Tomorrow we begin with the dangerous weather, the storm that started in the south, now blast treating Childhood Cancer northeast. New york city covered in white, and after a few hours of light rain this jack, more snow tonight for the east coast, a day off for federal government workers some people even using skis to get around today, and in the carolinas and georgia the problem is power. Downed electrical lines left hundreds and thousands without power. Jennifer london is live tonight with more on that, jennifer . Well john we havent seen snow in a couple and unusual, but it is the amount and number of storms that is making this winter one for the record books. With snow totals on par with snow ma get done. Hungs of where the storm is still dumping heavy snow. Some areas can see as much as two feet. In new york, commuters slid through nearly a foot of snow. I specially like it, but i know a lot of people are tired of us. The steady rain has following the snow, turn manager streets into a messsy slush, as temperatures drop that slush will harden into ice. Well, air travelers arent above feeling the effects of this storm, more than 6,000 flights across the country were canceled and that means travelers as far west are feeling the impacts. They are saying we can see another 12 to 18inches tonight, until the storm exits the region, which will be friday night, everyone is hoping at least. All right, jennifer london, thank you. This brought the nations capitol to a humidity. Federal offices were closed today, so were schools and businesses. Of course, transportation in and out of d. C. Was paralyzed as well, and all of those problemmed had a Ripple Effect as jennifer mentioned. John is in d. C. With more on that, john . Yeah, well, john, good etching. Four hours after we last spoke, it is stimsnowing here. It did stop for a while, be uh thats a function of this storm. As you can see, the snow is quite big at a moment. As far as the travel isen canned, well, the 22 states effected by this giant storm, tramping was a no no for most of thursday, and the headline, of course, the Airline Industry 6,700 Flights Canceled on thursday alone. According to flight aware. Com, and the airplanes are in the wrong place, so it will take them a while to get them back, so there will be delays into the weekend, now, in this part of the world, between here and baltimore, the domestic airport, and in virginia dulles the airport runways have all reopened now after being closed for pretty much a day, but again the planes are in the wrong place, so expect delays. As for amtrak, only one train headed south. And that was the train to chicago, it left about five past 4 00. It wonts its way into virginia before curling back and going to illinois. It will take about four hours to get there, on the northeast corridor amtraks busiest rout, very very limited service today, thursday, with people scrambling at Union Station to get onboard every train that released going north. Kevin has been looking at what is next. At least through friday morning with he deeming with a storm. What you can see here is the latest satellite radar. On the eastern mart, that is the warm wither. On the back side. To hotels for the evening you can see the warnings are still in effect. 20 20 04 h four to 28inches, john. Continues to track this one, the snow is melting in the south, but Power Outages still a big problem for the southeast. Ice left hundreds of thousands without leng trystty, and heat, in georgia and south carolina, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without power, a day after the storm hit, in North Carolina and virginia, tens of thousands of people are in the dark. In maryland, new jersey, new york, and massachusets electricity already out for several hundred customers. Look for those numbers to go up tonight, as the storm moves through the northeast. This releaptless winter has been a big test. From georgia to new york, mayors and governors have found themselves under fire for their storm response. Our Randall Pinkston joins us now with more on that. John, you know every winter event has its own challenges with its owndy. Tyes and so for elected officials even experienced ones sometimes theres a stumble. With each storm, officialed think they have a plan, only to discover that sometimes they are no match for mother nature. It was a grave situation. He fried to explain his decision to keep stores open. We were convinced that kids could get to school. Members have to go to work, they do not have a choice, and they need a safe option for their kids. Almost before the first beg, some parents and teachers blasted the move. The mayor believes that its dangerous enough for people to stay off the street, yet, he has children under the age of 18, mind you, many of them, to go to school. Retied army lieutenantluth agrees saying mayor dehas owe made the wrong call. Openingdea of opening the school so people can drop their kids off and you cant get the streets that is wrong. Thats a popularity contest. New yorks mayor is the latest elected official to catch grief from the public for the way authorities are coping with winter storms. Last month they were blamed for a major traffic jam, with School Children unable to get home. Hoping to avoided is aim debacle, North Carolina mayor made a blunt appeal. Dont put your stupid hat on. Protect yourself, protect your family, your neighbors. More North Carolinaians didnt hear the governor, or paid him no attention. Who was stuck in the storm. I guess i didnt learn a lesson, because i didnt think it would be that bad. Solution . Close the roads. Close the interstates crawling through the cities going through the state, and they close the state roads but putting troopers out there and politic the roads off. But it is a fine line, when a city shuts down and a stomp doesnt happen, politicians get blamed for overreacting. The bottom line, they often