Right now, this midday,
we are watching out for a winter storm,
which is headed to the metro.
Here's a live look on your right,
an area just West of Marshall,
which has an ice storm warning right now.
You can see on the left there.
Right now that's a live look at
radar as the system makes its
way here to the Twin Cities.
Our team of meteorologists is
calling this a weather warning day.
The system's.
Freddy generated icy slick roads in
the Dakotas leading to overturned
cars and crash after crash.
Heavy snow also hit the central plains.
This severe weather in the Deep South
is making any travel brutal this week.
So with that of course we want to
get over to Ben Dairy with a check
of how things are going kind of
dreary here in the Twin Cities.
Once it's going to hit us,
well it's probably going
to be about mid afternoon,
so within the next couple of hours
you're going to notice a cold rain
starting to move over the Twin
Cities and just north of the Metro,
a combination of rain.
Sleep and even some slushy snow.
It is going to be a wet second-half of
the day, so keep your umbrellas handy.
Which umbrellas in the middle of December?
Not always the greatest thing,
it's a complex weather system.
You could see a variety of winter
precipitation types across Western
and southwestern Minnesota as we head
into the second-half of the day.
Temperatures should be just warm
enough to give us a cold rain
for the evening commute.
So watch out for ponding on area
roadways as the rain could get
heavy at times as temperatures cool.
A couple degrees after dark will transition.
To a rain snow mix,
possibly mixed with some sleet as well.
Maybe a couple hours of snow
after midnight here in the metro,
but you get from Saint Cloud northward,
that is all snow.
We get a little lull as we head into
tomorrow after tomorrow morning.
Just cloudy and drizzly now this
is our snow totals just until
we get to tomorrow morning.
An inch or so slash here in the metro.
Heavy snow for the central and
northeastern part of the state.
Duluth is likely going to see well over
a foot by the time this thing wraps up.
Cloudy and damp Wednesday.
Snow resumes on Thursday.
We could get a couple inches out
of that and then turning colder
as we head into next weekend.
So it's a large weather system that will
be with us for the next couple of days,
Jen.
Alright, thank you Ben.
Excel Energy says it is
staging crews in case snow,
freezing rain or wind takes
out power during this storm.
If you do lose power,
they ask that you report it to them.
You can stay informed on outages
with their website or app excells
also reminding people to stay away
from downed power lines and have
your home emergency kit ready.
You might not be thinking about it right now,
but the snow could also
bring potential flooding.
Over the past 24 hours,
city crews in Saint Louis Park have
been cleaning out storm drains.
You can also prepare by making
sure your sump pump is working and
having a battery backup on hand
preventative steps when we have
a system like this on the way.
It can be a problem, especially,
you know, if we get a bunch of
rain and the ground is froze.
It it can create issues like
the ground will absorb it.
If you got bad grading or we get
into the inner city parts where the
houses are really close to each other,
there's just north for that water to go.
It's one of the best things you can do
is to periodically check your basement
and your yard for pooling water.
Well, if you have students in school,
you want to keep an eye on this.
This is the closing and delays
sectionofcare11.com care11.com/closings
and this is where districts will let us
know if they're closing early because of
the weather we're canceling altogether.
They did have 74 alerts just this morning.
Now we're developing story this noon hour,
a deadly double shooting
in downtown Saint Paul.
It happened near the light rail.
Metro Transit police tell us it
happened around 8:30 last night
near the Green Line central station.
When police got to the scene,
they found two people with gunshot wounds.
Both were taken to a nearby
hospital where they later died.
As of midday, no arrests have been made yet.
In just about an hour,
the Minneapolis City Council is set to
vote on a proposed ordinance creating a new
community Commission on police oversight.
It would merge 2 existing civilian boards.
The Commission would be responsible for
reviewing investigations of complaints
against officers and then making a
recommendation to the police chief.
The Hennepin County Attorney is
leaving office after 24 years,
two different stretches and a
lot of controversial calls.
Mike Freeman sits down with our Lou
Raguse to reflect on his career in
a final interview that is coming
up on our news tonight at 6.