from canada to handle the holiday crush. many commuter lines in the northeast haven t fully recovered from hurricane sandy. so you might want to double-check the schedule before you arrive at the train station. sound advice once again. thank you. and the skies are not expected to be quite as packed as usual today as airfares climb. carriers cut the number of flights by about 3%. most of the country will be rain-free, leaving weather-related airport delays largely confirmed to the northwest. they had a couple rough days of stormy weather out there. a ripple effect is not likely to spread to the rest of country. good news for those heading to the airport today. and here s a couple of traveling tips you may not have heard, but i m sure are going to be wildly popular.
and ron johnson. also, nbc news political director chuck todd joins us. up next, though, politico s mike allen explains why democrats should fear romney. ann romney, that is. but first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. i don t think we really fear him. no, no, we like bill this week. i think we feel good because i think he s going to give us a couple of good days this week. we deserve it after this weekend. this weekend was ugly. we have a lot of things going on this week. heading towards easter weekend, areas in the northeast haven t seen the sun since friday. you ll see it eventually today. we are starting off cloudy. the rain is ending. and it will slowly improve during the day today. a little breezy this afternoon too. temperatures only in the 50s. but at least with the sun out, it will feel a lot better than it did this weekend. sunshine in d.c. too. and we re talking about a nice lead up to easter weekend. d.c. is looking great. temperatures in the mid 60s.
not the hundreds of thousands. geographically they re scattered around the country. they haven t got a large presence in damascus. until today they didn t have a very large presence in elepo. i hear several thousand students are demonstrating. demographically they re predominantly drawn from the poorer neighborhoods. by and large the middle classes have set this out. christian and minorities remain loyal to the president. the kurds in the northeast haven t really got very involved. i think that is one of the weaknesses of the protest movement. well we re certainly glad that you made it out safely and we re glad that you can be a voice for the people there in syria to help us understand exactly what s going on inside. martin fletcher, thank you. good to talk with you. thank you.
in over ten years and noses into the northeast as if the folks in the northeast haven t had enough. we will update you on this impressive system developing right now. there has been machine gun fire from an egyptian tank in alexandria, apparently to scatter protesters. we are following that for you. thousands of egyptians gathered in tahir or liberation square, ignoring a curfew that went into effect 90 minutes ago. egyptians want more freedoms and someone to replace mubarak. mubarak must go. we want freedom. we want better education. dear people of america, you have the right to choose your presidents. we need to have it once in our life, once in our life, i want to choose my president. and the big pblem now,
hurricane watch now, the navy as well getting ready. they are moving a destroyer out to calmer waters right outer loop p trying to get out of earl s way. rob marciano is there for news virginia beach for us now. rob, tell us the best you can tell us about when it might get to where you are and other people are along the coast and are we talking about a direct hit just yet? well, that s a possibility. it has been possibility the whole time, t.j. what we have been hoping for really hasn t happened. we have been hoping for more easterly progression of the forecast track. it keeps getting shifted to the west ask that means that north carolina, virginia, and the delmarva, and the northeast haven t been taken out of that forecasting margin of error, cone of uncertainty. it is a possibility to get a direct hit. even if that major hurricane gets within 50 miles of the coastline, or 100 miles of the coastline, that s going to put some hurt on virginia and chesapeake bay area and certainly the