the most cancellations that .hicago, o'hare boston's logan airport has stopped all flights until noon today. that could be extended. of course this is the holiday travel season which comes to defend this weekend -- which comes to an end this weekend. i have to tell you, driving into the airport, many roads around the airport are pretty icy. areramps and overpasses very icy. if you are coming out to the airport, make sure you give yourself enough time. when you get close to airport make sure you slow it down. reporting live, john gonzalez, abc seven news. abc seven is your storm watch station. we have the latest school closings and traffic alerts plus jacqui jeras and eileen with up- to-the-minute forecasts. you can download the free storm watch weather app for your smartphone. >> our team coverage continues of this winter weather. jacqui jeras will be back with everything you need to know before you head out this morning. it is for: 07 and 22 degrees. we will be back. ♪ >> we are back at 4:09. intro to don't have an of snow on the ground, it is cold out there and jacqui jeras, i was d

boston's logan airport has stopped all flights between 8:30 p.m. tonight and noon friday. >>> so seems like we're not going to have a mild weather like we did last year. we already have got to the point where mildness seems to be off the table. >> it's january 2nd and he's complaining already. >> when is spring coming? >> not too far, but tell you what. snow right now and it's going to get colder. inside the beltway get off the roads by 11:00, 12:00. if you're north and west of town, get off the roads pretty much now. we're looking at snowfall totals pretty impressive already, smithburg 3 inches, germantown 1 inch, clear brook, virginia about 3 inches, leesburg 2.5 inches, here in northwest a trace of snow already. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, think you can tell the fuzz there is the snowfall across the metro area, temperature down to 36, dew point fallen to 32, so drier air moving in. we get the dew point under 32, we wouldn't see any freezing here which is good news inside the beltway, but outside th

logan airport 15-inches of snow in boston. i can't make this even warmer it might be colder than this for green bay. the forecasted low for sunday night is minus 21. yes. no, i'm not lying here. ten below by the fourth quarter. it will be just brutal. for us here its really nice and quiet. its almost too quiet. its too mild and too warm for january. just like it was in december. 30s to 40s to 50 in san francisco. the coast has been the place to be. get a little offshore pub. there is a little low spinning in. hazy skies. mild to warm again opinion mostly sunny. maybe partly cloudy. its nothing we haven't seen or dealt with before. here is sal. >>> all right, steve, good morning. we are looking at a decent commute so far. and i think its going to stay that way on this friday the last day that a lot of people have off. westbound traffic looks good coming into san francisco. it will be the bay bridge. we promised we would check the san mateo bridge and the san mateo bridge traffic looks pretty good heading out to the high-rise. i

logan airport in boston is open, but there are a lot of delays there.f you're supposed to be flying. we're told poston has about two feet of snow on the ground in areas nearby. look at the map. you can see that storm moving. it's moving on, that's the good news, but the problem is the frigid temperatures are here to stay for a few days so all this snow is going to stick around, we're not going to get any melting. >> look at the temperatures, this is what it will feel like with the windchill this afternoon, that is very, very cold, minus 12, minus 10, look at that, and it's going to stay that cold through tomorrow morning and really the rest of the weekend, there goes the snowplow one more time for another trip behind us. >> we have our teams spread throughout the country covering the breaking news. the fact is a third of the nation is being affected by this storm. we start with indra petersons in hard-hit boston. >> reporter: the massive nor'easter battered more than 20 states into the night, nearly two feet of snow already on the ground near boston. th

the hardest hit is chicago o'hare and boston's logan airport has stopped its flights until later fridayew hours, i suppose you have felt the temperature dropping. >> we are feeling the temperature dropping and the winds picking up, we are also feeling the snow coming down and the snow accumulating here on the ground. we have a ruler and if you recall the last time it was about two hours ago and we had seven inches of snow. i will put it in and we are just under ten inches. we are close to ten inches and for boston the forecast is 14 inches and we are still expecting it to snow for another couple of hours. five or six hours. it is bad in boston and worse in other places especially along the east coast. cape cod and the area around there some places expecting two feet of snow. some counties already have 18 inches of snow that have come on the ground. we are seeing there are a lot of snow plows through the streets but they are having a difficult time. you can see the snow piling up. it is because this note is very light, the snowflakes are light and the draft a lot. a lot of wind and diffi

