Phoenix today. Golden preview, the stars come out for the sag awards in hollywood. Julianne moore and bird man. Why they might want to keep the acceptance speeches handy for the oscars. Monday, january 26th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a monday morning and they dont appear to be kidding about this storm. Take a look outside. We have flurries on the plaza already. This is nothing. This is just a tease. Fast forward 24hours and this could be one of the worst storms the area has seen. Scary. Even scary,er the Grocery Store right now. You are going for that last loaf of bread, watch out. If you havent bought it you are not getting it. Blizzard and winter storm warnings from effect from maryland to maine. Here in new york city it could possibly surpass 26. 9 inches that fell in 2 247bd00062006. 3500 Flights Canceled for today and tomorrow. The travel nightmare that awaits. Al is out on the plaza. Al . Right here we are starting to see it fall tworp degrees. If it is not one of the top five, it will be close snowfallwise. Heres what we are looking at. Winter storm warnings and advisories but the blizzard warnings are what we are watching from bangor to new jersey. All along i95 but we are talking about blizzard warnings. We are watching the system now. Pittsburgh we are out of the snow. Philadelphia is starting to pick up and as the morning wears on the snow will get heavier and make its way up i95. Low pressure along the coast as it pushes up in the morning. We will be looking at the snow developing. It will get of heavier. Two to four inches per hour. Thunder snow possible and white out conditions with strong winds. 50 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts. Beach erosion with waves 10 to 20 feat. Up towards the boston area late tonight into tomorrow morning and noon time tomorrow boston with two to four inches from the snow. White out and blizzard conditions. 65 to 80 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in the boston area. Major coastal flooding and Power Outages possible. Probably likely. It will continue to move up into northern new england. Heres what we look for. New york city is 12 to 20 inches of snow. Pockets could be higher. Out on long island 20 to 25 inches. Central massachusetts and into boston, we are talking from two to three feet of snow with winds of up to 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. Its not out of the possibility of to sixfoot snow drifts. Over 60 Million People will be devastated by this storm. All right, al. Thank you very much. We have an idea of how serious this is. Northwest of pittsburgh its already snowing there. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Hard to believe this is Even Associated with the blockbuster storm we will see later today. It started as an Alberta Clipper and heres a little bit of light snow. I got this yard stick to show you how this storm will transform over the next 24 hours. We picked up about two inches here. Into tomorrow night, we will be measuring up to here and in some areas up to here in new york, Hartford Providence and boston. How does that happen . This storm is expected to bomb out offshore. Thats a short word for bombo genesis. It experiences barometric drops of up to 24 millibars in 24 hours. Thats the official definition. It c extremely high winds. We could see hurricaneforce winds and coastal flooding because of the winds. How am i going to get this yard stick to boston . I hope to get to boston because so many flights have been canceled in advan vance of this storm. Travel safe. As we said this storm of course making it difficult to travel. We will go to tom costello and he will check in with whats going on in the airports. Lets get to the other stories. Another security scare at the white house. A drone found on the grounds there overnight. Kristin welker has the latest. Good morning. Reporter according to a federal Law Enforcement official, a drone landed in a tree on the white house grounds at 3 00 a. M. Eastern time. The secret service responded and determined it didnt pose a threat. They searched the grounds of the south lawn overnight. The president and daughters malia, sasha and granddaughters are here. They spoke to reporters a short time ago. A device has been recovered by the secret service and early indications is it does not pose a threat to anybody at the white house. The director shows that chancy is there with the president and appointed after a series of security lapses including when a man jumped over the north lawn and made it deep inside the executive mansion in september. The latest incident clearly raises questions and concerns. Officials said they will have more on the investigation later today. Kristen, thank you very much. The patriots are flying out ahead of the storm heading to the super bowl and the deflate gate scandal will be there after controversial comments from the Seattle Seahawks star. In boston this morning, peter, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The patriots will appreciate the atmosphere change. 