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The year. so many of you are trying to get home from the holiday. we want to bring in our meteorologist. can you give them any hope for what is yet ahead today? >> it depends on where your end destination is going to be. or perhaps your beginning destination. weather isn't bad everywhere. it is going to cause complications in a good chunk of the country. we have a frontal boundary sitting here. the back half isn't moving much. we have the rain stretching basically horizontally up toward washington, d.c., new york, all the way toward texas. we have winter weather out behind it. that's causing m...

Church bell though which will be used in the new building. well, flash floods are the problem in several other areas in the midwest following a round of severe storms, including the des moines area. the water came up fast at this apartment complex. tenants given ten minutes to get out. plenty of roads across that area remain under water. those storms are heading into the northeast. accuweather's justin povick has details. hey, justin, good morning. >> wet weather back in the picture all throughout the northeast for the upcoming weekend. reena and kendis, good morning. we're going to be talki...

It is being called another gift to the castro regime. arthel? >> thanks a lot, molly. well, mother nature acting more like scrooge, slamming the northwest today with heavy rain and snow. will she let up in time for christmas travel across the country? janice dean has the latest. >> oh, no, we're going to get coal in our stockings for some of us. let's take a look at it, not that bad. but we're watching a storm moving into the great lakes and the midwest on christmas eve and then perhaps giving some folks a white christmas. let's talk about today's forecast. we have some showers across the so...

>> reporter: good morning, john and diana. seeing soaking rainfall today as the air is moving out of the north and west. record warmth in place through the weekend as the air masses collide here. rain stretching from boston to new york city, d.c., philadelphia. we are going to see more in the way of freezing rain across portions of new england, and that rain stretches further southward along eastern seaboard to the gulf of mexico. john and diana, back to you. >> all right. jim dickey at accu-weather, thank you. a pedestrian was rescued after being hit by a commuter train in portland, oregon....

Minnesota as well and also north and south dakota. on the backside of the storm system where we have cold temperatures, that snow is coming down right now. we're talking locally upñi to six inches or more of snow across parts of rapid city, across sections of colorado and also wyoming. otherwise take a look at the forecast. snowfall closer to rapid city, locally six inches or more. and rain stretching from texas to the great lakes. but east of the storm, it's going to be relatively quiet. if you're doing traveling out there -- detroit, new york city -- it looks pretty quiet. now let's head to...