country and focuses it like a laser -- versus the president -- cuomo lost all his support across upstate new yorkith that action because all of upstate new york, they're a deer hunter. any blue state or any purple state, most democrats are not going to want to take on the n.r.a. except if they can carve out this thing on background checks. chris: it really doesn't influence your ability to have a gun -- >> and as katty says, unless everyone on the other side becomes as superbly organized as the n.r.a. is -- >> and says i'm going to put the money behind it -- [all talking at once] chris: the gun people think about nothing -- i have a brother like this -- they don't say oh, let's do climate change now. no, they stick with their guns. add -- and now hegel, he took a battering. almost like he needed a witness protection program. they smacked him around. where does he stand? >> historically 99% of the president's picks on the cabinet would get through so it would be extraordinary if hegel dez -- doesn't get through because of his positions in the past. yeah, this was a peak policy but this was not a t

also some flurries for upstate new york and northern new england. drenching rain and flash flooding from new orleans to atlanta. up to four inches of snow around amarillo, oklahoma city and wichita. on top of that, rain and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. >> mostly 40s in the northwest. 82 in miami. and 73 in new orleans. >>> coming up next after the break, new reasons to check your credit report. >>> plus, a developing story from overnight. police check out a new lead in the search for a suspected killer in california. >>> plus, the latest in casino comfort. placing bets right from your bed. >>> and welcome back, everybody. if you have not checked your credit reports lately you might want to. a government study finds one in four consumers are finding errors in their credit reports. those mistakes can lead to paying higher interest rates on credit cards. consumers are entitled to a free copy of their credit report each year. >>> but the delinquency rate is down. rising home prices and low-interest rates are making it easier for homeowners to

and rhode island and not so bad, in new york, new jersey and connecticut and we do have four confirmed deaths in canada and also, one in connecticut and then in upstate new york as well. uma, back to you. >> anna, thank you very much and thanks for keeping us posted what's been happening in new york city. you've seen the damage, so what happens next? our team coverage continues, meteorologist maria molina joining us now live from the fox weather center with a look at what's in store. maria? >> good to see you. although the storm is over with for places like new york city, western areas in massachusetts i want to point out that the storm is not over just yet across areas in eastern maine and we still do have reports of blizzard conditions ongoing out there and very heavy snow falling at the hour and behind the storm we're going to get very cold temperatures that will not help out people who do not have power right now. it's going to be frigid with single digit wind chill temperatures and another storm system we're going to be tracking with blizzard conditions in the north central and severe weather in parts of the south. i do want to start out with pi

and in upstate new york, that storm turned deadly.e've been reporting to you that a 74-year-old man was struck by a car that lost control in the storm. joining me now on the telephone, i'm joined by that man's sister, sharon hancock. sharon, first of all, from all of us here, we're very sorry for your loss. >> thank you so much. >> tell us about your brother. what was he like? >> caller: yes. his name was will melvin hancock. we called him sonny. he was 74 years old. we were brought up on a farm so he loved to fish and hunt. and when he would hunt, you never knew in the holidays what you were actually eating because he would have like bear meatballs for you for the holidays. that was kind of funny. >> sure. >> caller: he loved jazz and the blues mainly. he loved to play his guitar. he was the best brother ever. best brother. and for me, he but the me my first car. he took me to college and called me every saturday and sunday faithfully by 7:00. if he didn't call me by 7:00, i would call him to find out why he didn't call me. >> of cou

atmosphere that will bring some isolated snow shower is in ohio and western pennsylvania and upstate new york coming down south which is why we even have a threat for a little snow around baltimore. this shows that the storm is intensifying along the east coast and moving up east and stronger winds even in maryland. we have low pressure off the coast and high pressure building in from the southwest. in between that, we will have sea winds whipping around again. winds are already 10-50 miles per hour and these are the sustained winds. we are expecting these wins to increase today possibly gusting to 40 miles per hour. but temperatures are 28 at the airport and ocean city only 32 and downtown baltimore, 33 degrees. western maryland has temperatures in the teens. we have a couple of graphics to talk about how we have seen storm systems in the month of february. isolated snow showers are possible in the western mountains and as we get into baltimore, mainly an afternoon event not everyone will see them and if we do see any, they will bring it like accumulation. for today, 35 degrees around baltim

winter storm watches are up now for good part of upstate new york, much of new england and that will be expanded as the storm gets cranking. we will see increasing and the kinthickening cloudiness. after sunset tomorrow we might get the first precipitation. it will be chilly then so we will get a light mix of rain and sleet and freezing rain or snow especially midnight tomorrow night. the wintry mix changes over to rein in the afternoon. you can see the rain can be heavy and parts of the eastern shore. a heavy snowfall and ventnor city and boston and maybe parts of philadelphia. as cold air comes in behind the nor'easter, our rain may change back to snow before pulls out saturday. we will get a wintery mix of precipitation for it snowfall totals could be impressive. fiddes late friday into saturday when the rain could change to snow but by friday evening, several inches around nyc and boston and look what happens as the coastal storm explodes. that bright pink area. two or 3 feet of snow could fall in the new york and boston corridor late friday night going into saturday. we could ge

