Other, amazingly, no serious injuries. The final two, the ncaa Basketball Championship now set. Villeneuanova crushing oklahoma 44 points. Five seconds. Can you believe . Number one seed North Carolina letting number ten syracuse know whos boss. The dribble. Maybe they should do more of that. Oh from 64 teams down to just two and the excitement at a fevered pitch today, sunday, april 3rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin with sheinelle jones, dylan dreyer here, lots of you probably sleepy because the games were fantastic. Second game was fantastic. The first game not so much. A blowout. Half my neighborhood went to villanova, they were very happy. You knew what happened with that without turning on the tv. You could hear it down the street. The North Carolina game were showing you there. North carolina heading to the big dance, beating syracuse. That oklahoma and villanova game, i think chuck todd put it best it was as if oklahoma just stopped playing, worst blowout since they started the final four. A rough way to go out. Well get to more of that in a bit. To our top story, though, thats that bitter blast of cold expected today in the northeast. Part of that same storm that caused some significant damage in the midwest on saturday. This morning there are more than 300,000 people without power from new york all the way back through indiana. Dylan is following it all and has a closer look of what we can expect today. Talk about a rude awakening. Especially in april. Go figure. There were those power outages, traffic accidents, downed trees everywhere. It was not a pretty scene in the midwest. We already have seen some of that in the northeast this morning. And it is likely to continue. Cold air, snow and winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour battered the midwest saturday. Ripping the roof off a house on chicagos south side. Gust of wind came through and it slung it up in the air like a tarp before it landed here. Reporter Tropical Storm force winds Strong Enough to uproot a 50 foot tree. I started screaming and yelling, oh, my god. Reporter the Power Company tweeted it had hundreds of damaged poles and wires, 6,000 customers lost power there. 54,000 more without power in indiana. 53,000 are in the dark in ohio. Spring storms brought surprisingly heavy snow. Wisconsin drivers in spring mode were caught by a wintry surprise, authorities reported almost a dozen accidents within hours saturday morning. I43 in milwaukee was shut down for a time. Our own Kerry Sanders covered with snow while covering the wisconsin primary. Whipping winds blew more than 9 inches of snow in parts of michigan and rare thundersnow outside our nbc affiliate. High Wind Warnings overnight for new york city. Any loose items really need to be tide down or brought inside. Reporter whiteout conditions near niagara falls, new york, as the storm moves east and temperatures plummet. With more extreme weather expected today, our eyes are seeing winter, but our hearts assaying spring. It is tough, especially considering friday it was nearly 80 degrees in new york city. In the lower 80s in washington, d. C. And now the winds are kicking in, but they will ease over the next several hours. Here is that first storm system. This is the one that produced that quick burst of snow. And the very gusty winds that were dealing with right now. This will pull away. Then were going to see the next storm system sweep right in here. Damaging winds, still a possibility this morning and youre seeing a lot of the snow fall in southern new england. But it will wind down t feels more like february out there, though. Thats why it is a bit of a shock to the system. As we go through the next several hours, we have high Wind Warnings in effect for new york city until 2 00 in boston in effect until 7 00 p. M. We have the potential of gusts near 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour, causing some delays this morning and some of the big airports in the northeast. We still have the snow falling across eastern long island. All across rhode island, in the boston were seeing some heavier snow as well. But as this pulls away, we will notice those wind gusts instead of 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour, well drop down to 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Still very windy. And we are looking at additional snowfall off of lake erie where we could end up with another 6 to 8 inches of snow. This one will continue to pull away. The next one will continue to move in here. Thats the one that is also going to produce another burst of snow. But this time for the monday morning commute, especially up into boston. It is not going to be a lot of snow, but it reduces Visibility Like we saw in this area this morning and that could cause some problems for the commute. All right, dylan, thank you. To politics now and just two days to go until the crucial republican and democratic president ial primaries in wisconsin and both frontrunners are in trouble there. This morning, donald trump apologizing