lee's garden to make it more difficult for the lease to return to burlington after the war. >> so if we walk along here we see that these tombstones actually encircled the garden? >> yes, they didn't go the way around, but they form a border around part of the garden. i think they're something like at the end of the war there was something like 40 graves of officers. we don't know exactly what meigs we be thinking less but i suspect he chose to bury officers here rather than privates, you know, and enlisted men because the would make it more difficult to remove them after the war was over because they were more prominent and better known. it was a strategic move on meigs part and they proved pretty effective because by the end of the war, there were not only these graves here, but there were thousands of other graves in arlington animated very difficult for the lee family to return here. >> to the lee family attempt to return? he really attempted to return, but they wanted to get from arlington back and they worked for years. robert e. lee after the were quietly met with his lawyers

vermont are digging out from a record snowfall, a whopping 32 inches of snow accumulated in south burlington, setting an all-time record for one snowstorm. is not over yet. the area is expected to get a few more inches before morning. that is pretty incredible. >> it keeps things in perspective. we had a lot of snow here that melted quickly. the wind is finally beginning to subside, so some good news on the way. the advisory for them immediate metro area has expired. a cold night ahead, but western maryland is full of winter conditions. we will talk about that in just a second. you can see the flag blowing. the wind chill factor built like to degrees below zero in germantown at this hour. they had a daytime high of only 20. it feels like 3 degrees in upper northwest the sea. -- nw dc. 28 degrees at reagan national airport. when gusts up 46 miles per hour this afternoon. it will diminish in the overnight hours, but we will have a cold temperatures in the forecast for the next several days. 26 degrees in richmond, 15 in pittsburg. cleveland is looking at 21 degrees. minneapolis is at one degre

. >>> a record-setting nearly 3 feet of snow fell on burlington, vermont, one of the biggest storms thatown has ever seen. the combination of snow and wind-driven gusts caused dangerous driving conditions across massachusetts. making cleanup difficulty for many. >> this is the second time i have shoveled today. the wind keeps blowing everything back on the driveway. >>> but minnesota registered the coldest temperatures in the country from 20 blow in eden prairie to 36 below in crane lake. no big deal for hardy minnesotaens. glike handle it. i'm cold. i have been around the block. i was shoveling snow last week in a t-shirt. >>> cold, cold cold. >> well, listen. dedicated golfers didn't let the snow stop them this weekend. 78duffers braved the snow and bone-chilling temperatures for a round of golf in illinois. it is the 46th annual eskimo open, appropriately named. of course white golf balls were not an option, so the golfers used colored balls and the 42- dollar fee included a hot drink, and the bowl of chili. >>> now, i -- i met some golfers that love playing golf, but this -- >> toker

more than 2 feet of snow is piled up in burlington.in new hampshire this weekend. residents along coastal areas also dealing with possible floodle. motorists throughout the region are being urged to use caution. the snow drifts could reduce visibility to 0. >>> dc rescue crews in rock creek today in an effort to save a young man trapped inside his sub merged car. 9news now watt the first news crew on the team. you will only see this report here on 9news now. >> reporter: dc fire and rescue divers faced very challenging conditions when they arrived minutes after a 911 call from a jogger who spotted a tire sticking out of rock creek. >> swift moving water. rocky. unstable ground. you have a vehicle upsidedown. you have victims in the car. >> reporter: the divers wearing protectives suits chipped away at the ice in order to get to the car trapped in 6 feet of partially frozen water. >> reporter: the biggest thing was for the crews to determine if there was a body inside the vehicle. the frozen body was pulled from the car. it is not clear

vermont, not in burlington then all of my neighbors were poor people. my next-door neighbors were all wealthier, and they were much younger than i was. they had four sons and both were illiterate. they were drinking beer on the porch every night. but their four children came to my house, ask me, can i have a piece of bread every day. i was so shocked. that is not the america i thought it was. wit i moved to boston, died rented a cabin from a rich landlord in one day he asked me, what do i think about america? i said, i am not impressed. [applause] he was so angry. he was so upset. i didn't realize how upset he was. he said, why? i said because you have so many-- but at the same time so many homeless, so many hungry people. at the end of the year, he asked me to move, right? and this guy had a daughter who was my son's age. and my son was six years old at the time. they had a 4-year-old boy and his name was edward. he would say, i don't like dongping. i always wondered why he didn't like me. i didn't do anything to him. i figured that maybe that was what

