flights. we have this big storm covered from every angle for you this morning. our jacqui jeras in the extreme weather center. allan chernoff is where a lot of people will be curious to know what s happening. la guardia airport and other airports where air travelers are desperately trying to get to their final destinations. we want to begin with rob marcio owe. he is in lower manhattan. a little different today. it will be a different day. stuff is not coming down, blowing sideways anymore. but we have a mess to deal with. reporter: we do. it has gotten a lot colder. where it is lucky enough to have slushy streets. it is freezing over right now. and the wind chills certainly down into the teens. where the snow is light, it will be blowing and drifting. we have been mentioning all of the record-shattering numbers for baltimore and d.c. much more than that. much more than new york city. this thing got into 20 states. about a third of the country. the size of this thing, scope of
drifting. keeping things slick on the roadway, but it won t aggravate much of your day. we checked the snowfall totals and these were the highest numbers i could find. 27.5 takes the cake in ortanna, pennsylvania. eldersburg, maryland, 24 inches. bricktown in 18. falls church, virginia and the brox had a foot of snow overall. it will take you to the weekend to continue to shovel this stuff. the latest winter storm, and this will be the top story across the southern plains states and into the deep south as we head into tomorrow. snow on the i-20 corridor. in the ft. worth area, could be inches of snowfall. could be airport delays. we have winter watches and warnings issued through mississippi into alabama and just stretching into southern parts of georgia. the moisture on the northern tier a little bit limited here.
her name is rio and she dances on the sand not fair, is it? we re talking about digging out from a storm and look at beautiful rio de janeiro. i said a beautiful sight right when we saw that dude s stomach. whatever works for you. it s sunny, lower 80s. 90s for the high. wouldn t you love to be there. i would love to be there now. but new york, the northeast can be beautiful with the snow. not when it causes problems but it is gorgeous. lucky. we got a lot of snow here and they don t have it in vancouver where they need it. the olympics is taking place soon. the torch on the last few legs of the relay around the world, look at thor record crowds welcoming it to vancouver. criss-crosses the city before
calls. you hear in the background, mom! dad! the kids are getting cabin fever. also cleaning up the snow and talking about $1 million an inch according to the mayor of new york city, michael blumberg s office. if you think about that it s expensive snow. ten inches in central park, so that s $10 million. and that s just that storm. that s a lot. thank you very much. no more snow days. unfortunate. they will be in school until august. thanks, steph. coming up, is it a conflict of interest? former federal investigators working for toyota. we ll have an a.m. original.
was gary prout, a maintenance worker who was going out every four hours to clear the capitol steps. three hours later we go out and do it again. reporter: i thought my driveway was bad. we ll continue doing it until the snow has stopped. reporter: the question is whether america will notice. democrats and republicans have been in a deep freeze for months. i understand that mcconnell and reid are doing snow angels in the south lawn together. reporter: want another sign of snowmageddon, check this out. we are in the rotunda. there are no lawmakers, tourists, lobbyists, even no media well, almost. does that mean we can report that nothing happened in washington today? no harm was done. reporter: we had to go across town to find a congressman, the aptly named darryl ica who was across the street from one of d.c. s legendary snow ball