dozens of cars and trucks, all in a big pileup in pennsylvania. president obama traveling to california, trying to get a firsthand look at that devastating drought. >> a 13-year-old boy, the size of an eight-year-old. and he has not eaten meat for two years or more. >> as the syria peace talks stagnate, aid workers are helping civilians on the ground. the big chill in the eastern u.s. now giving away to the giant meltdown, and more show is on the way. hundreds of people coping with out power, and flight delays and cancellations. it's going to be some time before things are back to normal. jennifer has been tracking the storm's aftermath, and it's going to be quite some time. >> the aftermath of the storm is just starting to come into focus. half a million people still without power. mostly in georgia and the carolinas and in connecticut, a state of emergency has been declared there as they try to keep the roads clear. 5 to 100 cars closed down part of the pennsylvania turnpike, and when it comes to air travel, air travel not feeling the impact of

pennsylvania is a commonwealth and things are little different. capitol harrisburg and then said, no, of course juveniles can have appeals come up but were not getting involved in a county matter. so i call the governor's action line. they were like, ok, we will make note of this. that said, who else can i call? try the aclu. so i call the aclu the situation they said, absolutely. you have a case. she had a right to put whatever she wants on myspace, especially a parity and to put a designer that is what it is -- and she put a disclaimer of that is what it is. they said, we would be glad to take that case but we won't get involved in this county placement custody thing. numbers, ae other woman at rutgers in new jersey. i was like, ok, i'm a jersey girl, maybe i will get lucky there. i call there and the woman was so sympathetic and she said, listen, i know a friend of mine who works at juvenile law center in philadelphia and since you are in pennsylvania, maybe they can help you. so i called juvenile law center and i kind of gave them the informat

rothfus of pennsylvania. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 487, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. rothfus, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. rothfus: thank you, madam chairman. americans face a regulatory burden with staggering costs to our economy and with substantial impacts on family budgets. a recent paper by the competitive enterprise institute estimates that the cost of federal regulars lations to the economy exceeds $1.8. it is predicted that $143 billion in new regulations may be finalized this year. these figures are very troubling. that is why the bill we are considering is so important. h.r. 2804 reforms the regulatory process and promote the economic growth we need to get our economy booming again and add jobs. the amendment that i offer today, with my friend, mr. barrr is simple and one that i hope both sides of the aisle will support. if it decreases employment or wages by 1%, it will be subject to heightend r

on the pennsylvania turnpike about 30 miles north of philadelphia. take a look. traffic at a complete standstill because how are they going to get through. it's a tangled mess of cars. amazingly no one was killed and no serious injuries. we're told icy roads, crews are having a hard time reaching the area. it comes as pennsylvania is digging out from a massive winter storm. up to 14 inches of snow reported in the area with up to .1 inch of ice. >> san jose firefighter reportedly facing drugs and sex crime charge this is morning after he was arrested at the fire station where he works. christie smith is live in san jose with details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. very disturbing charges coming out this morning involving as you said drugs and sex charges. these against children. and involving a man who has worked for the san jose fire department since 1994, that part according to his face book page. now the story is in the "mercury news," 53-year-old mario cuestas is charged with the sale and possession of methamphetamine and sex charges wit

and in pennsylvania, in fact, the attorney general of pennsylvania said pennsylvania's exclusion of same same-sex couples in unconstitutionalitying. the governor is, but she refused to. >> i need to step back and say we mentioned earlier the situation in arizona in, that indication the community is trying to get the governor to go along with them. but this is legislation that would say, look, you cannot serve game and lesbian companies in your business establishment, that doesn't seem like any sort of step towards marriage equality. >> yeah, obviously that's just a horrid law. that we urge in the strongest terms for governor brewer to veto. and it's just a tremendous step backwards that we don't -- we have been there in this country with laws like that that said that certain people are not welcome at the lunch counter or at the restaurants or at the hotel. and we truly think this is a law that is horrible because it excludes people. the marriage equality movement is about a common you man at this and this is a law that tries to separate us. and can you just imagine, you know, two welcome

and in pennsylvania, in fact, the attorney general of pennsylvania said pennsylvania's exclusion of same same-sex coupn unconstitutionalitying. the governor is, but she refused to. >> i need to step back and say we mentioned earlier the situation in arizona in, that indication the community is trying to get the governor to go along with them. but this is legislation that would say, look, you cannot serve game and lesbian companies in your business establishment, that doesn't seem like any sort of step towards marriage equality. >> yeah, obviously that's just a horrid law. that we urge in the strongest terms for governor brewer to veto. and it's just a tremendous step backwards that we don't -- we have been there in this country with laws like that that said that certain people are not welcome at the lunch counter or at the restaurants or at the hotel. and we truly think this is a law that is horrible because it excludes people. the marriage equality movement is about a common you man at this and this is a law that tries to separate us. and can you just imagine, you know, two welcome to a

