Monster winter storm pounds West
A powerful blizzard Saturday was pummeling the mountains of Northern California and Nevada with heavy snow and winds up to 190 miles per hour in the mountain peaks. Carter Evans has the latest.
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A powerful blizzard Saturday was pummeling the mountains of Northern California and Nevada with heavy snow and winds up to 190 miles per hour in the mountain peaks. Carter Evans has the latest.
More than 25 million people are under winter weather alerts as a massive blizzard approaches the Sierra Nevada region. The storm has already shut down a stretch of I-80 and left hundreds trapped on the highway. Carter Evans is in Truckee, California with more.
Winter conditions are causing major travel disruptions in the Northeast. There have been hundreds of flight cancelations Friday, with New York's LaGuardia Airport and New Jersey's Newark Airport being the hardest hit. And in Virginia, a small commuter jet made an emergency landing on a snowy highway just minutes after takeoff. Christina Ruffini has the latest.
"If you're bundled up, and you find that it's too cold and you can't handle it any longer, your dog probably can't either," one veterinarian said.
A devastating blizzard reportedly dropped almost 52 inches of snow over Buffalo and its surrounding county, killing at least 39 people.
Temperatures were beginning what was forecast to be a steady rise but the storm's death toll was still ticking up as well.
Officials say they have now moved from search and rescue to storm cleanup.
Buffalo remains under a state of emergency with full recovery likely still days away.
In New York's Erie County, home to Buffalo, ambulances were taking more than three hours to make a single hospital trip and the blizzard may be "the worst storm in our community's history."
Residents in some parts of western New York are digging out from snow piles taller than they are after a lake-effect storm pounded the area over the weekend. WIVB's Marlee Tuskes has the latest.
