short yesterday, as millions of people as you re seeing poured on the passages and highways to catch a glimpse of the team. so many fans swarmed the city that players had to abandon the open-top bus transporting them around town. instead, they bordered helicopters for a capital flyover. the government then billed as an aerial parade. frankly, that s a lot of people that got a little scary there. let s time now for the weather. let s go to meteorologist angie lassman for the forecast. how s it look out there. the weather is not cooperating, jonathan. we re going to see the winter weather alerts continuing to be put up over the coming days. you can see 90 million people impacted by the system. there s multiple impacts, blizzard concerns stretching from parts of mississippi all the way to northern parts of michigan.
nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie raffa, thank you again for joining us. still ahead on way too early, the latest from the southern border and the biden administration s fight to end pandemic-related restrictions. plus in afghanistan, the taliban has announced that women can no longer attend university. what secretary of state antony blinken is saying about that. those stories and a check of the weather when we come back, on this very busy news day. my asthma felt anything but normal. a blood test helped show my asthma
wintertime. the colder weather, people gathering inside, especially around the holidays. but i think that they re leaving it up to the localities and the states to make these decisions regarding mask policies. and as that group said, i think having those mask policy in place would be incredibly helpful to getting more people to wear masks. getting more people to wear masks. making sure everyone knows we re in the surge. that public health messaging is incredibly important. and making sure that people have access to rapid tests and reminding people to be vaccinated and boosted. we have a lot of evidence recently showing that the updated bivalent boosters are very effective in the outbreaks of covid-19. certainly would not be surprising if some injured return to that after the holidays. another concern, china, covid