1,000 flights have been cancelled at atlanta s airports and many schools will be closed. the state of emergency should be over soon because much better weather is on the way. not the case in central north carolina where it is still snowing. the area is gearing up for what the governor says will be a tough storm. practically the whole state will get some sort of frozen precipitation. a lot of schools will be cancelled. even duke university are out of class. accu-weather s justin povick will tell us where the winter storm will hit exactly and even more storms to tell you about on both coasts. good morning to you, justin. t.j. and reena, thanks and good morning. a cold morning throughout the northeast. great lakes and the ohio valley. now yesterday maybe not so bad. today northwesterly winds will be ushering in arctic air. along with colder temperatures and breezy conditions we are expecting light snow showers from buffalo and syracuse, south toward pittsburgh, columbus and lexington. s
ends and michael holmes joins us from the region with a live report. and did gas prices go up overnight? we ll look at pump prices around the nation and see who is paying the most and why it s going up, up, up. from cnn s world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. former president nelson mandela is in the hospital right now. officials are calling it an abdominal complaint. the 93-year-old s health has declined in recent years and he was largely kept out of sight, shunning public appearances. first of all, what are you hearing? what is going on? well, deborah, the presidency and the international public congress has been very, very adamant that mr. mandela is okay, that there is no need to panic. they re trying to reassure a very panicked public because the last they heard is that mr. mandela is suffering from abdominal ailments that really needed a specialist s attention. but the anc is say
this is not haiti so there is no concern about exposure as we are inside the buildings and out of harm s way. here are the current conditions. winds are primarily out of the southwest which has brought in slightly milder air. in the first night we snowed in sendai, the first night after the everett quake, we snowed and it was bitterly cold out there. that system has long gone now and we are tracking another one coming in. this is a coastal low developing to the south. the latest computer model has it further south. this is excellent news. before we had a rain band moving through tokyo. i like what i see with that low moving to the south. scattered showers the next 48 hours, nothing significant. here comes a low. on the backside northwesterly
naples. they could see the core of the hurricane, as you were just talking about that life-threatening storm surge. the gulf coast is subject to that, high values that can extend inland. the topography of the water, the under water topography is different on the southwest side than on the east side. tell us how that affect surge over into the everglades, doctor? right, the bitometry. all of that as irma comes up like this, the northwesterly winds on the back side of it are going to drive that water. and it piles up and can go really far inland in the naples areas. can go up into the rivers and creeks near fort myers, and the