none of the others cam the tarmac for that long. take a look at this right now, there is a line of people because they have been here, they came from dough that were diverted. they were hearding to new york. you were in line waying for your baggage for about how long. >> about six hours. >> after how long of a flight. >> after a 14-hour flight. >> you're till waiting to figure out -- >> we're still waiting to figure out how we're going to get to our final destinations. safe travels. good luck to you, sir i think we can just hope that tomorrow things run a little bit shooter p that's the latest here at dulles international airport lauren demarco, fox5 local news. >> that is not a good day. i feel for those people. i can't even imagine. all those hours in the air before they even got down on the ground. one of the passengers said it best. can the pilot even do this? fly safely after all this time. >> right, can he be making these kind of decisions? clearly some workmanships going to be in trouble after that. >> they need to be. that w

that's the tarmac shot. let's go to the other side of the airport where marianne favro is live at the front of terminal b and we saw that rush of people just behind you, marianne. >> reporter: absolutely. just a few minutes ago, terminal b was reopened. first they allowed the employees to go back in and then just a few minutes later they allowed those hundreds of people who were waiting here outside terminal b to go back in. now, we still don't know what that suspicious package was, but obviously authorities have deemed that that it is now safe to go back into terminal b here at sjc. reporting live. back to you. >> all right. we'll continue those updates at nbcbayarea.com as well as on our social media platforms. >> all right. get the latest forecast, kari's tweeting it and putting it on facebook as well. next news tonight at 5:00. ♪ >>> we're live in five, four, three, two, one. this is today. what? >> we've got exciting news to share about us, and here it is. "today," tuesday, january 2nd, 2018. >> from nb

one passenger was forced to wear her flip-flops on the tarmac at 9 degrees below zero. all passengers made it safely to the terminal. they are investigating how and why the collision occurred. >>> speaking of temps we are a little bit warmer here in the bay area. >> but you didn't put your umbrella away, did you? drew says you are going to need it again. >> we are tracking rain approaching the region in what could be our strongest storm so far this rainy season. live doppler 7 right now. we are getting a temporary break in the action. the moved out early this morning. and tonight it's quiet. a live look showing you quiet conditions. the winds are calm. and temperaturewise right now we are falling through the 50s. 55 in san francisco. 57 in san jose. 50 in clear lake. right now concord at 59. the call from accuweather tonight, the big story not only are we dropping into the 30s in the coldest spots tonight but fog is going to be an issue. it's going to form in the delta and spill into the bay. early tomorrow morning fog will likely be dense. the daylight hours on sunday,

flight that's too long on the tarmac, corrt.engers on the plane on the tarmac. so, i know our airport operations team was in contact with both the pilot and then the station manager in j.f.k. and talking to them about options and working to accommodate them. ultimately they did decide to cancel the flight and they are in the process of clearing customs now. >> reporter: thank you so much andrew. we've been talking with these folks they are still in customs as he said haven't made it to the unsecured part of the airport yet but i can tell you just how frustrated they were everybody sitting on the plane you heard that gentleman there trying to talk with the flight crew and still the fact that they are still now in customs, they said they're just sitting there, they haven't been moved through yet. definitely not a fun travel day for everybody on that flight. it seems most of the people as they arrive here they're presented with different options. some are able to take buses up to new york, others are catching other flights dependin

he was on the tarmac for three hours.'s affecting everyone. >> eric: were in boston covering the storm and logan was like a breeze but we did drive and beat both airplanes. >> jfk seven the worst week ever. haven't seen this many things go wrong back to back. >> a jetblue plane had to turn around after take off because something smelled funny. but we know about the mistry order and what it did to the passengers and crew. plus republicans democrats trying to meet in the middle but the president has conditions of his own. can everyone make a deal? heartburn. no one burns on my watch! try alka seltzer ultra strength heartburn relief chews. with more acid-fighting power than tums chewy bites. mmmmm...amazing. i have heartburn. ultra strength from alka seltzer. enjoy the relief. >> here's the story.a jetblue fn around an hour after taking off from boston for the dominican republic. passengers and crew noticed an unusual order and began to feel sick. no one had to go to the hospital. officials are inspecting to figure out what

