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The Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for the Portland area through afternoon with snow falling again to the valley floor. Temperatures will hover around 32 degrees and another system will deliver more moisture into the area through 1 p.m. according to the National Weather Service. Snow totals have been very impressive with some areas accumulating more than a foot of snow.   By Wednesday night, a high pressure system will move over the area and leave us with clear skies and dry weather through Friday. But temperatures are expected to remain at or below freezing limiting any melting of the snow layer already in place. Yay. Wednesday's high temperature is forecast for 32 degrees; the low will be 23. By Thursday and Friday temps are only expected to reach the upper 20s and lows will be in the teens. Expect non-cleared sidewalks and roads to become very slick and remain that way through the end of the week.

There's been a lot of election brouhaha over the past several weeks, and this past week,  Today  host Billy Bush was suspended from his duties on the daytime talk show series after footage was released revealing he had made some disparaging comments against women more than a decade ago. This morning,  The Today Show  returned to the schedule. Interestingly, the series chose to barely make note of the Billy Bush scandal, with the hosts only briefly addressing the scandal. Al Roker, who took over for Billy Bush during  Today 's third hour, addressed what happened with the tape from a decade ago that surfaced, noting: As you can see Billy Bush is not joining us today, as you're probably aware, (he was) part of that 2005  Access Hollywood  taping with Donald Trump that's been in the news all weekend. Roker's onscreen partner, Tamron Hall, picked up the slack where Roker left off, also noting that NBC has indefinitely su...