Airlines are canceling flight, washington, d. C. , will close the subway after the district struggled with just a dusting last night. Some places could get two and a half feet. More than 77 Million People are in the path, including our team of correspondents. First kris van cleave in d. C. Reporter it wasnt congress that created gridlock in washington last night. It was a rush hour burst of snow that froze the untreated roads and turned cars into outof control projectiles. Neighboring virginia reported 767 crashes in just 24 hours. It is crazy out here. Reporter normally short commutes turned into eighthour, slowspeed marathons of misery, stretching the drive home well into the morning. A. A. A. Rescued nearly 6,500 drivers from the mayhem, and this was a small storm before the main event comes tomorrow. D. C. Mayor muriel bowser. We are very sorry for an inadequate response. Reporter what does last nights debacle say about the citys ability to handle the type of storm thats coming at
escape. the new yorker quotes a fema worker that said that everything west of interstate 5 will be toast. everything west of interstate 5 is gone. that seattle, tacoma portland olympia, salem and eugene wiped out. all together about 7 million people. that is not including tourists. so think of summer time. fema calculations indicate that it will damage or destroy about a million buildings, including 3,000 schools and 1/3 of all fire stations and perhaps the worst of it all, these sorts of earthquakes happen in regular intervals in exactly this part of the world, have forever, on average, according to scientists every 240 years. when was the last one? the last one was in 1700 it struck in the pacific northwest, and sent a 600 foot wave of water ally the way to japan.
a road to the nashville super speedway where a company is trying to turn video game players in to race car drivers. let s get to it. good afternoon to you. president obama s question to congress you have a better deal? that s what he asked them today. in a news conference the president took on critics of the nuclear deal with iran and said that the bottom line is it makes our nation and the world a safer place. and he delivered a message straight to the republican critics. i challenge those who are objecting to this agreement. number one, read it before you comment on it. number two, to explain specifically where it is that they think this agreement does not prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and why they are right and people like m.i.t. nuclear scientists are wrong. and why the rest onf the world is wrong and present an alternative. quite an argument. it requires iran to cut back the nuclear program and get rid of 98% of the enriched uranium and in exchange bil
this morning for the 29-year-old at the center of the nsa case. edward snowden had been holed up at a hong kong hotel since handing over secret government documents to journalists. his current whereabouts are unknown. authorities back home are ramping up an investigation in the case against him. on monday, investigators showed up at snowden s mother s house in maryland and at his father s house in pennsylvania. they didn t say who or what they were looking for. this as the new pew/washington post poll shows most americans seem to back the programs that snowden is publicizing. 50% consider the phone tracking to be an acceptable form of government action. now that number grows when asked if investigating terroristic threats is more important than their individual privacy. those numbers come as congress prepares to receive a closed door briefing on those leaks. nbc s tracie potts joins us from washington. tracie, what do we know about this briefing? reporter: the house gets a