for retweeting that unflattering photo of ted cruzs wife a couple of weeks ago. Were covering both sides. Lets start with nbcs Kerry Sanders in milwaukee, wisconsin, covering the republicans. Good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. Donald trump, the candidate, is known for making bold statements and trying to steer the conversation and he doesnt disappoint this morning. Firing back at president obama saying that he knows more about Nuclear Weapons than the president does, that nato is obsolete and this morning, telling the Washington Post he sees our country heading toward a recession, and that he could solve eliminating the National Debt in eight years. But there is one issue that continues to dog his campaign, one that is deeply personal to women. Abortion. I think were going to have a very good day on tuesday. Reporter across wisconsin nobody has greater respect for women than donald trump. Reporter in city after city. Thank you. Reporter donald trump trying to regain momentum, briefly addressing his rapidly evolving position on abortion. You could debate that subject for years to come. Reporter first he said a woman getting an illegal abortion should be punished. There has to be some form of punishment. Reporter then that abortion should remain legal. Then that abortion is murder. Some donald trump voters not phased. I think he said the right thing. I dont think this is going to i think dont think this is ghik to hurt his campaign at all. Recent polls show trump trailing cruz by double dujts. In this mornings New York Times a rare trump in addition of a mistake. Tells columnist maureen dowd, if i had to do it again, i wouldnt have sent it. Asked about the apology. You know its gotten to the point where i could not care less about donald trump. Women are likely pivotal here and if trump slips with women voters, it could prove to be a weakness that the gop establishment can use against him. If you live here in wisconsin you are as likely to bump in to a candidate in the next couple days, in fact it is as likely as an april snow storm which we saw here yesterday and maybe again today. Thank you. We felt for you kerry. Now to the democrats. Bernie sanders could keep his recent winning streak alive. Both appeared at the same democratic dinner ralast night. Good morning. Safely inside with the coffee br brewing, we can tell you the tensions between the campaigns are definitely rising. They are debating over the debates. And the rival teams are battling over when and what time and should they have more debates for the next Clinton Sanders faceoff. With the usually private negotiations spilling into public, clintons team says that what sanders offered is just playing ga ining games with the while the other side what clinton offered is ludicrous. Clinton is pointing out shes been a long time democrat battling for issues important for the party. While sanders whos been an independent is suggesting, shes suggesting hes a newcomer. Of course Bernie Sanders whos been touting his supporters big energy and pointing out a record 6 million individual donations. Both were in milwaukee last night for a democratic dinner and that is one place they could find at least one issue of unity. And that is battling donald trump. Erika. Kelly odonnell. Thank you. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Good morning. Good morning. I feel like every week were asking variations of the same question. Is this the week the rhetoric catching up to donald trump . It was a no good week for him but was this any different than weeks past . Well find out tuesday. Thats always been the pattern has been he has one of these weeks. Says a lot of controversial things. People that are trying to stop him inside the Republican Party get excite, think they are going to be able to beat him at the ballot box and voting happens and his voters show up and he wins. That is what could be different this time. Is on tuesday in wisconsin, instead of the voters bailing him out of a bad week and winning and him being able to say, see, none of this effects me . He could lose by ten points or more and then all of a sudden you have to wonder is this a snowball effect. Because then you have cause and effect. Bad week, bad results. So if he does in fact lose wisconsin on tuesday, chuck, is it a contested convention at that point inevitable . I think it becomes more likely. I dont want to say its inevitable but more likely. And a few over things this weekend indicate donald trump is getting out organized and not prepared for a contested convention. There were some battles for delegate slates in north dakota. Battles in places like tennessee. And the tennessee thing was very struck out i instructive. He didnt get the pick the people that represent him at the convention. And legally they only have to support him for two rounds of balloting and when you look at the list of names they arent going to stick with him. The democrats here on tuesday in wisconsin, it appears as if right now Bernie Sanders has a decent lead there. If Hillary