mike tobin is o'hare international airport. mike, what's it like there?: well, you know, chicago is very good about making people think we're getting off with an easy winter and then delivering one last gut punch during the spring time. that's exactly what happened. longest stretch of no snow and wintertime ever was broken overnight with 2 to 4 inches on the ground this morning. felt like 5 or 6 when i was shoveling. it caused flight cancellations. lot of red up there right now. 454 flights cancelled out of o'hare. 118 out of midway. little gold. those are delayed. they're getting good with matching delays. the delays are below 15 minutes. american airlines for one says they're resuming normal flight operations in the afternoon. that's because we got a break in the weather. that is going to change. around 7:00 p.m. we're expecting some lake effect snow to whip up. expect more flight cancellations. expect more delays. >> melissa: i know what every single viewer at home is wondering. whether it will affect the travel to the ncaa games. >> reporter: little m

mike tobin is in cincinnati. mike? >> shepard, the number of people that were shot rose today because another gunshot person wound came forward. police said when the gun fire erupted, people scattered in every direction. some of the people with gunshot wounds sought treatment on their own. i'm not using the word "victim" because the police chief said today, very good potential that among the ranks of the people that were shot, you'll have some of the gunmen in that particular crowd. they say there's no one particular person that they're zeroing in hahn at this point. as far as identities when the chief was pressed, he said there's no information that they're ready to release at this stage of the investigation. police have been very careful to point out, they don't believe that this is connected to terrorism. they believe this is a dispute between a group of young people with an indifference to life. it exploded into gun fire in the nightclub. >> i'm reading reports that there was a v.i.p. line that allowed guns past th

arthel: mike tobin, thank you.ric: please submit a new arrest in last week's deadly terrorist attack on westminster bridge. we are told they now have detained a 30 romance in the central city of birmingham on suspicion of acts of terrorism. 12 arrests of fire. eight of those people have been released without charges. officers have connected cousins of rates in the wake of the attack on wednesday by the radical islamic terrorists, co-lead masood. people continue to place flowers and emotional handwritten notes warning that the four people killed including one american tourist from utah. >> in syria, u.s. forces making headway against isis after storming and seizing most of a military airport held that a terrorist, fighting still underway that is the nsaids does expect to be in total control and the next few hours. at the same time, the government launching waves of airstrikes, targeting rebel held areas on several fronts. activists say scores of people have been killed or wounded in serious words weeks. >> meanwhile

senior correspondent mike tobin joins us live from a mine in hazard, kentucky, to explain why. ke? >> reporter: this is the e-41 mine. it was shut down during the obama years. you hear that racket. this mine is up and running, mining coal again. people in coal country say what you've got is a new president, a new attitude toward coal and that means new jobs. carlos sterdl is a career kentucky coal miner. he's doing something he hasn't done in three years. mining coal. >> i'm glad i'm working. thankful that i got a job again. >> reporter: a bounce in the economy created a demand for steel. you need coal to make it. an adversary to coal moved out of the white house and a president moved in who started rolling back regulations that crippled mining. it's not a story book ending for the coal miners. here at this mine, since 2012 they've laid off 460 guys. in the last two months they've hire back 90. as technology advances, equipment becomes more efficient, requiring less man power. in the obama years some plants either shut down or built infrastructure to burn natural gas. that put c

in chicago, mike tobin, fox news.and the federal government are trapped in a web of legal arguments over a spider. the rare critter was apparently discovered on the man's property nearly 30 years ago and declared endangered, but the owner says the land is practically worthless because the restrictions for the spider make it difficult for him to the sell it. casey steegal reports on how the county and the state of texas are taking the property owner's side. >> reporter: it's where you come to's tape life's distractions -- to escape life's distractions. no ringing cell phones or e-mail alerts here, just peace. then came talk of expanding rattlesnake road. to do it, government needed part of this private land. however, as the process moved along, the project then came to a screeching halt. >> endangered species have been discovered in three of different depressions. >> reporter: meet the bone cave harvestman, a tiny orange spider unique to texas and only lives in underground caverns. the arrack mid was spotted in a small

