so many people will give their condolences and prayers tonight as well as tomorrow. thank you. turning now to weather and whiteout conditions in new hampshire leading to a massive pileup involving 35 vehicles. look at this video. what a mess. the chain reaction crash leaving a dozen people injured. this after officials say the highway went from dry to snow covered in just three minutes. janice dean is live in new york where we re seeing a dusting right now but nothing like that in new hampshire. it s going to remain really tricky all across the eastern seaboard as we see the new system move in along with the new year. let s look at the current temperatures. we re going to see or feel the coldest air of the season later on this week but six currently in rapid city. you can see where the cold front is. ahead of the cold front warm unstable air and potential for severe weather today. winter weather advisories over half a dozen states, blizzard
don t even yet know where the haystack is, and making matters harder, the choppy seas could stir up any debris from the plane or cause floethe pieces to stop floating. we have live coverage. lea is here and let s start with janice dean and the weather complicating the search. we had a cyclone, equivalent to a category 4 hurricane last night. now down to what we call a tropical storm, but bringing very cloudy and rainy conditions along the west coast of australia and that could hinder search crews, as well as a frontal package move we re going to see another system move in on thursday. the good news is, as we head do into the weekend, we have high pressure building in, which is almost unheard of for this time of year, across the southern indian ocean, and several days for search crews to get in there. so, right now we re dealing with
heavy damage and power outage from the storm reported along the missouri and kentucky border. these pictures are from cape girardeau in missouri where 2,000 people in the dark this morning. power lines and trees are down throughout the entire region. a busy night for our cnn weather center. let s talk to indra right now about the latest on the storm and what can be expected now. have we seen the worst of it? looks like we have seen the worst of it. we don t have the severe weather threat and high we did yesterday or expanded but take a look at the system. 150 more reports of wind damage as the made its way away and tornado reports in louisiana and illinois ps as we see that system move to the east and northeast we are looking for high wind advisories in the mid-atlantic. what are we looking at? the system is going to continue to progress to the east today and as it does so we are looking at rain all up and down the
quickly to pull that teen to safety. not only is he facing a bench of charges, he s in the hospital, so are two people in the car that he hit. this was a bad situation all around. lucky it wasn t worse. that s exactly right. good story. thank you for that. let s get back to indra petersons with a look at the weekend forecast. i love that. this is the word weekend, it sounds so good. it s nice. we have a double whammy out there. we talk the northeast to the southeast. generally being dry. florida you ll always have your afternoon thunderstorms but overall, temperatures are perfect and only an afternoon thunderstorm in florida. no complaining there. d.c. 70s. atlanta, more 70s. loving this. we see the story going to be once again, notice all the cool temperatures in the pacific northwest. temperatures 15 or so degrees below normal. on the other side of it, temperatures 15 degrees above normal. when you see that and you have a system move through the area, you ll see severe thun
begins hurricane season and all of us have disaster at the front of the mind sitting here watching the moore story unfold. and today, watching the weather map, the one you see right there on your screen as the folks in oklahoma city and surrounding areas listen to the sirens. warning them to seek shelter under ground. joining me at the table now, a gentleman we had booked to discuss hurricane seasons, warning from noaa, is and we hope folks will not have destruction. we hope the tornado there avoids devastating circumstances. irwin, before we get to hurricanes or other disasters, since that is front of mind as we watch this system move towards the oklahoma city area. a few weeks ago we were covering