affected pretty severely. >> reporter: trees snapped in half, overturned cars and widespread power outages. more than half a million customers were in the dark across massachusetts, connecticut, and rhode island, as a powerful nor'easter intensified into a bomb cyclone, delivering hurricane-force winds early today. >> a transformer blew. >> reporter: as the storm blasted the region, a fire erupted from an exploding transformer, sending flames down power lines. in houston tonight, the skies have cleared but unwanted souvenirs remain, like this massive tree, which came crashing down during the height of the storm into the home behind it, with a woman inside. she is very lucky tonight. she is okay. >> o'donnell: thank goodness, indeed. janet shamlian, thank you. well, tonight, a jury has been selected in a trial that will once again focus the nation's attention on the 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia. the jury will decide whether the