The east coast digging out of a snowstorm this morning, areas blanketed in up to three feet of snow, over the weekend and welcome to your world this weekend im stephanie si. Many are shovelling out of the remains of a blizzard and many challenges ahead as the workweek begins. Major delays on Public Transportation and many roads are dangerous and airports in new york city and baltimore and philadelphia are resuming very limited service after thousands of cancellations and despite some picture perfect scenes outside they are urging caution for 29 weather related deaths since friday. 88 Million People across 24 states directly affected by the weekend storm. The impact will linger for days. In washington federal offices and schools are closed today. While snowplow crews did make some progress sunday those overnight lows are freezing any snow melt, snow plus wind and rising tides flooded towns up and down the jersey shore. Pennsylvania people are cleaning up and dealing with damage like this church that collapsed under the weight of the snow. Opened up the door to the auditorium and looked up at a gaping hole in the roof some 60 foot by 60 feet the firefighters told us. Reporter storm dumped snow on parts of the east coast paralyzing air and rail travel and cutting power to 200,000 people and members of the National Guard are deployed across 12 states. New york saw 30 in some areas. This storm was the second largest snowstorm in terms of accumulation in the history of this city. Reporter and while all the snow made a slow going some people braved the cold and winds and made the most of it. I love it. Its a party. Its a snow festival. Its play all day, its fun. Reporter Al Jazeera John is live from the nation capitol and john obviously where you in and around the capitol got a lot of snow. What is the latest there this morning . Yeah, well i tell you what rochelle and stephanie its a dogs breast fast, are you familiar with the dogs breakfast and apologies to anybody who loves animals but it means a huge message the washington newspaper says this morning and our camera man steve can zoom in on it but the headline cleanup could take days and the proof in the pudding is right behind me, look at the snow barrels which have been pushed here. The problems is in the nation capitol we have singing tracking roads pretty much on all main thurro fairs and worse this divisions where people live and the mayor cancelled business so the sanitation workers can come and do the stuff and better headline is the federal government has been cancelled today so that doesnt happen often as you know and it was in 1010 with snow magedden and all schools cancelled in the area and true of maryland and also virginia as well and the metro and under Ground Railroad which they were hoping would be up and running pretty much normal they kept the trains in the tunnels to keep them toasty and warm and didnt have to scrape the snow off and has gone badly wrong because three are working and others will come on gradually in the next 24 hours and the nations capitol is pretty much seized today is the headline. All right followup question before i let you go, john, there are some sort of glitch when it comes to actually determining how much snow fell, tell us about that. This is a great story. In fact, bending down, its in the washington, its their story, not mine but a terrific story basically the National Weather service has a very specific way of measuring snowfall, what they do is they its a white board apparently about yeah high and whoever is on duty at rayen national aport has to put it in and wipe the board clean every few hours and know how much the snow has built up and give an accurate measure how much snow has been but the man at reagan lost his board and it snowed so hard he couldnt find it and running around oh, my god what do i tell my bosses, i know i will tell them it was 17 and we know it was inaccurate because over in dulles its 29 and pchl w pwi is the same but Everybody Knows this is a lie. Its a mistake, a misstatement if you will. John is live in d. C. , john, thank you. For an accurate count of the snow tote m els and we will bring in Nicole Mitchell and you had a busy weekend as the east coast continues digging out there is another system coming in the midwest. Light snow very comparatively so here are accurate snow totals for all of us and i use washington d. C. And dulles where the total almost 30 and then you know there was a little less as you got further to the north accept some banding and heavy banding and new york at jfk one of the bands sat over the city and that over 30, baltimore 29 and further to the north less and boston was about 6 but a lot of snow to dig out for today. We talked about the deaths earlier, many of those deaths people shovelling because snow is heavy especially when youre talking about it in feet. Some parts of West Virginia were over 3 1 2 feet and that is a big concern. As you shovel out be very careful and with clear skies overnight and temperatures started to get above freezing during the day and refreezing and black ice too and there is still even though we are clear some things to watch. What we are watching now is this system in the midwest, this is more of a typical snowstorm especially for the midwest, just a couple inches and nuisance snow and can see this through the upper midwest through the course of the day today, that could bring in really more rain for the day tomorrow for portions of the east coast and maybe a little snow on the backside but we will start to seat some snow away with the rain and warmer temperatures. We need that for sure and thank you. Cleanup in alaska this morning after what scientists are calling the areas strongest quake in decades and warning the aftershocks could go on for weeks, at least four homes were destroyed sunday when the 7. 