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michelle kaczynski is in philadelphia for us tonight. a lot of talk about this game tonight down there in philly, right, michelle? >> reporter: that's right, brian. after the initial shock of this winter blast comes this raging debate on the airwaves, in the papers over this game. here's the philadelphia daily news, showing pictures of everybody involved, calling them the wimps that stole christmas. pointing out all the historic games that have been played during blizzard. tonight, the governor of pennsylvania going at it with a radio talk show host, saying that, you know, this is historic, that it's being canceled. the last time an nfl game was postponed was in 1932. back then it was only postponed a couple of hours. he said there are no cancellations in football. the games have been played in 60 below windchills, that fans can make their own rational decisions. extrapolating this out to, in his words, we are becoming a nation of wusses. >> we've become a nation of wusses. the chinese are kicking our butt in everything. if this was in c

but philadelphia now goes to 9-4. half-game lead in the nfc east pend being the outcome of the giants game tomorrow night, moved as you know to detroit against the vikings because of the damage to the metrodome. here is the playoff picture starting in the afc. hasn't h atlanta has a big meeting in new orleans. chicago is number two. seattle and st. louis are tied atop the west. each at just 6-7. the rams on that tiebreaker, they own it. they meet in the regular season finale in seattle. saints and giants currently hold the wild card in the nfc. packers need to get going and they've got a trip to fox broe next sunday night. in the afc, patriots hold down number one and are head ring steady at number two. jets and ravens are the wild cards right now but new york has trips to pittsburgh and chicago the next two weeks after losing back-to-back to the patriots and the dolphins. michael vick threw for two touchdowns tonight, one was caught by desean jackson. that pair is on field with andrea kremer. >> andrea: thank you, bo

let's go to david kerley who is at philadelphia's airport.ty much a paralysis when it comes to flights tonight, right? >> reporter: 400 flights have been canceled here in philadelphia. hospitality crews to help any incoming flights, if they are able to get in. american airlines has canceled most of its flights, so, yes. thousands canceled. look to rebook. make sure your plane is going anywhere before you try to go to the airport, dan. >> it is a mess. i think that is a fair description. david kerley, thank you. let's go now to jeremy hubbard, who is in boston, where the storm is headed next. jeremy, how bad -- it looks pretty bad already, and it's forecast to get worse. >> reporter: it is, dan. since we last spoke, the snow has intensified here, the wind has picked up, as well. it's falling one to two inches every hour. that's expected to double overnight. it is a mess, but people are out here actually enjoying the snow. they won't be for long, i have a feeling. >> i have a feeling, as well. jeremy hubbard, thank you. >>> that's going to do i

philadelphia fought mother nature with an army of plows. durham, north carolina, with an old broom. >> everybody go to the back. >> reporter: in new york, more than 500 passengers were stuck inside subway cars. some upwards of eight hours. they could see the train platform but couldn't get the doors open. >> we're not going nowhere. no heat. >> reporter: negotiating city streets proved difficult for pedestrians. impossible for some drivers. highways were littered with cars. drivers stranded for hours. >> i was so scared last night. i never been scared with a snowstorm until last night. >> reporter: just home from a six month deployment was stuck on the side of the road with his wife and 3-month-old baby for eight hours. >> we kept feeding him as much as we had, the apple sauce we had in the trunk or the bottles we had made. we had him wrapped up in three snowsuits, his regular clothes, two blankets, bundled up against us. try to keep him warm. >> reporter: those who tried to fly away from the storm ended up sleeping at the airport. more tha

but philadelphia now goes to 9-4. half-game lead in the nfc east pend being the outcome of the giants game tomorrow night, med as you knowo detroit against the vikings because of the damage to the metrodome. here is the playoff picture starting in the afc. hasn't h atlanta has a big meeting in new orleans. chicago is number two. seattle and st. louis are tied atothe west. each at just 6-7. the rams on that tiebreaker, they own it. they meet in the regular season finale in seattle. saints and giants curntly hold the wild card in the nfc. packers need to get going and they've got a trip to fox broe next sunday night. in the afc, patriots hold down number one and are head ring steady at number two. jets and ravens are thwild cards right now but new york has trips to pittsburgh and chicago the next two weeks after losing back-to-back to the patriots and the dolphins. michael vick threw for two touchdowns tonight, one was caught by desean jackson. that pair is on field with andrea kremer. >> andrea: thank you, bob. you sai

