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That looks like a snapshot from a post card. nice if you can stay inside and enjoy it. thank you, clint van zandt for sending 4 your picture. on the road, a bit of a mess, as we were showing the pictures. well talk to you in a bit. joining me on the phone, richard mooth, director of the maryland emergency management agency, and richard way good morning. a very busy day. were taking a look at pictures live of gathersberg, maryland. maybe thats college park, but nonetheless, its in your area. ta...

Hour that is coming down in that band. that has to rotate down to the south and then off the coast this afternoon. this is an incredible snow event for those areas, and to make it worse, what was heavy, wet snow now getting light and powdery. temperatures are falling, winds are cranking. and look at the windchill in d.c. right now at 17. early this morning, alex, when i came in it was in the upper 20s. so temperatures are dropping and conditions arent getting any better. >> thats worry some, all...

Airlines cancel flights and sand, salt and trucks, well, at the ready. right now a major winter storm bearing down on parts of the mid-atlantic and northeast. parts of the region, including the nations capital, could get up to 2 feet of snow. our meteorologists on top of it. rob marciano. >> looking at that shot from charlottesville, my goodness, they are getting plastered right now with snow. these -- you know, you just kind of retrace your steps as a kid and get excited about snowstorms. i kno...

Snowfall up and down the mid-atlantic a lot like the snow was enhanced in buffalo. >> yeah, i remember my parents home, and the snow up above the windows. >> and chad, if i may. >> above the windows in that house. go ahead, sarah lee. >> well, talking about the scooping up, and cleaning uf afterwards, you have to keep in mind, wolf, across the country all of the budget shortfalls for state and local jurisdictions and it is no different here. everyone has reached the snow removal budget and they ...

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Was hurt. the manager was -- he thought he was shooting everybody but thankfully nobody else was hit. macomb, illinois. were continuing to follow that whopper of a winter storm. forecasters warn conditions could be extremely dangerous in the mid-atlantic region and most of credit card. this says most of washington, including the capital is shutting down. they mean all of capitol hill is shutting down. the heaviest snowfall on record in the d.c., 28 inches. look -- look at that. [ laughter ] i ...

>> you get to have fun all day long. >> shepard: theyll be -- monday they have to go to school. why waste two feet on a nonschool day. >> youre from mississippi, what was the biggest snowfall? >> ive lived here 50,000 years. >> it didnt make you excited? >> shepard: i want it to happen on a day im supposed to work. there will be no news today. >> d.c. doesnt have a lot of snow equipment. >> shepard: whoever is working in our washington newsroom tomorrow should be allowed to have the day off. eve...

Paralyze parts of the region with with up to 2 feet of snow. you saw the live shot earlier from washington, d.c. the last thing they need. this is roanoke, virginia, and cnns reynolds wolf now live from alexandria. every time we see you, the snow becomes heavier and heavier, reynolds. this is just the beginning of it. >> reporter: i know, it really is, don. it is hard to believe. as you mentioned, possibly two feet of snowfall right here, the second big snowfall of the winter season. from this v...

Nashville, tennessee, for the first ever tea party convention. whos here and what do they hope to accomplish? well have more on that in the next hour. >> reporter: im meteorologist reynolds wolf in northern virginia. in the d.c. area the flakes are beginning to fly in what may be a historic snowfall. road crews say theyre ready. the full story coming up. >> all right, thanks, guys. also ahead a lot of buzz about the war flick "the hurt locker" after its nine oscar nominations this week. well t...

Lack of a better term, almost like a giant bra, each of them filled up. this front end loader goes into each of the buildings and picks up the salt. it also picks up some of the sand that you see here in the back. the reason why you have sand and the reason why you have salt, the sand is actually used to weight the trucks, to give the trucks a little leverage so when it moves on the freeways, it gives that front blade of the truck better capability of pushing away the snow. the salt obviously he...