in a 2016 exchange, they referenced loretta lynch's tarmac meeting with bill saying "timing looks like hell." lisa paige responds "yeah. a real profile encourage since she knows no charges will be brought." the fbi is missing five months of text messages between the pair. how did this happen? where they erased? >> jesse: let's play a game. mueller is supposed to be interviewing president trump soon. what if afterwards we found text messages from his team saying that they knew that mueller was going to exonerate president trump before the interview happened. do you think people would be upset by that? i think people would be upset. the mainstream media doesn't care about this. they don't care that the fix was in for hillary clinton. what i care about are these months of text messages that went missing. i don't believe they went missing. i believe they were destroyed. that's common sense. it's not a glitch. this happens to too often

if that wasn't enough wings from two international planes colliding on the tarmac. spacex launching a secret satellite into air. >> mission lift off. >> zuma aircraft taking off

you have the quicken-lunch tarmac meeting, comey's machinations, peter strzok, pro hillary, auntie donald trump, there at every major decision,

we just did a tour of the tarmac and we will have another report coming up at 4:00. reporting live, sam sweeney. adrianna: let's get to some live pictures of new york city

some stuck on the tarmac for hours. one plane was diverted twice. we'll have an update on the flights and the travel at one of our nation's busiest airports. the battle brewing between jeff sessions and the states that legalized marijuana. >> reversing direction as the attorney general decided to doyles ear of overreach against the city of shlt and the state of washington and a majority of states in this country. (singing) tenders, riblets! (singing) $12.99 (singing) all you can eat... (singing) at applebee's! ... arthel: frigid weather and the aftermath of that bomb cyclone causing more headaches for travelers with hundreds more flight disruptions at airports across across the u.s. today including jfk right here in new york city, and more winter weather is in the forecast this week. brian is live from our new york city news room with the latest hi, brian. >> hi, attar el. do you know what's less fun than freezing weather travel nightmares and jfk airport indiana income city has been exactly that since the storm hit on thursday. take a look at these

along with delays and cancelations. >> reporter: travels were stuck on the tarmac three, four, fiveter and no food. people have slept in the airport for two days. the problem is there's a backlog of flights following the storm on thursday. too many flights landed to at the same time, over with themming the system and there were not enough gates. they had to bring in portable staircases to get people off the planes on to busses to bring them to the terminals. at baggage claim, people waiting for hours to get the bags. many people left the airport without them or arrived at their destinations like europe to find their bags never made it following a collision between two passenger airplanes on the tarmac at jfk saturday. no one was injured, all in all, 94 flights were cancelled, and 17 flights are diverted. huge delays in a statement the port authority said things are improving. quote, jfk's runways and taxi ways are fully operational. airline remain in recovery mode rebooking passengers from cancelled flights and reuniting passengers with luggage. frigid temperatures continue to cause

some passengers were held on the tarmac for hours.e at dulles tonight with the latest. lauren. >> reporter: yeah, definitely busy here at dulles international this evening. there were 19 flights diverted here because of the weather. most heading to new york and there was one i believe heading to philadelphia but there was one in particular, air linus argentina flight 1300. it was heading from buenos aires to new york and was diverted here to dulles because j.f.k. international airport was closed. let me let you listen to a little bit of what was going on on the plane when passengers were finally told after four hours that buses would get them to come let them off of the plane off of the tarmac and head into the airport. frustrations were definitely running high. take a listen. >> do you see a bus? >> no. >> where is the >> right. >> she's looking for the bus. we have a bus here. >> where is the bus? you just said you have a bus here. >> we have a bus here because we have stuff here. no, you have to -- we have stuff here. air lingus bu

there are more than 20 airplanes that are still on the tarmac. the good news is tonight most of the stranded passengers are back in new york. >> overnight planes bound for new york diverted to dulles on the airlines that don't normally fly here. >> all the hotels are booked. >> sophia arrived on x.l. from france. they had no staff to unload luggage or rebook passengers. >> we didn't have in irto go. this is not the airport. they just left us. they offered us pretzels and bis quets. we don't want pretzels or bis quets -- biscuits. we want our luggage. >> they were so overwhelmed they left and the passengers were sleeping on the cardboard boxes. >> representatives shut doors, airport. >> the police tried to calm the situation. >> there is no capability to get bags offloaded. >> by morning the airport authority hired buses. it didn't matter what airline you were on it was get up and go. all the buses bound for j.f.k. >> the airport helped. they gave us blankets. >> outside on the ramp, more than 20 foreign planes sit empty. so in the airport ran out

