get there yet. the interstate 84 is over there. the off ramps are blocked. there are so many stranded vehicles that are parked just under snowdrifts at the entranceways to highways, on city streets, because people didn t heed the warning to get off the roads or they in some cases ran out of gas trying to get where they had to go. so there are a lot of hazards like that still blocking traffic. it could be all day today, all day tomorrow we re hearing before the roads are completely cleared of stranded vehicles. so again, the governor, state official here are saying stay inside. let them get their work done. then maybe tomorrow perhaps you can venture out. alex? those parked cars that are buried i hope they don t have the same problems we had at the end of 2011 when we had in new york city? remember that? that was like a week s worth of trouble trying to navigate through those roads getting through all the parked cars that were buried. ron allen, thanks for the live report from hartfor
believe is the chief engineer here. you can see how hard he s working. so maybe he s getting a little something extra from hilton because of his efforts. but anyway, all over town that s what s happening here. people trying to dig out and clear away. the snowdrifts, this is a pile of snow. the drifts are up to 4 or 5 feet in some places. there s a lot of blowing snow around. as you said, the highest accumulations were up in the 30 inch range. overall it s about it s being called the second biggest snowstorm ever in the state s history. down here you can see the sidewalks are cleared. but this is downtown. this is about as good as it gets. the governor and others are warning people to stay in their homes because the secondary roads are still impassable in a lot of places. and they say one of the biggest problems they re having is that there are so many cars that are stranded. just behind here, you can t see it but there s the main interstate i-84. the on ramp is blocked by a car that
setback for venezuelan president hugo chavez after cancer surgery. his vice president says chavez suffered new complications and described his condition as delicate. chavez has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery earlier this month. back here at home. talks continue through the night ahead of that looming fiscal cliff deadline. the sticking points are still the same. the white house wants taxes to go up on those making over $250,000 a year. republicans want a higher income tax threshold. republicans want to keep the estate tax from going up. and there s no agreement on what to do about automatic spending cuts. those are set to go into effect on january 2. now to a deadly bus crash on a slick highway in eastern oregon. a tour bus careened off an icy section of interstate 84 yesterday morning and tumbled down a steep embankment, killing 9 and injuring more than 20 others. the bus was traveling to
consumers will weaken and for a slowly strengthening economy, the shock of less spending could be all it takes to push the country back into a recession. indeed. that s what many economists are saying. anna, thank you. we have a fox news alert, a deadly tour bus crash in oregon. blamed on icy road conditions. five people were killed and about 20 injured. it happened on interstate 84 outside la grand. the bus went out of control, crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment. about 40 people were onboard. 3,000 miles away from oregon, fox extreme weather. the big digout under way in the northeast. the latest winter storm dumped over a foot of snow. behind this snow, bone-chilling temps. some residents forced to endure
stay informed and really act cautio cautiously. no question. let s take you back to the beginning of this. lieutenant paul vance of the connecticut state police just confirmed that state police received a call for assistance at 9:41. we can only assume that local police responded shortly before that and realized it was a situation that required assistance from the state police. so it happened sometime in the 9:00 hour, this original emergency situation at sandy hook school on dickenson drive in the sandy hook section of newtown. if you re familiar with the area, you re looking at a google map s view, a satellite picture of the building. can we bring up the road view just to give people an idea of where this is? this is just off of interstate 84 in the sandy hook section of newtown. we re going to continue to follow this breaking news story out of newtown, connecticut where there are shots fired at an elementary school. we are keeping our eye on it. we ll take a quick break and be