i want to bring in chad myers. help me understand sort of the lay of the lands if you will, exactly how this whole thing played out, where the bodies were and programs where this 23-year-old prostitute was headed when she went missing in may. >> talking about 36 miles as the crow flies from new york city right from downtown. but if you were to drive there and take the long island expressway and back down, you're talking 55 miles or so from the city down to cedar beach and gilgo beach. that's where the original body was found. we're going to zoom in and find out why. what's the great location of this? we know fire island off there off to the east. that's where a call was made on the craigslist that we believe was to go to a fire island rand views, we'll just call it. but between cedar beach and gilgo beach there's a desolate strip of land. no houses on the beach and just a bunch of marsh on the other side. go a couple more in and right on down to the street and you'll see -- literally nothing to see here. beach and

chad myers, it's beautiful to look at.t so beautiful, i guess -- i guess no one is stuck in there, but that's going to take a while to thaw out. that's some chunky ice. enjoy that lighthouse in april. >> it looks like something that belongs on a wedding cake. >> exactly. like a snow globe. >> and they put fondant on it. temperatures not going to be above freezing for a while. it's going to be like that for a long time. but i don't think there will be that many mariners out there today. and they have gps now. they should be able to find their way back home. >> just a cool picture. just wanted to share it. >> look at this. this is what maryland looked like. this car is not on the road this morning. temperatures are still cold from d.c. through richmond and roanoke. d.c., 27. and snow coming down. i can prove it. right here. here's the nation's capitol right there. a couple of snowflakes coming down. people are walking faster than they are driving through the nation's capital today, special around the beltway. here's traffic.

let's go back to our chad myers at the cnn center. there are hundreds of people who are stranded in a highway whiteout. chad, what are we looking at? >> part of the storm system that's a lake-effect event president. that usually happens in buffalo of south of buffalo or cleveland. this is lake huron. lake huron with a wind out of the northwest dumps snow right to the east of sarnia, ontario which is northwest of detroit. and for hours yesterday, literally 28 hours, the snow came down so hard, the wind was blowing so hard it was simply a whiteout. for a while when this is first starting the police said get off the highway, highway 402. it's a big, big intersection, basically a u.s. interstate that goes from port huron over to buffalo. it would be a big cut-across if you didn't want to go through cleveland, kind of a shortcut across. they said get off the highway, it's closed. get into the little highways. they dumped people onto smaller highw highways. then the whiteout continued and they couldn't move. they couldn't move for in some s

and chad myers, i spent my weekend in indiana in the snow working. and i am still cold., i'm a wuss and, yes, i'm still cold. >> it's about 48 degrees in the studio. >> i have my wool sweater on because i was so cold over the weekend i want to stay warm. >> what do you think portland, maine is right now? >> 42. >> wow! were you cheating? >> no. >> 49. >> get out! i'm good. >> you win. 46 in boston because, brooke, the cold air isn't there yet. there is the cold front right through there. people in the new york city area going, hey, i'm glad you giles in the midwest have all this cold air. we don't have it. yet. yet. >> the evil laugh. >> because it is on the way. buffalo's 10 degree temperatures will make their way to the east across binghamton, syracuse and scranton. as a result temperatures are cold. this is what it feels like working outside. if you would love to have a job let's say loading bags in detroit's wayne/metro airport it feels 5 below. that's 37 below freezing. i always thought 32 was a mean number to be freezing. why not zero like celsius like centigrade?

let's bring in chad myers. he has more information on this.our digital fingerprint. chad has an explanation of it. >> reporter: did you know that companies you have never heard of track every website you visit and keep a record of everything you do online? that's right, everybody who visits the internet has a digital fingerprint, a unique profile built by these specialized companies. >> we actually don't know who the clients are. so they may be selling this technology to banks. they may be selling it to online advertising companies. and that's the bigger concern. >> reporter: peter eckersley is a technologist with the electronic frontier organization, a digital civil liberties group that defends people's right on the internet. he says digital fingerprinting is a violation of every aspect of your privacy. >> you should have the right to read what you want in private without someone looking over your shoulder reading along with you without -- as you pick up a magazine to read it, you don't want the magazine to be reading you. >> reporter: recent

from washington to the cnn severe weather center and my colleague here, chad myers bad weather all over for days on end we've been focusing east of the minneapolis minneapolis weather. that's where the cold air, ice was, this is all changing now. the low is now in the west. the east will be okay, compared to what we had at would vginia beach. that does not look like a beach day. it was icy and snowing and sleet and freezing rain. you put freezing rain down on anything, which means rain that comes all the way down to the ground and then freezes when it hits the ground, there's not much you can do when you're driving on that. thanks for our affiliates in newport news, hampton rhodes. we push that weather off the east coast and bring this moisture surge into the west. so from san francisco right on down to sacramento, even down to l.a., this is where the weather is today. if you can get to the ski resorts around reno and tahoe, you will see feet of snow in the next couple days, and this is not -- i can't even tell you how much you'll see at the highest of high elevations. there will be alm

