Michael moore insults snipers and jesus once again. This guy is irrelevant. It is a blizzard of 15 that has grabbed our attention. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart you can see the effects already of the approaching lizard. You look comfortable. Spell out the disruption. We are at the total mercy of Mother Nature. We are looking at 2000 Flight Cancellations just today alone. The three airports with the most. Here in washington, it is mostly raining. It has been most of the morning. We are only expecting to4 inches here of slushy mess. The new york city airports. White plains boston, port name, all going to be severely affected. Delta has canceled or than 600 flights today because of the weather. We issued a waiver today. They are encouraging their passengers to log onto twitter to find out the latest. [laughter] stuart that was a lot of fun there. Thanks a lot. We will see you soon. Extreme leftist sweeps the power and grace. It is bad for the euro. It is good for the dollar
Among them sarah palin, who says she is ready to throw her hat in the ring. And remembering mr. Cub. Baseball fans in mourning with the death of ernie banks. We will look back at his life today, saturday january 24th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Tough news overnight. You spent a long time in chicago. He is mr. Cub. Ernie banks. We woke up to the news overnight. What an incredible optimistic guy. I had a chance to meet him. He had the enthusiasm. The Chicago Sun Times with lets play two. That got the fans to go to the wrigley field. I was rushing around and started reading articles about him. Every word approachable and optimistic and all the positive words. He got the medal of freedom from president obama. Lets get to the top story. The huge storm making a big mess on the
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Tonight the tail end of a powerful noreaster is whipping northern new england. This is portland, maine, where the snow is coming down and the streets are we deserted. The storm dumped as much as 2. 5 feet of snow in places, but which places became an issue today. Predictions that the new york city area would see an historic blizzard and paralyzing snowfall did not pan out. As the storm shifted overnight, long island, east of the city and massachusetts took the beating. We have a series of reports tonight beginning with anna werner who joins us in boston. Anna . Reporter scott, the snow is still coming down here. As you can tell from this big pile of snow behind me, the snowplows are still working overtime trying to keep the streets clear. Now, the city of boston had more than 26 inches of snow. Outlying areas saw more than 31 inches of snow from this major storm. Hurricaneforce winds up to
Williams. Good evening. Just in time for friday night travel and the weekend, a huge and messy storm large enough to straddle both sides of the Mississippi River as it heads from west to east is tonight on the move with a second weather system right behind it. Tonights storm has triggered watches and warnings from texas where it left a foot of snow clear to new england. Its one of those storms big enough to be given a name by our friends at the weather channel, they call it iola. But for upwards of 60 million americans in its path its just going to make a mess of transportation. Its where we begin on this friday night with meteorologist dylan dreyer. Reporter up and down the east coast today salt trucks are filling up and heading out. Plows on the move as ice, snow and wind push north. Much of the eastern part of the countrys gearing up for this saturdays storm. The storm left texas blanketed in record breaking snow. In amarillo it piled up in a matter of hours, as you can see in this
To see or hear from them again. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Tonight the tail end of a powerful noreaster is whipping northern new england. This is portland, maine, where the snow is coming down and the streets are we deserted. The storm dumped as much as 2. 5 feet of snow in places, but which places became an issue today. Predictions that the new york city area would see an historic blizzard and paralyzing snowfall did not pan out. As the storm shifted overnight, long island, east of the city and massachusetts took the beating. We have a series of reports tonight beginning with anna werner who joins us in boston. Anna . Reporter scott, the snow is still coming down here. As you can tell from this big pile of snow behind me, the snowplows are still working overtime trying to keep the streets clear. Now, the city of boston had more than 26 inches of snow. Outlying areas saw more than 31 inches of snow from this major st