joining us now, nbc news chief political analyst, chuck todd, the man behind the article and nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard. chuck, when you go back and look at 2020, and why donald trump lost, is there a definitive answer for why he lost? i think if you surveyed political strategists and political scientists, you wouldn t get a definitive answer. i think he lost simply because of covid. there s a lot of people because of what happened after the election with january 6th, they think about his antics, the first impeachment. then we had the second impeachment that sort of took place right after the inauguration. we never really had that sort of consensus, you didn t have the after action reports because you have one party was in denial that they actually lost, so they didn t do an after action report. but in some ways, neither did the democrats and i think that what i feel like i m watching is what the biden campaign thought their theory of the case was in october of
Temperature of 52, milder afternoon in store and sunset is 4 40 tonight but with 52 degrees, well, dont get used to it because as we have been telling you things will get chillier, we could even see a few snowflakes, on christmas, bob kelly, in a couple of places. Details, coming up. Flakes on christmas, through go. 4 01. Good morning. We are cleaning up an accident here south on i95 at girard avenue at girard avenue off ramp police and hook and ladder just went down the ramp here, this far right lane still blocked as you head south in toward the city, still a lot of construction out there this morning, all of the guys trying to get everything wrapped up before we call it a weekend for christmas. Heres a live look at schuylkill expressway eastbound you can see cones still down here eastbound closed in the tunnels under 30th street station. You can jump off at 30th or use the vine expressway to cross town, over in new jersey , there is still work on the northbound 295 ramps to the 42 fr
Want snow is Christmas Day, we will see what happens but it is eight out of 10, buddy ready for his Holiday Party at school with temperatures in 20 s and 30s out there. Not quite as cold as yesterday and we expect a milder day to day, we will see precipitation to the northwest and nothing here and we dont expect anything until later tonight, it is 35 degrees in philadelphia we will be at 47 by lunchtime, we should top off at 53 degrees, much milder afternoon then we had yesterday but dont get used to those milder temperatures because another chillies on the way in the seven day forecast, bob kelly. Good morning. 5 01, last day of work, school , christmas is here live look at schuylkill expressway in the bad at all they have pick up cones so we are ready for morning rush hour expect a lot of unusual traffic patterns today already a jammo in the line down at philly international we will get down to jenny at the moment live look at roosevelt boulevard from the northeast light volume here
49 in philadelphia now. Weve gotten up to at least 50. Its above normal for the temperatures here. But if you think its warm here, its in the 50s, pittsburgh, into cincinnati and even 60s further to the south. Were getting warm air coming in, and then the cold air is going to come in. Lots of ups and downs over the next few days. See all the clouds now, but no rain close by. Thats a lot of rain, though, thats moving up from the ohio valley and the tennessee valley. Its moving in our direction. Lets take a look and see when were expecting this. Not so much through 10 00, but in the middle of the night. And when you get up tomorrow morning, and its not going to be that cold. Look at the temperatures, they dont drop overnight at all. Tomorrow from start to finish, its on the mild side. 48 in the middle of the night at the jersey shore. The rain is going to take a little while to come in, but by tomorrow morning, its covering most of the area. Its going to be a wet day tomorrow. But a mild
An make a turn to the right out to sea. Right now every single tropical forecast model shows the exact same thing. It should pass by Atlantic City 200 to 225 miles east of Atlantic City by tuesday arch. It will bring some impacts to the jersey shore, but far enough to keep the majority of the storm out to sea and impact the canadian maritimes. As we look at the wind field you can see how lopsided the storm is. The Tropical Storm force winds extend outward to the east 150 miles. They are about 75 to 100 miles to the west. Always the storm travels to the north, most of the winds stay out to sea. Nonetheless this is what to expect down the shore. Huge breakers up to ten feet that will cause dangerous rip currents and minor flooding Tuesday Morning and rain and wind down the jersey shore. The bulk of it will miss us out to sea. Ill be back and tell you what to expect for today and how long the warm sticky weather lasts. We have Tropical Storm maria lurking east of the Leeward Islands and c