This is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. 85 million americans are now dealing with a blizzard that could well make history by the time its over tomorrow. So far, at least 17 people have died in this storm. 40 inches of snow have already fallen in glengarry, West Virginia. Up to 30 inches are in the forecast for new york city. Hurricaneforce winds of 75 Miles Per Hour created blinding whiteout conditions in virginia. 11 states plus washington, d. C. Have now declared snow emergencies. Tonight, coastal communities are flooded, hundreds remain stranded on highways, power is out in many areas. Planes, trains, and buses are going nowhere. We have a team of reporters covering the storm beginning in new york with marlie hall. Reporter pie 4 00 this afternoon, new york city was on lockdown, no cars allowed or buses and many trains stopped. This is why. There is a travel ban in the city until further notice. This is a very big keel. Reporter with 50mileanhour wind and more than two feet of snow and ice, mayor bill de blasio said new yorkers need to listen. People have to take scrr seriously whats going on here and recognize theres a lot of danger and a lot of disruption thats going to occur because of this storm. Reporter just a year ago, the mayor was heavily criticized for overreacting, closing roads and shutting down mass transit for the first time in the 110year history for a storm that turned out to be a bust. But today was different, significantly worse than predicted. Earlier state new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo helped a driver stuck in the snow. Once the snowfall is over, about three inches per hour, the plows just cant keep up with it. And thats when the situation becomes most dangerous. Reporter already, there have been more than 300 dispens, but none of them fatal. The n. Y. P. D. Threatinned to arrest drivers who dont stay off the roads, so this one was taking his chances but had second thoughts. We almost got stuck a few times. Reporter so dont follow your example. Do not. Reporter broadway took the remarkable step of cancelling all shows, stranding people who had planned to ride out the storm in a theater, including ticketed holder margo zimmerman. I am nervous on the roads that are icy and snow, so i felt like Everyone Needs to get home and be safe. Its all good. Reporter bridges and tunnels are also closed. Those who are here in the city right now are here for the night. Many area hotels are offering special snow rates for people who are stranded. Jim. Axelrod marlie hall, thank you. The full moon and high tides have joined forces with the blizzard to flood communities along the jersey shore. At cape may, the morning high tide was over nine feet breaking the record set during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Jericka duncan is up the coast in masasquan. Reporter chunks of ice the size of coffee tables flowed down flooded streets in ocean city, one of dozens of towns along the new jersey coastline with roads shut down by the storm. Officials barnegat issued a mandatory evacuation. Thats when i started getting like how much water are we getting in here . And thats kind of sort of getting into a little panic moke. Reporter Mantoloking Police chief worried high tides tonight is going to cause flooding. All of the water is going to dump into our side streets. Reporter how many homes are we talking could be impacted . Probably 200. Reporter here in mantoloking, a 45foot wall built after sandy is the only thing between this tremendous surf and these homes. Honestly, we feel a form of posttraumatic stress. Theyve rebuilt, right. Theyve come back bigger and stronger and then you have another one at your door. Reporter governor chris christie, who declared a state of emergency friday night, made several stops throughout new jersey today. This is my 17th snow emergency in six years so we know how to do this. Reporter tonight, the road along the masasquan inlet is deserted. Jim, the water behind me is rising by the minute as another high tide moves in. Axelrod Jericka Duncan on the hardhit jersey shore. Gereek athank you. There is worst places to be snow bound than board a cruise ship. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship was due to dock tomorrow at the port of baltimore. That wont be happening until at least monday now. For more on the weather situation in baltimore, lets bring in Mike Hellgren of wjz tv. Mike. Reporter jim, the snow keeps falling and the wind keep whipping here outside the maryland Emergency Command Center where we have seen more than 22 inches of snow making this one of the top 10 winter storms on record. Even plows had trouble getting through, and the roads remain treacherous across the state. We even saw a modified military vehicle with massive fourfoothigh tires. Of driver tells us he was rescuing plows and fourwheel drive vehicles that got stuck on the Eastern Shore in the coastal areas and ocean city, maryland, this has been a flooding event with moderate flooding and some damage. The best advice here is stay home and stay warm. Jim. Axelrod mike, thank you. Moving south, just a ways now to the nations capital, kris van cleave shows us how the blizzard is redefining the idea of washington gridlock. Reporter the trip up a snowcovered hill took a dangerous turn when this car got stuck and burst into flames. Conditions are treacherous for First Responders, even the plows found themselves stuck. And whiteout conditions almost blotted out the washington monument. A dangerous game of chicken played out on city streets pedestrians and drivers checking out the storm competed for space with snow plows and emergency vehicles. Mayor