they didn't deserve to. >> stroud's victims were contractors working at the home stroud and his accomplicesobbed. stroud ordered the men tied up and shot each in the head with a pistol. >> when i first walked on death row, the thing that hit me first was the silence. the absolute silence. walking on there was the type of silence that takes you in, the type of silence that's listening to you watching your every move to see how you're going to respond to it. i came on the unit 23 years old, trying to project courage, confidence and strength but on the inside, i was upset. i was confused and i was afraid. the thing i remember the most was the cold concrete floor underneath my bare feet. and it just sitting on the edge of that bunk, man, and i just broke down and started crying and crying for all the people that i hurt crying for justice crying for my mother. you know what i mean and during those three years, seven men, you know were executed they lost their lives. >> a change in indiana's capital punishment laws saved stroud from joining them. his sentence was commuted to three life terms with

audrey stroud is in los angeles waiting for a flight to virginia. >> it's difficult knowing you might have to sleep on a chair on the floor and i just can't handle that. >> reporter: it will take a few days for service to return to normal. scott, this has been a difficult stretch for the airline industry, but nothing compared to last year when they -- there were 49,000 weather-related cancellations in january. >> pelley: jeff, curious, what does all this cost the economy? >> reporter: well, according to the u.s. travel association, it has cost the economy $230 million in lost passenger activity. >> pelley: jeff, thanks very much. snow did not close the financial markets but some investors wish it had. the dow fell as much as 390 points today before finishing the day with a loss of 291 or one and two-thirds percent. the s&p 500 was off about one and one-third percent. the markets were rattled by weak earnings reports from some corporate giants, including microsoft, caterpillar and procter & gamble, but after the market closed listen to this: apple reported the biggest quarterly profit