lot at a crowded shopping mall here in springfield, virginia is going 0 -- going on all over the d.c. region. the plow trucks are having a hard time keeping up with the snow. it's moving at such a rapid rate. what is developing, are the huge piles of snow that the plows are creating. as if we can multiply it and lot in springfield, virginia, this is what it's looking like across the entire d.c. region. while this snow continues to pick up 1350ed and continues to pick up intensity and will probably through tomorrow night, then comes the aftermath. the situation is gonna be when you have these huge miles of snow, it will be very difficult to clean up. you will have potential problems withed intoinged with -- with flooding and all kinds of issues. problems on people's worth. prob blood pressure unforeseen problems we're looking at at this point in the situation. but obviously the situation is not good for drivers. they are telling drivers all week stay off the roads. a lot of drivers have heeded that call. this storm is intense and will only get worse as we go into tomorrow. >> i know you are j

it was a complete mess in the d.c. region. everyone knew this one was coming.it was predicted all week. we can tell you by about 3:00, 4:00 we did not see a lot of cars on the roads. you always have exceptions and emergency officials say get off the roads as quickly as you can. seems like people really did heed the call to stay off the road. >> hey, jeff, as you continue -- has i continue to talk to you, if you're not teethered, can you walk back there and show me how deep that pile is? >> reporter: this is not that long. four or five hours, which certainly is a descent amount of time but for this amount of snow, i'm not the tallest guy in the world, about 5'8", we're looking at a pile that will be six-feet not too long from now. as these piles continue to grow, they will get in the eight, nine-feet range. if you multiply in one parking lot in virginia and take these piles happening all around the d.c. region in more laaryland a virginia, they will get into the eight, nine, ten feet range. fun to look at but that will create serious problems when you talk about

in fact breaking in the last couple minutes the national weather service elevated d.c. region into highest alert leve level. so we can be seeing this plus a little more. potentially this weekend. tucker will break it down. he'll let you know what you need to know to be prepared coming up in a minute as well. >> that looks pretty i have to admit. we have not seen that. meantime the weather story now dangerously cold. school systems delay

the washington d.c. region plow crews are working around the clock from the highways to the nways trying to get the airports open the city counted 17 inchethe surrounding area covereby more than 2 and a half feet. this practice facility was no match for the blizzard the dome crushed. a similar story outside >> open up the door and looked up and just a gaping hole in the roof. >> anchor: in new jersey coastal communities dealining with the one-two punch of snow and icy flood water. so far, no major damage. >> take your time as you drive around but you are free to go out. >> anchor: in new york the streets in overground sububy line are back open. island railroad should be ready to go to the monday morning commute. airports in dc will remain closed. >> anchor: a man suspected of shooting a miami guard. his bizarre behavior and bond court yesterday making headlines today. local10 rporter andrew perez is live with the story. >> reporter: we spoke to officer starlings family, they say he is going to make a full recov

and d.c. region tries to get back to normal. >> promise made to have one passable lane in each neighborhood in mc countsy. snowplow deadline about to come newspaper the next minutes or so. the "fox5" dig-out team is on the road to find out. >> and d.c. schools back if session. are the neighborhood streets ready to handle the kids wal walking to school. we'll check out area district and sitting it out. he will boycott the final republican debate before the iowa caulk yous and are on the he debateit moderator how she is responding this morning. good morning to you today is wednesday, january 27, 2016 i'm allison see more. >> i'm steve chenevey lx to more morning there's an attempt to return to normally. federal government back in business although there's a three our delay for government work therz morning. >> d.c. schools and d.c. government will on on time and we'll have more on that in a moment. >> first go over major school systems closed or delayed today. in virginia, fairfax, arlingto arlington,

in the washington, d.c. region plow crews are working round to the runways, ng to get the airports opened. the city counted 17 inches. this practice facility for the washington redskins football team no match for the the dome crushed by the weight of all that snow. a similar story outside philadelphia. this church roof buckled and crashed into the chapel ned up the door to the auditorium and looked up, and it was just a gaping hole in the roof. >> reporter: in new jersey, coastal communities dealing with the one-two punch of flood waters. summer. the winter. >> reporter: but so far no major damabut you're free to go out and do what you want to do. >> reporter: here in new york the subways are back open. in terms of airports, they won't be fully operational rning at the earliest. >> major airlines are expected to resume service throughout the east coast 0 flights have to the historic snowstorm. in cleveland, hopkins airport had just over a dozen delays y. we met one lady who was still having trouble getting to her d