have to make tough calls and be prepared for complaints. Yeah, it has happened before, and will happen again. Thank you very much. During severe storms government officials have an obligation to keep the public informed. Many are relying on social media to get the word out. Governments are picking up on this to using social immediate yo to keep the public informed. And pressure to get the message straight to people that need it. North carolina fur example, their department of transportation used at least five plat you remember toes including facebook, sound cloud to tell people about Road Conditions and hazards. Not to mention tips for staying safe, during severe storms like this one. We spoke waylisa shell, the knew Media Coordinator for the North Carolina transportation on how social media is helping them serve their residents. Social media is effective because it is the way more and more people are getting their information, folks are tuning in to facebook and twitter, and they like being able i think to pick and choose the kinds of pages so they can get the information that is really interested and interesting to them. About current Road Conditions and any hazards that may be on the roads during a winter storm or perhaps as hurricane. We can also give people information on detours around accidents. Swell point them to our other online tools for keeping tabs on traffic and highway construction projects. H there are two of us that take turns. Monitoring the feeds. Getting out the emergency information. Keeping tabs on what folks are asking about, and what their concerns are. Also helps us with content, from one end of the state to the other. To be more responsive and transparent about what the state is doing to try to keep people safe. Social media being used in many different ways one Facebook Page created is a perfect example of social media at work. The idea of using social websites came together in less nan a day. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine got trapped in atlanta, and so we were connected through social media with people, and we found this group that the atlanta folks has started. So when i saw what a mess charlotte was going to be, and a mess the whole state would be, i said why not start a group. And i was trying to tangle it out there but nobody took the bait. What were you trying to do . To connect people. Sometimes provide just comfort. A lot of it was saying i am stuck here, can anyone pick him up, can someone check the road condition, my husband is trying to get home. Who have you helped in. We have helped everyone from grandmother whose are concerned about their grandchildren tole mos concerned about foster kids. All kinds of family members. We tell them to call emergency help first. If someone is sick or hurt, or stranded we tell them to call the highway patrol, or to call the Ambulance Emergency Services thats our first thing, and then we just try to tell them we are here. You arent alone. My skeptical side comes out, you want to wish the best for people and about people, how can you vouch for any people that will help the folks in. Well, you just have to go on faith, i guess. I find that people are generally more good than bad. You have to put up your b. S. Detech door and deal with common sense. It is a terrific story, thank you for joining us and good luck. Crystal dempseys web page is still up tonight. Coming up next on this broadcast, fatal flaw, while General Motors is recalling hundreds of thousands of compact cars plus even worse of migraine as demand that more be done to helpm with cluster headaches. What satellites can reveal about ancient refugees. Cable company is hoping to get even bigger. Come cast announces today it is buying Time Warner Cable. Mary snow has that story. By any measure comcast proposed bid to take over Time Warner Cable is huge. Theres the 45 billion price tag, and then theres the potential reach. We buying the second largest cable provider, comcast would have roughly 33 million subscribers, cementing its place as the countrys largest cable company. To put it in perspective, when chase bout jpmorgan, that was only a 33 billion r thats deal. So this is a really large merger. The deal was unexpected and comes after comcast became a major content producer by finalized its purchase last year. Here is how comcast stacked up. A paid t. V. Provider comcast is the largest. Satellite providers and dish network followed. Time warnser next with roughly 11 million. Smaller companies have more than 4 million each. What request consumers each . One analyst covering the cable industry says changes for consumers wont be dramatic. Consumer whose are in comcast markets probably wont see any change at all. Consumers in Time Warner Cable markets will see subtle changes. Some sorts of improvements over time, although that will probably take a while to implement, and integrate. But relatively subtle over time, although not inconsequential. One difference, comcast is seen as being more aggressive than Time Warner Cable with t. V. Everywhere products. Seven which allow content on mobile devices. Another difference, comcast also has more on demand programming. In 19 of the 20 largest cities in america, theres just one choice, or will be after this merger, comcast as their local cable monopoly. The problem for consume sers that means we will get second class service, with no options to choose anybody else. The deem is expected to come under intense scrutiny to keep its share of the Pay Television market below 30 , comcast says it will shed 3 million subscribers. But some expect more concessions will be needed. General motors is recalling nearly 780,000 compact cars. The Company Warns engines can shut down unexpectedly, causing crashes six of them have been fatal. G. M. Says they can pull the switch mechanism out of the run position. The recall excepts g five social securities made between 2005, and 