on my head. it s been very bad, really mixing with some snow, some freezing rain. it s just kind of pounded us all day, hasn t let up carol. brian todd, be careful. please stay off you the roads. it s not worth it. the snow, ice, cold breaking records on the great lakes. this is amazing. right now, imagine this 88% of the five great lakes are ice covered. that number expected to rise. these were taken by nasa by the way. lakes haven t been frozen in 20 years. meteorologists say because of ice on the great lakes, the cities around lake michigan could see a cooler summer this year. as the storm churned up the east coast, it barrelled through the carolinas, created the traffic nightmare that paralyzed atlanta two weeks ago. in raleigh, commuters rushed to get home, only to get stuck for hours. david mattingly joining us from
the right made many angry. he s not backing down. he put out a statement people are going to have to basically pay the piper in november and worry about their own stance when it comes to facing voters. he is somebody who says that he s come to washington to stand up for conservative principles. he doesn t care about the way he s perceived in his own caucus. it has made for something you don t see often. the senate is at the end of the day a club. they don t like to anger, especially people in their own party. ted cruz is very different. we ll see how it plays out. dana bash, thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom, people around philadelphia were just getting the power turned back on after two crushing blizzards. now another major storm is on the way threatening to leave them in the dark again. margaret conley live outside of philly. good morning. reporter: good morning. this entire town was in a black route last storm. we ll give you an inside look at
falling. you can see just to my right, residents trying kind of shovel out early and get ahead of the storm. they ll come out every hour because that s what it s going to take when you have a heavy snowfall range like this. what are we expecting throughout the day? two things. remember, still ice in the southeast. a half an inch to an inch of ice in the southeast. crippling ice storm. unfortunately, more ice is still on the way into the southeast. the second part of the system is this heavy snow. see it intensifying because that low from the southeast, the same storm is making its way up the coastline. so you ll have two things going on. one, as the low makes its way closer, winds will intensify. you ll see snow coming at you. this heavy, wet miserable snow. and then as you warm up, right on that freezing line. some places will have this transition over from even snow to sleet and some places some rain. the closer you are to the coastline, there you go with the wind. the closer you tor
to restock or get new supplies from last week. are you worried about this next storm coming up? yes. my husband is buying a generator right now. he tracked one down somewhere on the internet. reporter: and some residents just got their power turned back on. this restaurant owner was out of business for seven straight days. a little hard. about $6,000 or $7,000 of business lost for the week. reporter: his fear, along with many others here, is another round of outages too soon as they wait to see what this storm will bring. getting up tomorrow morning. see what i got and get in my truck and drive here. that s all i can do. reporter: so far authorities that we ve talked to and we just got off though phone with the commissioner of this county, josh shapiro. he said advised everybody, reports are normal but, please, everybody stay off the roads here. carol? we keep saying that. i hope people follow that advice. margaret conley reporting live from philadelphia, thanks so
of snow. 18 states under a winter storm warning. people in new jersey are rushing to stock up on supplies. some say they re ready. i mean, we re all post sandy at this point, post snowstorms. i m a little tired of it. if we are not all prepared at this point for how many storms we have had, shame on everyone. we could all live off our pantry thats point. across the southeast, more snow falling turning roads to skating rinks, trees coated in heavy ice. well, those trees are now falling onto power lines knocking out power. 700,000 homes and businesses in the dark. at least ten deaths have been blamed on the storm. it may be near impossible to escape. 5100 flights are cancelled this morning. one of the hardest hit area, north carolina, now called the new atlanta after drivers ign e ignored warnings and got stuck on the highways for hours. trying to get home.