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, long island becomes a stronghold for tories. it's a magnet for anybody who lives on the other side of long island sound. all the little towns along the fairfield county shoreline are called torrey towns by the rebels because all you have to do is get in a boat and row or sail across long island sound, get to long island, and the british will welcome you with open arms, and you will find yourself among friends. so hundreds of people go across, and one of them is steven. when he gets there, he -- steven jarvis -- enlists in the america's, i'm sorry, the queen's rangers. queen's rangers is one of 150 or more -- at least 150 -- military units formed by tories to fight, not just debate, fight other americans who are rebels. and the you want, if you want, if you follow steven's journal, one of the first remarkable things about it is the journal is called an american's experience in the british army. he's not in the british army. he's in a torrey army unit that was formed by tories in new york, and it will fight alongside or independen

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if a magnet for anybody lives on the other side of long island sound.all the little towns along the fairfield county shoreline are called tori towns by the rebels because all you have to do is get in the boat and boat for sale across long island sound, good to long island and the british me with open arms and you'll find yourself among friends. so hundreds of people go across. one of them is stephen. when he gets there, steven jarvis in less -- i'm sorry, the queens rangers. the queens rangers is one of 150 or more, at least 150 military units formed by tories to fight, not just debate, fight other americans who are rebels. and if you want, follow stephen's journal, one of the first remarkable things about it is the journalist card and americans experience in the british army. he's not in the british army. he's in a tory army unit that was formed by tories in new york and will fight alongside for independent of the british army. but it's not the british army. when not, just like would have been with tiffany's manuscript, the manuscript for jarvis' journ

long island has gusts as high as 60, 70 miles per hour. and that is just whipping around that wind, creating those blizzard-like conditions, at least for the next couple of hours. new york city really getting hit hard. treacherous travel out there all along the interstates and it looks like into boston, the worst is still yet to come. just for the morning rush hour, and eventually all the snow heading into maine as well. now back to you rob and mike. >> quick question here. when should folks in new york expect all the snow to finally be out of here? >> well, it's going to still be around the early part of the day but i think the worst of it will be ending after about 6:00 or 7:00. so people heading to work early on, you're going to be running into major problems. for the later part of the commute it may not be as bad. snow around through much of the day and blowing snow with that with the winds. it's going to be pretty bad all day long in new york. >> ava, thanks a lot, appreciate that. >>> out of massachusetts the governor could use the n

new york city out on long island we got light snow for you. be careful. only a dusting out there kind of blowing around but the sidewalks are very slippery. you can see snow flurries continue. when i was out with my dog this morning, i mean the sidewalks were just glazed over. it was not fun. >> yeah, it really wasn't. wow, bill, you're a trouper taking your dog out that early in the morning. >> yeah. >> you got to do what you got to do. >> exactly. a pretty picture. bill, thanks. >>> acquisitions heat up on the street. a cost of tax deal you pay not have heard of. >>> and the airlines made how much on fees this year? "first look" on business headlines coming up. >>> the lakers visit the president. brett favre's playing days, are they finally over? hey... everyone's eating tacos outside bill's office. [ chuckles ] you think that is some information i would have liked to know? i like tacos. you invited eric? i thought eric gave you the creeps. [ phone buzzes ] oh. [ chuckles ] yeah. hey. [ male announcer ] don't be left behind. get it first with at&t. the

. >> reporter: kevin bunk has owned his long island home for over 12 years, and knows what it typically costs to heat it. already, he is bracing for significantly higher bills than last year. >> over the course of the winter, if prices remain where they are right now, we're probably going to spend close to $1,500 to $2,000 on heating oil for the winter. >> reporter: and how does that compare to what you spent last year? >> probably 30% to 40% more. >> reporter: his heating oil is supplied by protostar energy, a family run business with over 2,000 customers, mainly on long island. >> do you have fuel? >> reporter: his mother irene mans the office, taking customer orders. she says her wholesale costs have soared almost $1 a gallon since august, forcing her to raise prices. some customers are panicking. >> oh definitely! oh definitely! where they used to order 200 gallons, 150, now they are ordering 50 gallons. because they can't afford to fill up their tanks. prices are so high right now, you have to pick and choose what you are going to do. you gonna heat your house or you gonna feed you

