north carolina. it was my first job. w itn in washington north carolina. in washington north carolina? mike: yes. juliet: i feel like jacksonville was unseasonably cold that year. it was like i moved down warm and it was cold . whole area for the week . you could not go anywhere. 30 inches of snow is a big deal. ben: was in 1996 from january 6 eight. was nonstop on record. i remember the biggest one . you remember that? mike: was born in 2006 just 10 years ago. 26.9 inches. we had thunder snow and i remember witnessing it. i feel like we had a brutal one. juliet: in 2010? mike: the snowfall from the record was 20.2 inches so it was a whopper but we have seen bigger and we have seen it recently. lacking snow at 32 degrees. temperature coming up. 25 degrees in bridgeport and the temperatures are warmer at five 10 degrees warmer. clear skies in the tri-state but no precept expected. clouds increase tomorrow at 47 on saturday and shower chances picking up as the day goes on. sunday looks like a wet one with a high of 56. it's in the 30s with a rain and snow chance. at this point in time something to

. >> what a dazzling show it is this time of year in eastern north carolina. >>> in washington county, thousands of tundra swans and snow geese gather in the area of pungo lake. scott mason reveals a wonderful display of neighbor. >> reporter: the pecosin wildlivs refuge in washington county, it's winter, cold, it's not snowing and yet the air is a blanket of white. >> this is our eastern north carolina version of a snow globe. it's like shaking a snow globe when they get up and fly and move from one field to the other, it will be like a tornado of white. of birds in one place is really unique. the tundra swan in particular are coming from western canada and alaska where they breed and then they come down here in winter in the largest concentration in north america of these birds, have up to a seven-foot wing span, weigh about 15 pounds. each foot is bigger than your head. >> reporter: why are so many in the eastern north carolina? >> i think the abundance in eastern north carolina makes it perfect habitat. primarily the winter wheat, they graze to a certainly degree like cattle. >> y

north east at that ripped across the north east at times with hurricane some of the areas hit hardest... new york, philldelphia, washington dc, charlotte north carolina...with record breaking snowfall. that's where we're seeing the highest concentration of cancellations because of the sheer volume of snow... folks working their hardest to dig out... at least 30 people dead across the country. washington dc still at a standstill this morning federal offices will be closed. other travelers stranded at the airport now...just want to get home. flying across the country today will still be messy after 12-thousand flights were cancelled since friday. only about 13- hundred cancellations nationwide today. the good news... here are the only issues i've found today here at t i a because of all of 2 cancellations to because of all of 2 cancellations to newark... washington dc. 1 cancelled to new york jfk and 1 delayed in london. i'll show you where you can go to check your flight all with our 10news app coming at 5:30. reporting at tia, our 10news app coming at 5:30. reporting at tia, mark rivera 10 news wtsp. you can always check your flights status before yo

washington wine region. caramel corn and other item. now if the seahawks win, they north carolina products including peanut, bbq sauce, a case of cheer wine. >> they probably want to keep that for themselves. >> yes. and here in raleigh. wouldn't you say? >>> there are three winning powerball tickets for the record of $1.6 billion as we now know who owns one of them. >> they came forward with a couple from munford, tennessee. >> reporter: a tennessee couple came to collect their share of the powerball jackpot. >> it is a little overwhelming. >> reporter: lisa robinson had to urge her husband, john to stop for tickets on their way home sunday night. >> i said i really don't feel like picking them up. but that i will stop at the store. >> reporter: he stopped at macy's grocery store and made the purchase of a lifetime, their high school student chelsea joiner sold them the winning ticket getting a cash reward and the hug from the store owner. >> it is pretty nice to bless them. and living around here nobody has too much. taking the lump sum because as they say they are not guarantee

american airlines has grounded today's flights leaving washington, baltimore and charlotte, north carolina, those airplanes grounded. if you have a flight, check with your airline just because weather is good where you are li here il vegas, that doesn't mean everything is all good. >> the entire state of maryland is expected to experience severe this will include very heavy snow, high winds with gusts up to 50 miles an hour and frigid temperatures. >> there were a lot of amtrak lines cancelled on the east coast for all of friday, saturday and sunday. looking at the arrival board here as well, one thing i noticed is looks like some flights coming in from new york and new jersey and minneapolis, looks like some of those got in the air early and they are arriving here in las vegas about 30 to 45 minutes in some cases early. that could be another way they've planned ahead for this storm and some of the chaos it could bring to the scheduling. bottom line check with the airline, the airport. the internet will be a great service to you and many airlines send out text messages or alerts been chang