an airline was stuck on the tarmac at jfk airport in new york for. seven hours >> frustration many people feel after being told they will be sitting on the tarmac for three hours, what we were originally told. kimberly: in charleston, one of two runways were opened after a rare snowfall there. get the latest forecast at your fingertips by downloading the free stormwatch 7 app on your smart phone. a day after flames ripped through multiple townhomes in olney, maryland, fire crews went out to the area. amy aubert was with first responders going door to door to check smoke detectors. amy: one by one -- >> can i check your smoke detectors? amy: crews spent saturday afternoon checking on neighbors. >> every saturday we do our best to get out into the community to do our safety program. amy: this neighborhood is still processing what happened the night prior, a two alarm fire ripping through five townhomes, causing over $1 million of damage. >> this is materialistic stuff. it can be rebuilt. but lives cannot. i'm just glad my family members and neighbors a

on several planes, the log jam turning into several hours wait tong tarmac. >> it's hours on the plane. >> reporter: according to the passenger protections, the tarmac delays have a hard time limit of three hours. except in specific cases regarding safety, security, and air traffic control-related reasons. >> the management of jfk knew they were becoming overwhelmed, why weren't the planes diverted earlier in it's dangerous to have people waiting so long. >> reporter: after two hours on the tarmac, airlines have to provide adequate food and water. the airlines could risk fines from the government for not complying. they're monitoring long tarmac delays at jfk and will make a decision on monday whether or not to take action. >> real questions need to be asked about where were the contingency plans? why did the contingency plans fail? why was jfk not able to deal with the cascading failures as the storm went on? >> reporter: inside jfk, passengers experiencing massive baggage delays. the luggage steadily piling up. >> we were on the plane for four hours. longer than the flight itself. th

the clinton-lynch meeting on the tarmac undermined that. why is there now such silence when the president, according to sources close to and many mccain, made what those two fbi officials thought were inappropriate comments in the midst of an investigation into the president's white house and the president's campaign team. if you only applied principles to your political points and never to yourself and your allies, then they're not principles. they're the lack there of. let's talk more about the mueller probe. we have breaking news on that front. we're plerpg special counsel mueller plans to meet with steve bannon as early as next week. sar sarah murray joins me now. >> one of the interesting things is that sources say we're expecting mueller and his investigators to focus on bannon's time in the white house. this is something he was not very revealing about when he appeared in front of the house intelligence committee. he invoked executive privilege and said he couldn't talk about his white house tenure. sources say that mueller will be i

they were trying to head north ment we're going to hear from some of them who saturday on the tarmac for more than four hours, in factor the airline will likely face a penalty in that situation. also ahead, so close, but yet so far. the virginia man who was one number from hitting it big. ♪ ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ all because of you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the snow here was measured in inches, but to the north some cities along the east coast are measuring in feet. fox's lauren blanchard is monitoring the lat est in atlantic city. lauren >>reporter: hi, tony, yeah, so here in atlantic city thehi we're really watching a lot of these snow drifts we're going to have probably two feet in snow drifts, the thing that the snow has pushed out of this area that we're going to watching are these plummeting temperatures. that's going to bring some damaging ice. i'm going to end s it back to you, nice and warm in the studio. thank you, lauren we appreciate it. the winter storm also forced thousands o

you put us on a four hour tarmac time-out.t is cold here. >> stuck on the tarmac in that ice. >> terrible. >> a spokesman says domestic flights at jfk are nearly back to normal. >> dan lieberman has more on the delays. >> reporter: we're standing outside jfk airport in new york where there has been a lot of delays, especially for international flights coming into the u.s. more than 3,000 flights have been delayed and more than 400 cancellations on saturday, all in the aftermath of this brutal storm that has hit the eastern seaboard. and a lot of this -- a lot of this is coming from international flights that have gotten backed up, coming into jfk specifically here in new york. the port authority has been trying to assist passengers and communicating with airlines, trying to get flights finally in. there has been a lot of passengers who have been going on social media, complaining, stuck on airplanes, on the tarmac, for hours, unable to get off, all this is due to a backlog of international flights that have come in. we spoke w

