Now melissa has an update on the crash. In alexandria, police say this is still shut down, glebe road at route 1 its a crash, two vehicles. Police still on the scene. Bw parkway 234bd r northbound, blocked from an earlier crash. 123 gordon boulevard, in a that is moving along nicely. 66 into town and out of town. 270 looking good north and so south as we head to the east. 95 and bw parkway, no issues right now. Beltway at st. Barnabas moving along. Happeni today, the man accused of killing a d. C. Corrections official is expected in court. Carolyn cross was found dead into her apartment in september. And since then there have been questions about whether the man accused of murdering her is mentally stable. Richard jordan has more on what willn today. Richard . Reporter hi, eun. Tkpwoerpbg. Will be a preliminary g but it will not be the first time that the suspect appears in court. He has appeared before on video monitoring, video conferences in court. At the time he was in a suicide pr
Good evening, and we begin with that state of emergency, more than four feet of snow in 24 hours. Tonight 225 million americans dealing with frigid cold, drivers trapped on highways, part of a key interstate in upstate new york closed. Travel bans in effect as we head into the night. Look at this time lapse in buffalo, new york of the snow rolling in over that city. Lake effect is not new there, but this is severe and early, many saying the worst in memory. This image from the new york state throughway covered in several feet of snow. You can see the tire tracks there. From the north in michigan, treacherous driving all the way to the south, record cold in georgia. The National Weather Service Reporting more than 1,000 records shattered with this system. Ginger zee is standing by with the forecast but we begin with gio benitez where drivers spent the day trapped. Reporter david, good evening to you. This is a relentless snowstorm mixed with brutal winds, dumping three to five inches of
11 degrees in ms. Sue law. Much more coming up. First this was a hot vote, years in the making. Senate democrats blocking the construction of the Keystone Pipeline by a single vote late last night. Yeas are 59, nays are 41. 60 vote threshold having not been achieved. The bill is not passed. Republicans say they are not however done yet. Good morning. Im bill hemmer in americas newsroom. Martha good morning. Bill did you know it was cold outside . Martha pretty cold in buffalo. Those folks are really suffering. Im martha maccallum. More coming up in a moment. Meantime back to the pipeline story. Huge story last night. It would have transported oil from canada down to the gulf of mexico. Republicans supported that project, they have for years across the board. They thought it would create thousands of jobs. Democrats called it a environmental disaster. The president has been on that page as well. The vote deliver ad huge blow, potentially devastating blow to senator mary landrieu. For jo
Where more than 15 inches fell. We had to walk a far distance because they had to abandon their cars and had to get supplies at local stores. We saw whiteout conditions gusts 40 Miles Per Hour thunder and lightning. People on snowmobiles that appeared to be the successful way to tral across the region. There was so much snow that fell. If you are wondering what 60 inches of snow looks like take a look at the pictures in the area. There is snow covering doorways. When people open their front door and you have feet and feet of snow out there. Otherwise the rest of the country looking at cold temperatures as well. We have windchill temperatures parts of the east coast and gulf coast states. As far west as the rockies and california. It is a cold morning for so many americans. We are expecting another event as we head into tonight and thursday with several more feet in similar areas hit hard by the snow. Also as we head into the weekend a warming trend and rain is forecast across parts of
Yesterday. It shows the wall of snow closing in on downtown buffalo. So far there have been fivestorm related deaths. One was trying to push a car out of a drift, two shoveling snow, a man found in his car buried in snow. Mike bettis reports from near buffalo, new york. Reporter its a day of digging out after reportsetting snow here in western new york. Here in hamburg digging out riffly 40 inches of snow. It all fell in a 24hour period. Were seeing the two big trucks behind us. Two big semis. These are production trucks for the patriots lions game. They need get to foxborough, massachusetts. They have a long way to go. So many people stranded at hotels because they had no place to go and they left their vehicles abandoned on the side of the roadways. Im going to show you the little mashers right here. Can you see these . Its a little device, little pole they stick into the ground right at the curb. These are 4feet high. Look how much is left. About 8 inches or so. Everyone is buried.