that is 5:00 p.m. europe in "the situation room." that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." you can follow what's going on behind the scenes. follow me on twitter. @twofl blitzer. >> wolf, thank you very much. listen, this is affecting a lot of people. i want to show you the scene at new york city. people were really going through obstacle courses and mountains of snow and slush. it's supposed to get worse and then there is another system coming through. this particular time though, more than 100 million people will be impacted by the catastrophic winter storm by the time it's over. we will take you through all of it. sit where you are if you are at home today or at work. we are going to get you up to date on everything. this storm crippled the entire

southeast. it's pushing up the eastern seaboard and dumping a foot and a half of snow. new york city being blanketed by near blizzard conditions. >> you don't need to be in your car, don't use your car. many people heard many times, i asked you to keep telling people in the city how urgent it is to stay out of their cars. for their own safety and also to facilitate the ongoing clean up work of the sanitation department. >> that was the mayor of new york city's bill deblazio.

more than 777,000 businesses. more than 6,000 flights canceled today. one of the hardest hit areas is north carolina being called the new atlanta after drivers who ignored warnings got stuck for hours on icy highways. i'm trying to get home. stay focused and get past what we need to get to. >> take a look at this incredible picture. it's in the middle of the traffic chaos. one driver said she saw a car spinout and burst into flame. as i told you, we have this covered for you. the path of the storm where it has been and is heading. we have in place in atlanta. all the way to new york.

allison is driving around and you are in brooklyn and these are near blizzard conditions. is the city prepared? . >> there is a respite between the snow and the sleet. we are seeing the streets cleared pretty well here. we see a lot of people trying to dig out. the big trick here now is where to put it. this is snow being piled on ice that was here before today's snowstorm. the big concern is as we get towards the evening hours, the temperatures will drop and the worry is that all this water and snow turns the black ice. that could be dangerous for driving conditions during the rush hour. it is very dangerous out here and we can't tell you how dangerous it is, but if you are walking, we heard of a very

tragic event in bay bridge, brooklyn. a 36-year-old pregnant woman was hit by a private snow plow and died. her baby was delivered and is in critical condition. we are trying to get more information on that. shows you how dangerous it is outside. >> allison, make sure you are safe out there as well. you can see that. the good news is this is one thing that is not making this as bad as it could have been. the temperature is 36 degrees now. it's going to get colder. right now it's slush. it's not ice. that ice is what causes all the problems with the power lines and sliding out on the road. i said that the mayor was a key figure in this. he has a lot of explaining to do because of the decision to keep the schools open. being second-guessed from politicians to a certain famous weather man. the president of the city's teacher's union said bill

deblazio's decision was a mistake. they called on with their criticism as well. the mayor didn't give any ground. >> we always emphasize, we think about 1.1 million kids depend on the schools as a place for their kids to be during the day. they are safe from the elements. so many families have to go to work. they need a safe option for the kids. >> a little bit of a twitter war going on. he doesn't agree with the mayor. al roker said how dare the mayor's office and the schools throw the national weather service under the school bus. forecast was on time and on the money. also i knew this morning that the mayor's office would close

schools. talk about a bad prediction. long range deblasio forecast, one term. the mayor fired back with this. >> i respect al roker a lot. watched him on tv for many, many years. it's a different thing to run a city than to give the weather on tv. so i am comfortable with our decision making. >> the person that got the last word is the person with the biggest microphone and that is l roker. he said mr. mayor, i could never run nyc, but i know when it's time to keep kids home from school. david is in charlotte where the snow is still coming down. david, tell us what happened yesterday. the gridlock and how long were people stranded? is the situation any better today? >> there is no repeat today of that mess that we saw in raleigh

yesterday. so many people got caught in the sudden snowstorm. that downfall. it god stranded on the roads. the governor talking about how they made sure last night that they had the national guard available to make sure that no one got stranded so they wouldn't have a repeat of atlanta. listen. >> my biggest concern while here last night is i gave a directive to this team. i want to make sure if anyone was stranded and left in their car that we find them. colonel gray and this highway patrol patrolling the roads throughout the night ensuring we don't have any stranded motorists that had to spend the night in the car. we did have blades in the raleigh durham area. that lasts from three to five

hours. to my knowledge, we have not had that. >> at this point just in the last hour, don, it seems like we turned a corner here. the temperatures come up and the snow has stopped. that is huge. look at all this pavement behind me. there is aggressive plowing in the area and this is the first time thanks to the combination of the rising temperatures and the stopping snow that we have been able to see the city streets from end to end here. there is still a lot of work to do and a lot of danger behind this storm. that snow is continuing to move north. raleigh will be catching again here today. the issue will be ice. look at all this slush down here being made. that is going to turn to ice. the governor is saying we will have about 500 miles across this state. we are going to have to worry about icing tonight for motorists. not out of the woods yet, but it

