Today on CNN STUDENT NEWS,

as millions are digging out from the snow,

we're showing you just how bad it was.

From the top down, this is what the system look like from space.

Astronauts could see it from the international space station.

New York City's mayor said this storm would crack the city's top five ever

for the amount of snow on the ground.

The lights went out on Broadway, just one major part of the city that was shut down.

To New Jersey, one of six states that saw more than 30 inches of snow.

At high tide, some parts of the Jersey shore actually got more flooding

that Superstorm Sandy brought in 2012.

Baltimore, Maryland, saw its heaviest snowfall ever.

More than 29 inches. Mass transit services had to be cancelled.

Same story in Washington, D.C.

Roads were blocked by snow. Schools are closed today.

And ice and snow made driving conditions treacherous

all the way south to the Carolinas.

From above, the monster storm looks peaceful, almost serene.

But on the ground, it caused death, misery and destruction.

From fatal accidents to huge snow piles, flooding,

and the complete shutdown of major cities.

The blizzard of 2016 is one for the record book.

This is a historic snowstorm.

This is a huge challenge for Pennsylvania.

We are deploying all of our resources to try to make sure

that people of Pennsylvania are safe.

As the weather begins to subside and people dig out from tons of snow,

it could be days before life gets back to normal.

Stay patient. And to quote a line from one of my favorite musicals,

"We're all in this together." So, just stay patient.

I've never seen anything like it.

Within minutes a rush of water from that bay came over into the harbor

and essentially flooded our crew.

In New Jersey, coastal residents are assessing damage from

tidal flooding that sent sea water and ice blocks unto town streets.

I came home early from work yesterday.

I cleaned up a bottom half of my house and I brought everything up.

Smart.

Yes. We learned from Sandy.

In Kentucky and Pennsylvania, stories of epic traffic jams,

some motorists stranded for almost 24 hours.

I've never been stuck on a highway this long before.

We've been here for about 15 hours.

Stuff like this, it's going to be hard to get out of here anyway.

So, I think we're going to be here for a long time.

Eighty-five million people impacted by the storm.

More than a dozen deaths, hundreds of traffic accidents,

thousands of power outages and flight cancellations.

It is a storm that won't soon be forgotten.

Wet, sloppy conditions and just trying to make the best of it

and clean everything up as much as we can.

For the first time on CNN STUDENT NEWS "Roll Call",

we're headed to the Cayman Islands.

They're in the Caribbean Sea. Their capital is Georgetown on Grand Cayman,

and that's where Cayman International School is watching.

We're visiting our friends in Cincinnati, Ohio, next.

At Madeira High School, there are two mascots, the Mustangs and the Amazons.

And, finally, it's great to see Thibodaux High School today in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Let's geaux -- that's go with an E-A-U-X -- Tigers.

African leaders are pushing the nation of Burundi

to allow international troops to help keep the peace there.

Here's why: ongoing political violence

is threatening the spread to something much worse.

The small African republic had its first democratic presidential election in 1993.

But soon afterward, the president was assassinated.

That led to a civil war that lasted more than 10 years and decimated Burundi.

By 2005, relative calm had been restored.

A new president was elected then and reelected in 2010.

But his latest reelection last year has people inside

and outside Burundi concerned that history could repeat itself.

Burundi has been at a tipping point since April 2015,

when incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza

decided to run for a controversial and some believe illegal third term as president.

Protests rocked the small central African nation,

roughly the size of Belgium.

Those protests quickly turned violent,

and an attempted military coup cause Nkurunziza's ruling party

to crack down on all opposition movements, civil society and the media.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of Burundians have fled the country,

seeking asylum in nearby countries such as Rwanda, Tanzania,

Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pierre Nkurunziza won that controversial third term in July 2015

with almost 70 percent of the vote. But the violence continues.

Residents of the capital which (INAUDIBLE) report that they go to sleep with a sound

of gunfire and explosions most nights.

Hundreds of people, according to rights groups, have lost their lives.

The African Union, concerned that the humanitarian situation in Burundi

is spiraling out of control, proposed a 5,000-strong military force to restore peace.

Burundi's government rejected their proposal.

A spokesman for the government said

only the government could allow the force in.

"They can't invade a country if the latter is not informed and allow it,"

he said on state radio.

Since then, the United Nations and the U.S.

has called the situation there deeply alarming.

A real concern among both Burundians and the international community

is that if peace or relative stability is not restored soon,

it could soon simply plunge back into the decade-long bloody civil war

that saw 300,000 killed and brought President Pierre Nkurunziza

into power in the first place.

We've seen thousands of you here on the CNN studio tour in Atlanta, Georgia.

If you're planning a visit this spring, there's a new option for you.

The CNN STUDENT NEWS with Carl Azuz tour.

Yes, I am happy to be part of it.

It's all thing CNN STUDENT NEWS from the production process to the puns.

Please keep in mind, though,

that space is limited and you will need a reservation.

For more information on this or regular CNN studio tour,

please send an e-mail to atltour@cnn.com.

Let's hang out y'all, starting this March.

Two things make a great leader.

One is humility, knowing that you don't know everything

but are willing to listen to someone else's expertise.

Another is following a good example,

whoever the leader looks up to can indicate whatever direction he or she is going in.

Of course, there's no one right answer to this.

It's just my two cents. But for today's character study,

some of my on-air colleagues here at CNN

are sharing their ideas on leadership.

What is the most important quality in a leader?

I think a leader needs to follow through.

I think it is clear vision. Decisiveness.

Listening and understanding.

Leadership is defined by?

Showing a good example to others.

Vision. Its communication.

It's confidence and it's a fair amount of being a good cheerleader.

Who is someone you consider a great leader? My dad.

I'd have to say it's my mentor, T.D. Jakes.

I would say Oprah and I think what Oprah has really taught me,

just as a fan and a viewer over the years.

The key isn't talk, talk, talk,talk. The key is to listen.

Are you a good leader? Absolutely. I don't know.

Sometimes.

I am a great leader. I'm an excellent leader.

If I'm in my best, sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Are you a good leader? No.

What question did a mentor encourage you to ask yourself

that impacted your career choices?

My mentor would say to trust your instincts,

to make sure that you listen to yourself, because if you do that,

you do it well, it's going to pretty much always lead you down the right path.

Impromptu experiment at the International Space Station:

ping pong with water.

Astronaut Scott Kelly has two hydrophobic paddles.

They repeal water.

So, all you have to do is squirt a ball of H2O

into a micro- gravity environment, and bam, ping pong.

Now, before you say this is the slowest game of ping pong ever,

the space station is moving at more than 17,000 miles per hour.

So, actually, this is the fastest game ever.

You could call that water table tennis.

A new spin on ping pong where every smash makes a splash.

But don't dive out just yet because we're closing today

with an incredible time-lapse video of one of Washington, D.C.'s

heaviest snowstorms on record.