people are out shovelingut sidewalks and digging out cars, but it could be days before lifs in the d.c. regionets back to normal.no for the souls brave enough to head outside, an all out sundayt morning snow war awaited. > all right, let's do it, folks. welcome to the final hour and a half of this coverage of the blizzard of 2016.f you know, for a sunday.und we're

in the washington, d.c. region, plow crews are working around the clock from the highways to the runways, desperately trying to get the airports open. the city counted 17 inches. the surrounding area covered by more than two and a half feet. this practice facility for the washington redskins football team, the dome crushed by the weight of the snow. a similar story outside philadelphia. this church roof buckling and crashing into the chapel below. >> i opened up the door and looked up and just a gaping hole >>>reporter: in new jersey coastal communities dealing with the one two punch of snow and icy flood waters. >> this usually happens in the summer. >>>reporter: but so far no major damage. >> take your time if you drive around but you're free to go out. >>>reporter: here in new york the sunways and streets are back open. airports will not be fully operational until monday morning at the earlier. abc news, new york. >> frank: a strong earthquake hit alaska today causing an explosion and evacuations. the 7.1 quack

right now at 11, a blizzard with record-setting potential is quickly approaching the d.c. region. we saw how an insure of snow tripled the roads lang night. did local leaders learn from their mistakes. from the roads to metro, to your local news, fox5 at # 1 has you guys covered. thanks so much for joining us as we prepare again for this monster coming tomorrow. i'm shawn yancy. and i'm tony perkins. we have a lot of ground to cover. in the last 20 minutes we learned that federal agencies will be open tomorrow with the option for unscheduled leave, unscheduled tell he work and early departure no later than noon. so effectively they'll be closing at noon. let's talk about the schools that are closed. d.c. public schools, fairfax, arlington, loudon, principles williams, culpeper, fox jar and stafford counties in virginia, also alexandria, manassas city and manassas park. in maryland, montgomery county, howard, charles and calvert and st. mary's. prince charles county schools already had a scheduled day off. i believe frederick county schools also had a scheduled day off. as we count

it helps the d.c. region tackle some of its major issues. >>> help is on the way for several groups that serve homeless youth in the district. in just a few hours d.c. mayor muriel bowser will announce more beds at the casa ruby manor. six more shelter beds are being added to that location. $45,000 investment by verizon allowed them to add those. thousands of people under 18 experience homelessness each year but the city only has 300 beds designated for them. >>> it is 4:37. who wants to be a millionaire? just about all of us, i'd say. you still have time to grab your powerball tickets today. $1.5 billion is up for grab in the drawing. the jackpot for the twice weekly game started at $40 million back in november. no one has matched all six powerball numbers since then, so the prize just keeps on growing. i mean, this is massive. massive! >> yeah. i mean, that's -- you run out of words to describe how crazy it is. >> exactly. >>> well, news 4's erika gonzalez will have the latest on the drawing in the next hal

d.c. area. that's not going to be the case tomorrow morning. more on that coming up. "storm team 4" radar. it's this area of rain that will bring some scattered showers to the region mainly in the evening. it's very anemic keeping the d.c. area dry. if you're heading out, bring that small umbrella just in case any rain can be light in nature. you can see only some scattered showers up around the mason-dixon line. but, again, there's about a 30% chance of a shower. closer look at temperatures in ten minutes, melissa. >> thanks, melissa. we can practically hear hail to the redskins chant. four things to know. first things first, odds are on the redskins. they're head of the packers by one point in vegas but the odds have shifted back and forth and that's over the last couple of days. >> we know there's something special about this locker room. and with the numerous players who have experience, we're just all trying to feed off of each other's energy and use that in a positive way. >> skins players are hopeful. that's the second thing you heard him say it there. the teammates are excited to play with each other and have a chance to perform. third thing f you're one o

they now feel fairly confident that we are looking between 18 and 24 inches of snowfall in the d.c. region. they may believe there is a potential to get the blizzard condition with the storm. we could get the white-out. that is serious stuff. you don't mess with that. they are suggesting people in the storm stay off the roads. a lot more information coming up on the "abc7 news at 6:00". of course, later on at 11:00. reporting live in sterling, virginia, at the national weather service, jay korff, abc7 news. leon: thank you. you mention the blizzard conditions. that means a lot of drifts could be going as well. last time around we had a big storm like that, they stayed out there for months. alison: it took a long time for it to melt. doug, a lot to talk about this heads our way. doug: to give hope to people that dread snow. there are a lot of snow lovers that love big storms. but for those that don't the good news is the longer term forecast for next week and the week beyond that look like a general warming trend again or at or above normal temperatures. good news for you and maybe make eve

