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49, headache, man, its rough stuff. both directions travel is no go. its closed in that area. conditions are expected to get worse into the afternoon and evening and more icing on the overpasses and a lot of bridges. there will be headaches to come. one of the headaches you have, often when you have ice storms and to be honest with this you doesnt matter where you happen to be, you often have power outages and entergy has 2100 workers and standing by waiting for outages already forming in the no...

Nick valencia braving the temps in houston down there. good morning, nick. >> reporter: not every day you get a winter storm warning in this part of the country. weve seen the sleet ebb and flow here. emergency crews are working around the clock to prep the road for icy conditions. a crippling ice storm affecting millions of americans. houston, san antonio, austin waking up this morning at risk from dangerous ice building up as freezing rain and bitter cold temperatures take hold. residents here...

Out on the roads prepping them for the expected icy conditions. a crippling ice storm affecting millions of americans. dangerous ice building up as freezing rain and bitter cold temperatures take hold. residents here all too familiar with crippling ice storms, like the powerful one in 2011. some schools in the area closing their doors as city officials prepare for the worst. >> here we have the decisions that are maid and how we -- made and how we respond to it. >> reporter: in indiana, a or fie...

We cant get through. >> reporter: now ice is building, closing in. >> weve got two to three meters, maybe four vowing us. and at one point, the ship was tilting a little bit because of the pressure on one side because of the strong winds. >> reporter: in a short time ago we heard an update from the ship. a tweet from chris turney who says the snow dragon is standing by and waiting on another vessel to help. everyone is well, he says. and don, that other vessel is a french icebreaker on its way n...

Nation having split from sudan. >> its been quite a year of really wicked weather. twisters, ice storms, much more. ahead, janice dean will have a way that whether changed lives and the destination people are racing to get to from all the snow and ice and freezing cold? actually about to surpass new york in population. well take you there next.

York. >> they say the ice storms played such a big role in this. when the hubs start going down, it is such a ripple effect and they cant recover. >> did you know that u.p.s. had a bigger share of the package market than fedex but they have half as many planes. it was the fleet bottleneck which was a big part of the problem. >> i wonder, too, you know, more and more people every year, next year will be the case, too, are ordering on-line. its the thing to do. at some point when cant they keep up...

>> im john muller. did you see those piranha fish? >> oh, my gosh. i dont want to think about it. >> you worry about sharks, and now we have to worry about those, too. our love affair with online shopping ran special a rough patch this week. the delivery promises for christmas were broken. >> one of the worst ice storms in years and now the on-line shoppers and their shippers are very confused. rich cantu has the story. >> reporter: twas the night after christmas and many folks grouse that lot...

Today it has not happened but the officials im speaking with concern there could be more violence throughout the day and they are concerned that the death toll my rise throughout the day as well. right now, five people killed, over 70 people injured so far. kate? >> mohammed, thank you so much for that update. well clearly be checking back in with you. were looking at four days and counting without electricity for hundreds of thousands in the northern u.s. and canada, all because of the snow a...

Hitting the edge of the plane with his hand. how about a flight from new york to vegas? runs 700 bucks. you get it for 81 bucks. incredible. you save 650. this girl snagged a ticket from indianapolis to honolulu for 70 bucks. the first class ticket was $88. thats a sievings of $3,396. thanks all of this to a computer glitch on delta.com. the airline says, they will honor those prices. awesome. still no power. >> all of the other things really dont matter that we were together, we still had a g...

From the car bomb. at least six people killed as a result of this today. officials fear the death toll will rise throughout the day. at least 70 people injured so far. this seems to be another indication that syrias violence from the civil war, which is right next door to lebanon is spilling over once more into lebanon. nobody has claimed responsibility for this killing or this attack. mohammed shaata was a fierce critic of hezbollah and this is the latest in a string of troubling attacks that h...