that's essentially a powerful jet new englanden on wheels, blasting away in a long island rail yard. the hot exhaust does wonders for melting and moving all that snow. >>> well, the blizzard forced another unique birth for one new jersey couple. daniel man was born in the front seat of his parents toyota suv. what should have been a 20-minute drive, durned into an hour and a half nightmare. >> blocks from the hospital, daniel's mother delivered the baby herself. mom, dad, big brother and new baby, daniel are all doing just fine. >>> the airport problems in moscow are so bad, russia's president wants prosecutors to investigate. thousands of passengers have been stuck for days after an ice storm grounded flights and knocked out power. the president wants to know if any laws wbr broken, since passengers were left with little food and no information about the conditions. >>> a man's behind bars in miami, after a bizarre incident at the airport there. the suspect's luggage literally started exploding when it was taken off the plane by baggage handlers. inside, police found hundreds of bul

and we've seen even higher gusts than this, long island has gusts as high as 60, even 70 miles per hour. that is whipping around the wind, creating the blizzard-like conditions. new york city really getting hit hard. treacherous travel out there all along the interstates and into boston. it looks like the worst is yet to come just for the morning rush hour and eventually all the snow heading into maine as well. >> our thanks to ava dinges from accuweather. >>> for the rest of the morning's weather from around the country, a frosty morning in the south with record lows and windchill warnings as well. parts of northern florida dips to the 20s before warming up later on today. meanwhile, rain in the pacific northwest, gusty winds along the coast and 6 inches of snow in the cascades. >> 40s in seattle and portland. 58 in sacramento. 17 in minneapolis. 27 that chicago, 30 in boston. 26 here in new york and 56 in miami. >> and you can stay tuned to abc news for continuing coverage of this massive east coast blizzard coming up later today, of course, on "good morning america." >>> president ob

basically anywhere from dover, delaware, through new york city, long island and boston as we speak right now moderate to heavy snow pretty much everywhere. we're just beginning to see the real impact of the system right now. >> mitchell: how powerful if is storm overall? >> this is not your average nor'easter, this is not even your average blizzard. we're talking about an intensity in terms of the central pressure that rivals that of a category two hurricane. now, we're not going to see the impacts of a category two hurricane but because it's so intense we're going to see thunder snow, we're going to see frequent wind gusts to 60 miles an hour and snowfall rates to the tune of around two to four inches an hour for several hours. and what that means is we're going to see a widespread swath of around two feet of snow from the jersey store straight through new york city, long island, connecticut, all the way up to providence and boston. >> mitchell: you were telling me earlier the effects of the storm would be felt far into florida. how so? >> this is such a huge storm and it's got such a s

. >> and there is rumor of a brace mthere is a rumor of a serial killer on n.y., long island. craigslist, as courts services victims are to ou >> and this is not doing anybody any favors. >> and internet reporter, kimberly sakamoto that a look of these pictures on the website. >> catherine, it was recently that this home was robbed and as facebook posting that his son was most heavily impacted. that his ipad, face and you have to take a look at this, on the facebook page. with the stolen a laptop, the fee posted a picture on the sun's facebook page. all 400 friends could see, leaving comments, that this is a rubber, is this for real? this-is this a proper? and even the thumbs up given. with cash, and that is the death new jacket. that is the father's new jacket--and that is a rubber. that is a rubber. that is a proper that is a picture of a robber. he is protestinobvious so, we book a flight to hawaii using our points from chase sapphire. last minute... on christmas. and sitting next to us, chevy chase. and we really hit it off. we play golf, and then the luau. he's like da vi

. >>> long island murders. the bodies of four women. >>> break from the intense cold. the problems it's causing across the nation. ,,,,,,,, the moment you feel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the bud. >>> it is just before 6:30. a balmy 26 degrees. and it's clear. dpeerching. thank you -- good evening. thank you for staying with wjz. here's some of the stories people are talking about. the bitter baltimore blast. crippling the nation. below freezing temperatures as far south as florida, with the worst of it in the midwest. first warning weather coverage continues with cynthia bowers in chile, -- chilly chicago. >> reporter: the winter assault continued yesterday, dumping 2 feet of snow outside of cleveland, with 9 more inches expected this morning. and as the slow-moving storm continues to move east, there is more snow for pennsylvania and new york. on a snowbound highway in ontario, military chopper his to rescue motorists. >> i actually have lived here for 35

