the buss in the raleigh-durham area are also stuck in this weather.y in north carolina. we'll stay with this breaking news story. north carolina of course brought to a standstill by this deadly winter storm. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security for just $29.99 a month. with limited availability in select markets. ♪ [ female announcer ] most of the time it's easy to know which option is better. other times, not so much. so it's good to know that mazola corn oil has 4 times more cholesterol blocking plant sterols than olive oil. and a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. take car

. >>> the research triangle in raleigh-durham, north carolina, home to many hi-tech research and development companies. 30-year-old eric miller worked there looking for a cure for pediatric aids. his wife ann was also a scientist working for a large pharmaceutical company. >> eric and ann miller were living the american dream. they had good jobs, they had a beautiful baby. they lived in a nice house. they attended church. >> despite a satisfying professional life, eric developed health problems that some suspected might have been related to his job. >> he exhibited a lot of flu-like symptoms, vomiting, fevers, headaches. and people generally thought that he had a virus or that he had a bacterial infection that they just couldn't isolate. >> one night while bowling with his friends, his symptoms were so severe, he had to be hospitalized. >> ann miller said he was pale and white and he was holding the trash can and said he had eaten a hot dog at the bowling alley and felt like he had gotten food poisoning. >> eric was put into intensive care, but when his condition improved, he was released. s

this is what the raleigh-durham area looks like. i will show you this. significa sigalert.com, this is raleigh, all the roads are red, less than 10 miles per hour. back up toward durham, red. i-85 out of durham, red, less than 5 miles per hour. and that road is i-95, and that's red in both directions to the east there of raleigh. this is going to be a night a lot like the people had in atlanta because now they're stuck. it's getting cold. cars aren't going to move. you get one fender bender in front of you, and that stops everything for hours. the same type of thing happened here. people slept in home depots and waffle houses and anywhere they could find shelter. that's going to happen tonight in raleigh-durham, north carolina. >> then it's moving towards the northeast and there's potentially huge problems here in washington, philadelphia, new york city. >> that's absolutely correct. the snow is on its way. i do believe it's going to be a tricky forecast and you veal to watch your local yair ya to figure out where you live. i-95 is going to be the cutoff

drivers in raleigh durham took matters into their own hands when they got stuck on the roads. they got out and just started pushing. some even abandoned their cars altogether, which made the situation even worse. at least 10 deaths across the south have been blamed on this latest round of winter weather. >>> here's a live look from greenville, south carolina. the roads are covered in snow, but you don't see too many driver's now. atlanta not taking any chances after this last storm paralyzed the city. cbs reporter omar villa frank can reports it was a ghost town today. >> reporter: the roads around atlanta are covered with snow and ice and almost deserted. lamont williams is braving the elements because he works as a roadside assistants. >> if you don't think you can deal with it, then stay off the streets. it is bad. >> reporter: from alabama to the carolinas, southern states are getting pounded with snow, sleet and freezing rain. thousands of people are riding out the storm at home. >> georgians have heeded the warning and they are staying home and staying off the roadways.

on the phone right now the mayor of raleigh-durham. mayor bell, the pictures are kay of to chaotic to say the least. how are things now? >> up improved anderson but we still have issues. fortunately we've been able to get through most of it. the storm came in while everyone was expecting it. no one expected it to be so sudden around 1:00. it dumped a lot of snow in a short amount of time caused major havoc. >> are there still people stranded on the various highways in your area? >> i'm told there are a few but not as many as earlier today. we've been able to work with the state and with our local crews to try to get some of this cleared up. >> i understand 911 operators received hundreds of calls if not more by now. a lot of accidents as well. how prepared do you think your community, your state was, if to respond to a storm of this caliber? how much equipment do you have? this is obviously not a normal occurrence. >> well, i think we were prepared as we could be given the information we were given. we have the equipment. we've been wo

