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That spans more than 1,000 miles, with snow falling from ohio all the way to boston. we have team coverage of the storm beginning with cnns alexandra field checking on the road conditions in the northeast, and she joins us live. i can see that its dark around you already. you started earlier today. whats it looking like now? >> reporter: rosa, we are in willington, connecticut, right now. were on interstate 84. we are getting close to the connecticut/massachusetts border, and i can tell you sinc...

Get there yet. the interstate 84 is over there. the off ramps are blocked. there are so many stranded vehicles that are parked just under snowdrifts at the entranceways to highways, on city streets, because people didnt heed the warning to get off the roads or they in some cases ran out of gas trying to get where they had to go. so there are a lot of hazards like that still blocking traffic. it could be all day today, all day tomorrow were hearing before the roads are completely cleared of stran...

Setback for venezuelan president hugo chavez after cancer surgery. his vice president says chavez suffered new complications and described his condition as "delicate." chavez has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery earlier this month. back here at home. talks continue through the night ahead of that looming fiscal cliff deadline. the sticking points are still the same. the white house wants taxes to go up on those making over $250,000 a year. republic...

Consumers will weaken and for a slowly strengthening economy, the shock of less spending could be all it takes to push the country back into a recession. >> indeed. thats what many economists are saying. anna, thank you. we have a fox news alert, a deadly tour bus crash in oregon. blamed on icy road conditions. five people were killed and about 20 injured. it happened on interstate 84 outside la grand. the bus went out of control, crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment. about ...

Stay informed and really act cautio cautiously. >> no question. lets take you back to the beginning of this. lieutenant paul vance of the connecticut state police just confirmed that state police received a call for assistance at 9:41. we can only assume that local police responded shortly before that and realized it was a situation that required assistance from the state police. so it happened sometime in the 9:00 hour, this original emergency situation at sandy hook school on dickenson drive i...

Front of me. >> and then finally something gives. >> i wasnt sure what the smoke was. i didnt know if it was coming from his car. >> the limousines transmission blows and the culprit has run out of chances. but then he finds another gear that works. reverse. >> he drove backwards. the people on the road, i dont know what was going through their mind. you would think that they were filming an episode of bullet, some kind of cop show. >> his only possible way out at that point was to actually util...

County, new york, trooper todd bomer is busy inspecting interstate 84. >> i was conducting radar enforcement when i saw a large white limo coming northbound at a high rate of speed. the vehicle was going 124 miles per hour. >> the officer gives chase as the driver tears down the interstate. the officer is left to wonder why. >> in my mind, what does he have in the vehicle? a dead body, gun, drugs, whatever? >> in a neighboring township, this trooper calls for assistance. >> i was north of his lo...

Albany, hartforhartford, worces. new york city safely above freezing, but 40s at kennedy. damage is done. its raining at all three new york airports. delay as the newark and laguardia over 90 minutes. logan and boston delays 3 1/2 hours plus because of the snow and the wet snow. not only youve got the weather but figure in the massive amounts of time it takes for the de-ice icing because theyve got to get planes through, restock the de-icing equipment. hartford, roads slushy. o look at this, its...

Weather is whipping through the northeastern states, hurricane-force winds, 91 miles an hour in portsmouth, new hampshire. and theyre operating on a generator at this point. the size of this storm stretching from new jersey throughout new england, almost a quarter of maines population is without electricity today. the governor has declared a state of emergency to make it easier for crews to restore power. more than 70 roads are closed and theres concern about flash flooding along the shores beca...

To six with this storm. this is an incredible storm bringing us warnings all the way through tomorrow morning. high wind warnings all the way down to d.c. well be tracking the storms from coast to coast for you, david. but especially here in the northeast. >> nbc meteorologist ginger zee, thanks for the update. now the situation in new yorks central valley. glen zimmerman is there with the latest. glen? >> reporter: good morning, david. we talked about the depth of the snow, but there is nothing...