christmas is because of a storm developing over texas friday, moving to lower mississippi valley saturday may take a run up the eastern seaboard sunday. the northeast corridor from d.c. to new york city, no white christmas they may pay a price after. if we look at the radar now we have a storm the storm has been pounding california, sending pieces out, the final piece is going to be coming into the southern plains, organizing low pressure near dallas friday. that means snow will be breaking out across kansas and missouri friday heading into the ohio valley, northern part of the tennessee valley for christmas day into the carolinas christmas day. the focus of the snow problems on christmas day is here. sunday morning the storm should be on the south carolina coast. choice to go out to sea or churn up the coast? i think it is going to urn up the coast. if so, even though the snow may hold off in the northeast until after christmas day, when it comes it may come in
snow falling out of the storm and by tuesday we ll see temperatures across the entire area where they ve had as much as a foot of snow back in the 60s. alex? looks like the no snow problems as people get back to the workweek and school week. mike seidel, thanks so much from tulsa. and for the latest, the extended forecast for your area, just log system on to weather.com. still ahead, boiling down the health care bill. a look at what s in it and who will be covered. and, uh-oh, you ll see what happened here. a little guy got stuck in a sticky situation after trying to get a peanut butter fix.
up past across the pacific and get into the intermountain west. this is a shot of i think new orleans. sunshine, temperatures there getting into the low 40s. should and nice day to clean up. everyone getting back to work after their big holiday. wwl, our affiliate. 40 days of repenting and fasting and praying for all those who partake. 36 right now in vancouver. 52 expected to be the high temperature today. 53 degrees and sunny for thursday and friday. so temperatures will be four, five degrees above average. vancouver doesn t get all that cold. i m still kind of shocked as to how they got the olympics, especially with all the snow problems they re having. that s certainly a question to maybe be answered. currently 36 degrees, light winds in vancouver. cypress will see temperatures above freezing. big snowboarding competitions today. whistler mountain yesterday actually got some snow. they had to shut down practice runs for the ladies and postpone one of the events for the men s
mostly rain storm monday and tuesday in the south. it s not until it gets to the colder air on wednesday, the busiest travel day of the year they call it that we re going to start to see the issues. the storms should be over new york city. two inches of rain possible in areas of new england, all the way through the mid-atlantic. snow on the backside of this. if we re going to have snow problems, enough to shovel from buffalo, syracuse and pittsburgh. we avoid a big snowstorm out of this. it will be a rain storm. it is definitely cold out there. that will still cause problems. thanks, bill. and that system already turned deadly this morning, 13 people are confirmed killed by the storms. reporter: in the southwest, wicked winter weather that s dangerous and on the move. the powerful storm blanketing several states with heavy snow steady rain debilitating ice and high winds. in texas, icy roads turned i-20
all those snow totals, we go to nbc meteorologist bill karons. reporter: over the last 36 hours the evolution of this storm, this blizzard. as you watch it move up the east coast and then blossom just south of cape cod, now it is pushing over towards the canadian maritimes. from boston it s starting to improve. who still is dealing with a little bit of the snow problems throughout this region? let me show you the boston area. you notice it was only flurrying there. but it s still snowing pretty hard down on cape cod. one little batch of snowshowers to boston and hartford. .5 inch or so. for the most part you are done. to the north, though, our friend in maine are getting it good. we ve already picked up over 30 inches of snow in portland. biggest snowstorm in the city s history. it s still snowing pretty good. back up there i-95 from augusta to bangor blizzard conditions right now. that s where the heavy snow band is set up. in maine this is going to last another couple hours probabl