seems like we are definitely turning a corner. >> well, don't get ahead of yourself. i hear there is another system behind this one. thank you very much. i want to go to figure out where this storm is heading. we are live down in the cnn severe weather center. take a look at the pictures. it was slushier a second ago and it's time to get icier and sting. it's like an obstacle course. look at the folks trying to get to the patches right here. >> a food of slush. are we in for more ice later? >> 34 to 36 across the city and late tonight, the wrap around. it's the same storm. it is not a different storm. it's the tail. first of all, we have the head of the comma and now we are in

the middle. the tail comes back with more snow later tonight. it doesn't change over to sleet. it is a snow event. here's how it happens. i will take you through it. below runs up the east coast. it warms up and that's what's happening. all along the shore, it's nice. like 60 degrees. here further inland, we will see that one shot after another the rain is moving away. the rain is pushing up the snow to the north 20 north. as this changes and the low moves by us here, that way all of a sudden this tail comes back and smashes us from the back side. that's how we get snow again later tonight. even two to four inches coming down for d.c. and new york city. this is the problem. we have all that snow. now you are getting rain and sleet on top of it and it refreezes and all that stuff is a wreck underneath it.

there is more snow on top of the ice. >> my goodness. here. what about the southeast. they said hey, listen, that system will not affect us. >> birmingham had three to five inches of snow. snow in birmingham like i had not seen it snow in a long time. the tail is about here. in charlotte, right here. on up to virginia. this is the whole tail part of the storm that has to move by philadelphia. d.c., baltimore and down to richmond with the refreezing that happens tonight. that's what i was talking about. >> that's too far. >> one storm at a time.

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. >> welcome back to cnn's extended coverage of the snowstorm that hit the southeast and now the northeast. here's the trouble. getting around new york city. this is everything that is a slushy mess. some of this with people trying to get through the crosswalks as you see here. the temperature is above freezing. what will happen later if these temperatures go down, this can all become a big sheet of ice. driving out on the roads will be a huge problem. we go to cnn's brian todd near philadelphia. what are you seeing on the roads? >> don, a lot of slushy mess on the roads, especially some of the smaller roads that are off from the major highways. we are on 295. conditions are not too bad on this road. we are getting hit with freezing rain, but the conditions along with i-95 corridor all day today. we came upon two separate

accidents that involve overturned tractor-trailer trucks in the washington, d.c. area right along 495 there with the beltway of washington. these trucks are almost identical and they flipped over and neither of the two were hurt badly. one suffered minor injuries and had to be rescued from the vehicle. overnight into today in virginia alone they reported some 800 accidents. again, very treacherous conditions and there has been a bull as you have been reporting midday of just rain and maybe even a stoppage of the conditions in some areas. they are expecting the second punch in philadelphia and also back and the second punch of snow. two to three inches today. those conditions. just south of washington, the conditions are bad along i-95.

the snow plow could not keep up with the rate of snow that was falling. i-95 had a lot of accumulation. we came upon a gentlemen who had done a 180. flipped completely around on southbound i-395. he pulled him out of the jam. that was a good situation resolved there, but a lot of treacherous conditions and the state department of transportation and telling people don't pull over to the side. do not abandon your cars. these are the major thoroughfares on evacuation routes. if you see they abandoned your car, you are in for a stiff fine and towing. maryland, virginia, new jersey and pennsylvania. expect it to get worse in the hours ahead. >> brian todd driving on the roads near philadelphia. thank you very much for that.

this storm is a travel for the second day. more than 6,000 flights across the country canceled today. and across the river from the nation's capital. those runways it's tough to keep them dry in these conditions. how is it working out? >> if you are a flyer, you don't want to see what you see behind me. three planes sitting at the gate and not moving. the situation is this at reagan national. likely it looks a lot like this at many airports. they are trying to get the runways and the taxi ways cleared. not allowing flights in or out. we hope to reopen around noon,

but that hasn't happened yet. once the plane lands, you have to get it to the gate. the taxi ways are all clear. you see one, two, three, four trucks filled with snow. take a look right there. back to back. they are pulling all of that snow from the taxi ways and dumping it into a huge pile. here's the thing. you want to be able to -- once things are back up and running be able to move in and out of the gate on to the runway without any problems. i want to recap more than 6,000 cancellations. at this airport, they have been treating the runway and they are still at it. it is quite a rough go for the workers out here. it stopped snowing, but there is so much heavy snow here to move out. you don't want a plane to land

on a runway and slip off of that runway. it could be potentially catastrophic. don? >> listen. thank you, renee. this is what's happening here at central park. that's what they are getting around now in these dune buggies here. they have been out trying to get the snow off as well. a couple of seconds ago as we were talking, we saw someone put on skis and go out in central park and actually ski right down a walkway into the slopes of central park. what would think people are doing what they can. this is a snow day for you. you can be out and about. it's a serious day for a lot of folks. this is to and from school as well. more on the special storm coverage coming up, but next, afghan president hamid karzai is upsetting the president again. why the u.s. government is so outraged by this.

