er. it's friday, january 22nd, coming up on show, 10s of millions in the storm's path, thousands of flights already canceled or delayed. preparing for a historic nor noreaster and where it will hit the hardest. cruz saying the billionaire would make deals with democrats. >> but here's a united states senator, republicans, doesn't have support of one other republican senator. there's something wrongng there. >> but trump now face as growing list of conservatives lining up against him. a case o o excessive force as a motorcyclist is awarded 180 grand after a traffic incident. plus authorities n nd your help. then a wandering toddler on the loose on a busy road.

much more on a frantic friday. show"early today" starts right now. more than 86 million people across six states are bracing for a monster winter blizzard. some areas expecting more than 30 inches snow. five states plus parts of georgia d washington d.c. are already under states of emergency. federal aufrss soffices are expected to close early ahead of the storm. the d.c. metro has canceled service starting at 11:00 p.m. tonight through sunday. some drivers on i 495 decided to test the ice when their cars got stuck. all baltimore schools closed today and nearly 2500 flights ve been canceled for friday. thousands ss more have already been canceled or delayed for this

now, the storm is starting to make land fall on some states in the south. this drone footage shows footage? stead of fans pile nothing to the football stadium. and at least five fatalities have been contributed to icy road conditions p. sconditions. what should we expect? >> the high impact portion ofd the storm. and tomorrow morning this time is when we'll get the blizzard conditions in baltimore and d.c. we're waiting for them to be posted inhe philadelphia area and even new york. and little rock it's been snowing hard and the ice portion of the storm has begun. so, the snowfall forecast overnight has not changed too much. a little further to the north we've nudged s sw totals but we're still looking at the

roanoke and erywhere in between. the storm itself has really cranked up overnight. we did not have any bad trord s tornados, but the snow portion has pbegun and it's are rapidly going across north carolina and this is the icy portion from charlotte to fayette vill and this will be the concern today into tomorrow. and we have the blizzard conditions later tonight in areas of virginia and then the ice portion is going to be very bad today in the carolinas. >> let's go to nbc's jay gray in roanoke. >> reporter: they're preparing for snow to start in the next hour or so and continue through saturday as bill talked about theemergency management team believes they'll see a record snowfall, some saying they could see as much as 30 inches, all

are ready for action. thaley'll stay out through the weekend and expect to be on the road and working after this snow starts to fall a bit later this morning. we also know that more than 500 vehicles are out and on the roads preparing for this, trying to keep them as clean as possible. everyone in this region saying if you don't have to be on these roads, d't. it's going to get very messy and again, not expected to stop until sometime late sad.turday. now, with just 10 days to the iowa caucuses, establishment republicans are taking sides. ted cruz and donald trump. for some it's a tough choice. >> if you havee trump and cruz, i think you get the same outcome. whether it's death by poisoning or shot, does it really matter?

surging to a lead in the first voting state. and now trump will air a new attack ad against cruz today. check it out. >> if as a voter you think what we need is more republicans in washington to cut a deal with nancy pelosi and i guess donald trump is your guy. >> his new line of attack is i'ie become establishment. give me a break. trump 38, cruz second at 16 and he's going down. no, he's having a hard time.. he looks like a nervous wreck. he had his moment. he had his moment and he ble it. >> plenty of establishment conservatives are against trump and last night, prominent conservative magazine took a stab. unveiling today's cover it's

calls him a menace to conservetism. as a result, the rnc has disinvited the national review 23ru78 from the february 25th debat and trufrmmp responded. >> ritsit's a dying paper. not many people read it anymore. people don't think about the national review. that's a dying paper. >> if it disagrees with you, you just insult it. edward, let's now turur to the democrats. who's in good shape with 10 days to iowa? >> reporter: that depends on who you ask. bernie sanders told the crowd he would win new hampshire and iowa. says we've had enougug of politics, or establishment politics and he countered clinton's charge that he's electable, pointing to polls that he would beat all the

greater margin than clinton. >> secretary clinton defeats mr. trump by nine points, we beat him by 23 points. all of which we affirm is my love for the smart people in the state of new hampshire. >> reporter: and hillary clinton's been getting a boost from her husband, former president bill clinton. in a crowd, he told the crowd his wife would be a more inclusive president. hillary clinton in iowa told them to go out and caucus for her. some snow on the ground, so she's worried about a surge from senator bernie sanders and has asked her supporters to ask friends to go out and caucus for her. we should see these attacks intensify. >> i'm sure they were. thanks. a jury has awarded $180,000 to an oregon man hit by an officer during a 2012 traffic

you can see it in this video. he knocks h off his bike at a bike while pulling wilkins over for traffic violations and the@ officer kicks him, breaking his collar boerngs all while pointing his gun at him and the oregon state police believe the officer did not violate procedure. well, it looks disturbing in the video, whatever we saw. a new record involving air travel, shows a lot of americans were packing heat. the tsa says it seized more gs last year than ever before. more than 2600 of em, most of them were loaded. at the airport. who are these people? theost guns were found at airports in phoenix, dallas, and atlanta.

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sued emergency order to take immediate actions to protect the public's health. and the state'sembattled governor has been inhadvited to testify before congress and he will be on "morning joe." they will provide $80 million to the state for that situation. >> our childre should not have to be worried about the water that they're drinking in american cities that's not something we should accept. >> the nearly 100,000 people have been warned not to drink unfiltered tap water and the national guard has been distributeing bottled water there.

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