if you're not, pennsylvania is a big state. there are a lot of parts of the state where the service may technically still be legal but the state government made sure it's inaccessible. a third of the clinics in the states closing in the last two years. this is not a unique to pennsylvania phenomenon. this is happening all over the country. anywhere, frankly, republic legislatures and governors made shutting down clinics a priority which is all over the country. in pennsylvania, specifically, the shutdown of a third of the state's clinics since tom corbett has been governor has had one specific and potentially really important legal consequence. not sure you'll see the story anywhere else today, but i think it may end up being a landmark moment. before the supreme court ruled in roe v. wade that states couldn't ban abortion, that a woman's right to have an abortion is a federally protected thing, before roe, in states where abortion was illegal, it's not like women did not get abortions. they just got them illegally. women made

that's in northern pennsylvania. you can see another picture here where there is somewhere buried beneath all that snow a barbecue set. i don't think many folks are going to be out barbecuing. roads are being cleared pretty quickly. the state of pennsylvania doing a pretty good job at keeping the roads clear and catching up with the additional snowfall that we saw overnight and keeping things nice and clear as temperatures warm above freezing. we should see melting and vastly improving conditions. i'm kate barker. back to you. >>> i want to check in with bill karins. fill us in on how people are going to play catchup. >> how many sheep are shivering right now? >> a lot. this thing is warm. i have to say thanks to my friend, rob smith, to lent this to me. this went to russia and was there for the opening ceremonies. >> i have a fan right here. i am burning up. >>. the nor'easter is leaving. we are slowly improving things in areas new york city southward. the snowflakes are coming to an end as i speak. we only got anot

governor tom corbett of pennsylvania, good luck to you and all of the folks of pennsylvania. >> wolf, thank you for having us on. that's right. everybody stay home tonight. >> i totally agree. sf sf >>> all right. coming up, the latest forecast and the catastrophic conditions. we're tracking the storm that slams the east coast. >>> they built roadside bombs, they killed american troops and now they are walking free. so what is going on in afghanistan right now? and a tea party darling, a 2016 presidential contender suing president obama and other top aides. i'll speak live this hour with senator rand paul. we'll talk about his lawsuit against the nsa. there's a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. around here you don't make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there ar24/

pennsylvania's seclusion of same sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional. she refused to defend the law. the governor is but she refused to. >> i need to step back, and say look we mentioned earlier the situation in arizona. in that case the community is trying to get the governor to go along with them. but this is allocation that would say look, can you -- legislation that says you cannot serve gay and lesbian couples in your establishment. that is not a step towards marriage equality. >> that is just a horrible law, we urge in the strongest terms for governor brewer to veto. it is a tremendous step backwards. we've been there in this country with laws like that that that said certain people are not welcome at the lunch counter or the restaurant or the hotel. we truly think this is a law that is horrible because it secludes people. the marriage equality movement is about our common humanity and this is a law that tries to separate us. and can you imagine you know two women come to a restaurant t have dinner and is the maitre d' going to say, consume are yo

all lanes are closed now in bucks county, pennsylvania. weather is probably a factor. >>> former oakland police chief says that the new court-appointed police leader is a travesty justice for oakland. he says robert warshaw is to distrusted in the department that several police officials are concerned his authority will harm public safety and led to more officers leaving. >> a federal judge terminated the contract of the compliance director after deciding to combine the powers of the director with a court-appointed monitor. >> a masseuse was arrested after a client's death in southern california. police say this woman, sandra gonzalez gave clients lip augmentation and detectives say she was injetting patients custody her salon. >> she was a licensed massage therapist and only been licensed for two weeks and she did not have a license to perform any type of medical treatment. >> if show is not licensed, and if there are others doing it, they should see what happen and stop. >> one of her clients died after going into cardiac arrest on wedne

i just talked to someone in the pennsylvania turnpike conditions. he said, basically, the accidents were caused when three or four tractor trailers jackknifed suddenly. he said it was irresponsible drivers driving too fast. >> we have seen so much weather here causing all these pour out annals in some of the hardest hit areas in the country. the sun is out today. a lot of the ice is melt the down. we did see some ice on the roads early this morning. around 8:00 is when this accident occurred. the state trooper is saying, no, this is not weather related. he says, like you were saying, people are just driving ir sponlly. they a irresponsibly. >> margaret conley, thanks so much. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store

