elsewhere in the city, more etrys koppeling over, crushing roads, all this blamed on roaring wind, look at the size of that etry. listen to what happened to one woman and her family. we were sitting watching tv. we heard a sound, we thought it was a large car crash. it lasted about 30 to 40 seconds. we went to the front door. we seen a big tree on the front porch and know we can t get out of the house. meantime, the northeast is hit with a snowstorm. about five inches falling in ermt have. three people died in the state when their suv crashed head on into a tractor-trailer. this happening in killington. at least four other people were injured. this was the scene in albany, new york. cars taking their time as the flakes fell. the area hit with at least six inches of snow. it has been so mild for so long. storms and icy conditions causing travel headaches. there are 250 flight delays and cancellations in the u.s. so far this morning. yesterday ending at midnight the
currently operating in the dallas area. we ll have that for you throughout the course of the hour. we also want to get an update on how this weather pattern is now unfolding. for that, we get the forecast from msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider, joining us in monitoring the situation. eamon, unfortunately the threat for severe weather across texas is not over yet. we re getting strong thunderstorms with frequent lightning strikes just over the texas/oklahoma border and as our reporter on the ground mentioned, texas is experiencing all types of extreme weather from snow to ice to severe storms. now we have some new aerial pictures of what it looks like in the area hit by the tornado yesterday. just looking at this, it does look like it was a very strong tornado but the national weather service team has a survey team on the ground now evaluating it and eventually today they ll let us know what level on the ef scale this tornado was. when you are talking about total destruction it was
monsoonal rains. still got several weeks to go. before it is expect to reach inland. and again the indian meteorological department indicating this will be a somewhat below average rainfall season. so, kiddiconsidering that 250 mn people in india are farmers. this is an extremely important weather forecast. they need to get it right. they need the rain. they ve need it desperately. going to be less rain than usual. 93% of normal this year. okay. taking longer for it to come. right. that s right. thank you so much. now, clean-up and recovery efforts under way in texas after several days of severe storms there. bad news is though, more bad weather is on the way. at least 35 people have died in tornados and flooding in texas, oklahoma, and northern mexico. several others are missing on wednesday authorities found a boy s body in a river in an area hit hard by the storms. you are watching cnn
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earlier, and service advisories are in effect for commuters traveling metro trains and buses in the area. some of the ugliest images, the departure boards at airports in the area hit by the storm. new york area airports, more than 500 cancellations. philly international, more than 200 cancellations. baltimore, more than 100 canceled takeoffs, and here at d.c., regan and dulles, about 300 combined canceled takeoffs. arrivals are obviously impacted by that as well, and we are already starting to see some wind gusts blowing this really, really light snow around. and something else that wind is starting to do is drive the temperature, at least keep the temperature really low. in fact, the national weather service is predicting the wind schil could get as cloe as 15 degrees below zero here in d.c. the conditions are so bad, in fact, that there is concern congress might not be able to meet again on thursday, which would violate a rule in the constitution, so not only is the big storm creatin