. >>> the research triangle in raleigh-durham, north carolina, home to many hi-tech research and developmentes. 30-year-old eric miller worked there looking for a cure for pediatric aids. his wife ann was also a

one commuter of the raleigh-durham area got struck in traffic tonight. her 25-minute drive took her six hours. a car just up the road from where she was right in front of her eyes, take a look. >> the next thing you know, i see planes and a gentleman came up, said turn off your car, you're not going anywhere for a while. finally the place came and they didn't have anything to put out the flames. so the fire truck came and they put out the flames and the car was just a shell when i went by it later. >> it's been quite a day in the tarheel state. david mattingly is in charlotte. we just heard from tricia who was driving home from work. what are you seeing in charlotte? >> reporter: nothing anything like that here in charlotte. but the story here has been the precipitation. we started seeing snow flurries today a little after 9:00 in the morning, between 9:00 and 10:00. now 12 hours later and we have a pretty steady stream of sleet coming down right now. occasionally we have a car going by like this one, but for the most part, the streets are deserted tonig

but last night we had about four to five hours of gridlock in the greensboro area and the raleigh-durhamrea. but we got everyone out of their cars. no one that we know of spent their night in a car. in fact, i made sure that every abandoned car was checked from 9:00 onto make sure that we didn't lose anyone due to the cold weather or any other types of danger. so we didn't have anyone overnight or school buses overnight or anything like that. but it was still very difficult. and this storm came very quickly. we had the roads cleared. we have it all set, but it was very soft snow pack with ice on the bottom. and it only takes one or two accidents to block everything. and that's what was happening along i-85, i-40, i-77 throughout the state. you know, we had literally five major metropolitan areas hit at the same time from bloomington, north carolina, to raleigh-durham-chapel hill area to greensboro. high point area to charlotte and asheville. that many metro areas in the tenth largest most populated state in the nation, we have not seen a storm like this in decades. >> i hear you. it's be

charlotte and raleigh-durham, worsening conditions snarling rush hour traffic, causing massive traffic jams, and in a repeat of atlanta's mess last week, forcing people to abandon their vehicles on the roads. all flights into and out of raleigh's airport are canceled. adding to the travel nightmare throughout the east where more than 3,000 flights were scrubbed. the storm will continue to march north where it will develop into a full-fledged nor'easter overnight, dumping upwards of a foot of snow or more along the busy i-95 corridor and interior new england. officials around washington, which could see its largest snow totals in four years, are taking no chances. pretreating roads before the flakes start flying. >> we're spraying salt down in order to prepare for the roads. anything comes down we're prepared for. >> maryland, washington, eastern pennsylvania, all now feeling the first effects of the storm. north carolina on the other hand has already take an major hit. they canceled the duke-unc game for like the first time ever. the national guard is out on area highways searching for

parts of north georgia, in north carolina, raleigh durham saw up to six-inches of snow, and treacherous ice too. philadelphia, nearly nine, new york city eight. so far. heavy snow came overnight to the nation's capitol nearly a foot of snow in the city, shut down the federal government, to the north is west outside the belt way, more than 15isms. 19 states are under watches or advisories as much more snow and rain, is on the way. at least 12 deaths are blamed on the weather, most traffic related. seven traffic froze in place in north carolina, where drivers abandoned their cars and on the slick, refrozen black ice, hazardous roads remain littered with fresh wrecks. >> continue to stay smart, and off the roads in areas where you know the conditions continue to be bad. or may etch get worth of rain. >> that warning as the heaviest snow accumulations are expected overnight, and into friday. can, i 95 corridor, drawing a direct line with the storm track, and even where the storm has stopped falling in the south, branches coated with heavy ice, are snapping right off earlier today it was com

state route 73, but it is that area, raleigh, durham, and chapel hill. you got to get through this russia hour, and maybe folks will stay off the roads completely tomorrow until the system moves out of the way. thank you. >> now to georgia where they seem to have learned their lesson. people stayed home and the roads virtually empty. robert ray, good to see you. it looks like there is virtually no one on the roads there behind you. >> yeah, exactly. a couple of cars every once in a while. a snowplow or two. looks like definitely people learned their lesson from two weeks ago here in lappet. it appears perhaps people in the carolinas should have watched that a little closer, tony. here's the deal right now. the temperatures are like swinging up and down in the past hour. it's strange. we'll go two degrees down, two degrees up. it goes from rain to snow though sleettosleet, it's been a winter sandwich all day long. just as th they spoke about in a press conference about an hour ago, we're not out of the clear here. the pine trees keep coming down because o