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high. more than a foot high. it's slushy and disgusting. we will get more in a little bit. we want to get the other side lines in today. lots of news going on besides the snow. a package bomb sent to a tennessee couple killed the wife and the husband. the wife was in critical condition after the device went off at their house on monday. she died from her injuries. she was 72 years old. her husband died instantly from the blast. officials say john picked up a package with the bomb when it exploded just inside the home. investigators say they recovered a note they believe was attached to the device. >> afghan president hamid karzai has done it again. stuck his finger in the eye of washington, d.c. he said if he wants to keep

prisoners, that's none of the u.s.'s business. >> it is of no concern to the u.s. and should have of no concern to the u.s. i hope that the united states will stop harassing afghanistan's procedures and judicial authority and i hope that the united states will now begin to respect afghan sovereignty. >> i'm going to continue talking here, but just so you know if you hear that, the folks are working with the snow. we will get these other stories in here. back to afghanistan. here's what happened. afghanistan just got 65 prisoners and they are taking part in attacks that wounded troops. washington warned against the release. afghanistan did it anyway and they are saying none of your business. with us now is general james. u.s. army retired and he's a cnn analyst. thank you all for joining us on this cold and snowy day.

we have asked this before and here it goes again. is this where the u.s. runs out of patience? we sent more than $1 billion to prop up his government and here he goes again biting the hands that feet him. >> here's the issue for the united states. if we consider afghanistan a long-term partner as we move forward and part of the calculus of that is what has taken place over 13 years where america has sacrificed mightily to get afghanistan to a place where they can achieve and have sovereignty and speak so highly of, if this is an important issue for the united states and a priority, our administration needs to work hard and take this on as "issue #1." this should not be pushed down to the department of defense. exclusively to the military and the great soldiers and military folks on the ground to try to

unravel this thing. karzai certainly is poking us in the eye. we have to deal with what we are dealing with with karzai. we need to work and try to shape this thing if we want an out come that is a priority to us. if it's not a priority, we need to walk away this evening and let them have their future and wish them the best. we should not be fumbling around and letting karzai call the shots. the diplomats have to step up and solve the problem. >> i want to get the united states reaction. it was a strong reaction. the u.s. embassy called the prisoner release deeply regrettable and said afghanistan bears responsibility for the results. does this put relations at an all time low here? >> it certainly does. the united states worked very, very diligently and all elements

of governance in terms of getting the afghan government stood up. when you have a partnership, you need to act like a partner. afghanistan is not acting like a partner and they have the performance. the united states needs to unemotionally make a decision. we either try to get this thing fix and get a stas us of forces agreement set up or we walk away immediately. >> thank you. we appreciate you here on cnn. lots of snow means lots of problems for new york. all of the eastern seaboard where you have live updates on how residents in the region are hoping the power outages and impassible roads. ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe.

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we are back with the extreme weather coverage. you are here from? >> houston, texas. >> i saw you navigating this puddle over here. >> it's ridiculous. we had to make a puzzle to get across. we are getting used to it. >> what do you think of the weather? >> it's horrible. we want the snow to go away. >> you picked the right time to come. >> we picked the wrong time. >> i'm not happy at all. >> you are ready to go back? >> sorry and enjoy. nice to meet you. new york city and suburbs all getting hit.

particularly in white plains. is that the case where you are? >> we spoke to the sanitation commissioner this morning. he said that for this storm, they should be okay. but for future storms, that's really up in the air. he said that they have gone through about half of their current stockpile and they do not expect another shipment of salts for another three to four weeks. we could be into spring. we may get another storm before then. we are worried about that. residents are having a hard time keeping supplies or finding splice. we called around to a couple of hardware stores and they are out of shovels and salts.

the supply can't keep up with the demand. all the back to back we had this season. going back to the conditions right now, we have seen that the heavy snow that was falling this morning has turned to rain. the cruel winter it has been, it will turn back into snow. we will get a slushy mess out here and pile more snow on top of that. you can just imagine what the roads are going to look like this evening. the new york state, the governor has declared a state of emergency for this part of new york. other parts of new york. they are just really urging people to stay off of the roads. not to use their car and use mass transit and as far as we have seen, people are really heeding the warnings. not a lot of cars on the road. our crews were driving around here this afternoon and people are staying home. kids have been out here playing in the snow.

there is no school. unlike new york school public schools are closed. people take it in stride. >> that's a good thing. if i can get a snow day, i would take one too. the news never stops. thank you very much. mark rhett knows all about that. the news never stops. she is north of philadelphia. >> don, this snow has turned to rain. we are expecting about 14 to 18 inches of snow here. we have about eight or nine. this is a part of the country. this straight behind me and people are trying to get their lives back on track. we were talking to a restaurant owner. he was out of power for seven days. he had been scrambling in the kitchen and he tried to put it back up to par.

this is actually the calm between two storms if you can believe that. we are going to get more snow here tonight and emergency workers and as far away from canada, there over 4,000 of them standing by encased on even more outages. >> my goodness. let's hope that doesn't happen. thank you. north of philadelphia, keeping your roads clear is not always easy. one of the many snow plows trying to keep the roads passible. they survive with no power. keeping an eye on how well they are coping with the storm. we are back in a moment. don't go anywhere. they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪

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. i'm back now with my new coanchor, jonah. say hi. don't eat your glove. what are you doing out here? >> playing sledding. >> jonah and mom? jonah is out here with his sled. can i go after i get off work? >> no. >> i can come with you? >> no. >> no? jonah! oh, man. enjoy. get out of here. bye. those are the people who get to have a snow day. how is atlanta faring in the latest winter storm. the city that ground to a halt in the last winter storm taking another day off. no traffic jams. down by the airport.

