the september storm reached as far as idaho and spokane, washington, nearly two inches of snow fell there saturday. that is the first measurable snowfall on that day since they started keeping records back in 1981. now temperatures are expected to drop into the teens and 20s, so all of this is going to freeze pretty hard. school is closed in browning where they got 40 inches of snow. gayle? >> all right. i'm not ready. but thank you. thank you so much. >>> we have breaking news out of north carolina overnight where lawmakers captured three out of four escaped inmates from ohio. the men were taken into custody in the raleigh area. they escaped from the galia county jail in the southern part of ohio early yesterday morning. one inmate is at large this hour. tom hanson is in galipolis where they were held. how did they get away? >> reporter: the inmates escaped behind me here in ohio around 12:00 a.m. sunday using a shank to overpower two female corrections officers. according to authorities, the men took down a secured door to the outside and stole a corrections vehicle to make the getaway.

six states have seen record-breaking september snowfall from north to montana spokane, washington, faced p freeze montana's governor knodeclared emergency. in terms of how widespread and pourf fu powerful the storm has been, the national weather service says it could be the strongest on record for early onl one saying we have to pump theug over 40 inches for northern montana this morning the whole storm system will continue to travel north that system will let up this morning, but this is the problem. look at our temperatures right now. great falls, 26 degrees. the feels like temperature in the teens. with all that snow, also a little bit of rain that's mixing in, your dealing with some black ice this morning, and travel is a major concern fic at a the sunshine for southern california you're still in the 70s. following rain for nevada this alaska.n. going to bring another round of snow for seattle then we have record highs on tht we'll talk about that coming up. >> it is unbelievable, what we're feeling over here with this weather janessa, thank you. >>> when you see oprah, you know it i

this car slipped and flipped further west, storms in spokane, washington not as much snow, but a dangerous deep freeze warning is in effect. 6 the dangerous weather system rattled the great plains of this weekend too. in eastern kansas, powerful rain, wind and hail pounded this region and in california -- >> that's bad news. >> a tornado touch down their sacramento saturday. the twisters spinning up debris as it crossed over a dead field. summer's heat held on another week in some places, especially in the south breaking records in north carolina raleigh, 93 degrees. wilmington 94 and charlotte 95. >> scorching that was nbc's kendis gibson reporting. >>> firefighters in surf city are on the scene of an enormous blaze that officials say has spread to at least seven buildings. three houses were on fire when crews arrived. multiple agencies were called in to control the blaze a huge plume of black smoke was visible for miles. no word on what caused the fire. >>> nbc meteorologist. freezing cold on one side. >> you industrial that package from kendis. just a ton going on. and the winter weathe