muriel browser there are too many people on the streets, both driving and walking. We need you to stay home. Reporter we found Myles Matteson riding his bike down the middle of 14ing street. Do you think its safe, though, with the cars out and the people out . Definitely avoiding the plows and slowing down and, yeah, just trying to stay upright. Reporter all flights in and out of town are canceled, and mass transit shut down. At logan hardware, they opened their doors. The past couple of days, we sold about 800 shovels. Reporter 800 shovels. Yes, 800. Reporter and theyll need them. This time lapse shows how the snow filed pooild up. Do you have a sense for the time line of digging out once want snow stops. D. C. Emergency manager chris geldart. Thats a big question right now. Its a big question for us as well. Reporter washington, d. C. Averages 19 opinion 5 inches of snow a year. This storm is on pace to bring that and maybe more in just one day. Jim, both the secretary of defense and the Vice President were supposed to fly into washington today. Their flights have diverted to florida. Axelrod kris, thank you. As kris just mentioned, the Winter Weather is also creating major disruptions for air travel. So far, more than 10,000 weekend flights have been canceled. And that includes all flights in and out of philadelphia tonight. Adds can beg reports, philly is expecting up to two feet of snow before the storm is done. Reporter these are basketball players from Duquesne University trying to push their chafter business through thick snow on the new jersey turnpike. They have been stranded since last night. Tom wolf is pennsylvanias governor. Some places two to three inches per hour, and that is making it really, really difficult for us to use all our resources to keep our roads open. Reporter tonight, there are more than 2,000 trucks plowing nearly 40,000 miles of state highway here. It is an area almost as big as new york, new jersey, and all of new england combined. Overseeing the effort is pin pen secretary of transportation leslie richards. Historically, they were saying this could be the biggest storm weve seen here in 90 years. Reporter outside philadelphia, there have been more than 80 rescues of drivers stuck in snow. In downtown, nearly 18 inches made for a playground with street skiers and sledders. Bernard chanin wants nothing to do with it. Im well beyond the idea of winter wonderland. You know, theres no romance to a blizzard in my mind. Reporter back on the turnpike, Duquesne University has tweeted, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that duquesne will be able to leave the turnpike tonight. Preparing for another night on the bus. We have been told that pennsylvanias governor is using the National Guard and every resource hes got to get that team and those people off of that turnpike tonight. In montgomery county, pennsylvania, where we are right now, the measuring stick shows 22 inches. Jim, among the reports of problems in this area, there are ambulances with patients inside of them that have actually gotten stuck in the snow. Axelrod David Begnaud up to his knees in it in pennsylvania. Thank you. David mentioned that 85mile stretch of the pennsylvania turnpike that is closed tonight in both directions. Among those stranded are members of the Temple University womens gymnastics team. Earlier i caught up with their coach umme saleembeasley. Coach, id ask you hows it going, but i dont think it is going. No. We are stuck here on the pennsylvania turnpike. And we have been here since about 6 15, 6 30 yesterday. Axelrod have you had any Law Enforcement knock on the door of the bus and check ow . Yes. About 6 00 a. M. This morning, they came back again to bring us some water and to check and make sure that everybody was okay. Axelrod youve been at this now nearly 24 hours. Is it still an adventure or is it starting to get a little bit scary . It is getting to the point where were a little bit have a little bit of cabin fever, but weve been watching our movies and rewatching them. So were doing okay. Axelrod coach umme saleembeasley, who is making lemonade out of lemons. Thank you for being with us. Youre very welcome. Axelrod ice has been the problem throughout the southeast, causing widespread power outages. More than 85,000 people have lost power in North Carolina alone. Mark strassmann is in charlotte. Reporter across the carolinas, more than 7,000 utility workers spent saturday turning the lights back on. Theyre working 16hour shifts and making progress. Right now, this is the of our storm center for the carolinas. Reporter inside duke energys war room, john smiths team coordinates the utilitys emergency response. Generally, are the outages in clusters . Yes. Theyre in the areas are that were hardest impacted. Any time you have ice on trees, you get a little bit of wind, the tree falls, hit another line, could possibly bring it down. Reporter this map shows the storms path. The dark pink area was the hardest hit. Ice there can be a half inch thick. And whats the challenge in restoring . Well, in restoring right now, one of our challenges is just travel. First you have to be able to get and assess the damage thats out there. Is the pole broken, is the wire down or is a limb on a line . Once youve assessed that, then you can go and start the restoration. Reporter duke energy was actually bracing for a worse stom storm. It originally forecast 800,000 people would be without power. The worry now is high wind, winds up to 40 miles an hour, jim, winds that could keep knocking down power lines and keep those crews working. Axelrod mark strassmann, thank you. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at wbz in boston. Hes on cape cod for us tonight. Where its apparently bad enough for the goggles. Eric . Reporter jim, it is clearon blizzard conditions here. If its impossible for a storm you talk about all week long to overproduce we might have that tonight, looking at tremendous snow totals, coastal flooding and, of course, here in cape cod it is an extreme winter night. Lets take a look at some of the totals coming in. New york to d. C. , astronomical figures. The latest reports are as of 1 00 in the afternoon. They only do official reports every six hours. Its been snowing all day, both cities likely to go over 20 inches of snow and come close to the greatest . Orms on record. Huge totals there, even bigger just to the west of d. C. Parts of West Virginia reporting over 40 inches of snow. Closing in on four feet from this storm. Now as we head through the overnight hours, very slowly, the storm is now what we call stacked. Its the same low pressure from the surface all wait up. Its slowly going to drift its way out to sea and pull these snow bands farther off towards the east. Finally by tomorrow morning, all the snow will be finally out in of into the atlantic. The other concerns tonight, we have seen wind gusts over 70 Miles Per Hour up and down the coast. The strong wind will be continuing into tomorrow morning and finally leaving us here on cape cod as we head into sunday afternoon. Jim air, blizzard that is living up to the name, very similar to what we saw in 1996, one of the most infamous on record. Axelrod eric fisher in the brutal conditions of sandwich, massachusetts. Thank you, eric. Some stations may be leefg us now for local coverage. Coming up for those staying with us, a gas cloud has turned a Los Angeles Neighborhood into a ghost town. Well hear from the gas companys c. E. O. When the cbs evening news continues. A winning smile. And no chance of getting an athletic scholarship. And that is why you invest. The best returns arent just measured in dollars. 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Its not really getting out of here very quickly. Some of the oh heavier bands started to move on out. The snowfall rates lightened up. You still got fallen snow from the poconos and Lehigh Valley back through lehigh county. Back toward dc, and into new jersey as well. Some of the heaviest snow right now is right about hear over portions of new castle delaware into salem county new jersey and seeing pretty heavy snow here in near Washington Township as well. Were going to have pockets of heavy snow come through automotive through the remainder of this evening at least until about midnight. Everything finally starts to move off the off the coast leaving a big, big mess behind. We still havent gotten an updated total from the philadelphia airport. The last we had was about 17. 7 inches, those numbers have gone up. Well bring them towel once we have them. The heaviest snow pushing off the coast by 10 00 p. M. And it is it start to move on out by midnight, maybe few lingering flurries along the shore line be thats about it. Ending between now and 8 00 p. M. In the poconos, much of the poconos region seeing the end just a few flakes falling, seven to the for the far west burns and Lehigh Valley. Surrounding suburb, northbound by suburbs nine and 11, cruel see the last flake 9 00 and 11 00 p. M. Recapping snow totals, two feet in east could have entry, Martins Creek at 23. 2, warwick 21. 8. Spring town and norristown 20 inches, 19 in pitman new jersey, 16 in princeton, new jersey, 15. 5 in wood side delaware and 12 an 18 foot in newark and hoe keys ig. Were talking now isnt coming to an end, windy, 24 will be the overnight low for us and a quick look to your sevenday forecast brings nicer weather, sunshine returning tomorrow and were headed to the 40s by tuesday. So the snow should begin to melt quickly. Tomorrow wet conditions are like outside in the city, well send it out to lauren casey. Well, its ear illly quiet on the eve of our snowstorm 2016. The city extremely quiet. Roads, of course, snow covered as is the cbs3 sky deck snow continuing to fall. And check outlet our roar, were just pushing over 18 inch, creeping up to 18 and a half. Can we do it over the next several hours . Well, ill bet we have a good chance at that t snowfall totals, of course, have been significant across the delaware valley, as have been the wind gusts with this intense potent system, dewey beach, 75 Miles Per Hour wind gusts, to put that in perspective. Hurricane force is 74 Miles Per Hour. Serious business, bayville new jersey 72, tuckerton, 68 Miles Per Hour, pleasantville 60 Miles Per Hour wind gusts in association with this storm over the last 24 hours. Current wind gusts are still elata 58ed. Wind gusts of 36 miles an hour in philadelphia, still pretty hearty, 35 Miles Per Hour in Atlantic City and visibility is because of the snow, the blowing snow and those intense wind speeds are greatly reduced across a large portion of the area, visibility down to about two miles right now in philadelphia, from my vantage point, two is about good. Maybe a mile and a half. If my eyes have 20 20 vision, so i believe maybe my eyes do a better job. Very good good, lauren. Thank you. The storm is hitting the jersey shore very hard. Residents and First Responders are dealing with lot of. Live in sea aisle with the latest there. David . Reporter jessica and ukee, this wind is no joke, just not stopping. Right now, its really a ghost town right here, nobody is on the road in sea aisle. Thats exactly what Cape May County officials and local officials wants. Its kind of the wind, i want to show you the traffic signs. You can see right now, probably doesnt