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Anyway. so i think we going to be here for a long time. >> reporter: 85 million people impacted by the storm. more than a dozen deaths, hundreds of traffic accidents, thousands of power outages and flight cancellations. it is a storm that wont soon be forgotten. >> wet, sloppy conditions, and just trying to make the best of it and clean everything up as much as we can. >> reporter: that cleanup is going to go into full force today in many, many areas. and that is the thing about this storm, just...

So we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp rapport. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear this before. i said, we have to get all this construction equipment stopped. we have to hear whats going on. >> sensing imminent danger, they stopped the jackhammer and moved the construction and news crews even further back. >> vanessa goes on ...

When she arrives there are about 30 people working to get the road open. >> the emergency response folks from chattanooga were there. the county maintenance guys were there and then a construction company had been called to come in to bring in the equipment that would be needed to break up the rocks that were on the road, get them off. there was one larger rock, and there was a news crew. >> we saw somebody from tdot show up. and this young lady got out, and she walked up and she looked at me an...

Cooper. how are you? >> good. >> lets get up here. you were telling me youve been doing this about 15 years. you can tell the snow falling and what kind of storm its going to be. >> yeah, since 2002. you can always tell when its a big blizzard. >> reporter: what does this look to you? >> its not real thick and falling real heavy but yeah, definitely a blizzard. >> reporter: how many truck haves you loaded up? how many trucks have you loaded up so far? >> two or 300. i just gave them my sheet. yo...

This is the second time theyve been to this house. if it happens to be arson, chances are no one will ever know for sure. given the ever-shrinking resources available to the department, most fires cant even be investigated. this fire is out within an hour. and after the fire, dinner. the cliche that is firemen are great cooks. in this case, the cliche is true. lieutenant mike devins and the boys of squad 3 are cooking up a family meal. is every firefighter expected to cook reasonably well? >> if...

Youre expecting to be out here for a while? >> yes, i work out of the flint hill area and ive been doing this for a long time so you can tell its going to be another big storm, i believe. so -- >> reporter: how does this compare to past storms? how does this compare to all of the storms that you have seen as a plow driver? >> well, you know, you get the big ones. you get your big snows and its -- you know what i mean? it differs. smaller snows are a little easier than big snows, its harder on st...

All right. breaking news as we track the monster snowfall slamming much of the nation tonight. officials up and down the east coast urging, urging, pleading, even angrily so on this program telling people to stay home. fairfax, virginia, is right in the cross-hairs. nick valencia is there. hes with crews of the virginia department of transportation. nick, at this point, its pointing to a major, major record-breaking snowfall. what are they doing? this is not in their normal line of thinking. >> ...

Batting snow. parts of the south are struggling with dangerous icy conditions. gabe gutierrez has more on that from charlotte, north carolina, in the region that took the first punch from this massive storm. >> reporter: in the south tonight, a slippery slope. from tennessee to the carolinas. a triple-threat, devastating snow, sleet and freezing rain. >> the brakes locked up and i slid into the back of their car. >> this car even catching fire. the driver revving the engine after caught in a sno...

Have been found in the u.s. two pregnant women from illinois have tested positive. zika has been linked to severe birth defects and there is no vaccine. health officials say both women travelled to countries where the zika virus has been found. today the cdc said expectant mothers who experience symptoms like fever, rash, muscle aches and pink eye during or within two weeks of travel to zika-effected countries should be tested and babies monitored. tonight investigators say the driver of a gre...

. >> breaking news, a deadly terrorist attack in pakistan. gunmen stormed a university. at least 21 students killed. we are there live. good morning, welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. they launched an attack in northwest pakistan. explosion and