snow finally stopped falling overnight. 33 inches the biggest for burlington. >> they are a little farrom the ocean to get the big ones. inland like that -- >> nice and fluffy. >> don't forget to shovel the fire hydrants. lot of winter left. having fun with it. reminder, few school delays in the western suburbs. you have the bottom of the screen, scrolling the delays. more than 2 hour delays. all the latest information down there. >> and always on the website at wusa9.com. >> making the bosses happy. >>> weather wise, talk about that. make everybody happy. won't be in the 20s. we will be in the 30s. highs only about 32 degrees. moms like me.com bus stop forecast. very cold. blustery. wind chills between 5 and 20 in most areas, below zero in garrett county, with air companies between 18 and 25 at the bus stop. keep it in mind. drive the kids or keep them in the car until the bus comes. sunrise, 7:27. this afternoon, partly to mostly cloudy. flurries or snow shower. low 30s, northwest winds 10 to 20. 35 miles per hour. sunset 5:00 even. mostly cloudy, not as cold. i don't think we will s

burlington, vermont, report breaking snow. more than 33 inches falling there saturday and sunday. record for burlington was back from 1969 with close to 30 inches over a three-day period. look at that. >> wow. >> that's just going nowhere snow. >> that's what we thought we had here a couple of weeks ago. >> it all went away though. >> that rain, we thought -- tony would you like to see -- >> there's snow in the parking lottings and what have you. i was saying to tucker that was the snowen the saturday before christmas. it's amazing some of it is still here. but it's so cold. snow? vermont, like the snow we got that day. two days in a row, just crazy. >> if you're over the snow, you're tired of it. maybe snow later in the week. the question, the answer to that question emains vague. we will get you some information. before we get to all of that, it's time for the my first 5 photo of the day. oh. >> first of the year. >> this is 3-year-old marqell at the dentist. his dentist makes it so fun, he can't wait to return. >> there's good pediatric dentists out there today. >> he's having

a winter storm dumped nearly 3 feet of snow on burlington, vermont. to make things worse, temperatures dipped into the teen powerful winds created whiteout conditions. but kids made the best of it. broke out some sleds and snow tubes and took to the hills. >> i'm glad somebody enjoyed it because i didn't leave the house. it was terrible here. >>> here's monday weather. a cold snap from the plains to the new england states and along the gulf coast with most of florida under freeze warnings today. windy with lake-effect snow from the great lakes to the northeast. the heaviest between cleveland and buffalo. and rain and mountain snow in the northwest. >> 49 degrees in portland and 33 in boise. kansas city and minneapolis barely climb out of the single digits. chicago gets up to 19 degrees. 30s in dallas and much of the east coast. >> it's pretty much cold everywhere. >> yes. >> we can just say it like that. >>> a mouth-watering sight for sweet teeth in mexico city. they couldn't wait to sink their teeth into this. >> they lined up in droves for a savory

we're going to see snow on and off the next 48 hours. 6 to 12 inches from bangor, maine, through burlington, portland, maine up to six inches. boston, we knocked you down a little bit. we are thinking three to sixt now it looks probably more or less two to four. the other big thing is the temperatures. i want to put this in perspective. this morning, fargfargo, north dakota h. a record low of 34 degrees. negative 34 is cold. to put it in perspective, if you put an icicle on your front porch, would you have to warm it up 66 degrees to melt that piece of ice. that's how cold it was in the morning plains. think of the movie "fargo" when you think about this. it hasn't improved with windchill warnings in duluth. you live in duluth, you're hardy. you're used to bad winters. you're seeing one today. even as far south as san antonio, texas, the windchill is 34, new orleans, 35. this cold is gripping the country. we have freeze warnings for florida. look at the morning temperatures. if you chose to take a vacation to warm up to florida this week, you're not happy. orlando will be 30 to 32 degrees a

more than two feet in south burlington, vermont. 21 inches in randolph, new hampshire. 17 in augusta, maine and mount vernon, 15 inches. our low continues to linger here across the northeastern corridor. finally start to watch this begin to pull away by tomorrow. so watch for the snow to lessen and watch for the winds to decrease as well. now the cold air in place here behind this system bringing in a lot of lake effect snow showers. around the buffalo area, if you saw the game today, it was just a big mess there. we had up to two feet in the tughill plateau this will continue to be an ongoing story. big plunge of cold air this weekend wasn't bad enough this will be coming into the nation's midsection, pushing eastward. by the middle of the week with, don, i think wednesday the worst day and may get snow into some southeastern states before the week is out. so the cold air continues to grip the u.s. >> when are you going to be talking about sunny, balmy afternoons all over the country? >> a couple months perhaps. yeah. >> patience is a virtue, right? thank you, jacqui. >> sure. >>> po

