Winning columnist timothy egan jims multiple books have inspired popular documentaries and have found their way into many classrooms. His book, the worst hard time the untold story of those who survived the bowl, won the National Book award and inspired ken burns documentary film the dust bowl is other books include a pilgrimage to eternity, the mortal irishman and the good rain, and was previously New York Times opinion columnist on politics. The American Experience and as a reporter, he was on the team that won Pulitzer Prize for the series how races lived in america. Here today with us to discuss his recent book fever in the heartland. The ku klux klan is plot to take america. And the woman who stopped them, it tells the story of a murderous con. The klans rise to power in indiana in the 1920s, and the woman led to their downfall. Booklist it riveting. Please join me in welcoming megan to the festival of books. So before we get going, i just to give a big thank you to the of tenness
Www. Wyff4. Com, and click on whether for the closing section to read about delays or closings that may impact you today. Geoff thank you. Take a look at the numbers when it comes to power outages. Mcdowell county with more than 2000 with no power. Duncan county is down to less than 600. Henderson county a little bit more at 1300. Allyson duke Energy Reports 616 customers with no power in anderson, 282 in greenville, and you can see outages for both carolinas on our wyff 4 up. Geoff North Carolina felt the effects of the winter storm with roads covered in ice. North carolina had a lot of wrecks. Allyson North Carolina state Highway Patrol says more than 300 wrecks happened in the area of raleigh, durham and chapel hill. They say the wrecks started happening just after midnight geoff and this note for people in mcdowell county, there is a phone outage right now in the hankins community. Officials ask that you call or text 911 for possible emergencies. Allyson Authorities Say there are a
Hits a sour note due to audio issues. She laughs it all off, today, tuesday, february 16th, 2026. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie and we have carson daly in for matt. I wish i sounded as good as adele did on her technical issues. There was something for everybody. Well talk politics, too. Our top story is the weather. A wintry mix of snow, ice and heavy rain battering the east coast. Tornadoes, as well, in the south. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has it covered for us this morning. Good morning. Good morning. Were waking up after the Winter Weather advisory in 17 states, stretching some 1 rksz,200 miles from georgia to maine. In a lot of spots, we expected the snow to turn to rain overnight. Rush hour is still dangerously icy in locations. All of it, part of the storm system that spawned tornadoes in the south and the east. Rep
And they do not recommend going out on the roads. Geoff South Carolina Highway Patrol is continuing to work a number of accidents this morning. A live look behind us shows our scdot cameras. I know you will have a little more on traffic coming up. Allyson a little bit of traffic in just a minute. First, we want to get to wyff news 4s aly myles joins us live from Travelers Rest with a look at conditions on the roads this morning. Aly our Journey Continues this morning here and we have driven from greenville to Travelers Rest. We are here in tigers fell. Still seeing a lot of wet roads this morning are no ice that i can tell as of yet. We are seeing extremely wet roads. Not many cars on the road this morning, at least not yet. Something to keep in mind whenever your commute starts. Very slick patches with all of this water. Take a look at the video from last night. Comparison video for you shows scdot camera from my 385 at on the left, traffic at a standstill on the interstate after a fe