ginger, deliver it.rms and really going to start with the one that passed by in new england. this coastal one that was so impressive and situate, massachusetts, the images we saw so nothing they can't handle. i don't know if i can handle any more of the cold but it's about to hit. they already are this morning. subfreezing wind chis that made their way to tallahassee. minneapolis feels like 15 and looks like this after a fresh one to two inches of snow came through. with this next system that will impact us by thursday night, so this is just the beginning, guys. by sunday we're talking about core of extremely cold air, i'll be talking about that in the coming days. michael and amy. >> i guess it's january. >> the way ginger delivers it makes me happy. >> that's right. we appreciate the messenger, ginger. >> yes, yes, go, ginger. >>> we'll turn to another great moment on the court. this is kevin meiergerd and a special olympian. kevin became famous for an incredible half-court trick shot and then was aske

ginger gibson and josh letterman. i want to give you perspective from the white house yesterday. this all happened when there was supposed to be the president's remarks -- supposed to be a briefing with a senior administration official laying out more restrictive tougher immigration policies that the president would put forward on monday in the form of a framework. the president then made these comments, it appeared by it was obvious a scramble behind the scenes that briefing got canceled abruptly as they tried to reconcile the president's words with their plans. ginger, how do the conservatives, mark meadows, with the president today how will they view this? >> they will view this as another example of trump going back on their promises and their need to continue to put pressure on him to stay with them. we saw this when meadows and cotton appears to be trying to derail the deal in the last iterations and they're going to put real pressure on speaker ryan. he could become the real important decider in this process. i

ginger lucas, on the other hand, is nearing the end of her nine-month sentence.er of six must decide what changes she will make on the outside. >> i don't want to go back to the strip club. i don't want want to go back to being around drugs, being around fast money. i don't want to put myself in that predicament. i want to get away from all that. >> lucas must also consider whether another source of income will be in her future. she has frequently worked as a prostitute despite the dangers. >> my best friend that got killed, she got shot in the head. it was a trick. he just came up and just boom. i was standing right next to her. i've been through it all. i've been shot. i've been stabbed. i've been raped. even though i've been through so much, i still have a good personality. overall, i'm still happy. >> how do you manage that? >> i don't know. honestly, i don't know. i should be a [ bleep ] wreck right now, but i'm not. >> lucas says what she did as a prostitute could make a wreck of anyone. >> how much would you pull in in a night, let's say? >> depends on lik

>>> we're going to go to ginger now.he has the latest on those eye jams in the northeast. >> i do. and some improvement. people were let back into their homes along the susquehanna river on wednesday and thursday. the ice jams removed themselves. but huge chunks next to the rifrs. either way we are going to see a huge mild warm-up and leave you with that. >>> good morning i'm abc 7 meteorologist mike nicco. dry weather is upon us and a little fog for the morning commute. high clouds making it partly sunny, cooler than average. cooler tonight fog in the inline valleys and we can go a couple of weeks without wet weather are, today cooler than average. more sunshine to the south,less to the north. alength of time of 30s >>> coming up, the latest on the scandal rocking the gymnastics world and the investigation into the famed karolyi ranch. nfor hollywood's biggest stars. and, with his vintage-inspired collection at kay jewelers, he designs them for the star in your life. the inspiration for this ring goes back almost 100 ye

ginger zee standing by. >>> vacation horror. a passenger plane nose diving just after takeoff. ten americans among the dead in the fiery crash. tonight, details about the families onboard and the investigation into what went wrong. >>> deadly police ambush. a suspect unloading more than 100 rounds, killing one deputy and injuring four more. were warning signs missed? >>> the takeover. after a sexism scandal rocked the miss america pageant, a former beauty queen who went public with her own sexual harassment story stepping in. >>> and high times and long lines in california. as the golden state ushers in legal marijuana. but is there a downside, as the nation's biggest state goes to pot? >>> and good evening and welcome to "world news tonight," i'm tom llamas, in for david. and we begin tonight with the relentless cold gripping the country on the first day of 2018. more than 200 million americans shivering into the new year. hypothermia warnings and wind chill alerts from texas all the way to maine. chicago, take a look at this, looking more like a tundra this morning, with temp