boston's logan airport stopped flights between 5:30 and 9:00 a.m tomorrow. more than 5,000 flights have been cancelled across the country. >> i've been through this before, and we'll get through the storm. >> new york mayor has closed roads and urging people to stay home are work tomorrow the storm has caused traffic problem as cross the mid west temperatures in wisconsin and minnesota today reached 40 below 0. now this, is a live picture of washington, d.c. you can see white house is shrouded by falling snow. here is a picture of albany, new york. looks like it's dmeep a snow slumber n new york city lights are bright but snow is blowing in from left there. blocking out skyline in new york. rough weather tonight. >> we're waiting for some kind of rain here, we're in trouble. weather here, dry conditions kept officials keeping a watchful eye. this is a lake county. water levels there less than 13%. and here are the spawning grounds at the bottom of a lake bed california has not had unusual rain or snowfall. department of water resources says 90% of the state

boston's logan will stay open f you're planning to go to the airport, you'll probably call anyway. thank you to all our great reporters out in the field. also, cnn is on it. we are blanketing this story like this storm is blanketing us. all day today, we will be broadcasting the developments as they change. if you're in an area that's affected, make sure you keep us on. also throughout the night. we'll be broadcasting extra early tomorrow morning as well. for your safety and concern, we're here for you cnn all day, all night. another story that has us shaking our heads, beloved member of a community is found dead now. police investigating a murder mystery that happened inside a catholic church. >>> right now being processed as a crime scene. very unusual notion but a beloved prees, the reverend eric friese, seen her in this youtube video, was found dead in the rectory yesterday. now police have launched a full-on murder investigation and they seem to be fairly stymied about what happened. martin savidge is at the cnn center in atlanta. in his own recto are. y, martin? >> reporter:

logan airport 15-inches of snow in boston. i can't make this even warmer it might be colder than this for green bay. the forecasted low fo

. >> to the boston logan airport where a u.s.rived and clearly his loved ones are there waiting for him, including his girl friend. gives him a big old hug, he gives her a big old kiss. but he's about to give her a big old surprise, too. >> can i have everyone's attention, please? i came all the way out here from colorado to ask a have very beautiful woman a very important question. >> who starts screaming? that wasn't even her. >> he gets down on one knee. he brings out the ring. >> he couldn't wait any longer, huh? right off the plane. [ cheers ] >> of course she said yes. >> right. >> go back to when that lady goes -- >> that's some stranger screaming. the girl is just standing there and some other persons goes -- >> it's excitement, though. >> airports can be boring, though. you all of a sudden got something to watch. [ cheers ] >> a lot of hugging, a lot of cheering. yay. >> this is sweet. >> what a great holiday surprise. >> racoons always getting into all kinds of mischief. this racoon thinks this utility room is his littl

new york's la fwarda comes in second, followed by atlanta, philly and boston's logan. people that took part were asked to falker in the airport's cleanliness and food. >> i can't believe chicago was not on there. we call it camp o'hare for a reason. >>> delays on metro, red light cameras, jay walkers, what bugs you more about your commute? you can tell wusa9.com and let us know your commuter pet peeve. we will investigate and get you answers to what drives you crazy about the commute here in d.c., maryland and virginia. >>> it is awfully tough to be a firefighter on any day but especially hard on days like this one and late this afternoon firefighters had to battle this car fire. it happened at search corners and -- seven corners and was shot by one of our photo journalists on his iphone. no injuries. >>> check this video out of minnesota, we highlighted for you as a car loses control. right on an overpass and hurdling off the side of the embankment. believe it not, the -- or not, the driver walked away from that. >>> sign of progress or another recipe for gridlock? a

kennedy and boston's logan.at sfo as passengers scramble to rebooked after sfo's largest carrier, united airlines, grounded flights in chicago and cleveland. 80 flights were canceled. no cancellations reported at oakland or san jose. our weather app can be down lloyd god free at abc7news.com/app or on google play. >> the first of four san jose state students accused of terrorizing a black roommate will be in court today. the case sparked a series of campus protests over the treatment of minorities. the d.a. decided not to file felony charges against the students but, rather, misdemeanor charges. a police report says the white students taunted the black roommate with racial slurs, outknitted the dorm with confederate flag and barricaded the victim in 9 room and locked one of the bicycle looks around his neck. >> three are recovering from injuries after the car plunged from the road in grizzly hills. the driver lost control and the car veered east road and went 200' over the embankment into thick bushes. regulatio

jet blue grounded flights at three airports as well as boston logan until 7:00 tomorrow morning. and chick airport alone. well, all told 3400 flights have been cancel add cross the count tray cording to flight ware.com. another 3800 have been delayed. capseled flights mean stranded travellers. they booked 40 rooms at the holiday inn. the travellers aren't too pleased but are trying to make the best of it. >> i spent time on hold and on phones trying to reschedule things and tell people we're not there. you put your life on hold. could be in worse places but it's we're trying to make the best of it. >> check out alcatras and fisherman's wharf yesterday. >> experts say bottom line check with your carrier before heading to the airport. >> just extreme weather in parts of the country. mild here and abc7 news tonight >> tonight here on the roof it's comfortable weather. you'll see high level clouds looking at temperatures right now, arctic chill check out green bay. 17 below now. 15 below in minneapolis. it feels like 39 below in green bay. minneapolis 38 below. windchill factors have

