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less than 2 weeks ago..... dabo swinney was coaching in the national championship game.... but last night inside death valley .... coach swinney ..... was doing something all of us would love to do..... take a sled....down the hill...... at memorial stadium. you can see some other coaches and some players..... loving every minute of their coach.... having some fun in the snow.... just like the rest of us. 1st year tennessee head coach ..... rick barnes....has somethingfew opponents this season have had.... success versus south carolii. during his 4-years as clemson's head coach.... barnes .... was 4-and-oh versus the gamecocks ..... saturday afternoon in knoxville .... 24th ranked south carolina..... looks to beat barnes.... and a vols team that is 8-and-2 at home this season.... 1. early on....p-j dozier.... with a nice pass inside to chris silva.... who puts in 2 of his

under a minute to play in the first half .... micahel carrera .... spots up.... and knocks down "3" of his team high 22 points ..... gamecocks down 1 at the half. 3. early 2nd half..... carrera... stays persistent inside....he gets the basket and the foul.... to cut the vols lead to 3.4. midway through the 2nd half.... laimonas chat-kevicius..... slams it home to cap off a 6- oh gamecock run.5. but south carolina has no answer for vols guard..... kevin punter.... who finishes with a career high.... 36 points.... as tennessee hands south carolina its 2nd loss of the season..... final score.....78-69. after falling at 13th ranked virginia tuesday night to snap a 5-game winning streak.... clemson has this weekend off. the tigers return to action wednesday night.... when they play host to a talented pittsburgh squad. in a-c-c action saturday afternoon ..... 20th ranked duke ..... tries to snap a 3- game skid..... it's longest losing streak in 9 years.... the blue devils ..... o the road taking on rivaln-c state....1. and state looks great early....anthony barber.....team high 19 points ..... wolfpack lead by 7 at

half .... the blue devils catch fire.....brandon ingram....slams home "2" of his 25 points.... while grayson allen....scores a game high....28 points..... as duke gets back on track with an 88-78 win at n-c state. in socon action ....... wofford making the short trip to greenville to face rival furman....the terriers and paladins enter the day ..... side-by-side in league play.....1. four minutes to play in the game....fletcher mcgee....hits the tough "3".... terriers up 8.2. but furman fights back.... just over a minute to go.....stephen croone....hits nothing but net from the land of "3" .... paladins within one.3. under :10 seconds to play..... wofford down one.... terriers with some nice ball movement.... justin gordon.... to c-j neumann... for the layin.... wofford leads 62-61 with :06 seconds to play.4. furman gets the ball back.... time winding down.... dv sibley.... can't get the lay-in to fall....but check out stephen croone.... as he races in for the follow tip as time expires.... furman

.... final score....63-62. in the atlantic sun..... u-s-c upstate ..... trying to snap a 3-game losing streak at the hodge.... the spartans playing host to jacksonville....1. big fellow....michael buchanan.... follows up his 31-point performance thursday night... by scoring a team high 24 points.2. josh cuthbertson ..... chips in with 20 points.... but it's still not enough....as the dolphins.... stop the spartans.... final score.....77-68. in big south action...... presbyterian on the road

1. mi shovels. >> yes, 800. >> reporter: and they'll need them. this time lapse shows how the snow filed pooild up. do you have a sense for the time line of digging out once want snow stops. d.c. emergency manager chris geldart. >> that's a big question right now. it's a big question for us as well. >> reporter: washington, d.c. averages 19 opinion 5 inches of snow a year. this storm is on pace to bring that and maybe more in just one day. jim, both the secretary of defense and the vice president were supposed to fly into washington today. their flights have diverted to florida. >> axelrod: kris, thank you. as kris just mentioned, the winter weather is also creating major disruptions for air travel. so far, more than 10,000 weekend flights have been canceled. and that includes all flights in and out of philadelphia tonight.

expecting up to two feet of snow before the storm is done. >> reporter: these are basketball players from duquesne university trying to push their chafter business through thick snow on the new jersey turnpike. they have been stranded since last night. tom wolf is pennsylvania's governor. >> some places two to three inches per hour, and that is making it really, really difficult for us to use all our resources to keep our roads open. >> reporter: tonight, there are more than 2,000 trucks plowing nearly 40,000 miles of state highway here. it is an area almost as big as new york, new jersey, and all of new england combined. overseeing the effort is pin pen secretary of transportation leslie richards. >> historically, they were saying this could be the biggest storm we've seen here in 90 years. >> reporter: outside philadelphia, there have been more than 80 rescues of drivers stuck in snow. in downtown, nearly 18 inches made for a playground with street skiers and sledders.

