a deadly winter storm is moving across the u.s. it s already hit the state of missouri killing four people there and stranding a lot of motorists. the storm it was originally a midwestern storm. now it s heading towards the midatlantic and that s where our focus is at the nation s capitol. this is the snowflakes flying at the white house. well, people still waking up there it looks like. there s the capitol building. you can see wintery weather starting to impact washington, d.c. as we speak. and the snowfall totals coming out of the region, well, are pretty impressive i should say. st. louis just under a foot of snow. that s the official reading from the airport. kansas city has had about 4 1/2 inches. dulles international airport a
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huge storm so it stretches from north texas where pockets of freezing rain exist across parts of dallas early this morning. to the carolinas, and this is going to go toward the northeast now, it s going to combine with a storm heading through the midwest and the northeast from new york, the delmarva up to boston, could be dealing with a significant snowstorm come tomorrow night into wednesday. it s turning out to be a block buster looks like. we ll keep talking. thanks. one congressman is incensed about a sarah palin web post. that congressman wants to change the law after his colleague was shot. reaction from around the world after the attempted assassination of u.s. representative gabrielle giffords, that story and more ahead. [ male announcer ] we asked people all over america where the best potatoes come from. the best potatoes? idaho. idaho! idaho.
taking advantage of that. air tran has canceled all flights today. delta, i m told, is trying to get a few in and out. but obviously, it s going to be a slow go. charlotte, i ve run into similar problems and then the northeast has got some wind issues and the northeast will have more than that as we go through time. here is the radar. all right. the moisture is spreading itself across the cloints carolinas in through the mid-atlantic in the form of snow and sleet and freezing rain and will be stretching and reaching towards the northeast, combining with the midwestern storm so that will make for winter storms across parts of the northeast. winter storm watches have been posted from the delmarva up through boston, pittsburgh will probably see 6 inches. new york city could see 6 to 10 or more inches and boston could get up to a foot of snow, as well. not just the south for this one, kyra, although it has pretty much shut down the south. it s going to hit the northeast,
beginning to change over to freezing rain. and, this is all moving now to the carolinas, upstate carolinas, seeing significant snowfall from greenville up to charlotte and this system is going to make its way up toward the northeast for a blizzard. so, or potentially a blizzard there. unbelievable. it s almost hard to believe we had a white christmas across the south and now we ve got snow and ice storm that is really shutting this city down. kyra, back up to you. we ll keep talking. thanks so much. bonnie schneider is here in the weather center looking at this storm and kind of the bigger picture. what do we know? we just got word that air tran canceled all flights to and from atlanta. that is a lot of flights. of course you saw the conditions outside reported by rob. the problem is the storm will keep going and this time instead of snow we ll get more freezing rain across georgia, alabama, south carolina and it is snowing right now in columbia, south carolina. some of those snowf