pennsylvania has now broken a 140-year record. they have now had at least four snowfalls of six inches or more. brian, in parts of pennsylvania there are now up to 50 inches of snow for the season. and by the way, in delaware and pennsylvania, the national guard now called out. back to you. >> and tom, you have more shoveling to do i'm afraid when you get home. thanks for being out in it all day to report our lead story. tom costello in d.c. >>> and now we turn our focus to the south. you will remember just as we came on the air last night they were getting clobbered. and as we saw hundreds of people had to abandon their cars on highways covered in snow and ice. nbc's peter alexander is in charlotte, north carolina again tonight. hey, peter, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. the snow didn't stop falling here until late this afternoon. in total, this was the worst winter storm to hit charlotte in a decade. nearly 9 inches falling all evening long. crews across the city are going to be picking up snow and trying

we will continue to keep an eye on this for you, it will be hours before the pennsylvania turnpike is flowing again just outside philly. back to you. >> looked terrible out there, thank you for that report. you should have an easier time getting around louden county, here is what we found. >> this is a day to clean up and dig out, a lot of the dirty work has been done. the plows have gone through most of the major streets now going into the neighborhood streets. but that leaves behind a huge pile, mounds of snow along the shoulders of the road and in some cases, you may not know what you may find underneath it all, there's a car unde. a foot of heavy snow weighing down those that just want to get out. some cars with flat tires and others are buried in a pile of snow. a new day to deal with yesterday's problem. bruce adams cleared off his van. but he still has his other car to break free. >> the worst is over, so, now it's time to dig out and get back to normal. >> reporter: leslie lopez a took an our to crush the wall of snow and ice blocking his car. he is not done yet. he needs to k

especially southeastern pennsylvania. look at the temperatures now. not that we have a number that you want to see, if you don't have heat or power, down into the 20s. the cold air has come in behind us. the storm has pushed out to sea. in the great lakes, and the mid 20s across the atlantic states. intense storm, and it's off the coast, continuing to move away. pulling in the cold air behind it. we have light snow across the southern plains, winter weather advisories there. snow is expected. the cold weather will dominate the middle part of the country, but it's out west that you want to see, especially in southern california, in a severe or exceptional drought. better type of storm developing, as we start to see a lot of moisture coming into northern california where we need that moisture and the snow. especially up in the mountains where it will typically melt around june 1st and go into the reservoirs. we need a lot of moisture, but it's causing problems in washington and oregon here. along the columbia gorge there, wind and snow could lead to bli

northbound lanes at pennsylvania avenue, for the ramp for pennsylvania avenue, lanes were blocked. police are saying they should be open soon or open already. so far i'm not seeing a delay. so far it looks like at least one lane is getting by for now. to i-66, no accidents or delays outside the beltway or inside the beltway. eun? >> thank you. >>> it is ent'day, and from parks to museums to parades, plenty to see and do and much of it is free today. we'll give you the rundown of how to spend your day. >>> and it could be a bumpy ride this morning. potholes showing up, and they're potholes showing up, and they're beginning to do some damage. it's a wondrous sensation of clarity and alertness... it's owning your opponent... it's knowing beyond a doubt "you got this"... it's keeping your head down, your eye on the ball, and knocking it out of the park... it's getting in the zone... it's keeping on your toes... on target... on top... focus is staring the world in the face and saying "bring it"... focus is power... focus is life... and 5-hour energy is focus. >>> welcome back. the balti

in pennsylvania more than a half million people now sitting in the dark. the weight of the heavy snow snapping power lines, maria ines ferre reports from exton, pennsylvania. >> reporter: i'm standing in front of west chester university. this is where the red cross has set up its main shelter. the red cross expects people throughout the day and this evening. some stayed in shelters last night, others hunkered down in their homes with blankets and candles. this country alone, about 160,000 people are without power. the utility companies say it could take days before they get power back in their homes. one of the big challenges is not only the trees down, but also the ice that formed along the power lines. utility crews have been getting help from other crews from out of state. hundreds of workers from chicago have come here to help, the governor from pennsylvania has declared a state of emergency, and he has asked people to state off of the roads. >> maria ines ferre in exton, pennsylvania, your old stomping grounds. have they seen the worst? especially the

and bill joins us from bethlehem, pennsylvania. and good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you're kind of like the farmer's almanac for copies that that -- companies that need to know about the weather. and what do you tell your clients. >> we take a theory approach to predicting weather. and it's more math based than folklore, but we have big clients as you mentioned. what we typically say, not what the weather is going to do week by week, but how it will influence the products that and i buy. so levis, in a cold, snowy winter, we buy more jeans, but if we have a cold spring, we're going to buy more shorts. so it's identifying what kind of a product they need. and where they're going to put them, and so it's the business side of weather. >> what are you telling them about 2014? first of all, did you have a sense that it was going to be this bad? >> actually, we d we actually thought it would be one of those jpmorgan wal-mart calls, where back in the fall, this was one of the worst winters in a decade and we're having that. here t

