Or more. blowing snow an issue. obviously, we re going to have some problems on the roadways. i want to take you just outside the twin cities on route 36. notice the snow here. vehicles overturned in the median. and now these travel problems working their way into the northeast. we have snow across pennsylvania, new york, vrnlly into new england. we ve got rain right along i-95. all of that pushes the way farther north and east going through the day on friday, wrapping up on saturday. i-95 should remain mostly wet, not snowy. but we expect major south lake tahoe downs at the airports. all the airports highl highlighn red, anticipate lengthy delays. how much snow do we pick up? norah, in some places we are shoveling out two feet or more. o donnell: incredible. mike bettes, thank you. today, the biden administration says it is putting emergency health personnel on in case hospitals bottom overwhelmed by bay covid winter surge. it is part white house s pandemic contingency plan. cbs na
Golf ball size hail pummelled drivers along route 36. the conditions here so bad trucks and cars were forced off the road. halloween weather promises to be more frightening. hail, strong winds, heavy rain, and lightning forecast thursday for 12 states. one to two inches of rain are possible from michigan to kansas with three to five inches of rain on the southern end of the storm. the weather forcing a change of plans in america s hartland. in indianapolis events have been cabs ld, postponed or moved indoors. i have six kids. i don t want to drag them out in pouring rain. i ve been considering buying candy and that way they ll have candy even if we don t make it out of the house. in chicago those we spoke to said the weather won t halt their halloween halting. the weather s not going to stop me. it s not going to stop us. we ll go out and have fun. reporter: usually this time of year the big storm will have a snowy component. this halloween storm does not. more good news, if yo
Intrusion. they sent out mobile alerts and text messages today telling everyone who lives in lower manhattan and those areas of staten island they have just shut off power it is a chilly and windy and rainy night. and now darkened in lower manhattan. first alert forecast first alert forecasters i also wanted to update you on something else. in new jersey, the ocean has crossed route 36 in near new jersey just south of us come many many blocks inland. but thankfully residents there are still high and dry. there have been a lot of water rescues in the state of new jersey and new jersey governor chris christie seemed lived in a news conference this afternoon admonishing those in atlantic city after the governor said evacuated these areas the mayor of that city said no, you don t have to do that. and now water rescues are being affected and governor christie is angry. first alert forecasters have warned that folks oon long island are likely to see this same sort of damage that we have se