do it justice on television and you probably cant hear the wind, i have to tell you that is the story. Also, the potential for flooding. Ok in about an hour, thats going to be high tide. Thats the second high tide today. Theres going to be another one tomorrow morning. A little bit before 8 00 in the morning. That is a concern because there was a little bit of flooding earlier with that high tide. There is no major power outages. There was a fire earlier at a local coffee shop. Nobody was hurt. Nobody was inside. But officials here are concerned most about the flooding and the wind. Theres very little snow on the ground. Thats where things stand right now in sea aisle. We will be here all night providing reports, 10 00, 11 00. So stay with us. Here in sea aisle. Jessica, ukee. Thanks so much First Responders were busy with water rescues in ocean city today. This is exclusive video of firefighters rescueing an elderly man from his home. You see him there with a walker on the 300 block of west avenue. Were told a neighbor saw the freezinging water coming up to the mans door and call 911 to help him. Firefighters also made water rescues in wildwood. The water was knee deep in some parts of town. Wildwood police used military style vehicles to say assist firefighters in those flood waters. More trouble down the shore. If you take a look at this video from earlier in stone harbor Cape May County, you see a piece of the doc in the middle of the road, a lot of flooding going on. Making travel on some of the streets impossible. Heavy snow keeps coming down across the region. Lets take a look at the conditions in the suburbs. Walt hunter has been in Chester County all afternoon where the snow really been pile up. Walt . Reporter jess and ukee, its still piling up. The wind causing drifting. If these piles and drifts get a little higher around me, Mother Nature will build their own snow house around me with walls and the seal, i might just stay here. Take a look at this video. We shot it earlier on. This will show you some of the scenes on the, hads like route 29, route 202, where we are now. And some of the other major arteries out here in Chester County. The plow crews very busy, the snow totals well up over two feet now. And we talked with some of the folks out battling the storms, people plowing and shoveling to get their first hand accounts of just how miserable it is. Crazy, unbelievable. Probably be out till sunday night. Weve been going at it since about 3 00 in the morning, around the clock, 24 7 knocking this how the. Working really hard and proud of the team. Stay in your house. Is all i can say. Stay in your house, let the professionals do what we do. Its crazy out here. People are getting stuck left and right. Its crazy. Reporter as you can see, the snow piles and drifts and the plows themselves are just about growing equally at this point. As everything continues to grow, now, the good news, as i make my way through some of these drifts is as you can see, this is simultaneously light snow. Its very cold. So it is not clinging to the trees and the wires. Virtually no reports of any major power outages. No reports of very few reports of trees being down across highway, thats very good news, but the visibility now that its nighttime with the winds blowing this powdered snow, its really hard to tell where the new snow is fall and whether were getting pelted with the old snow being blown across the road by the wind. Another note by the way, were well up over two feet. If you have a minute, if youre digging out or going outside your home or apartment tonight, take a minute to dig out that fire hydrant. There are First Responders all other Chester County. Theyve been sleeping in firehouses away from their families, so they can get to your home if theres an emergency. Give them a break, dig out the higher hydrant in your neighborhood. It could save a few precious seconds 90s of an emergency. Thats it live from malvern, Chester County were watching all the condition here for you, let you know whats going on back to you. Excellent point, thank you, walt. Eyewitness cam photos have been coming in. Some people just know how to ride in style. Look at elaine her dad is busy working in her newsroom, enjoying a slay ride through center city. That is one cute little girl. Another baby with the right idea getting royal treatment. Took a slay ride. We love seeing all these pictures. Send us your photos. Share your pictures on facebook, twitter and instagram with cbs3 snow. We want to show you now from the philadelphia art museum, you can really have fun in all this snow, thats for sure. Friends nicole and robert sliding down one handed with the cbs3 snow sign. Remember to send us your snow pictures as we mentioned use cbs3 snow. A lot of fun out there. We also found plow Truck Drivers pushing around the snow in montgomery county. Theyve been hard at work all day clearing the parking lot at this wegmans. Looks recycle a lot of people heeded warning and stayed off the road to allow knows plowers to to do their job. We certainly hope you will stay with us and joins. First a live look at bethlehem. A beautiful snow shot from North Hampton county. Well be right back. Family. As a Small Business owner, heres one thing you can rely on your business will change as it grows. Whether its new space, more employees, or better equipment, things have a way of moving fast. But if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you down. And thats not good for business. 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And heres what this huge system looks like on stormscan 3, were tracking the latest only storms panel and it is not done yet. Neither