and more snow in new york and pennsylvania. >>> are you smarter than a 3-year-old 3-year-old? we want you to meet a little girl from arizona. >> she's a card-carrying member of the mensa society. david muir got her giggling. >> reporter: her little fingers tapping that ipad. alex sis martin is laughing. >> alexis does her map, ready? >> reporter: she was able to label every one of the continue tents. europe, africa, all the rest. >> ready for countries? >> reporter: she labels the countries next. >> japan! boop, boop, boop. >> reporter: we met her after her afternoon nap. a typical 3-year-old at first, smiling and shy, leaving dad to do the talking. telling us about when he first noticed. you would be driving if the car and she would recite the bedtime story from the night before. >> she would recite them ver bait m. >> reporter: she reads at a fifth grade level. doctors have been unable to calculate her true score on iq tests. the average person, a 100. alexis, scoring a 160. sharing her score are albert einstein, steven hawking. she taught herself spanish from the ipad. wher

. >>> the aftermath of a storm, dozens of cars and trucks in a huge pileup in pennsylvania. >>> president obama traveling to california, trying to get a firsthand look at that devastating drought. ♪ >>> the nfl has now released a report on that miami dolphin scandal. the independent report details the bullying scandal involving jonathan martin and richie incognito. it cams three starters on the offensive line, it says all three engaged in a pattern of harassment directed not only at jonathan martin, but another young offensive linemen and a young trainer. jessica taft takes a look at how we got here. >> when jonathan martin walked away from the team in october it was like opening up pandora's box. details emerged that martin was the subject of intense bullying. on november 4th the dolphins suspended incognito indefinitely saying, quote . . . neither martin nor incognito have suited up for the dolphins since. and the nfl has been left to defend itself culture. it didn't take long before the public learned incognito had a history of bullying rookies dating back to his days at the universi

and bill joins us from bethlehem, pennsylvania. and good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you're kind of like the farmer's almanac for copies that that -- companies that need to know about the weather. clients. >> we take a theory approach to predicting weather. and it's more math based than folklore, but we have big clients as you mentioned. what we typically say, not what the weather is going to do week by week, but how it will influence the products that and i buy. so levis, in a cold, snowy winter, we buy more jeans, but if we have a cold spring, we're going to buy more shorts. so it's identifying what kind of a product they need. and where they're going to put them, and so it's the business side of weather. >> what are you telling them about 2014? first of all, did you have a sense that it was going to be this bad? >> actually, we d we actually thought it would be one of those jpmorgan wal-mart calls, where back in the fall, this was one of the worst winters in a decade and we're having that. here today, we're talking about

grain farmers in western pennsylvania were hit the worst, especially hard. fundamental to economics. farmers had no roads to transport grain in boat across the appalachians. so they distilled the grain into whiskey which they could carry in jugs and barrels by mules over the narrow mountain trails. almost all farmers west of the appellations had a still. and there was nothing less envy than government confiscation that could wipe out their pockets and bankrupt them. a philadelphia newspaper asked what was it that caused the revolution, if not this. in the first tax collectors, farmers met the alleged -- met them with pitchforks. thousands of farmers band together, friends secession. they wanted to march to philadelphia and overthrew the washington demonstration. the president responded with outrage. he squeezed back into is revolutionary war uniform in order military strike. it was every americans' worst nightmare come true. george washington turned tyrant, sending troops to crush citizen tax protests to assess the fish is done 30 years ago. copperhead hadn'

and this comes right after that pennsylvania highway turned into an epic pileup, look and imagine this -- the cars and trucks slammed together and stretching mile after mile after mile. our extreme weather team is back out on the ice and snow tonight and abc's linzie janis starts us off in pennsylvania. >> reporter: a treacherous commute for millions in the northeast. the roads outside philadelphia so slick, causing this three-mile-long chain-reaction pileup. more than 100 cars. dozens injured. turned that corner right there, and the sun was blinding and i missed the car in front of me by that much. >> reporter: the morning sun was shining, the roads mostly clear. but there was one problem. the temperature dropped overnight and the pennsylvania turnpike turned into a sheet of ice. >> i could see that there was going to be an impact. then, i guess the airbags deployed. >> reporter: the last blast of this nor east struck violently overnight w lightning and thunder snow. collapsing roofs. this garage in new york city, crushed. a foot of heavy, wet snow on a home weighs as much as 28,000 p

robert casey represents pennsylvania. senator, last friday, two days before hoffman's death, i understand that you sent a letter to the dea, following a span of 22 overdose deaths in pennsylvania due to a batch, as i understand it, fentanyl laced heroin. what more do you want to see from the drug enforcement agency? >> first of all they are helping but we wanted to make sure we specifically asked for help with this particular problem, which is a, in this case, 22 deaths weren't spread across the whole state. it was in six counties in western pennsylvania. sometimes the biggest cities in the state you hear about and any state, in our state whether it's philadelphia or pittsburgh, these deaths occurred in places pretty far from a big city. so helping us get to the origin or source of that is one part of the challenge. also, dealing with this question of the -- the potency of the heroin, as well as the efforts made by the bad guys to get it into the hands of younger and younger people. this is an issue that frankly was highl