after spending five days in orlando, they had to get back home to long island.r flight had been canceled, they booked a flight to buffalo that left them with the dilemma of how to get home from there. a cabdriver offered to drive the family back to long island. the negotiated price? $900. >> the wind was so much that is blows the snow all over. you couldn't even see. >> i didn't think it was possible to drive during that time. >> they're drove it. turned out to be a 14-hour trip. should have taken half that time. it was a big rush to get home. the mother is a physical therapist who didn't want to miss her monday appointment which i would imagine paid for that ride. >> he gave them a $200 break for that. >> big tip. >>> 5:57 and jerry brown is bracing for a fight with uc executives. >> our developing stories coming up. a fire killed three people in oakland. >> another person is dead after a police shooting near the oakland and san leandro border. those stories and more coming up next on today in the bay at 6:00. >> three people dead in an overnight fire, includin

you can see that light snow on you over long island and nyc. as far as today's forecast, it's very cold. just lake-effect snow as far as the problem areas. the warm-up begins tomorrow. that's a look at your tuesday forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. snow showers will continue off the great lakes. some areas will be hit harder than others if you get ught in those bands. clevelan ohio, is under a winter storm warning until wednesday morning. snow totals could end up around a foot in and around cleveland. ly, not fun, but this is the worst of it, so it will only get better. >> there's the understatement of the da >> okay. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> acquisitions heat up on the street. a cost of the tax deal you may not have heard of and the airlines made how much on fee these year your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it was supposed to be gweneth paltrow's special day, t lindsay loh and her mom had to get involved and get snarly. >>> coming up, lee picks a team and bett farve's playing

sounds like the long island expressway. mission control lost contact for a couple of hours yesterday and we are told all communications are up and running and the incident could be a concern for nasa because they will be dependent on the russian spacecraft when it retires the shuttle program next year. and the cost per astronaut on the space taxi is $51 million! per person. north korea's leader say the attack on south korea was a taste of what is coming if they are provoked. next, the american trying to turn down the heat between the two countries. stay tuned. >>shepard: this is live, the white house, and the president minutes away from signing the tax cut cop mice into law. we will bring you that live. stay tuned. new mexico's governor now in north korea for a series of talks to ease tensions on the korean peninsula. the governor arrived yesterday and the state department cleared the trip but we are told he is not there as a represent i of the u.s. government. and south korea is promising to go ahead with live drills, rath

but long island and areas of eastern new england could still get hit. so still snow fromlbuquerque to santa fe. but as far as any travel issues, just showers around new orleans. you notice a little warm-up on the eastern seaboard. that's a quick look at your friday forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. you can see we don't really have many weather concerns today. it's more or less heading towards the weekend that we'll have any problems. washington, d.c. after 1 to 2 inches of snow yesterday, it's a cold morning, but 34 degrees and sunshine this afternoon shou begin to melt most othat. lynn, more details on that weekend forecast, come. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> also coming up, upbeat onomic data. sizzling stock markets and the feel-good auction of the year. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus, it was a cool concept back in the early 80s, but will film audiences go for it today? >>> coming up, vincent jackson leads the charge against the 9ers. the correc continue their december to remember and qte

they may be hunting for a serial killer after the remains of four bodies were discoved on a remote long island beach. investigators are trying to identify the remains which appear to have been on the beach for some time. >>> and mexican police are searching for a mexican preschooler and a mother who were caught on camera stealing jewelry pap sales clerk says she never suspected the pair until seeing the video with her own eyes. you have to see it to believe it. >>> now here is an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,476 after gaining 47 points yesterday. the s&p was up a point, the nasdaq inched up 2. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei fell 6 points while in hong kong, the hang seng plunged 455. > stocks got off to a flying start tuesday then the fed crashed the party. after the year's last meeting, the federal reserve wa unexpectedly pessimistic, calling the recovery slow, looking for unemployment to remain high and reaffirming its controversial commitme to buy $600 billion in bonds to stimulate growth. the action was swift

york city, things are slowly getting back on track, this morning the trains began rolling on the long island railroad but big delays continue. yesterday, the rail ways shut down, not a train went by. >>> nationwide airlines cancelled about 10,000 flights because of that massive storm that could cost the airlines about $100 million. just a footnote here, one of our writers at ktvu was supposed to fly back to the bay area from new jersey yesterday, she's been keeping us posted, and says she is not going to be able to get a flight now until this saturday. >>> things are still not going well at san francisco international airport because of the problems back east. frustrated customers are still cancellations. most say their flights are facing one to four hour delays. >>> a santa rosa high school graduate has lost his life while snow boarding. the 20-year-old was reported missing at 4:00 on christmas eve. his body was found the next morning in a creek. cooper plaxico was at the resort with his family. >>> powerful winds kicks in, five chairs from 30 feet on to the snow. many people were screaming

