at 1-877-38-your-ged, or yourged.org. earn your ged diploma and begin your brighter future. gregg: frightening pictures out of india as a leopard attacks a group of villagers. they try to smoke out the animal, hiding in a field, close to their homes and instead the leopard raced out of the brush and attacked the crowd. and 7 people were injured, and the leopard got away, and villagers now patrolling the area. arthel: heavy snow falling on ocean city, maryland and officials urge residents to stay indoors, joining us on the phone is the director of emergency services for ocean city, maryland and, tell us, first of all, what are conditions like there now. caller: the forecast is what
thousands of people have been stranded on the planes and trains and buses and whole lot of cars are stuck, as well. we ll continue to follow it. and the timing of the major storm working its way up the east coast could not be worse. causing chaos for travelers trying to get home. airlines are groundings hundreds of flights into the storm s path leaving many fliers trand stranded had at the parents. the situation is no better on the roads. snow and device reducing visibility in some areas to near zero. now for more on the storm s impact on travel we re going to be joined right now on the phone by scott mccartney. the travel editor for the wall street journal and author of the wall street journal guide to power travel. it is looking really bad out here. we ll keep the pictures up. let me ask you first of all,
pictures, from new jersey, cliffside, new jersey, people bunkering down there and braving out the storm and along the new jersey shore people are bracing for 40 mile-per-hour winds and the new jersey power company reporting about 100 power outages, so far and still, early on, for them. gregg? gregg: other than new york where you are and pictures in new jersey, what about the other affected areas. reporter: we talked about this, the storm is big, and, no doubt we are not the only people dealing with it here in the tri-state area, you referenced the carolinas and that is my area of the country and i flew in from there last night and north carolina under a state of emergency and the snow is falling and in charlotte are expecting 1-3 inches to fall an virginia, under a state of emergency, snow totals might reach between 8 and 12 inches and the city of brotherly love, the mayor has already declared a snow emergency, and, yes. they have had to postpone the nfl football game between the
a few hardy folks are still enjoying it, but a lot less than a few hours ago. lots of viewers have been sending photos. check out the lamp on steven s back deck. whoa! six inches of snow, that is north carolina. as you move up the coastline, more of the same in virginia. debby sent us this photograph. doesn t look like anybody is going to be bringing in christmas decorations in this weather. be sure to stay safe while you are getting us your pictures. pictures look beautiful but the weather on the east coast is throwing retailers a snowball. banking on big after christmas sales could be a big bust because of the blizzard but in
per hour along the new jersey coast causing residents and local officials added worry there. while new york city is expected to get 11 to 16 inches of snow, we are not just bearing it ourselves. gregg: that was quite an account of what everybody is going through. thank you very much for the rundown. wow! it s tough out there. it is. it looks pretty but it is creating havoc. we are getting word to 5,000 people that have lost people having lost no one southeastern virginia. national weather service says a foot of snow is possible in that area. we are going to try to get you live pictures from virginia courtesy of our affiliate. in the meantime, we wanted to let you know a state of emergency has been declared in that state.