american airlines was first to ground all its flights today leaving washington, baltimore, charlotte, north carolina, all of the flights from those airports canceled. mccarran told news 3 this morning that she lived through a similar travel mess last year in massachusetts. >> last year it shut everything down where they closed schools before the snowstorm even hit. like you know it snowed every weekend last year. so we were stuck in the house for months. it was really bad. the shoveling, trying to find somewhere to put the snow. you had to literally jump of oe this second floor and not hurt yourself that's how high the snow was. >> reporter: this is the domestic arrivals area, the baggage claim for that at mccarran. you can see behind me, very busy. a lot of these terminals or at least the baggage r flights arriving from california and other places along the west coast. again, flights arriving from new york or areas in the path of this storm are almost certainly canceled unless they're already in the air. we'll see some cancellations for flights coming and going between las vegas and areas in the pa

washington governor. we got to win the bet r i governor pat mccrory putting north carolina peanuts bbq sauce crispy on the line in his bed washington governor jay inslee is offering up the state's wine popcorn and beer in a friendly wager over today's playoff game between the carolina panthers and the seattle seahawks good people to look equally good job that went. yeah check this out sometimes the biggest fans come in the smallest packages me two year old allen meyer from winston salem. she has a special talent that one can pick out players from the panthers' roster better than most adults and one morning i came down the feeder practice and she saw listeners are looking at all players to discern when it came to an analysis like wow that's pretty impressive as evans dad says that amr recognize cam from all the games they'd watch together and it just grew the freeze temps plummeting through the afternoon. age is tracking the arctic chill chill. next we'll hear from her plus a war of words between two presidential hopefuls have the proper charge the he finally went off the wagon a little bit and went to lit

other parts of the country they will be live reports during good morning america from washington d c north carolina and new jersey starting at seven am this morning the owner of a driving school in greensboro north carolina will have to maneuver through the snow and ice he says the best case scenario when you're following a vehicle in those conditions is to stay far back about six to eight seconds and avoid sudden stops. if you do have to stop apply what he describes as threshold braking that means to put your heel on the floor all of the foot on the brake and apply slow steady pressure pushed down dislike or stopping at a stop sign he recommends leaving eight to ten or eight to twelve seconds of distance in case the car in front of the starts to slide even the best drivers can hit a really ugly patch of ice at four forty but we turned our air travel are new this morning airlines have already canceled more than nine hundred flights in out and within the us through the weekend thousands more cancellations are expected the flight tracking website flight aware predicts at least two hundred thousand tr

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moore's funeral will be held saturday at washington baptist church. >>> a north carolina middle schooler is getting praise from his school district for doing something that safed his classmates' lives. he was riding the bus home last month when it collided with the car. the crash threw the bus driver out of her seat and knocked her unconscious. jumped into action. >> and i got up. i realized that the bus driver was on the floor, and the bus was heading to danger. so i got up, i stopped the bus and i told the kids to get back away from the back of the bus. >> corey says he knew what to do because his mother is also a school bus driver. the school leaders say both the bus driver and the driver of the car are okay, and thanks to him, no students were hurt. >>> smart kid. >>> tonight we're getting new details about a shooting that landed an upstate woman in the hospital. this happened last thursday on reidville road. the deputies say they arrived to find stephanie bachelor covered in blood. they say she didn't know what had happened and was taken to the hospital. and we have been staying on

