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"newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> good to be with all of you on a tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. we are following those reports of that shooting at purdue university in indiana. the news at this hour, as i can tell you directly from the purdue university twitter site, this is the update -- no ongoing threat to campus. resume normal operations. ee, that's the electrical engineering building will remain closed. check purdue.edu for updates. still no word as far as anyone that has actually been hurt, but you can take a look at some of the video that we've been watching from some of our affiliates out of indiana. and we have video of a man believed to be the suspect. appears there handcuffed, getting patted down. the shooting apparently happened in this electrical engineering building. again, that's the latest, we have no ongoing threat. 13 minutes ago, tweeted from purdue university. no reports of injuries. one person is in custody. joining me now in studio, hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks. and jean casarez, cnn legal correspondent in new york. mike brooks, first to you. no ongoing threats. sigh of relief for a lot of people there in west lafayette, indiana. but still, this electrical engineering building still considered a crime scene. >> absolutely. they lifted the shelter in place for the rest of the school, but i think that was out of an abundance of caution. it said a reporting of a shooting. they didn't say anything about anyone being shot. so we don't know if there was any injuries or not, but they do have one person in custody. i think that was the smart thing to do, until they got a good handle. take a look at video surveillance, find out exactly what the movement of this person was. it sounds like everyone was there in that electrical engineering building. but, you know, notifying 30,000 undergrads at that campus, the notification system they had via twitter or e-mail. extremely efficient. and, you know, every campus has something like this now because of these active shooter situations. >> jean casarez, what more do you know? >> purdue had been saying that the shooting was at or near -- reported at of near the electrical engineering building. they are now saying for the first time that it was reported to have taken place in the electrical engineering building. as you say, that lift for everyone to stay in shelter has been taken away but for that building. so the order to stay in place is still in force in that particular building. it has not been lifted. but we are seeing one person in custody. shooting reported around noon. a purdue student told cnn it was about 12:24 p.m. he was in that building, he said, and he got a text, an official text from the university saying to stay in place and to take cover. but we do not know of any injuries at this point. but still, this is a campus that is under constant surveillance. as you said, this is a crime scene and that building, the electrical engineering building is where it is reported that that shooting took place. >> we will follow this through the next two hours. as soon as there are updates, we will bring them to you. thank you both very much. want to move along and talk about this smack of winter heading both to the east, the midwest, bringing bitter cold and monster snowfall. take a look at what's moving eastward. this driving blizzard blowing out of north dakota. the storm could bring the biggest accumulation of snow we have seen thus far this winter. cnn is covering this winter blast from all kcorners of the affected areas. we have zain asher. still to come, ted rowlands in chicago where several inches of snow have already fallen. margaret connelly is live at laguardia airport, watching all the cancellations. we'll head to you in a moment. and also meteorologist jennifer grey, tracking all the latest warnings and advisories. but zain asher, let's begin with you in the thick of things in and around columbus circle. i read that the snow is supposed to tease new yorkers through the day, but then really hit hard a little later on. tell me what you're seeing where you are. >> reporter: the last five seconds, it's started to come down slightly harder, but the real drama is expected around 4:00 today. mother nature is sort of trying to be gentle with us, because it's starting to ease us into it. this morning, the snow is relatively light. but the real action is between 4:00 and 10:00 this evening. roughly around eight to 12 inches of snow. if you're like me and you shy away from cold weather -- oh, it's actually really coming down hard right now. if you shy away from cold weather, the windchill of minus five degrees celsius, it is going to be cold, you might want to wrap up warm and stay inside. but the mayor did talk about just how much the city is really preparing, 2,000 sanitation workers, certainly all hands on deck. he also mentioned that if you don't have to be outside, if you don't have to be driving your car, if you can keep the streets clear, it does allow sanitation workers to do their jobs more efficiently. the nypd talking about the issues with construction sites, especially because of the wind gusts that could make debris on pedestrians. i've been speaking to people who tell me they've been prepared for this. this is nothing new for new yorkers because they have