. >> a pennsylvania woman accused of murdering a man told a pennsylvania newspaper that she had killed at least 22 people across the country. >> over at the olympics dense fod. >> the men's buy act len and men's snowboard cross have been postponed. >> bode miller. >> my brother passing away. i really wanted to come back here and win. >> when you'reki loong up at the sky at the start and we see you there and it looks like you're talking to somebody. what's going on there? >>as a ptor known for handling snakes during sermons killed by one of those snakes. >> i don't think idat's oungers. it's the word of god. >> in los angeles 2,000 trucks of concrete were poured continuously over the weekend. >> all that -- >> eastern's taken over in the record-setting all-star game. >> to the university of missouri showing their support for openly gay nfl prospect michael sam. >> -- and all that matters -- >> he picks up best ctdireor. >> i get they make a very good case for curbing immigration. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> i had to struggle watching my daughter play basketball because i wanted her

governor tom corbett is the governor of pennsylvania. governor, welcome, what has this storm done to your state. >> well, judy, thank you for having us on. this is one of many storms we've had as chro the commonwealth of pennsylvania. and we have received a fair amount of snow in different areas of pennsylvania, 15, 16 inches in some places. we have the continuation of the storms supposed to arrive tonight, about 8:00 and go into 3:00 tomorrow morning. so it is really taxed the patience, really, of the citizens of pennsylvania. as you know the storm last week knocked out power for over 800,000 customers in southeastern pennsylvania. we have power out this time not nearly as bad, only about 1500 customers currently down from 5800 across the commonwealth of pennsylvania. but it has really tacked the patience and caused a lot of closing of businesses about and a lot of closing of schools. >> woodruff: so how is the state coping and how are municipalities coping? >> well, you just get out there and you plow your roads an try an be prepared f

near the pennsylvania border. we have temperatures right around 30, 33, 34. >>> overnight i was speaking to all the traffic people that were monitoring the roads overnight. they said in washington and frederick county, tons of accidents occurred, especially involved tractor-trailers. the slipping and sliding, some jackknifed as well up on the northern end of our town. now, closer in, you can see that the beltway looks okay but i can tell you coming out of my neighborhood, the road was shining and glittering from the ice. on the major thoroughfares it looked much, much better. it is icy. just want to remind you the bridges and ramps freeze first. use your low gear this morning. avoid sudden braking. know before you go. you're watching us. you also have our ipad app and our traffic feature on there. i'm show you what that looks like later on. dial 511 out on the roadways if you need to from your hands free phone for more road information. now, down south in lusby, there was a very serious accident overnight clearing

>> pelley: >> pelley: tonight, worse than hurricane sandy-- that's how the governor of pennsylvania describes damage to power systems from brutal winter weather. chip reid ckout. anna werner in texas on the snow's long reach. and john blackstone on a phenomenon that could snap california's drought. today, the t.s.a. band additional items for passengers headed to russia. bob orr on the olympic security alert. a medical warning for women on the risk of stroke. dr. jon lapook has new information. and as the beatles invasion turns 50, anthony mason gets back to where they once belonged. >> we landed, and it was all perfect. we were number one. and the kid loved us. and we loved the idea of being in america. i'd never been to america. i'd never been to am captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. they activated ice-force level one in dallas today, which launched a fleet of trucks to sand slippery roads. in this winter of strange and severe weather, even central texas got a rare snowfall. more than half a mill

in southeastern pennsylvania, thousands of power crews, some from as far away as arkansas, are working around the clock to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes. clarence and rosalyn watts of abington have been without power for two days. they are heading out of town to stay with friend. >> the hardest part of it it is the cold, because it penetrates yr bones. and you feel it from top to bottom. >> it's colder in here than outside. >> reporter: pennsylvania governor tom corbett. >> this storm is, in some respects, as bat or maybe even worse than hurricane sandy because with hurricane sandy it was during the summertime. the weather was warmer. the workers weren't dealing with ice and snow. >> reporter: at nearby villanova university classes were canceled. the worst part of this was? >> definitely the freezing showers. it was the coldest shower i've ever had. it was awful. >> reporter: and there is a warning tonight, scott, from health officials. they are urging people not to take gas grills or generators inside their homes because two dozen people have already been taken to th

