to all of that. first, let's get a start on it with chuck bell. chuck? >> thanks, aaron. the snow moves in shortly after lun lunchtime. in and around the metro, probably 2:00 or 3:00, moving up into northern montgomery county and frederick, maryland, before 5:00 today. the heaviest of the snow will be late tonight through about mid afternoon tomorrow. >>> it's 5:15. if you're just waking up, we're getting ready for a blizzard that will be slamming the area. you might cancel plans if you haven't already. it's safe to say you will probably be stuck at home. this is why. "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck bell is pinpointing what things will look like for you coming up. >>> breaking news in prince george's county. an apartment fire forcing people out of their homes in hyattsville right now. this is in the 2500 block ofsch roads. molette, what can you tell us? >> thanks, chuck. i spoke with the fire chief. he told me 20 adults and six children forced out of the unit here. the fire is out, but you see the ladder trucks there? that's where they had to bring multiple people down to get o

"meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. happy new year, 2016 is finally here. we can really focus now on the presidential race. i'm teasing of course. but it does mean one thing, the sprint to the opening presidential contest in iowa and new hampshire begins. and we hope to learn the answers to at least these three questions. will trump voters show up? who's going to be the anti-trump and anti-cruz establishment candidate? and can democrats truly get excited about hillary clinton? just look at how packed this schedule is over the next seven days in iowa. the presidential candidates will hold a total of 44 events. that's just in the next week. by the way, 28 of those events are by ted cruz alone. an acknowledgment that iowa is must-win for the texas senator. in new hampshire the story is similar. 58 events scheduled in the next week. an acknowledgment, actually, that more candidates knew new hampshire as do or die than iowa now. and as for the polling, it's catnip, but be cautious. in our most recen

pieces of equipmenten the road. >> 4:31. chuck has four things to nobody this forecast. hey, chuck. >> good morning, everyone. we've tried to boil it all down into a simple format. get things done fast. if you have to do it, get it done before noon today. all bets are off in the afternoon as far as accumulating snow. snowing in almost every spot of the metro area by sunset tonight. it might start lateal before there, depending how far west and south you live. shelter in place. snow will be other by the time the sun comes up on sunday morning. you're not going to want to do anything but shovel. here's how you plan on your day, cold, cold, cold drive. teens into the 20s. cloudy by noon. it should be dry. but shortly thereafter, it will be moving in. most will see snowflakes at around 4:00 this afternoon and it will get heavy after 8:00 tonight. we should have between 12 and 18 inches on the ground before you get out the door tomorrow morning to start shoveling. by noon tomorrow, 15 to 25. 4:00 tomorrow, 18 to 30. and by the time things are wrapping up, as much as 20 to 36 inches of s

around. some of these birds have really hooked in well. it's going to be on my side here, doc. [chuck] okay. [buck] take him now. (gunshots) [buck] yes. [chuck] good shot. good shot buck. (gunshot) [chuck] hey, fantastic. [buck] rosy bill too. [chuck] yeah it was. he did a number on us buddy. boy that left us with egg on our face. [buck] watch these ducks back here buck. [bird calling] [chuck] i think what happens when i drop one of the double, i've been watching it swim and then i just looked out there and he had gotten up and was flying. that one just lit in and was swimming around and just looked up and saw it flying by. [buck] watch these two, right off your end, one o'clock coming. let em come in. take him. (gunshots) [buck] good shot doc. [chuck] thank you. thank you. yeah, that was sweet. [buck] let's go the other way. well doc, we've had some fantastic shooting here today. i am going to tell you what; i've enjoyed [chuck] it has been a pleasure, been a pleasure, shooting like this. without question has some if you like the perdiz hunting, the dove hunting, this morning. for th