police have been searching this long island beach all week long for more bodies. police saying they don't expect find anything more? >> it's christmas. while everybody else is engaged in wrapping presents, we know that the bodies of these fourer deceased women were also find wrapped. but in their case wrapped in burlap. it appears that the bodies were dumped in this area area within a few hundred feet of each other over a period of two years. and the police have been up and down about ten-mile area. so their belief right now is that the -- there is no more bodies out there to be found. so, of course, the question is who are these women, what do they have in common, and as important, who do they have in common, who might have placed their bodies there and why. >> with detectives saying they believe these women were killed elsewhere and bodies moved to this location, does that speak to you of a serial killer? what's your gut tell you? >> my gut tells me there could be. but you and i know that newspapers speculate and investigators investigate. right now, you know, s

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thank you, michael. >> thanks, alex. >> a mystery or new york's long island.are going to hear from former fbi profiler, clint van zandt coming up. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it's more than just oil. it's liquid engineering. >>> within the half hour, the senate will start up a rare saturday session. we have the dream act, "don't ask, don't tell" maybe the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. another item could be the 9/11 bill that would help emergency workers on that day. joining nous is kristin jill brand from the state of new york. thank you for joining us. let's talk first since you are from new york, that 9/11 bill, your septembermentes on that, where it is going, what the hangups could be and what people are saying about it? >> i think we are going to pass this bill. we will hopefully have a vote between now and christmas. what this bill is about is the men and women who are first responders. the ones who ran up the towers and stayed on that pile to first f

this morning we received about one to three inches of snow on long island.s this is normal in wyoming, they already had real zero degree temperatures, 11 below zero with windchills in the minus 30 to 40 range. incredible. that's the video coming in by the way, all of who also wrote in to say it's lovely where you are, thanks. appreciate that. love you, too. really, mean it i'm contessa brewer. thanks for watching today. "time" magazine's person of the year will be unveiled tomorrow. up next, andrea mitchell reports. are house democrats warming up to a tax cut compromise? she will ask congressman tom larsen. >>> brian jones loves the holiday movie "a christmas story." after licensing the rights, he started selling versions of the film leg lamp and he used the profits to turn the cleveland house where the movie was filmed into a t 1200 test test test test. >>> pressure is

. >>> police in long island are looking for a possible serial killer this morning. four bodies were found along the beach in suffolk county in rent days on oak beach. it could be weeks before police can identify any of the victims. they aren't even sure if there's a connection between them at this point. >>> julian assange is waking up in jail. a judge granted bail but he must wait 48 hours before sweden appeals the decision. he was arrested a week ago because prosecutors in sweden want to question him on sexual assault charges. supporters are trying to raise $300,000 to post bail. he is being held unfairly because his website leaked thousands of u.s. documents. >>> "time" magazine's person of the year. reerdz put him in first place. the tea party, chilean miners and lady gaga. readers don't make the pick. coming up on the "today" show, you can find out who is "time" magazine's person of the year. >> pentagon officials believe the 23-year-old private bradley manning is giving classified documents to wikileaks. manning has not admitted to being the source of the leak

. >> mitchell: patch editors like chris vacarro, who covers a community on long island, also hire local freelance reporters to help give more comprehensive coverage. >> we're all focusing on our one goal here, which is to be objective reporters in our communities. >> reporter: for vacarro, that goal also includes covering the local high school football team, which he sees as a way to get young people interested in the news, usually a tough sell. >> the news hits them really hard when it comes the sports and education. the younger generation is tuning in. >> reporter: what attracted you to journalism in the first place. >> being the person to let everyone else in the community know what is going on. >> mitchell: and patch has just reached its target of 500 sites up and running by the end of the year. we'll be back. >> mitchell: former vice presidential candidate sarah palin is in haiti, visiting earthquake victims. auburn university quarterback cam newton won the heisman trophy this week. questions have followed newton since it wasry field that his father tried to arrange pay-for-play sc

