George clooney, you rock and all for a great cause too. Well hear all about it coming up josh on assignment. Great to have amy here. The snow coming down so hard. This road cam north of new york city, commute going to be slick and slippery for so many. Ice over half an inch right now. You say so many, because were going to take a look at worcester, mass, right now, near boston where snow is coming down thick and fast. Theyre expecting over a foot of snow there. Abcs ginger zee leads our extreme weather team covering this storm for us outside. Good morning, ginger. Hey, good morning, robin. It is pelting me in the face. At first it was heavy snow, now it is sleet and right here in times square, come with me, i got to show you what happens when you mix the two, it is the slushiest slopiest mashed potato mess that is dangerous right now. You just saw that camera. Irwant to go back to it because not just in westchester county, not just in new york city but across a huge area were going to see the storm this morning throughout the Morning Hours really and afternoon. You can see that radar picture stretches from the gulf of mexico all the way to maine and this is going to be with us through the late Morning Hours. See the pink . Thats when it goes from snow to dangerous and deadly ice. Again, not just here in new york but back into pennsylvania, weve already seen deadly accidents. I want to take you to all the stories right now. This morning, the northeast blanketed in snow, sleet and freezing rain. Temperatures hovering around that dangerous 32degree mark forcing drivers to crawl along roadways and causing fatal accidents like this one that backed up the pennsylvania turnpike near harrisburg for more than six miles. Frosty scenes like this being played out across almost 20 states, cars sliding on the slick streets of wichita, kansas. In kansas city this Southwest Airlines plane got stuck in the snow right on the runway and in topeka, kansas, a semi truck slamming into a snowplow spilling 180 gallons of diesel fuel forcing the highway to close for hours. And a chilling scene in north texas, a Police Deputy and three bystanders helping a driver from one icy accident were hit by a sliding 18wheeler killing one person and injuring the others. The roadway was very icy and once he saw the crash he applied his brakes but was unable to stop. Reporter all these backtoback snowstorms and towns are running low on salt. In burton, michigan, that shortage means skyrocketing prices. Just yesterday the price doubled actually, so if it cost 300 to fill a truck up now its 600. Reporter so let me show you something because everybody asking me when is it going to be gone . We have it in pennsylvania, massachusetts, really heavy snow through the Morning Hours but its by 3 00 p. M. We stop the clock there it has moved out of new york city and behind it very cold air spills in. Tonight, new england even becomes clear and theres the snow forecast. Heaviest happening in new england, western massachusetts, also parts of western new york. 6 to 12 inches. Weve got to get just 0 miles north of me where it is not sleet, it is snow and we find lisa. Reporter monday connecticut got more than 7 inches of snow and round two is hitting with a vengeance. That heavy, icy snow and Connecticut Governor dan malloy telling people stay off the roads. Let the plows do their jobs. Schools have been canceled and suspended bus service and reducing Train Service throughout the morning. This has been a very difficult morning for the snowplow drivers, it has been very heavy. Lets take a look at the plows doing their job right now. They are out here in full force and now the snow has turned to ice which is making it even more treacherous. Ginger, back to you. Lisa, thank you so much. You know, boston getting hit too and well be covering this all morning. You could hear it, george, the sleet hitting my hood. Weve got a lot more to talk about in your nations weather so stick around. We sure do. Get inside. Up to boston and abcs reena ninan is there and, reena, boy, it is coming down hard. Reporter it is coming down, george, four shirts, two pairs of pants, i am still cold. A snow emergency in time to snarl the commute. If youre taking a flight check with your airlines. The highest number of cancellations coming down at new yorks laguardia, jfk and also new jerseys newark and boston, flig flightaware. Com says more than 2100 flights delayed. More that 2100 canceled. Boston Public Schools are closed. Here in boston, 2 inches of snow expected every hour and im told, george, it will be dramatic. Hour by hour. It already is dramatic. Okay, reena ninan, thanks very much. Somewhere where they want these types of conditions, the Winter Olympics just two days away and more evidence this morning that sochi is not ready for thousands of journalists that are arriving for the games appalled by the condition of their hotel rooms, many in shambles and more importantly, there are new concerns about the safety of the athletes and two snowboarders were injured during practice. Abcs matt gutman is there for us this morning. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, robin. A lot of what we talked about was construction. This road hadnt been completed until overnight. A lot here is almost finished. Check out those glistening facades of those hotels. Wait till you see whats inside. Tap water the color of beer. Said to be too toxic to wash with, toilets that flush but without the paper. This morning, the buzz here isnt about sports, its about the ick factor. Thousands of leases and visitors are enduring 48 hours before the games begin. This is a bein the honey packet from my hotel breakfast. Yes, i ate it, the honey, that is and the rooms spartan is a nice way to call them. This room assigned to canadas mens hockey team not ideal when youre expected to be at the top of your game. These snowboarders say the rooms are fine but only half finished. Pretty nice but clearly they had to make some cuts like you can tell in the rooms theres just subtle details that would no normally be finished. Reporter like paint. Yeah, like paint. Reporter lots seems to be missing so some are resorting to black market barters. To anyone in sochi, im now in possession of three lightbulbs, will trade for a door handle. This offer is real. Dozens and dozens of rooms not ready for journalists is absolutely an embarrassment. Reporter its not just the hotel horrors, olympic officials are also scrambling to make lastminute changes to this slopestyle snowboarding course which some athletes have called too dangerous. Just tuesday twotime olympic Gold Medalist shaun white fell jamming his left wrist during training saying the run is intimidating and urging it be changed. Another female snowboarder crashed on the course hitting her head. She was carried off on a stretcher. And monday a norwegian medal favorite also carted off after breaking his collarbone much the whole slopestyle course runs 650 feet with a final jump at over 70 feet high. Imagine six school buses stacked end to end on top of each other. Now, slopestyle qualifications begin tomorrow, robin. This is a brandnew sport for the olympics. Huge jumps and major risks. If shaun white takes another spill and hurts himself that could put a huge depth in u. S. Gold medal hopes. Robin . Sure could. All right, matt, thank you very much. Amy is in for josh. Have you breaking news coming out of the olympics. Thats right. Good morning to everyone. This is in connection with those recent bombings in southern russia just last month. It raised security concerns in the weeks leading up to the olympics. Russian state immediate were is reporting that police have killed a suspected mastermind of those bombings in volgograd during a special operation and a shootout in dagestan much the suspected mastermind was believed to be the leader of an islamist militant group. Well have more details as we get them. In the meantime, a new study predicting how president obamas Health Care Law could impact the economy. Nonpartisan budget analysts say obamacare will dramatically reduce the number of hours that Many Americans work equaling 2. 5 million fewer full time jobs by next decade. The reason, Many Americans are likely to keep their incomes lower to stay eligible for subsidies. Congress has approved a long delayed farm bill that will affect the lives of nearly every american. The bill will cut nearly 9 billion from the Food Stamp Program and will cut billions of dollars in direct subsidies to farmers in favor of a Crop Insurance program. And there is word of another scandal in the u. S. Military. The Navy Investigating more than two dozen sailors accused of cheating on a test at the Nuclear Reactor school in south carolina. This cops days after a spate cheating investigation implicated nearly 100 air force nuclear officers. Well, its super bowl commercial was one of the most popular but reality has come crashing down on radio shack. The Electronics Chain whose ad poked fun at its reputation for being stuck in the 80s is now closing about 500 stores nationwide. An unusual rescue in florida. A cowan dered on to a bridge but then got stuck when that bridge collapsed. Crews brought in a backhoe and straps and hoisted the cow to safety of the they say it was this is puntastic udder chaos. See, i made you laugh. All right. Speaking of potential chaos, it was that easy. The giraffe paid a visit to a food store in south africa. Part of an animal sanctuary. The giraffe named purdy didnt find the menu appealing and saunter add way. I should have ended with the last. Udder chaos. An easy laugh, though. Well move now to a major announcement from cvs. Theyre phasing outhe sale of cigarettes. A move that could cost them billions in sales and abcs Rebecca Jarvis here to explain why. Good morning, rebecca. Good morning. This is the first and largest drugstore chain to do this, to make this step. This ad running this morning in newspapers across the country and it says it all. Cvs quits for good getting out of the profitable 2 billion business by years end, it will no longer sell cigarettes. This morning a drugstore giant revealing its plan to extinguish the sale of cigarettes leaving billions of dollars up in smoke. The cvs pharmacy announcing by the end of the year none of its 7,600 locations will carry Tobacco Products calling them inconsistent with our purpose. What kind of company do we want to be . Do we want to be a Health Care Company . It became the right decision for us. Reporter the move comes as state and local governments are joining with antismoking groups to pass laws banning all pharmacies from selling the products, a known Health Hazard so close to where Many Americans buy their medications and seek medical advice. They brand themselves as a health company, the Public Health has to matter to them. Theres no way to prevent death and disease in this country better than cutting dunn on smoking. Reporter while giving up cigarettes may also mean giving up 2 billion in sales, cvs says as Health Care Laws and the industry are rapidly evolving hundreds of billions of dollars in new business are up for grabs. We thought long and hard about the 2 billion in revenue and at the end of the day, there is a much bigger role that we can play in the health care system. Reporter and Industry Analysts tell me its only a matter of time before other drugstore chains will likely follow suit much the white house putting out a statement just now, george, congratulating and thanking the ceo of cvs caremark. It will have a positive impact on americas health. Thank you. To the search for a missing Virginia Police captain. Kevin quick vanished never showing up to a Birthday Party on