Good evening to our viewers in the West.

And thank you for joining us on this Tuesday night.

Tonight, the downtowns in despair

in cities across the country.

Our report on how work from home is hurting small business.

Parts of Northern California are under a winter storm warning,

while further South, the situation

remains dire with many residents still cut off from the outside world following last week's record snowfall.

The states o of Emergency Services

is working with local o to help clear roads

and dig residents out of their homes.

Another major storm is expected to hit California later this week, bringing several more feet of snow

to the Sierra.

Heavy rain and rapidly melting snow

could cause flooding in the foothills.

Well, we've had a couple of warm, nice days

to start the week.

Rain returns and drops our temperatures across the South,

but more importantly, it brings the threat

for flooding-- flash flooding something we'll

be watching here, especially across the Red River

Valley getting into Arkansas.

That possibility extends all the way

through really the end of the week,

Thursday into Friday watching places

like Memphis, Little Rock and Northern Mississippi.

Where we've got the cold air it'll be snow.

And the same areas that have seen quite a bit of it

over the last several weeks, including the Twin Cities over

into the Dakotas, this time getting down to Des Moines, where we could see a half foot or more of snow

as our next winter storm takes shape.

And then all eyes here back across the West

for a potent atmospheric river setup.

Temperatures will be warming up.

So rain is going to become more of a factor

even in areas where we've seen a lot of snow and the highest elevation.

We're talking more 4 to 5 feet of snow

after what's been just a record shattering

year in terms of snowfall. And flash flood concerns are going

to be a huge threat this weekend and throughout next week

for much of Central and Northern California.

For more in-depth coverage, watch

the Weather Channel on cable and now streaming

live on your favorite TV streaming device.

The FDA is recalling two more brands of eye drops

over contamination risks.

r say the products ?by PharMerica and Apotex

may not be sterile and could cause infections.

The FDA recalled three other eye drop products last month

made by India-based company Global Pharma HealthCare.

Consumers are advised to return the products wherever

they originally purchased them.

The 19 pandemic has ?impacted nearly every aspect

of our lives, including how and where people work.

The ripple effect has been felt in many business districts across the country.?

In tonight's MoneyWatch, C's Carter Evans

shows us how cities are working to hopefully revitalize

their downtown.

Even though the doors are open again at this location

of the famous Piroshky Piroshky bakery in Seattle,

business is still down 85%.

We only have two employees now versus having 15, 16 in 2019.

We're losing money every month.

When we first met owner Olga Sagan last fall,

sales were so bad, she had to close three stores.

What happened to business downtown?

lt disappeared.

What about all those corporate workers

that used to be your customers?

They're at home in suburbs.

Even Seattle's m admitted downtown was changing.

It'Il never be the good old days, where

everyone is downtown working.

It's happening across the country.

A new Berkeley study analyzes cell phone GPS data to track activity and rank the economic recovery of 62 North

American cities.

San Diego's near the top of the list,

?with plenty of housing and entertainment.

But Seattle is near the bottom, along with San Francisco, which

lost about 150,000 office workers.

A lot of these professional services don't have to be face to face.?

They have no reason to come back.

Study author Karen Chapple says skyrocketing housing prices

are also a problem.

You want people downtown 24/7, maybe put some more affordable

housing in downtown areas.

So Seattle's now considering modifying zoning

so unused offices can be turned into apartments.

So thinking of it more as a neighborhood

has got to be one of our strategies.

Markham Mcintyre is Seattle's director

of economic development.

When I spoke to business owners when l was there,

one of their main concerns was c ?downtown. The public safety issues are real.

But we've got to make sure that people feel safe coming

downtown, being downtown.

Behind you.

But Seattle business owners are still

waiting for the downtown rebound.

The changes are coming, and we're seeing them little

by little.

There's been another accident involving a Norfolk Southern

train in Ohio.

That's the same company involved in that toxic train derailment

last month.

A 46-year-old train conductor for Norfolk Southern

?was k today in Cleveland when

a dump truck crashed into the front of his train

at a crossing.?

The N has launched ?a special i into Norfolk Southern's safety practices.

This is actually the company's fifth major accident

since December of 2021.

Well. now to the news on

W Street-- stocks

took a tumble after F Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

warned today that interest rates could

be raised more than expected in response

to recent positive economic data.

Well, that sent investors running for the hills,

with all three major indexes ending

the day in negative territory.

Bank stocks were the hardest hit.