in the washington, d.c. region clock from the highways to the runways desperately trying to get the airports open. the city counted 17 inches. the surrounding area covered by more than 2 1/2 feet. this practice facility for the washington redskins no match for the blizzard. the dome crushed by the weight of the snow. philadelphia. this church roof. buckling and crashing >> opened up the door and looked up. a gaping hole in the roof. reporter: in new jersey, coastal communities dealing with the one-two punch of snow and icy floodwaters. >> this usually happens in the summer. reporter: so far no major damage. governor christie: take your time as you drive around that you are free to go out. reporter: in new york, the subways are back the airports will not be fully operational until monday morning at the earliest. reid: the candidates coming out focusing on i will. the move donald trump made today that we have not seen from him on the campaign trail before. plus, people in new york city taking a break from the cleanup

news at 11 right now at 11, a blizzard with record-setting potential is quickly approaching the d.c. regionnsure of snow tripled the roads lang night. did local leaders learn from their mistakes. from the roads to metro, to your local news, fox5 at # 1 has you guys covered. thanks so much for joining us as we prepare again for this monster coming tomorrow. i'm shawn yancy. and i'm tony perkins. we have a lot of ground too cover. in the last 20 minutes we learned that federal agencies will be open tomorrow with thewh option for unscheduled leave, unscheduled tell he work andnd early departure no later thanhan noon. so effectively they'll bey'll closing at noon. let's talk about the schools that are closed. d.c. public schools, fairfax, arlington, loudon, principles williams, culpeper, fox jar and stafford counties in virginia, also alexandria, manassas city and manassas park. in maryland, montgomery county, howard, charles and calvert and st. mary's. prince charles county schools already had a scheduled day off. i believe frederick countyred schools also had a scheduled day off. as we count

in the washington, d.c., region, crews are working around the clock. from the highways to the runways, desperately trying to get the airports open. the city counted 17 inches. the surrounding area covered by more than 2.5 feet. this practice facility for the redskins no match for the blizzard. the dome crushed by the weight a similar story outside philadelphia. this church roof buckling and crashing into the chapel below. >> opened up the door of the auditorium and looked into a gaping hole in the roof. reporter: in new jersey, coastal communities with snow and icy floodwaters. >> the usually happens in the summer, never in the winter. reporter: so far, no major damage. chris christie: you are free to go out. reporter: in new york, streets and the subway are open. airports will not be fully operational until monday morning at the earliest. abc news, new york. adam: new hampshire did not receive snow. the skies statewide were blue. stephanie: let' s check in with meteorologist hayley lapoint see continue. hayley: it was nice. we had blue skies. now just

leon: potentially historic blizzard is on its way to d.c. region.everal school districts shutting down already in anticipation. we will have a list of all of them at the bottom of the screen. maureen: right now we have live team coverage at the abc7 team to help you prepare for up to two feet of snow. let's start with chief meteorologist doug hill who has the timeline of the storm. doug? doug: all right, maureen, leon. we have gone from the blizzard watch to a blizzard warning. give you a big look at it. all the counties in red on the map. indicating that the start time is tomorrow afternoon. run through early the morning of sunday with a lot of snow and a lot of wind between now and then. as far as specifics go, get a couple of facts to look at. 1:00 p.m. is the start time in the southern areas. that is when it will begin tomorrow. 6:00 at the maryland-pennsylvania line. the snow will be advancing to the southwest. it will take longer to get the areas. this is the storm that will cause it all. it is causing problems with widespread heavy rain, thun

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. >> and of course by now you heard the d.c. region is under a blizzard watch. tonight we're dealing with another storm and a clipper with plenty of traffic and as you can see through the tree there's a long line of cars that sort of are stuck in the snow trying to make it through. because the roads in many places tonight were not pretreated. they have not been cleared and we are hearing reports of accidents all across the regio region. >> this is similar to what we saw at one point before a couple years ago with ca carmageddon and the crews could not get out to treat the roads because of the rush hour. >> school delays are starting to roll in for tomorrow. they include so far, stafford county, fairfax county, spotsylvania county and fredericksburg city schools all on a two hour delay. we'll ep weep you updated. >> we begin with sue palka. sue, if this is what an inch of snow did tonight, we really should be worried about friday. >> you know, i actually was in the afternoon meeting today talking about this clipper toppling through, tony, and i said i predict we

and d.c. region to get back to normal. >> promise made to have one passable lane in each neighborhood in mc countsy. snowplow deadline about to come newspaper the next minutes or so. the "fox5" dig-out team is on the road to find out. >> and d.c. schools back if session. are the neighborhood streets ready to handle the kids walk ready to handle the kids walking to school. we'll check out area district and sitting it out. he will boycott the final republican debate before the iowa caulk yous and are on the he debateit moderate he debateit moderator how she is responding this morning. good morning to you today is wednesday, january 27 2016 i'm allison see more. >> i'm steve chenevey lx to more morning there's an attempt to return to normally. federal government b