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in upstate new york, you know, a woman in upstate new york has been arrested for hiring strippers to perform at her son's 16th birthday party. i have always wondered can you beep arrested for being too good a mother? and apparently, apparently the mom rented a bowling alley. she wanted to make the party a memorable one. she went on the web and found a company topsinbottoms. ordered two strippers. even dina and michael lohan were like "that's a really bad parenting choice." though it was a kids' party they not only stripped. they gave lap dances. someone took this picture which is disgusting. she is not even wearing bowling shoes. those heels will scuff the lane and ruin it for everyone. remind me a lot of my 16th birthday party only minus the strippers and the bowling. for my 16th birthday my mother gave me an izod shirt. this happened in november, apparently, lawn enforcement officials just got wivend of it because parents have been hearing about it from some of the kids at the party. little narcs. have done at your next boring little dave and buster's party, little rats. the mother

i didn't the same thing when i went to upstate new york. i got involved in learning the african-american history of upstate new york which, by the way, is very vibrant. a lot of the underground railroads ended in upstate new york city have a very vibrant african-american community and history up there. but when i left albany new york to come to washington, d.c., and i knew i was hitting the mother lode. washington, d.c. on a new had to have a strong african-american history component, too. i changed and immediately began working in the u.s. capitol, and like all tourists, the very first thing i did when i came to washington, d.c. was to take a tour of the national mall. but when i got there i noticed something. if you just came to washington, d.c., and just went to the national, you almost believe african-americans never lived in the city. i went from one end of the mall to the other from the capitol all the way down to the lincoln memorial looking for the african-american history of washington, d.c.. and i could barely find anything. i said

generally upstate new york and pennsylvania, anywhere from six to nine inches of snow. new york city, up to a foot of snow. from east port all the way down to providence, we're talking about two feet of snow and in and around boston, we could be looking at more than that. some areas to the west of boston could see -- it's not inconceivable that they could see three feet of snow. this is a dangerous storm. schools are closed in boston. they're open in new york city, but they've canceled all after-school activities. the airports here in boston will remain opened, but flights have been canceled. amtrak, canceling trains between new york and boston this afternoon. we are looking at a major winter storm, one that will probably set records up and down the northeast coast. willie? >> boy, three feet of snow in some areas. inkr incredible, al. we'll check back in, in a few minutes, with that local forecast. >> how do everything cheaper, we welcome back in jeff yager. he is a resident saving expert for the aarp. what do you hate spend iing on spending money on, jeff. for you the

operate the system on long island for the long island power authority, and we have a big chunk of upstate new york. so the good news for upstate new york, is that we have no problems up there. on long island, there are approximately 13,000 customers without power. massachusetts, approximately 150,000 customers without power. and rhode island has about 170,000 customers without power right now. >> i have to ask you, how long do you think it will take, with all these trucks and teams at your disposal, how long will it take to get the power back on? >> it's a little early to make predictions because we're still at the height of the storm. but what i can tell you is that we have an army of crews here. we brought tons of extra crews in from outside. and we prestaged them around the service area where we suspected that the hardest hit areas might be. and from what we've seen so far, it's been primarily along the coast, both in rhode island and massachusetts. so as soon as the winds die down tomorrow and it's safe to get out there, we will have an army of people hitting this really hard. it probably will

coming across the great lakes and that's accumulating up in a few areas especially in western new york and upstate new york, up to 80 centimeters of snow and localized bands streaming across due to that cold air. this is the high on friday in winnipeg. minus 24. the wind chill here is going to be getting down to minus 30 to minus 40 degrees. absolutely bone chilly. chicago at minus 12. washington, d.c. and new york, if you remember back by mid-week we were talking temperatures here in the 20s. that is just night and day as far as a temperature change as we don't see that arctic blast come in throughout the week in there. now as you take a look at europe we have a storm system moving through the low country. that brings us rain showers here. it will be shifting over to snow as it sinks down here towards the south and also seeing some rather unstable weather going into italy on saturday because as this goes south it's pulling in all that cold air from the north all the way up clear to scandinavia peninsula. warm air out of the mediterranean accompanied by moisture. up to 100 kilometer winds. this wi