>> the storms come in quickly and leave just as fast. what we are seeing right now is the sun light which is not a bad thing. the temperature is up and the ice on the roads is melting. there tens of thousands of people without power. we spoke to a few folks about how they are coping with it. >> now there is a new challenge for those who lot of power and more outages are expected. >> left in the dark, gala and alfred had to sleep through the cold. >> how did you get through the night? >> stayed up and prayed, i guess. it's really cold. down in the lower degrees. managed what i could. >> this community in georgia, one of the hardest hit when it

comes to power outages. nearly 300,000 lot of power alone in georgia. they knew the ice and snow built up on trees and power lines would cause problems. >> it took out. >> power crews are doing their best as quickly as possible. >> i have been there for years. >> here in the city of forest park in the 34e9 row atlanta area, this particular community we know that a lot of homes they do rely on electric for their power. some people have gas and they are luckier. people who are still waiting for power who are still waiting for heat will have to continue to weight until crews can get around to restoring it. don? >> that's the bad news. thank you very much for that. lisa desjardins is in baltimore,

maryland on a snow plow. that's right. lisa? >> day one of the storm and many of the main roads have been working overnight on snow removal. they may have a budget problem. the city spokesman said their budget for snow removal is $2.7 million. so far they spent more than $5 million. it's a problem they will have to deal with after the storm is over. >> thank you very much for that. much more on the snow coming, but coming up here, we are following another story. a lot of people are talking about another danish zoo considering putting down a giraffe and put down after a lot of protests. another is considering during the same thing. we will talk to who leads us to

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. >> 100 million people will be impacted by this storm that made its way from the southeast all the way up to the east coast. it is really a very dangerous one. the continues are becoming very icy in the northeast. they were icy in the southeast. a lot of people heeded the warnings in atlanta and north

carolina. not so much and there have been deaths by this storm as well. more coming up, but first the other stories that are making headlines. in a debate over conservation versus cruelty, the life of a second giraffe is now on the line. another zoo may put down the animal to make way for genetically more valuable giraffes. the zoologist said we will of course try to place him in a suitable zoo, but we might have to euthanize him. this is a warping that the pictures are you about to see are graphic marruous is one of the ones who was fed to the lions with children watching, creating an international

outcry. this is an horrific story. euthanizing has been ongoing in the danish zoo world. what's your reaction when you hear about that? >> this is such a tragedy. when i hear and i read the story, it's all about planning. we work together. not only working through the zoos, but also affiliations that have the same standards of care. when we read the story about what happened in copenhagen and moving on to another story similar, we beg for them to plan to network. there so many others that can help these animals. >> it's interesting that both

were named marius. a u.s. zoo may step in to help this giraffe. >> no question about it. many zoos that can help. we have a great partnership with the wild. we have 10,000 acres and i would encourage the organization eaza, the european association for zoos and aquariums to work together. it's all about planning. it's very important that we realize that the animals we have in our care, they are ambassadors. it's about how to protect them and conservation success. in order for us to work and it's about working throughout the united states and also all of our friends through the world. park can you talk to me about what happens when the zoo gets too many animals.

how the zoo prevents against inbreeding? >> we have an organization, the population management center located in the united states. it works throughout all of the zoos working with the species survival program or ssp. we have over 500 species that is working through the ssp and we all work together. it doesn't matter if you are located in new york, ohio or california. we all work to make sure that all of the animals are paired appropriately as they have homes. they can move to different facilities. they always move and plan to make sure that every person has an opportunity to see these beautiful 1350esh ease we have in our care. >> thank you so much. pounding the eastern united states. we will have team coverage of who is being hit hardest and how long the power outages may last. it's getting close to quitting

