll have a couple hundred, maybe a million pe
announced another stimulus measure inform boost the economy. we will get the reaction around the world. hong kong s hang seng index is off 5%. that s a big move for one day for a stock index. japan s nikkei is down 2%. in europe, more of the same. french, jer planing markets all plunging by more than 4%. have you gold down. you have oil down. you have selling basically acro across the board. downside risk, this is an economy in the u.s. and worldwide that s not out of the woods and markets are responding accordingly. we will talk more later about this. sure. cries of injustice and closure for one family after 20 years. the state of georgia executing by lethal injection death-row inmate troy davis late last night. davis was convicted of shooting and killing off-duty savannah police officer mark mcphail, a father of two children. several witnesses that helped put him away changed their stories even while strapped to the gurney insisted he did not have a gun. a crowd of hu
worth has destroyed about 30 homes already. it threatens many more. this is so big, the fire is so big and intense that firefighters haven t been able to contain any of that. right now crews are getting people out of its way and trying to protect the homes still standing. the fire has burned nearly 8,000 acres. air tankers are expected to drop water on the fire today. it is unclear how this fire started, but the epic drought and the heat may have made this the worst fire season in texas history. oklahoma is suffering, too. a fire near oklahoma city has forced people within a two square mile area out of their homes. it s going to be another busy day for rescuers in vermont. several hundred people are still trapped by floodwaters. irene with its punishing wind and rain turned some communities into islands, cut off from civilization. the national guard has been dropping supplies by helicopter. at one point you couldn t get into or out of 13 towns. authorities hope all of them wi
temperatures, freezing line, somewhere around trenton this morning. from there northward you probably have a little ice to deal with. th g ystdaouby pisbgh wiereaer advisors er it could be icy and snowy, coastal connecticut back into the high country and a little mountainous area of northwest jersey and pennsylvania near the poconos. a lot of snow is leaving. it was going to be daybe another coating out here, up to an inch in areas from cape cod to coastal rhode island. a little by albany, too. we re just about done with all the snow in the system. should be exiting southern new england as we go throughout the mid morning. temperatures will warm up at least into 30s and 40s this afternoon. whatever is out there should be melted bit end of the day. temperatures will cool and it will be cloudy. even tomorrow doesn t look much better. bill, thanks. well, hollywood loses a
we have snow being reported in northwest jersey and also up through the poconos. and light rain is about to move into new york city here shortly. and you may see some sleet in the very beginning, even in the burbs outside of new york city. the white on the map is snow and we ll get a good chunk of it in areas of upstate new york, vermont, new hampshire and maine. three to six inches with the mountain areas getting six to 12. there will be people shoveling later on today in boston, hartford and providence, you ll see some snow, but the roads will be wet. the forecast today, it s going to be cold and chilly, especially from connecticut to boston. new york southwards, rain early today. the rest of the country, no the too bad. the west coast had a big storm and that s going to be a travel trouble spot if anyone is flying out there today. rough day at the airports, all right, bill. time for sports, we begin with a late game in the ncaa basketball tournament. you might have policed it i