." >> we got the pictures in from north carolina. washington d.c. is seeing significant snow and we'll talk about how this is effecting air traffic here along the east coast and certainly across the country so a lot of ripple elements of the story. >> if you don't have to travel; don't do it, right? >> so far it sounds like the predictions are holding up. it's following the path that we were told and i think people are getting the message. >> all right. thank you lester. if you have doubts we have video to show you. more than 3,000 flights have already been grounded nationwide. united airlines shutdown all of it's operations into and out of our area through tomorrow. american planning to extend it's philadelphia and other airports to the south. that could change. 230 flights cancelled at la la guardia and at kennedy 137 ground ground. >> all right. janice we have been looking at this since monday and it's finally here. >> it's on its way. it's about here. and one thing that changed is blizzard warnings for all four boroughs. most of the other counts

washington, d.c. is expected to get the bullseye. we had a drive camera out of north carolina. this is a gorgeous live perspective right now of the lincoln memorial in s capital. >> it's the jefferson memorial. >> it looks like mont cello. >> snow from little rock arkansas to the nation's capitol. there is the mgm. manny pacquiao says his final fight will be inside that building on april 9 against tim bradley. making the announceme at a news conference in new york yesterday. is fight with tim bradley, he's going to hang up his gloves for good and go into politics for full time country. rhonda rousey playing host on snl this weekend. we have a new installment tomorrow night. let's check the traffic situation. you have a couple of accidents to talk about. >> tom: we have an a blue diamond that doesn't seem to be causing major problems so we'll revert to bourn watch. they are doing some filming right now of the next installment of the movie. the cars are just stopped. i thought the camera shot was prosen but here is someone moving around. they are just stopped because the director

washington d.c. and still a possibility now all of a sudden of one to two feet in the mountains of north carolina. so, winter watches from memphis philadelphia. and washington d.c. and baltimore included in blizzard watch. and now new york city is under a blizzard watch, only expecting a possibility of six to ten inches at most. and as far as the snow, the bull's eye, to d.c. predicting possibly the second greatest snowfall in washington d.c.'s recorded history. >> we're getting a real winter >>> they say money cannot buy happiness and it can't buy support either. they show that republican are frontrunners donald trump and ted cruz have spent more than $8 million in tv ads combined. this compared to 91 million spent in support of marco rubio and jeb bush. and chris christie and john kasich, that number jumps to 14 times that of outsiders, trump and cruz. speaking of senator cruz, he doesn't have a fan in former presidential nominee, bob dole. he said he questions cruz's loyalty to the republican party and said it would suffer quote cat clizmic and wholesale losses. the former kansas senator was say

many airlines in cities that will get the brunt of this storm including washington, baltimore, philadelphia and charlotte, north carolina. amtrak is also modifying its northeast train schedule starting today. >>> this morning, mayor marty walsh said boston is ready to help d.c. with the snow. the mayor is actually in washington for a conference removal equipment south to help out the storm as long as boston is spared from the worst of it. >> last year we had great help from around the country. the white house reached out to us right away. mayors have thank send their crews and equipment up. we needed it. >> reporter: the earliest that equipment would get down to help would be sunday. >>> our coverage of this winter storm continues all weekend. a live report from logan airport coming up at the bottom of the hour. continue to update us on the minutes. if you were away from your tv, remember, you can keep an eye on the storm with the fox25 weather app. it is free and available to android devices. >>> new this morning, a jeep crashes through luxury condo building in cambridge and lands right in a pool. take look at the dama

north carolina. police in washington county say an inmate escaped their custody. officers say they were transporting heather burton to the hospital after she fell in the courthouse. burton is from elizabeth city. investigators say the through a bathroom as doctors were about to x-ray her injuries. police say she stole a black pick-up truck from a nearby garage. authorities believe she's headed towards elizabeth city because she has family there. burton was in jail for violating probation. if you see her, call 911 immediately. we continue to follow developing news from a hotel in chesapeake. a man is in the hospital after a person shot him at an extended stay american hotel. after 4 this morning. the victim is in sentara norfolk general hospital with life-threatening injuries. we're still working to find out if the person shot is an employee, vistor, or guest at the hotel. new information about a death investigation in norfolk. a 55-year-old man is dead after he was found unconscious in a parking lot. around 2:45 wednesday morning police went to a parking lot behin

