bill. mason: and your future is in jeopardy when your face is on. wheel of fugitive! this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. mason: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m anthony mason. winter saved its best for last in this final week of the season, it dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of the northeast and brought blizzard conditions to new england. the storm is blamed for least two deaths. two big cities, new york and philadelphia, got less than expected, but still enough to cause major travel headaches. flight cancellations this week are well over 8,000, and utility companies have been working to restore power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses. we have a team of correspondents covering the storm. first, david begnaud in albany, new york. reporter: anthony, winter will get the last laugh. after all this snow today, last few months have been mild and bleak. spring is just six days away, and this has been a wallop. here in albany, it s near
bill. mason: and your future is in jeopardyn wheyour face is on. wheel of fugitive! this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. after all this snow today, last few months have been mild and bleak. spring is just six days away, and this has been a wallop. here in albany, it s near-whiteout conditions all day. we have seen drivers stuck? nsnow across the city. if you are sitting somewhere dry right now, be this is a big deal, because nearly 50 million people are affected from washington, d.c. to, maine. unreal. totally unreal. reporter: the late-season storm pelted northeast and mid-atlantic with a stream of snow, sleet, and ice, forcing businesses and schools from philadelphia to boston to close. in new york state, tractor trailers were banned from several major highways. in eastern new york, the snow is so bad, this salt spreader landed sideways. parts of pennsylvania were buried under two feet of snow, but that didn t stop state troopers and the national guard
kris eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station in boston, wbz. eric. reporter: anthony, good evening. we re seeing some impressive snow totals from this storm, especially for areas just north and west that 95 corridor. that s where we thought heaviest band would set up, 30-inch totals. we could be seeing some three-feet amounts before things wind down. still snowing heavily in parts of new york state and pennsylvania. heavily snowfall continuing for new york state and into parts of northern new england. we ll also be watching areas of snow showers lingering well into the day tomorrow. not inconceivable that new york towns could approach 40 inches of snow before things wind down. behind us work plenty of cold. temperatures running, 20, 25 degrees below average. it will be a slow melt. and here s the problem we all that warmth in february, and washington, d.c., warmest february, warmest winter on record. when you have a really warm spring, it usually doesn t la
jeopardy when your face is on. wheel of fugitive! this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. mason: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m anthony mason and this is our western edition. winter saved its best for last in this final week of the season, it dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of the northeast and brought blizzard conditions to new england. the storm is blamed for least two deaths. two big cities, new york and philadelphia, got less than expected, but still enough to cause major travel headaches. flight cancellations this week are well over 8,000, and utility companies have been working to restore power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses. we have a team of correspondents covering the storm. first, david begnaud in albany, new york. reporter: anthony, winter will get the last laugh. after all this snow today, the last few months have been mild and bleak. spring is just six days away, and this has been a wallop. here in albany, it s near-
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