blizzard with maybe up to two feet of snow in parts of massachusetts, connecticut, and into upstate new york. we will keep an eye on it and see how things develop. we could get into the big snow here in maryland. a mixture of clouds and sunshine this afrnoon. the high temperatures between 42-47. seven day forecast, dry tomorrow. a high temperature near 40. it will probably end as a period of snow friday night into saturday morning. it will clear up saturday afternoon. a high near 37. >> in the consumer alert, we are learning more about the new shops coming to canton crossing. some other major retailers include old navy, ulta, and sleepy's matress. the grand opening is set for later this year. you might soon go all we can without checking your mailbox. the post office is ending saturday delivery and an effort to save billions of dollars. >> a staple of americana is going away. >> delivery will occur monday through friday and we will not deliver or collect mail on saturday. >> it is a move postal service as much to make four years but now it is necessary to cut within $2 billion from the budge

new york and boston will be suspended just after noon today. service also halted in connecticut, new hampshire, vermont and upstate new york later today. >>> you can get the forecast wherever you are by downloading the storm team 4 weather app for your smartphone. you can also take and upload photos so other viewers can see what you're seeing. conditions in your neighborhood. >> we're following breaking news out of iraq right now. the death toll continues to climb in a series of car bombings in baghdad. we hear that at least 31 people died when four bombs exploded in baghdad in a town south of the capitol. dozens of people were also hurt in the blast. more information continues to pour into our newsroom. we'll update you when we learn more. >>> 5:04. let's go to melissa mollet at the live desk. >> it might be the middle of the night in northern california but more than 1,000 officers joined in a massive manhunt for a former lapd officer accused of a murd riss manhunt. it's stretching into nevada. 33-year-old christopher dorner killed three people including a police officer and injured two others. his burnt out truck was found in the mountains

a doctor from upstate new york. er susan candiotti met the doctor. >> reporter: near albany, new york, orthopedic surgeon joe marada specializes in healing broken bones, but among his friends, someone who helps heal broken souls. what is it like knowing someone who could be the next pope? >> well, it's very exciting. >> reporter: vatican-bashaned cardinal peter turkson, he would be the first black pope and a rare non-european. >> my idol. >> reporter: the two met a few years ago when his pastor introduced his colleague peter, and peter turned out to be -- >> turned out to it be cardinal peter turkson president of the pontifical at the vatican and close adviser to the holy father. >> reporter: the doctor has since done surgely in ghana and is raising money for an orthopedic clinic there. when the cardinal visits albany about once a year he often stops to say mass at this small parish, saint joan of arc where this doctor attends. he attended seminary and on ap recent u.s. trip, he picked him up at the airport. as he do

new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravity from the mountains pushes the water upwards toward the surface through vertical shafts. these shafts feed the water mains of each neighborhood, which branch into smaller pipes below the streets... feeding into buildings and houses, into the plumbing, and finally, after its long journey, to our faucets.

and this is sort of the situation you'll find in rochester, new york. upstate new york.hese roads are rough, and it's going to be rougher this morning as people found several feet of snow that fell overnight. they'll wake up this morning, find that the town is the ghost town. nobody on the roads and it'll be a lot of digging and shoveling out to get about. >> you can't have a camera every place, but they can supplement it with all of our friends out there. and it gives you a neighborhood feel. as they go through all the snow that continues to pile up here. >> yeah. >> thanks so much for bringing those to us and thanks to our viewers for sending them in. remember, don't take any risks trying to get us the video. moving on to another story now. hadiya pendleton will be buried in chicago today. we are taking a special look at the young life that ended all too soon. >>> opening day looks a lock way away as it is appearing this morning in boston. hello there, everybody. we are continuing to watch the blizzard. more live reports coming up just ahead. >>> in other news, michell

