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Close to hawaii s main island. conditions are expected to worsen over the weekend. let s bring in bill karins for a check on the weather and further analysis of the storm. as you were saying, bill, such a tremendous amount of rain. yes, highways closed, difficult terrain with all of the mountains in hawaii to be able to get to low cases, too. once some of the main roads are blocked off, it will be a while before they can clear them. here is the latest. we just got the new update in from the hurricane center. 125 miles per hour winds so it is weakening as expected. i did hear a report of 68 miles per hour gusts in the mountain so it is windy and trees are coming down and power outages but structures will not be destroyed. these winds will come down to a tropical storm in about 48 hours. it is 168 miles southwest of kona. it is barely moving. that s the problem with the storm. that will be the history and legacy, how slow it moved near the hawaiian islands. easily in the cloud envelope ....
The dallas-ft. worth area and nearby counties under flash flood warning. highways closed. and at least one person missing. you see that car there submerged in the water. these areas have been pounded by as much as 20 inches of rain. former fema director joins me now on the phone. you know, we thought this was going to be detrimental for mexico. and it is exacerbating just the rain we ve seen for two days now in texas. do you believe the worst is over for texas? or do they need to brace for more? well, i think they need to brace for more. people are saying it s just getting started. we re really lucky in mexico. this was a huge, huge hurricane. they just did an outstanding job, an outstanding job of getting everybody evacuated out of the area. so they had no fatalities. i think texas got a great emergency management system, they re on top of things. and they ll take care of the people there. when you look, though, at, i ....
Unisom sleeptabs help you fall asleep 33% faster and wake refreshed. unisom. a stressful day deserves a restful night. breaking news. the nor easter of 2014. this morning, the storm is still at full force. the wind is crazy out here. howling winds causing whiteout conditions, 100 million americans now grappling with the mounting snow and freezing cold. the city of boston almost entirely shut down. to the extent possible we re advising people to stay indoors, stay off the roads. nearly 2 feet of snow in areas and it hasn t stopped yet. travel chaos, major highways ....
you can t go back in time. you go back in ten years wearing a mask. the damage is done. yeah, it s already done. reporter: the difference between a blue sky day here in beijing and a polluted one can be dramatic. right now, it s rated as very unhealthy by the u.s. embassy monitoring site. but in harbin in northeast china, the pollution has been off the charts. dense, acrid, smog brought this city of 10 million to a standstill. schools are shut, dozens of flights canceled, highways closed. visibility down to almost zero. pollution, 40 times the who recommended standard. the local government blamed it on harbin s coal-powered central heating turned on over the weekend. but critics say china s pollution is a terrifying side effect of the country s decades long obsession with growth. weary of social unrest, communist party officials have ....
We ll see what things sound like by thursday evening, wendell. it gives us something to watch for. wendell goler, thank you. jon: an extreme weather alert now, america s middle under the grip of an icy, deadly, monster blizzard for the second time in a week. whole towns are shut down, hurricane-force winds knocking down trees leaving tens of thousands of people without power. in oklahoma driving is downright treacherous, highways closed. whiteout conditions slowing efforts to clear and salt the roads. buried in snow, drifts as high as 6 feet there, cars stranded on highways trapping people for hours in the bitter cold. in kansas two people killed in separate accidents on icy patches of the interstate. flights in and out of kansas ....