nbc s mark potter is live for us in memphis this afternoon. one of the areas that had been hit pretty hard. mark, what s the scene like there and how are folks dealing with the storm? reporter: well, i think you said it right there. most people are just sort of dealing with it here. that s what we can tell. a lot of people are staying inside. it s pretty cold, 27 degrees. this is the famed beale street in memphis. the roads are clear. earlier there was a big crowd down there as people were walking in to go to a basketball game. there is a sense of disappointment. there was a big marathon scheduled for today. 22,000 runners coming in to support the st. jude children s hospital. but last night, emergency managers canceled that race because of safety concerns. the forecast here for tonight from about 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. tomorrow calls for potentially more sleet and ice on the roads. road crews are going to be out early putting brine on the
11 there. we have 35 in minneapolis. 27 in rapid city and as you can see, 60 s across the mid atlantic. real quickly today, it s going to be 70 later on in memphis. almost 80 in atlanta. here in the big town of new york city, topping out at 50. 83 in tampa. all right. from tuesday morning to monday night football. last night, might have nodded off in the third and fourth quarters. let me tell you what happened. less of a game, more of a clinic for the patriots taking on the kansas city chiefs. tom brady leading his troops against k.c. and
schon, in memphis at his concert, having great time. poor tareq, stop believing your wife loves you. she took a journey. she did. yes, indeed. hope she is having a great story. the fbi was about to get involved. apparently these two dated in the past. michaele and neil schon. we haven t heard the last of the story. you think it will last? aw, come on now. publicity. another journey. anderson cooper, beloved former world news now anchor from years ago has his own talk show that debuted this was his first week they had snooki from jersey shore apparently a funny moment you know what? snooki, lets you and i go get tanned together. they went to the tanning booth. there is anderson and snooki. and she said that she had, she was quoted as saying i had no idea mr. anderson had muscles. when he took his shirt off he had like a huge peanut muscle. it was cool. peanut muscle? congratulations, anderson. he does look like he could
their properties in expectation. the big news on the mississippi was they shut down that river to navigation around natchez. they ransom test barges. they were concerned about the wakes hitting the mississippi side and louisiana side and causing damage to the buildings. they did some test tows, now barge traffic can come back and forth past natchez and vi dala. one barge at a time in. a day you have 600 barges coming by. we ve got gridlock there. baton rouge is expected to crest todd and tomorrow. i want to emphasize much like in memphis, baton rouge, natchez and vicsburg, most of all these three cities are fine. there s no need to cancel your trips. we re hearing people are cancelling conventions in baton rouge. the city is fine. it s the outlying areas hit by floodwaters. mike, thanks so much. so arizona is pushing for a tax that carries what some are calling an offensive message to poor people who are overweight.
images we are seeing now. security forces killing civilians in the streets. and you re going to see a heroic effort to try to retrieve a mother and son lying in the streets. just the latest disturbing scenes from the uprising that s left hundreds dead. also, i ll speak to the wife of a political activist. an activist herself. her husband has been taken, arrested. she doesn t know where he is. or what s happened to him. she s now in hiding, but she s determined to speak out. she wants her voice heard. a watery state of emergency throughout the south. the mississippi river cresting at a record level in memphis. flooding on the move. we ll get a live update from martin savidge in memphis, next. [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections