Liberal shift by iran . Richard engel finds out over breakfast. Reaching new heights. We go hiking with a man who can teach us all something about overcoming the odds. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Good evening. For millions of americans, this sunday is far from a day of rest. 88 Million People across 24 states directly affected by this weekends massive storm. An impact that could linger for days. In the nations capital, were learning federal offices and schools will be closed tomorrow. The recordsetting system brought 24 relentless hours of snow and powerful winds to the region. Leaving behind a major cleanup effort. Along the jersey shore, some towns under several feet of water today. Residents anxiously monitoring the swollen across the country, travel is anything but routine. We begin our coverage tonight with Miguel Almaguer in miguel . Evening. This is your typical washington, d. C. Street. It hasnt been plowed, only shovelled. Thats by the people who live here. Look at the cars. Three, four feet deep, socked inside this it is a mess in the city and many others, but this is far from the biggest problem. Reporter tonight, the snowfall has stopped but the life and death scramble has just begun. Outside washington, d. C. , First Responders struggle to reach a sick child. Two feet of snow blocking access in and communities. It takes a team to clear a path. When seconds matter, theyre losing even fire trucks need help from neighbors to pull away. Its been a busy couple days. Reporter with deep record snow slamming the east, firefighters hydrants are worried theyll lose homes and lives. Some 30 dead across the region, from new york to maryland and virginia. Roofs are caving in, unable to support all the snow. Theres a fire alarm going off. It was scary. Reporter with many out of patience, tens of thousands are without power. 2200 members of the National Guard deployed across 12 states. Help is on the way, but even fema cant find gas. Everybody is out of fuel. We drove, i think, 27 miles to find gas cans and fuel. Reporter some spots hammered down for a historic 36 hours. There was thunder snow across the east, and flooding along the coast. The headline summed it up. Slammed, buried, wolloped. Didnt tell it all. Records in baltimore and virginia. Chris cant get out of his neighborhood, or even see out of his our second floor window, completely reporter with sidewalks a disaster, now comes the rush to get Public Transportation back on track. Travel bans are lifted, but getting out of the house, much less to work, wont be easy. Bad . Its not been this bad. This is the worst reporter with government buildings closed and many schools cancelling classes tomorrow, today, many are hitting the slopes on capitol hill, or in their backyards. This monster storm has gone, but wont soon be forgotten. When the fun is over, the work will begin. We just learned in this government city that federal offices will be closed down, but those who arent going to work tomorrow likely wont avoid it. Digging out from situations like this will likely take hours. Erica . That, it will, miguel. Thank you. Beyond the snow, people are parts of the jersey shore found themselves dealing with significant surge. While governor Chris Christie said his state dodged a bullet, jacob rascon found a different story. Reporter its worse than expected here. Much worse. Hundreds of homes in West Wildwood surrounded, cut off and creating a virtual island. The only way around . A humvee. Were going to estimate some areas of the town, we had five to six feet of water in the street. Reporter where i am standing was a beach that extended another 100 feet, but in the storm, the tide rose, the seawall broke, putting the entire town underwater. Not even super storm sandy did this much damage here. Its unusual. Talking about debris, boats crossing your path. Its dangerous. Reporter dozens had to be rescued. Even carried out. Emergency management must have been back here eight times, taking people out. Reporter at least 100 homes like here we are again. The joys of the jersey shore. Its quite overwhelming, but its just theres nothing thats not replaceable. Reporter and West Wildwood wasnt the only shore town underwater. Sea isle city and ocean city were surrounded by several feet. Further north, the damage less severe. In belmar, preparation paid off. A drone capturing emergency dunes before and after. Elsewhere, tens of thousands lost power. Restoring, a priority tonight. Along the southern shore, the talk of cleanup is on hold for many, who still cant get into their homes. This is the worst flooding many here say they have ever seen. Water knee deep or higher, still surrounding hundreds of homes. Extent of the damage likely wont be clear for days. Erica . Jacob for us tonight, thank you. While roads in the region were being airports back on track is proving a much bigger challenge. With more than 11,000 flights cancelled since friday. Kristen dahlgren has been on airport duty all week here in new york. Reporter signs of life at laguardia. The lucky few able to get on one of the only flights out. Where are you going . Disney world. Reporter after herculean efforts by crews, some runways were reopened. But many passengers who showed up today were stuck. Just got cancelled. Reporter some have been here days, sleeping in the food court and worried what will happen if they dont get out soon. Im afraid ill lose my job. Reporter everyone has some place important to be. Peter carter is trying to get to his brothers funeral. If his flight leaves on time. Ill be getting there for the last hour of the funeral. At least i will have its hard, definitely not easy. Reporter the scene was similar at many airports. Jfk, crewed had to move 30 inches of snow. This is philadelphia. We have a snowcovered and icecovered runway. Reporter in the d. C. Area, all flights were suspended again, despite round the clock efforts to move the massive amounts of snow. It is a massive task, to get the airports, to get the runways, the taxi ways, the roadways cleared, particularly after a storm of this magnitude. Reporter on the rails, it hasnt been easier. Crews spent the day shoveling the tracks. In new york and d. C. , full service wont be back until at least tomorrow. While on the roads, even the plows had trouble at times. Back here at the airport, people are still waiting tonight. We are getting word more than 900 flights nationwide have already been cancelled for tomorrow. While things are beginning to return to normal, erica, it could be days before they need to. This is 9 news. We are interrupting regular programming because the Denver Broncos are going to super bowl 50. They beat the patriots 20 to 18. We are waiting to get into the broncos locker room with coach kubiak and the team. So lets go to drew soicher, how does this thing look to you. How cool is this, broncos going to the super bowl for the eighth time after beating the new England Patriots 2018 today, to capture the afc championship. I am mildly surprised, how about you, chad . You know, i thought a lot of the way the broncos could win this game thats what they did. They pressured tom brady which was the key, and Peyton Manning was clean with the football. So many of the victories during the regular season, very close, they had more close victories than any other in the regular season. Decided by the defense. What an amazing performance getting to tom brady. Ill use that word so many times when you and i get together, resilient, this is such a resilient team, offensively, and they lean on their defense thats what gets it done for them. The defensive line hit brady over and over again. When they didnt get to him, had some time to throw there was nobody open and had to throw it to the ground. You have to get tremendous credit, the blueprint has been clear, get after tom brady which is what the broncos did cover him up, man coverage, they did a great job of that and kept changing the schemes keeping them guessing. You know about defense, weve been saying all along maybe not the 1985 bears maybe not the 2000 ravens maybe not the seahawks three teams that won the super bowl with a dominating defense and a very average offense. Maybe they are i think maybe they are. You know all we can try to discount what they do, but they win the ball games for this team. Not the offense, not Peyton Manning it is that defense. It will be the broncos in super bowl 50 against either the panthers or the cardinals. Its been an nfc kind of year. Can the Denver Broncos win the super bowl . At this point, i find no reason to doubt this team. The defense steps up every time they need it. Peyton has learned his game to the betterment of his team. Broncos win the afc championship. 2018 over the patriots and head to super bowl 50. Two weeks from today in santa clara california. Much more coming live interviews from the broncos locker room as soon as they the confetti. The bay area is beautiful this time of year, just absolutely beautiful. I understand. Yeah. It will take longer to get the smiles. And well probably see maybe you there as well. So that nfc championship game is starting now, starting at 4 40 panthers with the cardinals. The 17th meeting between the two icons of the game future hall of famers, manning through two td passes to owen daniels of all people, remember we went out and got davis, now owen daniels is the hero, had a 179 lead. Defense best in the biz, did a number on the patriots, we even saw Peyton Manning run. The man runs like a baby giraffe. At a key juncture. Do your impersonation of vance walker when he sees Payton Manning running. Shock . Like all the feels at that point. This was manning 26 play off game in his career for brady, it was the 31st. You just cannot over state the way those two guys have dominated the afc for the last 10 years. Bradys 31 play off appearance is the most for any player in nfl history. The times brady and manning have played each other, he was 11 and 5 before this game. This loss makes it 11 and 6 from manning, or for brady. Brady does not historically do well in denver since 2001, played in denver 8 times. Brady is 2 and 6 in those games and because youre going to the super bowl, now, the broncos tie with the pittsburgh steelers, the cowboys and the patriots 8 super bowl history and that ties the most in history. And you know, heres the deal. The patriots are still the dominant team of this era of football, but now peyton is going to get that one last opportunity. And there are so many people who want to see him go all the way on this game. Absolutely. They are assuming it is going to be his last season. Now fans who are at mile high have the choice, they can either stay inside and watch the trophy presentation, or