emergency declared in new jersey and snow emergencies in effect sunday night in philadelphia and the poconos. in washington, d.c., snow plows are working to clear roads as the city sees first significant snowfall in two years. the storm wreaking havoc on travel, more than 900 flights canceled all right. more than 250 crashes reported in virginia. this fire truck flipped over on a slippery road. luckily, no serious injuries. the storm made its way across t a slippery road. luckily, no serious injuries. the storm made its way acros tr a slippery road. luckily, no serious injuries. the storm made its way across the country over the weekend, walloping parts of the midwest with areas buried under a foot of snow. >> winter has finally, finally arrived. >> whiteout conditions in chicago, lake michigan, covered in ice. >> where the land ends and the lake begins. >>or are warngf treacherous conditions throughout much of the northeast into tuesday, with some areas seeing a total accumulation of as much as 20 inches. andrew dymburt, abc news, washington. >>> all right, let's get some forecast details n

the poconos, adirondacks and cat skills. boston and the cape you have mixed over washing away some of the snow totals. by 8:00 tomorrow morning things begin to taper off. that's 24 hours from now. we get a lot of snow between now and then. some spots, i'm assuming, some spots in northern new jersey, morristown, whatever the numbers will be will pick up between 24 and 30 inches of snow. let's hope that bull's eye is not over new york city. so many streets, so many people and so much of a bigger headache with 15 compared to 30. >> recipe for a tremendous problem. thanks so much. >>> president biden will meet today with ten republican senators who have drafted their own alternative to the white house coronavirus relief plan. this is only 1/3 of the cost and provides 1/3 of the help when compared to the president's $1.9 trillion plan. a senior administration official said mr. biden is open to some negotiation but the white house doesn't want to agree to the gop proposal and come back and negotiate in two months. >> democrats in

we have the story from the poconos in pennsylvania.o ski. >> go with mommy and daddy up to the bunny hill, and we'll ski together. >> reporter: it's a two hour drive for them to ski here. they love it so much, they got a vacation house so they can come here every other weekend. >> as soon as we pack them up in the car and start hitting the road, they're like, oh, we're going to pennsylvania, we're going to pennsylvania. they're so excited. >> reporter: the poconos are seeing a record surge in sales. >> actually, in my 26 years it's at an all-time low. the owner says it's driven by the pandemic. >> i remember when there was 100 homes for sale in this community. this morning there are 2. >> >> reporter: a new report shows people in the northeast and mid are interested in ski townes over beach towns. >> we took a look at what folks from the metro areas that typically are snow bird areas, to usually are looking for homes in florida, and we found we were seeing a big increase in their interest in ski towns. >> searching for homes in ski tow

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as far as total snow, three feet or more in portions of the poconos and the catskills, a foot and a half in new york city but most of that has already fallen. boston to portland, you're in that 6 to 12-inch range and looking ahead, monitoring closely what's going to happen super bowl weekend. could look at another nor'easter for some of these same cities. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin coskren. >>> coming up, authorities seize $200 million in cocaine. >>> bus first protests erupting after police pepper spray a 9-year-old girl. what we're learning about the officers. >>> and gop senator mitch ah, a package! you know what this human ordered? a backache. consider pain, delivered. pain says you can't. advil says you can. >>> back now with growing anger in western new york after police pepper sprayed a 9-year-old girl. protesters in rochester knocked down barricades while demanding changes in the police department. body camera video shows friday's incident. police responded to a call saying the girl was threatening to hurt herself and others. one officer has been suspended. two others ar

as far as total snow, three feet or more in portions of the poconos and the catskills, a foot and a half in new york city but most of that has already fallen. boston to portland, you're in that 6 to 12-inch range and looking ahead, monitoring closely what's going to happen super bowl weekend. could look at another nor'easter for some of these same cities. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin coskren. >>> coming up, authorities seize $200 million in cocaine. >>> bus first protests erupting after police pepper spray a 9-year-old girl. what we're learning about the officers. >>> and gop senator mitch mcconnell fires back at the, quote, looney lies told by a member of his own party. erate te psoriasis, ... ...little things... ...can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea,... ...nausea or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history

jersey issuing a state of emergency with snow emergencies beginning tonight in philadelphia and the poconos. >> stephanie, joining us from lower manhattan. schools up and down the eastern seaboard, stephanie, are closing? >> reporter: exactly. many school districts have already been ordered to close. but that's the actual school building. with millions of students already learning virtually, many of them will be expected to log on. tom? >> stephanie, thank you. >>> here's the thing, this major storm is expected to last not hours but days. for more on the timing and the track, let's get right to rob marciano. rob, walk us through the next several days. >> reporter: tom, you said it. it will be the duration of the storm that will be the killer as far as snow accumulation. the center of it is still over ohio. take a look on the mop. still snowing in chicago, but snow in d.c. and philly are real. winter snow warnings over the big cities and into new england. the low transfers tomorrow, that's when the snows get cranking and some of the snow, rain, and sleet will get into the i-95 corridor tomor

