the mid atlantic this hour. take a live look, you wouldn t know it but that s the nation s capitol, washington, d.c., where even folks at the white house are told to work from home today. more than 10 inches of new snow, already falling in parts of maryland, and this system is just getting started. i m jon scott. the national weather service is calling this blizzard extremely dangerous, and life-threatening. in d.c., roads become sog treacherous the plows are simply being pulled off the roads. it is too dangerous to drive steve centanni is in washington for us, what s happening? reporter: i m on one of the city streets downtown, we were going to track the national guard activity but every time we tried to hook up with a humvee today, they ve been otherwise occupied, taking emergency calls, trying to transport police officers to scenes of emergencies, making sure that fire crews and medical emergency crews are able to get from their homes, which are already snowed in, down to the stat