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white. >> we didn't even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it's the craziest thing i've ever been involved in. >> more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. >> this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you're getting a little bit of wr...

good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. is there movement on capitol hill? we are watching closely this morning as standoff over who will be the next house speaker has now entered its third day. california republican kevin mccarthy failed to secure the votes needed after a total now of six rounds of voting, but, after furious negotiations last night, lots of coffee, new major concessions to his hard line opponents, mccarthy's speaker bid could be showing new signs of life. hard line members who is held out against his speakership are still meeting behind closed doors. >> th...

Trees fall. we saw them here in san francisco where a tree fell on a moving car. that family was able to get out of the car as well. it is a beautiful bay bridge behind me and the calm water here. i checked the radar. there's another band that's coming in. between that we see flooding roads a concern, rudd slides, mudslides a concern. we have feet of snow from the previous store in the sierra. we could see 1-3 more feet from this storm alone. another storm expected to come friday evening as well. all of that lending people to wonder are we past the drought? i have to tell you the answer to tha...

And even as far south here. one of the computer models depicted upwards of 5 feet of snow in some of the higher elevations of the sierra nevada. central and northern california. building the snow pack. that's good. we know about the well advertised drought that's ongoing across the state of california. in fact, the entire western u.s. 99% of the state of california under drought conditions. when you start to see precipitation, add in multiple storms like this. you put in dents every time the storms come through in the drought numbers. this is what we need to see and could cause travel delays. ...

Way place but they got crushed. some people did at the zoo. this elephant having a lot of fun in the snow. also, we watched a lot of cars get stranded. >> that's so cute! >> it's cute to the there. oregon doesn't get a lot of snow like that. this is the final storm that's going through california. it just got done raining in san francisco. some of that rain is now moving into central portions of california. more snow in the mountains today. but this storm is not even close to his biggest of the last three we dealt with. total rainfall is only going to be about a half an inch to an inch of rain...