here at home, lebron talk he first time were hearing from him and who may have really been behind the firing. joe thomas making news today on his future. His comments for a while on where he may want to play. and the pab da video going home in usually snow free washington, d. C. 3 news brought to you by universal windows direct. youll be saying i love my windows. El 3 news at 6 00. thanks for being with us. were going to get to the weather in a little bit. E cavs play for the First Time Since they made a coaching change. the first step on to a championship were going to bring home. What its all about. the cavs bold move yesterday. this morning, we were all ears what james had to say about the fires. a large media turnout both local lue talked for the first time as the coach of the cavs. on to lebron. Ust as surprised and caught off by everybody. this comment youre about to hear right now confirms to me, t have called lebron yesterday on the phone and asked his opinion, but he knew he had to make the move. Ht up in the wins and looses losses. its not about that, its how we play and prepare ourselves every day. Why i was frustrated the bays asked me why guys won seven in a row why you you guys understand what i was stay saying. Sed that and made the change. like i said, we are respectful. grif sensed the move had to be about the move of the cavaliers yesterday. so there you have it. any mood that you picked up im . thats one thing i asked him, whats you could sense a difference, but whether thats going to translate into a championship yet or not, that remains to be seen. Eek in two and a half hours. from the courts to the stands and the fans. what do they expect to see the months following the bick shakeup. wale aliyu is live with the the first game. were here where they rent nated the court. youre renovated. O see the players come out here earlier. they are arriving and will be playing their first game under coach tyronn lue. T coach currently in the nba at 38 years old. as he starts his first game a lot of times you see a coach season, the opponent is inferior so the coach and team can buildup confidence. Today, theyre playing the bulls. a conference rival. so well see how they do. The cleveland cavaliers. we caught up with fan about the game. Ach blatt was fired and now theyre i kind of knew it was after that golden state loss mercied pretty bad, but i mean, they fired mic brown after winning a record, eland. we cant keep losing to big games. were going to beat them n that, but you cant lose every time to game to golden state. Ebron is the first one that took the court as they started coming on the court. you know its 30 and 11. N 73 of his games. thats four is games. that cleans cleveland calf clears are half way true the season. Alf of the season under tyronn lue. so what remains to be seen is how they play. Ease their numbers or changes of getting closer to the western Conference Teams . chris. to our other big story. Blanketing the east coast. take a look. this is live right now in time square. you can make out the lights we often see and the folks are enjoying it. no car travel. the city has shut down all road travel. a springsteen show cancelled. the governor declared a state of emergency. up to two feet of snow forecasted for some of the popular parts of the new york. the National Guard in place in case flooding become as threat e. Theyre telling them shrimp to stay inside. i dont care how big a four wheel drive vehicle you have, the roads are barely passable. and what is always what situations, its one thing to deal with mother nature, our own citizens are create the greatest issues. a travel ban remains in effect for all of new york city where the snow continuing to fall. thats not the only place, central pennsylvania getting plenty of their own. parts of the turnpike closed right now. more travel bans are in effect. some travelers are stranded including a group of 40 john car Roll University students on their way back to washington, d. C. forecasters putting this storm in the top three of that regions history. we just showed you times square. here the white house. not as bad. a lot of that moved up the coast. but d. C. Got clammed slammed. we learned that reagan and other airports closed tomorrow in addition to today. tiffany is on assignment coring the storm from our Nations Capital tonight. reporter you can see the just a lot of snowfall. most places reporting more than 12 inches of snow here in the d. C. Metro area. on my drive here, the hotel being a mile or so from our center station sister station, the streets snow covered. the sidewalks hasnt been plowed. the main streets in the city and in the d. C. Metro area. ive sunny people out there enjoying the sun. some people skiing in the snow here. these conditions are going to continue throughout the day, of course today being the height of the storm. the blowing and drifting snow, the high winds, 40 to 06mile perhour winds. so at people are having a good time, driving conditions treshrous. the good news, we havent seen a whole lot of people out driving in these conditions. a lot of businesses closed in the washington, d. C. Area. weekend helping the sister station with their coverage and ill be bringing you updates on week. but for now in washington, d. C. , tiffani. Cleveland Hopkins not a clough of snow on the tarmacs but departures on the east coast are tricky. a number of cancellations backing up. we checked at the Canton Congress airport but most of their frights are no places of the country not affected by the storm. the mayor of new york could be throwing his hat in a mayor political race. plus, no one love as snow day than this guy, where the fun is beginning. It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master a scary night for a pizza deliver drive after she was gun robbed at gument. she was called for a deliver at grace avenue around 11 00 last night when a man approached behind her with a gun. he took 70 and a pizza. was seen leaving in a black truck. its a change for those most in need to get help downtown today. the 25th annual homeless stand down here in public auditorium. it provide the area homeless and veterans to get Hygiene Services or legal help or things in between. its a way to bring dignity for folks who have fallen on hard times. a shakeup in the face for the white house. michael plume berg is reportedly block burg is considering a bid. he told them to draw plans for a potential run as an friend he would be willing to spend 1 billion on