lisa bernard, al jazeera, orrick, california. >> an electric guitar played by george harrison before the beatles came to america, is on the auction block. it will be auctioned off in new york in may. >>> i'm meteorologist dave moore. many of the images coming in look like this. inches of snow have come down. in fact the numbers are coming down now. eight inches in washington, d.c, seven and a half in baltimore. slightly higher in virginia and west virginia nine and a half inches. there could be a little bit of snow accumulate on top of that but not like this morning. this was the bands of heavy snow between washington, d.c, new york, and philadelphia, stip slippery on the roadways. raleigh north carolina a chilly 33. rain at 46°. focusing on severe weather, a line of the next storm, this line here has the potential to produce tornadoes. a watch just issued from the storm prediction center this will continue to move east so we'll watch this area closely over the next few hours. gusty damaging wind likely has a history of producing this as the storms move across the southeast. this is

lisa bernard has the story. >> reporter: california coastal old growth redwoods are majestic nationaltreasures. it's illegal to distribute the trees on public land in the redwood and state parks. but now the thieves are being threatened by drug $5icted thieves, who are cutting large knobby growth off of the freeze for sale, they manufacture furniture to sell their thousands of dollars. >> see that, there's one cut on that one, and walking around the corner here, a relatively fresh cut. >> the rangers say that poachers are coming in at night to steel them. >> to see these precious trees damaged in such a way, purely for decorative or selfish reasons, it hurts. >> reporter: several stores near the parks offer cureios, cut from private land that are legal. he has been working with his dad since he was a kid. and this could fetch $500. but he won't deal with anybody illegally. >> i don't want to buy wood from them. i have legal sources to get wood. >> at one time, there were 2 million acres of redwoods, 95% of them are gone. in order to stop poachers, the park is stepping up the patrols.