suddenly of a cardiac arrest at age 83. his wife diane by his side. dan harris, abc news, new york. t.j., when i started at abc, i remember it was valentine s day. i was at diane s office and there were a bunch of beautiful flowers. and diane hands me a card and says read this. it was her assistant saying, will you be my valentine saying, p.s., you are the only one and sent that card to every one of diane s assistants who really helped her throughout the time. and i always thought, diane got the biggest kick. not only diane but all her assistants, her team. this note i want to read from nancy reagan saying i can think of no better way to describe this extraordinary human being than to call him a masterpiece.
shoveling their driveway, now scrambling to clear off their roof. a foot of heavy wet snow on a 1,600-square-foot home weighs as much as 14 tons. the plows literally wouldn t work. so the only way to remove the snow is with front end loaders and dump trucks. you ll have people with thousands of pounds on their roof. reporter: lake effect snow pounding lake michigan, too. another one to three feet. as temperatures begin warming up, the concern is that roofs just like this one will be getting heavier as rain moves in. officials telling us they expect roof collapses to increase. gio benitez, abc news, buffalo, new york. a few days before that meltdown in the great lakes region. dangerous windchills blowing in. here s accuweather s jim dickey. good morning. good news here. lake effect snow coming to an end. we ve tracked this band throughout the past 24 hours that set up off of lake erie. see it moving south. moving south of buffalo. that southward trend continues. that will allow
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dissipate as we track through the morning. it will be cold all across the northeast back into the upper midwest. realfeel temperatures in the single digits and down below zero. back to you. the lights will dim on broadway tonight to mark the passing of mike nichols. he also won a grammy and oscar and several emmys. here s abc s dan harris with a look back at his remarkable career. mrs. robinson, you re trying to seduce me. reporter: he was the man behind the camera in some of the most iconic scenes in hollywood s most unforgettable movies. from the graduate to working girl. i have a head for business and a bod for sin. reporter: mike nichols, it is safe to say, is a true legend of american entertainment, one of the few people ever to win an oscar, tony, emmy and grammy. the winner is mike nichols. reporter: his was an extraordinary life. he escaped nazi germany at age 7 coming to america barely knowing any english.
reporter: it s your private life exposed for all to see. these men at a bar. this woman at her desk. two of thousands of images security cameras looking at on driveways, porches, a laundromat. what s more shocking, the images we won t show you, inside of homes, even a child sleeping in a crib. a russian website has hacked nearly 5,000 cameras in the u.s. alone simply by entering the default factory password. they are searching for these on the internet and simply logging in like they were you. reporter: we found one of them right here in california. we re about to tell this young lady in the cafe that they are being spied on. is this you? i think that s you, right? yeah. in the back we found that barista. that s creepy. that s from today, i think. that s from a few minutes