As a winter storms works its way toward Hampton Roads, local leaders have announced cancellations for weekend activities. Much of the region is under a winter storm warning through Saturday morning. The forecast calls for 2 to 4 inches of snow.

Flying south through smoky skies down the famous Malibu coast, at first the burnt-out mansions are the exception -- solitary wrecks, smoldering away between rows of intact, gleaming beachfront villas.Where row upon row of family homes once stood, all that remain are occasional chimneys, blackened tree stumps and charred timber.

Hampton Roads might get another round of snow and ice this weekend as a nor’easter is expected to move across the South. According to the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Hampton Roads has at least a 70% chance of “minor impacts” from the storm,