so many people responding to ginger's very personal facebook post. other mothers are saying about dealing with the guilt, the fear and embracing the love. >>> the hacks that will make your life easier. starting this morning, why a spoon could help you apply your makeup to the trick that will keep your shoes looking shiny and new. >>> and are you ready for some chicken? the first female face of kfc, the queen of country takes on the colonel. it's friday. good morning, america. ♪ ♪ you can ring my bell ring my bell ♪ ♪ my bell ring >>> ring that bell on this friday morning. glad to have all of you with us on this friday morning. yeah, get into it. >> ring the bell because you think of maybe a school ring -- a school bell. amazing reaction to our donors choose event. helping out teachers, remember t.j. was there yesterday and it was a wonderful surprise for those teachers. and let me tell you, we have an update. you once again you came through in a big way. we want to share. >> fantastic and a lot of news. we'll begin right now with that blockbuster rep

ginger, thank you. >>> now to news coming in about the president's health. his doctor, before the cameras late today. the president's health, his weight, his diet and the cognitive test president trump asked for himself. here's abc's senior white house correspondent cecilia vega tonight. >> reporter: with questions swirling about his fitness for office, today president trump sent the white house physician out to face reporters, telling him to answer everything and hide nothing. >> absolutely, he's fit for duty. i think he will remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even for the remainder of another term, if he's elected. >> reporter: dr. ronny jackson said president trump himself requested a cognitive assessment to detect neurological impairment, something not usually part of a president's annual physical. there have been reports that the president has forgotten names, that he's repeating himself. are you ruling out things like early onset alzheimer's? are you looking at dementia-like symptoms? >> yeah, it screens for all those things, it scr

we're going to go right to ginger tracking the latest. good morning, ginger. >> good morning. it's a good thing they are closed. we just got news parts of i-20 westbound near shreveport closed down thanks to the snow flying and all the way to kentucky and ohio. windchill warnings from montana to oklahoma and advisories from corpus christi up to providence, rhode island. overnight, wicked winter weather taking over the roads. from wisconsin to ohio to missouri, snow sending cars sliding, semis jackknifing on the freeway leaving traffic backed up for miles. and look at this video out of kentucky. black ice sending this car spinning before slamming into a police cruiser. in the northeast -- >> water was like 5 inches below the wind doughsill. >> creating ice jams threatening entire towns. water rushing downstreams spilling into nearby communities. in alabama a state of emergency declared. and in texas, more than 660 flights delayed or canceled as fears grow that this storm could paralyze parts of the state. our marcus moore was on the ground in dallas. >> this is some of the mate

ginger? >> reporter: that slick drive is going to happen in places like san antonio, texas, austin, texas, as everybody goes back to school and work. i want to take you to the maps. you've got advisories from louisiana to new york. but that pink area in texas, up through mississippi, even oxford, mississippi, is what i want you to pay attention to. that's where the freezing rain could cause ice up to a half inch, mix it with some sleet, up to two inches of snow. and it is not going to be a good tuesday morning. then you move it all to the east, and it's kind of post frontal there, but the snow goes all the way up the coast. and behind this, so significant, mobile, alabama, by wednesday morning, single digit wind chills. they've just put out a state of emergency in the state of alabama. >> all right, ginger zee with us tonight. ginger, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to a disturbing story that broke late today, the chilling discovery inside a family home in southern california. a mother

so, remind me, when i met you guys, there was ginger, red bean, and green tea.these are the originals... -michael: original three. lemonis: ...and then fortune cookie launched, black sesame... -michael: that's the newest. -lemonis: ...and chai latte. over the last year, michael's been responsible to launch the pint business, and he's been developing a lot of the flavors. but i was never consulted on any of them. my guess is neither were the customers. michael: that's black sesame. richard: it's very different. michael: very different. richard: i mean, you talk about polarizing flavor. lori: i'm getting you don't like it. lemonis: this has a really strange aftertaste. never put "black" in the word in anything with food. what i would have done is i would have put "toasted." lori: "toasted." richard: there would be no way i would ever launch that. lemonis: i didn't encourage you to do that. richard: and michael's tenacious, you know. lemonis: have you had a commercial focus group of black sesame? -michael: no. -lemonis: and so as we launched, ginger, chai latte, fo

