live at reagan national airport, lindsey mastis for 9 news now. >> thank you. >>> patranya bhoolsuwan, you are keeping your eyes on the roadways. any really bad spots out there? >> we have several to report, but as lindsey was saying air traffic is coming to a halt but not so for land traffic. it is coming down, downward trend. crews want to see that as they clear the roadways. right now nice and light traffic on 395 to washington boulevard and the mixing bowl. no crashes reported. nothing blocking the travel lanes. on 66 westbound. same thing as we stay closer to the district and take a live shot. the snow accumulates more the farther west you go on 66. as you can see here, you can see the snow coming down and blocking these lanes and that will make it harder for people to see and drive. the advice is to stay home if you can. a lot of people have done that. they went out and did what they have to do. but we have an accident south of 66. this is fairfax station. a crash is blocking all lanes at wolf run shalls road. all lanes are blocked but a lot of traffic in the area. that is good

let's get out to reagan national where we find lindsey mastis. she's been there all day. p she has seen the airport going from hustle and bus will to deathly quiet tonight. lindsey. >> reporter: that is right, derek. there are no more scheduled flights out of reagan national. not until sunday. really there is only a few people here. a few people have decided to spend the night and wait it out. for the most part, it's just myself and some employees. and most of them are spending the night outside trying to get the runway ready. earlier today, planes had to be deiced. people from cancelled flights had to make arrangements to stay at hotels until sunday. all flights were cancelled by 4:20 this evening. and the airport had emptied out. some shops closed earlier. the manager of a chocolate store closed at 12:00. he wanted to make sure his employees made it home safely. >> as the weather gets worse, so very, very hard for the employees to go back home. because last time we have weather, i had to walk to arlington. so i was falling up and down. >> reporter: the response is the sa

suppose we all just take a listen to lindsey mastis. >> reporter: sam is resting up after a 14-month away from his family. >> i looked and looked for months and months. >> reporter: nancy says sam ran out the door one night. >> that was the last i saw him until this january 6. >> reporter: she checked local shelters nearly every day and she put up posters. people sent her pictures of cats that looked like sam. none were. then nancy got an idea. >> i decided to take a chance. >> reporter: she found him online. he is an animal communicator. most people call him a pet psychic. he told us over the phone what he did to help. >> felt the energy. asked a series of questions. can you give me a picture of your surroundings. >> reporter: the psychic said sam was staying in this neighborhood along chelsey knoll drive. soon nancy got a phone call. >> wednesday i was at work and received a phone call from a gentleman that was doing work. >> reporter: that man had sam at his house in gaithersburg. that night nancy picked sam up. >> he gave a big meow and let me pick him up. >> reporter: not everyo

. >> lindsey mastis live from reagan national with the latest on the snow situation there. do you have a lot of company or did people stay home? >> i have a lot of company but most of the people here are not passengers. as of 4:20, i'm told that's when the last of the departure and arrivals happened and after that a lot of the planes went back to storage. they are not going back tonight or tomorrow. all flights for tomorrow are cancelled. what i want to do is get behind a camera and show you what reagan looks like right now. it is december late. over here is the security area. this is where people normally line up and some people have to spend, what, a half an hour, hour, and there's no one. of course there's no flights, but it has been like in the past few hours and scrolling along here you will see some open shops mostly people talking. this is the godiva store. he said during the last snowstorm he had to get hotel rooms for his staff because they were snowed in. the closed up at ten until 5:00 and said it is not worth it. he has sold a lot of chocolate today but that hap