. >> up to three feet in the washington, d.c. region. new york city having the second largest snowfall in the city's history. just missed it. 26.8 inches in central park. from weather-related incidents. we have some statistics for you. let's take a look. top snowfall by state. west virginia, 42 inches. 39 in virginia. 38.3 in pennsylvania. maryland right behind. new york coming in at 31.3. then as you look at the snowfalls, the records that fell, this is kind of incredible, allentown, 31.. jfk, 30.5. harrisburg, 30.2. bwi, 29.2. laguardia and newark airports at 27.9. here's the other amazing fact. for the average snowfall for the year, check this out, okay? we've got more than a season's worth of snow in this one storm. 28 inches in dulles. philly, 22 inches, more than their average. normally gets 23.5. central park picked up more than its average. it really was unbelievable. >> it was relentless, too. as you said it was going to be. i woke up saturday morning and it was snowing hard. i went to bed saturday night and it was still snowing

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it's government forecasterserent putting d.c. region on highn on h alert.tucker coming up in just coupleust co of minutes. of >>> good morning to you, i'm allison seymour. seyur >> i'm steve chenevey. bitter wind chill led to numerous school delays. s you can see all those scrollingchl at the bottom of your screen.een. also on foxdc.com and on the fox5 news app. >> devastating news overnights ove out of prince george's county. a house fire claim the lives of thees o four people in chillum maryland.yl two of the victims smallms children two years old.en twors old fox5's melanie alnwick is liveckli on the scene with the veryhe latest.st. mel? >> reporter: good morning.or once again guys, tough day here h for firefighters and foror families here in chillum. two small children the twins thewins have been identified as anna and israel the two grandparents whoho deceased samson and caroline they came here from nigeria with six children.x they lived in this home on knollnoll brook road. they were renting it. wer they lived here with some of the the their kids and

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and get back to normal today, after as many as three feet of snow fell in some areas across the d.c. regionral government is closed today. the house has scrapped votes for the entire week, as the senate is delaying votes until wednesday. and joining me now from washington is nbc's luke russert. luke, we don't know yet about the plans for the federal government to be open or closed yet for tomorrow, much less the rest of the week, but the house is closing up shop for the whole week? >> reporter: yeah, that's accurate, steve. we don't know what opm will decide about the federal government tomorrow, but i presume it should be open, because much of the local transit here, the metro system, is back up and running, and the streets are being plowed. if you can see behind me, you can see a massive snow pile right here. they literally take the snow, put it in these bump trucks, and move it out. it's a long, arduous process. we're about a block from the white house, five blocks from the capital. takes a lot of time. all that being said, the house representatives realized, you know, d.c. is perhaps no

they, too are probably digging d out down there just like we aree all around the d.c. region. >> indeed.d. first of all welcome. w it's 6:00 in at atlanticic time, so it's 5:00 here. continuing coverage of the blizzard. the good news is the blizzard stopped.oppe let's look at some of the digging out that sky fox captured out earlier today. snowplows digging out. >> maybe we're not going to shoh you. this was actually at dullesulle international airport, i was impressed because these are like mounter snowblowers, wouldn'tdnt you like to have one of these to drive around? they're pretty impressive. we just heard from some airlines out at dulles airport saying they hope to resume some service tomorrow. the best advice always to call ahead first and find out if your flight will be able to take off. united said they'll going to to send additional people to dullel and help rebook these people and get them on their way. if you're not one of them, hopefully they'll get on early tomorrow. >> schools are impacted.re we have schools that have closee class by tomorrow. these are the scho

