Williams. Good evening. Just in time for friday night travel and the weekend, a huge and messy storm large enough to straddle both sides of the Mississippi River as it heads from west to east is tonight on the move with a second weather system right behind it. Tonights storm has triggered watches and warnings from texas where it left a foot of snow clear to new england. Its one of those storms big enough to be given a name by our friends at the weather channel, they call it iola. But for upwards of 60 million americans in its path its just going to make a mess of transportation. Its where we begin on this friday night with meteorologist dylan dreyer. Reporter up and down the east coast today salt trucks are filling up and heading out. Plows on the move as ice, snow and wind push north. Much of the eastern part of the countrys gearing up for this saturdays storm. The storm left texas blanketed in record breaking snow. In amarillo it piled up in a matter of hours, as you can see in this
Travel and the weekend, a huge and messy storm large enough to straddle both sides of the Mississippi River as it heads from west to east is tonight on the move with a second weather system right behind it. Tonights storm has triggered watches and warnings from texas where it left a foot of snow clear to new england. Its one of those storms big enough to be given a name by our friends at the weather channel, they call it iola. But for upwards of 60 million americans in its path its just going to make a mess of transportation. Its where we begin on this friday night with meteorologist dylan dreyer. Reporter up and down the east coast today salt trucks are filling up and heading out. Plows on the move as ice, snow and wind push north. Much of the eastern part of the countrys gearing up for this saturdays storm. The storm left texas blanketed in record breaking snow. In amarillo it piled up in a matter of hours, as you can see in this time lapse. Fourteen inches the past few days. In fact
Race. Good evening im Frank Somerville and welcome to a second look. Men and women seeking a challenge like no other race through wild and rugged back country and not just on foot. Bob mackenzie followed a team from right here in the bay area as the adventure began in april of 1995. On a remote hilltop in southern utah. 250 people lined up to get their horses. Each team was issued three horses. Three people of the team will ride two will run. They come from all over. Navy seals, army rangers, die hard runners and all ages from 18 to 72. These are people who live to compete and most have run endurance races before but that doesnt guarantee they can survive the echo summit. Up and down mountains and rivers and some of the most desolate and beautiful countries in the world. Over the grueling course in temperatures that can range from 30 degrees to 90 degrees. They will wear what they can carry, eat and sleep what they can carry, sleep when they must. On this first morning every team is fu
Joined once again by our metrologist bill karins. And landfall cant be long from now. Yeah, the center will probably be maybe two to three hours from now. But that northern eye wall, the part that has the 150mileperhour sustained winds, thats only ten miles offshore right now. Thats where the destruction takes place, youll see houses get torn apart, trees that are snapped in half. Thats with this band right here. Wherever that travels, over the next six to eight hours, thats where the worst destruction will be. Thats what you dont want your town to go through and thats where everyone is beaumont, lake charles, everyone who evacuated, theyre hoping that doesnt go through their house. The first spot is in Cameron Parish. Its a remote area of southwest louisiana. Its a lot of wildlife refuges and only a population of 7,000 people. Hopefully theyre all gone. Theres not a lot to destroy in Cameron Parish. But its low country and swampy. Its not going to take a big chunk out of the storm. It
Primged elite. Krnof privileged elite. Reserved for north korean favor by kim jongun. Why is much of the rest of the country struggling just to survive . Wolf blitzer is off. Im Brianna Keilar. Youre in the situation room. Breaking now an fbi investigation into threats against multiple airliners, one prompting the u. S. Military to scramble fighter jets into new yorks kennedy airport. And u. S. Defense secretary ash carter setting off a huge controversy after telling cnn in an exclusive interview iraqi troops showed no will to fight against isis forces that overran the city of ramadi. Were covering all of that and more this hour with our guests including republican congressman peter king. Hes a member of both the Homeland Security and intelligence committees and our correspondents are with us as well from key locations. I want to begin with cnns tom foreman with new information about the airline threat that send u. S. Air force jets scrambling. Reporter authorities think maybe one, one