they can try to beat the crowds by heading out early and perhaps book themselves some super bowl tickets and plane fourth. Our 9 News Reporter is talking to folks out earlier, perhaps there. Reporter you can imagine kyle, there is complete and utter chaos and excitement out mile high. Our broncos are going to the super bowl, thats why these people try to get in and beat the rush back home. You guys came all the way from arkansas, we have janis and ronnie mobley, you guys came what was the energy like in there . It was incredible. We were here last week also, it was so much more energy in that ball game. It was so electric, you couldnt believe it. Now you guys, you said you are calling your son saying we need tickets to the super bowl because your broncos are going thats right. Talk about what it was like in there, owen daniels stepped up the first half of the game, two touch downs, what was that like. Denver looked great. The second half, the patriots really came back. They came down the field two or three times and i told my wife times. This could be the last play of the game, but they just kept coming so they played a tough game to the very end until the last play. You said, at four minutes into the last quarter, the last period, you said the that one play, would have been over then. But then at two minutes, and then at the end of the game. Did you ever have a doubt that Peyton Manning would come through . All right. Back to arkansas, clearly fans are now smiling out of the stadium. Hey, guys, Denver Broncos are going to the super bowl were stoked back to you guys. All right kristine thanks a lot. Didnt take long for these to come out. We have the official nfc championship tshirts short sleeve version, we have a long sleeve version, did i say nfc . Afc championship, you will need this when you go to california, i dont think youll need to long sleeve version. Im a long sleeve and short guy. Cool bay breezes, look at the bling on this thing . The head is a little blingy if you are into that kind of thing. The great news is they dont have to ship these to needy children. They are going to be snapped up right here. One of my all Time Favorite stories about what they do, or at least used to do they have steve was a great special teams player for the Buffalo Bills he stole my heart back in the early 90s got losses and he went on a mission to Central America and in a remote village met a kid wearing a bills t shirt and thought it was the greatest thing in the world. They are going to ship out thepatriot ones and kids half way around the world will get to sport the patriots. Las vegas didnt seem to have much confidence, the game overwhelming sided with the new England Patriots told 9 news they were 6 to 1 for the win, also vegas did not become a 6. 5 billion Gaming Business by the public. Now we have a little bit more on the tshirts, at least where they were made. A blue custom tshirt near i25 in almeida. Thats cool, local business. Here is the trophy, this is the afc championship trophy, broncos at mile high, several Colorado State troopers kept in safe hands, they tweeted out this photo of a few of their guys with the white glove treatment for the trophy, nofingerprints no smudges. That blue custom tshirt shop, they didnt seem to mind because they were busy printing the tshirt. This is big for a Small Business like this. It is a huge privilege, we are so excited been fans all our lives and we were so pumped to get the call to print these, weve been hoping ever since weve gotten the necessary equipment to print orders like this, weve really been trying to land these type of orders. And as soon as they start printing out which they have, they are going to turn out 360 shirts an hour. And do it for 12 hours straight. The game but wanted to watch it headed to the or theater. Our 9 News ReporterVictoria Sanchez was there were going to talk with her in just a minute. Reporter Peyton Manning has done it they are heading to super bowl 50. I am watching this game now theater. They are going to bring that in. All right dustin, how are you feeling . It is like a dream again going back to the super bowl, once again, and i love it like, man, i just love this country, this bronco country that we live in, and were going to the super bowl, baby youre getting downright here dancing. Down to the wire . It all came together. And all right thanks so much. The party is going to be wrapping up here a little bit maybe not maybe theyll go on for awhile. But denver will surely be celebrating and super bowl 50 when well see that match up with who . Were not quite sure but see later tonight well send it back to you. All right so you want to go to the super bowl, good luck to you. Be ready to pay. Tickets are on sale 4,000, to 25,000 on sites. Broncos season ticketholders are eligible for a random drawing that will happen at a later date if selected the ticketholders have the option to buy up the 2 tickets. They are up on stubhub and other secondary exchanges and people will be paying dearly for them. Well of course let you know when the broncos schedule that we want to see how you are celebrating. Use the wearebroncos. Show us your super bowl dance, champagne toast, however you and everybody at your house is going over the win, well be retweeting reactions from the players on the 9 news twitter feed throughout the evening. The game started out great fans