hostage situation overnight after four people were rescued. the suspect is dead. we will break down his possible motives. a massive winter storm system barrels across the country. some governors in the south declaring a state of emergency ahead of a potentially crippling ice event. and then joe rogen debunks himself by accident on his own show, as over 200 doctors is concerned he s spreading disinformation. we re going to start this morning with breaking news out of australia. after a legal back and forth stretching almost two weeks,
cnn s meteorologist tom seder is also tracking this storm. tom, what are you seeing? wedge, you talked about over 200,000 without power. i would not be surprised that you could see 2 million or more, and this is the worst kind of loss of power. if it s due to ice you could be without power for a week or more. this storm came barreling out of canada, 8 to 12 inches of snow. 14 in des moines and snow in memphis to nashville and down to 9 inches in mississippi. and now it s an ice event but the good news is if you look at the major cities, boston you re not in it, but you don t have to go far to the west. philly, yes, there will be big concerns with heavy snow to areas of eastern ohio. we ll get there, up to say cleveland and pittsburgh, buffalo, but coastal emotion to the north. now, severe weather we ll touch on in a minute but it s been an icy mess eaves of nashville. takes a while for the colder temperatures and change the rain
yesterday, when we were talking about this, boris, we said 65 million people are under some sort of weather watch. this morning, it s 80 million. they re talking about this crippling ice event. they re talking about the fact that there could be literally impossible travel for the next few days. they re specifically focused on parts of the carolinas and virginia and if you remember a few weeks ago, i-95 in virginia was a total nightmare. you talk about impossible to travel, cnn s allison chinchar is live in the cnn weather center. do you think we re going to see similar conditions to what we saw in the storm about two, three weeks ago? yeah. i mean i hope not, but i feel like the keyword is hope. i think the reality may end up being something different because remember for that system, the vast majority was snow. you re talking ice. people who are used to it can learn how to drive in snow. no one knows thou drive on ice. it s impossible for a reason. that s going to be the biggest
hit good and then can you still see the snow falling in areas of mississippi. it s a big dynamic-shaped storm with so many elements of severity that millions are going to see different things and some could see a variety of these different elements. first of all, the snow. as you look at it trying to make its way into nashville, a little bit of rain, sleet, freezing rain mix south of nashville and franklin several inches. it the continues to make its way up to the east and to the northeast. if you get down towards atlanta, we ve had sleet and freezing rain waiting for that cold air to drop down to change it over to snow and it hasn t done that. it s going to take a few more hours as we see the snow coming from alabama across jam of. accumulations are real treating travel chaos because temperatures have been hovering right around freezing in the south and they will drop. now, you get into the carolinas from the piedmont in towards central, virginia. it will be a devastating storm with m
appeared to be tied to the patriot front, an american nationalist white supremacist group, showed up outside the national archives surrounded by d.c. police to make sure there are no confrontations. the stage is set for a lot more tension. suzanne, thank you so much in the nation s capital. in the carolinas the system that brought snow and ice to the region is moving out today. much of the deep south had experienced frigid arctic air this week, but luckily was spared from a crippling ice event. up north a stunning scene on lake michigan. take a look at that. ice pancakes? like their name sake they look exactly like you think they would round, flat discs made of ice. they are common in the arctic but are only seen in the lower 48 states once the temperatures get below freezing for several days. we re back in a moment. she took new mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges.