Five Deaths in Virginia After Monster Snowstorm
HARLOW: All right, you are looking at live pictures this evening of a beautiful capital, Washington, D.C., in the wake of a record-breaking blizzard in many parts of the East Coast. Federal officials announcing just moments ago all those offices, federal offices and D.C. government offices will be closed there tomorrow. Schools closed as well. Limited bus and subway service resuming in the morning, crews are scrambling right now to move piles of snow and ice. The mayor says she needs the public's help.</s>MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER (D), WASHINGTON, D.C.: We're still operating under an emergency in the district. And we will have to for anybody who impedes our ability to get plows down the street, if you come out, you get yourself stuck on one of our streets. I have to tell you we will aggressively ticket you and tow your vehicle. So it will not continue to impede our snow operation.</s>HARLOW: D.C.'s airports are shut down. Thousands of flights are canceled. The numbers tell the story. 17.8 inches of snow falling at Washington Reagan National Airport, the fourth largest snowfall ever there. 28.3 inches buried Dulles International, the second largest snowfall there. In Baltimore, a new record, 29.2 inches falling at BWI. Our Nick Valencia is live for us tonight in Fairfax, Virginia. Pretty much a standstill, right, inside the beltway?</s>NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. Not very many vehicles moving along those interstates or thoroughfares. We are right in the middle of the cleanup effort. Those thousands of vehicles that have been sent out onto the roadways, spreaders, snowplows and heavy machinery helping along with the cleanup. Here we are at one of those spots here. This mountain not necessarily created by the snowfall certainly by one of those snowplows. So this was 34 hours of continuous snow here in Fairfax, Virginia, more than 30 inches falling. And it's going to be a very expensive storm to clean up. The governor of Virginia spoke about that earlier today.</s>GOV. TERRY MCAULIFFE (D), VIRGINIA: This is a very expensive storm. It is costing the commonwealth $2 million to $3 million an hour. I believe that at the end of the day this will probably be our most expensive snow event ever, could top over $100 million.</s>VALENCIA: We did speak to the Virginia State Police earlier. They tell us that there's been more than 1400 accidents on those roadways. A majority of those have been minor accidents. But the concern over the weekend were disabled vehicles, even some of those emergency vehicles got caught up in that -- those treacherous, treacherous conditions here. The good news is, residents woke up this morning, the sun was out. Degree temperature was about 53 degree difference from yesterday. It's starting to get chilly. Virginia State Police saying they are concerned. Even though the sun is expected to be out tomorrow, no more snowfall. But all the snowfall that melted, Poppy, is expected to re-freeze. So even if those roadways seem passable right now, tomorrow morning could be a different story. Power companies of course worried that those trees could be saturated with water falling down into those power lines, creating even more of a mess for residents in this area that have already been through so much this weekend -- Poppy.</s>HARLOW: No question. All right, Nick Valencia, live for us tonight in Fairfax, Virginia. Thank you so much. Coming up next, a very important story for you to see. Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Flint, Michigan, where frankly so many clues were there about the dangerous, undrinkable water in Flint.</s>DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Looks like a pretty obvious clue.</s>DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA, HURLEY PEDIATRICS PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Yes. So red flags like loud alarms should have been going off in people's brains. If it's corroding engine parts, what is it doing to our plumbing that is predominantly lead based?</s>HARLOW: What led to so many thousands of people drinking contaminated water, water with lead in it? We're talking about thousands of children as well. The effects of it irreversible. Our Sanjay Gupta with us, next.