taken the extraordinary step of canceling all of their flights into and out of new york, and also boston's logan airport. that means all four of the jetblue flights here are canceled. the schedule ramps up at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, and they'll be fully operational at noon tomorrow. the duty manager says most of the cancelations are to and from chicago. most of the delays are in newark. also, since the extended deep freeze has been going on since the middle of last week, the backlog is so bad, customers are waiting two or three days for the next available flight. >> not going on my vacation. >> where were you going? >> i was actually connecting to the dominican republic. i might have to go through miami now, to catch another airline. >> what can you do? >> there's nothing i can do. i suggested to send me to a different state, but they can't do it. all the flights are canceled. nothing i can do. i just gave my husband my news. >> reporter: these also affect cities in warmer clients like l.a. and las vegas. because a lot of them have flights that connect to the northeast. live at the international ter

and noon tomorrow, no flights in the air from boston logan. we spoke with a spokesman for the d.c.airports here. here what happens he said how they're ready for the domino effect of air travel. >> because so much of the traffic goes to places like boston and new york, we do expect some effects as we go into the evening into the cities. it seems like the character of this storm is not so much the amount of snow that's coming in, it's the intensity and the wins that will be associated with that it will make air travel difficult to bostons and new york. >> here at d.c., they know this storm will wreak a lot of havoc, they have staff on standby, here through the night, waiting for the storm to hit in the area and helping with delays. one thing is for sure, for travel, it is going to be a hard 24 hours for travelers are and certainly for the airlines as well. >> this is going to be a mess. so many people, i think, waiting until thursday, friday, saturday to come home from vacations. it will not be easy. thanks to you. meteorologist alexandra steele tracking the storm's path. who is goin

along with newark's liberty, laguardia, boston logan and philadelphia. also being impacted. we want to give you a live look, check this out. these are all the flights currently in the air at this hour. so be sure to check with your airline before you head out this morning. on the ground, though, a state of emergency in new york, governor andrew cuomo ordering three major highways closed overnight. they're expected to reopen this morning. all public schools in boston, philadelphia and new york city are all closed today. so kiddos, you have a snow day as they say. all right. we're going to move on now to other news this morning in a big vote coming monday on capitol hill. that's when the senate is scheduled to decide whether to extend long-term unemployment benefits. insurance was not included in last year's bipartisan budget deal. so it actually ran out last week for more than a million unemployed americans. after the senate, the bill heads to the house. but the senate majority leader, harry reid, worries it might run into trouble with hard-line conservatives. president obama

boston logan airport. all of the airports remain open but not a lot of flights coming and going. at boston airport, they are hoping for flights to resume there at around noon today. the big issue is the visibility. so we are seeing about 5 inches of snow but the problem is the wind is picking up the snow and it's a light fluffy snow. the port authority saying here in new york that they are ready for the storm and they are deploying more than 200 pieces of equipment to deal with the snow and the ice but, again, there is really nothing that can be done about the visibility until the conditions calm down at around 10:00 a.m. eastern time. interesting to note. if you look behind me here, there is not a lot of activity behind mere. i think a lot of people checked with their airlines and found out their flights were cancelled. that is the key here. check with your airline. back to you. >> absolutely true. check with your airlines. so many of you nous can get text alerts and stuff before we leave for the airport

the hardest-hit airport, chicago's o'hare and boston's logan airport stopped its flights a few hours'll have more on the storm in a moment. but first a check of some of the other stories that we're following. we have this just in. india's prime minister is about to call it quits. he says he'll step down after this year's elections even if his congress party defies the odds and wins a third consecutive term. mr. singh says it's time to hand the job to a new prime minister. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry will be heading to the west bank today for talks with palestinian thorn president mahmoud abbas. kerry trying to narrow differences on a framework agreement for a final deal with israel's prime minister netanyahu. >> the time is soon arriving where leaders are going to have to make difficult decisions. we are close to that time, if not at it. and i think we understand the circumstances within which we are working. >> for more on this story, stay with us. we'll be going thrive jerusalem later at cnn news room. >>> still no claim of responsibility for thursday's powerful bomb bla

the last flight out of boston's logan airport is expected to leave around 8:30 this evening.hts and are allowing fliers to rebook without those pesky fees. roads across the region are expected to be treacherous. the weather is blamed for an overturned car in maine, the one you see there, and two deadly crashes in the state of indiana. want to begin now with nbc's