foot as we slide into kentucky, virginia, potentially all the way through charlotte, north carolina. that's washington, d.c. western suburbs could see a couple of feet of snow. this moves into new york as well south of the boston area. you get a good idea in terms of travel if you are headed this way. if you are traveling, do check with your airline or be careful if you're driving. just avoid that area now through saturday. there's that area of low pressure now. a squall line producing tornado watches that go into the florida panhandle. advisories and winter storm warnings. farther south, things have cleared up. a lot of clouds throughout the day pushing south. we see a bit of a clear patch here. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. mostly likely around the lunch hour for most of us dealing with rain, wind, and potential areas of severe weather. here's the rpm forecast opinion. the showers approach the area around 10:30. here comes the cold front, and that's around 1:30. as we mentioned from west to east, this movement giving us this severe weather possibility. severe weather can occur very quickly. remain weather

states of emergency declared on the east coast, the snow has started blanketing washington dc and surrounding areas, north carolina has seen a the number of fatal accidents at least 5,000 flights have been canceled , including all saturday flights at some airports, mass transit service in washington and baltimore have been suspendedss for the weekend. >> john kasich men in action after a college student student is detained in north korea, asking the white house to secure the release of him, this dude is a native of cincinnati, north an unspecified hostile act while visiting the country, the state state department is investigating.t >> changes coming to the academy awards, the board of governors approved a series of reforms on friday oa it will significantly alter the academy's membership, but changes come after a diversity crisis erupted after the announcement of this year's acting nominees, they are all white, tear the goal is to double the number of female and minority membersnd by 2020 . aj colby joins us. >> good morning . this is nice and quiet here compared to what is happening. they are getting hammered, it

washington. the snow is already falling... nats blanketing north carolina-- where the panthers are practicing for their nfc championship game still scheduled for sunday. and in lousiville, kentucky...a "five sledding hills in our parks are up and running, if you want to get out and burn off some energy." but for all the wintery fun--concern too. with 70 million americans in the path of extreme weather. the storm making its way north--up 95-- at least two more deaths from road accidents in north carolina. and the nation's capitol in a lock- down. bowser: we have a forecast that i don't think we've had in 90 washington today, beginning to lock- down. drivers asked to stay off the roads, the dc metro transportation system will be closed-- 5928 //you need to be where you need to be by 3:00 this afternoon. up to 30 inches of snow predicted here--50 mile-an-hour winds....and store shelves reflect the concern. in the new york area, almost 18- hundred snow plows are at the ready. (de blasio sot) tk extreme conditions facing coastal communities-- sot: cecily tynan /

. >>> and plus the friendly playoff wager between the governors of north carolina and washington state. just ahead of sunday's game. >>> how a water battle has lead to calls for one governor to step down. greg? >>> i was here in 1985 when we went from abc to cbs. and soon to be with all three. but anyway we still have a little bit of lingering rain from the triangle area north and east that should be gone by tomorrow. tomorrow will be and how it >>> new tonight al qaeda militants are now claiming responsibility for an attack on an upscale hotel in africa. popular with westerners. the militant struck the hotel at nearby cafe. they took an unknown number of hostages and forced others to hide for their lives as gunfire and explosions rang out. commandos used explosives to storm the building five hours later, accidentally setting fire to the hotel. it wasn't immediately known how many people may have been killed during the siege. >>> breaking news in a homicide that we just told you about. police found 25-year-old jose rodriguez suffering from a gun shot wound around 3:30 dying at the hosp

we'll hear from drivers ran into problems coming from north carolina and washington sleeve edge of loss that was. i snow and ice creating tricky travel on the interstates are as ugly logo is on the accident on the way up there as the snow gets ready to change to rain were to see some heavy downpours and some strong winds all have more that could cause problems for dominion all tell you how crews are preparing for possible power outages the weather is not all that bad a look at how families are having fun in the snow our star mode coverage starts with a live look at some slick road conditions for