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went through really paralyzedarl the d.c. regionaking it tough for people to get home gee and people to get on out thishis morning.mog. we've got a lot of informationoi to pass on to you, probablybably maybe weren't anticipatingen't this as you woke up on thisn thi thursday morning or as you oas y wake i should say. s but your day's probably goingy i to be affected in some way be wb it schools that are closed,lo your morning commute and we have all the information that you need to know. kno >> all right. we're going to talk about thatat right now.right now good morning to you, i'm wisdom martin.wisdom mar holly morris, maureen umeh. u >> we have school closings tosio tell you about this morning,s mi several are under a two-hour awo delay and here's what we havewhe so far in virginia arlington ait county schools, they are closed.closed. prince william county schoolss also closed.lo following schools under a two-hour delay.urel alexandria city, fairfax county, falls church city, fredericksburg city, manassas city, spotsylvania county

forecasters call up to three feet of snow in the d.c. region by sunday. blizzard watches and warnings extend north to philadelphia and new york. and we have got a team of correspondents along the storm's path. we begin with omar villafranca in charlotte, north carolina. >> reporter: a mix of rain, ice and snow is falling here in the charlotte area and starting to accumulate. we peeled this off of a car windshield. 6 inches in the forecast but the threat of icy roads could make driving dangerous and deadly. winter storm warnings are rare in the deep south and overnight brought dangerous freezing conditions. in little rock, arkansas, blinding snow and ice forced cars off highways. numerous crashes and at least three weather-related deaths have been reported in tennessee and north carolina. louisiana and mississippi, tornado warnings brought more worry to communities. heavy snow began falling in tennessee and the carolinas early this morning. in preparation for the storm, north carolina duke energy recruited a thousand technicians all the way from florida. a

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d.c. regi region. that means snow will pick up in the coming hours. and take a look at this. in uh to cnn. we're starting to up our snowfall totals for the big apple as well as the sur rounding burrorougurroughsburro. the northern portion of the storm shield as this already reached times square. the snowflakes, people enjoying it now. we expect this to pick up in intensity as well. computer models between 10:00 to upwards of 16 locally 18 inches of snowfall for the big apple. with that said, a bull's eye will certainly be to the south and west in philly anticipate the greater d.c. area. we're starting to pull in cold air from the north, transferring energy from the gulf of mexico to a coast tallow, setting us up for a classic nor'easter that's going to take shape for tnext 1 hurs. we find the paelk intensity of our storm with high tide and our on-shore wind. that's just going to really aggravate the coastal erosions for that area. we currently have over 30 million people under a winter storm warning from kentucky through the carolinas. then we focus in on our blizzard warning

we've seen scenes like this all over the region, d.c., maryland, and virginia, people walking dangerously in the middle of the street because the sidewalks are full of snow. as the snow ends, officials are reminding you don't do this. you'll get in the way of plows and first responders and put yourself in danger. >> our mark sea graves was there today when d.c. mayor muriel bowser issued a stern message as the district starts to clean up and dig out from all this snow. >> mark is live in tenleytown in northwest d.c. mark? >> reporter: not a lot of activity here. of course the 7-eleven one of the most popular places up here and one of the only places that are open. for the past half hour or so, all we've seen are snowplows going up and down wisconsin avenue. they're not getting into the side streets of the neighborhoods yet. while d.c. mayor muriel bowser is calling for residents to stay off the streets, she has some good news. she says that d.c. fire and police have been able to keep up with 911 calls with no delays, and the major roads are getting cleared. but she says there is one group

region. washington, d.c. is directly in the cross- hairs where residents are being told to hunker down and ride it out. "two feet of snow, that is a big deal big stresses we are looking at, we are looking at this morning and through today that residents are ready." more than 1200 miles of winter weather advisories have been issued from the south to new england impacting millions of people. with blizzard warnings stretching from washington to new york. "09 57 23 we see this as a major storm. it has life and death implications and all the residents of the district of columbia should treat it that traveling is treacherous for those venturing out to go to work. "i definitely trust my legs more than i trust wheels at this point and i only live a mile will just walk." thousands of flights across the region are canceled. the charlotte airport is virtual ghost town with no flights in our out. more than 24 hundred flights have already been canceled across the country, a number that like the snow totals is expected to

. >> suv, four wheel drive.ve. >> suv, four wheel drive.elrive >> you and on the person in then d.c. regioni thing. >> i went to the auto show lasth year because i need add car. >> you didn't buy, did you.d >> i don't buy quickly. quickly. i don't want to rush into ourr purchase. pu >> maybe we don't have anothereo blizzard for another year.ea >> i may have rushed into this n one a little more. mor people are starting to get backb to normal for the d.c. sports teams. team the wizards will be back in baci action again the celtics. cel no word when they'll make upak their game canceled saturday. sr the capitals canceled a coupleda games this weekend no word ond their make updates either. e we do have word on this, thougho super bowl 50 the matchup is all set. set. both home teams won. homteam >> yeah. number one seeds.nu one peyton manning and broncos beatb tom brady's patriots in close ic game in denver prop ups to thehe defenses of both teams. low scoring game well played and this one second game, um, not so close. close. >> well played by the panthers. >> panthers played great.ayed g arizo