and now a new storm begins its march across the country tonight. rescuers racing into a frozen pond in naperville, illinois, pulling an 11-year-old boy to safety. and it was in new hampshire that news of a 2-year-old who froze to death after wandering outside in the cold. at least 13 people were killed in the storm over the weekend, and now, of course, the next one. so, let s get right to rob marciano, he s tracking it, as always, for us. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. the cold air in place in the eastern half of the country. and three storms now coming to california. they got hit hard today, they re getting it right now with rain across, especially southern california, had a wind gust over 70 miles per hour. a bit of a break tonight, but another one tomorrow, for the same areas. and then the one on wednesday, thursday, that s going to have some high winds, i think, for san francisco, and really hits the entire west coast. over a half a foot of rain this week across coastal mountains
security flaw 50 bucks? space bar. yeah. all right. let s check in with rick reichmuth who is outside on the plaza for a look at our spring weather. you are a pennsylvania guy. do you know the town of hastings? hastings orรง nic town. i better say yes or i will get emails. with three sisters from hastings, pennsylvania. who is oldest? will you fess up? i m the oldest. it s the oldest who the is most responsible. who is the baby. i m the baby. we re the most irresponsible ones. we get it weather maps. rain across the ohio valley this week. the same day we saw some of those tornadoes. 10 reports of tornadoes now with that very heavy rain. few areas picking up 6 to 8 inches. that has brought flooding concerns with some the snow melt. some of these rivers rise into the moderate flooding stage over the next couple days. certainly folks across the ohio valley be prepared for that today across the northeast. see a few snow flurries
back. rain across the tennessee valley and ohio valley. some of that today is heavy. not severe, i don t think, but heavy downpours across the eastern tennessee. maybe northern georgia, across the carolinas. that could cause localized flooding from that. we obviously have the river flooding we are watching across illinois river. wabaush toward indiana and across the ohio, mississippi. and in toward the red river. a lot of rivers that are in the central part of the country that are kind of swollen an we ll continue to see the flooding. but for the day, pretty nice across the northeast. if you like yesterday, you will like today. similar day with warm conditions, at least warm for what you have seen so far this year. there will be rain throughout the day, though, moving toward part of the west virginia, and western areas of pennsylvania. heaviest is down toward the southeast. we saw significant flooding in houston. more downpours in the area and we could see flash flooding there. temps a
absolutely an amazing event they throw out there with thousands of people who travel from all over the place for this big celebration early in the morning. fireworks at 6:41 a.m. good chance that he is not going to see his shadow because there is going to be a little bit of cloud cover and few snow flurries. that would mean a short winter. i have tell you he has a 39% accuracy rate. if that means anything to you. here your temps as you are waking up this morning. take a look at your first alert forecast across the northeast. we will see snow showers moving in throughout the evening hours. that will be kind of overnight tonight. everybody waking up with a coating of snow. not a big problem any bye any means. down to the southeast sunshine. rain across the mid tennessee valley and in towards the northern plains. that s where cold. another clipper coming through with a little more snow. back to you inside. thank you, rick. we will help you get a job today on this saturday morning. we ha
and now the radar for the u.s.: northeast dealing with showers and storms this afternoon and this morning areas of new england are seeing showers and a gray start the day but it will be better and tomorrow we will see sunshine across the most and that will be a nice break for people. across the southeast, areas of florida seeing showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, and typical for this time of the year and the heaviest rain is across the central plains and nebraska and areas that dealing with significant flooding and some of the spots seeing around 2 or 3 of rain across the missouri riff valley seeing record flooding and another 2 or 3 causing flash flooding, and, today, but brutally hot across texas and today, getting close to all time highs in amarillo. dave: nothing rick likes better than sitting on the we