, we're hearing from the mother of the inmate who is back behind bars after escaping in north carolina. washington county officers found 29- year-old heather burton hiding under a bed inside a home. as we first reported yesterday on wavy news 10 on fox 43, she went to court for a parole violation wednesday and fell down the stairs on the way out. police took her to the emergency room, and that's when she escaped. her mother said a police officer had threatened her daughter, and that may be why she likely ran. vickie kohler/inmates mom 4:21 when they were putting her in the ambulance those were her words to me mom he put his hand around my throat and told me what he was going to do to me so i was scared, i'm scared, i don't want to go back there. i will die before i go back there :37 she also said, her daughter was fighting a heroin addiction, but wanted to get clean for her child. follow up about yesterday's shooting at a busy chesapeake hotel. police say they have a person of interest. we showed you this scene as breaking news yesterday on wavy news 10 today. it happened inside the extended stay

states of emergency have been declared in maryland, virginia, pennsylvania, north carolina, tennessee, and washington, d.c., where the federal government says its offices will close at noon today. yesterday d.c.'s mayor apologized for being unprepared for that one inch of snow that crippled the city. and says the district is prepared for what's to come. >> we're preparing for a blizzard. you know i've lived in d.c. most of my life. and i don't know that i have lived through a forecast like this. it's an extremely large storm. we're working very hard not only to be responsive to the predictions, but also be nimble enough to respond to any changes. >> so let's get to the predictions and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, what's the time line here? >> it's begun. we already picked up five inches in little rock, arkansas. horrible driving conditions between little rock and memphis this morning and now the worst of the storm is starting to arrive in virginia and north carolina. what happened just a couple hours ago, last night we went into our blizzard warning in washington, d.c. now we're unde

the totals are high particularly in western north carolina. washington, d.c. getting pounded. allyson: nothing like the nations capital. >> good morning here in downtown washington, d.c.. snow has been falling for 17 hours straight. wind gusts, high. there have been about 12 inches of snow that have fallen. the national weather service predicted 20-30 inches total. plows have been cruising here. we are in the shadow of the capital. they are try to keep this clear so emergency officials can get through. it is pretty cold. a heavy band of snow came through around 2:00. the snow continues to fall here in our nation's capital. on a positive note, they are allowing splitting -- flooding on capitol hill. allyson: take a look now at pickens county. road conditions there, a little icy. you like being picture perfect. you should want your banking to be too. stop into td bank and we'll help set you up with picture perfect banking. new customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube+ video camera on the spot. (burke) smash and grub. seen it. covered it. we

here's abc's lana zak in washington the snow is already falling... nats blanketing north carolina-- where the panthers are practicing for their nfc championship game still scheduled for sunday. and in lousiville, kentucky...a rare treat... "five sledding hills in our parks are up and running, if you want to get out and burn off some energy." but for all the wintery fun--concern too. with 70 million americans in the path of extreme weather. the storm making its way north--up 95-- at least two more deaths from road accidents in north carolina. and the nation's capitol in a lock- down. bowser: we have a forecast that i don't think we've had in 90 years. washington today, beginning to lock- down. drivers asked to stay off the roads, the dc metro closed-- 5928 //you need to be where you need to be by 3:00 up to 30 inches of snow predicted here--50 mile-an-hour winds....and store shelves in the new york area, almost 18- hundred snow plows are at the ready. (de blasio sot) tk extreme conditions facing coastal tynan / wpvi for the delaware and jersey beaches this will be the greatest test

north carolina, virginia and tennessee. blizzard conditions expected in washington where more than 2 feet of snow could fall. more than 4500 flights canceled in the u.s. today and tomorrow. cnn's rene marsh with the mess at airports up and down the east coast. rene. >> reporter: the potential for more than 2 feet of snow is threatening to shutdown operations in the northeast. we have already seen airlines cancel thousands of flights. we expect today throughout the weekend to continue to see the cancellations build. what a lot of airlines did ahead of the storm is offer passengers the opportunity to change flight plans free of charge. at this point, if your reservation has not been changed yet, your chances of getting out before the storm, slim to none. there is no clarity when things will be back up and running smoothly. normal operations for the airlines. back to you. >> thank you, rene. >> we will get into the storm track a little more. >> i'm watching the storm totals for new york city. >> they are going down a bit. >> depending on where the models shift, you could get a lot of snow in the new york metro