got good weather for tailgating and the first half of the game. Kickoff in the mid40s with lots of sunshine, kathy joins us from the weather center, quite a bit different from the second half. Unbelievable right . Mother nature really contributing here by keeping that cold front at bay until done. We had a beautiful dry afternoon the winds were a little bit gusty at times but the front is here now, and were expecting some scattered within the hour. Temperatures are still relatively mild, 39 in dove valley, dia, and 37 in fort colins. We can see that the winds are starting to shift coming in out a front from the north. There is an area of low pressure from the west thats also bringing snow and wind to the high country complicating travel for those trying to head back into town from the mountains. We have Winter Weather and travel advisory, across 6 states including our state and there is the potential for up to 10 inches of snow by midday tomorrow and the areas shaded in blue. Denver is not included but the advisory around georgetown, winter park, estes park to vail and frisco. Showers and helens ranch and loan tree into the parker area, so far not a lot happening. It is going to happen, though, eventually that moisture is going to fill in behind the front as we check our future cast, you can see rain and snow showers between now and about 7 30. This really picks up in Idaho Springs and eldora and grand lake, redeveloping over night. That may be a factor for the morning drive. I do not have more than an inch of accumulation over night have snow that will continue off and on tomorrow but not more than an inch again in the afternoon. We are just kind of cloudy and windy but still basically dry in downtown denver. And we are expecting to see a few light rain showers possibly mixing with snow coming up here between now between 5 and 6 and into the 7 00 hour as well. Some of the headlines well be covering in our main weather segment that light snow this evening how is it going to affect your morning drive tomorrow . Once this system pulls away, adele and kyle, what do we have beyond that . It was so fun today, no matter where i was at the gym, at the grocery store, adele, the car line, there was just a sea of orange from babies to grandparents to parents, everybody had a Peyton Manning jersey on this afternoon. It was just so fun to see how this town and the state have really gotten behind our Denver Broncos. Everywhere i went. I wanted to take pictures because there were more people in broncos jerseys than not. High, thats all you saw was a sea of orange. It was fun to watch. I know. It just gives you goose bumps. What an exciting day for all of us. All right kathy thanks so much. Well, they are going to clear the field right now there is a lot of hardware exchanges going on. That there are. Thats our, kathy went to the gym today did you hear her say that . I didnt go to the gym today. But kathy went to the gym. So were going to wait for the broncos locker room, hear if coach kubiak, Payton Manning will speak at the podium. They have this little break coming up now, they dont have to do the, well focus on the while we wait to go into the locker room, a look back. Impactful i sometimes think than moving video. Game. Were seeing these for the first time, too. Ronnie hillman had kind of a tough game. Game going. I think cj broke one during the game. The in fact is no matter who they face in the super bowl theyre going to face a team points. Broncos defense kept them in this game. We have a chance to look in the tunnel now at the players coming off the field. Looks like these are folks associated with the team as well. Theyre wearing those sweet hats we showed you a while ago. If you look at some of the key players at the game you have to talk about von miller, owen daniels, scoring two touchdowns. Miller with that critical interception. Biggest game of his life and hes talking to mike. We have to look ahead. I think to what theyre going to face, a lot of people will be watching this next game, the nfc championship, because it seems like everybody has been talking about carolina being the Cinderella Team of the year. Cam newton has become the most talked about player in the league. For all the talk of manning and brady, this really has been a spectacular year for cam newton and what he does on and off the field is very closely watched, closely scrutinized. A lot of meme say hes the best days. The opportunity to see him play theres brock. There is Brock Osweiler there, who has been nothing but class this season, whether he backup again. We all know that theres a use him in the super bowl. Absolutely. Should peyton fall susceptible to injury and you know brock will be concerned. The depth of this team, at least at quarterback position, talent. And people will be talking about the broncos defense today. The broncos defense critical for the win today. Absolutely. And so the broncos defense is going to get one of its great tests of the year in the super bowl. If its not the panthers and cam newton leading that charge, theyre getting the arizona cardinals, with Carson Palmer and larry fitzgerald. So the best part of the broncos team will be called upon to do some of their best work of the year in the biggest stage there is. I dont know what more you can ask for. I really dont. In looking back on this game, feel badly for one player for