minced pork, bok choy, some ginger, moisten with rice wine, soy.ts mixed up nicely and folded into the dough. boiled till just right, then sauced with a powerful mix of soy sauce, vinegar, chili sauce, sesame oil, and peanut butter. so you've got a kind of a sweet, savory, acidy, salty, spicy, umami thing going on with every bite. you want this, believe me, you want this bad. in fact, you need it. what do your students want to do when they enter the professional field? what's the dream? >> bill: i think this generation, they are -- a lot of them are lost. they don't know what to do. if you ask, like, a university student what is their dream -- >> anthony: right. >> bill: "my dream is to buy an apartment in shanghai, buy a car," you know, that kinds of things. >> anthony: are there enough jobs for everybody? >> bill: it's -- it's becoming more and more competitive. >> anthony: right. >> bill: everybody wants the best job, but there's only very few of them out there. but i think there's, like, a huge gap between company and new graduates. >> anthony:

let's start with ginger who is outside our studio here in times square and, ginger, we're just starting to see the worst of these frigid temps. >> reporter: robin, it is plenty cold. 9 degrees in times square. the wind chills subzero and we are not the coldest, not even close. i want to take you to this map and show you what's happened just frozen in time there in boston, that car. then the ocean pushing the water into the streets in boston. if you didn't see these images, unbelievable coastal flooding with near record high tide. look at this, the bitter cold not only settled in this morning. those are actual air temperatures, 18 atlanta and then 19 below the feels-like in detroit. the wind chills are even stretching to central and south florida. it is going to get even colder than this. for now let's go to eva pilgrim in boston. >> reporter: it is bitterly cold here in boston. you can see this car abandoned, one of the ones caught in the flooding here in the boston harbor. just to get an idea of how encased in the ice it is, you can see this ice is all over the car. it is trapped here.

ginger zee has the new track of this storm system on the coast, but first, gio benitez with the deadly pileup, the images coming in right now. >> reporter: tonight, relentless blizzard conditions pummeling western new york. a stretch of interstate 90 near buffalo shut down after this massive chain reaction crash. >> miles of traffic. miles. >> reporter: more than 20 vehicles directly involved. at least one killed and another person seriously injured. visibility down to near zero. >> you could can't see a gosh darn thing in front of you. everything was blurry. there was a complete whiteout. >> reporter: with half of the country in a deep freeze, many schools delaying classes today or canceling them altogether. >> most of our children walk to school, majority of them walk to school and a lot of them are not prepared for this type of weather. >> reporter: that prolonged cold has water mains bursting from massachusetts to missouri, coating cars in ice. in baltimore, streets turning into ice rinks. the cold dipping so far south, roads dangerously slick even in houston. in the dallas/ft. wor

michael and lara. >> thank you, ginger.shape for 2018. >> yep, the one and only "good housekeeping's" lori bergamotto is here to help. some really creative solutions with things you definitely have in your home starting with ketchup. >> exactly. who knew? it's not just for burgers and hot dogs, right? so if you have any sort of tarnished copper, we'll show you how to polish it with ketchup and put a little bit on a rag. and then here we go. we'll take salt because you want to have abrasion. a little grit and then you just polish away. >> is it only copper works on. >> it could work on some silver but we like the way you can see the difference between the tarnishing. >> unbelievable. >> and the not toarnished. >> that's cool. what about aluminum foil for scrubbing? >> so sometimes this happens to me all the time if you make ground meat, you're like, oh, gosh, i don't have that special scrubbing brush to get all of that fat and stuff out. you can take aluminum foil in place of a scrub brush and put in a little warm water and

ginger. >>> thank you, it is thankful thursday and we're kicking off a great event, the kindness matters bus tour. part of the great kindness challenge that's going on all week. people across america have been asked to do as many kind act as

thanks very much ginger. >>> now, to the latest from president trump.spoke to reporters last night, trying to calm the firestorm set off by his vulgar comments about africa and haiti. trump now denying those words, defending himself against charges of racism. and our senior white house correspondent cecilia vega is here with the story. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: good morning to you. after ignoring reporters' questions about whether he is a racist, on this martin luther king holiday, president trump now has an answer. president trump overnight, forced to answer the one question he cannot seem to escape. >> no, no, i'm not a racist. i am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. >> reporter: at his golf club in florida, the president denying he made the oval office slur. >> did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments? they weren't made. >> reporter: but on this martin luther king holiday, the fallout from those comments growing. civil rights icon democratic congressman john lewis not holding back. >> i think he i

