snow all the way from binghamton and buffalo and erie.viest snow is going to be to the north of where the heaviest snow was last time. we're talking about binghamton, syracuse, saratoga and back over to maine. the ice is what we're getting here. the ice is a problem. we're going to see some spots three-quarters inch of ice. now, if it just bounces off because it's sleet, that's good. but if it's raining the whole time and collecting on the power lines, collecting on the trees, we're going to see power outages for sure. certainly, a lot more school districts. at least those superintendents thinking about it right now in the early morning. do they want to send kids out in this or not, i don't think it's a good idea. >> three-quarters inch of ice that is treacherous stuff. chad myers, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >>> breaking news overnight into the investigation of the death of philip seymour hoffman. police in new york say they have arrested four people believed to be connected to the drugs found in hoffman's apartment. that as ne

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ice for scranton and binghamton, allentown, bethlehem, lancaster, right back into new york city. i think most of the northern suburbs are going to be hit hard. south of the city, it's all rain. but that's only the first storm that's still to come, because the one on sunday is significantly worse. some models are putting up 30 inches of snow for big cities in the northeast. now, that's still five days away. >> what? >> i get it, you can't say yes, left or right, can't say where it's going to be, but the potential is there for a monster nor'easter that develops sunday night into monday that paralyzes, literally -- i use that word rarely -- paralyzes the northeast. >> you heard an audible gasp from this part of the room when you talked about sunday. i don't think we knew that was coming. looks ominous. meanwhile, the ice, you talk about the snow totals for the storm hitting tomorrow night, but the ice in new york city and areas like that, that could be very, very dangerous. >> it takes that much ice, you know. it takes inches of snow, because you still get traction. you get this muc

we'll see icy condition here's and farther to the north, saratoga, albany, binghamton, all snow.torm after another and there may be another bigger one for saturday. what we have here behind me, i believe 6 1/2 to 7 inches in central park. about half hour ago we had big charlie brown flakes coming down. they are going to be on and off. the big problem is the ruts that you see. they will be refreezing right after sunset and that's about an hour or so. a lot of ice on the streets tonight. jake? >> chad, how do you think your friends back in atlanta would deal with that. never mind, thank you so much. >> reporter: we would shut down until june. >>> the snow is adding insult to injury for super bowl fans trying to get out of new york. more than 1800 flights had to be canceled today. mark murphy is live from chilly philly. mark, good to see you. how many passengers are being impacted by the cancellations? >> tens of thousands when you start talking about 1700 flights and you talk about 200 passengers per plane. they all have to get rebooked. they are all being held up at the airports.

but the snow is through syracuse into binghamton, burlington, vermont and all the way up into maine.s with this storm. there is an ice storm south of there. this always happens. there is always an ice event where it is probably 30 degrees on the surface, 35 aloft. 10,000 feet up it is warm. so it is going to rain down. down here, it is cold, about he low freezing. making sleet and freezing rain all night long. very difficult travel out of the northeast for tomorrow. there is the storm right now. there is the ice storm for arkansas. it moves very close to paducah, probably just north of you. finally, out to sea. this storm puts out a foot of snow. that's the easy snow. there is another one that could develop for sunday. if it develops like the models were saying overnight last night, there will be 2-3 feet of snow in some spots of new england. maybe new york, right now, it looks warm enough it will be kind of a sloppy, slushy, rain/snow mix, not piling up very much. there will be places, either the adirondacks, the catskills or the poconos, somewhere will pile up an awful lot of snow.

guest: absolutely, the sweet spot of the marcellus in new york is in the elm myra /binghamton area.ou're in a situation where you can go just across the pennsylvania border and you are allowed to use fracking but north of the pennsylvania/new york border, you can't. those areas in the " sweet spot" have dealt with the economic issues for quite some time. they are economically troubled. there is a large coalition of landowners that are seeking to lease their land for royalty payments and for bonus payments to allow drilling on their land. threatenedeek, they to sue the state on february 14 if a timeline for approving fracking is not sent out. energy,company, norse they have already sued the state to force a decision on hydro fracking. host: as far as the public is concerned, what are you hearing ? guest: if you look at public opinion polls for the last five years or more, they have been generally favor split about 40% in of fracking and 40% opposed. the remaining 20 undecided. it has not fluctuated a whole lot. there are spikes from time to time. shownlly, the public has to be police

i went back to binghamton this past spring after 30 years and gave a talk and said we all lived lives when many doctoral students were on campus and the rest of the time we were involved in a lesbian bar called horizons. we knew our lives matted but we weren't being made to feel the they were worth writing about. i felt very keenly that i had an almost moral obligation to describe what i was participating in which was women creating spaces for each other when they still have limited rights and opportunities. one very important subculture was women's music festivals where artists were making the music that enabled women to see their partnerships as valid and decent and loving and nobody else was feeding that allegation came from artists including comedians and dramatists and festival culture impressed me because women did all the jobs. if you wanted to have a space for performances that nobody else could stage you needed people to run a stage. techies, lighting designers, sound engineers and these are some of my favorite people. take the women who enable the sound to reach an audience.

upstate in binghamton, new york, as much as a foot of snow.cut, has had 9 inches of snow and you get down to pennsylvania where we have now over 650,000 customers without power, especially in the northwest suburbs of philadelphia. a lot of freezing rain, trees -- tree limbs are just snapping all over the place and taking out power. up here we're going to get 8 to 12 inches. it moves on out. tomorrow will be a sunny, better travel day. airlines will be able to catch up here in the northeast. and then we turn our eyes to the weekend where we still think we'll have some kind of storm on sunday and sunday night. right now, though, we don't think it's going to be a blockbuster, but it's still four days out. we'll have to see how the european and the u.s. or the american model fine-tune this as we get towards the end of the week. simon, back to you there in new jersey. >> okay. thank you very much for that, mike. wow. maybe not so bad on sunday night. >> we're learning so much about modeling. who knew? this is like gps systems there are different we

zach in binghamton, new york. good morning. go ahead.aller: so you brought up this issue today because believe it or not, i was actually in d.c. last week, and i had the pleasure of seeing the washington monument. and believe it or not it looked exactly like my erect penis. host: we will move on. we apologize for that. gladys, go ahead. caller: yes, i think one of the main priorities ought to be jobs and not to be tax reform and also immigration. bewellas as there should close scrutiny of this comcast-time warner deal. i live in san antonio and my cable company is time warner. i am an elderly person on a fixed income and i can barely afford this cable. eventually i will have to have it turned off. i just think that ought to be a priority as well. and i think it is really important that we extend the unemployment insurance. people are hurting out here, about to lose their homes, don't know what they're going to do. thank you. host: do you want congress to weigh in on the potential merger? caller: yes, i want them to weigh in on this poten