>> we found five properties listing him as the owner in harrisburg, pennsylvania. when we began looking at these properties, we were able to determine that three of those properties were vacant at the time of the murder. >> the property that needed the most work was on south 13th street in downtown harrisburg. records showed it had been built in the 1930s, around the same time builders used animal hair plaster like the kind found with wesley person's body. >> we're looking for slugs, bullet holes in the walls. we were unsuccessful. >> investigators sprayed luminol in the basement of lawrence morrell's construction property on south 13th street and ran into an unexpected problem. >> as we're looking at that, crime lab techs are explaining to me that in harrisburg, their soil's eastern rich and iron in itself will give false positives in a luminol test. >> but in the basement, investigators found a pile of debris swept into a corner. they gathered everything and sent it to the forensic lab. under a microscope, scientists found pieces of drywall with the same blue and

you have some sections near the maryland and pennsylvania border. of half hour ago, just sort patches and now it is filling in. the key would be what the air temperatures are where you are and where you are traveling through. that there finding is pattern is blowing from the west. a lot of snow and ice out here and it will be across pennsylvania to the north. we will have our own issues. especially as areas of moisture converge over the next few hours. here is the big picture. it is pretty impressive. as we go through the next several hours, we are not going to see precipitation moving, but we will see temperatures warm up from the south. what we have in effect are derisory for freezing rain all across the metro area. slippery spots, especially elevated, untreated surfaces. are going towe look at possibly temperatures near freezing for a couple of hours. it will change to plain rain as temperatures rise above freezing tomorrow morning. we have winter storm warnings. a couple of inches of sleet in spots. ice on top of everything else. these will take

franklin county sits on the out skirts of gettysburg, pennsylvania, a must-see for tourists and military historians alike. but the locals found the lives of melvin and joanne snyder for more interesting than those civil war battlefields. on sat may 25, 1985 joanne snyder left for work around 5:30 a.m. she baked pies for a local diner. when she returned home around noon, her 43-year-old husband melvin was gone. and so was his truck. >> she looked around for him, and observed some things that she felt were out of the ordinary, first of all, he left his tools out. melvin snyder was very meticulous about his things. he was very careful about his things. he would not have just left his tools laying about. >> joanne called some of her family to come over and help look for melvin. >> while searching the property a family member found a 25 caliber shell casing on the barn floor. but there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that, it will usually not travel through a human body, if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. it's not like the typ

in pennsylvania, preparedness for another winter wallop. means shelters are stocked up with supplies. >> ahead of the icy storm. volunteers in southeast pennsylvania cleaned cots and positioned them at shelters that might need them the most. with the power company reporting more than 600,000 people without power at up with time, the facilities were ready for an influx of families looking for a warm place to sleep. too cold temperatures forced 200 people to spend the night with the red cross in southeastern pennsylvania. philadelphia mayor told america tonight practice with devastating storm unfortunately is part of the preparation. u . >> we are on constant ready alert because we get snow december through about march. >> still, snarled traffic and closed roads are always a challenge no matter how ready anyone may be. >> in maryland having enough salt for any storm is a big part of being prepared. this is a sand salt combination. >> there are 95 salt barns like this one throughout the state with a combined capacity of 360,000 tons of salt. t

pennsylvania getting the worst of it. hundreds of thousands of homes still in the dark this morning. heavy snow collapsed and sent trees and power lines collapsing. residents are being forced to use generators, flashlights and candles. utility companies say restoration could still take days. all of this with another winter storm approaching for the weekend. >>> new developments for you in a story that cnn has been watching closely. the parents of kendrick johnson, they have filed a civil suit against the funeral home that handled his body. they say the owners and workers wrongfully disposed of their son's organs. a private pathologist made the stunning discovery. >>> chris christie leds to the loan star -- heads to the loan star state, but two of the state's top republicans are staying away. perhaps another sign the party's worried about the new jersey bridgegate scandal. also the job once held by david wildstein has been eliminated by the port of authority in new jersey. he's the official that said, got it, in the e-mail

in pennsylvania and maryland. after that huge ice storm left a troil of downed power lines and debris last week, crews continue to make repairs and another snowstorm is already on its way. you have the fox extreme weather center. hannah is going look like sochi when we are done with this. >> that might be overdone here. at least sochi the town doesn't have that snow. it's in the higher elevations. the cold air is in place and hasn't gotten above freezing. that's not going to change over the next couple of days. snow is moving across in the future radar across pennsylvania and upstate new york and parts of west virginia. by the time it's said and done, we are looking at a dusting to a couple of inches. it's not going to cause any problems for the most part. this is the snow across areas of the ohio valley in west virginia into pennsylvania. across the west, a lot of moisture here. we desperately need as much rain as we can get and we are getting it for the next to seven days it looks like a wet pattern and rain in