michael. >> oh, you got it right, ginger.ed. it's produced back here, but i'm going to head back out to the set right now. we are pulling back the curtain on how all of this happens, and there is a mad rush to air this show every single day. our dedicated team of reporters, producers and our crew, they're all taking you behind the scenes and this is "gma." [ applause ] >> going to times square right now. show you what's out there. there it is. we are turning the corner about to get the day started. we'll see what it brings. >> what are you doing? what's going on? >> i'm writing the show. >> this is the part of the morning where it goes from peaceful 4:00 a.m. hour right over to times square. >> we're getting ready to go through some pieces and juggle and change some things on the show. and the day is young. >> i'm the promo writer so this morning we're teasing segments coming up. >> this is what we do every morning. he reads to us, joel osteen. something a little inspirational before he head out to the studio. >> downstairs,

ginger, thank you. >>> we turn now to the white house tonight. abc news confirming this evening that special counsel robert mueller will likely request an interview with what will his lawyers say now? here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: as the president traveled to nashville today to talk up his tax cut, a potentially major development in the russia investigation. abc news has confirmed that special counsel robert mueller met with the president's lawyers and told them he is likely to request an interview with the president himself. news of that december feefting was first reported by "the washington post." in the past, the president sounded almost eager to tell mueller his side of the story. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of the events? >> 100%. >> reporter: so if robert mueller wanted to speak with you about that -- >> i'd be glad to tell you exactly what i just told you, jon. >> reporter: he was asked about it again just this weekend. >> if robert mueller asks you to co

ginger, hold your cell phone tight.rop it from three stories what we've learned today. time for your "gma" moment and i love this one because finley really knows how to get his husky howling. >> go. ooh. [ dog howling ] >> in unison. ooooh so sweet. so mom says he gets -- this happens all the time so send us your "gma" moment. something that makes you smile or laugh out loud then we'll share it with the worlorm, is possible tonight between 11pm and 2am when the front nears. the front itself slides through between 2-4am and temperatures will crash. temperatures will be in the 30s by tomorrow morning. ere the actual low trasover an inch of in is likely over the stern md. between d 0" to .75" is likely in e dmv. southern md ftier totals with a few heavrain bands. daunseasonably warm. highs: 64-67winds: s 5-15 mph nh in lely. gusty understorm possible. tumbling temperatures. lows: 30-37 decreasing clouds. astically colder. highs: 34-37 winds: nw 10-15 g 30 mph ring today with highs soaring ir 60s. a potent cold front is mov

over to lara, ginger, i'm sorry. >> that's all right.of say you already got a little bit muddy, so quinn the dog said i have a little mud on me, why not, just go for it, and then dives in. i love the people laughing in the background, like we'll have to clean him anyway. that's from up saint clair township pennsylvania. george this is for you, it's a cartoon watching himself, getting to excited that's 7-year-old olivia from riverside rhode island. dogs make us laugh, we want to see your puppy or kitten or friend host your "g.m.a." moment on my facebook page, i would love to share with all of you a little joy in there. >> reporter: a little joy in the weather, too, ginger. storm tracker 6 live double scan, dry we're up to 40 degrees, this afternoon we'll go for a high of 52. it will be cloudy and rain and fog develop overnight. tomorrow, 64, milder, at times it will be raining when it is raining it could be steady. the rain wraps up earlier and windy and cooler for the eagles game. with great items to pamper yourself starting at just $6.