when he gave testimony during the senate judiciary committee why aren't we now also looking into tarmac gate in which you know loretta lynch is talking to bill clinton and then the next thing you know we've got hillary clinton exonerated because it's carelessness and not gross negligence which would have been a crime why aren't we investigating susan rice's unmasking why aren't we investigating barack obama spying and using loretta lynch as as a as a hit person if you will to go in and do all those things that have been done where are those investigations how can we sit here with a straight face and say that there's russian collusion when we have all of these other things including uranium one and. everything else that is going on so twenty johnson. richard about ten things let him get started on some of them go ahead richard yes please james komi testified that he spoke with donald trump nine different times ok and trump did not once asked what did the russians do and you know why it was the same reason that o.j. simpson never said to the police what happened to nicole because trump kn

it was the crew that decided to stay on the tarmac and keep people on board. everyone says they were glad to make it to sfo safely.>>> walnut creek police are searching for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman on the iron horse trail. they attempted assault happened 5:30 pm on the trail near newell avenue. the victim was walking home from broadway plaza when the suspect came up and assaulted her. he ran away on south broadway. a picture of the suspect. a black man 30-40 years old. a black beard and a black beanie and black sweatshirt. he is possibly armed and dangerous. if you recognize him contact police.>>> berkeley see the vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian today in a busy intersection. the driver was trying to get around a big truck that was parked in the intersection.>> reporter: the highway patrol says it received a call before 1:30 pm. a pedestrian have been struck by a city employee driving this white car. a berkeley city vehicle. they have identified the victim. 70-year-old shelley of berkeley. >>> someone passed away. it is horrible. i'm n

and strzok writes timing looks like hell talking about lynch and clinton on the tarmac. page adds, yeah, awful timing. since she knows who charges will be brought. no decision was made and four days later hilary's interview and later comey's press conference and lays out his case hilary should be indict and have strzok and lynch and mccabe and comey knowing clinton will never get charged and the obama administration put the fix in. the corruption here -- if you're a "new york times" writer is unprecedented. you should be covering a real story. when you put it together here's what it all means. you have hillary clinton, we now know fixed the primary against bernie sanders or i'll use donna brazile's word, put the fix in, that allowed clinton stay in the presidential race and they want her to beat donald trump so they overlook the crimes with the incontrovertible evidence and they try to influence the election with a bought and paid for phony russian dossier full of salacious lies and propaganda. the obama administration took the dossier and weaponized the tools of intelli

jfk airport a travel nightmare fligs delayed at someers slforced t the tarmac and s werge and it wasyeveryone. reporter: the department oftation said it's monitoring the delays and will make a decision about what to do monday. >> questions need to be asked about where were the contiwhy d l? not with knees cascadings as the storm went on the. >> reportehaw is coming for muchemperatures expected tbetween ten and 20 degrees b sloping california.otsrain.uecastedspots,ase les hit hard by wildfires, a high slides flooding. abc news new york >>> you can get regular updates on ctorm tracker 6 throughout the weekend. you can do that itload. mute>>> rylvania turnpike are paying a bit more for those tolls. users are paying 6% more as of midnight last night. the new rates are not apply for the westbound delaware river bridge in bucks county. and they won't take effect until april and a few exitsesternpike commission said it's implementing toll increases until 2044 for these funding operations >> still ahead hollywood awards season get underway with the golden globes how the me too movement is ex

two jets collided on the tarmac in toronto, and the crash started a small fire. it also started the emergency evacuation of dozens of pastors. -- passengers. luckily nobody was hurt. the transportation safety board of canada is trying to determine what caused the crash. >>> right sharing that's back right sharing helps to reduce traffic on the road. it moved passengers 20% more efficiently through the streets of san francisco than a personal car. that is because many cars are driving -- traveling with multiple passengers, and that decreases the number of cars on the road. >>> new data shows that gas prices in san francisco are the highest in northern california. aaa says that the price of regular gasoline in the city averages around $2.20. that is $.16 above average in northern california. the average price in california is $3.10. data also shows that people in california pay about $.60 more than the national average. >>> coming up, there is a new system for parking at were woods, and we will -- at muir woods, and we would show you what you need to do coming up.

new york, weary travelers waiting for hours overnight to deplane. >> on the tarmac we've now entered hour six. >> reporter: inside, huge crowds. airports across the u.s. struggling to recover from the east coast storm. >> it's got to be a lot of snow to close an airport down. >> reporter: in charleston, south carolina, airport officials shutting it down for lack of snow removal equipment. >> we're not equipped like you would be say a boston. we expect this once every ten years. >> reporter: o >> that was the water line. >> the white? oh. >> that's how high the water was back here. >> reporter: in massachusetts storm surge adding insult to injury cascading on the streets and into basements. officials now saying this was the highest tide ever recorded in boston. >> if anyone wants to question global warming, just see where the flood zones are. those zones didn't flood 30 years ago. >> reporter: the charles river now a frozen blanket of snow and ice. in winthrop, massachusetts, cars in driveways destroyed. >> it didn't get in the back. >> reporter: crews racing to clear roads, trying to