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reporting. >> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon in new york city. it is the top of the hour if you are watching for home. if you are watching for work and your office and you are at school, no matter where you are and you want to know what the conditions are, we are going to tell you. sit tight and try to help your evening commute and make it better. if you are at home, we will tell you when you can leave the house. 100 million people will be slammed by the time it is all over. a storm that is already crippled the southeast is now pushing up the eastern seaboard. it's already dutching more than a foot and a half of snow in some places. at least 11 deaths have been blamed on the storm so far including a pregnant woman who was struck and killed by a snow plow in brooklyn. new york city completely blanketed by blizzard conditions. >> we want to constantly urge

that you don't need to be in your car, don't use your car. this is what a lot of people have said many times. i ask you to keep telling them how urgent it is to stay out of their cars for their own safety. also to facilitate the clean up work of the sanitation department. the forecast is grim right now, but parts are seeing snow. many roads are now skating rinks. trees are coated and falling and knocking out power. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark and it may be near impossible to escape. more than 6,000 flights are already canceled. one of the hardest hit areas, north carolina being called the new atlanta after drivers who ignored warnings got stuck for hours. >> our mission today is to try to get home. it's a little cold outside, but

the roads are bad so we are trying to stay focus and get past where we want to get to. >> i would like to be home right now. hopefully i can get there before dark. >> i want to you look at this. almost apocalyptic. it looks like the walking dead shot in atlanta. a car lot of control on the ice and then burst into flame. we are covering the path of this storm where it has been and is hadded with the correspondents in place for atlanta to new york city. i want to get started with our allison. the blizzard is bearing down. is this city prepared? >> driving around brook lip, it electrics like a lot of the main streets have been with the side streets, the residential streets. this really has not been turned into the dig out. digging out the cars trying to

get out of the problem. sure, there is a lull right now and more snow is expected. as we get closer to the evening hours, the worry is that the temperatures are going to dip and a lot of this will turn to ice. very dangerous for rush hour traffic. you want good news? i have some for you. tomorrow it's supposed to be 40 degrees. obviously not enough to melt a lot of this snow, but certainly a nice swallow those of us who have been sitting in the absolutelily cold temperatures for so long. don? >> 40 degrees. we will take it. you know who else will take it? new york city's mayor. he is getting hit with a blizzard of criticism. mayor bill deblasiio's decision to keep the schools open was not popular. he said students's welfare was the priority, but not everyone sees it that way including al

roker, the weather man who vented on twitter. he said i knew this am the mayor's office would close schools. talk about a bad prediction. long range deblasio forecast, one term. the mayor fired back with this. >> i respect al roker a lot and watched him on for many, many years. it's a different thing to run a city and give the weather on tv. i am col fortable with the decision making. >> cnn digital correspondent and editor at large has been following this. do most new yorkers share al roker's anger? >> some of the most vocal new yorkers share al roker's anger. if you look at the comments on the facebook page and my own feed and most people agree with al roker that the schools should

be closed. we have been talking about this all day. for those families who had to go to work who had no option to take care of the children if schools were closed, i would think those families may be a majority of school families and the city would support the decision. they may not be the most vocal going on facebook. >> we are hearing about al roker and the mayor. there were a lot of kids who live in my building. i didn't hear one family complaining. >> at the news conference, talking about this stat. snow days. >> since 1978. >> that puts it into perspective and today did not seem like one of the days for the working family who is had to get to school. >> as we look around.

we can see a lot of the tourists had rush hour. you can see people are getting around and the people there are shoveling the snow. i am seeing buses and school buses with kids getting on. hey, listen, there school buses in the background. this is new york city. we are a hearty bunch. what are the complaints about. >> the conditions were pretty severe and a lot of teachers and administrators don't live near school. they might have to commute from other borrows and westchester and long island. they will take care of the kids. they canceled and said why don't you do that. they have to hustle home early from work. there reasons, but looking at the big picture, the majority of

new yorkers on facebook and twitter. more people would be supportive of the mayor than critical. >> usually adults don't want snow days. it's the kids. >> we will get out of pennsylvania. thousands are without power. a train derailed in the ice and the snow. what are you learning about that? >> the snow is turning to rain. we are expecting about 14 to 18 inches of snow in the area. we got off the phone with pico, the power company. they are standing by in case there more blackouts. just days after pennsylvania was hit with crippling power outages across the state, residents are bracing this morning for yet another storm. heavy snow fell overnight threatening blackouts in counties that were hit harder last week than during super

storm sandy. emergency workers from as far away as canada helped them face the storm. >> it was very eerie in the town. every street was blocked off and trees laying everywhere. >> residents had to restock or get supplied. >> you worried about the storm coming up? are. >> yes. my husband is buying a generator. he cracked it down on the internet. >> some just got their power turned back on. this restaurant owner was out of business for seven straight days. >> about 6,000 or $7,000. >> his fear with another round of outages too soon. they wait to see what the storm will bring. >> getting up tomorrow morning. >> we are in a lull. the commissioner said we are in

the calm between two storms. we are expecting more snow tonight. >> thank you very much, margaret conley in the philadelphia area. we want to continue to move and go to brian todd who has been driving around d.c. now you are near philadelphia. what are you en around there. >> we have been driving along the i-95 corridor from d.c. area to philadelphia. downtown philadelphia is where we are. it's a slushy mess. the capability with this camera and i will get out and talk to the dashboard camera that looks out the windshield. you can pick it up here and see the slushy mess along 15th street that the cameras and the

photojournalist will pick up this slushy early commute. this is having a bit of a tough time navigating. streets were plow and after a steady dump of snow. this is what they encountered. there snow plows all over the place. they caught up to them. if he got caught up, he would get them out. that's the commute they are up against in philadelphia. again, slush all over the place. ice underneath it in some areas. it is a real commuter mess. earlier today we encountered two overturned semi trucks along the beltway. 495 near d.c. those are continues that are repeated elsewhere too. two overturned trucks and not major injuries in those cases, but again very treacherous conditions all along this area.

