meanwhile, tonight, pelosi under pressure of democrats said one of the new fangled beds on late night tv she ll send the and like a regular articles of bed, the cardboard ones are build to with impeachment to the senate when she s ready. likely soon. stand up to 440 pounds of sleepy olympian. why would they do lester thank you. also tonight, we that happened to comfort? are tracking violent storms across a reporter: 40 2,000-mile stretch from the south to new recyclable winks before the 400 meters. england. al roker is here al, what are you looking at tonight kevin tibbles, nbc lester, it s an news, chicago. that is nightly early spring pattern news i m lester holt. thank you for watching, everyone, instead of january, and good night we have ten state, 31 million people at risk for tornados, hail and damaging winds a flood threat from texas to michigan. right now at 6:00, he says vie slent storms for the southern plains. he felt embarrassed and snow developing behind it o
meanwhile, the president making unsubstantiated claims about his justification for the strike we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. reporter: while the constitution says congress has sole power to declare war, modern presidents have used executive authority to launch conflicts around the world and congress hasn t been able to stop them. tonight, republican matt gaetz one of three republicans to join nearly every democrat in voting yes. this is real stuff to real people and if they re going to put their lives in harm s way, if we are going to do this as a nation we at least should have a conversation. reporter: meanwhile, tonight, pelosi under pressure from democrats sai she ll send the articles of impeachment to the senate when she s ready. but it is likely to be soon lester kasie hunt on capitol hill, thank you. also tonight, we are tracking violent storms across a 2,000-mile stretch from the south to new england. al roker is here al, what are you loo
returned. what that means we measure the temperatures of the water out here in the pacific. here s south america and here s central america, here s mexico up here. we measure this. it has been warming up. now we re weak el nino. that will continue through the spring. now, the impacts here in the lower 48 are very typically an active southerly jet stream which brings wet weather into california, sound familiar. that s what we ve been doing all winter long. usually continues wet and active spring pattern even severe weather flooding in the southeast. we ll see how that plays out as we head into spring. now even gusting going in the next seven days we look for significant wet weather in the south. a very wet winter. over the next seven days we re predicting up to seven inches of rain in alabama, tennessee. if this comes true we ll see serious flooding concerns next week in area of the southeast. bringing it back just for today. warm on the east coast.
rain southwest oregon to the sierra foothills. lighter rain for the middle of the week. we ll get the improved pattern in terms of getting more dry. but i mentioned the flooding that we re still dealing with. in sacramento, flood warning as well. because it is so saturated and we are still getting scattered showers, it will take a while for the water to recede. the record high temperatures in chicago, minneapolis, they could go on. there were so many last weekend and straight through the first part of this week. the spring pattern here in february continues with the jet stream well up to the north. so temperatures are soaring into the 60s and the 70s. we wouldn t normally see this for march. so some of the numbers are 20 to 30 degrees above normal. really incredible to get up to 62 in minneapolis. if that happens, it will be the fifth day in a row we shatter the record. a few of us are not going to be complaining about the warm weather. bonnie schneider, thank you. last night jeop
shouldn t be in front of the tv but in a safe spot somewhere in the center of the house with something over your head if possible and interior walls, no windows around you. a serious situation in indianapolis. if you look, it really stretches all the way up into the detroit area. beyond that, up into missesaga. we re going from canada down almost to memphis. there s the beginning of it and theened is up there. a typical spring pattern as it s coming, moving across the east coast eventually. it will make it toward columbus and make its way over into the parts of the east coast. we have pictures, to my understanding, our fox station in indianapolis is giving live coverage. here s the pinpoint radar i was mentioning. let s listen. steadily now at about 20 miles per hour up from the southwest. go to the basement. you need to stay away from the windows. you need to go to your safety shelter right now. where do you go for a severe thunderstorm that s producing a tornado? when a tornado war