you're probably the city somewhere between 5 and 9 inches, more to the west in the higher elevations, poconos into new jersey, that's where the heaviest snow will be. >> it's already falling here. we'll see how much sticks. always good to have you on. look forward to some relief for the state of texas coming soon. >>> new this morning, the biden administration is rolling out an ambitious immigration reform bill. will this legislation get the votes to pass? does it have a chance? details next. >>> the biden administration announced a sweeping, ambitious immigration reform bill creating, among other things, an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants already living here in the u.s. joining us now, dana bash. cnn white house correspondent john harwood. thanks to both of you. good to have you on this morning. dana, alisyn and i were talking about this earlier. you don't want to underestimate the change here. before we start handicapping whether this can get passed. the trump administrations but the wall, demonizing immigrants. the biden administration has already cha

that's 18 inches of snow that's a good chunk of the catskills, lower hudson valley down through the poconoshen new york city is all said and done, could easily be over a foot, maybe 16 inches. if heavier snow bands set up over the top of new york city, 20 inches is even possible the wind gusts, too, especially coastal areas, 40 to 50-mile-per-hour wind. if we get the wet snow in the high winds, we'll get scattered power outages. it's not super dramatic but we will see some. here's one of the things we'll be watching in new york city can we make it into the top ten list for snowfalls to get to the top five you need at least 21 inches to get into the top ten, you need 18 inches it is possible we'll find out later on today. >> i'm hoping we don't get there, bill. that's just me thank you for that we'll see you throughout the course of the day, i'm sure. bill karins at nbc. >>> still on deck for the show, president biden and republican lawmakers set to come together today to try to get a deal done on coronavirus stimulus. we have the latest on where those talks stand. >>> as a reminder, can alw

definitely the poconos are going to get up to two feet of snow. keep an eye on that and we'll talk to ginger about it in the 6:00 hour. let's talk about caster valley, 41. most of the east band partly cloudy sky from 45 in union city to 50 in alameda. jose, black and white kind er of morning. that's all right. caution as we head into the evening hours with slippery and breezy conditions from the one storm. let's time it out. you can see yellows and oranges. that's moderate, maybe even a slight downpour. the green is light. and there's some rogue showers ahead of this. definitely the steadiest of the wet weather moving to the north bay and staying there through the afternoon hours. once we get into the evening, the rest of us will get our chance at it. in fact, the storm system stalls to the south. that means we're going to have a south westerly wind. the santa cruz mountains, east bay hills receiving more rain out ofns we head into tuesday evening, it's just about over. let's look at your rainfall amounts. anywhere you see green, that's more than

much of the higher elevations, the poconos could get 2 to 4 inches.exas, it was in the 20s and 30s last week. today, austin up to 63 degrees and little rock up to 64. little rock just had 20 inches of snow last week and then here it's going to be your february thaw into the 60s. so, kasie, they're finally getting the weather that they need for this recovery period. i mean, the pictures of the lines outside the plumbing stores really just tell the story. i mean, it's really just insane. >> it's really been such, such a difficult time for them. i'm glad to hear that there seems to be some relief heading their way. bill karins, thank you very much, as always, my friend. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> and still ahead here, former president trump will make his first public appearance since leaving office. he is scheduled to speak at cpac next week. we're going to have a look at what we can expect from those remarks, coming up next. ct from remarks, coming up next. (burke) at farmers, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. like how nice it i

our property in the poconos has done really well because it is out of the cities.ause we have bed and breakfast inns in washington, philadelphia, and brooklyn, new york, have been really, really slow to recover and we will probably be down in sales this year by about 40%. and we already operate on a very slim margin. so it has been extremely challenges. >> have you, mow feick, gotten any relief from any of the ppp funding? >> yes fortunately, we were able to get ppp funding on the first round because we have always worked with community banks. and i think that was the key to our success is that we did have a relationship with a community bank that was, you know acdfi, and we were able to get that funding. they worked with us. they did get that. the challenge we had with the ppp was that it was basically a payroll protection plan and many small businesses don't have large staff so that limited the amount of funds you could get. in our case, we have quite a few 1099 independent contractors coming in and doing what they do for us. it was limited in terms of that ppp f

