the derby this weekend. my horse called thundersnow which every weather person in the whole country has to put money on. did you hear us laughing at the barnicle dish. mike barnicle plays softball and says he runs the bases. we ll check with you on monday about your prediction for the derby. thundersnow, got it. still ahead, how democrats trolled their republican counterparts after the house passes the gop health care bill. is hillary clinton getting back into politics? we ll tell you more about it. (vo) my name is bryan.
city. to the north, that s where the heart of the storm is currently. can you see this white ban moving up through connecticut that s where we re waiting to see if we get thundersnow. we had hundersleet. this white band is exemely heavy snow up through connecticut right now, hartford having really high totals in just the last half hour or so and that s shifting to the north. we ll get a closer view and show you other problems. d.c., we re just about done. maybe another inch or so. total only ended up about 2 inches, baltimore maybe an inch or two. philadelphia, you ll end up with burr b 4 total, maybe another inch. new york city will end up 6 to 10. in the poconos and we ll have 24-30 inches of snow before it s
middle of the snowstorm because you have snow piled up on top of it. they flew all of those planes out and you don t want to bring one in in the middle of a snowstorm because you don t want to have it iced over. it cost a fortune to deice. that s part of the calculus here when they figure out when to bring planes back in and when to get things moving again. chris, back to you. were people showing up for their flights? reporter: we had hardly anybody here. interestingly, chris, the few people who were stuck here who spent the night or who are still here, they generally are not native english speakers and therefore, somehow, didn t get the word that nothing s happening here. there you go. tom, thank you so much. i ve never seen anything like that at laguardia. meantime, jim cantore is in auburn, massachusetts. you know the question that we all have. any of your favorite thundersnow? reporter: yeah, we ve heard a couple of reports this morning.
we got it! again! agn! it s not funny but it s kind of funny. it s fantastic. it was more and a fourth and he exploded. that s thundersnow that s a phenomenon that is not necessarily that uncommon but it s basically the sign of a very intense snowstorm. above average intensity. for example, this storm is this kind of storm. it intensifies. it really bombs out and what we need for thunderstorms are very strong lift. normally in a regular snowstorm you have low level clouds. weak updraft. you don t get that lift. when you get a storm like this one, you get really strong updrafts and that brings up the clouds and in between those drafts you get electrical charges developing and that s when you get the lightning and the thunder and because it s so intense, it really wrings
one death blamed so far on a powerful winter storm battering the northeast right now. a doorman died after sustaining injuries in an accident while shoveling snow. the storm affecting more than 50 million people creating blizzard conditions, dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas. hundreds of schools up and down the northeast corridor are closed. check out the flight aware map that we have. misery map. nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled today. the storm creating a phenomenon known as thundersnow which we ll have explained to us now by al roker in our weather center over here. it s bad out there. it is. although we ve had worse and it s wrapping up pretty quickly. i want you to you probably remember this, kate. let s go to videotape. february 15th, 2015. take it away jim cantore. oh yes! we got it. we got it.