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Music stars are gearing up for the Grammy Awards this Sunday, and Jay Z leads the pack with nine nominations.

After Jay Z's nine nominations, Kendrick Lamar, Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams are next with seven nominations each. Macklemore and Lamar are both up for album of the year for 'The Heist' and 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' respectively. Rounding out the category for best alum of the year are Sara Bareilles for 'The Blessed Unrest,' Daft Punk for 'Random Access Memories' and Taylor Swift for 'Red.'

In the record of the year category, 'Get Lucky,' 'Radioactive,' 'Royals,' 'Locked out of Heaven' and summer hit 'Blurred Lines are vying for the Grammy. Newcomers, James Blake, Lamar, Macklemore, Kacey Musgraves and Ed Sheeran are up for the best new artist award.

The list of performers is pretty impressive with big acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Daft Punk, Metallica, Katy Perry and Robin Thicke. Presenters include many of the nominees as well as Ryan Seacrest and Steven Tyler. The show airs live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles Sunday, Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. on CBS.

<em>AP wires contributed to this report.</em>

Music stars are gearing up for the Grammy Awards this Sunday, and Jay Z leads the pack with nine nominations.    After Jay Z's nine nominations, Kendrick Lamar, Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis, Justin Timberlake

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I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman through hyperlocal weather forecast. The rest of today. A little breaks of sunshine. We have a couple of spotty rain or snow showers moving on through. We've had a few flakes flying out over the east end. Now, through the rest of today, still that chance of a rain or snow shower. Now, in Huntington through this evening it's cold. We top out to a high of 41. By the time we're coming home from work around five o'clock, 39 degrees, we're in the thirties, skies will clear overnight and tomorrow morning, cold temperatures around 25 to 30 degrees. So out the door today this afternoon, 41 degrees, it's cold that rain and snow shower, wind chills have been in the twenties and thirties. So if you're outside the gloves, the hat, the warm boots and also the scarf and keep yourself warm. The rest of today, take a look. Now, tomorrow. So it's cold today. Tomorrow, the chance of a rain or snow shower in the afternoon hours of Thursday, a high of only 40 to start off hot for Thursday night, slight chance of a rain or snow shower early and then overnight hours of Thursday into Friday, skies will start to clear and weather will be improving on your Friday. How about a temperature near 50 degrees? So, changes coming our way towards the weekend, Saturdays dry Sunday. We're watching the storm. It will have strong winds and the timing of the rain looks to be during the afternoon and evening hours of Sunday. If it gets delayed a little bit more, it's more towards Sunday night. So the threat of some brief heavy rain, Sunday night into early Monday morning and some strong winds, we could have winds on Sunday night, 40 to 50 MPH. Recapping today. Temperatures, low forties that rain in passing snow shower tonight, turning colder lows 25 to 30. It's a cold start to your Thursday morning. Saturday looks good at 54. Then that rain and wind Sunday night into Monday morning.

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Jay Z tops Grammy Awards nominees in nine categories