and ginger, hold your cell phone tight.rom three stories what we've learned today. time for your "gma" moment and i love this one because finley really knows how to get his husky howling. >> go. ooh. [ dog howling ] >> in unison. ooh, so sweet. so mom says he gets -- this happens all the time. so send us your "gma" moment. something that makes you smile or laugh out loud then we'll share it with the >>> good friday morning. i'm lisa argen. waking up to a lot of fog out there. it's dense in spots. it will lift by later on this morning. then we have a sunny day today, mild through the weekend. tomorrow into sunday, temperatures climb even more, and then we'll be looking at some wet weather returning next week. a high today of 60 in oakland, san mateo 61, palo alto, 62 in napa. the accuweather seven-day forecast, more sunshine over the weekend, and then by the holiday, >> thank you, ginger. >>> dr. jen ashton is back with us. with an update on dry january. the month-long break she's taking from alcohol. on day 12 now. and so m

let's get to ginger zee tonight, tracking it all for us. ginger? >> reporter: david, we've already seen a foot of snow in minnesota. 30 to 50 mile h he he he he this storm, this low has a cold front and a warm component, too, so, by the noon hour, if you're in philadelphia, new york city, long island, connecticut, you're going to see thunderstorms and even the potential for flooding. behind it, relatively cool air. certainly some lake effect snow, but watch those rivers, as the warmth sticks around and the rain falls, ice jams could be a problem, too. david? >> ginger, thank you. >>> we're going to turn next here tonight to that massive explosion in oklahoma. an oil well. several workers do remain missing at this hour. the explosion sposhging a number of fires. the tower of that well collapsing to the ground. and firefighters have been unable to turn off the gas. abc's marcus moore is on the scene for us tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the desperate search for five employees who worked in this oklahoma oil and natural gas well, now charred and crump

over to lara, ginger, i'm sorry. >> that's all right.oments. i love this first video. you say you already got a little muddy so, quinn, the dog says i got a little mud on me. why not just go for it. oh. and then dives in. i love when people laugh in the background like we'll have to clean him anyway from upper st. clair township, pennsylvania. then this one, george, this is actually for you because just like you have the dachshund, look at that one watching as if it's watching himself but it's a cartoon getting so excited. that's olivia 7-year-old olivia from riverside, rhode island. you know what, dogs are making us laugh every day. we want to see your puppy. your kitten. your kid, any of your family or friends that make you laugh out loud. post your "gma" moment on my facebook page and we'd love to share with all of you.ure track overhead with the trailing cold front. this is rain we could rel under a moderate drought. around one inch of rain is expected by saturday morning. temperatures will fall by saturday morning into the upper 30s

>> the company says it's not changing the formula for classic diet coke, but new flavors will be ginger lime, feisty cherry. >> i love it. >> zesty blond orange. and twisted mango. >> what is a twisted mango? profile name. >> i don't know who you're talking to on tinder. >> zesty blond? >> it might be a zero calorie drink, many find them unhealthy. >> ginger lime, hmm. >>> and a restaurant in michigan is offering something that might go perfectly with one of those brand-new coke flavors. >> it's not going to come with a diet coke price. the taco, $60. >> the pricey taco contains, let's be cleared. seared american wagyu beef, black truffles and roasted grasshoppers. >> instead of have to order them in threes. so the real cost is $180. >> you're kidding. >> i'm not kidding. they're not that big of tacos either. >> oh, my gosh. it's cheaper to fly to mexico and get some good ones. >> authentic tacos. >>> we'll see who's taking action after michelle williams got less than 1% of what mark wahlberg got to shoot scenes in the new movie. >>> and one of the most exclusive canine clubs. here'and

nowout side to ginger. >> hey, paula.illford, new hampshire. have you ever seen a cold front? >> what? >> reporter: probably not, sometimes you can see it, this is pauls valley, oklahoma where a huge drop in temperatures, like in places lafayette indiana they dropped 16 degrees in 45 minutes. check out the numbers here. it's nice out here this morning, it won't be by sunday morning, a huge drop in temperatures you saw on the maps for a lot of us. let's get a check on the local weather. >> reporter: we're looking at 20 degrees down later tonight. we have periods of rain and heavy pockets possible through the day. 64 is the high. freezing rain change-over overnight north and west. a win coat thursday. there's still time. bring your gently used coats to help keep somebody else warm. should we see how many coats we've donated? let's do it. the tally, 137,025 donated so far. go to our website to see how you can get involved. >>> time for fix or nix. we'll break down the rules of relationships here with two amazing experts. "th

