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Unfortunately, this is going to linger right through the afternoon. we'll continue to get bands of heavy snow. we could have an additional 2 to 3 inches in the city and across the northeast as well. so by tonight, this will move out, unfortunately just after the evening commute. so it is going to be a slow go. 5:00 6:00 7:00 as we're on the back edge of this. it is going to be brutal on the road. freezing fog was being reported at laguardia and still seeing freezing fog, very dangerous conditions when you have that and makes things very slick. >> you can imagine all of the headaches there at l...

Chance to get out of town that means the gates here at reagan national just outside of washington will be crowded with members of congress and their staffs. while outside, we wait to see some know plows, we could get up to 8 inches in the spot i'm standing right now. that's a lot for d.c. if we get that much, the federal government will almost certainly close up shop, they've done so for less. when that happens, remember, just a third of the 300,000 federal workers in the area are on the hook for any kind of productive activity during their workday. right now, things already pretty messed up f...

Expressway, on good day might be move 55:00 miles-per-hour. here it's moving five miles-per-hour. schools in the eastern u.s. have been trying to keep kids out of the mess. this map on the screen shows states where schools were either closed or plan to let students out early today, and as you mentioned, this is a real problem for air travelers. at last check, according to flight aware.com, airlines cab sold nearly 3,000 flights in the u.s. today, shep. >> the question that is scripted for me, what can people do to avoid the traffic mess. they can stay home. that's what mayor deblast you're. >>...

Let's head now to new york's central park where brian ennis is standing by where people are dealing with the aftermath of that powerful winter storm. >> reporter: well, there's about six inks of snow on the ground right now. the temperatures really will hit about 9 degrees, which felt about negative 2, overnight last night. now, the snow is actually, luckily, for much of the country that light, powdery snow, which isn't good enough for really building snowman in central park. you've got people walking around sort of enjoying as much as they can central park. these are the warmest temperatures ...

>> two words, direct flight. thousands of flights either disease laid or carn selled, and the frustration growing. many people being told it could take days before they take off. dan baker traffics these things. a ceo of flight aware.com and joins us by phone. dan, we heard one horror story of a family who didn't understand how they can go from one sunny location to another and now they're stuck. >> yes. >> we have a little bit of a delay. dan. >> yes. >> hi. we're talking about these -- the flight delays that keep mounting and mounting and doesn't feel like you can escape them anywhere in t...