traffic on lake shore drive has and what the plows can't get to is the real problem. growing snow is making this blizzard miserable if you're in it. a grieving. right now there are people who have been stuck on lakeshore for hours no idea how they are born to get home. here's what you need to know school closings are born to run through the newscast at the bottom of the screen. wgn dock, also has list. >> people are

leaving cars on lakeshore drive. we have high 80 between shut down. ousix to 10 in. are down d it's not over. we'll have about six to 20 in. in many areas by morning. with heavier snow reported in many areas. the storm has moved up into the central illinois area. we've had some reports of mixed this week to. visibility tell is the story and you have any horizontal visibility at all. i

want to show you the latest on our radar. we have been getting all caught types of reports. when you have a really vigorous storm like this. the upward at out promotion is so extreme we're picking it out on our radar. look at the wind gust. outhere's shikar right there we're snow by the way 9 in. in belvedere. midway at 7.4. much

more to tell you about bad as we will have a rush morning our drive. >> we had plenty of warning. but this is absolutely unbearable lot of folks say including myself appeared we have never seen anything quite like this. extremely intense winds and driving snow and the real story the when you were talking about behind me along lakeshore drive. these folks stuck in traffic the northbound lane absolutely at a standstill. it has moved 20 ft. in the last hour. some of these people trapped in traffic going on for hours. and the hour drive

tonight white out conditions. this video shot just minutes before police started trying to shut it down. downtown chicago like a frozen ghost town. motorists spinning out emergency crews of struggling just to get around. on the north side of the wind is strong enough to tear big chunks off the roof of a regally field. businesses like this roscoe village barber shop standing empty. at least the kids have been having a good time. especially the one who stepped up their school bus to learned they won't have to go back tomorrow. were certainly

we're serioucharges that officil involved in insurance to get these cars unsettled of verdi's driver's home. the only folks at not having trouble in our roadways tonight are the ones who stayed home but >> we're joined at home when a driver who has been stuck on

lakeshore for five hours >> tummy were your ads and what's happening? emma i'm mad 2000 north lakeshore drive between forest and belmont. >> how long have you been there? >> i've been there for two hours and we have been moved for the last two hours. >> i hope no one is getting at of the cars. are any officials coming by? at that we've seen absolutely no one from the city no officials is pretty much everyone for themselves out here. as far as officials all have is my country to get in contact with people. >> you should also and some

point it out of your current and make sure that your tailpipe is clear so that you don't have that exhaust backing up. i >> we have been stuck in the spot for about two hours now. it's been in since 3:00 p.m. that i actually left work. >> we to jeffrey to lakeshore drive reward doing okay until we got down to buckingham fountain to slow down their. and then it's just been miserable since. the north of mut kingeven thouge saw about a dozen of those passengers actually walk past as trenton and the belmont through

this really a horrible lizard. we're right on the curb of belmont. i've been out several times to clear off the windshield wipers of the eyes of the forming on them. and my coach is just coated ice when i got back again. this the north unaware there are trying to clear those stalled cars out of the way. and again is also at belmont. it bought >> southbound is clear in north china is the when this dumb? >> we've seen police cars go soh

bound to but there's nothing happening north yards.bound. >> tom skilling has been reporting all day the wind is just as much a factor as accumulation over the good news is is in the suburbs is that motorists are taking these advisory's really really serious. outhis used it inaudibl

>> difficult to even see the pavement on most of the main arteries of the suburbs and night. maybe about 23 year

every year motorists. jurors need to devise an warning serious. don't run our drivers and a blouse. according to the e board from in-and. so far in indiana and jasper counties have declared a state of emergency.

>> 47 thousands customers without electricity. >> what i can tell you is that we mobilized more than a hundred free spirit the dangerous conditions are him bring our repair efforts which is towards the lake customer restorations. >> it's mainly the wind right now affecting. it's really the high winds that's bringing down tree limbs which have been

bringing down power lines and that's creating the problems. and right now the city of chicago is the hardest hit. we cannot estimate restoration * right now. if they are experiencing outages they should e-mail, head. speaking of the web sure your photos and videos. we've got a few of them right now.

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everything that we can to respond to this storm. we are as prepared as we can force arm of this size and scope which we've never seen before. >> with the storm now bearing down on the area off the city is now facing up to speed a snow. homeland's security is also working with the city in dealing with the store. earlier today chicago public schools decided to cancel classes for to margaret the last time that happened was in 1999. this city's budget will be up tonight. it oughmayor daley even considering using several of the

highest melters to handle all the snow. anyone thaanyone who s to be out tomorrow is urged to use public transportation. iand city officials will have another briefing first thing tomorrow morning by then there will have a better idea of definitely what we are dealing with it. the city not cutting any corners. there's a that public safety is number one priority. the price tag of the storm could be a happy one. >> state with ustay with us a cf blizzard 2011 continues.

