candidate michele bachmann. also, former director of national intelligence retired admiral dennis blair. and up next, author and columnist bob kagan. but first, here s bill karins. it s too easy, with a check on the forecast. yeah, i wouldn t give any credit for whatever you were going to say to me. good morning, everyone. we have pockets of freezing rain being reported in massachusetts, that s really about it, light stuff blowing up through new england. the big story today is the warmth. it s like a spring type day across the country. i m tracking thunderstorms. those white flashes on your screen are live lightning strikes in the areas of oklahoma and arkansas. we ll have more thunderstorms later today maybe a few tornadoes, east texas all the way to louisiana. if you re watching us from houston all the way to louisiana the new orleans area, you have to watch out for strong storms late today into this evening. the rest of the forecast, look
don t know if this is a spring or winter storm. nasty storm. yeah. swept through the northeast. it did. yes. it was both. some winter weather that went along with it. probably more spring type overall. unusually poetent and, you know, get hurricane-forced winds out of the system like that. just incredible. it caused a lot of damage. you still have hundreds of thousand of people without power. i-reporters showing us incredible photos. those are from andrews summerfield from new jersey. let s zoom in and show you for you. he took these again. new jersey, they can see numerous trees down. want to get this one. you can see one uprooted. look at how huge that thing is. to give you an idea of how powerful the winds were. you can see a tree which fell on top of a car here 37 he said this was near his house. woke him up in the middle of the night. he and his wife. he said it sounded like a subway every time the wind would come howling through. thankfully, he said in his area,