first came to the white house under obama, the new staff looked at me with a cold surprise. the diverse white house i had worked in became a diverse and male bastion. she said she may have lasted longer if it weren t for the ban on the muslims. that s a real shame. bonnie schneider, a good day to you, but not a great weekend for many ahead. it is a mixed bag of weather. right now in milwaukee, thunderstorms and just to the north snow. and where we have snow, the storm is so intense we re getting thunder snow. so it is a vigorous storm system rolling through lacrosse right now into iowa. and iowa is where we are watching potentially to see blizzard conditions develop throughout the day. 25 million people right now under some sort of storm risk or winter weather advisory. and this is where we re looking at the heaviest amounts of snow
situation so much worse, so much more painful. so where to you go from here? what s next from you, ben? we track storms daily. we go wherever the storm risk is greatest. tomorrow, we re looking at areas in texas, the south central texas area could have similar storms oklahoma experienced today. one of the big problems today is somebody told people, get in your car and start driving and that caused a huge, huge traffic jam in major interstates and people will be investigating to see who gave that poor advice. ben mcmillen, thank you very much. be careful and good work. thank you. chad myers is on the phone, our meteorologist who has been chasing these storms, as well. have you made much progress moving? because the traffic has been horrendous you were telling us. it difficult break up a little bit and we re in southwest oklahoma city.
jackie. you can see where the severe storms are hitting the united states. there have been a couple watches in places. even yesterday as i was in south carolina, watches all over that state. this is a new storm system. it s a vigorous one. something with this much energy for nighttime tornadoes is somewhat unusual. this is a rare event. it s particularly dangerous. we call it a pds watch. a lot of that because of the storm risk we have. there s a high level of certainty to have multiple tornadoes. some could be large and stay on the ground for a long period of time. the other thing that makes this dangerous is that this is happening at night. people are going to bed. you can t see what s going on. so you could be sleeping when the storms come on through. there you can see the watch area. eastern parts of arkansas and western tennessee. northern parts of alabama and even into the boot heel of missouri. the thunderstorms are initiating just to the west of little rock. the who