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welcome back to extended snow coverage. we are up to more than 6,000 commercial airline flights canceled today alone. 6,000 flights. that's a lot of people who were stranded. with us now from reagan national airport outside the nation's capital. i was just there yesterday. lucky enough to get a flight out to new york city. have you talked to any of those travelers? >> i have talked to some of the travelers and it's a tough road for them. this is a view during the snowstorm that you never get to see. the trucks are out there on the runways and the taxi ways trying to clear away some of that thick heavy snow. this has been that way basically since last night.

there is a concern about more snow. talking to the travelers in the terminal, many say they have been here for hours and hours. the biggest thing is communication able to get on the phone and talk to the airlines. let's listen to what some said when they talked about their situation today. >> i just got here from dulles. we are trying to get to north carolina to see our son and his family.

>> this is the problem. thick heavy snow and it's taken a long time to get off the runways. >> at reagan airport, ed is here driving the streets of atlanta. as the sun comes up, things are changing. what are you seeing? >> we are back out on the streets as you say. we are-clearing up off the roadways. i want to warn people about something they haven't seen in a couple of days. that glare that you see is something called sun light. for people holed up in their homes, for people starting to come out and something we haven't seen in a while in the last 2 1/2 days or so.

it kicks up a lot and people need to be careful with that. that is a much more bearable thing than what we have seen here the last couple of days. power outage issues throughout the region that people need to be aware of. 230,000 people without electricity and power at this point. they are working to take care of that. the good news is that temperatures are now in the 40s. it appears that it will be melting pretty quick. >> as you were talking, i asked the producers is that live? i'm looking at the interstate in atlanta. are you i-75 or i-85? it's really -- unbelievable. thank you very much. stay safe. listen. so how soon before the weather

lets up and travelers can get back to where they are going. that's the big question. i want to go to the cnn severe weather center. he's looking at the latest track of the storm. what do you have for us? >> it depends on how you want to move by car, plane, train, or bus and where you are in the storm. tonight i know that looked like a great shot. it's still going to be around 28 for a morning low. that is going to freeze a lot of that water out there that is spraying on the windshield. you need to be careful. there lwill be black ice. because you are 34 to 36 in new york city down to 24 by morning, obviously everything refreezes. we are kind in of a little bull because of the basement of the low. that is close enough to give you an idea. pushing warm air this way. pushing dry air kind of this way. we have a hole here.

pushing cold air and still wet air behind. this is the calmer part of the tail. all that snow in virginia right now. it's going to come up to the big cities later on tonight. we are in this hole, it won't get filled in later on for sure. new york city in the clear. the snow is to the north and the west. that is at least time to get some of the roads cleared up or pushed away. boston has not changed yet, but you will in the next hour or so. it will be raining and the heaviest is out here. almost all the way down to the pocon poconos. you will see a few inches and not like we put people into perspective. how many flights are out there. 6,300. there 5,200 planes on the mat.

it's not like air travel is grounded. people are going places. some places are not going as fast as others. some perspective paired to the 6,000. there planes in the air. >> here's the thing that you know. when you are cancelling flights in atlanta, new york, philadelphia, and d.c., the biggest airports in the country that's where the problem comes from. >> it comes from that and not from the capacity we v. every flight we are on has two empty seats if any. the next lean is full and the next plane after that is full. people that want to leave on thursday, if your flight gets canceled, you may not have an empty plane until tuesday. because of how much capacity you don't have and seats that we lose. 6,000 planes today, multiply that by about 100 seats per

plane and they department get to where they wanted to go. 600,000 seats didn't fly today. >> there is a big temperature and thermometer. it says 36 all day. that's not going to be good. >> are all the letters lit up today? >> no. no, we lot of those letters on the last ice storm. i looked up and i saw the lights flash and saw the bulbs go out and saw they haven't been fixed yet. one storm after another after another. >> yeah. the producers are telling us we are trying to get a shot of that sign. there is a sign. we are going to run and talking about. usually all the letters are lit up that say cnn.

