emergency management agency. and he knows exactly what is going on. update us if you will. good afternoon. we re certainly experiencing blizzard conditions across the state right now. we have winds in excess of 60 miles an hour gusts, we have probably close to 15 inches on the ground now in some places and it s expected to snow through this evening. probably the biggest challenge right now is power outages, whiteout conditions where we have to have trucks sit it out right now. jane: talk to me a little, too, because we heard, i believe it was the mayor of baltimore, saying that everybody needs to stay home now, that only emergency vehicles are out on the streets. is that right? and is that the situation in other municipalities as well? that is the situation at baltimore and one other county. the rest of them are just urging people to not go out right now. and the state of maryland is doing the same. we re closing roads as necessary, but we re not shutting down the entire interstate
he s set to be arraigned an hour from now in a revised batch of charges, and in the bottom box, a new crisis in haiti. contagious diseases, infections, malnutrition now beginning to claim the lives of the people who actually survived the earthquake. the death toll has now been raised to 230,000. the prime minister says it could take ten years in his estimation to rebuild that country. jon: let s continue to cover that double shot of snow pounding the east coast right now. the streets so dangerous in parts of baltimore that snowplows have been told to just get off the roads. the visibility is so bad authorities say they can t maneuver safely there. washington, d.c. the already buried in last weekend s storm is getting round two today. live pictures there from our white house camera. you can just barely see the pillars in the background. the snow has pretty much paralyzed the capitol for the
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
has all but canceled all flights going in and out, major air carriers have been canceling flights, of course, philadelphia has now shut down all the flights coming in and out of that airport. if you re going to travel, call ahead and be extra careful. a lot of transportation officials telling us if you have going to brave the roads, make sure you have an emergency kit with you in your car, make sure your cell phone is charged. it is an absolute mess out there, and traffic out here on sixth avenue has been going up and down the street, but certainly a lot slower than we re used to seeing. i remember when i first moved to the new york city area around 1989, 1990 or so, i was in one of my first new york city taxi rides, which is an experience unto itself, and i asked the guy what happens when it snows here, he said oh, it doesn t snow in new york city anymore. i d like to find that guy now. reporter: he might be out there cruising around. one of the things that we ve been watching h
bringing whiteout conditions from d.c. up towards philadelphia and in towards new york city. blizzard warnings are in effect. we have to take those very seriously. there s the radar now, washington, d.c. getting snow, baltimore, 1-3 inches of snow an area in the areas hard hit from the last storm system. north of d.c., they got 40 inches of snow, so can you imagine, 10-12 inches on top of that? we re going to have a really dangerous scenario. looks pretty outside, but mou we re going into dangerous conditions. here are the expected snow totals, 16-24, philadelphia, they got walloped a couple days ago, another foot on top of that is going to cripple this region. baltimore, 12-1, d.c., 12-16, new york, 10-14, and boston, 6-10 for you. so this is what we re dealing with in terms of blizzard conditions. this is why we ve got the national guard out, we ve got local authorities saying please, do not be on the roads, don t be outside if