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Different storm in many ways. total snow accumulation i think will be about half of what the last storm was. so that means top end accumulations of only 20 inches but its going to affect probably twice if not more populationwise. the number of people affected by this is going to be a large amount for sure. a couple areas of low pressure similar to the last storm and has a tropical moisture feed. that, too. but its kind of got its act together earlier in the form of whats going on out west in the...

For a good 12 if not 18 hours. so thats where theyll start to see their accumulations. chicago has seen delays today and weve gotten word out of not only chicago but midway that flights have been canceled. beginning last night they canceled about 500 of them. we have a live shot of chicago. just pull that up and lets take a look. not a ton of accumulation on the roadways right now. traffic flowing smoothly there on the magnificent mile. but certainly on the side of the road, the snow is beginnin...

All right, steve, another storm brewing on the east coast, right? >> yeah. its starting in the center of the country and crews are working around the clock to try to get ahead as the heavy snowfall has caused mass power cuts. another major storm is expected to blanket mid atlantic and the northeast region starting later today and into tomorrow. real quickly, lets just eyeball the doppler and the radar. we got them together to show you where the big storm is right now. extends all the way from th...

Forecasters say we could get another 10 inches or more in the nations capital on top of the massive snowfall. snow is in the forecast for a big chunk of the northeast and mid-atlantic, includes new york city. hundreds of flights across those regions have been canceled as far west as chicago. brian todd is with some snow fighters in northern virginia outside of washington. tell us whats going on right now, brian. people are preparing for at least five inches, maybe an additional ten inches. >> re...

So you thought we were done with the extreme winter weather? better keep your shovel handy because it aint over yet. oh, no. after the weekend blizzard that nailed the northeast, here is round two. not expected to be a knockout punch, though. but for a region already reeling, its not exactly what they want to see. another near foot of snow may not be a welcomed sight. lets just say its not. the storm is expected to intensify to monster status later this afternoon and evening in the northeast and...

Standing by in georgetown right now? >> hey, georgetown, indeed, and we have quite a few people out and about and making some last-minute shopping. and some of them may be getting ready for the storm, but many of them, ali, are happy to get out of the house due to cabin fever, and something else that is coming out is the sun. look at this, and this is a shot of the sun coming through the clouds. that is certainly a promising sign, but still, the winter storm warning is still in effect for the ar...

Paramedic. >> we talked to a couple of guys who said saturday who werent here saturday, said they had to end up carrying one patient a half a mile down the road to the ambulance. >> reporter: sergeant scott hamilton let us tag along on some of the 300 calls medics at station 14 have received today, a good 1,200 since the snowfall began, all this when some of the city streets are too treacherous for even plows to touch. the humvee, however, bulldozed right over it. >> we have a lot of our humvees...

Reynolds talked about the 1-2 punch meaning two different storms, the one last weekend and now this one. this is getting itself together and a little bit different. the last storm we had moof moisture and running into colder air. this is going to be more of a classic noreaster. before it gets to that point, we have to get through the midwest. up to a foot of snow potentially across parts of western great lakes into the ohio river valley and weve already seen some totals up to about 6 inches alre...

Snowstorm you have large drifts of snow, mean no play for shovel it. they have to scramble to find a place to put it. many of the side roads not completely plowed. you have ice and no packed. its no snowplow teams absolutely scrambling. they call it hard pack, covering long stretches of neighborhood streets. one of the several challenges these teams place, scrambling to dig the d.c. area out of with us snowfall, as another follows. i ride along with dave rothchild from the virginia department of...

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