and this evening, at new york's three major airports and boston logan, jetblue says it won't fly at all. the news that jetblue would not fly again in new york and boston until tomorrow morning is trying the patience of already weary travellers. >> everything was cancelled from here to jfk, nothing leaving jfk nothing leaving here. >> reporter: jetblue promises to be 100% operational by 3:00 tomorrow afternoon, but says the overnight break will let them catch up, giving the crews badly needed rest after the weather turned the situation upside down. >> this is the second time i've flown jetblue, and it will be the last. >> it is a little stressful. i'm going back into philly, i don't know when i will get out of here. >> reporter: across the country, flightaware report morse than 3700 flights were canceled by 5:00 p.m. tonight, impacting some 213,000 passengers. at chicago's o'hare airport, help is as rare as an on-time flight. >> a line which is about a mile long. can't get any information from anybody. the airlines basically won't even answer the phone anymore. >> i've been cancelled twi

new york's kennedy international airport remains shut down due to the harsh weather and boston's logan airport is experiencing major delays. some passengers trying to get home passed the time by sleeping. >> just set down and wait. i been sleeping all day here. >> the only snow i saw was in chicago soie every i don't expect anything here. >> you look like you're in good spirits. >> i got some sleep. >> officials at sfo advise if you are traveling to the east coast or expecting somebody from the east coast, just check the flight number before you head out to the airport. >>> a homeless camp is being blamed for a fast-moving fire in corte madera. some huge flames rising from the marshy area near the village at corte madera shopping center. the fire started just before 11 last night and burned more than 5 acres. >> it's a frequent homeless encampment. it's occluded from view with the marsh pampas grass out there and that keeps it from being visible to the outside. so there's quite a few homeless encampments out there. >> investigators are still trying to find the specific cause of the fir

boston logan, earlier this morning the flights were all theed there. there are limited flights now going in and out of boston logan airport, so a bit of progress there, and then at bradley airport in connecticut, flight operations are expected to resume there later this morning, but this is all sort of a fluid situation, authorities are keeping an eye on weather conditions, the big issue is visibility, it's creating a tough situation for pilots because you have the snow, the light, fluffy snow kicked up by the whipping wind and ashleigh, there are people sleeping on cots here in the airport that were pulled out of a warehouse. look at the pictures that we have for you about 180 people sleeping on the cots and you can bet a lot will be here even after the conditions calm down. this picture really sort of sums it up, what people here at this airport and the airports all over are really having to deal with. ashleigh? >> one of the first things that my producer who is standing off camera, steve and i go upstairs to get a cup of coffee around 6:30, 7:00 in

boston's logan airport is closed. 600 flights scheduled for friday have been cancelled out of newarkaguardia. >> secretary of state john kerry is on his 10th visit to the middle e

. >> reporter: jet blue announcing today it is canceling dozens of flights out of boston's logan airport, saying it will take days, not hours, to get people where they are going. today, passengers departing for chicago experiencing delays over fife hours long. departing for detroit many than three hours. still, some travel earls are trying to see the adventure in it all. lisa cho and her friends camping out at laguardia for four days now. >> this is hour home. we even built a little fort. i have on my pajamas. everyone else does, too. we built a little fort. >> reporter: it's going to take days to clear the backlog of passengers and with more freezing temperatures headed towards the northeast next week, david, we're told to expect even more delays. >> all right, linzie janis tonight at the airport. thank you. zbland this evening, authorities are warning the cold will get even worse this week. windchill warnings stretching over 1,700 mile, from the canadian border all the way down the southern border. in indiana tonight, slow going after more snow there on top of nearly a foot of snow the

in boston, logan airport said it expected to be shut down until friday afternoon.ut driving was undeniably hazardous. and amtrak train service was limited so many, including debbie trowbridge, simply headed to the airport and hoped. she should have been at her desk in tampa instead of in terminal 3 at o'hare. how frustrated are you on a scale of the 1-10? >> 10. yeah. because i -- my girlfriends keep tweeting me from tampa that it's almost 80 and sunny there. >> reporter: is it? >> yeah. >> reporter: the good news for chicago is that the snow is slowly tapering off. but the bad news is that it's being replaced by very cold air and, maurice, on monday the high temperature here in chicago is expected to be eight degrees below zero.ñ >> reporter: two nights ago they celebrated a new year none of them will ever forget. ♪ all the ships are aund us now -- ♪ >> reporter: and tonight they're on the first leg of the long journey home. meanwhile, left on board the "akademik shokalskiy" still mired in the ice are 22 russian sailors and crew who are going to wait it out until