1 magnitude quake struck central alaska and knocked out power for thousands of people. No injuries were reported. A manhunt for three escaped california inmates enters a third day this morning and we are now saying the first images of the escape from inside this highsecurity prison in Orange County california and we report. Reporter pictures from inside the dormstyle cell show how the inmates escaped by cutting holes in the steel grate and through the plumbing and through other secured areas using a makeshift rope and authoritys released the grainy rooftop Surveillance Video from the Southern California jail, flashes of light believed to be the inmates. We will not stop until they are back in custody. Reporter f. B. I. And u. S. Marshals joined the search for the three. Two of them are in custody for attempted murder and one for mayhem, kidnapping, i consider them very dangerous individuals. Reporter the inmates were last seen friday morning around 5 00 a. M. And not discovered missing for 16 hours setting off a manhunt late friday night. We are depending on the information that is coming in, thats why the sheriff stated that your help and assistance from the public is very important. Reporter authorities are focusing their search on places where the fugitives have family and friends. Relative of the youngest fugitive in disbelief. I feel like he was manipulated or tricked into doing this you know. Reporter Law Enforcement say the jail break was preplanned and well thought out and the f. B. I. And u. S. Marshals are now offering a 50,000 reward to find the missing men. So this particular facility and has anything like this happened before . Twice before and the last time it was more than 20 years ago but this facility is different than the more modern ones because it allows inmates to move around more freely and its difficult to get a head count during the day. Hence the 16 hour. Thank you very much. Chicago has hired an independent monitor to oversee its Embattled Police department and Charles Ramsey will help guide the force as it faces a civil rights investigation by the department of justice and a number of high profile Deadly Police shoot ngs the city in resent moves and if he looks familiar he recently retired as the commissioner for the philadelphia Police Department and also previously led the department in d. C. Assad regime is making gains in syria and progovernment reports that forces have retaken the city of rabia the last major stronghold and that area is strategically and symbolically important and key routes run through this and home to all whites who support the Assad Government and john kerry says he hopes to have an update soon on delayed peace talks and scheduled to start this morning in geneva but there is no consensus on who should attend and kerry denies accusations he pressured rebels to join without preconditions and some demand they stop bombing and blockading rebel held areas before they negotiate and bring in simmons who is in turkey on the border with syria and andrew thanks for being with us and what more can you tell us about what is causing delay in negotiations and were they in some ways doomed before they even began . Well, stephanie certainly john kerry is using every nerve ending in his diplomatic skill set right now to try and hold this together but it would appear that the opposition groupings are not happy in the way the u. S. Is conducting things. There are allegations by some opposition groups that the u. S. Is putting pressure on opposition groups to go to the peace talks without any real ammunition politically at all. There is also complications in terms of turkey, turkey with the pyd and are kurds and with the pyd and its a Different Organization than pkk out lawed in turkey and not favored by the states and u. S. Deems it a terrorist organization but the pyd is seen as an ally of the u. S. In its fight against i. S. I. L. So that is one complication but the primary issue is that russia is something of a game changer in the way it has acted in direct intervention four months ago now with air strikes and many of the opposition figures want the russians to stop these air strikes particularly on civilian areas if the talks are to go ahead. Now, john kerry is saying there cant be any more of this posturing by the Syrian Regime side or indeed by the opposition, they have to get into proximity talks because what is going on right now stephanie is the proximity talks are effectively going on from a big distance and this is dangerous and could mean the talks dont actually get underway. Andrew simmons live from turkey, andrew thank you. In egypt thousands today are celebrating the anniversary of the so called january 25 revolution. Protests against egyptian president abdelfattah elsissi erupted there and around the world and it was five years ago when millions poured into the square making it the focal point of arab spring and protest led to the over throw of mubarak regime and meanwhile abdelfattah elsissi said pay tribute to the protest sunday during a live televised address and said the 18 day revolt was to revive nobel principles and found a new egypt and we have more. Reporter the army is on the streets, there is a stepped up security presence ahead of the fifth anniversary of egypts revolution and they will not allow protests and more activists jailed, thousands of homes have been searched, Officials Say the crack down is being carried out in the name of security but human Rights Groups say its part of a campaign to silence the opposition. Five years after egypts uprising hope has given way to total repression and egyptian authorities are terrified of another uprising, the activists that we have seen over the last few days and weeks are really warning shots. Reporter it has been five years since weeks of protests unseated a president who kept an iron grip on power for three decad decades. This was