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Earlier today. they are wet. there is some blowing snow. overall a very impressive job considering the amount of snowfall this area received. were talking about record level snowfalls yesterday, almost 16 inches in philadelphia, suburbs even more about 17 inches 20 miles west of the city where i am. that day will go down as one of the snowiest day ever. we already have the snowiest season ever in philadelphia. in terms of air travel after touch and go moments this morning, the airports up and ru...

The case that the recent snowy weather proves that global warming isnt a fact. well get to that in the "sideshow" where it belongs. the blizzard on the east coast. winter of our discontent. washington is the city that commands the power of the worlds greatest country and the resources of the planet but a city that cant plow its streets. they cant work because they cant get to work. why cant a government town do a government job? we people dont have snowplows. we cant control the streets. the gov...

Snowfall. 54.9 inches have fallen in washington, breaking the 110-year-old record. storms have knocked out power, snarled travel, and shut down the federal government for 4 1/2 straight days. unlike last weekends storm this time new york city was not spared. the weather channels chris warren joins us live from manhattans central park. it looks beautiful this morning. >> looks are exactly what they are. this is a very nice morning here in central park. we were out here yesterday morning about thr...

Closed. dulles nearby, open. bwi open but lots of canceled flights. everything is set to re-open here. all we need, you guys, are some planes. there are still no airplanes here. back to you. >> hampton pearson, nobody wants to hear that. thank you for that report. this latest storm is over but the snow is everywhere. and now were hearing about another storm possibly early next week. nbcs ginger zee joins us with the news we really dont want to hear. ginger? >> that storm next week will not be ...

Off. indispensable workers show off. the united states congress is dispensable. they took the week off. they are gone. >> it is a different washington, d.c. in emergencies than the old days in the 50s and 60s. harry you remember those days your dad did. >> he was a council member. >> you had emergency broadcast systems. you had emergency preparedness you dont have today. the whole problem today is planning. you know, the guys were out there working and some of them orr worked to get the plows th...

Good evening from new york. a blizzard has buried much of the northeast. much of the nations capital, and much of congresss sanity. what the record snowfall has exposed, however, is just how ignorant leading deniers are about what even the bush pentagon recognized as a threat, climate change. they think its disproved by snow. and democrats are responding to a snowstorm that, in fact, may exemplify climate change by naturally backing down on legislation to combat climate change. legislation repub...

Government we support. >> can i ask you a more basic question, councilman? lets get back to the local government. first responder, they didnt respond. how come this weekend we didnt get the snow off the street for for monday morning before the second snowfall? >> we didnt do fundamental things. plowing the streets. knowing the emergency was in effect we could have gotten more resources, more tools and get our neighborhood streets which many have not been done. its because we didnt take this to t...

Some spots, campbell, had 40 inches of snow before it finally stopped. i dont expect that type of number for anybody here, but, hey, you know what? when you already have 20, whats another 5, whats another 10? right, its all relative. a five-inch snowfall in d.c. kr kriples the place any other day. >> well, well see if you were right. chad myers. well be checking in with you a little bit later. thanks. when we come back, what does michelle obama think about sarah palin after the ex-governors ch...

Doing. you got five, six, seven guys on the boat. youre telling them when they can eat, sleep, go to the bathroom. you stay up for days and days and days at a time without sleep. our record is 5 1/2 days without. >> captain phil harris was 53 years old. much of the northeast is under a blizzard warning this morning. but we wanted to show you time lapse from the weekend storm. it captures the snowfall inch by inch. take a look there. you can see a tree bend under the weight of this snowfall and...

Roads with a bit of ice and the rest of the snow comes. right now were thinking about a foot of snow here in new york city. what does that cost? well, for every inch of snow, it costs the city about a million bucks just to clear the roads. they have over 300 sanders out there, about 1600 plows that are at work right now and theyre just scrambling to get things done. the word of course is to stay home if you can, but not every business has shut down, so a lot of bosses are telling their employees...