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a live shot from i-93 in braintree, mass. traffic is always bad there. we have snow-packed roads expected to worsen and a realtime traffic view of the major interstates in the eastern half of the country. if it is red or yellow it's problematic. you can see trouble in new york city. we already got i-84 closed to traffic from midnight to 5:00 a.m. the long island expressway, trouble. traffic into and out of manhattan. look at the northeast and in new england. massachusetts and new hampshire, vermont, trouble there. along i-90 along the top of the country, upper new york and into the midwest delays there as well. now to the air. and a realtime live radar image of all the planes in the air at this moment. not nearly as many as we normally see this time of day. that's because already more than 8,000 flights delayed or canceled so far today. live picture now. jfk in new york. some arriving flights delayed by five hours there. we're coming over to the flight aware misery map. so far for the new york city airports, we've got a total of about 81 canceled flights

in braintree, mass at this hour, it's clear not enough people got out and got home in time. out east on the cape, it's a sporty night on the water in massachusetts. you can see this storm from space, some big cities in the teeth of it tonight, from washington on up through philly, new york, boston and everywhere in between. elsewhere in the country, those trying to fly are finding themselves affected by the storm in the east. we begin all of our coverage tonight with nbc's tom costello in washington. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian, coming down at about an inch an hour here, it's expected to continue at that rate into the evening. the roads right now snow packed and icy. further west in western maryland they have up to 5, 6, 10 inches of snow, same in pennsylvania, west virginia and a lot of snow further northeast. mid january in the mid-atlantic, and predictions for the first real snowstorm in several years brought washington, d.c., to a standstill. >> breezy cold, lows from 4 to 10 degrees with 5 to 10 inches on the ground. >> reporter: time lapse of the capital

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just began and the first blizzard of 2014 bearing down on the northeast as you look here live at braintree, massachusetts, south of boston. we have estimates of up to 100 million people could be impacted with snarled traffic and delayed flights. and we will have more on that winter storm coming up. but we do begin today with a political triumph that will profoundly change the lives of over 6 million americans starting today. and millions more over the coming year. after yesterday's holiday, today is the first working day of the affordable care act. and from politicos to humanitarians, many are keeping score. on new year's day, the obama administration announced that 3.9 million more people can get public health care through the aca. that's from expansions to medicaid or the children's health care coverage programs. another 2.1 million have enrolled in private health plans. and that includes using the federal website to get coverage. then there's a surge of young people, more than 3 million, in fact, who now have expanded coverage through their parents' plans. according to the number crunch

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the biggest problems beyond i-93 up in braintree, massachusetts. we have ice and snowpacked conditions. i-93 up there as well. now we want to take a quick look now at amtrak. critical on the northeast corridor. the northeast regional service operating on reduced schedules between boston and washington today. so this storm, expected to impact about 100 million people and likely to make for a very slow day of travel across much of the country. guys, back to you. >>> tom, thank you very much. we'll have much more on this storm throughout the morning. meantime, natalie is on vacation. peter is in. you have a shocking story out of dallas. >> yeah, let's give you some of the latest headlines. including this one. >>> a frightening scene thursday night at a dallas condominium complex that ended in the shooting death of a prominent attorney. police initially responded to the building on a burglary call but when they got there, they found 47-year-old michael schmidt barricaded himself near the lobby. >> we have one that's hiding. one that's hiding. we need e