washington d.c. and still a possibility now all of a sudden of one to two feet in the mountains of north carolina. so, winter watches from memphis all the way up to areas in philadelphia. and washington d.c. and baltimore included in blizzard watch. and now new york city is under a blizzard watch, only expecting a possibility of six to ten inches at most. and as far as the snow, the bull's eye, to d.c. greatest snowfall in washington d.c.'s recorded history. >> we're getting a real winter after all. thanks. >>> they say money cannot buy happiness and it can't buy support either. they show that republican are frontrunners donald trump and ted cruz have spent more than $8 million in tv ads combined. this compared to 91 million spent in support of marco rubio and jeb bush. and chris christie and john kasich, that number jumps to 14 times that of outsiders, trump and cruz. speaking of senator cruz, he doesn't have a fan in former presidential nominee, bob dole. he said he questions cruz's loyalty to the republican party cat clizmic and wholesale losses. the former kansas senator was kinder to donald tr

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north carolina. sot mayor muriel bowser, washington, we have a forecast that we havent had in 90 years. this satellite image from nasa shows just how enormous the historic blizzard is from space. its expected to sit over washington, dc for the next 36 hours dumping up to 2 and a feet of wet and heavy snow. officials are concerned about 50 mile per hour winds toppling trees on roofs and powerlines. management agency this is a life threatening type of storm. boswell bridge: with the potential for 3 inches of snow an hour, district officials are making main roads and snow emergency routes their priority. sot lorenzo miller, ddot driver get off the streets, be safe, let us handle our business. air travel has been challenging. a united airlines plane skidded off the runway at ohare in chicago. no one was injured but other airports in the east are suspending service as a precaution. along the jersey shore, its not the snow but a lunar high tide that has residents worried about coastal flooding. for up to a foot of snow. david bryfman / park slope resident "i )m an australian guy buying salt b

from north carolina to massachusetts.. and washington d.c. and baltimore are under a tomorrow. 30 million people could be high clouds of increasing thickness will continue to push over southern nevada through the day ahead of our next weather system. temperatures overnight will benefit and will remain similar to last night - right around 40 but our afternoon highs tomorrow will suffer and remain cooler. highs will peak in the upper 50s under mostly cloudy, but dry, skies on friday. winds will increase out of the southwest on saturday as a dying cold front heads our direction, those winds will give the temperatures the kick they need front will also bring a chance for showers later in the day. rain chances are spotty as of right now, and look to be better to the north and east, but they'll come during prime weekend celebration time - between 7pm saturday night and about 4am sunday morning. skies clear out sunday with breezy and cool winds coming to dry things out with another potentially stronger wind producer and tuesday. wednesday the skies

out of the pressure to the south, that will be a mid-atlantic snowstorm for washington dc and most of virginia, north carolina, and north georgia mountains that here it should be fairly quiet and then on sunday near normal at 34 degrees but it's going to take all that time to get back up to 34 degrees .ng. >> want to check-in with roosevelt leftwich groundfox with a look at those eastern conditions. >> we are in will you can see it is heavy traffic, snowfall has slowed down a bit . and you can also see pushed out a lot of the snowfall .t not me that it is a easy drive but they have been working to get thisth knocked down down but there still a lot of work . we were in mentor earlier lots of those roads are very slipperye to the kind of night that if you do not have to travel than then it is a good night to stay inside watching tvy . when traveling allow extra time, another person on the road is jennifer jordan who is west of me, where are you ? i-271 northbound approaching moving very smoothly, roads are no longer snow-covered, the further north we see darker skies and increased snowfall . there's nothing maj

states of emergency already declared for pennsylvania, north carolina, virginia, maryland, tennessee, washington canceled across the u.s. with charlotte airport topping the list. for more on the canceled flights ab t and the misery around the country, i want to speak with mary flannery. how's philadelphia doing with the ripple effect that a charlotte airport and laguardia airport can cause for you? >> well, right now, things are operating normally and we have no snowflakes but the airlines here at philadelphia international airport have canceled all flights for tomorrow for saturday. >> all right. so you are getting ahead of the curve canceling and what charlotte did with american today canceling all flights out of the charlotte. if folks do get stranded at philadelphia international, what are the best options? >> well, we know that if people are stranded here at the airport overnight for some reason, we have our own hospitality program. we own 200 cots we can put out and airlines encourage to change reservations before tomorrow or after tomorrow and hoping most people have responded to that. >>