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. >> major winter storm bringing snow and ice not only to the southeast, but all the way to the northeast. it's not over yet. much more coverage, but first, i want to give you stories that are making headlines. why your bosses tell you to be careful. here's why. apparently the initial doorway that let hackers into the computer system where they stole numbers and other personal information up to 110 million customers. cyber crime blogger quotes sources close to the investigation as saying e-mail containing mall wear was sent to employees and a contractor that did business with target. somebody opened the e-mail and bam. the hackers were able to steal credentials that let them into the target system. kevin is a former computer hacker and in las vegas. kevin, hold on one second here. our tent is falling over because

of the wind. are we good? the tent blows over, we will have to go to a commercial. >> here in las vegas, it's sunny. the wind is picking up. how easy was it for the hackers. >> it's quite easy because i do security testing all the time. social engineering is when we can use exception to break into the client's network. we will send a booby trap file or worry dock and if the victim opens up that file, we take full control of their computer. it's not hard to find victims. you find them on linked in and you can search for a company and title and get a target list. these types of attacks are easy to carry out. >> target was not exactly targeted. i'm not trying to make a joke. it can happen to any company

really? >> it happens all the time. what attackers use is a technique called spear fishing and they will look for someone in the company that might have privileges and target that one individual or two or three. it's hard to detect because it has to be one of the individuals that knows something is wrong. these social engineering attacks are very common and extremely effective and difficult to defend against. >> very difficult to defend against, but how can they stay one step ahead and they will have to knowing this. how can you stay one step ahead of increasing hackers. >> you need to test your security and employee's susceptibility of the attacks. they will do this for you. keeping the software on your

employee's desk tops up to date. what i do personally and what consumers can do, when i receive a pdf file and my e-mail box, i use google docks to open it. it's not the tackers that can exploit the software to gain access to the computer. >> appreciate that good information. >> a monster merger of comcast and time-warner cable could impact in three homes in america. this map shows how much of the country uses the two biggest. comcast agreed to buy time-warner for $45 billion. it may be good for the companies, but consumers, many say it's bad. here's one example to show you. benjamin harrison tweets this. what way is this not a catastrophe for a competition in an industry that is terrible for

customers? or consumers. a note, time-warner is not part of time-warner, the parent company of cnn. our senior media correspondent is the host of reliable sources and joins me now. i wish you were the media critic. they real it home. >> i was holding on to your tent so it wouldn't blow away. >> for would not blow away. how big of a deal is this? is there a legitimate concern? some people believe cable companies don't have the monopoly. they are curious about what's going on. >> they are the biggest in the country. they are putting the two together. there good reasons to be concerned about that. they need to be bigger. they were negotiating against

the cable channel owner. they need to get bigger and admighted this is not going to cause prices to go down. this is going to create discounts. prices keep going up because the channels cost more and more. >> it's not part of time-warner cable anymore. they have been separate and people confusion the two and time-warner has a bad reputation. it got trashed in the press for good reasons in the last few months. say what you will, but they have a slightly better reputation. they have that going for them. can't the best in the world. >> customer service was not great. >> you look at the rankings for cable companies and all of them have miserable scores. they happen to be the lowest of them all. as an industry they have to get better. consumers have more choices. we have netflix and revise on wireless that will sell

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so this massive ice storm that swallowed up the south is transformed into a monster of a 12340e storm and moving up to the northeast to where we are in new york city, washington, d.c., boston, up to this area. more than a foot of snow dropping across the region. to the south, the airports including reagan national trying to clear runways and planes can resume the flights and schedule. in white plains, trying to dig out and tell us about the conditions there. >> supplies are really low. we have seen people here taking advantage of this lull that we are seeing.

a light rain right now, but we did call hardware stores and they ran out of shovels and salt. this is a problem all over the area. i live in northern new jersey and for this storm, we had to order salts on the internet. we were driving around and cooped find it anywhere. here in white plains, about a foot of snow he said that now that it's raining, this is a welcome change because they can actually go through with the plows. they can clear the snow and see pavement earlier on when it was falling at a rate of about two to three inches per hour. on top of the foot of snow that has fallen. people here are in good spirits

despite being walloped by about storms in the last week. they have been so nice. coming up to us and all day. offering us coffee and offering us food. just about ten minutes ago, this lady walked over here and gave us some nice fresh out of the oven warm chewy chocolate chip cookies. we want to thank her for that. this makes our job so much better. i asked one of them and they said absolutely not. i had to pay a dollar for a cup. they said no. thank you very much, maria. you did. i want to get a baltimore. she is at a truck yard. what are you seeing?

we are trying to bring you live pictures and we had a tough time with the signal. we pulled over for a little bit. we have a food of snow and what's happening right now, it's melting. in the next couple of hours, things get back to freezing. i will step back on top of this truck that's going to have a critical role. this is full of ten tons of salt. i want to introduce to you two of the hardest working nen show business. this is reggie to baltimore natives. they have been working in 12-hour shifts when the snow started. let me start with you. talk about this particular snow right here. heavy and wet. what's it been like? >> it's heavy, but right now it's smooth with the rain.