.>> travelers on flights were stuck on the tarmac in their airplanes for up to five hours.lept in the airport for two days. the problem is there is a backlog of flights following the storm on thursday. too many flights landed at the same time, overwhelming the system. once at baggage claim, that's when another nightmare ensued. this following a collision between two passenger airplanes on the tarmac at jfk airport saturday. no one was injured. all in all 94 flights were canceled and 70 flights diverted. jfk's runways and taxiways are fully operational -- the unusually and dangerously cold temperatures have had an effect as far south as south carolina, georgia, and alabama. more freezing rain can make for icy roads on monday, expecting to make traveling dangerous. temperatures this coming week are expected to go up to a balmy 30, 40, maybe even 50 degrees. that is good news for much of the country. ♪ [ music ] >>> you feel for all of those people stuck at the airport, but here at home, we may have some delays ourselves, come tomorrow. >> we are going to talk about heavy rain

fire fighting equipped on the tarmac as an american airlines flight made an emergency landing because of an engine problem. here's linsey davis on that story tonight. >> reporter: tonight after the storm tens of thousands of passengers still stranded from coast to coast. >> "we're stuck >> "all the flights before us were canceled." >> "two of us got out, but people are stuck here." >> reporter: at laguardia, the thurston family has battled cancellations for their flight to aruba since wednesday. >> "now we're booked for tonight's flight, but they had to break us all up, each parent's flying with children individually, but right now we're taking our chances on standby. >> reporter: with new york's big three airports shut down for most of the day thursday more than 4300 flights cancel and others had to divert to other airports. this singapore a-380, had to land at stewart air force base in new york - - and 31 flights diverted to washington's dulles airport, >> we didn't have anywhere to go. >> reporter: some passengers trapped on the tarmac for hours as planes tried to find gates. some

this air china flight stuck on the tarmac at new york's jfk airport for seven hours. >> you can imaginestration that many people feel after having to land in new york, going to be told they are going to be sitting on the tarmac for three hours, is what we were originally told. >> reporter: a backlog of flights to lead to a reduction in gate space according to airport management. inside, passengers stranded. further south in charleston, one of two runways finally reopened days after rare snowfall. >> we're not equipped like they would be in boston. we expect this weather once every ten years. >> reporter: meantime, the chicago river almost completely frozen. crews working to keep roadways safe and at least a few brave souls taking on the elements. but there's good news, milder air is expected to slowly expand eastward and temperatures are expected to finally rise above freezing for much of the midwest and the northeast. >>> and it is so cold in michigan, look at this phenomenon in lake michigan. the lake near good harbor bay in glenn arbor is filled with what are called ice balls. they f

you are supposed to stay seated. >> any beverage service it is not even the tarmac it is the runway. >> that side thing. >> the side road airport people let me know. >> yes. >> taxiway. >> thank you. >> ryan comes through in the control room. >> beverage servicey don't think any beverage service. >> just sit there and wait. >> get me out of here. >> coming up at 6:12. >> new day is coming, oprah gives a powerful speech accepting an award at last night's golden globes why she says times up, so many celebrities were saying that last night. >> she was the star last night , for sure what a fiery speech. here comes a fiery report from one bob kelly. >> good morning, everybody. we have an opening on the tacony palmyra bridge this stretch of route 73 closed we have a water main break shutting her down in voorhees and lets check the rest of the cameras this morning, a live look from reading, pennsylvania we have an icy, snowy mess on the way, some schools announcing they will close early. we will have details when we come right back. el: broke, homeless, selling my body to get high, locked u

the passengers in the giant air bus a 380 sat on the tarmac for another two hours. >> terrible. because nobody tell you any detames. you just guess, you go to guys upstairs, trying to figure out what is going on. >> finally the plane was refueled and able to make the quick 13 minute hop across the bay to sfo. joy and relief for those waiting here at the airport and the passengers who have been stuck on the plane for hours. >> people were mostly sitting down, some were walk around, could get water in the back of the plane. >> it's been 15 to 16 hours. >> a long journey for many who started in germany, greece, tunisia, italy and other countries. >> this boy came with his father. >> it's on that people are getting a little bit edgy. >> a surfer who flew in for the maverick competition. >> in the grand scheme of things it wasn't an accident, it wasn't something terrifying like that so it was all great when it is all said and done. >> they do have a terminal able to accommodate those jumbo jets, it was the crew that decided to stay on the tarmac and keep people on board. everyone say