thinking to myself looking out the window thinking how crazy is this, cry knees-march kid from upstate new yorkflying a russian spacecraft, it's crazy i ended up in that spot. i was a nerdy kid. i grew up in a small town called webster new york, which is outside of rochester, new york. iless always interested in science, my dad was an engineer. i loved anything that flew and anything that had to do with the skies. i loved airplanes more than just about anything except my family and depends on whether or not my family is present or not what i say. this is the airplane my wife refers to as the mistress, and it is the airplane i get to fly on weekends. this is an old flight suit from my sts-106 days, that's our second flight, that's our patch. my first interest was with the space program, watching the astronauts land on the moon and one of the great measures i have now is that i'm friends with many of these guys. in fact, with the b612 foundation, i cofounded the foundation with rusty schweikert who has been a mentor to me and he was the first pilot of the lunar module. >> ed is a big thinker and

this storm has claimed at least one person's life in upstate new york in a car crash. hundreds of people were stranded on highways in long island. rescue crews struggled to get to those people. this storm has caused more than 1,700 flights to be canceled today. and that number is expected to increase. so, we have been following that for you now. we want to turn to poppy harlow, standing by. i believe she's in providence, rhode island. take it away. >> reporter: good morning, marty. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. quite pleasant here, relatively speak i speaking. the snow has slowed down, wind gusts are no more, at least for now. providence, rhode island, turning a corner after a bitter, bitter storm with really torrential rain/snow pellets coming at us all night long. that caused a big issue here, which the city of providence, the state of rhode island is trying to deal with this morning. that is massive power outages, wet, thick snow falling on trees, on power lines. it means about nearly 200,000 homes here in rhode island are without power. that is

some areas still seeing lake effect snow into the tug hill plateau, upstate new york, you could see 80 to 85 centimeters of snowfall before this is said and done. especially in the narrow bands in the midst of lake-effect snow from the northwest toward the east. watch this. as far as temperatures on your friday, this is the high in winnipeg, minus 24 for the high. that's what we're talking about, the cold windchills, dropping below minus 30. central canada, minus 40. chicago, minus 12. you remember back by mid week, we were seeing record-breaking temperatures to the high teens. so just night and day, switching up here. now, take a look at europe. a storm system moving through the low country. pushes off toward the southeast. this is bringing widespread rainshowers in places like france and germany it will push off to the south and develop into snow. and redevelop in northern italy. it will pull in warm, moist air from the mediterranean. cold air coming with it, and every time we talk about it, unsettled weather begins to fire up. very likely to see winds here, especially near the coast

north and west of there, to upstate new york and the mountains of vermont and new hampshire, we could see up to about a foot of snowfall. the moral of the story is tough traveling today and tough traveling tomorrow. >> jeff, thanks. >>> there are just three days left before huge automatic spending cuts hit the nation. a new pew research poll shows more than six out of ten americans think the cuts will have a negative effect on the economy. >> if they come, nearly half of those surveyed say they will blame republicans. just over 1/3 will hold president obama responsible. bill plante is at the white house. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, nora. the president has been blaming republicans. they call it scare mongering. his aides say that he's just warning the country about what could happen if congress doesn't stop the automatic budget cuts scheduled for the end of the week. the white house stepped up its campaign to pressure republicans, enlisting the secretary of homeland security to suggest that layoffs could make it more difficult to prevent terrorist attacks. >> i don't

some areas still seeing lake effect snow into the tug hill plateau, upstate new york, you could see 80 to 85 centimeters of snowfall before this is said and done. especially in the narrow bands in the midst of lake-effect snow from the northwest toward the east. watch this. as far as temperatures on your friday, this is the high in winnipeg, minus 24 for the high. that's what we're talking about, the cold windchills, dropping below minus 30. central canada, minus 40. chicago, minus 12. you remember back by mid week, we were seeing record-breaking temperatures to the high teens. so just night and day, switching up here. now, take a look at europe. a storm system moving through the low country. pushes off toward the southeast. this is bringing widespread rainshowers in places like france and germany it will push off to the south and develop into snow. and redevelop in northern italy. it will pull in warm, moist air from the mediterranean. cold air coming with it, and every time we talk about it, unsettled weather begins to fire up. very likely to see winds here, especially near the coast

snow dashing down across central canada and the great lakes region. 10, 15 centimeters in upstate new yorkheavier for you. showers heading into the mid-atlantic here and down across the gulf states as well. we'll be seeing some widespread showers and thunderstorms in there, too. nothing too much on the severe side. looking fairly dry for the most part. quite chilly towards the north and east. minus 12 in winnipeg and getting to the freezing part in new york. in fact, that's your high. towards the northwest, 11 in seattle. 7 in vancouver. not too bad here. getting up to 14 in denver. we have the low 20s in los angeles as well as houston, miami and mexico city. on into europe, now there is going to be a pretty powerful storm system affecting western and central portions for the next several days. here is the big low sitting towards the north of the british aisles. you can see how windy the system is going to be. it's going to be bringing snow. we get that wind buffeting around the snow. and it will be definitely impacting travel, seespecially you're caught in the cross winds. i expect flight