and do you on the warm hearts warm coats drive with burlington.ight? is that what you do? junior girl scout troupe 4091 of queens. 166 coats. ladies, go ahead. bring them all in here. anta antonella, you're the leader. >> and this is my co-leader as well. >> how difficult is it to get the coats? >> we did the collection. we're fortunate to have our principal at the school. we had-d the coat drive with the children. and they helped drop all the coat as each parent dropped off their bags. >> come here for a minute. did you actually take coats off of people when they were coming in. did you steal them and run away with the coats. >> no. >> because the girl scouts wouldn't do that, right? >> no. >> there's no one out there looking for their coats and it was the girl scouts that took them and ran away with them? >> no. >> because the girl scouts couldn't do that. thank you for doing that. by the way, twitter pictures in, from lockport, new york, by the way, a big cold snap hit the east coast. there are extreme measures feign to stay warm. like i grew a

a record setting nearly three feet of snow fell on burlington, vermont, one of the biggest storms that town has ever seen. the combination of snow and wind driven gusts cause dangerous driving conditions across massachusetts, making cleanup difficult for many. >> this is good, this is the second or third time i've shoveled today. the wind keeps blowing everything back on the driveway. >> reporter: but minnesota registered the coldest temperature in the country from 20 below in eden prairie to an arctic like 36 below in crane lake. no big deal for hearty minnesota. >> i can handle it. i'm cold, but i've been around the block. i was shoveling snow last week in a t-shirt. >> that was dean reynolds reporting from i hear very cold and gusty chicago this morning. >> perfect weather for ice fishing. >> you know what, it is. people in minnesota are loving this weather. let's take a check and see what's happening all across the country because a lot of people have question, how long will this last, how far south does it go? look at these temperatures. atlanta this morning, you'll see a high tem

sunday alone, 32 inches fell on south burlington and more is on its way and even down south where winter temperatures are more mild. in durham, north carolina, folks say they haven't seen temperatures this low in years forcing them to get out the long john's and pick up some hot chocolate. >> it's okay, except my fingers are frozen. she has the hot chocolate, but i couldn't get the money out of my pocket to have hot chocolate. >>> moving west, to minneapolis, the freezing weather is packing homeless shelters. the salvation army has more than 700 guests this weekend. the shelter won't turn anyone away in need of a meal or a place to sleep. >> if you show up at our door, we will find you a spot. >> reporter: the upper midwest and northeast are seeing rough winter weather with widespread snow expected from michigan to new england. parts of florida could expect below freezing weather, welcome to winter. >>> coming up a tanning bed ban for teenagers takes effect, how it will be enforced now that the grace period is over. >>> and police search for a killer in the city's first murder of the new

host:ñr burlington, vermont.eve that apologies are very important, but there is a time and place for it. i believe that the time and place for these guys is when they come before the parole board. host: more on your thoughts and apologies in the business world. we wanted to bring up this headline from "the wall street journal," "google is warning of an exit from china over hacking. the company had been hit with major cyber-attacks. they believed it originated from china. this move would be a high profile rebuke of china from a major u.s. firm. one of the riders is joining us on the phone right now from beijing. he is the deputy bureau chief for "the wall street journal." çóhow did this all come to play? what else are they saying? what about the chinese government? caller: the chinese government has yet to comment. this came across as quite a surprise to the chinese government and everyone else, google issued this statement late on tuesday, u.s. time. saying that the country had moved not only against google, but

next call, burlington, mass.. caller: first of all, i am someone from bowl left and i was initially disappointed with obama's moves as far as the war, as far as the health care. i think yesterday showed just how much he is above the republican party. it isn't too bad it wasn't shown primetime. he showed that in the only knew the facts but he showed that without being sarcastic and without showing temper, he put the republicans in their place. that story brick and the beginning. -- that started right from the beginning. he looked like he was -- he looks like mike pence was scolded him. obama smiled and put him in his place factually. he did not try to make him sound stupid for asking his questions. he said this is the way it is. you could tell off the bat and that set the table for a warm afternoon for the republicans. while barack obama was asked pointed questions, the vast majority of the questions were handled with intelligence and with the good gentle pace but not backing down. he did put them in their place. i

please remain standing for the fledge of allegiance led by assemblyman jack conners from burlington county >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you, assemblyman conyers. i recognize the president of the new jersey senate, from gloucester county, representative steve sweeney. >> madam speaker, i wish to inform the joint session of the 214th legislateture that the governor has arrived. my colleagues, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and pleasure to present the governor of the state of new jersey, the honorable jon s. corzine. >> ok. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. come on. thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. please, please. very nice of you. thank you. want to do it again? thank you much and good afternoon, everyone. happy new year to everyone. great to be with you. warm welcome on this inauguration of the 214th legislative session. let me especially welcome the new legislative leadership team. yo