this is in pennsylvania. these deaths, there were 22 deaths in a span of a week in the six counties in western pennsylvania and this was sental laced heroin. that means there was sental in what is sold as heroin in the stamp bags. the medical examiner found it was 50% feintal and 50% heroin. it's a narcotic 10 to 100 times stronger than morphine. so, what these rehab centers in pennsylvania started seeing was they were getting two types of calls, don. one from the older addicts who were afraid they were going to die because of what was on the streets and the second was for the younger addicts. you heard from a 19-year-old who pretty much overdosed on this laced heroin twice. it took his friend killing himself to actually scare him back into rehab. >> can you talk to me, alexander. noloxone can cure? >> it's an antedote. >> are users thinking about this? >> most users, if you ask, are you thinking about the risk or overdose, they are going to tell you, if they are considering that, it doesn't outstrip that nee

jeff is from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. on our oppose line, hello. caller: i have two degrees, one from a school that could afford to do this and one that could not. i think there are 120 schools the pay division i football, maybe 30 could afford this. what else do you do to generate the revenue gecko if only one percent or two percent of these players is going to the nfl anyway, the other 98% are obviously not. and you have all the other sports like swimming and golf. it is a lot of moving parts. the majority of schools cannot afford to do it anyway. host: most football athletes are definitely not getting an education. what comes first, football or trigonometry? we will talk about this topic again. give you a sampling of what happens this weekend on booktv and american history tv. washingtonlympia, focus. we take you to some places with historical and literary background. you can see this all week long on american history tv and booktv. today at noon, we will show you our olympia literary programming. the author talks about the early explorers of th

nbc's chris paloan is in berwin, pennsylvania, and a struggle there. a lot of folks without heat? >> absolutely, barbara. the local power company says that this winter storm knocked out more of the customers than any other winter event than super storm sandy to put it in perspective for you. and the crews are racing around the the clock to restore the power, but they are saying that for some, it could be the weekend before they see electricity again. >> reporter: 5,000 power men going street by street in pennsylvania in the delaware valley to bring the power back on to nearly 4,000 customers. they are working 16-hour shifts and some have come from as far away as can d and chicago. and the mayor says that they are risking their lives to be there. >> and i have heard that they are called widowmakers when they are up there trying to take off the ice and the snow, because they could make one small mistake and be make a widow. >> reporter: the red cross has opened up several shelters to help people without heat. >> and we have three children and it is stuff tough on them, and you have

already issuing weather advisories in pennsylvania and ohio. there is a weather storm watch in new england as heavier snow is expect there had. that snow cleared out. high pressure in the mid-atlantic and northeast today, low pressure quickly moving through the midwest. that will bring that snow over the next 24 hours moving to the east. here's the track, timing of this will really develop from washington, d.c. up through philadelphia by 4:00 tomorrow morning. a little slippery on the roadways, but as you get sunshine trying to go through those clouds it might improve a bit through tomorrow afternoon and evening with a few inches of snow expected really intensif intensifying off the coast of new england. heavier snow expected, that will be tuesday evening and tuesday night. this will be followed by warmer temperatures by the end of the week. here comes the warm up from the south. this comes with rain and thunderstorms in the east on friday. >> thank you. he began his career as a cartoonist in the 1940's, and now in his 90's he's still at it. kn

wanted for murder in pennsylvania is waking up in prince william county. earl mitchell was all -- arrested after a manhunt. it puts schools in lockdown. police will release more details this morning. problemsare a host of plaguing the host country of this years's winter x. john gonzales is keeping a tab. he is in the satellite truck with all the problems. if you're still looking for tickets, more than 80% of tickets have been sold. russian spectators have faced long lines to collect those tickets. ticket sellers are set up at airports and railway stations. much as been made of security and safety of those traveling. recent bomb attacks have raised a lot of questions about how safe fans and athletes and families will be for the next few weeks. experts have called the threats as that the games unprecedented. to silicide -- two suicide bombers killed 35 people. vladimir putin has been lobbying hard for these games for years. he said he hopes by hosting such a large-scale event, russia's image around the world will improve. thisw events in the games year. amer

cold temps are up in pennsylvania. they're expecting potentially a foot or more snow in the i-80 corridor on wednesday. low teens there. we're 20 degrees warmer for the most part here with some 20s here. down to 25 in germantown. it's 25 at bull run. 28 in waldorf and alexandria this morning. and 30 in crofton. even up in cross junction, midz 20s. about 26 up there outside of winchester. they had 4 to 5 inches of snow yesterday. great visibility in spite of the fact we've got mostly cloudy skies. 31. these are high clouds, not really doing much for us except keeping temps up a little bit. north, north east winds at 8. the windchill making it feel like 23 degrees. so today is sort of the calm before the next storm system with that rain and ice moving in, especially northwest of d.c. tonight. critical times from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. that means tomorrow morning it's going to be a messy commute. if we're done with the ice, it will still be raining but i urge you, i urge school administrators if you can, don't cancel the

closer to three around the pennsylvania border. we will have more coming up in a few minutes. >> you can count on abc sevens keep you ahead of the letter -- weather. team will have the latest and conditions on the road starting tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. right here. >> the constant winter weather is having a big impact on some area businesses. one of those businesses are suffering, others are doing well. rebecca cooper will show us all about it. >> there are some winners and losers for more losers. the storms are costing the u.s. economy $15 billion. look over my shoulder at this store. it is hard to draw window shoppers into the store when the snow was still higher than the window and doors. this is a family owned business that likes to offer reliability. they have been opened every day since the snow. some customers reducing the storm as a refuge. serviceser a lot of that you can operate your business from here.

