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aircraft in there right now. it did not find any increased wind speed yet. so sometimes the pressure goes down and then the winds build. but theres the eye right there from the miami radar site. so its not all that far away. weve had outer bands coming onshore in florida for most of the day. theres another outer band offshore right now if youre standing on the beach you may be able to see the lightning in the distance. i hope youre not on the beach at this point, though, because the wa...

just moments ago, the national hurricane center issued a new bulletin. chad myers joins us with the latest. chad, what does the new bulletin say? >> the pressure is going down, anderson. and thats bad. the lower the pressure, the higher the wind speed. now, there are hurricane hunter aircraft in there right now, did not find any increased wind speed yet. sometimes the pressure goes down and then the winds build. but theres the eye right there from the miami radar site. so its not all t...

Its too cold. >> shepard: im with her. it happens every year and we forget. areas that didnt see any snow got plenty of rain and slush just in time for the morning commute. it was a rough one. rick reichmuth the main guy in the weather center. rick, how much snow are we talking about here. >> we are pretty depressed about it. about a foot. kind of northern new england, parts of maine, massachusetts up in the hills. higher elevation is where you saw the snow this time. not the cities, not the low...

And april snowstorms with ice, but were expecting temperatures in the next week to actually like 77 in atlanta. dallas, 80 degrees. oklahoma city, 77. remember that 31 below zero was the all-time record temperature never reported before in oklahoma. if they get to 77 thats a 100-degree difference in one week. 100 degrees. sam champion, abc news. new york. >> there was the 100 degrees we told you about. >> wow. heres a look at your friday forecast. a new storm in the northwest bringing rain and...

Down. the government says theyll do everything possible to keep it open. meanwhile, back to those strikes. thousands of workers are joining in on these strikes. they say they want better pay. they want better work conditions, and they are supporting the opposition protesters. and were going have michael shore coming up in just a few minutes to talk about egypt. he, of course, is the former head of the bin laden unit at the cia and the cia counterterrorism analyst. hes joining us. meantime, t...

By what was estimated to be a 70 mile-per-hour gust. hurricane-force gust that ripped through during the heart of this particular storm. its bad. its going to linger for a while. dig-out is going to be days in the making. shep? >> shepard: steve brown live on lake shore drive in chicago. big battle over health care in the u.s. senate today as republicans tried to repeal the presidents overhaul plan. and just a short time ago, it was time for a vote. well take you to capitol hill for a look at re...

Folks are not just trying to dig out, but hundreds of thousands are struggling to get by without power and in the midst of wind chills of minus 20. trace gallagher is covering this all from our breaking news desk. trace? >> reporter: megyn, this storm was ever bit as bad as advertised. can you imagine, this was the third worst storm in chicago in the past 125 years? chicago gets beaten up every winter. this is lakeshore drive. we talked about this so much yesterday. it came true. this was frozen...

Midwest and man, chicago got hit really hard. the national weather service is now ranking this winter storm as the third largest to hit chicago since snow records began in -- im sorry, 1886. the blizzard dumping at least 19 inches already on chicago, with howling winds, piling up huge odrifts and -- snow drifts and more expected by the end of the day, the storm also putting a glaze of ice on a good chunk of the northeast. just walking down the sidewalk, without falling, is a challenge in many pl...

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>> neil: so with california, a state that is broke, wants to stop doing business with arizona, a state that is not. simply because arizona is state not accepting business as usual on illegal immigration. arizona crackdown and now los angeles city council has proven to the world its simply cracked, voting to suspend business ties with the state. even official city workers travel to the state. leaving aside that los angeles is in quite a state, itself, literally, $20 billion in the hope and no hop...