yep. this is thesis cbs morning news for wednesday, july 24th 2015. good morning. thanking for joining us. i m alison harmelin in for anne-marie green. severe weather and the possibility of tornados in the forecast today for the northern plains and the midwest. much of iowa and illinois from des moines to chicago remains under the threat of flooding. as wendy gillette reports many in new england are cleaning up after the summer s first big storm. the storm darkening skies as it moved in. southern new jersey getting battered. winds downed trees smashing cars and taking power lines with them leaving thousands in the dark. it came within 15 minutes and was here and gone. reporter: the severe weather halting amtrak service between here and philadelphia. it also caused a train to stall near harrisburg leaving passengers in the dark and without air conditioning for hours. the storm ranging from the mid-atlantic where the weather caused a deadly car crash near washington
morning, we think four to six inches. a good six tyo o 10 inches south and east. more areas of snow, especially south and east of the metro. with just a few inches on the ground tonight, so far we have had problems driving and walking. steve rudin is in the stormwatch 7 weather center with that story. the snow continues to fall, but not as rapid and as much as earlier. the streets of rosslyn are plowed, but mostly snow-covered. everything that continues to fall overnight will stick as snow. look at the temperatures out there, today s high 20 degrees. yes, just 20 degrees at reagan national airport. 27 degrees below average for this time of year. now we have temperatures only in the teens. a will not rebound, they will not move a whole lot overnight. it stays cold as more snow is on the way. coming up, doug and i will tell you about what to expect not only tomorrow, but the next chance of wintry weather in the 70 outlook. steve, we will see you shortly. the snow was slammi
we were on the air this morning. reporter: we are now in the 20s throughout the entire metro area. the dc record is not going to get dropped, thank goodness, right? 1 degree all the way back to 1873. we are not going to drop that low tonight. 2 degrees in baltimore. that is a little bit more in jeopardy. still though, i think that is a record we are going to see shatter tonight is this record low. 14 degrees, dulles airport hasn t been in operation as long so their records don t go as far become. so this is a very unusually cold air mass for this time of the year. we are getting close to march and it is not feeling anything like it. with the wind chills tonight in the teens and single digits for that p.m. rush and then it is going to dip close to the zero degree mark in some spots and the out lying suburbs. that is before you factor in the winds. the winds are going to diminish overnight tonight so there won t be as much of a wind chill factor. it is going to be downright f