weather here is meteorologist todd santos. he has your forecast. good morning. a few people excited to see some snow flakes but to the south a few showers. this is south texas, you can see the rain over the last six hours has made some progress north and kind of hit a wall there. high pressure to the north. san antonio towards houston, a dry, beautiful day there today. it s mainly south texas dealing with some of the showers. across the west coast we have a system that made its way yesterday, you can see a little spin there, that s going to be pushing down into northern portions of mexico today. a few light sprinkles through southern california. the other piece of the system triggering some showers towards seattle. temperature wise, you can start to see the cooler air. we will have the cool air locked into the northeast in time for this weekend. for some of us just cool enough to produce snow through the ohio valley, d.c. late this morning, early this afternoon, a little bit of that
maps showing a few showers including south texas. not going to be seeing that getting towards houston. want to take a look towards indy over the last couple hours, have had some reports of some light snow, a few areas towards fort knox reports that where you see the lighter blue color, that s some of the slightly more moderate snowfall. not picking up heavy snow from any of this. this is only a three hour loop. you can see good progress forwards the east, places like d.c., question mark, we actually get snow in there today. you re talking less than an inch but late this morning and early this afternoon, we ll get a little bit of that going on. look at temperatures, very borderline. even along some of the areas we re dealing with some of the snow now it s more of a kind of slushy wet snow sort of mix. it may be at least an issue on the roadways. talk about at least a few spots. this is the way to understand it s a mild event when talking a few areas on the map with winter weather adviso
snow, while people stocked up on shovels and salt, along with candy and things, for trick-or-treaters. my daughter s not going to be happy. a white halloween. i don t think i ever experienced one, honestly. it s a mad rush of people, you know, we sell shovels, it s amazing how many shovels we sell. reporter: the storm stretched from maine to maryland and left a trail of destruction. the unusual combination of heavy, wet snow falling on still-leafy trees brought countless limbs and power lines down. yeah, it broke off. snapped here, snapped again. i m worried about the power line. reporter: this woman narrowly escaped a falling tree that hit her car. a tree fell on you while you were moving? correct. reporter: so you got out by crawling through the passenger door? reporter: ye yeah. reporter: so much snow, it sparked that passionate debate. it s much too early.
the $16 billion we ve already spent on countermeasures is enough or too much, and if we are going to continue spending that kind of money, how we organize the effort. wil hylton, thank you very much for your time this morning. more on the surprise snowstorm that dumped 3 feet of snow and left millions without power in the northeast. also, talking politics, could mitt romney be the next michael dukakis. more criticism about the presidential contender this morning here on weekends with alex witt. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil
reporter: i ve never done this before in a snowstorm, i got a chance to pull off the big, heavy jacket. but the sun is nice and wonderful, it s beautiful and it s doing a job on melting some of this snow and the air is dry we are sob the little breeze that comes along is helping to dry out the roads. that s here in harrisburg where we only had 5 inches. off to the west in some of the hills, it s up to a foot. you can see the beautiful state capital here in harrisburg. this is probably one of the nicest state capitols i ve ever seen. that snow is melting quickly. here s why this was such a big problem, craig, for pennsylvania. let s pan around and look at these oak trees, which are still green. you can see them behind me here. this is the situation. people had to use their snow shovels before their rakes, if you can imagine that. before even the first frost, we got right into the snow in through here. so so much for frost on the pumpkin. but the 5 inches that we had here, by the way,