A new mode of transportation today, friday, january 22nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its friday morning. Weve got willie in for matt. Its a combination of feelings, excitement and terror about this snow storm thats bearing down on the east. In technical meteorological terms this thing is a beast. This is the live conditions in christiansburg, virginia, 35 miles south of roanoke. We could have taken any one of a number of pictures across the east coast. Its ugly out there. How will it look in 24 hours . Of course, its our top story because more than 88 million americans are in the path of this storm. At least 20 states from arkansas to new york are already covered by warnings and watches. With more than two feet expected in washington, d. C. , a snow emergency going into effect there this morning. Government offices will shut down at noon. And Fligh
Empty shelves, people rushing out for the essentials preparing for feet of snow. Abcs Karla Barguiarena has the details. Reporter this morning, one last mad dash to prepare for a potentially historic blizzard. Outside a costco in virginia lines to get in and lines to check out as stores try to keep up with the demand. D. C. Is really not ready for this kind of weather. Reporter the same scene at this trad joes supermarket in the Nations Capital. Pick the next ten. Repeporter fced to limit customers to tent a time. Shelves of water a are now virtually empty and show shovels disappearing just as fast. Were down to like our last few of them which is like three or four. Reporter also preparing, the federal government, which announced it would be closing at noon today ahead of the epic winter storm. D. C. s Public Transportation including railnd bus service will be closing later today too. Everything line up for a major storm system affecting thehe eastern third of the country and affecting
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North carolina. Upper thirties. This is by the early evening around seven or eight oclock. Note the temperatures actually warming during the evening snow and nicks continues out to the west with the rain and heavy rain at that along with stronger winds later tonight so much to look at and so much to consider here snow on the backside of the system likely late saturday so we are to continue to watch it right now leading edge down to the south but that still is filling in will show you some live reports from other parts of the region will talk about this coming up. Heres a quick look at seven a lot to consider ashley right now though the roads not looking to bad weather was not at all crazy really bad traffic wise either i mean we do have the usual pickups in the usual spots but the rest of the area still doing very well just now starting to see a little bit more volume at the midtown tunnel to give you that live look now really on the eastbound side its really not a major pickup as you
This storm affecting more than 70 Million People. The Washington Area expected to be hardest hit. Could be the biggest snowstorm in nearly a hundred years. The radar and it shows how big the storm is sweeping across the south. Dozens of reports of Severe Weather overnight including a tornado and massive hail. We do have full Team Coverage this morning from all across the storm zone. And Abcs Steve Osunsami starts us off in asheville, good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, george. As you can see it is really coming down. When we got here to town just a few hours ago these streets were bare but take a look at it now. We see at least one to three inches of snow piling up on the streets here and theyre telling us in the mountains it could get up to a foot. Overnight, the storm refused to take a break. A tornado in mississippi pushed over trees and peeled off roofs and the threat of more Severe Weather is spreading to florida in arkansas drivers are sliding off the roads. This n