hour complete stops at jfk in new york and laguardia as well as new jersey's newark airport and boston's logan airport are frustrated as you you might imagine. as early as last night, some got cancellation notices only to find they couldn't get service on the line or -- we talked with a family that may miss the first few days back at school for their boys in puerto rico and a young woman who may not make it to work in l.a. because of you the effect. >> as one of the largest carriers in the northeast, weather in this area impacts our entire route network and praises. this plan alliance with the current weather forecast. the statement continues with "jetblue is committed to operating safely, further cancellations are possible. we regret the impact to our customers." >>> what's interesting is when you go to the other airlines, they say there shouldn't be any delays. they're telling us we should be asking jetblue for the money. at this point, get me home and i'll deal with that later. >>> saw at least eight flights canceled today and oakland international getting back to us. sfo, by far the most i

boston's logan airport saying it will take days to catch up. in new york, jfk was shut down for hours after a plane skidded off an icy runway. black ice being blamed for pileups in new york, maryland and pennsylvania. >> cars are just spinning out. this is ridiculous. >> reporter: but in green bay, the cold didn't keep tens of thousands of fans away from the packers/49ers game. >> wisconsin natives. we can't help it. >> reporter: the fans are ready but it will be dangerously cold. 5 degrees at game time. it will feel like minus 15. but the coldest air is still yet to come. tomorrow with the windchill it will feel like 50 degrees below zero. >> reporter: the arctic blast is headed east where icestorm warnings have been issued in virginia, maryland and d.c. >> reporter: with wind gusts topping 35 miles an hour, windchills are dropping below 40 below zero. how cold is that? well, the smithsonian says that is colder than it is on mars. and mars is a lot further away from the sun than we are. >> kevin tibbles in minneapolis, thanks. weather channel

ripple effect created by jetblue's decision to halt operations at three new york airports and boston's logan airport for 17 hours. the response is, quote, as one of the larnest carriers in the northeast weather in this area impact ours entire route network and operations. but laura has a different story from the other airlines. >> there should not be delays and they are saying we should ask for the money. just get me home. >> reporter: sfo was hardest hit. because of the last-minute changes, this ten-year-old is nervous about flying to florida alone. >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: jetblue expects all operations will be back to normal around noon our time tomorrow but is it not the only carrier experiencing weather debates. call your airline ahead of time. >> thank you. >>> a headache for so many people. but the delays and cancellations are good news for some people. hotels near sfo enjoying extra business. managers say capacity fluctuates with the airports. >> the airline crews get stuck and need more rooms. >> more guests mean more customers at the bars, restaurants and taxi service. >>> 187 m

newark and boston's logan, until tomorrow morning. officials blaming a flash freeze from those plummeting temperatures in the east, and new rules that just took effect this year requiring more rest for pilots. >> i just want to go home. i just want to get back, settle in. >> reporter: america's travel nightmare now in it's sixth day. with more than 35,000 delayed flights and more than 16,000 canceled from the frozen zone to atlanta and florida. one airline offering evidence of the extreme cold. american airlines reporting from chicago, its antifreeze has been freezing. some travelers are trying to see the adventure. among the stranded, we met a group of college students trying to get home to los angeles. >> this is our home. >> reporter: after four nights at la guardia -- >> what are you doing? >> reporter: they resorted to washing their hair in bathroom sinks. they finally made it out today. but there will be plenty more left here tonight. you're anticipating people sleeping at the airports. >> we're prepared for this evening. we hav

and laguardia, newark airport and boston's logan airport. where theresa blakely has been stuck since the weekend. >> i was dropped off at 6:30 saturday morning to go on my flight and it happened when i got up to the-- you know, right up there on the counter they said all flights are canceled going to raleigh-durham. >> reporter: jetblue blamed the shutdown on a combination of weather and new federal aviation rules mandating certain amount of rests for pilots. it hopes to start fresh tomorrow. at chicago's o'hare, american airlines had a minimal flight schedule because the fuel was freezing and its employees had to limit time spent in the extreme cold. but the temperature is rising in the terminals. passenger brittany leon is trying to get home to alaska with her nine-month-old daughter. >> we were supposed to fly out today and we're not flying out until monday now. >> reporter: that's monday a week from now. scott, we called jetblue, they say they hope to have their operations at 100% by 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. we also called american airlines.