68 degrees when they arrive in the desert in phoenix later today. Just after 11 00 the key outspoken opponents are calling out the commissioner and the patriots owner for conflict of interest. Let the war of words begin. It is ironic last year. I didnt break any rules or do anything. Richard sherman is snow stranger to sound bites. Thats the result you are going to get. He took aim at the opponent saying the relationship between the owner and the leagues commissioner could prevent the team from being punished over deflate gate. Will they be punished . No as long as they are still taking pictures at their respective homes. He was just at his house before the championship. You talk about conflict of interest. The comment was hours ahead of sundays game. Some teammates refused to fan the flame. All the distractions about the football has nothing to do with us. Shermans words reignited the deflate gate. They reasserted the innocence following days of more research into the matter. I believe now 100 that i have personally and we as an organization have absolutely followed every rule to the letter. The league announced it conducted nearly 40 interviews so far and some scientists took the matter into their own hands. Some dismissed the investigation, Carnegie Mellon conducted tests to say that cold weather and pressure could lower the pressure. They had a field with tom brady. I dont know things. Im not a banker. Im not a science computer. Did you just say science computer . Isnt that what you call it . I dont know. Tom brady will be here a short time from now, addressing the patriots nation and faces another round of questions. More reporters than you can count. They hope the focus will be on the game this coming sunday and not the one a sunday ago. More material for snl perhaps. Thank you. Good luck with that. The fbi is investigating threats and may begin several passenger planes. At least two of the planes forced to evacuate in seattle. Halle jackson has more. Five planes made emergency landings in all in at least three different places. The alarms raised after bomb threats including some posted to twitter targeted the flights. I was shocked. Two flights evacuated after landing in seattle when officials receive reports of possible bomb threats. When i was getting off the plane, i asked the pilot what happened. He said they were informed of two planes with bomb threats. Flying from long beach, california and one from phoenix were midair when they received the threats. Both landed safely in seattle. They cleared the planes and all passengers and crew of security concerns. This is the first time i had aircraft fairly close in arrival time for them to be considered a security situation. Another reported bomb threat from los angeles to orlando. Forcing passengers to land in dallas texas. The pilot made the announcement during the flight. He said we need to land the plane immediately. We believe there is a Security Threat with the plane. Somebody tweeted in a bomb threat. They are referencing several twitter posts. They said we planted explosives on board, our old jers are waiting for signals. They targeted two jets through flying to atlanta. All five have been cleared of cs and they are investigating and as of now, they cannot confirm if any of the threats are related. Halle jackson, thank you very much. Tamron is here for natalie with big political news. The field for president is taking shape. Gop hopefuls and candidates in california. Including new jersey governor Chris Christie. Kelly odonnell is in washington. Good morning. There fastmoving changes coming to the gop field. Aides to Chris Christie said he is building a team that will plan a possible president ial campaign. Part one is forming a Political Action committee so christie can travel and raise money. Aides tell us governor christie is taking a formal First Step Towards a white house run. God bless this country and god bless all of you. Launching his leadership patterns. The website is now live. That new entity created friday paved the way to warks where he tested his message, part of a multistate speech making and fundraising drive in key early states. If i were too blunt, too direct and too new jersey for iowa why do you keep inviting me back . Another Spicy Development overnight. Three contenders on one stage in palm springs. Rand paul flatly dismissed another mitt romney run. No, no, no, no never. This video release is a look inside the private world of influence. At the freedom partners winter retreat, a Group Related to the billionaire koch brothers. Ted cruz defended his donor host against liberal attacks. They want to scare people by painting a picture of nepharious billionaires. Marco rubio said he instructed them to prepare a campaign and took a swipe at Hillary Clintons electability. It would be a mistake. That would be a terrible mistake. The senator did in friendly sparring on the economy and policy to the inviteonly crowd. This is one of the largest gop potential fields with jeb bush and mike huckabee. They are all seriously thinking about running. Thank you very much kelly. A