washington. the storm is stretching some 1100 miles. the national guard is already up and running in some states. a state of emergency is now in place in kentucky, maryland, north carolinannsylvania, tennessee, virginia, some parts of georgia, and of course right here in washington, d.c., where it's expected to be the worst winter storm to hit the nation's capital in nearly a century. two feet of snow and possibly more could fall in the district, virginia, and maryland area in the next 36 hours. big city mayors from d.c. to philadelphia and new york are urging people to stay off the roads and prepare as best they can. over 5,000 u.s. flights have been delayed or canceled, with united airlines shutting down all operations in and out of d.c. and the new york city metro areas through saturday. the situation this weekend is expected to be so severe that the federal government has already announced it will be closed on monday as thousands of students have already been let out of school. with more than 85 million people in at least 20 states under some sort of winter advisory. there are ten weather-related fatalities already confirmed. in north carolina, there have been at le

several states have declared a state of emergency, including maryland, north carolina, pennsylvania, virginia, and washingtonty offices will be closed in the nation's capitol tomorrow. residents are busy stocking up on food and supplies. heavy snow is expected to begin sometime tomorrow. with forecasts calling for 2- feet or more. in some areas. meanwhile. airlines have already started canceling flights in anticipation of the storm. more than 3-thousand flights have already been called off. american airlines is cancelling all flights tomorrow in charlotte. it is also cancelling operations in washington d.c. and baltimore on saturday. american also called off flights saturday in philadelphia. united airlines is suspending flights at its washington- dulles hub, starting tomorrow afternoon. >> grant :all this yellow compared to the red and orange right here with the bay area only slightly improved compared to three months ago today and we have the darkest read here for the exceptional drought which covers almost 43 percent of the state but is down from 46% three months ago all the snow we've had in the sea area

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north carolina. police in washington county say an inmate has escaped. officers say they were transporting heather burton to the hospital after she fell in the courthouse. burton is from elizabeth city. investigators say the 29-year-old slipped away through a bathroom as doctors were about to x-ray her injuries. police say she truck from a nearby garage. authorities say she could be headed towards elizabeth city because she has family there. burton was in jail for violating probation. if you see her, call 911 immediately. good morning, hampton roads. let's check traffic now. today: partly to mostly cloudy. a few sprinkles in the low/mis 50s. winds ne 10-15mph. tonight: mostly cloudy. lows will be in the low 40s. winds north 10mph. friday: mostly cloudy. a stray shower is possible in the afternoon. highs will is possible. high pressure is to our north, will be milder today. highs will be in the 50s. we'll see the weather looks pretty good for saturday. warmer with partly cloudy will be warm sunday afternoon looks pretty more rain again next wednesday. pos

north carolina) winter has finally arrived in north carolina. millions are prepping for a wicked winter weekend. in washington d.c. it less than an inch of snow, turned highways into parking lots wednesday. you don't know how long this will take. one hour, two hour, six hours? even the commander-in-chief couldn't escape the d.c. disaster. his presidential motorcade -- stuck in the snow with everybody else. i would have hoped they would have anticipated this little better and treated the roads the city, admitting this morning, it messed up, (mayor muriel bowser, washington, dc) we are very sorry for inadequate response. mayor muriel bowser says, despite the failure overnight, her city will be ready for the big one this weekend. (mayor muriel bowser, washington, dc) we will treat this event as a homeland security and emergency management event in the district of columbia. the nation's capital is expected to get the worst of it. a staggering 30 inches of snow possible. virgina has the national guard on standby and maryland is bracing for the worst, (governor larry hogan, maryland) we anticipate the heavy wet snow cou

