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Snow and ice shutting down airports, closing roads, and stopping trains. and a nightmare at europe's busiest airport. heathrow turned into makeshift camps. hundreds of passengers cashing in on temporary mattresses on saturday. only one runway is operating at heathrow, and do not expect things to get better until after christmas. >> that storm system is causing huge headaches for commuter trains and road traffic. this is a look at a highway in belgium, an absolute parking lot. looked like a frozen parking lot. the big trucks and cars barely able to move, just sort of creeping along the roadway....

Emergency management agency. and he knows exactly what is going on. update us if you will. >> good afternoon. we're certainly experiencing blizzard conditions across the state right now. we have winds in excess of 60 miles an hour gusts, we have probably close to 15 inches on the ground now in some places and it's expected to snow through this evening. probably the biggest challenge right now is power outages, whiteout conditions where we have to have trucks sit it out right now. jane: talk to me a little, too, because we heard, i believe it was the mayor of baltimore, saying that everybody ne...

He's set to be arraigned an hour from now in a revised batch of charges, and in the bottom box, a new crisis in haiti. contagious diseases, infections, malnutrition now beginning to claim the lives of the people who actually survived the earthquake. the death toll has now been raised to 230,000. the prime minister says it could take ten years in his estimation to rebuild that country. jon: let's continue to cover that double shot of snow pounding the east coast right now. the streets so dangerous in parts of baltimore that snowplows have been told to just get off the roads. the visibility is s...

The mid atlantic this hour. take a live look, you wouldn't know it but that's the nation's capitol, washington, d.c., where even folks at the white house are told to work from home today. more than 10 inches of new snow, already falling in parts of maryland, and this system is just getting started. i'm jon scott. the national weather service is calling this blizzard extremely dangerous, and life-threatening. in d.c., roads become sog treacherous the plows are simply being pulled off the roads. it is too dangerous to drive steve centanni is in washington for us, what's happening? >> reporter: i...

-- has all but canceled all flights going in and out, major air carriers have been canceling flights, of course, philadelphia has now shut down all the flights coming in and out of that airport. if you're going to travel, call ahead and be extra careful. a lot of transportation officials telling us if you have going to brave the roads, make sure you have an emergency kit with you in your car, make sure your cell phone is charged. it is an absolute mess out there, and traffic out here on sixth avenue has been going up and down the street, but certainly a lot slower than we're used to seeing. >>...