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hey, ginger. >> reporter: hey, david. winter weather advisories are in place. it is snowing now, so, from dansville, new york, all the way down to gatlinburg, tennessee, you can see on the southern end, just a coating. but the northern, up to eight inches of snow with that clipper. the coastal part of the storm will take the tides, especially tomorrow morning, and make them rise. and then you could see two to five inches, especially eastern massachusetts. a little bit of rhode island there. and behind it, i can promise you that everyone is impacted. look at tallahassee, the wind chill tomorrow morning, 32. it feels like freezing in charleston. and it only gets colder. settles in wednesday morning. philadelphia, you'll feel like 14. >> minus 11 in caribou. poor caribou. all right, ginger, thank you. >>> in other news this monday night, there are growing questions after a 7-year-old boy was handcuffed at a miami elementary school. the boy accused of hitting a teacher, taken away in cuffs. some asking, despite that alleged behavior, did authorities go too far? abc

let's get right to ginger zee tonight, tracking this major storm right off the coast. and the track of this thing, you were telling us jinger, will mean everything here. >> reporter: every mile counts as to how much snow is going to fall and how windy it is going to get. travel will be impacted along the east coast. that winter storm warning, you don't see this afternoon, from florida to knacks head, north carolina. you could see a tenth of an inch of ice there, up to three inches of snow and it all gets going overnight tonight through tomorrow morning. that's drive-time, 7:00 a.m. in southeast georgia, north florida, going to be a mess. tomorrow afternoon, from charleston, up through eastern north carolina, some heavier snow totals along that bpink line. that's the freezing line. it will clip through mid-atlantic, new york through eastern long island is where we pick up the boston and maine. you can see the heavy snow totals. if you can believe it or not, david, even colder air than we've seen all season coming behind this thing. >> we have to get through this first.

ginger zee leads us off on the west tonight. >>> the white house tonight. will the special counsel, robert mueller, soon be questioning president trump? what we've learned tonight. >>> growing concern this evening amid the deadly flu outbreak in this country. tents set up in the west. emergency rooms packed across the country. where it's hitting hardest and how effective is the flu vaccine? and should you still get it if you haven't already? what surprised us today about that. >>> the urgent manhunt for a suspect. the deputy killed responding to a 911 call. a married father of three. >>> and tonight, is oprah running in 2020? what her long-time partner stedman graham reportedly said overnight. it's making news tonight. >>> food good evening as we come on the air in the west torrent. it's great to start at week with you. what's not great are the two storms hitting both coasts at this hour. and we begin in the wiest. real fear in california tonight about what could come in the hours ahead. and part of the reason there's so much concern is this right here. som

the snow and ice, they're creating trouble on the roads and, ginger, the bitter cold is back reachingn to the deep south. >> michael, birmingham, alabama waking up in the single digits. coldest air in three years. subzero windchills and then this. you see where frozen precipitation was falling in houston for hours. these folks were stuck on int inter-nate 59 for more than four hours. truck, cars, everybody stuck there. it's snowing from the panhandle of florida just north of panama city to one to two inches that fell around atlanta now east of them up through virginia and up through maine. look at this video. this is what's happening outside new york. we have it from wabc here, the camera that shows those roads smothered in snow from new hampshire and vermont back through florida this morning, michael. >> thank you, ginger, that ice down in houston, my mom's 77th birthday yesterday spent it in the house. didn't go anywhere. >>> now to capitol hill where there's a showdown over president trump's offensive comments about immigrants and a possible government shutdown. the deadline is rea

let's start with ginger who is outside our studio here in times square and, ginger, we're just starting to see the worst of these frigid temps. >> yes, and this is the coldest air for a place like pittsburgh or cleveland that they've had since february 2015 so it's been a little while. it's 10. a balmy 10 out in times square. the windchill 4 below and i know if you're in south dakota or minnesota you're saying that's no big deal but watch what happened in boston. frozen, socked in, more than 13 inches of snow and the ocean fire truck trying to get through. that coastal flooding, the wind was such a huge part of the storm and now it's the cold. those are actual air temperatures. 3 in cincinnati. windchill advisories all the way to the deep south and right there in boston this morning. eva pilgrim, it's 2 degrees for you. feels like, eva, how are you doing? >> reporter: oh, it is bitterly cold out here this morning. ginger, this car right here abandoned. it was caught in the flooding here at the boston harbor and you can see it is encased in ice. it is not going anywhere any time soon, th

