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Take a look behind me, im standing two blocks from the u.s. capital. its right behind me. i doubt you can see it. on a clear day it would be visible but this is anything but. we have snow and wind, which is really the issue sort of whipping around here all day long. it hasnt slowed up. we dont expect snowfall to stop until this afternoon or later this evening, rather. let me show you what were dealing with on the ground here. im going to walk over and show you how deep some of this snow is. this...

>> lets bring in host of nbcs the dylan ratigan show, dylan ratigan. well bet getting to you in a second to help you explain smoke instead of sniff. but first, heres mika with the news. >> and dylan will explain why the money party is back. >> its back. >> better than ever. a powerful winter storm s m slamsisla slamming the east coast right now. major airlines have scrapped hundreds of flights as officials close schools in new york and maryland. another 9 inches of snow in washington and phila...

Boring he, quote, almost put me right out. and to another ellen said that he scared her. how tough is it to take that in front of a nationwide television audience? >> its kind of funny. if simon said it, we probably would have been, hes so mean. he does say it with a tinge on his tongue. ellen says it with real honesty. shes saying it because she wants to make you better which is similar to how paula would have judged. >> diana, season three runner-up on "american idol." thank you for joining us...

Snow could hit before the evening. and lets look at new yorks central park, a beautiful shot. that is nbcs tom llamas. pretty handsome fellow bundled up there in central park. it is lovely. let me tell you, it is wicked and it is very difficult to get around at this point. and live pictures of washington, d.c., quint your eyes, move really closely to the television and maybe you can see the white house. someone joked earlier today and i stole the joke, maybe president obamas brought that chicago...

Hello, everybody. im david shuster live in your nations capital which is now getting slammed by the second major winter storm to hit this region in a week. this time, however, the blizzard like conditions are stretching all the way up to neng nepg. from virginia to massachusetts the snowfall has been intensifying. the winds are howling and there are whiteout conditions now all over the place. the storm has prompted the closure of airports and schools and they are trying to keep roadways from bec...

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 through the streets and all. that is not the problem. the problem comes from basic planning. the fundamentals of basic planning. you know, chris and harry, i equate this snowfall this time to almost 9/11. the reason why is because the one big...

Change crowd is trying to make 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 ca...

Before the second batch of snowfall you guys were talking about. some things are beginning to get back to normal, like, for example, here on m street in georgetown, you see a lot of traffic coming through. its moving at a pretty decent clip considering they had so much snowfall in this area, some places well in excess of several feet. whats interesting, though, is we havent had a single flake here in roughly, say, three days but still theres plenty of it all over the ground and again as weve bee...

>> reporter: absolutely. youre right about this. weve had a little bit of snowfall here in the last couple of minutes but not snow falling from the ski, but rather, falling from the trees. they are doing tree repair over here or cleaning up some of the trees that have been knocked down, of course, by some of the heavy snow and ice, and speaking of heavy snow and ice, were actually going to turn around a little bit and head back in this direction and show you some of the snow and ice weve been de...

Virginia not to mention the maryland suburbs as well. those power outages will likely continue. if this snowfall is as heavy as they predict with another 5 to 20 inches because it will impede what power crews are able to do and that is get into those areas, where they have to repair things, look for schools to be closed, they have been closed this week and you talked about how much of a break people want, and some of the schoolkids are happen, that they dont have to go to school, and so do the t...