escaped serious injury after heavy snow caused the roof of this garage to collapse on to their car. the storm knocked out power to nearly half a million people. nearly 350,000 in the washington, d.c. area. the house is getting so cold it s practically like outside. reporter: and in connecticut, this stretch of interstate 95 looked like a parking lot. further south, 30-minute commutes turned into eight-hour ordeals. i tried to get off at a couple of exits, and cars were spun out all over the ramp. reporter: the eastern storms have been relentless, eight since december in in places. boston normally sees about 42 inches of snow each year. already, some 60 have fallen. philadelphia has already more than doubled its yearly average, and so has new york. we have now had the snowiest january in new york city s history. reporter: experts say it s all hurting the economy. just shut commerce down. people aren t able to move. they re not able to shop. reporter: restaurant
seen monday morning at her home in van buren county. now, hensley s husband said when he returned home later this day, his wife was gone, the front door was locked, but her purse and i.d. were still inside. the grand piano mystery is now solved in miami. a 16-year-old is now facing the music for abandoning the piano on a sound bar in biscayne bay. nicholas harrington planned to make a promotional video using the piano to help beef up his college application. animal control officials in california are calling him godzilla. check him out. this 25-pound, 25-foot long reptile found strolling down the sidewalk in a riverside neighborhood, it freaked out the residents, as you can imagine. godzilla is a black-throated monotaur lizard which are native to africa and legal to own in california. quite a surprise to the neighbors. first lady michelle obama
does the white house care? and three days of rioting in egypt. a president under pressure. where is this going and what does this mean to the u.s.? good morning, it s thursday, january 27th, 2011. i m savannah guthrie. and i m chuck todd. just got through my commute from last night. thanks to everybody on twitter who kept you company? kept me company last night. it was the good side of twitter. anyway, if you woke up in the northeast and looked out the window and wanted to go back to bed, we wouldn t blame you. millions of people are digging themselves out again this morning after a storm dumped another foot of snow across the region, knocking out power, grounding planes, giving millions of school kids yet another day off. nbc s peter alexander is in greenwi greenwich, connecticut, with more on the storm there. reporter: chuck and savannah, good morning to you. 14.5 inches. that s what fell here in greenwich, connecticut, overnight. we walk over to this car. the d
couric: good evening, everyone. you could almost hear people crying uncle here in the northeast as we got hit today with another major snowstorm. they ve been coming one after another this winter and this bon was even bigger than expected. most fofters had predicted a foot of snow but places like new york city and philadelphia woke up to a whole lot more than that. it made for dangerous roads. the storm is blamed for at least six deaths, and canceled flights more than 900 across the region disrupting air travel nationwide and schools were closed in a lot of districts, including the nation s largest here in new york. elaine quijano is in central park tonight, and elaine, this winter say real record breaker. reporter: it really is, katie. this is the sixth snowiest winter, in fact, in new york city s history, and it s only january, and for residents all along the east coast, this truly is their winter of discontent. in the weather-beaten northeast, residents are fed up.
really turned out to be a huge storm. what happened? what did we miss in predictions? reporter: well, it was a little bit under, that s for sure. i think the official weather channel forecast, about 6 to 11, and we saw more like 9 to 15 in a couple of isolated higher marks. not totally off the mark, but a few inches more than what was prescribed. in central park, the highest total that we ve seen, 19 inches of snow. up to over 56 for the season. it s all about snow, it changes your plans. where are we right now, normally we d be in central park or times square. we re in the lot, you can see the peacock on the building, of the nbc equipment area in long island city because the truck was snowed in. we couldn t get the truck out. so we came to the live truck for our report today. well, at least you got the snow all around you. it still makes sense, eric. it s still good for us. explain what we can expect to see, because i hear we have another storm that s coming on the heel