for this thursday. it's thursday, january 21st, 2016. it's thursday, january 21st, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." a snow lert for alert. some areas already getting a preview of the wintry weather. financial markets continue to tumble after the latest triple digit losses on wall street. foreign markets take another hit overnight. and the buffalo bills make

position. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning, the brunt of a potentially crippling life-threatening snowstorm is bearing down on the mid-atlantic region. but the big storm will affect an area from arkansas to new england. the nation's capital is in the bull's-eye and it started to snow there last night. washington is preparing for blizzard conditions this weekend and up to two feet of snow. don champion is here in new york city where up to one foot of snow is forecast. don, good morning. >> reporter: that's right. good morning. this is certainly the calm before the storm. but there are still some uncertainties in terms of the storm's impact on the new york city area, but one thing looks to be for sure, people in and around the nation's capital could get the biggest storm they

have seen in years. people in the d.c. metro area got a taste what is to come. nearly an inch of snow grounded traffic to a halt wednesday night. among those stuck in the mess, president obama, who endured an hour an 12-minute right from andrews air base and the white house. it led to spinouts and pileups. >> i thought when i was getting on the road it was a bad idea. >> reporter: friday's monster storm is forecast to bring blizzard like conditions to d.c. and baltimore and surrounding areas, pummeling the area with 12 to 24 inches of snow. >> we've already asked for additional national guard vehicles and we would be prepared to ask for personnel. >> reporter: ahead of what frrks a parallel a liesing winter storm, road crews

>> the fridge is packed and we have plenty of watered . he forecast to move further east over the weekend, storms are not thencern. coastal flooding. as of now, forecasters say new york city and new england could be spared the brunt of the >> you can imagine, air travel is expected to be quite a mess because of the storm. all of the major airlines have already started issuingassengers who want to change their weekend travel plans. >> it's going to be pretty challenging here in the northeast over the next few pion here in new york, thank you, don. >> reporter: besides the heavy snow and ice, coastal flooding will be an issue from maryland to long island.eric fisher of our boston station wbz says the big storm is just starting to rev up. day where our big east coast storm starts to develop and the first stop is the gulf of mexico.

this is where it gathers moisture along theco and producing heavy rain and thunderstorms. then it turns to the east cok area for some big mid-atlantic snow. we will start with today, first. we have a chance of severe weather along the gulf coast and damaging wind gusts, heavy rain and even a couple of isolated that severe threat heads over to florida for friday. looking at this hour-by-hour, here comes the heavy rain for today. as we head into the day on got a full-fledged snowstorm developing and also a major ice storm for much of north carolina and that could have big consequences for power outages and for travel. into saturday morning, the snow is moving up into new york city. during the day on saturday lifting into southern new england and about as far north as this storm gets. so 1 to 2 in the blue area and the epi center likely around washington, d.c. and baltimore and two feet may onditions and keeping an eye on coastal flooding which would be a big

i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. latest on the snowstorm coming up on "cbs this morning." this morning, the story is snow and cold. but last year, the scord breaking heat. record. for the most part, scientists blame man-made global warmingful el nino weather system. according to the noaa, for the first time, earth is nearly two degrees warmer than it was in trial times. now to politics. donald trump is pulling away in new hampshire. a new cnnlding a 20-point lead among republican voters in the granite state and that is more than double his nearest competitor ted cruz. trump wasalin at a rally in oklahoma yesterday. palin, who endorsed trump, of her son trac on domestic violence

charges what she calls is a lack of support for supporters by obama. iraq. >> my son came back different. they come back hardened and back wondering if what is that respect for their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sack rah given to this country. >> palin says she can relate to other families feeling the effect of ptsd. a crash of oil prices and the skerp of the glo picture triged a worldwide stock sell-off. this morning, china's shanghai lost 3% of its value.iels is at the new york stock exchange with the details. >> reporter: good morning. stocks on wall street are off to their worst start of a year ever. terday as oil suffered its worst one-day

the dow jones industrials lost is after a late recovery. it had been down over 560 points. the s&p 500 dropped 22 points and down to its lowest level innearly two years. the nasdaq slipped five points. the drop in oil prices means the global economy is slowing, in particular, china. thee price of oil is due to oversupply. u.s. oil stockpiles are at their highest level in 80 years, the crude fell to $22.65. lowest level since 2003. the plunging price of oil is good news at the gas is pump. unleaded in the u.s. has dropped to $1.87 a gallon. >>ork stock exchange. hena, you will be back with more business headlines a little bit

later on in the forecast so see youthen. more than a hundred thousand flint residents are getting o their homes. governor rick snyder released e-mails about the crisis and as adriana diaz reports, the governortions to answer. >> governor, is the water in flint safe today? >> we don't want to consider it safe, michigan governor rick snyder admitted to cbs news scott pelley that flint's contaminated water situation got away from his state agency charged with they were too tech. they followed literally the rules. they didn't use enough common sense. r released e-mails that reveal he was aware of complaints about water quality from flint residents dating back as far as last february.later, flint switched back to detroit's water system but the damage to the

>> what is inexplicable and ble is once people figured out that there was a problem there and there was lead in the water, the notion that amilies weren't notified. >> reporter: cases of bottled water are pouring into this warehouse and now there are enough supplies and people to get the water to the of the city's 100,000 residents. abby got her first delivery on wedn a time to point the finger at one person to blame, it's a time for us to come up with a solution. >> reporter: they took a sample of her water for lead testingesday but she won't seep the results for weeks. >> we need to know immediately what is in our houses. >> reporter: president obama has pledged $5 million in emergencyassistance but governor snyder are appealing for more. adriana diaz, cbs news, flints , michigan. >> news."

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