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In the first round and now, there is another five. and the wind conditions are picking up. so, they are getting near white out, some areas where the snow blows across the road you cannot see beyond 100 feet. >> reporter: so the big concern now, of course, two things, number one, people who have flat roofs are concerned about that much snow now piling up on top of the roof. we've had a number of roof collapses in this area. the other thing they are concerned about is when this wind blows here, the trees get knocked into the power lines and power lines go down and the people are finding themselv...

Sandwiched in the middle of the blaze warnings and we have fox team coverage and janice dean is live in the fox weather center and peter duesy in the windy city and brian wilson is live in germantown, maryland. >> reporter: you'll have to excuse me, for looking like a giant blue oompa-loompa and i like to keep my oars intact. in germantown there is a base of 26 inches of snow and that is a lot of snow for maryland and we're not used to that kind of snow and add 5, 6 inches and the big issue today has been the wind. now, really, it is not snowing much but the wind is really blowing. the latest ...

Alert," a major winter storm is hitting the midwest right now before it heads to the east. it's crippling air travel and hundreds of flights are cancelled at chicago airport, causing headaches for travellers all over the country, peter duesy is live at o'hare international airport. peter, tell us what is happening. >> reporter: well, graying, here in chicago, as you know, they are used to their snow and this is one of the worst storms they've had all year and that is why the airlines have cancelled 500 flights already. and, if you are lucky enough to be one of these people, waiting in the secu...

Points. another huge event on the hill today at the senate judiciary committee where they'll mark up a bill to protect the special counsel, robert mueller and his investigation. >> peter duesy on capitol hill. thank you. >> sandra: let's turn to charlie hurt, opinion editor for the washington times. fair to say we heard from the president this morning and he was fired up. and really pointing fingers at what he referred to as obstructionist democrats. for now ronny jackson out as his v.a. pick. >> i think that the president laid down a marker this morning with john tester. i think this is not t...

That is as the republicans on the house intel committee end, shut down their probe into russian interference in the 2016 election after finding no evidence of collusion between moscow and the trump campaign. >> chris: peter, thanks for that. now, let's bring in congressman trey gowdy, a top republican on the house intelligence committee which this week found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. congressman, i want to begin by getting your reaction to president trump's lawyer calling for rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to en...