broke a gas line and leaked fuel all over the city. the streets were made unplowed. i mean here s my neighborhood and there i am on the sidewalk as of the wee hours of the morning i m watching some guy dig out one of these cars. the good news is there was a lot of people who shoveled sidewalks and you could get through at least in that one spot. okay. so i showed you my pictures. i want to see yourself as well. contessa@msnbc.com. out west, the big issue is rain. parts of southern california trying to brace from last week s washout. we have aerial images from the main highways in california to big bear. big bear is the ski resort. the road ims apparently we don t have the tape. it s closed indefinitely because storms closed out big portions
reporter: yeah, i know. he must be from georgia. reporter: we ve got a few guys coming over. maybe we can must be. let s get this car out of here. okay, we ve got some people there. reporter: absolutely. yeah, we re going to get a team up and we re going to get him going. back to the transportation, again, we ve seen a lot of this play out. if you happen to try to catch a train today, the above-ground trains, there are few working, but few and far between. as more snow enters the picture and chad will give you the exact amount you can anticipate, we might have more backups and problems. one more person trying to come through here. one big message they are trying to get to people also, ali, snow up on the roofs of the cars. they d like people to try to scrape that off before they go out, because as you re driving down the freeway and the wind kicks over the top of your vehicle, guess where the snow goes? it goes eople traveling behind you. yeah. reporter: obscures their