. >> there were long lines all day at boston's logan international. jetblue spokesperson told us clearing up the logjam of flight cancellations and getting people to their destinations may take days, not hours. at chicago's o'hare and midway airports crews work to deice planes and in new york signs at jfk warn travelers that the airport was closed after this delta connection plane carrying 35 people slid off a runway. no serious injuries were reported but the airport was shut down for more than two hours. airlines say all the delays and cancellations have been made worse by new rules mandating longer breaks and capping flying times for pilots. >> for more on the extraordinary temperatures this weekend we're joined from green bay by chris schuller from our affiliate wfrv. >> in green bay right now at the game it's 5 in green bay, windchill minus 12 but for the 80,000 people in front of lambeau field they don't care, this is perfect football weather in wisconsin. people staying warm today using lots of hand warmers handed out at the gates, also dressing

many delays, cancellations for those flights to new york or the boston area. and logan airport in boston, they announced that starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern tonight, they will no longer fly flights and that will last until noon potentially tomorrow. nice-wide it's a bleak picture. 2,000 flights have been cancelled and over 6400 delays nationwide. most of them were in the chicago o'hare area. all day cancelling flights most in the northeast corridor. american airlines 600 flights canceled, united 550 flight s cancelled, delta 300 and southwest 100. and here at region international airport, if you can see behind me, this is a main runway, it's fog foggy, started to snow. they called in an extra 40-person snow team to treat the runway, look at the airplanes. they know they have a long night ahead. >> it's great they are ready and do what they can, but the situation is bad with a lot of cancellations, and it could get worse. there is a domino effect that we see so often with so many traveling at the end of a vacation. >> reporter: this really won't go away, john. tomorrow, t

in boston, logan airport said it expected to be shut down until friday afternoon. but driving was undeniably hazardous. and amtrak train service was limited so many, including debbie trowbridge, simply headed to the airport and hoped. she should have been at her desk in tampa instead of in terminal 3 at o'hare. how frustrated are you on a scale of the 1-10? >> 10. yeah. because i -- my girlfriends keep tweeting me from tampa that it's almost 80 and sunny there. >> reporter: is it? >> yeah. >> reporter: the good news for chicago is that the snow is slowly tapering off, but the bad news is that it's being replaced by very cold air and, maurice, on monday the high temperature here in chicago is expected to be eight degrees below zero. >> dubois: okay, dean reynolds in chicago tonight. well, blinding snow and fog gave way today to bright, sunny skies-- in antarctica antarctica. that gave a helicopter crew the opening it needed to rescue dozens of passengers from a ship that has been trapped in ice since christmas eve. here's elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: a break in th

the carriers suspended operations yesterday at kennedy, laguardia, boston's logan airport. the rule means that pilots and crews will rest, planes are serviced and this can last 17 hours. one man says he is still waiting for the go ahead after more than one canceled flight. >> my first flight was sunday, and now i hope they can solve the problem to be on time in my work. my boss is not going to be very happy about that, you know. >> reporter: about 300 jetblue flights were canceled. we're told that service is picking up today, particularly by 7:00 a.m. with all flights expected to be resuming by at least noon today. reporting live at sfo, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> thanks very much. delays are bad for travelers obviously, they are good news for local businesses. motels near sfo say they are enjoying extra guests. the managers say capacity fluctuates with the airport and right now we saw what's going an. the hotels are packed. more guests means more customers at bars and restaurants and using taxi services. in about nine minutes we'll go live to washington, d.c. f

we know that boston logan says all of their runways are now open. jfk now has two of their four runways open. moral of the story, things are slowly but surely getting back up to speed. >> we can use some good news right now on that front. thank you very much. the frigid temperatures aren't stopping millions from digging out after that monster storm. cnn's brian stelter is on long island where the cleanup is under way. brian, we thought we had you for only a one-day deal but you came back for more. what do you have from out there? >> reporter: you know, i apologize for the bad rudolph the red-nosed reindeer impression. kind of late for that. but it is frigid out here and now that the sun's setting, the temperatures are going to fall even further. they are calling for a low of five degrees here tonight but the people we talked to today, the people digging out, had a pretty positive impression of things. after a night of blizzard conditions and road closures, today was all about cleanup. paul is not getting paid to plow these driveways. he says it's hi

boston's logan airport is closed. 600 flights scheduled for friday have been cancelled out of newark and laguardia. >> secretary of state john kerry is on his 10th visit to the middle east. he will travel to the west bank to meet with mab a palestine president. >> a 648 foot cargo ship is being item fitted with technology in jirgeia to destroy some chemical weapons. it is undergoing work at a shipyard. >> toronto mayor rob ford, who confessed to smoking crack cocaine put his name on the bat ot for the next election. toronto voters will go to the polls in october. those are the headlines "america tonight" is up next on john dominis. -- onaljazeera.com -- at new lows even in chicago, but what's the viral dangerous scene that is playing out on line? >> now somebody goes and sees this and they are looking for him. >> also tonight, a medical mystery so many of the basic things that make one feel like a human being become impossible. >> a debilitating syndrome turning bedrooms into prisons, largely ignored until now. and rocky mountain high? colorado fired up over legal marijuana. but it's