twenty miles away as philadelphia. in philadelphia, the occupying forces of the british army are having a grand time. they are not starving to death. they're getting three meals a day. more remarkably when you poke into a little bit more, you find that there are some eyewitness accounts of the british coming into philadelphia, british army. congress had skedaddled a short time before. liberty hall is going to have a british flag flying over it in a few minutes. as the british coming to philadelphia, the streets were lined with cheering people. when the british start settling in, some of these cheering people go to the british and say what you like to know where the rebel leaders are? and they take the british around in the rebel leaders are put into a jail in philadelphia. well, that's the other side of valley forge. that the reason there was a valley forge, one of the reasons certainly was that there was a great deal of hesitation to openly support the continental army in a lot of areas of america and a lot of time du

the fourth is peer pressure, particularly from new york city and philadelphia.hese were the years when the committees were becoming very active. no son of liberty wanted to see a repeat of the failure, distrust, and recrimination that followed the failure of the nonimportation agreement in 1770. the right-hander had warned that the nonimportation agreement is obligatory and all the parties to it. whoever shall or eight in the violating of it is an enemy -- enemy to commerce and liberty. william paltry who was a merchant and an inner circle some of liberty, he was traveling to new york and philadelphia to try to cement these intercolonial alliances. he writes back probably to john hancock saying you guys have to be firm on this question of the east india company. he says if by any means he should relax or fall back in any degree from europe played resolution you will be reproached among your neighbors and never more be able to retrieve the public confidence. now is the time to convince the world that the people of boston can act with virtue and revolution. you ca

philadelphia mayor declared a snow emergency for the city until monday afternoon. so tonight's game will be played tuesday, 5:00 p.m. pacific time. eagles though did get good news. that is because the giants lost in green bay putting philadelphia in the playoffs. atlanta, chicago also locked up postseason spot. six other teams are still alive. new orleans can clinch by beating atlanta,. now either st. louis or seattle will win the west when they neat each other next sunday. senate american football conferences five teams locked there to the playoffs. afc north rivals pittsburgh and baltimore clinch at least a wild card spot. chiefs and jets also in. >>> coltsero or jags will get the final spot next sunday and i miss quoted myself, arizona is visiting san francisco next sunday. that's it for this early edition of sports wrap. niners and raiders both loose and are both out of the playoffs. > >> the new season starts now. >> yeah. that is and they are talking about changes as least in the niner ranks here about getting a general manager which they badly needed this ye

take advil®. >>> philadelphia eagles prepare for the game against philadelphia.ed that did sigs to delay the game. citrus prices gorg newspaper florida as temperatures are heading down into the danger zone this morning. "the wall street journal" reports orange juice futures are at the highest level in three and a half years. average price of gas is also up to $3.05 a gallon up 7 6 -- 7 cents from last week and the highest price in more than two years. analysts say the price trend could continue over the next few months. >>> and finally this half hour, the economy of course is always looking for indicators that things are finally turning around. and the holiday shopping season was supposed to be one of those indicators. >> and then the blizzard of 2010 came. so did retailers have a white christmas? or were they buried by it? here's chris bury. >> reporter: the blizzard slowed but could not stop the post-holiday retail ritual. in new york, the intrepid rode subways to ring the registers at queens mall. >> it was worth it, yeah, definitely. >> who doesn't love snow?