the weights on the tarmac. the safety enhancements, the security enhancements. is that a partisan issue? we hope that the democrats will see that this benefits their constituents. also, i think the democrats in the space of one short month voted against the tax cuts, voted to shut down the government. talk about bipartisan support. look how many democrats voted a week ago to reopen the government. brian: got 80. i sense they there might be a coming together. yesterday the principles sat down with the president's four pillars with john kelly there and they said, guys, let's get started. no progress was made. the tone was fine. is the president going to urge republicans to give a little and in a way he hasn't yet? >> i think the republicans are already giving a little by coming together for the daca recipients. this is nothing that people would have expected, perhaps, i think the democrats are still wondering how they are going to find a new blunt instrument for the mid terms. they shouldn't look it at that way. i heard they are going to have some of the dreamers

i would also open up an investigation into tarmac gate loretta lynch and susan rice if we opened up all of these simultaneous investigations it would completely drown out this mueller which on and that's exactly what it is it is a witch on they hate this president so much that even if they can't find anything on him they go way back on these trumped up charges against paul manna for and now you have you know michael flynn and everything else so sickly they're trying to do anything they can and the trump attorneys i don't think they're very smart because they should be instructing the president to end this and all the us to do is use all these other investigations to do it it would drown out the mueller investigation we'd be back to talking about the good things like the economy the stock market and everything else that's happening in this country ok john you want to jump in there in miami go right ahead. yeah let me let me just let me jump in first of all let's richard let's stop the false narrative that donald trump jr did anything improper illegal its opposition research in fact he di

chapters were stuck on the tarmac and airplanes for 3 - 20 hours yesterday.o bathrooms, no water and no food. people slept in the airport for two days. there is a backlog of flights following the storm on thursday. went to many fights landed at the same time overwhelming the system there were not enough gates. they had to bring in portable staircases to get people off the plane and on buses to bring them to their terminals. then another nightmare baggage claim. many left without the baggage or arrived at their destinations to find out their banks never made it. this following occlusion between two passenger airplanes that collided on the tarmac yesterday. nobody was injured. ninety-four flights were canceled and 74 flights diverted. the port authority says things are improving. jfk's runways and taxiways are fully operational. airlines in recovery mode rebooking passengers and reuniting them with their luggage. there's equipment failures and slower than usual operations. there might be delays a particularly for international flights. the cold temperatures of

others whose flights had arrived, forced to wait hours on the tarmac. >> it was just really uncomfortable. attendants were getting angry. they are just really uncomfortable for everyone. chuck: the department of transportation says it will make a decision about what to do on monday. >> questions need to be asked about why did the contingency fail? why was jfk not able to deal with these cascading failures as the storm wonton? chuck: temperatures expected to climb between 10 degrees and 20 degrees, but there is more trouble lurking in a different part of the another storm system developing in the pacific and heading toward california, bringing with it lots of rain. up to five inches forecast in some spots. that could spell trouble for those areas outside los angeles hit hard by wildfires. a high probability of muds guides and flash flooding. chuck sivertsen, abc news, new york. kimberly: as for our area, the dot is warning drivers to prepare for tomorrow afternoon's commute. you want to mention for potential slick spots. vdot reminds us, if you have to be out on the roads, assume any wet p

>> you can imagine the frustration of people landing in new york and told they are sitting on the tarmace hours, we were originally sold. >> a backlog taking up gate space, inside passengers stranded. further south in charleston one of two runways opened days after rare snow fall. >> we are not equipped like in boston. we expect this every ten years. >> chicago almost frozen, crews working to keep roadways safe and brave souls taking on the elements. there is good news, mild air is expected to rise. daria altinger, abc news, new york. >> as daria mentioned, firefighters are mourning the loss of one of their own tonight. letourneau was trapped when part of the building chanced. he was an 11 year veteran starting in springfield county where he grew up. he was part of the red paw relief team helping pets affected by fires and disasters. >> he did everything. he was a volunteer, foster, donor. >> letourneau is survived by his mom and other relatives. no word on funeral arrangements. >> there are a lot of unanswered questions as the investigation continues. stick with "action news" on the air