in the raleigh durham area it was eerily reminiscent. conditions began to deteriorate and many got stuck in traffic. it has been weighing down the tree limps. heavy gusts have been causing branchs to fall on power lines. 208,000 homes are currently without electricity in georgia. the dot has been clearing roadways. a tree fell on a house injuring an 85-year-old woman inside. >> covered with insulation and sheetrock from the ceiling where the tree fell down through the roof. >> the woman was take tone the hospital but is expected to be okay. >> jonathan surrey, thank you. >>> thousands of lights are already canceled. doug luzader picked up that coverage at reagan international airport. good morning, doug. >> good morning. this is the time of day most airports get cranking. look around this place is just about empty. one group of stranded travelers, we will tell you about them in a moment. they are urging people to stay home and call the airlines first and verify the flight is getting out before they head out to any of the airports. this o

so downtown connector here remains clear other than a snow plow but in raleigh durham area, a differento work, though school let out early. people still trying to get home when the brunt of the storm came. and a lot of people wound up stranded on the highway. some of the pictures and video we've seen out of that region, reminiscent of what happened here during that last snow storm two weeks ago. lessons learned from that storm here in atlanta. officials deciding to err on the side of caution. with this storm it appears to have paid off. >> two weeks ago i had friends stuck in their car and the national guard delivering mres so they can eat for 18, 20 hours in cases so there was a different response here. what will commuters expect in the morning? >> most commuters are still going to stay home, officials telling people to hunker down in their homes. forecasters are saying there may be as much as an inch of snow on the ground. there is still precipitation. we saw sleet on and off during the day. now, looks like it's trying to turn into snow. some school systems wait until the last minute

raleigh/durh raleigh/durham, it hit with vengeance.ayetteville got hit early, and then on the coast, all the way to nags head, this was quite a storm. but i'm pleased to report that we have no one stranded in their cars overnight. we did a great rescue and our roads are looking pretty good except for a few jackknifed trucks toward the mountains. but we've lost three people due to the storm and we don't want anymore fatalities as we recover. >> are you getting help from any other states? are they sending you plows? is there any sort of national effort for help? some states aren't particularly ready for the horrible snow because you don't always get them. >> well, actually, about every southeastern state where we would have typically got help has been hit. it is the utilities also north and south carolina, the main concern we have is power outages. especially out west and in the mon mountain its. we have over 100,000 people without power so that is our major concern in addition for the black ice. i did not want anyone spending the night

very little traffic here in atlanta, but a very different situation in the raleigh-durham area of northrating very rapidly this afternoon, catching many people on some of the highways, leaving stranded motorists and the photos and videos we're seeing out of there, very much reminiscent of what we experienced here in atlanta two weeks ago, bob. >> jonathan, let me ask you, they took a lot of heat for what they didn't do two weeks ago. what do you see that they have done differently this time? >> first of all, they put out the warnings early. you know, you're kind of blamed either way. if you tell everyone to take precautions and the bad weather doesn't arrive, you're blamed for that. if you don't send out the warning or enough warning, as many accused local officials of doing two weeks ago, you're blamed for that as well. after what happened two weeks ago, they promised in the next storm, they were going to err on the side of caution, and they did that. they sent out the warnings to stay at home, and people followed it because they had experienced what happened in that last storm. they a

the situation that atlanta had is now happening right now in raleigh durham because it started snowing at noon. people were already out doing things. that snow is moving up towards d.c. it's already snowing in resh month, hampton roads and icing all the way down here. david mattingly in charlotte, going to get freezing rain, sleet all night. really more sleet. now sleet is frozen by the time it hits the grouchbtnd. it hurts you when it hits you. sleet freezes on contact. freezing rain is more dangerous than sleet. there will be a big snow event. i'm drawing that line. that's until about here. that's i-95. if you are east of it, you don't get much. if you are west of it, you get a lot. right along that will be where the transition is. the low itself will go right up the coast. the closer you are to the low, the warmer the air will be. it will be warm through here but it will be cold back here. that's where all the snow is going to be. talking about raleigh a little bit ago, still seeing delays in raleigh. that's what raleigh's traffic looks like. that spot on 640, that's what the cars l

