congress next week. next tonight, the earthquake felt across southern california. a 5.3 magnitude quake hitting near the channel islands this afternoon. the strongest in the area in several years. the quake rattling an eagle s nest being monitored by the national park service. residents feeling the shaking more than 100 miles away. no serious damage or injuries reported. next tonight, the weather headline no one wants to hear. two spring storms that are anything but spring-like. snow and record cold moving from montana all the way to the northeast. powerful winds ripping the roof off a school cafeteria near central kansas. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. rob, good evening. reporter: good evening, tom. the days are getting longer, but our winter remains endless. another couple of storms coming. let s get right to it. a mix of rain and snow tonight in through chicago. this tracks northeast, maybe one to two inches of wet snow tomorrow morning, especially ac
charred charred almost 43,000 acres. authorities say that fire is about 8% contained. it has destroyed 13 homes so far. the utah blaze reportedly started more than a week ago by someone burning weeds. they estimate that fighting it has cost $7 million so far. let s get a check on your weather now with bill karins. are things cooling down out in the southwest now? after today. today is the last day of the extreme heat in the southwest. it s aiz maing we actually have more reports of more fires. this has been an epic historically long heat wave in the west, and it s a good thing we didn t get a lot of big blazes. you wouldn t want the firefighters out there in those conditions. this morning, wet weather goes. there s a complex of thunderstorms that s going through west texas. the only really big weather headline is the dangerous heat. excessive heat warning continues. by the way, we started this conversation with excessive heat going into last weekend. this is the longest duration ex
thank you both very much. now to the weather headlines. a look at rockefeller plaza. temperatures in the 30s this morning. joining me for a look at the weather headline, kelly cass. what is it hoit looking like ar the country? we re talking about a lot of lake-effect snow. we haven t seen a whole lot of this lately. it was a mild january up to this point. but we do have that cold air spilling down over the great lakes. and with the water temperatures in the 30s and 40s and air temperatures more like 20s and low 30s, that is going to be the setup for some good lake-effect snow out there. and we have all the lakes involved today entomorrow as well. there is your blue showing up from west michigan all the way to the end of the new york state through way. so buffalo, erie, and tug hill plateau. the wind will be strong. snow showers even down toward
the cold air starts to come in tomorrow. you see the pink, that s the cold air that we had at the earlier of december. now that is going to move back in for this week. that cold air will settle in for almost everybody and maybe snow across the deep south later in the week. tonight, severe weather across parts ox texas and tomorrow, a tornado threat across the deep south to start january. you didn t have to rehearse that. i didn t. she can do it. i want to try to watch you some day. not right now, not in this show, but we should try it. i think we should do it today. i don t think we should. it s a new year. 2017. get the feathers out. where are my feathers? don t do the lift, please. no. we did the weather headline. starting with this one, the washington post is under fire for jumping the gun, fallly accusing russian hackers of tapping into vermont s power plant. the feds saying there s no proof cyber thieves got into the electric grid to begin with, but instead,
as devastating category 4 hurricane. it scraped the coast of florida and came ashore in south carolina triggering inland flooding in the carolinas. by november the u.s. was seeing a major snowstorm before thanks giving moving across the country bringing blizzard conditions to some areas. by the end of the month drought conditions in the southeast fueled droves of forest fires including fires in tennessee that killed more than a dozen people. around the same time, tennessee and alabama saw a series of deadly tornadoes. but in the end, the biggest weather headline, 2016 will go down as the hottest year ever recorded on planet earth since weather data first started being kept back in the 19th century. in new york, i m fox news chief meteorologist, rick reichmuth. patti ann: president-elect trump announcing he will shut down his charitable foundation to avoid conflicts of interest while he is in office. we ll tell you why the democratic national committee is criticizing that decision and s