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paul lives on long island and commutes daily to manhattan, where he works at columbia university. paul learned he had usher syndrome while attending college when he was 19 years old. at this point in his life, he has only a pinhole of vision left and uses a cane to assist him with travel. with usher syndrome, your vision is always changing, especially as you get older. some of these changes will have a significant impact on your life. i call these changes hits. for example, in your teen years, you start to experience night blindness where you lose the ability to travel independently or safely at nighttime. narrator: lauren is 13 and, like others with usher syndrome, is experiencing early night blindness. often, this is exhibited by a child tripping or bumping into things or, in general, being viewed as clumsy. i did notice that what i thought was her balance wasn't where it should be and that she seemed to be having some trouble seeing peripherally, but what was happening again now is, the ophthalmologists, too, were not seeing what i was seeing and basically were just telling me,

in los angeles, on long island, new york, and in philly and philadelphia is where we begin. police there say they are dealing with a guy who rapes and chokes women. they have connected two strangling deaths and they say another woman whose body turned up in a vacant lot may be the third victim. >> certainly fits into our pattern. we don't know for sure if it is the same person. we have to analyze d.n.a. and thing of that nature before we know for sure. >> shepard: three bodies ended up just blocks from each other. at least three other women have reported being attacked by a man who choked, sexually assaulted or hit them. investigators last week released surveillance video of a man they believed may be connected to the attacks. the man's face is fuzzy obviously on this video. cops have released a composite sketch of the man. they have posted it around town. hoping that somebody might be able to tell them something about who he is now to new york where police found four bodies on a long island beach. and they say it's a possibility a serial killer may be responsible. but today

chilling new developments breaking now on new york's long island, police and federal agents, pouring into an exclusive beach neighborhood, searching the home for a -- where a new jersey woman was last seen in may. police say that woman, shown there, shannon gilbert, was a prostitute, and the man whose home was searched and actually has been being searched all morning tells a local paper that he had hired her as, quote, his date. well, just down the road, the bodies of four women have now been discovered, and police are trying to determine if gilbert's body is one of them. and if they have a possible jacket ripper on their hands. trace gallagher has more on this one. trace. >> reporter: boy you're right, megyn, the cops have swarmed all over this house on long island, talking about police detectives, crime scene units, even canine units on the scene, they have secured this house and impounded an suv that was parked in the driveway, police, of course, looking at -- looking at the place because it was the last place that 24-year-old shannon gilbert was seen, a prostitute, hired by the o

. >>> one manage from long island new york is extra grateful this season.il recently one of millions of americans unemployed. he couldn't find a job for an extended period of time and faced financial ruin. randall pinkston has the story. >> reporter: he survived a trauma that changed him forever. >> when you pass the year mark, it's devastating. >> reporter: in 2008, he was laid off from his job in pharmaceutical sales. he thought he'd find work within weeks. but more than a year later, he was still looking and had burned through his savings, even his 9-year-old son knew the family was in crisis. >> he'd get five dollars from nanna and papa and come in to me and say, dad would, this help us? things like that just, they kill you, they kill you. >> reporter: he fell behind on his mortgage, lost his car and one day he got home just as the power company was about to pull the plug. by then, he had turned to a local charity for support. the uja paid the power bill and helped negotiate lower mortgage paints. he found temporary work at a loading dock, where he took

a family had just gotten back from florida, they wanted to get back from florida, they live on long island offshoot of new york city. they decided they were stranded in florida with a blizzard here so they were going to fly into buffalo and maybe bus down from buffalo to long island. obviously that was a problem too. so they decided they were going to take a taxi some 410 miles down to elmont, which is where their house is on long island. well, if you've ever taken a taxi, 410 miles, it adds up to about $900 in cab fare. they actually did the figuring and thought that would be the cheapest way and that was their option at that point. the cabbie apparently was extremely nice. >> he would have to be. >> he would have to be, of course, he's getting that fare. he stopped for coffee, he stopped for breaks, he said he charged them $200 less than what it should have been. i mean, i doubt he's ever ran that track before. but the family hopes that delta, which is the airline, will reimburse them. >> i would hope so. >> good luck. >> these days compared to the airport, a long cab ride doesn't sound

a little surprise snow especially over long island. reports of 3 inches out there in nassau county.w york city had a dusting and some of the secondary roads and bridges, give yourself a little extra time. the other big story, now 30 degrees in orlando and the damage is being done to the crops unfortunately. they are getting the hard freeze as advertised. >> look at those temperatures. >> miami, 38. >> unbelievable, bill, thanks so much. appreciate it. to sports now. big baseball news before we get to the nfl breaking overnight. cliff lee has informed the texas rangers and the new york yankees that he will not be signing with either of them. hmm. instead agreeing to a deal with one of his former teams, the philadelphia phillies for less money and fewer years than either the yankees or the rangers were willing to offer. wow. the "new york post" reporting it is for 5 years and $100 million, about a $50 million pay cut. well, not a cut because he doesn't have it but 50 million less than the deal the yankees had on the table. lee was part of the phillies' squad in 2009 but was traded to