the mood when mubarak announced he was stepping down but the years that followed brought little change. Soon the space that had been the epicenter of revolt was no longer a place where egyptians came together and celebrated. The square became a place where opposing sides of the divide raised their grievances. At first the chance called for the down fall of the man who had taken over from mubarak and accused the official a military man of having hijacked can revolution of having failed to bring about democratic rule. Eventually power was transferred to civilian authorities, elections were held. The Muslim Brotherhood morsi was the first elected head of state and didnt take long for protesters to return to the streets. Morsis opponent said he was pursuing a religious agenda and strengthening his grip on power. Calls for morsi to step down grew louder and protests intensified and so did the violence, the military stepped in and dissolved the government and many Muslim Brotherhood leaders and the civilian president was installed. The military coup didnt bring peace and those with a legitimate government were violently suppressed. But those who backed the military action gathered on the third anniversary of the revolution to urge the man behind it abdelfattah elsissi to run for president. He did. His supporters say he saved the nation. His opponents accuse him of authoritarian rule. You have counter revolutionary force whose tried to hijack the revolution and major ideological and social cleavages in society and Islamist National divide. Reporter hundreds have been killed thousands including journalists locked up, Authorities Say they are committed to democracy and opponents believe otherwise, for them mubaraks Security State is back, al jazeera. Malaysia government is down playing the discovery of debris being linked to that missing Malaysia Flight 370 and found a chunk of metal off the Southern Coast of tie land and tie and malaysia authorities are looking at the debris to see if it matches the missing airliner and disappeared two years ago with 12 crew on board and flying from kualalumpur to beijing. The men that launched attacks on paris and showed some of them wearing camouflage fatigues and disease unhave authenticity of the video and had a threat to attack britain and several of them were also shown be heading hostages. Fight against i. S. I. L. In afghanistan is ramping up, u. S. Troops have been directed to go after the group and Afghan Government says its making progress and Al Jazeera Omar has this exclusive report from the after georgiaenpakistan border. Reporter on the front line of Islamic State of levante and runs through a vast Mountain Area on the border of pakistan and we had a strong army escort up to this mailitary and relies on them to keep i. S. I. L. At bay. We are defending our country and its our duty. Reporter off camera this fighter tells me he doesnt have enough bullets to fight. I. S. I. L. Is not far from here, their flag says it all. This is i. S. I. L. Territory. I. S. I. L. Emerged in afghanistan over a year ago mainly in the east of the country. Afghan leaders say it is mainly made up of foreigners and that it has attracted to transformer members of taliban and alqaeda and not long before we hear the vast valley of bullets the 50 millimeter guns are capable of subduing the incoming fire. Tense moments follow and fighters take their positions. There has been fighting and clashes for the last half hour or so we are about one kilometer away from the village where i. S. I. L. Is present there, they have their flag in that village and its a clear sign who is in control of that area. Now, the Afghan Intelligence military intelligence sources have told us there are about 4,000 fighters from i. S. I. L. Based in the province on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. Its mountain terrain. Over 10,000 Afghan Security forces based in the province on kandahar and are fighting i. S. I. L. And the taliban and commander says i. S. I. L. Will be defeated soon. Translator they posed a serious threat in the beginning but we will clear the areas and defeat them by march, tell i. S. I. L. They dont have a footstep here. Reporter Afghan Ministry of defense says more than 190 i. S. I. L. Tighters have been fighters have been killed in the last two months and not far from the base this market is busy, for many here i. S. I. L. Is more than a threat, it is a reality. Translator the government controls the main roads and basis and i. S. I. L. Controls the rest and carrying out executions. Reporter the afghan army is over stretched fighting a resilient army the taliban but the battle with i. S. I. L. Is different and wont be over soon, al jazeera, on the afghanpakistan border. Looking to boost economic ties. Irans president in europe today for the First Time Since sanctions against his country were lifted but can he drum up a business there. Plus the on going battle to shut down Guantanamo Bay and the goal is really about relocation, not closure. The only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and thats what were doing at xfinity. We are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. And this includes our commitment to being on time. Every time. Thats why if were ever late for an appointment, well credit your account 20. Its our promise to you. Were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. Because we should fit into your life. Not the other way around. Defense secretary ash carter supports closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. 90 men still being held there and carter says the shut down would be a good thing but would mean transferring prisoners to a new facility somewhere on u. S. Soil. Speaking over the weekend to cnn there are people in guantanamo we cannot transfer them to the custody of another government no matter how much we trust that