Clinton loses in wisconsin on tuesday, what then does that mean for her in new york . Well it just puts pressure on her to win in new york. Its an adopted home state for her. Obviously it is the state that shes represented while serving in the u. S. Senate. And so there would be a symbolic problem iff efor her if she som lost it. Andwinning, i think margin of victory means. A narrow win, i dont know if a lot changes. But a big win, than, for instance, michigan, new hampshire, that could give him some momentum in new york. That is whether the Clinton Campaign is so worried about. That wisconsin if they do too badly there that it gives sanders an opening in new york. Chuck, thank you and well look for your exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton later this morning on meet the pres press. The Brussels Airport reopened today, nearly two weeks after it was shut down because of the terror attacks. The first of three flights taking off just about an hour ago. The full arptd is not expected to be operational for several months. Meanwhile a terror scare here in new york city. Police cleared out a section of time square. The bomb squad was called in when patrol officers saw a truck with wires out of the dashboard and canisters behind the seat. The vehicle was deemed safe. And so far no charges filed. In philadelphia a scary scene on an escalator. The down escalator malfunctioned, throwing people on top of one another. The escalator was immediately shut down and maizingly, no serious injuries reported. There was a much happier scene in boston last night. For the first time in ten years an American Woman finally won a m medal as an International Skating championship. Ashley wagner pulled off an incredible performance, ending a long drought with a silver medal. Russian skater won it all. American competitor gracie gold finished fourth. And a look at the rest of the countrys forecast for us. Now the pronunciation that was good. Sounded natural. Well done. So weve got some very unseasonal like temperatures in the forecast. In the northeast, about 10 to 20 below average. Feeling more like february than april. And it was so warm not that long ago. As we go through the afternoon, buffalo will only hate high of 30 today. 16 below average. Boston drops into mid 30s where snow is falling now. 24 inches possible. Washington d. C. At 54 degrees but that is not even taking into account the windchill which makes it feel about 10 degrees colder. Look how warm it is out in kansas city. 80 for a high. 18 degrees above average. Chicago will actually make it into the mid 60s today. So you can see where that dividing line is between the warmer air and the colder air. We also have that lake effect snow thats kicked in back towards erie pennsylvania, western new york, most of michigan dealing with some of that snow. This low pressure is going to be the Second System thats racing through and bringing more snow to the same areas that saw it overnight last night and were lack another that to effect the monday morning commute as well. Temperatures wont really rebound. In fact by the time we get to tuesday, that is when well bottom out with brandon. Good sunday morning. Meteorologist anthony slaughter here. We have a storm system sitting off the coastline. You can see that by the clouds there. They are expected to move past the north bay later this afternoon. Its going to make for cooling there. Everywhere else not expected to be impacted by that. Another sunniy day in the south bay. A little bit cooler in the peninsula. And 60s for the east bay and San Francisco as well. 70s today for the north bay. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thanks. Well it may not feel like baseball weather. Today is opening day though for the 2016 season. Tens of thousands of fans expected to pour into stadiums this week for their first taste of baseball. And in those stadiums one of the true classics of the game goes front and center. The dog, of course. Nbcs Kevin Tibbles has more. Opening day is here. The crack of the bat is in the air. We love hot dogs. And so is the scent of summer. And what better place to celebrate this all american staple than chicagos vienna beef, where the dog is king. Here we relish our customers buns. Mark rightman instructs students how to open their own stand. When i hear the crack of a bat i want a hot dog in my hand and a cold beer in my other hand. And the chicago dog is, well, a masterpiece. Mustard, neon green, relish, onions, tomatoes, peppers, a pickle and a dash of celery salt. Ketchup folks is a no no. I hate to say but i have to have ketchup on my polish. Makes you happy when people talk with their mouth full. Students gobble it up. When you take the hot dog, there is just a snap to it. A flavor to it. Unlike any other hot dog you can get. Do you think you are going to eat your profits away . I hope not. You can get romantic about a hot dog is this. Oh yes, sir. Students are also learning what professor mark calleds the art of the cart. 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