senior correspondent mike tobin reporting live for us from hazard, kentucky. >> reporter: good, heather. behind me is the e 14 mine part of perry county coal. it was shut down during the obama years. if you hear background noise that's because this mine is up and running again. the people here in coal country make no bones about it a new president with new attitude toward coal means new jobs. carlos sturtle kentucky coal miner, doing something he hasn't done in three years. he is mining coal. >> thank youful to have a job again. >> reporter: bounce in the economy created demand for steel. you need coal to make it adversary moved out of the house and president moved in started rolling back regulations that crippled mining. here at the mine since 2012 they have laid off 460 guys. in the last two months they have hired back 90. as technology advances, equipment becomes more efficient requiring less manpower. in the obama years some coal fired plants shut down or infrastructure to burn natural gas. that put coal in competition with fracking and cheap fossil fuel.

mike tobin with more.rlos is a career kentucky coal miner, he is mining coal. >> i am glad to be working. thankful i got a got a job again. reporter: a bounce in the economy, created a need for steel. and a president moved in 2 in 2 started -- in who started rolling back regulations. here at perry county mine, since 2012 they laid off 40 guys, in last months they hired back 90. >> maybe this is a little come back, we're confident we're very positive about everything we're seeing since the november election. and president trump taking controls of the energy agencies that regulate the industry and all. reporter: as technology advances, equipment is more efficient, requiring less manpower. in obama years they used natural gas. >> even though that coal is coming back, there will be employment in the future, but whether it will not unlikely go back to the way it was, 10 or 15 years ago. reporter: retail business people in little coal towns like hazard, kentucky, are happy for any comeback, but they know they wi

mike tobin cities are getting ready. >>> this one appears to be particularly big, particularly challenging and potentially dangerous. >> blizzard warnings in effect for much of the northeast as millions of people brace for a powerful nor'easters. boston facing a direct hit with up to 20-inches of snow expected crews have started to treat roadways. >> we are looking at between 30 to 50 miles per hour winds. that will create with the with the expected accumulation and the snowfall. that will create white-out conditions. >> common sense dictates. the high winds will create a significant visibility problem so you should not venture if that forecast stays on track. stay home if you can. >> one massive winterstorm in the midwest in illinois, iowa and minnesota as it moves east and numerous airlines have started to cancel flights in anticipation of the crippling conditions. >> i was going to leave today but i left this morning to be safe. >> i changed my flight and saw that boston is supposed to get a bunch of snow tomorrow and i decided to come back. >>> the cancellations will climb as the winte

mike tobin has a report from chicago. >> most people speak about chicago violence talk about macro solutions, national guard, one group calling themselves violence interrupters are working the streets when shooting at a time. >> is your dad around? no. >> don is a chicago gangster who is planning a robbery. >> i was going to take care of him. >> it is what it is. >> he's got a gun? is >> right. it's killed or be killed. >> chicago is a set for one more gun battle. this group injected themselves and talked both guys down. >> we ended up cool, but we are not tight. we have trust issues. i don't trust him and he doesn't trust me. >> everyone is talk about chicago violence, he claims his interrupters have talked guys out of 15 murder plots. >> if you introduce somebody and they cannot tell you the last time they stopped the killing or a potential shooting, they need to step up. >> the violence interrupters are straight guys. if they don't behave like street guys, the gangs listen to them at all. cops don't like them, politicians are afraid of them and millions of dollars in funding have disappea

system that's not part of the east coast system. 500 flights canceled already through tuesday and mike tobinre. mike, how's it looking? >> well, i'll give you a factoid, chicago went from mid-december to now without show. we woke up with two to three inches on the ground and felt like four or five while i was shovelling and a few more inches to be expected from the lake effect and brings us to flight cancellation. all the red board of flights canceled. you can see flights trade. they're managing that well. the flight there's an are less than 15 minutes but as the saying goes when o'hare sneezes national travel catches a cold so if you're travelling today go to your apps and website and bring me to the shot behind me. we have flight cancellation. what you don't see is a bunch of bodies in the terminal because are looking ahead. if you can look ahead and find out about your flight, stay home, food's cheaper and stay in your p.j.'s. >> bill: a mild winter for expect. i didn't know that. what about the impact on the ncaa tournament? >> isn't that interesting. a lot of teams are worried thinking