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0 hands sunday. the forecast from a trained human meteorologist in a second. lets start with the elements, msnbc alex wilson drew that plum assignment, he is in queens. >> reporter: as of early afternoon, still under a winter storm warning for the new york area until 7:00 tonight. things will taper off as far as snow goes through the evening commute. new jersey governor chris christie declared a state of emergency for the state, and new york city mayor bill de blasio said he used lessons from th...

Atlanta, youre feeling that chill with the wind chill of 3 degrees. the winds have been relentless across the northeast, winds gusting around 30 miles per hour in central park, 43 in albany. look how much temperatures have dropped over the past 24 hours. 41 degrees colder and thats actual air temperature when youre talking about the wind chills like you mention, it feels like 60 to 70 degrees colder than it did yesterday this morning. there is light at the end of the tunnel, by the end of the we...

Those wusses. >> well, were wusses for being inside. i want to turn it to raphael miranda. all 50 states with some sort of freezing temperatures. just here, we talked about how this 60, 70-degree swing from yesterday, in terms of the whole country, how many records were broken here? >> brian, right now were seeing records broken all across the eastern third of the country, new york city, were talking about records that go back over 100 years in new york city smashed with that cold. these are the...

million of us who are trapped in this polar vortex. the coldest air mass in a generation today marched east and a whole new population of americans are saying bring it on, mother nature. >> two pairs of long john bottoms, a sweater, underarmor top and this big down jacket. >> stay home. dont come out. its very, very, very cold. >> im begging mother nature for mercy. just how cold is it? this escaped prisoner turned himself back in to authorities in kentucky just to escape the cold weat...

stranded for hours because the tracks literally were too frozen. joining me now from mexico, new york, thats right, mexico, new york, nbcs katy tur. wed rather be in mexico, the real one, the other one. >> reporter: i know. i think its a lot more funny and enjoyable for you guys over there in the studio than it is for me and my crew standing here, but as you can see behind me, theres an american flag. we are in america. this is mexico, new york, not down south mexico, the country. we d...

While it will get colder where you are, its getting warmer here. warmer is a word you can use in this context at all. >> well take warmer if we can get if there for you. joining me now, nbc new york meteorologist raphael miranda. you have this wild looking scary map behind you. >> polar vortex. the core of it sitting over chicago. windchills around 40 below. thats what ron allen is feeling. in new york city, temperatures were in the 50s. the polar vortex will pivot toward our region tomorrow. le...

0 to say that. were in the highest deficit of all time. should they pay for this? perhaps. we could look at sugar industry. oil and gas industry. lots of places we could look for pay fors. the finance committee. ways and means committee, they have inches and inches and lists of pay fors that they could easily pull out. once you do that, you take from one and give to the other and that makes everybody mad. the pressure will build on the house if the senate passes it and i think they will pass som...

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the supreme court, today, saturday, september 8th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a saturday. im lester holt. >> and im jenna wolfe. 59 days until election. here we go, the race is on. speeches are over, balloons have dropped. its now time for barack obama and mitt romney to make their case to the nation as to why they deserve to be president for the next four years. >> each trying to work with the respective bounce i...

Now for the very latest on the storm track, we want to check in with wnbc meteorologist raphael miranda. explain what were seeing, where this storm is going to be going because, obviously, the gulf, its already battered already and doesnt look like its going anywhere any time soon. >> thats right, thomas. its all about the slow forward movement of hurricane isaac. again, still a category 1 hurricane. and the storm, as you can see on the radar here, the eye wall has been fighting off the dry air....