but the raleigh-durham area got hit real hard in the afternoon, and we had some four-to-five-hour backupsdouble-checking any abandoned cars to make sure people aren't still left out on the highways and we just want to make sure there's no further loss of life. we've lost two people across the state in the past 24 hours in accidents and right now the concern is the safety because of potential more outages of power. >> i want to ask you about the power outages. the statistic we shared earlier is it only takes a quarter inch of ice to bring down power lines. you have parts of your state that are significantly worse than that. i don't know the exact numbers. i know it's well over 100,000 people could be without power in this kind of weather. are you worried, are you confident you can get power back to these people? what about these people who don't have power at home? >> we have several hundred thousand people without power. the main challenge for us, very similar to the roads, it's over such a large area of our state, from the mountains all the way to the coast, which by car is about ten hou

in north carolina's raleigh durham area, deteriorating weather conditions left many motorists strandedon highways creating scenes reminiscent of those in atlanta two weeks before, and in the northeast, residents are making preparations. >> i hope it's not as bad as they say. >> toilet paper, paper towels, bread. >> you know the little things, and some cookies. >> experts say it's far from over. >> this ter storm, and tomorrow, this is going to be a big deal all across the mid-atlantic into the northeast, winter storm warnings posted for the entire area, but tonight, the area under the gun is to the south of the laept area along i-29 from macon to augusta, along columbia, south carolina. a major yis storm will continue through the overnight hours. some areas by the end picking up to an inch of ice accumulated on all surfaces. >> and the storm has temporarily frozen atlanta's role as a major transportation hub, forcing the cancellation of nearly 2,000 flights in and out of the world's busiest airport. shannon. >> all right, jonathan, thank you very much. >>> moderate republican city coun

many drivers stranded on the roads in the raleigh durham area and at least nine traffic deaths are beingso far on the storm. and now heavy snow is heading up the east coast, parts of the northeast could see a foot of snow by tomorrow night. the storm taking aim at washington, baltimore, philly and new york city and straight up to new england. stay with fox news throughout the night for the latest on this winter storm. >>> okay, everyone, it's time to hash it out. vice presidents coming face to face at last night's state dinner. julia dreyfus playing the vp. tweeting out a selfie from the event. and a giant sink hole swallows corvettes. fox news radio tweeting sink hole swallows eight cars at corvette museum in kentucky. the sink hole suddenly opening right up underneath the car museum. luckily no one was need at the time. finally bette midler thanking the speaker of the house. midler tweeting good for john boehner for allowing to us catch our breath and to think for one nano second that things could work in congress. midler, of course, referring to the battle in congress over the debt ce

take a look at this video from the raleigh-durham area of north carolina.hicles stranded on highways. power remains a major concern throughout the region. here in georgia, nearly 350,000 homes and businesses are without electricity as we speak. but crews have been working around the clock to restore electricity. coming back to our live shot, you see a handful of vehicles. by and large, people staying home and state and local officials are advising people to continue doing just that, just for one more day. but things should start returning to normal on friday. back to you. >> we thank you for that update. maria, you are outside our new york city studios here. the worst storm, the worse part seems to be the rate of the snow? >> that's right. we have to be seeing snowfall coming down right now at a rate of about one to two inches per hour. i kind of want to have the cameraman just pan out to show the snow just coming down. we are seeing that wind also picking up. so the storm system really intensifying. i want to take you to the radar picture because like you