up to 20 inches of snow is expected in some areas including philadelphia. that's where the eagles and vikings nfl game was cancelled. a blizzard warning has been issued for new york city. the storm is expected to dump 11-16 inches of snow on the big apple. strong linds will reduce visibility to near zero at times. >> the visibility is a real issue. so if you have to go out today please leave the cars at home and take mass transit. >> and of course many air travelers are having trouble. about 1,000 flights have been cancelled in the new york city area airport alone today. and more are expected. a blizzard warning is also in effect for parts of new england. >> the snow will be wet and heavy. the temperatures will be at or below freezing. and winds will be high. >> reporter: amtrak has cancelled some trains in the area, including its service between boston and new york city. the mid-atlantic region also gets heavy snow. states of emergency have been declared in most of the areas. up to 18 inches of snow is expected in delaware. and more than 6 inches in the na

in philadelphia, 400 out of 600 daily flights were canceled. while in boston, in the heart of the blizzard, several airlines shut down operations altogether. at new york's jfk passengers who have been waiting a week to get to snow-socked heathrow learned the weather here is thwarting them now. >> we can't really be angry or it's just the weather. so, it's nobody fault. >> reporter: amtrak canceled all trains between new york and boston starting at 5:00 p.m. and a few in virginia, too forcing post-christmas crowds on sold-out trains to find another way home. at reagan national, gates were empty even before the snow hit as airlines pulled their planes out of the snowstorm's path. >> it is frustrating because it is not really snowing here. >> i've had two flights canceled and will miss my los angeles flight by ten minutes. >> reporter: the price family got stuck halfway between minneapolis and orlando, where disney world awaits. >> i just heard our flight is canceled and next time we can fly will be tuesday. >> reporter: even passengers in sunny s

it was supposed to be a 7:30 kickoff in philadelphia for the philadelphia eagles/minnesota vikings game but the weather is pushing that until tuesday and, as you know, this isn't the first time this has happened to the vikings. they've had a couple of games postponed because snow fell and caused it will roof of the metrodome where they play to cave in. russ? >> mitchell: elaine quijano in central park, thanks so much. this day after christmas is a give back for many americans but the nasty weather is making it tough, if not impossible for thousands. an estimated 92 million americans were traveling this holiday. most of them by car. roads in the east are a mess and travel by train and plane can be very frustrating. nancy cordes is live at reagan national airport just outside washington with that. nancy, good evening to you. >> reporter: russ, good evening, late this afternoon american airlines announced it was canceling all of its flights into and out of the northeast until at least 10:00 tomorrow morning. here at reagan national, about two-thirds of the flights are canceled right now on

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it was so bad, the nfl rescheduled last night's philadelphia/eagles game for tuesday.light cancellations are affecting travelers at sfo as well. john allston reports. >> with all flights to the northeast cancelled, the jetblue ticket counter at sfo looked like a ghost town. a few tried to negotiate a seat on the next flight. one college student drove all the way from chico to hear the bad news. >> i have to wait four days. >> four days you have to wait? >> thursday. next flight is thursday. >> she's trying to get to new york city where the storm scuttled more than 800 flights sunday morning. now she will have to wait until almost new year's eve. >> i will stay at my friend's house. but my friend as house is very hard from here so it's very tough for me. >> all day the east coast flights out of san francisco dropped like dominos. american and delta about a half dozen each. the same for continental and virgin. that was a fraction of the hundreds of cancellations nationwide including trouble here in boston. that's where katy lewis is heading not realizing the weather situ

. >> do you have any reaction what's going on in philadelphia with cliff lee coming back? >> i missed that in philly. what happened? >> i know once we both got on the free edge of the market, we talked about let's try to get on the me team. and when he found out i was coming here, he wasn't the happiest person in the world, i'll put it that way. >> they got their boy back, i guess, and that's fine. i think that's good. i like that. i like -- you know, if you want to be the best, you got to beat thbest. >> all right, that's jason worth. came into washington for cash, promises and potentially left a great team in philadelphia. >> one word turns innovative design into revolutionary performance. one word makes the difference betweenefining the mission and accomplishing the mission. one word makes the difference in defending our nation and the cause of freedom. how... is the word thamakes all the difference. the volatility? exactly. i'm this close to retirement. that's the money i need live on. you know, prudential has this video you should see. my advisor recommended it. where

