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spending so i m going to raise taxes. it s an impossible matt problem. math problem. medicaid for all, hiking up minimum wage while putting in free market principles and guaranteeing social net. they are at a breaking point. i don t know if you blame macron for the hand he has handed over to. but not speaking for three days not really a good show leadership. ainsley: not helping with tourism. if they make a lot of money with tourism especially in paris no one is going over there. brian: dangerous. steve: we will tell you tomorrow morning what he says. meantime carley joins us with headlines. carley, you are starting with the weather. carley: that s right. extreme weather to sea say the least. deadly winter storm paralyzing the southeast donald trumping snow, rain and freezing rain. one driver died when a tree fell on car. put out barn fire. nearly 300,000 customers are still without power in several states. airports hoping to resume
steve osunsami, abc news. and with dangerous conditions like that, schools and transportation systems in the northeast will be at a standstill. our coverage continues live at accuweather where meteorologist jim dickey is standing by. jim, the snow is really starting to come down now, right? that s right, the snow continues to push its way northward. you can see it is stretching from northern alabama, now into connecticut. snow falling in new york city. reaching i-80 in pennsylvania. still seeing some ice in areas that have been hit so hard by ice. the atlanta area up through south carolina. but through the next four or five hours, we will see conditions improve, turning out fairly quiet as we head throughout the day today as the storm departs up the coast. but still big impacts. across northeast down i-81 into central virginia. many spots have picked up 12, 14 inches of snow. that will move in through new england heading through the day. with the path of the storm bringing in rel
the fallen snow, and here is the quiet on the same highway. families staying safe at home, allowing the few salt trucks here to attack the icy roads in peace. they are working all night, 12-hour shifts. reporter: but it is so icy, even salt trucks are slipping. this one overturned north of the city. and an ambulance rushing to the hospital with a patient got stuck on ice and neighbors had to clear a path with their shoes and dust pans. as forecasters predicted, the ice was tough on power lines. 300-foot long line covered in two inches of ice is now 2200 pounds heavier, and when it is struck by an icy tree limb, power is knocked out. more than 350,000 people are in the dark across seven states. more than 3300 flights were canceled and another 3200 are canceled today. none of this is what people down here are used to. there is ice underneath the snow. nine people have been killed in the storm. and with dangerous conditions
you see the snowfall stretching all the way from northern alabama now towards i-80 in pennsylvania, nosing towards new york city. the heaviest snow near baltimore, across northern virginia and staying in place through much of the day. so high-impact storm continuing here, improving in the southeast, but conditions go downhill across the northeast. heavy snow spreads all the way for maine throughout the day. now along the coast, the 95 corridor, we have warmth, at least relatively warmth, mixing in. off the atlantic a mixed event then to keep the accumulations down, where it stays snow and all snow, many spots well over a foot by the time this ends early friday morning. any relief in sight? well, thankfully, yes. by the time next week rolls around. this time next week we ll see a warm up across the east, many spots 40s and 50s so, we ll start to melt the snow that s been on the ground for just weeks here. oh, thank goodness. that sounds like a plan. jim dickey, thank you very mu