have also some freezing rain advisories in effect across portions of pennsylvania, parts of upstate new york and also along the i-95 corridor. i'm going to put this in play, one of our computer models. northeast pennsylvania. upstate new york where you will be dealing with the freezing rain, so, dangerous stuff and that additional weight of snow and also the additional liquid precipitation is going to be very dangerous for anyone on any roof and keep this in mind out here or any possible roof collapse across the area, otherwise a very large storm system and we have blizzard warnings in effect across the north central, parts of nebraska, south dakota, into minnesota, and the blizzard warnings and gusts over 40 miles per hour as well. >> wow. >> we're going to warm up and that was a bowling alley on new york's rhode island and rain and a blizzard behind that. it is february. maria me leen molina, thank you very much. and the blizzard of 2013 it's named. the storm knocked out electricity to 650,000 homes and businesses and we'll find out how some of those people are coping tonight. police say a

one in connecticut the other in upstated new york. the national weather service saying 30 million people in the northeast dealing with a foot of snow or more and 11 million people dealing with two feet or no more. in new york. hardest hit was long island with 30 inches of snow stranding cars on the expressway and other motorists, as well. plows and crews couldn't do their job. emergency workers having go car to car. travel bans are still in effect in connecticut where dan malloy is urging folks to stay off the roads. >> biggest problem, we are trying to dig them out and tow them away. we certainly don't want to see other people get caught in snow drifts at this time. please stay home. >> residents are enjoying a winter wonderland after topping off their gas tank and picking up food and firewood yesterday. >> we were going to drive out to the countryside and we stayed here. it's great to be inside. >> we will get later with the sleds and remember what it was going to be like when we were six again. >> it did catch some folks off guard.

upstate new york right along the coast of the low and it would include snow mixed with rain and would include the jersey shore and long island and maybe connecticut. and friday to saturday it could turn to all snow and by saturday we're likely going to be experiencing blizzard conditions in some of these arias. how much snow could fall? this is just an early estimate but would could be measuring snow in feet. there's still a potential of a six to ten-inch snowfall. as we go throughout the day, we're going to have a much better idea. i'm david ber narksd cbs news, miami. >>> well, some of the most controversial aspects of america's war on al qaeda could be aired in public when he has his confirmation hearing. john brennan will be asked questions about interrogation strikes. the white house is expected to stay ahead of that controversy. last night the administration acknowledged it would give congressional committee members access to classified documents that outline their stance on drone attacks against sus spigoted terrorists who are also american. the reports will be in the hands of

we have a little snow out there for our friends in northern portions of new england including upstate new yorke white on the map shows you the snow along the new york state thruway, maybe a little slippery. and also we have a little snow exiting areas of maine. everyone else, though, is looking just fine. a little further to the south, we have rain and snow, a minimum of it out there. watch out driving on i-40 in texas of all places to day. snowing in amarillo, texas. eventually that's going to move its way towards oklahoma city later today, more or less towards tonight. even oklahoma city could have three or four inches of snow. by your standards, that's a big deal. that's going to cause a lot of schools to have early dismissals or cancellations in the next two days. we'll watch that story for you. otherwise, out there today, we're looking pretty quiet. it's still going to be a little rainy down there in the deep south. today's fat tuesday, of course with, mardi gras. new orleans on and off showers. maybe a thunderstorm 7 o degr0 . it will be periods of rain. atlanta, a few showers for you. w

that happened in upstate new york, travel bans are still in effect in massachusetts and connecticut. and this travel ban in boston, the first time they've dealt with one like this, since the infamous blizzard of 1978. people in new york, saying hundreds of cars have gotten stuck on the long island expressway getting stranded and some drivers that chose to get out on the roads are frustrated and others chose to hunker down and they're waking up to a winter wonderland. >> we were going to drive out to the country, but we stayed here now and such a great day to be in the park with the dog. >> we'll get out later with the saucers, the sleds and remember what it's like to be six again. >> reporter: over 650,000 power outages and most of those are in massachusetts and rhode island, not as bad in new york and new jersey and connecticut. you know, jamie, it's been a mild winter so far and this caught some folks off guard and you see a lot of people enjoying this weather here. but you know, other people they learn their lesson following superstorm sandy and hunkered down and topped off the gas