2007. Because of the recession that hit hard in detroit, some houses have sold in that city for as little as 1. But soon, three homes will be given away for free. Who have a way with words. Nonprofit groups trying to give a boost to the scene, and bring more people to detroit. These three houses may not be much to look at, they are old, abandoned structures eyesores to many. But when toby barlow and a few of his friends came across these properties they saw room for growth. There are plenty of people taking down homes two of the houses were sold to them at 1,000 a piece, they acquire add third through a donation. The plan is to renovate and then give them away to three aspiring writers for free. Its called the write a house project. This is a city that i think deserved writers. Whether you are a poted, or writing essays will you are a journalist, theres a lot to write about, a lot of inspiration. In a city with 80,000 structures, more houses are being torn down in detroit than there are being built. Once word got out about this project, the news spread fast. Not just locally but worldwide. Shannon hole has worked and lives here all of his life. Trying to put the soul back into the skeleton of a neighborhood. I think it is a good thing. As you can see, theres still a lot of work to be done. It will cost between 25 and 50,000. And once the work is completet writers can move in. The o. Cost to them, property taxes. Our hope is that it inspires people to do something different. Theres no reason why you couldnt take this mod and bring teachers. No reason you couldnt say the Fire Department or police, say how wouldnt you like to have a house. The organization will begin welcoming applications in the spring. With hopes of making a difference in detroit. One house at a time. Al jazeera, detroit. Now to some health news, cluster headaches can be more severe than migraines. These intense attacks have been noun to drive people to suicide. Those who experience them say government officials should do more to help. Tom ackerman reports. Describing the pain is one thing, showing it is quite another. As many have done by recording their experience. I am an hour into my attack, and it is getting worse. The waves of pain spread from the major facial nebraska, but seem to be activated by the brains hypothalamus, which regulates the wake and sleep cycles. All of these part ooze if brain are acting in concert to create these intensive storms of pain. Cluster headaches can last one to three hours at a time, coming either in daily attacks or in cycles. Ar four months of this, youre suicide looks like a pretty good option. And its not that you want to kill yourself, you want to get rid of the pain. It is a disodder tear can make normal daily activity nearly impossible. Just keep myself isolated because i cant be around people. I need to be in my dark room, in bed, or just in a dark room period, because thats the only place i can feel okay. And basically it is waiting out the pain. Once a year cluster headache suffers come to washington, d. C. To appeal for help from their members of congress. Help that so far has been largely lacking. Breathing pure oxygen has been shown to short. Attacks but the medical insurance plans wont cover it, and the National Institutes of help have sponsored only one small study. Fingers discovered it was looking for migraine and cluster treatments. Sos that with in the mix. And then it got shelved for four years. But restricted substances become a main stream treatment, those suffering from cluster headaches want the law to get the same kind of special attention to their pain. Tom ackerman, al jazeera. Coming up, after the break, at odds u. S. Officials angry after dozens of prisoners in afghanistan were released. Plus historic flooding which has some people talking about building an arc. The progress scientist report on nuclear fusion. A lot to tell you about this half pour. Afghanistan releases dozens of frizzners despite the objections from the United States. How one town in england is coping with the rising water. And spice archaeology. But first, rachelle is here to give us a update on our top story, the weather. Dangerous Winter Weather, all along the east coast is now being blamed for at least 20 deaths. So the storm has already dumped up to 15 inches of snow, and more than nine inches around new york city, and more snow forecast overnight. Nearly 7,000 flights have been canceled. Airports across the south, and northeast were the hardest hit. Douglas International Airport canceled more than 1200 flights delta and u. S. Airline reported the moe today. Power is still a big problem in many parts of the southeast. In all, about 750,000 homes and businesses lost power. Mostly in states like georgia and the carolinas. Others continue to deal with these. A many residents continue to wait. Utility Officials Say tens of thousands of people may be without electricity, for several more days. So yes, no heat, and some situations in the dark as well. Worst in the northeast as well, thank you. We move to afghanistan, despite objections the Afghan Government released dozens of detainees. Two u. S. Government calms them dangerous, and rosalyn reports. The Afghan Government did what asked it not to do. Afghanistan is a sovereign country. It is the afghan judicial authorities decide to release apprizing it is of no concern to the u. S. And should be of no concern to the u. S. And i hope the United States will stop harrising afghanistans procedures and judicial authorities and i hope the United States will begin to respect afghan sovereignty. For weeks they have been campaigning to keep the men locked up. They said afghanistan should put the men on tribal on civilian targets. On thursday, even though the government was closed the Obama Administration still criticizes karzais action. The Afghan Government bears responsible for the ruts of its decisi