. >> philadelphia, if you think we have a bad, check this out. this is the eagles play their games, scheduled to play last night against the vikings. you can see the blizzard as part in the northeast that caused the game to be bridge back into to tomorrow because there's just so much snow that even the football players that play in everything there for the nfl to pressure back. will monitor it as far as the blizzard and how is a virgin traffic all you need to do. speech news around the bay, the fired or responded to a fire inside the dispensary on the ocean in capitol ave. the small fire was put out quickly, and no injuries reported. california street cable card will be running continue to july they will upgrade the entire track from downtown to van ness. among the changes the electrical and mechanical to make the system work will be in place, starks will be compared to comply. the entire project will cost $16 million during the shutdown uni says it will provide bus service along the route. dr. mom is facing eviction from armonk. the man who owns

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philadelphia declared as no emergency. preparing residence for up to 14 in. of snow and heavy winds. >> it will be a very dangerous circumstance this afternoon into the evening. >> boston policy with before it passed into massachusetts. >> is it scary situation? we will get through it. >> that temperatures will be below freezing and wins will be high. >> officials are telling travelers to get an early start. otherwise stay off the road. that jury for kron4 news. >> there really wreaking havoc in the region. i'm here with meteorologist brad prudential its lg light and out? >> this was really heavy right now. by tomorrow morning it will beat butter. double allows some time for the airports to recover from all of this note that the of that. years from a record for. this is the loop and to date. you can see lot of snow indicated by the glare color stretching from washington d.c. up to northern new england. winds are in the order of 60 m.p.h. in some places. one-2 ft. of snow from new york to boston. it is crippling the transportation systems and causing problems

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in philadelphia and baltimore, they used duratherm and it worked well. the upkeep on duratherm -- it is embedded in asphalt. essentially, you have to route out four inches of asphalt, and then they embed the duratherm in the asphalt. this is similar to something they do in london. supervisor mar: i think they do this in hong kong, too. >> it has been well appreciated in the neighborhoods. we put cameras underneath the intersection to make sure all the pipes are working correctly, but if i had to do it over again, i do not know if i would put them in such a large intersection because you are vulnerable when you tear it up, it gets expensive. it is very nice, an improvement, but any time you have to replace something under the street, it is costly. i would only do it in special places. open sidewalks. there was money available for rainwater. the mission gets flooded a lot, so we started opening up sidewalks. we also wanted to get to the news stands. we got those new news racks, and we purposely put them up against the building's. that frees up the sidewalk

sfo to boston and jfk add to that flights from philadelphia and newark. those flights could grow, oakland international no flights from the east coast and no cancellations anticipated here at sfo some passengers have been stuck for two days and rebooking for later this week. >>> continental cancelled all flights to newark last night and tonight because of the nor'easter and automatically they just e-mailed me texted me. >> i was supposed to fly out tonight i am stuck here until wednesday morning 6:00 a.m. >> okay so the best advice is always call your airline before coming down to the airport, call to find out whether or not your flight is cancelled here at sfo being told also that the parking lots are very full if you have to drop some body off or pick up best to use the cell phone lot next to the airport. juliette and grace. >>> thanks sharon chin at sfo. >>> that blizzard is stopping travelers all over the east coast. more than 1,000 flights have been cancelled, now this is a storm that is stopping trains and buses in the area. stranded travelers are j

we're keeping an eye over tuesday as we had some blowing snow in philadelphia. by tuesday night, football time, should see temperatures close to 30. maybe mid 20s in the wind chill factor. this after the day we saw of snow totals, three feet in spots around new jersey and even central park picking up almost 20 inches of snow. nothing like that here in the temperatures in the 40s and 50s right now. but may see patchy fog out to nap pa and fairfield as we head to the nighttime hours tonight before the rain and the wind kick up this time tomorrow. right now, not a lot in the way of wind. things are calm right now. but we will see southerly winds pick up as we head to tomorrow. visibility mild showing you that fog is not an issue for the evening around the bay area. the headlines heading to tomorrow, rain picking up. winds too. that's the other component. the coast and some of the hill tops getting winds close to 35 miles per hour. and the rainfall totals for the coastal mountains, we're talking two to four inches of rain coming down, especially around the north bay