, chuck, we talked about him, the big question is, are expectations potentially for him too high? yes. he has the money and the organization to go long-term the way other iowa winner ins the past haven't had but if he doesn't come in a strong first here, it will be a blow to his campaign >> no doubt. but they are third place, assuming it's cruz/trump, third place becomes an interesting battle. is it marco rubio's to lose? you look at where the polling is now, chuck. for rubio's campaign they need at least, at the very minimum, a strong third-place finish in iowa. they can afford to do that if the first two finishers are donald trump and ted cruz. but at no point in this race, especially in iowa, new hampshire, can marco rubio come in behind jeb bush, chris christie, or john kasich, he's got to pull out ahead of those establishment candidates. if you buy into that, where is marco rubio going to spend his time? he's got to maintain where he is in iowa and he's got to build where he is in new hampshire to break away from that establishment pack. >> hallie jackson in iowa. >>> now let's s

belt like this. >>> still none of the physical evidence, nothing tied ryan or chuck to the scene. >> you're talking here about the a very messy crime. there's no physical evidence that connects them to the scene. >> if i've got physical evidence at the scene that's great. but i can't prosecute this case if there is no physical evidence. >>> boon county prosecuting attorney kevin crane spoke to 48 hours in 2005. what most convinces you that chuck and ryan ferguson killed kent, is chuck saying we did this? >>yes. >> you nervous? >>> shawn nah, the janitor who helped police create the sketch said she couldn't identify either man. but prosecutor crane had a trump card. trump, a convicted sex offender was the janitor who told police he couldn't describe the men he saw at the crime scene. and yet at ryan's trial. >> if you see the individual, would you point to that individual please? >>yes. >>> trump claimed his memory had been jogged be i the arrest photos in the newspaper. >> i recognize the two pictures. i've seen these two faces before at the tribune that night that kent was kille

all about empowerment and feeling and doing better. >> we want to check in with our chuck ringwald. he's in the crowd as well. chuck, good evening, sir. >> hey, everybody, it is wild and we are already having a party here at the famously hot new year's right on main. throughout the night we have been talking to people that are gearing up for the fireworks and just having a great time. >> it's new year's eve in columbia. >> we're turning over a new leaf. >> we're going to celebrate the new year with the people we know, and try to keep it in our lives. >> have a good time. my daughter is finally big enough to go on the rides. she's experiencing that for the first time, and she's not scared. >> thousands are here on main, some for the first time. >> there's a lot of different stuff down here. >> this is my first year here. they're taking me out to experience the south carolina new year. >> most people we talked to are thankful the weather is holding out. >> i'm glad it's not raining right now. >> very happy it finally stopped. ring it in right. >> and we asked what they're looking for

says it's doing to prepare. >> "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck bell with what you can expect where you live. he has our travel >>> just about 6:10. a weather alert day for you on this friday as we get you ready for a major winter storm. major doesn't begin to describe what's coming here. you're looking live from the dull let toll road camera. we've seen several plows, trucks out there, but traffic still very light. >> this is all going to change, you know that, right? >> the calm? >> the calm and quiet. it's so pretty out there. chuck bell, tell us what is going on right now. >> we're already starting to think of good storm names. how about snow nino. it will have a major impact on everything you want to do. it will also seriously affect power. last time when we had snowmaggedon. hundreds of thousands lost power. travel will be nearly impossible all day saturday and all day sunday. so the road impacts and travel impacts. get everything done before noon time today. no problem. roads fine. head home early. by evening time, heavy snow and things will go down very, very quickly. over t

secretary, welcome back. >> thank you, chuck. >> let me start with this. your opponent 174 years74 years old, calls himself a socialist, you have 12 of 18 democratic governors supporting you, he has zero. what happened? what's gone wrong and save me the "we always knew this was going to be a close race" answer. >> well, chuck, look, i think it's actually good for the debate that we're having that there's so much interest and energy that i feel on my side and i know obviously so does senate or senator sanders on his. we have a big choice to make and yesterday, i'm enthusiastically pursuing the opportunity to reach every single voter in iowa and we'll see what happens. i feel good about where we are. obviously we'll find out week from tomorrow but if you look at the differences between senator sanders and myself, i just don't think we can wait. we can't wait to make progress on the myriad of issues that i think we're going to be facing in the next administration. i want to build on the progress that president obama has made and he has a different approach and that's what voters are trying