dashboard camera captured the moments when a driver narrowly escaped a rocket attack in eastern ukraine. It was driving down a road behind a big truck and another vehicle when one of the shells hit and at least 30 were killed and 1 had been hundred wounded by rocket fire. President obama is calling the meeting with indias Prime Minister a breakthrough on civilian nuclear projects. He was the guest of honor at republic day parade. He is the first u. S. 39 to attend indias annual show of military might. Miss columbia beat out contestants from 88 other contestants in miami. A newcomer to the screen said she will wear the crown with pride and excitement. Natalie morales hosted the event and will join us later with the behind the scenes. Historic milestone for one of College Basketballs all time greats. Coach kay became the first thats what matt lauer called him. It is a bad coach day. Duke won at Madison Square garden and afterwards coach k said there will be more. Congratulations. Can you spell his name . Congratulations, coach k. Thats an amazing accomplishment. Mr. Roker . We love to see your images of what will happen with blizzard of 2015. Send us your pictures. Showers back through eastern california. Fog in the Pacific Northwest and another clipper out of canada sometime wednesday into thursday bringing more snow on top of what we will get in the next 24 good morning, im meteorologist, bill henley tracking a major winter storm. During the day today, youll see light snow on and off and gusty winds. Temperatures staying cold. The heavier snow tonight and tomorrow morning. Accumulateing snowfall through tuesday. Seven to 12 inches in philadelphia. Sunshine wednesday, a chance of more snow thursday. Teens for friday and the weekend. Have a great day. Thats your latest weather. After church yesterday, we went shopping. Hand to hand combat. Peoe a panicking. The line at safeway, you have been checking your Internet Connection making sure it will survive. Over 30,000 tweets. People preparing for the storm. Heavy stuff doesnt come down for a while. On social media, thats what everybody is talking about. The super markets and the lines and stocking up for super bowl. Dan and jeremy sent in their pictures of shelves empty. Bread isle looks like blizzard 2015 will be remembered by sandwiches. They are taking predictions where they think the snow will go up. He thinks they will get a lot of snow. Melanie writes i should probably get food and wine and a fireplace and a boyfriend. It was wranglers first snow this weekend. Got his first taste of snow. Heres a little action. This must be from your cell phone. This is beautiful. He had so much fun. He looks like he was enjoying it so much. There is wrangler. Use the blizzard of 2015. Good morning. Did you like the snow. Get ready, its coming. Back to you. Carson thank you. Much more on the on coming storm including the five things you need to know to prepare this morning. New questions or a golfer who claimed he was beaten kidnapped and robbed in hawaii. The latest on that, but first, this is today on nbc. Coming up a first look at our eyes they have a 200degree range of sight. Which is good for me. 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The temperatures are going to be steady and so will the wind blowing. Gusty winds this afternoon, temperatures near 30 degrees with light snow of one to two inches today. By the time it ends tomorrow we could be looking at seven to 12 inches in philadelphia. Thanks bill lets get a look at the traffic with jillian mele. We have a little bit of volume pockets of volume. We are not seeing too much of it. This is the eastbound side near route 40. The roads are wet, expect slippery conditions. We had an accident at fayette street and elm street. Thats been cleared. Vai . Well have another update in 25 minutes. You can get the latest news and weather on the nbc 10 app. 7 30 on this monday morning, january 26th, 2015. The day before the storm. Dangerous and historic and some describe the storm as bearing down on the northeast on hundreds of millions of people. It has been snowing, but that calmed down. Dont be fooled. It is coming back. Blizzard warning from maryland to maine. Up to three feet et cetera anded in some areas. 35 hundred flights are canceled through tuesday with more expected. Much more on the storm in a couple of minutes. The new England Patriots expected to face the deflate gate scandal when they touchdown for the super bowl. The their opponents arrived on sunday. Miss columbia is the new Miss Universe. The 22yearold is the granddaughter of gaston vega. Miss usa was one of the runners up. Nat low was therealie was there. Why are so many registered sex offenders winning the lottery and should they be allowed to keep their jackpots. Our Team Investigates this one. We have an announcement with a live interview with pop sunday afternoon during nbc awe super bowl preshow and a lot more of that investigation the following morning here on today. Should be fun and interesting. Lets begin with the historic blizzard. It will be impossible to tr