saturday that he had planned for his brother. Authorities suspect foul play. Abcs Steve Osunsami has the latest on the misery thrt this morning Virginia Police are searching for one of their own. Greatest fear is obviously the worst Case Scenario and that we would not get him back. Reporter kevin quick, a 45yearold Police Captain and young father never showed up to the Surprise Party that he had been planning for his younger brother last saturday. Police believe he disappeared friday night and the last anyone knew he was heading to visit a friend. Surveillance photos show his silver suv in two different parts of the state on saturday, three Days Later Police found it abandoned here nearly 60 miles away outside a home in mineral, virginia. His friends and family in blue suspect foul play. These are places where kevin would not go, so thats why, you know, its its hard to maintain hope. Reporter theyre releasing these surveillance photos of one of two men they say might be connected to his disappearance. The last to hear from him, his estranged wife. Police say his credit cards are unused but he may have been carrying a large sum of money he had not yet put in the bank. There are also other pieces of evidence and information we had that mades concerned about his safety. Pretty much right off the bat. Reporter authorities are offering a 12,500 reward this morning for any information that helps bring him home. The community he served hoping for the best. Any time something happens, you call the police, you want them to come help you. Now the police need our help and its our turn to give back to them. For good morning america, Steve Osunsami, abc news, atlanta. Hopefully if anybody knows anything they will contact authorities right away. Its such a mystery. It certainly is. Other news breaking. The moving journey for the woman portrayed by judi dench in philomena. You see it right there, 83 years old at the vat condition where she was blessed by the pope. Cynthia mcfadden live in rome with this remarkable story. Good morning, cynthia. Reporter good morning, george. It was extraordinary. We were standing right beside her as a woman once shamed by the Catholic Church for having a baby out of wedlock was invited today to meet pope francis. The times, they are achanging. 80yearold Philomena Lee could never have imagined this moment back in 1952 when she was a young unwed mother being here in st. Peters square invited by pope francis to mass. This woman of faith touching the hand of the leader of the faithful. Im very happy to meet you. Reporter its an ending not even hollywood could write fitting since philomena is known around the world from the oscar nominated movie bearing her name. Very long time ago when you were 18 years old could you have imagined . Could i have imagined meeting the pope one day. Reporter having a movie made about your life . In no, no way. No way would i ever have imagined it. Reporter her life story now played out on film by none other than dame judi dench. In trouble or in prison or goodness knows where. Action. Reporter as the movie so wrenchingly portrays, philomena was just 18 and unmarried when she gave birth to a son in an irish home for unwed mothers run by an order of nuns. She was forced to give him up three years later. She hid her secret for 50 years. 50 years and i think reporter despite what she went through her faith never wavered. You cant go through life being so unyielding. Youve got to forgive. Youve got to. Just have to forgive. Reporter we were with her for this latest chant her of her story, a journey that has taken her to red carpets and capitol hill and even the golden globes. But todays journey here to vatican city is a remarkable show of the power of forgiveness. Despite the catholic nuns who took so much from her, her belief so palpable for all to see. Like philomena an approximate 60,000 unwed Irish Catholic women were forced to give up their babies, now, philomena hopes the pope may help those women and those children reunite. This all came today in the wake of a scathing u. N. Report criticizing the Catholic Church for its for the child abuse scandals and also criticizing the pope for his attitudes on homosexuality. As for us were headed back up to the vatican where we are told from sources at the very highest level the pope will screen the movie philomena this afternoon and well be there. Wow. And well see a lot more of it tonight on nightline after jimmy kimmel. Thanks very much. Ginger zee back inside. More on the weather. More because we have to go out west to chicago. Such a jawdropping winter for so many people. You know, last year they had 6 inches. This year, 50 plus and 5 of them came last night and look what it looks like right now on the roads in chicago. Thats i55. What a wreck its going to be throughout the city so please take some extra care because youre also going to see the cold air spilling in and that is all the way to the pacific northwest. Seattle at 16. A windchill this morning, 10 is what it feels like in portland. 16 below the feels like in kansas city with all that fresh snow they had. More than half foot in a lot of places from there too chicago and minneapolis, 21 below. Your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds. First this mornings snowiest cities brought to you by cats pride litter. Morning, washington. Freezing rain continues to be a big problem across the pc area, especially in northern maryland. 75,000 people are being reported without power. Under a areas now are winter storm warning her ice is accumulating, anywhere between 1 10 of one inch to almost half of one inch in northern maryland. It is just a mess in places like carrol and that cold air is spilling into the south, nashville, 34 after they had all the heavy rain. Remember the southern end was record rain for them yesterday. A whole lot going o