more in the poconos. more into parts of new jersey. and an united statesy ey icy ev for d.c. we'll see ice bringing trees and power limbs and power lines down and all of a sudden, we have another power event here. this is what the snow event is going to look like for new york. a lot of the snow is from philadelphia, westward, all the way up towards hartford. but like we need more, but here it comes. at least texas is at the end of the light. we're going to see the tunnel here at the very least here, i would say, by friday and saturday and then that's the sunshine that will certainly help. >> thank god. thank god that we're seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. chad, thank you. we'll check back with you throughout the program. joining us now to talk about what's happening in texas and why is cnn's senior political analyst, john avlon. john, we've talked to some locals there who say, now is no time for finger pointing. obviously, they're in the middle of a catastrophe. they want to get out of it before they figure out what went wrong. except that winter's not over and weathe

the highest snow totals, poconos, catskills, hudson valley, berkshires, all the way back down into areas southeast connecticut, including new york city. and as far as the max wind gusts are going to go, not quite blizzard criteria in many areas, but close to it with high wind gusts up to 40 to 55 miles per hour. and that could mean downed tree lines and scattered power outages. the worst of the storm is expected to be today, right during the middle of the daylight hours. and we'll see quite a scene in areas like new york city, where we bring in meteorologist janessa webb. and janessa, how much snow so far, right in the center of manhattan? >> reporter: you know, bill, you can see the roadways. they are covered in this area. we've seen about 3 to 4 inches, as you just said, and we've seen from the mayor that state of emergency for new york city starts at 6:00 a.m. they're asking, if you're not an essential worker, to please stay at home, stay off roadways. we did talk to the plows earlier this morning, and they have plowed these streets about three times already, and you can see they're s

against the coast, two to three feet of coastal flooding in total, snowfall totals two feet in the poconososs. >> yes. >> i'm curious, when was the last time new york city got this much snow from a single storm? >> so 2016, the snowiest storm ever for new york city but what's interesting is climate change is changing our snowfalls in the northeast because it's warmer, which means two things. we have more energy, more juice for these storms so the storms are bigger. six out of the ten largest snow storms in stork city history happened since 2000, but some of the least snowiest winters have happened. it goes hand in hand. you get bigger snowfalls but less of them. so expect blockbuster snowstorms to continue for a while. eventually it will get so warm probably those will change to rain storms in the meantime we have a happy camper and a meteorologist and a very big snowstorm in the tri-state area. >> go make some snow angels. we appreciate it. he's down and doing it. >> ask jeff how old is he? >> how old are you? 10? >> 7. >> that's what i thought. >> a tall 7. >> i got it. i get it. >> jeff

that is not fun to get around on and it goes all the way back to almost an inch of ice in pocono summitnnsylvania, so that's going to be a problem and it's going to stick around today. you can see flurries still flying here. even connecticut, massachusetts by tonight are still dealing with the snow. it's not until tomorrow we can say good-bye to that winter precip. i have to talk about memphis. columbus, mississippi, back to del rio, texas, under a hard freeze warning this morning, that's after del rio had more than 11 inches, the most they've ever seen in 24 hours of snow and they're still so cold this morning. but you know those air temperatures, 19 in shreveport this morning. they have to get better and they will. i will share that forecast coming up in a bit. >> looking forward to good news. thanks. >>> we turn to the latest on that disaster there in texas. more than 150,000 still do not have power. the good news is that is down from the peak of over 4 million. but right now, a water shortage is forcing more than 13 million people to have to boil their water before they can use it.

. >> born on long island, johnson was raised in the pennsylvania poconos and spent a lot of his earlymy grandparents' house in the morning, she would go to work. my dad would be long gone. when i grew up, i thought they were my great aunt, but they were my great, great aunts that were puerto rican. they were my grandma's sous chefs. from the beginning of the morning, they'd be cooking, lunchtime they'd be making their own stocks. so i would be peeling carrots or onions or celery or washing rice in the sink for them. you know, standing on a milk crate or stepstool. >> he was hooked and later went on to graduate from the prestigious culinary institute of america. soon after earning a position in the kitchen at new york's famed tribeca grill. >> where was i going to live? i couldn't afford rent. i had to call my aunt genie and aunt estelle. they live together. first day she sat down with me in her apartment, said, i'm going to tell you one thing -- new york will make you or break you. you figure it out. >> his big break came when he was tapped by chef and entrepreneur alexandra smalls as

i mean, me and my husband live in the poconos.o one up here has money, nobody is having a good life. when you call your representatives, it's laughable because they are like, well, you have to be nice to the people from new york and new jersey because they come here and spend money. i do not understand that philosophy. host: linda in pennsylvania. greg in trenton, new jersey. good morning. caller: i want to say a few things. they talk about obama. obama supported more immigrants than trump. besides that, people do not walk 1100 miles for no reason. he just released 500 billion dollars to go down to central america to see whether problems are. every time they set up a democratic government in one of these countries, they are overthrown. basically a cia move. it's big business down there. when they become democratic -- host: the question is should america be a haven for people in need? caller: yes, but there wouldn't be so many people coming if they would straighten things out in central america. you cannot have gangs running countr