difficult for 80 million americans, 15 states, midatlantic state s including north carolina and charlotte in the washington the storm causing problems fall. airlines preemptively canceled more than 1,000 flights, some waved change fees and dia is advance. >>> i am meteorologist kathy backyard. that storm adele mentioned brought the flurries last night and early this morning, kind of a glancing blow for colorado. we missed it and, wow, is this inthooweek. around here-- into the weekend. around here, a quiet evening, highs in 30s and 40s front range. average high is 44 so a little colder than average. that is the low spinning around the wichita area sinking into southeast where it is, in fact, going to kind of pick up steam there and really create a severe weather scenario that will be pretty amazing. you know, as the storm system picks up that warm gulf moisture and pulls in that cold air from yellow, that is a tornado watch area. winter storm warnings will continue through memphis, raleigh, the washington dc area. the bulls eye for the heavy rain, unbelievable, over 3 inches of rain expected memphis and at

emergency vehicles got stuck.there were fatalities in north carolina, from accidents on i-95.then the storm barreled north. officials in washington, maryland and virginia are still pleading with people tonight, to stay off the roads. "we want people to stay inside! "snow-plow and salt-truck operators are hoping for that too. "if there t- are more people on the roads, how does that make it tougher for you?""actually it makes it very unsafe for the public because what happens is if we go into a slide dealing with the ice, then we have lives at stake. so we are asking the public to please get off the roads, let us do our jobs safely, and they can return once we finish."d-c officials deplpled the national guard, d told all city residents to stay off the streets by three in the afternoon.even with 25- 13-thousand pieces of equipment to deploy- virginia state officials say they're concerned about northern virginia... known for congested roadways and hard-to-reach subdivisions. officials up the east coast warning, it will only get worse."while it will begin ght and fluffy, it will become wetetheavy snow at times." 3 authorities confirm

. >>> 60 million americans are under state of emergency in washington, d.c., virginia, maryland and north carolina in advance of a major blizzard this weekend. we have more. >> millions of americans are preparing for a winter storm of epic proportions, this store in chesapeake, virginia, forced to limit the supplies each customer can purchase. >> down to our last snow shovels. >> this store allowing only ten shoppers in at a time. is it all too much? director of weather agency today said preparation is important to the save lives. >> talking about a potentially paralyzing storm. >> it's a message that rest nate resonates with residents furious after a school bus nearly slid into a river. luckily no one was injured. >> it started to go sideways, i screamed a little. >> and here in the nation's capital in what is predicted to be the heart of the storm, the stakes are now even higher. >> and it isn't just . >> and it isn't just the snow, forecasters predict tropical force winds here in the nation's capital. abc news washington. >> the storm will create problems beginning tomorrow and lasting through

north carolina) winter has finally arrived in north carolina. millions are prepping for a wicked winter weekend. in washington d.c. it was chaos before the storm. less than an inch of snow, turned highways into parking lots wednesday. you don't know how long this will take. one hour, two hour, six hours? even the commander-in-chief couldn't escape the d.c. disaster. his presidential motorcade -- stuck in the snow with everybody else. i would have hoped they would have anticipated this a treated the roads the city, admitting this morning, it messed up, (mayor muriel bowser, washington, dc) we are very sorry for inadequate response. mayor muriel bowser says, despite the failure overnight, her city will be ready for the big one this weekend. (mayor muriel bowser, washington, dc) we will treat this event as a homeland security and emergency management event in the district of columbia. the nation's capital is expected to get the worst of it. a staggering 30 inches of snow possible but the reach of this storm in pennsylvania, crews are using technology to help drivers keep track of safe streets. (rick stone, berks equi

cbs news, washington. [ laughter ] >> that is fun. >>> a reminder that the north carolina zoo does not reopen until saturday. mechanic left walkways, service roads all covered in ice. workers want to make sure everything is cleared and safe before welcoming visitors again. >> we saw our arctic animals had fun in the ice. >> yes. >> and the weather coming up this weekend. sunshine, comfortable. nice to roam around the is zoo. >> yes, a good time, actually. >> yes. side, sunday, looking grand. let's keep up with the animal theme. sky 5 was out filming things and ming over jordan lake. and i believe there is -- >> a knock of saoeg alls? >> there they are. >> yes. they were out and about roaming around. thought we would share the animal theme with you. here it is again, pretty sunset. now, tomorrow, it looks like more of a gloomy, more gloomy than what we had today with edition of rain and today was a trace. a great shot there take a look at the weather desk top. we will start with the satellite radar view and what there you go. and as we zoom into the area here across the deep south and t