it's monday, january 25th. coming up on "early today," the record blizzard of 2016. a number of people lost their lives. the financial costs are staggering. digging out and heading back to work for millions. super bowl 50 has set a battle between old and young as peyton manning takes on cam newton. donald trump says this. >> i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voter, okay?

>> we've got a last-minute scramble of the candidates. plus an all-new "snl." "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm gigi stone woods. the east coast continues to dig out from this weekend's historic storm that brown record snowfall to much of the area. at least 14 states got a foot of snow as west virginia got an amaze amaze amazing 42 inches. major airports broke records. laguardia got nearly 28 inches and jfk international was hammered with 32.5 breaking the old record by more than 4 inches while central park was one-tenth off the previous record. newark, new jersey, was one-tent on the other hand while farther south along the jersey shore

the town of north wildwood was flooded with half a foot more water than superstorm sandy. the township's police share this picture of a rescue carrying a little girl after her home was flooded. federal government offices in the nation's capitol will remain closed after getting 20 inches of powder. no word yet if there will be a round 2 of yesterday's epic snowball fight at dupont circle, but it's a pretty good bet that the obama dogs beau and sonny will be dreaming of playing in the snow. the roof of the practice facility collapsed under 34 inches of snow and 50-mile-per-hour winds. virginia governor terry mcauliffe attributed 1,200 car accident in his state to the storm. 32 deaths are from the weather. mostly from car crashes but also

one person got hit by a plow. in north carolina a father was shot and killed while trying to help a driver who skidded off the road. a commuter train hit passengers after its plow got struck on the tracks. luckily no one was injured and amazingly the train wasn't damaged and was able to continue on its way. according to flightaware more than 1 2,000 flights were canceled due to the storm. nbc's edward lawrence is out in the streets of washington with more. edward, are you all dug out? >> reporter: yeah, gigi. i'm calling this the big dig. tens of thousands of people of the suburbs of washington to the outskirts of new york city are digging out. take a look. this is the snow left around the u.s. capitol that's almost knee-high in this area. many of the streets around this area are not plowed at all.

maryland says he has no timetable for when the streets will be plowed. the mayor of baltimore also echoed the same sentiment. we had a number of roof collapses in the area from the weight of the snow on top of there. in fact, emergency crews have snow. in some cases there are streets that haven't been plowed. they have had to respond to emergency in almost two feet of snow, so we're still digging out all the way on the mid-atlantic states from washington, d.c., as york city. again, no timeline on when this could be finished, although crews out overnight working. reporting live, back to you, >> all right. good luck. edward lawrence, thanks. the two number one teams going head to head in the battle of old versus young. the defending champ battling from behind, tom brady throws one of his two picks from the

moments later peyton manning hits daniels for a go. fast forward, 17 seconds left on the clock. >> with the game on the line, brady. oh, gronkowski to make it 20. >> touchdown pass. now for the tie, brady goes to the two-point conversion but the pass is kept and picked off. broncoshead to their eighth super bowl in franchise history. next is charlotte where cam newton manhandles the cards. >> tossed again. still going. inside the ten. gets a block. touchdown! >> the rest of the game went carolina's way as cam newton ran for two t.d.s in addition to throwing two more as arizona had six turnovers as the panthers dominated 49-156789 super bowl 50 is february 7th in santa clara, and the panthers are an early four-point favorite.

getting a little more crowded. according to reports former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is mulling over the bid for independent, even having advisers draw up his campaign. he's always declined to do so, saying he didn't think he could win. speaking on "meet the press" hillary clinton doesn't think the former mayor needs to jump in. >> the way i read what he staid f i don't get the nomination, he would. i'm going to leave him of that so he doesn't have to. >> meanwhile "the boston globe" officially endorsed clinton for president. she ool have one last chance to make a national pitch along with the rest of the democratic field at tonight's democratic forum before iowa's caucuses one week from today. nbc's kristen welker has the latest from the campaign trail. >> reporter: donald trump

starting his day at church, later joking about the lessons he learned there. >> we talked about humility at church today. i don't know if that was aimed at me, perhaps. now, the church, i don't think knew i was coming. >> reporter: a little levity in this high-stakes race. trump leading cruz 2 3.2%. a possible bum after his sustained bashing. >> one of the problems with ted cruz is everybody hates him. >> after another controversial outburst. >> i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and i won't lose any voters, okay? i have people that are so loyal, mar than any other candidate. i love me people. >> reporter: meanwhile marco

moines register." the challenge for the established favorite, breaking through in a cycle favoring outsiders? >> any time i've run at this establishment. >> reporter: the newspaper also supporting hillary clinton locked in an unexpected tight race with bernie sanders, on her experience. >> it's very personal and people look and say, you know, can we imagine this person to be president and commander in chief, and because of my experience, i think that's something that people really take into account. >> reporter: and bernie sanders dismissing the newspaper endorsement arguing the sign that he's the true outsider. >> the reason that our campaign is generating so much interest and enthusiasm is people think it's time that we take on the staenment staenment.

you called this a historic snowstorm to a tee "t." >> it was really predicted. now we're dealing with the cleanup, people trying to get back to school and work in some cases. some people are still digging out for a day or two. but temperatures are going to be above freezing. we're going to be in that pattern of a slow melt and black ice each and every morning. here's an item of concern. end of this week thursday, friday, another nor'easter forms but this one is expected to be further off the coast. all of the heavy precip, the yellow and oranges, is off the coast. it looks like cape code could get glanced by this one. but temperatures will be warmer, so i'm not so concerned down there with any snow. we'll have to watch new england and hopefully this trend will l be kept off the course. the only other areas of concern. this is what we like to see, a nice simple storm in the middle

areas like minneapolis will be freezing rain over to light snow. it will be a little treacherous late today. from across minneapolis, duluth include and also our friends in south dakota. today's forecast, a slow melt. at least it will be sunshine. a calm weather. that's the south. now here's a closer look at the day ahead. so there's that light snow that will develop as we go throughout the day. in nebraska, it will push to the north a little later. temperatures are cold this morning where it snowed hard but at least this afternoon we'll get up there to a couple degrees above freezing. so we'll watch that storm off the coast. it has to. it will stay off the coast. again. >> i hope so. thanks, bill. which hollywood actress complained about getting bumped from first class but did she have a right.

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here's look at the snow footprint from this event. from kentucky all the way back up into areas of southern new england to north carolina, the bull's-eye was west virginia, northern virginia, maryland, back into pennsylvania and the new york city area. what's incredible is that many of the huge cities on i-95 all picked up their seasonal snowfall with just one storm, even some areas higher than that. jfk getting 30 inches. baltimore also with a record. dulles, you're in fourth place for your all-time. philadelphia, we will do some considerable melting. richmond and other areas. even d.c. will do some decent melting in the next couple of days. >> put it behind us. thanks, bill. now to some entertainment news.

dicaprio's the revenant took in the top spot. star westmont warriors the force "star wars" the force awaken came in second and the rival took in third. one direction, louie tomlinson took to twitter. he said i'm pleased to say my baby son was born yesterday. he is healthy and pretty amazing. we wish the mom and him the best. are they old enough to have children? they seem like little babies. >> we're getting older. >> exactly. former bandmate zain mallet had a different announcement. his will be released on friday. happy birthday to you

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