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wilmington, raleigh durham and finally as a snowstorm into did c. and new york city.ut it's the ice that i believe will be the big problem. everywhere you see white, that's eastern atlanta suburbs, all of the way up into piedmont, north carolina, that's about an inch of ice. all you can hope it's froesen before it hits you, that little piece of sleet, because it bounces off. if it's liquid when it hits your house, your power line or trees, it will ice and all of these trees will fall down. i honestly believe there will be millions of people without power. many without power for weeks on end because you can't put all those power lines back up. then thursday, friday, new york city, philadelphia, d.c., you get a snowstorm from the same storm. >> i said it before. i'm saying it again. i love you, chad. i hope you're wrong, i really do. chad myers, thank you very much. >>> coming up an international sting takes aim at the mafia and 24 arrests in a raid the feds are causing a lasting blow to the mafia's crime efforts. we'll take you behind the operation new bridge. and we'l

we did have blades in the raleigh durham area. that lasts from three to five hours. to my knowledge, we have not had that. >> at this point just in the last hour, don, it seems like we turned a corner here. the temperatures come up and the snow has stopped. that is huge. look at all this pavement behind me. there is aggressive plowing in the area and this is the first time thanks to the combination of the rising temperatures and the stopping snow that we have been able to see the city streets from end to end here. there is still a lot of work to do and a lot of danger behind this storm. that snow is continuing to move north. raleigh will be catching again here today. the issue will be ice. look at all this slush down here being made. that is going to turn to ice. the governor is saying we will have about 500 miles across this state. we are going to have to worry about icing tonight for motorists. not out of the woods yet, but it seems like we are definitely turning a corner. >> well, don't get ahead of yourself. i hear there is another system behind this one. thank y

this includes cities such as philadelphia, virginia beach, roanoke rapids, raleigh-durham.n the roadways likely. we'll see major airport delays. this stretches southbound toward myrtle beach, thankfully clearing off the coast into georgia. this is the see rear threat today. later on this evening we're finish withed that. early next week here is the cold. one of many round ever cold likely to come. we'll see snow rolling into portions of midwest. this is sunday, couple inches maybe several inches of snow from pittsburgh back to new york city. this will create more traffic delays. this is potential for more snow midweek this is wednesday, thursday time frame. back behind that, you guessed it here comes the cold. this will be brutal. a piece of the polar vortex is flies south and east. we'll be back into the deep freeze part of next week into next weekend. quite cold outside next week after a brief warm-up this week. sandra: all right. justin, thank you so much. you gave us a lot too look forward to there. that being said we're taking a look how this is affect some of the comm

nearly 60% at newark, liberty international, raleigh-durham, approaching 60% of flights cancelled therelly, of the mess this morning. the number of cancellations and delays is still growing, and so far this year, 71,000 flights have been cancelled since january. all of those changes are costing you. they're costing the airlines big time. the cost of january's snowstorms, just january to passengers out of your pocket as a traveler, $2.5 billion. lost work time, added expense for hotel rooms and meal, cost of all the storms for the airline so far, almost $150 million and growing. it's really an expensive, ugly winter, and you're in the thick of it again today, guys. >> you cannot put a price on what it's causing everybody. thank you for accounting it for us. >>> news happening right now. a live look at a massive gas line explosion in south central kentucky just outside of louisville. local media reporting two cars, one barn on fire currently. one person taken to the hospital. more information as it develops. >>> the country's biggest cable company could get big fer a merger between comcas

in raleigh-durham, people even had to abandon their cars. >> don't put your stupid hat on at this pointin time. protect yourselves, your family, your neighbors. >> reporter: schools are closed for days. >> just got to keep them busy and feed them. >> reporter: kids who have probably never seen this much snow are making the most of it. it's catastrophic weather in the u.s. that is much better suited for popular winter sporting events. >> how about it's 60 degrees in russia? >> it is. >> and it's four-inch snow here. >> it's 60 in sochi and 27 in charlotte. >> it doesn't make any sense. we should have had the olympics here. >> reporter: so the word from the officials here in atlanta is just don't get on the roads until noon. things should get better then. let me show you this. this is what a big mixture of snow, sleet, ice and freezing rain is when you start to clear it all off. and atlanta will gladly u.p.s. this to sochi so you have some there. al? >> i bet they are. sam champion, thanks so much. hey, guys, just got word, dulles international and reagan national airports now are closed.