. >> reporter: at boston's logan airport. officials cancelled all flights until noon tomorrow. and that trickle down effect felt here in the bay area. there were 15 flights cancelled out of sfo. 32 departing and 13 cancelled. >> we have an office here. and i'm going to go into the sf office instead. >> reporter: now i just stepped inside and checked for flights, right now there are currently no flights listed to boston. >>> now to southern california where los angeles firefighters are battling a fire at a lumberyard. firefighters went into defensive positions to try to keep the flames from spreading to other structures. the l.a. fire department has tweeted that power lines as you can see are down in the area. at this point no evacuations have been ordered. >>> police in eureka say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a well respected priest. reverend aaron freed's body was found after he failed to show up for morning mass. his car was missing and he suffered significant blunt trauma. >> just based on the evidence at the scene. it looked to us like ther

those cancellations and delays stretch across the country from lossngeles to boston's logan airport.eizin all takeoff and landing at 8:30 p.m. until last and clears. on the rails, amtrak has canceled hundreds of trains in washington d.c., pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, and pennsylvania announcing just moments ago that they are moving to a modified some of sedule that begins at 5:00 tomorrow morning. drivers in new york state told to stay off of a numberf highways until further notice, as ordered by governor andrew cuomo. the storm has already dumped snow all over the midwest including the greater chicago area which received its heaviest snowfall and more than 15 years. fox news senior meteorologist is in the extreme weather is a judgment and is the very latest. >> it is crazy. we are already seeing over a foot of snow in massachusetts. 18 inches. me snow totals could surpass our forecast. we are looki at it right now, really from d.c. to philadelphia and new york. the storm really has not gotten its act together. two pieces of energy, one coming across the ohio river valley. the

good news, the flights are now arriving and departing from boston's logan airport which suspended flightsen dozens of cancellations today and tonight. >> the wind is partly behind this, right? >> right. they had the fierce wind off the water to land. it's still, of course, very windy up there now. pushing in a lot of the water. meanwhile, to the north in maine, windchills of minus 49 degrees. for us, again, icy conditions tonight. a look outside, the snow is still on the ground. i don't think we are going to see a lot of melting taking place until sunday. then the ground is going to get spongy around here. then, we are going to see the refreeze again on monday. it's going to get hard. we have folks, a pretty tough couple days to get through. take a look at storm team 4 radar where scanning the area, of course, we don't have anything to report right now. the next drops and a little bit of maybe freezing rain and snow will be showing up on that radar on sunday. so, if you want to stay up to date and you are away from your tv, get the radar on your phone, interactive radar. go to google play

. >> reporter: at boston's logan airport. officials cancelled all flights until noon tomorrow. and that trickle down effect felt here in the bay area. there were 15 flights cancelled out of sfo. 32 departing and 13 cancelled. >> we have an office here. and i'm going to go into the sf office instead. >> reporter: now i just stepped inside and checked for flights, right now there are currently no flights listed to boston. >>> now to southern california where los angeles firefighters are battling a fire at a lumberyard. firefighters went into defensive positions to try to keep the flames from spreading to other structures. the l.a. fire department has tweeted that power lines as you can see are down in the area. at this point no evacuations have been ordered. >>> police in eureka say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a well respected priest. reverend aaron freed's body was found after he failed to show up for morning mass. his car was missing and he suffered significant blunt trauma. >> just based on the evidence at the scene. it looked to us like ther

boston's logan airport is set to close this evening. the first storm of the year is not getting in the way of some people's new year's resolutions. already, hundreds of flights in the new york area have been canceled stranding passengers overnight. back to you. >> thanks. i cannot emphasize enough how dramatic of a change we are going to see with the temperatures tomorrow once the snow moves out. in terms of the snowstorm impacts slick roads and cancellations possible across the area. we'll come back to the radar and zoom in. everywhere in the white, you can see more intense white where the snow is coming down faster. around 70 in howard county. gaithersburg, clarksville seeing heavier snow come down. all the areas to the north, including reston, reports of light snow and just north of bethesda. if you have reports of pictures, if you see it, tweet it. tweet it to us, vjohnson@nbc 4. let me take you to the future. we start with this evening at 7:00. there's the snow line, areas through southern maryland may see rain at times. of course,

boston's logan airport is going to shut down at 8:30 tonight. looking at the map of delays from the faa, new york is reporting a wait time of five hours. three hours or more in chicago. adam tuss is live at reagan international with more on the travel problems. adam? >> reporter: it's a messy situation and getting worse. right now, we have a little bit of light rainfalling. some sleet mixed in. as you saw massive delays and cancellations and yes, that is leading to travel headaches. the setting in the midwest, literally chilling. heavy snow has been falling and it's headed to the northeast. one of the family's laboring to get home, jessica and her two daughters trying to get to minneapolis. >> our flight failed with the navigational system and the skies were so cloudy that the pilot couldn't see and we had to land early. >> reporter: they started the day at 5:00 in the morning in columbus, ohio on a flight to minneapolis. they had to land add dulles and catch a shuttle to reagan. now, they are pacing. >> we are trying to rebook a flight. i'm hos