. >>> want to get you to chad myers. we've been talking about. >> that's the big story of the day. by far, a warm front event that comes up from the gulf of mexico. you say, it's a warm front, isn't that good? no, it is not good if the air where you live is still going to be 30, louisville, lexington, nashville, knoxville, and it's going rain. 30 and rain? that doesn't make sense. how can that happen? because it's 35 degrees up above you at 2,000 feet up, but you're still 30 and when it rains into you, you become an ice skating rink. this happens starting late, late tonight into tomorrow morning. probably in some spots after kids have gone to school. so call ahead or listen to the radios to make sure your school hasn't precanceled school because they know it's coming. if i was a super inten dent up there, i would be thinking about this today. don't get the kids in school and then you've got an ice skating rink. it is from cincinnati to lexington, all the way down to the kentucky-tennessee boarder. around it, there will b

chad myers, the big story right now, you say, is the ice. >> it doesn't take very much ice to make the roads impassable. >> make them messy. >> especially in atlanta. >> we shut down. >> negative ice tochl slow down a runway or airport -- especially airtran being very wise. if you don't want to fly, we understand. because we're going to have cancellations tomorrow. there's nothing we can do about it. it's going to be raining and 30 in some spots. when it's raining and 30, it's all of a sudden not snow, not sleet. it's ice you can fall down on. it's not ice you want to fall down on or -- >> they're not charging you, which is nice. >> exactly. they're trying to get themselves protected so you don't have to go, and they want you to be as at least out of the way compromising your air travel as possible. i think other airports, other airlines will do the same thing. even here in atlanta. it's 33 right now. >> which feels warmer compared to earlier in the week. >> compared to 17. >> other people this the country, we have no room to speak. >> the other problem is iite going to try to rain. go

. >>> i want to turn now to chad myers, the weather. ice? did i hear that right? >> yeah.you look for a really long time, you might see a snowflake. okay, breaking news. not really. this is atlanta. a couple of snowflakes coming down. anyway, what the big deal is not so much that we're going to see snow. the big deal is kentucky, tennessee, paducah, lexington, louisville. there's an ice event that's going to happen because of a warm front. warm front, that's great, right? how does that happen? warm air is here and it's trying to get into where the cold air is. it is cold here. it is well below zero degrees celsius, which is 32. trying not to get too metric on you. as the rain comes down on the cold here, we're going to see an ice event. we're going to see a third to half inch of ice on everything. you have lexington, louisville, paducah and then down toward nashville. i would say by 10:00, nashville, you're up to 34 degrees, so you're going to melt that ice. but it's going to be the time where it's trying to rain but. by the time the rain is into this cold air, it's going

. >> chad myers is with us as well.g us orient the viewers as to where this is talking place. >> major lake effect event here. you were probably driving along and didn't have much snow, then all of a sudden, drove into a whiteout. >> i like being outdoors and in the wintertime as well, but i have never been in something like that. you're driving along and it was fairly okay, like the driving, it was snowy, but then got so bad that you can't actually see the road even below you if you were to look out, you could no longer see the road at all. at that point, i just slowed down, i didn't want to stop quickly. i was afraid vehicling behind me might hitly me because they just mentioned detroit, niagra area in michigan having these same issues, so i didn't want to get into that. i basically slowed down quickly and it was just like a white wall. you can talk about it, but and i heard people say things like that before, but it wasn't until i was there. you can't see anything. >> you were concerned that -- that you weren't on 40

james, chad myers is here with us and he's got some questions for you. >> you know, james, i love atlantaove the people here, but we are a bunch of whiners. they're saying how cold it is here. try to describe what it's like to be outside for 30 seconds. what does it feel like? >> well, it's pretty cold. and i think that's saying something. my brother and i worked in maine. and we spent all day yesterday at soldiers' field. there's quite a windchill out here and driving here, we got stuck in the nastiest storm. >> so you got stuck in your car. were you prepared? did you have your kit with you? >> we were all set. my dad would've made sure of that. but no, we just -- the wind was just blowing, blowing so hard across our car. we couldn't see anything in front of it. and thankfully we got to a gas station. >> so you pulled the car off the interstate? and then what? you went to a fire station? >> well, we were able to crawl ahead to a gas station here in wanatah, and then the member of the volunteer fire department took a group of us over to the fire station kind of let us slow caravan over th

chad myers is tracking the storm for us in the cnn severe weather center. ere is it heading? >> it's heading to the big cities now. i-95 is right where the cold front is. temperatures from when you went to work, wolf, especially you, probably 20 or 30 degrees colder by the time you walk out of there tonight. still snowing in chicago, still snowing in detroit and buffalo. the streamers are east of chicago. south bend into gary and points just a little bit to the west there, i-90 and i-94 really getting pounded. you know this well, snow in buffalo, it's not a big deal. whining in atlanta about how cold it was today. i'm thinking back to my days of living there thinking this really isn't as cold as it was, but we had better equipment there to keep us warm. 11 right now in buffalo. 17 in pittsburgh. it feels colder than that as the cold air has pushed into new york. it feels like 14 in d.c. felt a lot warmer than that all day. let's get to the video. it is very good. we'll go from cleveland to indianapolis to minnesota. the pictures tell the story. that picture