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A huge, huge setback, not only for the olympic team in georgia but the olympic movement just hours before the opening ceremonies tonight. again, tragedy marks the luge course today in a horrific and frightening accident. apparently very frightening for people in vancouver. a lot of these practices have been on giant jumbotron boards. the replay of his accident was playing over and over. you can imagine the shock and dismay of everybody in vancou r vancouver. you can imagine the shock and dismay....

The nations capital. three feet of snow shut down the federal government for a fourth day. >> were following a major story out of iran, bracing for a showdown with protesters. today is the 31st anniversary of the islamic revolution and the government cutting the main lines of communication today. were live with new information about a country on the brink. >> cnn uncovering shocking allegations against toyota employees and the feds who are supposed to keep your car safe to drive. claim that is t...

Drifting. keeping things slick on the roadway, but it wont aggravate much of your day. we checked the snowfall totals and these were the highest numbers i could find. 27.5 takes the cake in ortanna, pennsylvania. eldersburg, maryland, 24 inches. bricktown in 18. falls church, virginia and the brox had a foot of snow overall. it will take you to the weekend to continue to shovel this stuff. the latest winter storm, and this will be the top story across the southern plains states and into the deep...

The sun obviously sets in the west but rises in the east, and as the sun comes up, tony, what its doing is melting a great deal of this snowfall and, of course, what happens, the salt gets filtered out so to speak. salt stays here. the water goes into the ground, and eventually feeds its way out to the potomac, and because its situated this way, the morning sun will heat up the snow, as the sun sinks out toward the west, it will help melt the snow. its a neat process. but this is an early step. ...

States senator and congressman cummings and leader hoyer and other members of the delegation. the secretary told me they were going to be treating this entire last three, four days of snowfall as one event which is good news and hopefully they can help us on the back end in terms of paying for this. its made a wreck of the streets. we hope it doesnt make a wreck of the county and state budgets as well. with a little federal assistance that would be very helpful. >> governor omalley, good luck to...

I have to tell you, though, this is going to be a tough process. we have a lot of snow in many places. here in virginia, of course, lot of the side streets especially choked with snowfall. then back on the other side of the river, washington, d.c., many of the roads in the downtown area still unpassable. certainly a rough thing. they are really looking forward to temperatures going up and getting asustains from mother nature. latest we have. lets send it back to you. >> all right. reynolds wolf ...

Passable. we cant compromise public safety by planning to scrape to the pavement on every road. we have to keep them passable. we had national guard helping to deliver babies and getting in with humvees delivering heart attack victims to the hospital. thats the mode we are still in is protecting public safety. im still trying to convey to neighbors that, look, eventually the street will get plowed down to the pavement, but its going to be an awful long time given the amount of snowfall. >> i gre...

>> all right. good job, doug. im wondering if school kids might be mandated in washington to watch our show, our network in order to keep themselves intellectually dexterious for when they go back to school. >> that means theyd have to be awake right now. >> and the word of the day, dexterious. >> lets go to the serious topic of the record shattered with the record snowfall. we have a bunch of them throughout the northeast and mid atlantic. look at that, the previous record was 65 inches for phi...

Separated. back to you. >> thanks so much. >> did you hear it is snowing? and it is a dangerous side to the snowfall. more when we come back.

Minnesota and montana are wondering what the big deal is. the magnitude, ten states in the district of columbia getting pelted with snow today and the most densely populated part of the country getting the worst of it, the part between boston and washington. tens of millions of people. here in new york city, it started snowing at 11:00 last night, snowing for 23 hours, expected to snow hours more. 12 to 20 inches of snow on the ground by the time it is over. schools closed in new york city today...