his own come payment. look for bloomburg to run if they gnome mate trump or cruz or bernie sanders. its not the snow around while mraun trying to hibernate in the snowstorm during d. C. One of the citys most famous residents was enjoying it. they got tian tian the panda out there enjoying it. . Some say she was making snow angels. the zoo was closed but probably getting some of their biggest exposure. in d. C. , 30 inches of snow. its filing up and places lake new york city, they were on the line of the forecast so for new york, this has been a big change in the forecast. they were expecting a little bit and suddenly this morning, lets start with the storm. were getting the fringe affects of this as far as the clouds. and the wind you can see the big spin in del delaware, virginia and maryland, theres the center. coming from the atlantic from boston to Richmond Virginia and down to tied water in norfolk, virginia. they dont get much know snow there. its the flow on the backside of the storm pulling in cold air. thats going to keep us chilly tonight but keep us clough all the dots here are snow reports from today. new york city, thats jfk, the last hour they had 20 inches of snow today. that is more than double the snowfall that cleveland hope kens has seen the hopkins has seen the entire winter season. thats why this is a big deal and crippling. it doesnt say much for us the much of snow so far this year. northeast ohio ten to 15 miles you cant rook at the temperature tonight, you have to factor in the wind chill. thats the blue number. you see in many cases ten to 15 15 degrees cooler. temperatures 20 in wooster now but feels lake 7. Seven. if youre coming downtown to sea the cavs, the current temperature is 26. the mildest of all the knot east ohio towns but look at the wind chill down to 16 degrees. temperatures falling not low 20s. but remember the wind chill, five to 15 degrees with the wind staying up this evening, theyll start to relax a little bit as we go in the overnight and into the torning. big area of nothing between denver and cleveland. well see breaks of sunshine tomorrow all ahead of the area of low pressure coming in the west coast. its not powerful and moving fast. and the track of this one is tuesday. thats going help to bring some slightly milder air. were not going to be in the 50s or 60s but we have a good chance of cracking 32 degrees tomorrow and like make a good run at the 40s coming up on monday especially if we see sunshine before the cold front arrives late monday night into tuesday. heres future have you to show you whats going on this evening. there, the temperatures and wind chills much colder in the before you numbers. those are your wind chill values. eight to 15 degrees with temperatures in the 20s. as we go through tonight, tomorrow morning, temperatures mid to upper teens but wind chills in the single dittocammings for everyone. a cold start on sunday, look at sunday afternoon, 33 in downtown dlooefld cleaved, thats thanks to the milder air coming from the south. temperatures fall in the 20s 30s setting up us up for a milder start to the work weak. take a look on the forecast, a tuesday. in the morning well be 40 but 30s all afternoon with rain showers changing to showers and lakeeffect snow showers to tuesday. but we warmup next weekend as well. i love it wasnt pitchblack yesterday, it was nice. the cavs have a big game tonight against the bulls. remember, chicago beat the gaffes calves back on opening night. and tonight, tyronn lue makes thedy buy as the new calf head coach. regardless of what theyre saying, the prescription is out there that perception is lebron wanted the change. he said he found out about the decision yesterday just lake the rest of us. he said the cavs are fragile at teams still learning each other but winning is the goal. i guess weve been friends since i was 17 years old, at the end of the day, hes the coach and im underneath him and hell coach me and push me and ill listen to everything he has to say. why me and coach lou is tied up because theres a lot of players and coaches in this league it just happening to be me. lou says hes going to hold lebron accountable and everyone else will fall spa place. hes not going to try to do differently but do things be. he plans on making plays to kevin love and that would be good to see. he wants to go ten deep and what he says sounds good to me. our goal is to getting to the play i couldnt haves and we can short playoffs and shorten rotation. i dont want to run into the problems last year in the finals. guys went down and didnt have flow to their game because they didnt play in a while. so many stowes surfaced whose that happened to david blatt and other nba teams are interested in him. it seems clear that blatt that 34 mountain loss to the ware point loss to the warriors shook the cavs. the problems with david and this team run much deeper than lebron. eve been talking to these guys for the last three weeks. they were all fed up with david. there was very little respect for him. in if the cavs would have the stones to make this i didnt know if they would have the stones to make the move. its a gutsy move. what happens to joe thomas has to be at the top of the list. after the season, he left the door open he may not return. thomas was at the center today for the home show signing auto graphs. i spoke to him about the browns move and the future. he said its awesome they got i asked if they thinks he could be traded and does he want to be back with the browns last year . i almost got traded last year. but thats something as a player you cant wore about too much. i love the people in cleveland its me home. i love the city and everything about it, so i want to be part of the turn around. there you have it. thomas wants to be part of the turn around. see how that goes. i can tell you for sure, sports tonight is going to go well tomorrow night. we have plenty to talk about in the world of cavaliers. you buy that story it wasnt about lebron he wasnt the one controlling all the lev vers it was something larger . absolutely not. if you believe my wife doesnt peek out my ties, okay, think again. i think i will look around and see lebron behind that lebron has a nice tie collection, too. theyre protecting him. its not like he made the call that day but if he wanted him to be the head coach, he would be. thank you for being with us. we have a saturday edition of nbc nightly news of the coverage of that east cost storm. well see you later before an