they made $18 billion in the last quarter. that s the best quarter in terms of profit of any public company, ever. those are some of the top headlines on this wednesday, january 28th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. let s start this half hour with what millions of folks are doing today, digging out. some lingering snow is still falling but some parts of new england could see up to 40 inches of snow accumulations. in new hampshire two feet has fallen. wind gusts over 70 miles an hour punched out a 50-foot section of a sea wall in marshfield, massachusetts. it badly damaged a home. rob marciano has our coverage from boston. reporter: massachusetts pummeled with over 30 inches of snow. in hudson, even too much for the plows to handle. this is a significant storm and in many parts of massachusetts i think you could call it, in fact, an historic event. reporter: the last 24 hours,
on this wednesday. i m reena ninan. i m t.j. holmes. we begin with millions of americans digging out from the massive if not historic blizzard in the northeast. 50 million americans from washington, d.c. to maine did get slammed with new england taking the brunt of the storm where it is still falling and blowing. abc s marci gonzalez begins our coverage. good morning, marci. reporter: this was not the historic blizzard predicted for new york city but it did break some records farther north. wind whipping, the still falling snow. we re still in the middle of a winter storm of historic proportions here in the city of boston. reporter: that storm pounding massachusetts. at least 3 feet of snow already on the ground in some places. on nantucket, a whiteout with nearly 80 mile per hour winds, leaving the entire island without power. further north, the blizzard freezing and flooding the coastal town of marshfield. a stretch of seawall crumbling there sending the ocean surging in to
together, some people to sleep in their offices a little bit longer. we ll be hearing about this for a while. you can improve, everybody can do better next time around. learn lessons and it is worth it if we learn something. that s right. the snow is falling but tapering off in new england. as of last night, 3 feet of snow fell on northern massachusetts. lisbon, connecticut had 26 inches. eastern long island new york 30 inches fell. justin is here with more. good morning, justin. thank you. good morning. the northeast waking up to much better weather finally our snowstorm rolling out of coastal new england. still some cold air behind but the sunshine will return and improve the road conditions in a hurry. i ll tell you what is wild, though. while we have snow and cold in the northeast we have temperatures in the 70s and 80s over the south plains. record high temperatures in jeopardy over much of kansas, oklahoma and texas. reena and t.j., back to you. thank you so much, j
this morning on world news now, punishing storm. the blizzard in the northeast dumping several feet of snow with 70 mile an hour winds. we re still in the middle of a winter storm of historic proportions. the snowfall, the flooding and the big question, did forecasters make mistakes? caught on camera, fearless robbers breaking in to a jewelry store putting clerks in danger. how one employee made the madness end quickly. tough questions for the new england patriots at media day. in arizona. think it is a bunch of hogwash. the investigation in to deflated footballs an how the controversy divided the fans. it is wednesday, january 28th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning.
the warmth continues late week. the southwest will have some showers later on thursday in to friday and more snow in the northeast. reena, t.j., back to you. thank you, justin. no two words are more delightful to the ears of children than snow day but they could involve less sled riding and more home work. a pilot program in pennsylvania is enabling teachers to change snow days in to e-days where they set up lesson plans on-line for students to follow at home. students will have to pray for snow and power outages. it wasn t snow but water that caused this giant sinkhole to open up, partially swallowing two cars in suburban washington, d.c. a family of five scrambles to get out of one of the cars in the nick of time. no one was hurt. the water main break flooded several homes. it took four hours to repair the 90-year-old, 12-inch pipe. turn to phoenix where attorneys for jodi arias have rested their case in the death