>> i'm well beyond the idea of winter wonderland. you know, there's no romance to a blizzard in my mind. >> reporter: back on the turnpike, duquesne university has tweeted, "it is becoming increasingly unlikely that duquesne will be able to leave the turnpike tonight. preparing for another night on the bus. we have been told that pennsylvania's governor is using the national guard and every resource he's got to get that team and those people off of that turnpike tonight. in montgomery county, pennsylvania, where we are right now, the measuring stick shows 22 inches. jim, among the reports of problems in this area, there are ambulances with patients inside of them that have actually gotten stuck in the snow. >> axelrod: david begnaud up to his knees in it in pennsylvania. thank you. david mentioned that 85-mile stretch of the pennsylvania turnpike that is closed tonight in both directions. among those stranded are members of the temple university women's gymnastics team.

coach umme saleem-beasley. coach, i'd ask you how's it going, but i don't think it is going. >> no. we are stuck here on the pennsylvania turnpike. and we have been here since about 6:15, 6:30 yesterday. >> axelrod: have you had any law enforcement knock on the door of the bus and check ow? >> yes. about 6:00 a.m. this morning, they came back again to bring us some water and to check and make sure that everybody was okay. >> axelrod: you've been at this now nearly 24 hours. is it still an adventure or is it starting to get a little bit scary? >> it is getting to the point where we're a little bit-- have a little bit of cabin fever, but we've been watching our movies and rewatching them. so we're doing okay. >> axelrod: coach umme saleem-beasley, who is making lemonade out of lemons. thank you for being with us. >> you're very welcome. >> axelrod: ice has been the problem throughout the southeast, causing widespread power outages.

lost power in north carolina alone. mark strassmann is in charlotte. >> reporter: across the carolinas, more than 7,000 utility workerspent saturday turning the lights back on. they're working 16-hour shifts and making progress. >> right now, this is the of our storm center for the carolinas. >> reporter: inside duke energy's war room, john smith's team coordinates the utility's emergency response. >> yes. they're in the areas are that were hardest impacted. any time you have ice on trees, you get a little bit of wind, the tree falls, hit another line, could possibly bring it down. >> reporter: this map shows the storm's path. the dark pink area was the hardest hit. ice there can be a half inch thick. and what's the challenge in restoring? >> well, in restoring right now, one of our challenges is just travel. first you have to be able to get and assess the damage that's out there. is the pole broken, is the wire down or is a limb on a line? once you've assessed that, then

>> reporter: duke energy was actually bracing for a worse stom storm. it originally forecast 800,000 people would be without power. the worry now is high wind, winds up to 40 miles an hour, jim, winds that could keep knocking down power lines and keep those crews working. >> axelrod: mark strassmann, thank you. eric fisher is chief meteorologist at wbz in boston. he's on cape cod for us tonight. where it's apparently bad enough for the goggles. eric? >> reporter: jim, it is clear-on blizzard conditions here. if it's impossible for a storm you talk about all week long to overproduce we might have that tonight, looking at tremendous snow totals, coastal flooding and, of course, here in cape cod it is an extreme winter night. let's take a look at some of the totals coming in. new york to d.c., astronomical figures. the latest reports are as of 1:00 in the afternoon. they only do official reports every six hours. it's been snowing all day, both

inches of snow and come close to the greatest ?orms on record. huge totals there, even bigger just to the west of d.c. parts of west virginia reporting over 40 inches of snow. closing in on four feet from this storm. now as we head through the overnight hours, very slowly, the storm is now what we call stacked. it's the same low pressure from the surface all wait up. it's slowly going to drift its way out to sea and pull these snow bands farther off towards the east. finally by tomorrow morning, all the snow will be finally out in of into the atlantic. the other concerns tonight, we have seen wind gusts over 70 miles per hour up and down the coast. the strong wind will be continuing into tomorrow morning and finally leaving us here on cape cod as we head into sunday afternoon. jim air, blizzard that is living up to the name, very similar to what we saw in 1996, one of the most infamous on record. >> axelrod: eric fisher in the brutal conditions of sandwich, massachusetts. thank you, eric. some stations may be leefg us now for local coverage. coming up for those staying with

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>> reporter: we see it with every blizzard-- people panic, hitting stores to stockpile groceries. >> winter was coming. we had to know that. >> reporter: shoppers go nuts over two tapeles. >> every snowstorm, the first two things that go are bread and milk. >> reporter: bread orders tripled this winter for store manager scott goldshine. >> no matter how much we order extra, they're gone. >> just that basic comfort, toast and hot chocolate, concept. >> it's the first thing that goes quickly so, if i see sort of that scarcity, i'm always going to grab tjust in case. >> reporter: which is why bread and milk sales are documented diligently on social media. "it has begun," this woman posted. "time to make those milk sandwiches. >> reporter: our cbs affiliate in washington, d.c. even came up with a bread-o-meter to show how bad the storm was going to be. >> okay, so, on a scale of 1-10, it's going to be a 10. yup, run for your lives. >> i gotta get the bread and milk. >> reporter: perhaps nothing

comedian created with this satirical video in 2014, generating 14 million views. >> they said snow! i gotta get the bread and milk! oh, my god! >> people feel like if they're stockpiling, they're safe. >> reporter: psychotherapist lisa brateman said there's a theory for this phenomenon. >> whatever is going on outside in the world, whatever is going on outside my door, at least i know i can have eggs and toast tomorrow. >> reporter: and if you stockpile too much, another tradition-- that little bit of control goes bad by the time all the snow melts. jamie yuccas, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: finally tonight, a little girl named loose whoa melted our hearts. she couldn't play outside today. she's at the national institutes of health in maryland getting a bone marrow transplant. so a nurse brought the snow to lucy. she made a cool little snowman. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news,

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