reverse when he struck the woman. this woman says when he s out driving, she keep her distance because, she says, he drives on the sidewalk. i was watching him this morning. he can t even drive the thing back and forth, turns around, goes in circumstanles. on the sidewalk, into the street. there s a school down there and he just comes flying down the street to push the snow off. every year he does that. so like we live around here so we know to watch him when he comes out. reporter: marvin lopez, who lives across the street from the lot, told the new york post he saw the same guy operating the plow the day before. that he was driving so erratically and speeding up and down the sidewalks. he also told the paper he almost hit me and my wife yesterday as we were going across the street. he was thinking to himself that the man was going to kill somebody someday. others at the scene questioned why he was plowing at such a busy time. do you think they should be doing it while people
yesterday it was ice, today it s snow, snow, and more snow. coming down faster and harder than plows could handle all along the east coast. drivers stuck spinning their wheels are relying on the kindness of strangers to get free. and homeowners are making what feels like their weekly trip out into the cold to clean up. the system so large it barely fit in this satellite photo. the nation s capitol buried under nearly a foot of snow, paralyzing roadways, shutting down the federal government, and blanketing the national mall. near record snowfall is crippling baltimore as well where the city has already overspent its snow removal budget. just to the north the storm is making this year philadelphia s fifth snowiest on record. new york city where up to 14 inches are expected, we saw rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour
as for the snowplow, imagine what the dog would make of it and what it would make or the door mat. probably walk all over it. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. the coolest thing. all right. thanks as always to jeanne. ac 360 starts now. all right. good evening, everyone. welcome to round three. ice and snow yesterday, rain and sleet late today, and now back to snow. another big swath of it. first flakes coming down now on the washington, d.c. area. look at that. coming down hard. in parts of that area have already seen a foot of snow or more in the last 24 hours. and just like last night, the misery marching north, means that tens of millions of people who slogged their way through scenes like these will probably wake up today with even, sorry, will probably wake up tomorrow with even more of the same.
daddy! you re not just looking for a house. you re looking for a place for your life to happen. the rain has fell on much of the northeast and mid-atlantic this afternoon is turning back to snow. look at that. that is the capitol you re looking at. it looks like one of those souvenir snow globes. nice but not pretty as all if
dawn. hundreds of thousands are still without power there as heavy snow and inch thick ice brought down trees and vulnerable power lines. more than 600,000 customers are in the dark from louisiana to massachusetts and could remain that way through next week. the worst of it seems to be in the washington, d.c. area right now. snowing there, snowing hard. our joe johns is out in the middle of it. give us a sense, joe, of what it s like right now reporter: well, john, this has been a really hard day here in the washington area. people aren t used to this kind of snow. let me give you one illustration. the metro bus transit system has decided to shut down service in washington, d.c. until 5:00 a.m. why is that? it s because the buses simply can t move around through the streets. oe illustration, we have a live picture, i think, to show you just what s going on here. just as authorities were beginning to clear the streets of all the snow, we start getting more.