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conditions have led to low visibility. chains were required for much of the day and crews eventually had to block the road because of multiple spinouts and near mightoutmi whiteout conditions. many travelers praying they can get to their destinations. waiting for magic, you know. i hope that i ll get to tahoe. reporter: trying to walk or ski your way through? that won t work either. several drivers are parked right by the highway 50 on-ramp. here is my dinner. reporter: and some are eating food to pass the time. but locals say this is a traffic nightmare. just people coming up from sacramento area or san francisco trying to get up to tahoe, making it horrible for us. so i ll just say just stay home, don t come up here please. reporter: plows removed snow
this is nbc bay area news tonight. i m raj mathai. happy snowy friday, and we could have a snowy saturday as well. it is not over yet. in fact, it is just gorgeous to see all this. driving around in the streets and the freeways, you can see our mountaintops. behind me, the south bay, the top of mount hamilton. lick observatory blanketed. usually we get a dusting of snow during the winter, but this time it s a lot more than a dusting. how about the east bay? mount diablo? that s the summit museum right there at the top of mount diablo. a beautiful structure built in the 1930s as a visitor center. not all fun and games. the snow causing crashes and spinouts in the north bay, napa county, and in the south bay. highway 17 was actually shut down for several hours today. this is the main artery between san jose and santa cruz. 17 is back open tonight. this is drone video now from the los gatos hills. now, if you could reach the
wind than just an hour ago when we talked before. tell me what it feels like there, and what we re expecting. reporter: a little more wind, because the break in the snow has lasted longer than expected, the estimated snow totals have gone from 2 feet to 1 foot instead. officials still stressing to the minnesota residents that they have to keep off the roads because this is what the roads are looking like here. they re icy, most of the roads still covered with snow. we have seen from the department of transportation, multiple spinouts on the highways because people continue to drive. officials, again, telling people, stressing the urgency of this. if this doesn t end up as bad, a foot of snow is still a lot of snow, and officials here had that task of convincing the people who live here to take this seriously.
ice. in dallas, look at this, traffic struggling to get up an incline. this was interstate 20. in eastern arkansas, ice snapping utility poles along interstate 40. flames and smoke, in fact, seen coming from one of them. near memphis, tennessee, tonight, icy roads causing a pileuppe pileup near interstate 55. and at the dallas/fort worth airport today, a standstill, except for a convoy of snowplows clearing the snow and the ice. meteorologist rob marciano standing by on this brutal cold moving in right behind this, and abc s mireya villarreal in dallas tonight. reporter: tonight, roads like sheets of glass. drivers spinning their wheels. on this curve south of fort worth, vehicle after vehicle going off the road. this pickup struggling to get back on the pavement. after hundreds of spinouts and accidents this week, tonight, officials say the death toll on