reporter: icy roads sent this car spinning out of control around d.c. around 6 inches covered our nation s capitol. it put federal offices under a two-hour delay and causing the president to scale back his schedule. 12 inches of snow in eastern massachusetts. governors in several states declaring an emergency. school districts closing their doors, while new york city opting to remain open. some kids using their snow day to turn the philadelphia art museum into a e shredding sledding freezing. windchill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. these are extremely dangerous conditions. reporter: in chicago, officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of
up. the white stuff fall the at a rate of up to 2 inches an hour. if you have any option not to go out, stay home. the safest thing to do tonight is stay home. reporter: in massachusetts, blizzard-like conditions blanketing eastern massachusetts with up to 12 inches of snow. this morning school districts in philadelphia, washington d.c., and boston closing their doors, while new york city opting to remain open. some kids using their snow day to turn it into a sledding frenzy. i got double layers on today. reporter: much of the east coast 25 degrees below normal much of this weekend. windchill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. reporter: in chicago, officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of
sledding frenzy. but the dangerously cold temperatures continue to fall fast. i got double layers on today. much of the east coast 25 degrees below normal through this weekend. wind chill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. these are extremely dangerous conditions. in chicago officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of the great lakes. and frigid cold isn t going away any time soon. at least five states are forecast to stay below freezing through the end of the month. now i have a little bit of good news. that is that the low is pulling offshore. massachusetts near boston one of the few places seeing light snow. here s the problem. as that low makes its way offshore it will strengthen. this cold air above us is so cold that there s a temperature difference between that and the ocean so places like on the cape just south of us here will have
i got double layers on today. much of the east coast 25 degrees below normal through this weekend. wind chill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. these are extremely dangerous conditions. in chicago officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of the great lakes. the frigid gold isn t going away any time soon. five states are forecast to stay below freezing through the end of the month. all right. so the bulk of the storm is over. the danger from the storm is far from over. think about it. we still have dangerous cold air in place. another clipper is expected to make its way through reinforcing the cold air. this record breaking snow that s on the ground is expected to stay here. meanwhile the low that s making its way offshore, the actual low that produced this snow is strengthening as it makes its way offshore.
the beltway. federal officials were taking no chances. the nation s capital closed for business. federal offices shuttered. and the president s schedule scaled back as the city braces for accumulations of up to 10 inches of snow. as far west as iowa, winter weather plagued commuters. traffic on i-80 was backed up for hours after this tractor-trailer jack-knifeded, leading to multiple collisions of cars crashing into this ditch. lake-effect snow continues to wallop the midwest with parts of indiana in near whiteout conditions. snow was falling up to 2 inches per hour. chicago also hit with lake-effect snow, more than 8 inches overnight. and today massive winds swept into the windy city, shown here in this time lapse photography, bringing with them even more frigid air. wind chill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. these are extremely dangerous conditions that we expect to