you worried about more snow or ice? you feel like the roads are good? >> right now they are good. i don't know if they are talking about more, but hopefully it won't get worse. we will do the best we can do to clear the streets. >> they are talking about more, i have to tell you. don, here's what we are going do. this guy has to get on the road. the roads are pretty good. the sides is what they are trying to clear out now. we are going to get going and try to plow. hopefully keep our signal as you pull away. if you lose us, that's why. this is going on in baltimore right now. >> the snow plow and getting cookies from neighbors. thank you very much for those reports. power companies from louisiana to connecticut, reporting almost 3/4 of a million customers don't

have electricity because of this storm. the biggest share of those without power, north carolina. that's where we find major traffic jams including this one in raleigh. this spawned this apocalyptic scene that has become an iconic image. david matingly is in charlotte. what's the latest there? >> the sun came out. normally that is not a big deal. we were standing in the middle of a snow shower. that snow steadily moving to the north and out of the tar heel state. you can bet everyone here will be relieved to see that go away. now the road crews are out here and clearing pavement and there seems to be turning a corner right now. the traffic jam you were talking about. the governor was talking about that and they made an early decision to make sure the national guard was available. they could go out and rescue

people to make sure no one was stranded when the cars were stuck on the expressway. that jam alleviated itself late. we didn't see a repeat today. the roads were fairly light and most people paying attention and authorities saying don't go out. so people taking this snow day to stay at home and hopefully watch for a thaw. don? >> all right, david matingly. thank you very much. coming up here on cnn, we are going sochi where team u.s. is blowing the doors off the competition in a brand-new event. americans took the gold, silver, and the bronze. we will hear from the crowd.

. so jake tapper's coming up in just a few minutes on cnn, and he's going to be live in

washington. jake, i hear you're outside. i will trade you whatever you have for this black/gray slushy mess that people are trying to get across here. it's really crazy here. >> don, i'm being sleeted upon right now. these are like tiny little nails coming down from the heavens. it's one of the ten plagues, i believe. i need to go back and check out my exodus. >> reporter: i understand, though, that people can sit in their warm, cozy home and watch an interview with you and the vice president? >> it's not an interview with the vice president but we will be talking about the vice president because he does seem to be everywhere these days. he's just announced that he's going to be seth myers first guest when his late show debuts. there have been 128 requests for him on the campaign trail. it might be that all of this could be good for him if he

chooses to run for another office some day. we're going to be talking about the vice president and obamacare in our political panel. plus, we'll cover the wonderful wintry weather that makes us both smile. >> well, if if he can do an interview with seth myers, he can do one with jake tapper. mr. vice president, there you go. listen, stay warm. i'm sorry you're getting sleeted upon. it's just wet, like cold rain. that's all it is. see you at the top of the hour. >> the frost is coming in five minutes. see you soon. >> reporter: see you soon. 4:00 p.m., jake tapper, we'll be here in about 11 minutes. coming up, the castaway who says he was on the boat at sea for more than a year. he's speaking out next. and then we're going to sochi where team uss is blowing the door off the competition

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. you know what that music means, time for an olympic update. the way things went in sochi, they should have added a slopestyle competition long ago. the u.s. men swept the events.

rachel nichols is there. >> reporter: this is how rare it is to sweep the podium. the u.s. has only done it three times in the 1950s, 2002, and now. this is an extreme-style sport that america has been so dominant at. afterwards, the athletes could not be more happy to reshaping what olympians should look like. >> i'm really excited to see the aftermath of all of this awesomeness. >> i didn't get two events added. you want to showcase it as much as possible and with the u.s. being a powerhouse, i think it's awesome that we were able to come out the way we did. >> definitely the best day of my life so far. probably will be the best day of my life. i'm happy to share it with my good friends and fellow

americans. >> reporter: the day was even more meaningful for joss. >> he really wanted me to make it here and he supported me this whole way. i'm glad it worked out. i hope he's proud. >> reporter: joss said it meant a lot to his dad and he brought a picture of his father here to sochi. he had it with him in the opening ceremony and stuffed it in his pockets. his dad ways right there for the gold medal performance. >> all right. rachel nichols, thank you. appreciate it? the corvette museum that lost eight cars to a sinkhole. also, the castaway who says he was on a boat at sea for more than a year speaking out. hear from him coming up. ♪

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the fisherman who says he survived for more than a year stranded at sea spoke for the first time. jose salvador alvarenga didn't say a lot. he asked for privacy. >> what i want is to be at peace. no more questions. no more. i want to be alone with my family. give me time to talk after i recover because right now i'm not giving explanations to be. and what i ask is to be left alone. >> a doctor says alvarenga is anemic and not psychologically ready for the exposure that he's receiving. he turned up after what was

supposed to be a one-day fishing trip and ended up for a year lost at sea. one day after a sinkhole swallowed a classic corvette, the moment the earth collapsed beneath the cars was captured on surveillance video. there is damage in the millions of dollars. i'm don lemon. thanks for much watching. go inside and get warm. jake tapper is up next in "the lead." good afternoon, i come to you from washington, d.c. this is "the lead." the national lead, how could it still be coming down? the northeast is still frozen shut. this storm may be the baddest of all. where it is worse and where it is headed next. also, icy runways. more than 6,000 flights canceled throughout the c