on? >> well, look at who's here this week, chuck. you've got ted cruz doing his 28 county six-day bus tour. he's coming out hard, trying to show his campaign is framing it that he's not taking any votes mike huckabee is doing 150 stops here over the next month. he's got four in the can already. so he is a presence. both of these candidates doing traditional, on the ground retail politics in iowa. donald trump taking that more nontraditional stance. he will be here on saturday. for cruz, you talked about him, the big question is are expectations potentially for him too high here? yes, he's got the money. he's got the organization to go long-term the way that other iowa winners in the past have not had. but if he doesn't come in a strong first here, it will be a blow to his campaign. >> there's no doubt but third place, assuming that if cruz and trump, third place becomes an interesting battle. is it marco rubio's to lose? >> potentially, especially if you look at where the polling is now, chuck. and for rubio's campaign, they need at least, at the very minimum, a strong third place

let's get right to chuck bell who's tracking our forecast. hey, chuck. >> good morning. current windchills across the region. 5 above. only one above winchester. now 1 below the windchill in hagerstown. in the next 24 hour, very little if anything in the way of improvement. windy and cold. you saw how low the windchills are now. by 7:00 tomorrow morning, temperature 15 with a windchill at or below zero. limit your outdoor activities. make sure you have your pets inside if you can. even if they're not necessarily all indoor pets and the next thing we're watching out for, cold in place now late in the week. what hooks now like an increasing chance for our first significant snowfall of the winter season. we'll keep you closely postened -- posted on that. here's melissa mollet with traffic. >> closed at w street in the northeast. there's reportedly a fire hee. we do have an apparatus shutting things down on brentwood right now. taking a look at another closure. mlk avenue at sycamore street southeast, again, this is a problem because this is where the parade is scheduled to happen f

with "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck t. bell. good morning, chuck. >> good morning to you, angie and eun. 7 in gaithersburg, 9 in falls church, 18 in fredericksburg. the cold and the wind is going nowhere today. dangerously windchills. make efforts to protect people, pets, and pipes. they'll stay way below freezing and the cold is here for most if not all of the week. windy and cold. these are air temperatures here. keep in mind windchills will be down. today, tonight, and even tomorrow morning. windchills down near zero. the cold is here for quite some time. the next big thing we're watching comes friday night into saturday. a chance for our first ever -- not ever, accumulating snow. someone who's out dealing with the cold right now, that's david culver for the mlk jr. parade. hey, david. >> reporter: good morning to you. folks are going to be gathering here between 9:30 and 10:00 this morning. that parade will get off at 11:00 this morning. it is a cold start. folks are headed out. they're going to want to bundle up. folks thousands in the numbers, really, showed up to participate

right now i'm chuck todd in charlest charleston, south carolina. for lester holt and andrea mitchell, we say good night. >>> good evening from charleston, south carolina, i'm chuck todd. it was the debate we've been waiting for, the one that lived up to the hype on the democratic side. it seemed to be all about bernie sanders tonight. tonight in his final debate with the iowa caucuses just about two weeks from now, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley took the stage here at the gaillard center in charleston. they engaged in some heated exchanges on health care, guns in america and wall street's influence in this election. i'm being joined in the spin room in this hour by eugene robinson, a pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the "washington post." and an msnbc analyst. eugene, this was the bernie sanders debate. >> it really was. it was all about bernie sanders. he has proposed -- i guess he has proposed revolutionary change. hillary clinton very much pushed back against that and pushed back against various aspects of bernie sanders' record, especially on gun

