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>> yesterday it was ice, today it's snow, snow, and more snow. coming down faster and harder than plows could handle all along the east coast. drivers stuck spinning their wheels are relying on the kindness of strangers to get free. and homeowners are making what feels like their weekly trip out into the cold to clean up. the system so large it barely fit in this satellite photo. the nation's capitol buried under nearly a foot of snow, paralyzing roadways, shutting down the federal government, and blanketing the national mall. near record snowfall is crippling baltimore as well where the city ...

As for the snowplow, imagine what the dog would make of it and what it would make or the door mat. probably walk all over it. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> the coolest thing. all right. thanks as always to jeanne. "ac 360" starts now. all right. good evening, everyone. welcome to round three. ice and snow yesterday, rain and sleet late today, and now back to snow. another big swath of it. first flakes coming down now on the washington, d.c. area. look at that. coming down hard. in parts of that area have already seen a foot of snow or more in the last 24 hours. and just like last night, the...

Dawn. >> hundreds of thousands are still without power there as heavy snow and inch thick ice brought down trees and vulnerable power lines. more than 600,000 customers are in the dark from louisiana to massachusetts and could remain that way through next week. >> the worst of it seems to be in the washington, d.c. area right now. snowing there, snowing hard. our joe johns is out in the middle of it. give us a sense, joe, of what it's like right now >> reporter: well, john, this has been a really hard day here in the washington area. people aren't used to this kind of snow. let me give you one...

Again, flights aside, the warnings continue. stay off the roads. for good reason. as brian todd discovered when he got behind the wheel today. >> reporter: an overturned trail the on the washington, d.c. beltway. the wheels are in the air, the guardrail is demolished, and police close the highway while they move a tow truck into position. >> they're trying pull it out. the driver is okay. suffered minor injuries to his hands. he didn't want to go on camera with us. he told me the snow and ice here, slush underneath the truck just lost his steering. the steering got away from him and he slid do...

Fall this morning, making what's usually a trying commute even worse. but the city schools stayed open. new york's new mayor, bill deblasio, coming under fire for that decision. >> what's it been like trying to get to school today? >> hard. because i almost fell. >> cold. a lot of snow. >> in the southeast, north carolina is still reeling looking more like the aftermath of an apocalypse than a snowstorm yesterday. people returned today to dig out their cars left on the sides of roads after huge traffic jams forced hundreds, possibly thousands, to abandon their vehicles in desperation. some too...