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Chicago. 76 in kansas city. 77 in houston. upper 50s for seattle and san francisco back at 56. then into miami and tampa, mainly 70s and 80s and 62 in new york. so, all things considered, pretty nice day around much of the nation. back to you at the news desk. >> we need the new age muse wick the calming, soothing graphic far day like today. >> well work on that for you. >> we appreciate that. dont go too far. this might be something youre interested in. i dont think youre a carb conscious skies...

Last five days. it has just gone into major flood stage and expected to get up to within 37 and 39 feet, and thats very close to the historic flood stage that we saw last week. check out this. this is a depiction of how much water is locked up into the snow pack right now, and that deep bright purple is anywhere from 5 to ten inches of equivalent rainfall if this were to melt all at once. were hoping that it melts slowly, but with temperatures today expected to get into the upper 50s, thats not ...

Saints gear here. rolling around bourbon street, looking around. this is just the start of what were going to see over the next few hours. it is kind of an anomaly. usually when a city is playing in the super bowl, their team is playing, folks flock to the city where the super bowls being played, to the stadium. but in this case folks are pouring in to new orleans. you cant find a hotel room around here in the french quarter. a lot of folks feel very sentimental about this team and see the saint...

Miss people. i mean the problem here is that it is a needle in a haystack. there are thousands upon thousands of people who are converging upon new orleans -- excuse me, miami right now for the game. have you fans, you have others. its impossible to please everybody. it is impossible to find every last thread. is it possible there is a lone wolf actor somewhere out there? maybe. but the hope is that by putting up enough security cordons around the game, around the events, that if someone does tr...

Planning this, to make sure that everything goes smoothly. meantime in the northeast, the bad weather up there has some people concerned that they might not actually see the game because of power outages there. but that will not be the case at the white house where the chief fan, number one fan, the president himself, is holding a super bowl party for members of his cabinet, some members of congress and also some wounded service personnel and their families. theyll be enjoying the game from the ...

People on-board. have you ever seen anything like that? >> i havent. but you have to definitely give that pilot a lot of credit. having that presence of mind after such a horrific event like that to get off that tow line and be able to just keep his prowess or his mind going, that, hey, look, i have to fly this airplane, its still flying and i have to get it on the ground because i got two other people in this aircraft with me. so he deserves a lot of credit for staying with it and not letting t...

Bright an early on monday morning. back to you. >> fingers crossed it happens. thanks so much. you can all head to the weather channels website at weather.com. super bowl xliv is just hours away now. kickoff time happening at 6:25 eastern. that is when the new orleans saints, the first-timers to the super bowl, will battle it out with the indianapolis colts. nbcs mark potter joins us from the sun life stadium in miami with all the game day preparations. mark, it seems like the sun life stadium...

In three hours, theyll open the gates and the fans will start coming in. there are 74,000 of them that will fill this station but first -- stadium, but first they need to go through the security here and it is quite tight. 60 different agencies are coordinated security here and there is all kinds of it. helicopters and planes above the stadium enforcing a no-fly zone. coast guard boats patrolling areas around the coastal hotels an other venues where parties are being held. dog teams on the groun...

Front line in pakistan or somalia or whatnot, will but you are looking to make a statement or a contribution to the cause, you are looking for something local, something thats easily available to you, something thats accessible. what better than the super bowl? a major event thats close to you within u.s. borders. than doesnt preclude that an organized group might try something as well. obviously look at abdulmutallab, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula chose to strike an airliner on christmas da...

There is a reason why he excelled in massachusetts. why he has done well in nevada and florida and won in every single category. you take all the votes of santorum and gingrich and you still dont come close to mitt romney. that the issue request the santorum and gingrich, they are continuing to split the vote and congressman, with all due respect. >> but you a add those together, jason -- >> you add those together and mitt romney the polls that we saw today, i say some today, upper 50s for gin...