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lizard 2011 a let's get everyone up to speed of your tune in. >> the northbound lanes are stuck. we've talked to someone who's been in their car at one spot for two hours. 1300 flights had been canceled. metrist train and some have stopped indefinitely but crews are work on the problem. power outages 19 47,000 people >> the weird thing here tonight

is that you can hear a pin drop here at o'hare that's out and see it is tonight. the airline luckily start to prepare for this yesterday stirred revokes around canceling some flights in order to accommodate as many people as possible tonight. believe it or not there are a few flights landing and taking off. o'hare rarely looks like this. security checks locked up and shut down on the screen its canceled across the board. more than 1300 flights not landing not taking off from o'hare. a

he'll always desirable drillers and dried 01 next. happy couple days before they actually get to their final stop. and john is ultimately headed to california. he says that even if a flight were taking off or had to call for tonight he'd probably not at all was not beyond it he is too scared.

>> if you are traveling at all this week you might want to check with your airline. >> mature travelers have had a tough go to day. >> resorts to hear about that. and certainly we've done everything that we can to clear the snow out of the switches which is our main problem. when you have a lot of snow that's a very fine snow it can easily get clocked in our switches and we can't move a train from one track to another under those circumstances. we've had people out there mainly to try and set

out get that snow out the win. >> we don't have people that are out there at. we've had some significant delays appeared and actually our rushmore started around 2:00 this afternoon we did have some extra trains so people could leave the city earlier. beginning at 2:00 the austrians were packed. we began a load and go situation starting at around 2:00 this afternoon. as we got into our regular rush hour that snow caused us some real grief with our switches. ouof the rush hour started at 20 on afternoon and people were hurt release starting to get out of the city earlier. most of the

trains are on the move and we're hoping for the best for tomorrow. we will have crews working throughout the night tonight. >> when macaulay's penn i once e the snow. beautiful pictures as out of our snowstorm with this. this is from indiana from stacey

of ice in that area. that's a big factor south of the snow bands. in minimum o pique one's of the jet stream arno's and ran to this writer ld fractions of a mile. it's snowing heavily these are some of the latest snow totals. we

have some real pros out there trying to do it. quincy is and what a 13.5. " would just end with 8.4. here's the model forecast close out and it'll take you into the morning rush-hour right there with heavy bands and obviously reinforced by lake moisture. by known as the snow brand is shifting into the afternoon hours into the northwest indiana. we may even see a piece of the sun. and this is likely to be an historic storm when we

are done measuring it. once i have already topped 60 mi. per hour. these are a winter storm warnings and these are when shall advisory's and gives you the 9 d of the type of cold we're having. there is hour storm just about e

of these killings symbol boses where lightning is flashing. if you are outside their you can see the lightning and probably hear the thunder even though thunder is small fold in the snow storms. here's latest information on snow fall appeared we will go back and show you this you can see how the snow from this point forward will still fall heavily in this area and as far as the monster here they are.

here's what the storm has done up to the west of us in parts of southwest and southern missouri. and even into western illinois. we have about a foot down. at midway there have been cost of 50 m.p.h.. harvard's has got an and forecast of a blizzard warning continues until 3 tomorrow afternoon. blizzard warning into

the morning. blizzard continuete starting in the morning 28 to 50 in gusty. mostly sunny very cold tomorrow. on thursday about 10 degrees. there's another system that we are watching early into next week. stay with us what we have more coverage of the snowstorm.

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out shovelling this amounts of snow that we've been having lately the best thing to do is to use your legs. really lifting with your legs. and when do we know when to say one? people don't realize that when you're outside in this kind of weather that europe's spending a lot of energy. you're off and sweating after 15 minutes of this is of you have heart disease that's a very dangerous thing to do pernod if you're in shape and any complaints then that's fine. if you start to feel heaviness and your chest anything that's abnormal you probably stop and take a

when should we call the er? if you have chest pains like before and it's not going away that it's definitely time to call 911. it's cold right now but it's way to get even colder how do we protect ourselves from frostbite? the most important thing is to be prepared heavy jacket, gloves cover your ears. scarves. even about 10 minutes out when you're in the elements you can start to have a low gray frostbite. what are the signs that you are really beginning to get frostbite? >> when you start losing sensation. after we lose our sensation we don't know the damage that is actually

>> as we talked to tom skilling the seven day forecast is coming up their >> firefighters or to have to go out and this stuff can you imagine fretting a fire a much lesser prairie power lines it's almost inconceivable. >> what has that this storm up is this incredible temperature contrast. we're born to get into

the colder as you see in a moment. the, that you're hearing from veterans that are reporting snow totals the they have never seen it snow this heavily before. now look at what the temperatures enough tonight so much work to tomorrow morning in the lower twenties. this one models take on it to excess of a single digits after that. no problems this weekend a little system comes in with a light snow on saturday but watch

was stars that happened. this is the model that was dead on with the current system. on tuesday that is the system that we will have to be watching to. 23 degrees tomorrow. 10 thursday. then warming up over the weekend of white snow on saturday. drive carefully guys. >> before going to break as one dimension the county jails are experiencing power outages.

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