prepared for this. but if you're walking around, certainly do be careful. >> watching those taxis, that's always my barometer in manhattan of how things are going. it looks a-okay so far. thank you very much. temperatures in the midwest are supposed to be 15 to 20 degrees below average. ted rowlands, to you. are you feeling that? >> reporter: i am. it's very cold, brooke. it's been a cold winter. depressing winter. we had snow hours ago. you can see the streets of chicago have been plowed and salted. no big deal. but look at the michigan avenue bridge. normally it is full of pedestrians. hardly anybody out here today. people are staying inside their office buildings, trying to stay away from the elements because it is so cold. we're in single digits right now. the wind, of course, that's a big problem. the flags up here on the michigan avenue bridge, they are blowing. that sends the temperatures way below zero and downright miserable. the good news for us is that we've got ad day or so. but the bad news for the folks in the east is this is coming your way and it's not fun. >> under the beautiful blue sky, ted rowlands, looks the deceiving. ted, thank you. let's talk flights. to laguardia airport we go. margaret, how many cancellations are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: brooke, the snow came down earlier than expected and there's more of it. there's a winter storm warning until 6:00 tomorrow morning. the national weather service, they say there could be snow accumulation three to seven inches and also winds could be 16 to 21 miles per hour. but that's just today, it's expected to get a lot worse into the evening. you can take a look behind me, see how this has impacted flights. that board there, that's for american airlines. yellow means delays or cancellations. there have been a lot of cancellations here this morning. but flights -- or airlines have actually been cancelling flights earlier, like jetblue, they did that today as well. also, the port authority, they gave us the numbers of flight cancellations. there are 352 flight cancellations at newark. there were 200 flight cancellations at jfk and 300 here at laguardia. outside, we have a second camera. you can see right here what that is showing you. if you look to the right, you can see a lot of snow coming down. that's what people are having to get through to get to the airport here. you also see there's not a lot of traffic. that has been the biggest issue. people trying to get in and out of this airport. we talked to a lot of people who worked here. there were delays. the snow came down faster, so people were zigzagging all over the roads. the tsa does tell us, as usual, people should be checking the airlines before they make their way to the airport. >> check long ahead. thank you very much, margaret. and jennifer grey is watching all of this for us in the weather center. just seeing the snow really already coming down for folks in new york. how much worse is it going to get? >> basically going to see the worst of it during the afternoon commute, unfortunately. right now the snow stretching anywhere from d.c. up i-95 through new york. boston just starting to see a little bit of snow coming down. zooming in on d.c., baltimore. you see covered in white. meaning a lot of snow already coming down. new york city blanketed with snow, as we speak. more will come down as we go through the afternoon and evening hours. i want to track this hour by hour, and you can see, as we go through the evening commute, this is this evening at 6:00 p.m. look at that. snow in d.c., new york, and boston. it is going to be a mess if you are trying to get home after work today, and then boston should be pushing out of your area during the early morning hours tomorrow. the cape could still be dealing with a little bit of snow around 7:00, and then this just continues to push off into canada as we go through tomorrow afternoon. snow totals. huge amounts. especially across the jersey shore. long island, we could see anywhere from ten inches of snow. new york city, possibly six to eight inches of snow. and temperatures, brooke, are going to be cold overnight. we could see temperatures feeling like 14 below zero as we go through the overnight hours. >> we will check back in with you in the next two hours. as you mentioned, this is happening, this is the big story right now. jennifer, margaret, ted, and zain, thank you very much. remains found in new york's east river have been confirmed as those of missing autistic teenager vontae okendo. dna test results found last week match those of the missing team. he disappeared back in october and his family launched this widespread search for him. much more on the story as we're getting new information next hour. so stay tuned for that. coming up, hundreds of dolphins are being killed in a horrible way because of some tradition. caroline kennedy now getting involved against the operation here. we'll share that with you. plus, on the day chris christie is inaugurated for a second term in new jersey, a new poll suggests the surprising opinions of americans when it comes to chris christie's 2016 chances. and not just one here, but now three female suicide bombers may be on the loose, wandering around sochi near the olympics. keep in mind, we're like two weeks away from the games. are these black widows planning an attack? 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