bit. nothing that s going to cause a lot of o headachheadaches. the storm system behind it has started to generate snow around wichita. it looks like it will be over the top of st. louis later on today. as we go through tomorrow, two to four inches through much of central and southern new england. not much in new york city, not much in philadelphia. those kraareas may see a brief period of ice. the only thing that could cause issues today, we may get severe thunderstorms, louisiana, mississippi, and eventually into areas of alabama we could even see an isolated tornado or two. erin though it s the winter city, sometimes we can get winter weather events. those are the travel concerns. still ahead, a moment of joy on a pretty difficult day, how the newtown high school football team is helping the town heal seven years after the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school.
to roll on its side. mounds of the stuff literally littered the highway before crews arrived to clean it up. apparently, they salvaged what they could. now for another look at the national weather, we turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. bill, good morning again. you got a grin on your face and i have no idea why. i just don t want any salvaged pork. yeah, apparently they salvaged it. i have no idea how or why. i guess it was still cold enough. just throw it away. a little road kill added to it. no problem. let s throw away your forecast, too, does that sound good? yeah. let s talk about the important stuff. blizzard warnings have been issued now for about eight or nine different states. winter storm warnings go all the way from down east maine through new england back through the ohio valley all the way to new mexico. i mean, this is one of the most widespread winter weather events i ve seen. not just that it s widespread, that it s
our bigger winter weather events of the season. in oregon, wildlife officials are doing what they can to help a herd of hungry antelope. hundreds of them are gathered in an ice covered field with little food. hay has been spread out for the animals, but they re not eating it. they re adapted to eat this dried up stuff in the winter time and that s what they re doing. changing their diet drastically could kill them because they re not able to digest it. that wildlife sxerpt says the unusually heavy snowfall prevented the animals going into the hills where they ll find more food to their likely. now to dead birds falling from the sky. more than 00 grackels rained down from the sky in tennessee. in italy, 8,000 turtle doves died. oddly, the inside of the bird s beaks were stained blue.
minneapolis northward was a little bit, quote, unquote, chilly. as we go throughout the day today, as i mentioned, we have general lee in the south, not just punxsutawney phil. many local groundhogs will be making their forecast. we have a potent storm kicking out of colorado into the siene tall plains. that will be one of the first significant winter weather events we ve seen in months in this region of the country. from colorado to nebraska. it looks like areas of iowa may get nailed. not much on the radar, just some snow beginning to show up in the mountains of colorado. we have a blizzard watch in effect for the north platte area. central nebraska, a full-out big old winter storm for you. even the denver area will see significant snow. we re talking the possibility of school cancellations and blizzard conditions, especially areas of eastern colorado. how much snow? the 6 to 12 is in the pink.