boston schools are closed as well as state government. logan airport has canceled flights.w year's. >> kiet do is live at sfo and kiet, how are the passengers handling some of these cancellations? >> reporter: depends who you ask and how long they have been sleeping here at the airport but when you look at jfk being shut down for almost two hours now, massive delays in boston, we are talking de-icing going on of the planes and then moderate delays in philly and chicago o'hare, that's what's causing a lot of the headaches here on the west coast. all told, three dozen fleets are affected. some of the cities you might not think of are dallas and houston. that's because they are getting connecting flights that aren't making it from the east coast. plus 50 flights were canceled here last night. some opted to stay at the airport and skip the hotel. >> just sit down and wait. i have been sleeping all day here. [ pause ] >> reporter: all right. so goes without saying if you are going to or expecting someone from the east coast, check your flight. three dozen flights are affected ri

ripple effect created by jetblue's decision to halt operations at three new york area airports and boston's logan airport for 17 hours. jetblue's response is quote, as one of the largest carriers in the northeast, weather in this area impacts our entire route network and operations. this plan aligns with the current weather forecast. but laura has a different story from other airlines. >> there shouldn't be delays, they are cancelling and they said we should ask jetblue for the money. at this point, get me home and i'll get reimbursements later. >> reporter: oakland faced cancellations but sfo was hardest hit and because of the last-minute changes, this ten-year-old is nervous about flying to florida alone. >> yeah. >> reporter: i certainly felt for that little girl and her grandparent whose had to put her on a plane. jetblue expects all operations will be back to normal by around noontime our time. passengers are waiting to see if that will happen. it's not the on airline with delays. if travel is in your future, check with whatever your carrier might be. >> thank you, chris. >>> more details, t

there is northwest of boston international airport in boston, logan international, 14.6.lmost seven at laguardia, and washington, d.c. had 2.5 inches of snow. this is the snow on the visible radar. the view from space. as we put this into motion you see the clouds moving, but this is not. this is snow on the ground. and that fresh coating of snow will let the temperatures drop tonight with colder air moving in. it will be a bitter cold night tonight. temperatures could drop below zero in albany, teens in philadelphia, new york, washington, d.c. $2 24 degrees. the winds will gust and easily a better cold morning. bundle up bus this is what it will feel like on the skin when you combine cold air can gusting wind. blizzard warnings in effect because the wind is picking up, blowing and drifting zone, and this area of snow is just light snow now it will continue to push east and impact the mid-atlantic and the northeast this weekend. maybe not as much snow, but still a wintery mix in store. we'll have the complete forecast coming up later. >> appreciate it. thank you. secretar

boston's logan airport they added six extra patrols.iian vacation was delayed. >> when i saw they rebooked me three days from now, i was really upset. >> some delays stretch across the country because the planes are stuck right now on the east coast. >>> along with all that snow is a bone-chilling cold that's gripping much of the u.s. a polar vortex is pushing dense, super chilled air over more than half of the country. plunging temperatures into the subzero range. today's highs in some areas, minus 31, with windchills into the minus 60s. experts warn in such frigid temperatures, any exposed skin can develop frostbite in a matter of seconds. >>> the extreme cold is also causing major problems for plant life as far south as florida. and that is putting this year's citrus crop in danger. the national weather service has put much of the state in a hard freeze watch for the next couple of days. citrus growers are now scrambling to take steps to protect their crops. >>> as citrus growers are trying to protect those crops, school districts fr

because of the blizzards, in boston, logan airport is not expected to reopen until sometime late friday afternoon. >> mother nature, i guess. and we're from chicago. nothing new to us. >> reporter: this family is trying to end their holiday vacation without any problems. with two kids, waiting for a delayed flight at sfo is not so easy. >> we're just gonna have to keep them entertained. ipads come in handy. >> reporter: after hearing about the nasty weather, they checked their flight status in advance to avoid any surprises that would sour their plans. >> we want to get home. i mean, it's not what we wanted. but the good thing is we knew before we got here, so we didn't have to wait here longer dwhran the two hours. >> reporter: and as we come back here live at sfo, a few passengers trying to get a little more juice on their phones as they sit around, as their flights are either delayed or cancelled. now, i want to talk to those 49er fans trying to get to green bay for this weekend's play-off game. a lot of you are trying to fly into chicago, and there are cancellations and delays there