. >> police in long island new york are stumped and wonder figure they have a social killer. over the last week four skeletons have been found along the beach. police thought this was a break- in the search for a missing prostitute but say her body is not among the remains that have been found. investigators believe the same person dumped all four at different times over the past two years but there is little they know for sure. >> anything, anything is possible at this point because there are so many unanswered questions. >> we have no idea what we are dealing with a serial killer. >> police do know all of the bodies female, they are now working to identity them. >>> meantime in los angeles police are getting an overwhelming response in their grim sleeper case. yesterday the lapd posted the photographs of 180 people thought to be possible victims of the suspect. the photographs were all found in the suspect's home but the police don't know who they are. a ton of calls and online traffic from all across the country has come in and the results promising. >> we have about five

. >>> four bodies have been found on a barren beach on long island, new york. police say they may have been dumped there by a serial killer. they made the discovery when searching for a missing prostitute. two of the victims were women. but it could take weeks to find out who they are. >>> and in oklahoma, volunteers are scrambling after a skunk sprayed thousands of dollars wortd of christmas gifts. the presents were supposed to go to hundreds of needy children on friday. the donations were being stored in outdoor sheds where the -- when the skunk stopped by. >>> as you head out this morning, most folks can be glad they're not in dallas. a new survey finds drivers in the big "d" has the worst commute. they average 28 minutes each way to work and spend about $600 a month just on commuting costs. others in the top five, san jose, houston, miami and phoenix. drivers in eugene, oregon, had it easiest. a round-trip ride of under half an hour. >>> doctors in germany believe they have cured an hiv patient. an american man with hiv had a blood stem cell transplant to t

and here is another call girl who disappeared on long island. she is a mother from maine.d her distraught mother is speaking out. she has this to say. >> i have had mixed feelings about it. at one point, i -- deep down inside, i felt she is not here but on the other hand, part of me still thinks that she still is with us. we have that little bit of hope. it disgusts me, why somebody would want to murder people and dump them off in a failed wooded area anyway. why would somebody do that? >> let me return to the new video and add one more piece of the puzzle for you. the "new york daily news" is reporting today that investigators are now exploring this theory, that the victims on long island may have been slain by the same killer who four years ago dumped the bodies of four prostitutes behind a hotel in atlantic city. that case is still open and you know we are making calls on this we are going to keep following the story for you. >>> and now to a story that has a lot of you talking this week, it is the story that happened tuesday afternoon. there was a gunman who walked int

may be hunting for a serial killer after the remains of four bodies were discovered on a remote long island. investigators are now working to identify the remains, which appear to have been on the beach for some time. >>> and mexican police are searching for a preschooler and his apparent mother who were captured on camera stealing in a jewelry store. footage shows the woman distracting employees as the young boy swipes about $400 in merchandise. a sales clerk says she never suspected the pair until seeing the video with her own eyes. >>> now here's your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,476 after gaining 47 points yesterday. the s&p was up a point, the nasdaq inched up 2. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei fell 6 points while in hong kong, the hang seng plunged 455. >>> stocks got off to a flying start tuesday then the fed crashed the party. after the year's last meeting, the federal reserve was unexpectedly pessimistic, calling the recovery slow, looking for unemployment to remain high and reaffirming its controversi

and we're expecting probably out a foot of snow around long island overnight can very gusty winds causing whiteout conditions. it looks like the heaviest part of the snow occurring right now. should slowly wind down but many more flight delays and cancellations at least into form morning. let me show you what is happening around the bay area. we have very persistent light rain showers up towards the north bay. patchy fog could slow down our own travel plans for tomorrow morning. plus i'm tracking this, a developing storm, still gathering strength offshore that is going to pack a lot of rain and wind our way. coming up tomorrow morning, stay tuned to the very latest travel changes in flight cancellations affecting bay area airports due to all the snow back east. and some of that patchy dense fog that could be setting up for tomorrow morning. scott? >> thank you very much, rob. >>> when it comes to holiday driving, the numbers are pretty good so far. the california highway patrol is reporting half the number of dui arrests compared to this time last year. during the chp's maximum enforcemen