a damper on your black friday shopping? chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is here. he has the answer in the fox extreme weather center. reporter: hi. as long as you bundle up, you re going to be fine. but it is going to be cold, and can it s behind this system right here. not yet any big snow problems. that s one across the east. there is another system flowing into the pacific northwest, so areas around portland up towards seattle. that ll continue, obviously, with another system back behind that. this is what the temperatures are like behind this cold front, 22 in minneapolis, so the cold air is settling in, temps into the teens across much of the dakotas and minnesota. it s a big change from where we were just 24 hours ago, around a 5-degree drop 35-degree drop for a lot of people. of course, you were breaking high temperature records before that. here s your forecast for the day. we have this front stretched still across the eastern seaboard, a very, very nice day. it s back b
i don t think too much wet weather will rain out your plans. we re good heading into the holiday week. let s fast forward and go all the way now into wednesday of next week. consider the busiest travel day of the season. a lot heading to relatives houses. only spot i expect travel trouble with rain, no real snow problems out there and as we head into thanksgiving day itself, we re looking really nice. just the northwest is the only issues out there. so, brian, as far as the weather world goes, this is about as quiet and as much of a break that we ll get. so we ll take a bit of stability. sports now. dolphins taking on the bills last night up in buffalo. less than two minutes into the game, the dolphins punting to mckelvin. you love punt returns. you know it s going to happen. weeds through a couple of guys and off to the races. 79 yards all the way to the end
6 to 12 maybe more inches of snow. lake-effect snow warnings from cleveland, to syracuse, finally. blinding travel conditions if traveling by car. big holiday, get home, back to work tomorrow for most folks. cleveland, snow problems. new york city, metro, wind problems. chilly down to the south. windchill advisories as far south at west palm beach. winter has finally arrived, and we have you at cnn. nice to work with you, my friend. i ve been watching you forever and ever on end. so, if you are a politician, would you not think you d be in iowa right about now? if the contest starts in 30 hours or so? not jon huntsman. huh-uh. he is in new hampshire and dissing iowa. what, what? we ll tell you why. and filmmaker matthew modine in iowa. next hour, we ll talk about his trio of provocative political short films. ooh.
also, we ve got something very unusual that s happening in mt. rainier. there s been a murder of a park ranger and they re looking for this person. they feel like he s escaped on foot at this point and have had to actually rescue some of the people that have been camping. we ll tell you more details about that. the fat weather service says blizzard condition in the great lakes could make the travel you re trying to execute impossible. isn t this like one of the busiest days of the year for travel. a lot got used to the warmer weather, you know, the nice conditions and snap out of it. bam, wake up. hey, guess what you ll have to snap out of that pre-election lull. we re down to 36 hours before vote time in iowa. talk about shaking hands. i wish they had a shake-oh-meter to know how many hands had been shaken buffett the polls started opening in the iowa caucuses. we have numbers for you. some are surprising. the new york times says it is the worst los angeles
first shook. we re live in turkey with the latest. and i m carol costello. president obama about to unveil a new plan to help young americans go to college without going broke. details on the president s proposal on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, october 26th, and welcome to american morning this morning. buying car? so sorry for carter evans. i m going to find out what the number one car was. we have commercial breaks here. e-mail. paper. any tough questions for me? write them down before you ask them to me on tv. how s that? what s the meaning of life? we ll get to that one. a busy morning for you. up first, new clashes overnight between police in oakland, california, and occupy wall street protester. police in riot gear using tear gas on the crowds in oakland s city hall plaza. look at pictures. fascinating. some protesters throwing paint at the cop. dozens arrested despite