iowa is hillary clinton. madam secretary, welcome back. >> thank you, chuck. it's good to talk with you this morning. >> you got it. let me start with this. your opponent 74 years old, calls himself a socialist, you started this campaign with next to zero name recognition. you have 12 of 18 democratic governors supporting you. he has zero. what happened? what's gone wrong? save me the we always knew this was going to be a close race answer. >> i think it's actually good for the debate that we're having that there is so much interest i feel on my side and i know so does senator sanders on his. we have a big choice to make. it's exciting. i had a great couple of events yesterday. i'm pursuing the opportunity to reach every single voter in iowa and we'll see what happens. i feel good about where we are. obviously, we'll find out a week from tomorrow. if you look at the differences between senator sanders and myself, we can't wait to make progress on the myriad of issues we'll be facing in the next administration. i want to build on the promise president obama has made and he has a differen

now, chuck. and for rubio's campaign, they need at least, at the very minimum, a strong third place they can afford to do that if the first two finishers are donald trump and ted cruz. but at no point in this race, especially in iowa, new hampshire, can marco rubio come in behind jeb bush, chris christie, or john kasich. he has got to pull out ahead of those establishment candidates. so, if you buy into that where is marco rubio going to spend more of his time? he's got to maintain where he is right now in iowa and he's got to build where he is in new hampshire to try to break away from that establishment pack. >> hallie jackson in iowa. now let's shift over, kristen welker is standing by in gorgeous manchester, new hampshire. and kristen, let's start a little bit with the democrats before we get into the do or die sense. look, new hampshire. very good to the clintons over the years and yet she might be an underdog there. but her big bat s&l to make sure she wins iowa, and doesn't give sanders any ground. >> absolutely. and it's a real jump-ball here right now in new hampshire, chuc

, starting to come in now, and up next we'll check in with chuck todd for a big democratic debate. >>> good evening. it is a big night in american politics. we are less than ten minutes from tonight's democratic debate between the three top candidates. i'm chuck todd here at the gaillard center in charleston, south carolina where the three candidates, martin o'malley are backstage, about to take their places at the podiums. clinton and sanders have been setting some of the broad themes of this debate. earlier today they went all over the sunday morning shows, including "meet the press." the themes of change versus experience and change versus continuity. this will be their final showdown face to face before the iowa caucuses, which are two weeks from tomorrow. when the first votes of the 2016 presidential race will finally be cast. tonight's debate, by the way, will be moderated by our own lester holt, and he'll be joined in the questioning by andrea mitchell. throughout the debate all of us, including our correspondents and experts, will be providing real-time analysis. so go on

this cold since march of last year. chuck is tracking the real start of winter for us. >> how do you like that? the skins land four wins in a row heading into the playoffs, and the rush to get tickets starts today. so exciting. >> it really is. good morning, everybody. it's 5:00 a.m. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. let's check our weather first. >> "storm team 4" meteorologist chuck bell with your morning headlines. >> you're absolutely right. aaron and eun, good morning to you. welcome back to work and school this morning, everyone. finallily flurries around today. nothing measurable but an occasional snowflake can't be ruled out. there will be a bigger chance nr rain this weekend. i'll have look at how weather on the weekend will affect you. right now windchills back in into the teens and 20s. 21 in an course town. 27 in washington. focusing in ontown next 24 hours, bundle up. that's the hash tag for today #layerup. windchills only in the teens to near 20 at 7:00 tonight with air temperatures down below freezing and starting off tomorrow morning even colder still. dow

out and adding to the mess. chuck? >> all right. thanks, melissa. team coverage of all the winter weather problems continues now. the blizzard watch is posted through the afternoon into saturday. heavy snow and wind. i showed you this just a second ago. i told you i'd detail out where the winners and losers are depending where you like snow. first snow likely at 4:00 or 5:00 tomorrow at the metro. earlier than that across central virginia. by 11:00 tomorrow night, a solid 3 to 6 inches of snow likely in the metro friday night. by the time you wake up saturday morning, a solid foot or more of snow across the metro except for southernmost maryland. that's going to be the issue. how much the rain/snow line irks toward metro. as much as 25 or 26 inches out across parts of the shenandoah and blue ridge. here's our forecast. most of the metro, and the real issue is a solid 18 to 24 inches. there could be blowing and drifting. could have 3 to 5 feet before all is said and done. highways and roadways are likely to be closed. it's going to be a long lasting impact. this morning roads are i