. >>> it's a strange sight for some folks in pennsylvania. >> they woke up in theni morng and they were, like, what the heck? >> see what it takes to make a snow roller. >>> the pilot carefully lands a chopper on snow. >> it's on what they call skids. >> why skids is a good word for this. >>> plus, ipad minis are great for a million things. now get the buzzword for your shot to win one. >>> and what could make a 6-year-old little brother -- >> react like this. >> what's wrong? >> now meet the big brother behind the great prank. >>> i have some video exclusively obtained by our friends at yxyz in detroit that shows an opener is cut on camera you could say. this video shows a woman shortly after she was brought into the warren police station in michigan. according to reports she was arrested for trashing a local motel room. watch what happens. something a little bizarre, something you don't see caught on camera inside a police station. >> it's, like, a haircut, impromptu haircut. >> that's exactly right. you see her put in what looks like a restraint chair and you see an officer begin cut

another 2 inches of snow from great lakes to pennsylvania. showers south from kentucky to louisiana. heavy rain, more than 6 inches in many areas, for western washington, oregon and northern california. >> temperatures will be around 10 degrees below normal for new england and down into the south. but warming as you move across to the west. >>> breaking news this morning from europe. the confirmed hijacking of an airliner. the ethiopian airline 767 landed in geneva, more than 400 miles from its destination in rome. the aircraft is safely on the runway in geneva. they say the plane has been hijacked and one man has been taken into custody. the airline says they're working to get all passengers to their intended destinations. we'll continue to stay on top of this breaking story. >>> in colorado, an investigation into another flight. recovery efforts will begin this morning for the three victims of a small plane crash near telluride. the aircraft had just taken off from the telluride airport when it disappeared. the wreckage was eventually locat

pennsylvania by far the hardest hit out of many states suffering outages today. yet another blow to another region where winter blues are growing. >> i think it's five or six right now in southeastern pennsylvania that are not -- on generator. this winter storm has had a direct impact all across the state of pennsylvania. >> reporter: in indiana, it wasn't ice that posed the biggest threat to drivers. fast falling snow made roads treacherous. folks digging out cars on some streets, spinning out on others. in new jersey an elderly couple had to be rescued when their car stalled in three feet of water. those on mass transit faced a different set of problems. new york city's subways and commuter trains have long delays and some cancellations leaving trains overcrowded and passengers frustrated. >> i'm just jammed into here with everybody else. >> my god. this is worse than i've ever seen. >> reporter: slushy, slippery streets made it tough to get around. pedestrians worked together to navigate flooded intersections. >> it's a real pain in the neck. but i guess if we

much of pennsylvania woke up this morning to buzzing sounds of repair. roads were blocked by fallen trees and downed power lines cutting off electricity for more than 800,000 customers at the height of the storm. donna graham and her two daughters woke up to a very cold house. did you think, i need to buy a generator? >> well, we say that every time the power goes out and we never get one. but now we're going to get one, right? >> reporter: jackie and frank pedigree in maple glen spent the night close to the fireplace in their den. she slept on the couch, he slept on the recliner. this is your central heating right now? >> yes. >> reporter: like the pedigrees, there are still more than 400,000 without power with parts of the state declaring a disaster emergency. >> it will actually be a third more people than were here during hurricane sandy. >> reporter: some 3500 workers have come from as far away as arkansas to help repair the lines. but first, they have to remove the downed trees. >> this really goes on record as the second worst storm in our company

this is northbound on pennsylvania avenue. it is only the left lane getting by. all southbound lanes are open at this time. everything is looking good on the beltway between the two bridges. things are looking good as you come from the wilson bridge. you are good to go. no problems on 95 in virginia. things look good from fredericksburg and to the beltway. belts are moving into the way as well. rail opens at 5 a.m. this morning and operates on a saturday schedule. >> we are following some breaking news. ethiopian airline pilot has been arrested for hijacking the pop -- airline. >> it is unbelievable. able that they were facing a terrorist act. in a press conference minutes ago, this is a copilot hijacked the jetliner seeking asylum. this was police say he is in his early 30's. the pilot went to the restroom and he took control of the plane. doorosed the protective and peered the plane off its original course from rome. he took the plane to geneva. he circled over geneva talking to air traffic controllers. grant asylum if he allow them to board the plane. the use