robin. >> oh, my, okay, ginger, we'll get back to you in a bit. airlines bracing for the major storm offering travelers a chance to reschedule or cancel their flights now before the worst of it hits and our senior transportation correspondent david kerley is a national tracking the latest. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. some of ginger's colleagues, the forecasters have been watching this storm too and know it's going to cause problems. especially at airports that don't normally deal with these cold, icy conditions so starting this morning at jacksonville they start to expect some problems and they're canceling flights and north, a couple of big hubs will be affected. atlanta and charlotte so they're all watching this very closely, already a couple of hundred flights have been delayed today. a couple hundred cancel mostly in the southeast and there is concern for the airlines that their passengers will be affected so offering waivers. this means if you have a flight to the affected area in the southeast all airlines are sayi

share them on my facebook page ginger zee tv.. >> that kid is going to be up and running around the house no time i'll bet. dry conditions, cold, but in some cases we've got singleatur, philadelphia in the mid teens. this afternoon things do get better though. your seven-day from accuweather shows a high of 31. late tonight through tomorrow sy about one to 3 inches in philadelphia, three to six by the coast. 29 is the high with snow tapering off in the afternoon. arctic air returns friday. what we're doing is the smart way. here is chris and heidi powell. millions of americans, you guys know, are hitting the gym as part of their new year's rests but "the washington post" is warning newcomers, i to help yo getting hurt chris and heidi have important tips. i loved this segment because it does happen all the time right here. >> it does, absolutely and all starts right here on the treadmill. the most common piece of equipment in the gym and see it happen all too often. they do too much have son so results in all kinds of inflammatory

our studio here in times square so ginger what is the latest? >> so here in times square it's started. my eyes are already watering and you can see a little bit of slick snow. this is only the beginning, guys. this whole day most of your thursday going to be full of snow and ridiculous wind and then eventually ridiculous cold. now, this thing, you've heard the term bomb. that's been the meteorological glossary for almost 40 years nearly bombing out now meaning we've seen 20 millibars drop and the pressure gradient in six hours this. is rapidly intensifying. snow flying from north carolina to maine at this hour. those blizzard conditions and warnings for that go all the way from new jersey and virginia up along the coast including parts of massachusetts and maine and that is where we have to start this morning by going to a place i hourat's our he is in norfolkinia. gio. >> reporter: hey there, ginger offs here are calling this a brutal snowstorm. tens of thousands of homes are already without power and it's in large part because of these wind gu

let's bring in ginger. the storm is moving. fill us in on the track. >> you can hear it in victor's shot. that is sleet and he was talking about freezing rain that was glazing the cars. that happened in lake city, florida, and you could see more than a tenth of an inch of ice start to accumulate. as that storm develops, low starts to push north, the timing of it takes it through florida and georgia this morning then south carolina and north carolina this afternoon and tonight and that's why we see all those schools closed up and down throughout the southeast. it clips the mid-atlantic, the farther east you are, the more snow and the more wind you get so the tighter you are to the storm that is off the coast that is where you're going to see the heaviest snow and certainly wind gusts, guys, could go up to 70 miles per hour. some of the places here in new england could have over a foot. robin. >> oh, my, okay, ginger, we'll get back to you in a bit. >>> airlines bracing for the major storm offering travelers a chance to reschedul

gio. >> reporter: hey there, ginger, offs here are calling this brutal snowstorm. tens of thousands of homes are already without power and it's in large part because of these wind gusts that we're feeling. a look at this wide shot we have here because i'm walking right now through about five inches of snow here, maybe even more and we're talking about wind gusts of about 55 miles per hour. those are intense winds, so it's only going to get worse here. this morning, that winter bomb of snow and ice going off creating a mess in the mid-atlantic. virginia in a state of emergency. cars stuck as the snow piles up. one driver desperately trying to dig out. whiteout conditions a nightmare for early commuters. >> hold up, all right. >> reporter: for parts of the northeast the storm is just getting started. early this morning a truck in southern new jersey lost control jackknifed and flew off the road into the woods completely engulfed in flames. the woods and a nearby home catching on fire. schools in new york, philadelphia and boston closed today, boston anticipating a fo