. >> reporter: her plane collided with another plane on the tarmac. now she's desperately trying to rebook. >> you can't get rebooked. you've got to get to the desk and get there first. >> reporter: flights being diverted to detroit. where these firefighters endured wind chills and displaced people. in philadelphia, a bursting pipe turning part of this expressway into an ice rink. and in chicago, a frozen lake. frigid weather caused that pipe to burst. many passengers stilltr erielle reshef, abc news, new york. >>> now let's get to the complete forecast, including a new problem for the west coast. >> here's paul williams. good morning, paul. >> for the northeast, we're still expecting another round of snow for detroit, boston, new york, even montreal and toronto. icy mix throughout chicago, toward the d.c. area and then rain for the deep south. and speaking of rain, finally, some rain in the southwest. los angeles down towards san diego, the problem is we're going to have burn scar flooding, debris floes. >>> steve bannon is backing away from comments

passengers are very upset because they are being held out of the tarmac and not allowed to get off the plane because of these delays. a lot of families inside waiting for loved ones. the board of authority did release a statement a couple hours ago saying they're trying to wrk wiork with the airlines opening up gates to ease some of that pressure, we did speak to one passenger who definitely did not dress warm enough for these temperatures, listen to what he had to say. >> reporte >> yeah, i was going to the bahamas and i am supposed to be here for an hour and 50 minutes and we stuck in the runway for three hours and getting our bags for two hours and now i don't think the flight will be until pr probably tomorrow. >> reporter: what's the airline telling you here and how has the airline responding? >> they're doing everything they can. it is the airport's chaos. >> reporter: there you have it. people are really unprepared for these temperatures and a lot of family members are still waiting for their loved ones to arrive. people taken to social media talking about waiting on the tarmac

two, three, even 20 miles on the tarmac. some people have been at jfk airport for 48 hours.a, the port authority is working with the faa to delay arrivals of plans to jfk because they are so overwhelmed with the backlog of flights over the last couple of days because of the storm that there is not enough gates to put the plans accident brought in portable stairs to bring people out onto the tarmac on the buses to take them out of the plans, no water, nothing. we got one tweet that said to be at last.after a 14 hour flight from beijing, and other seven-hour stand on the jfk airport tarmac. passengers aboard airtran flight 99 are complaining. the next concern is that the custom lines for the flight was one of many that landed but without a gait assigned. tribal nightmares still for many. snow and what precipitation expected monday for the midwest and east coast. then temperatures in the 30s which right now is looking mighty dead. also, look at this video. this is mt. washington in new hampshire. they are blowing bubbles in the observatory and they freeze in the air! and you ca

feel having to land in new york only to be told they're going to be sitting on the tarmac for threeurs. >>flights that led to a reducti of gate space according to airport management inside passengers stranded. further south in charleston one of two runways finally reopened days after rare snowfall. >> we're not equipped and we expect this kind of weather maybe once every ten years. >> meantime the chicago river almost completely frozen. at least a few brave souls taking on the elements. but there is good news, milder air is slowly expected t expand eastward and temperatures are expected to finally rise above freezing. >> a 12-story building came crashing down in nashville but this was all about progress. it took less than 10 seconds to implode the building which has stood for more than a quarter century. over 600 pounds of explosives were used to bring it down. the area will be turned into a $1 billion development called nashinclude a music venue, hoted apartments. we'll be right back. a cold sore in as little as two and a half days when used at the first sign. it starts to work imm

. >> we sat at the tarmac for something like four and a half hour and then they called the eventually put on buses to new york not before sitting for hours in the cramp confines for hours on the plane. >> it wasn't right. the pilot wasn't making the proper decisions. the flight was delayed for three hours. in the air for 11 hours. people were scared. they said the paper was going to take off. >> reporter: ultimate decisions on how flights are handled is up to the airlines. >> this is one of those instances where there are mobile lounges that come in handy. pick passengers up and take them to the customs building. >> reporter: now as you can see behind me, it is still busy here. 11:00 at night at dulles airport. people will be sleeping here tonight. and delays expectedo if you are flying, call your airline before you leave. jackie bensen. >>> amtrak says it will operate on a modified schedule. trains between d.c. and norfolk are canceled so is at auto train from virginia to south florida. >>> snow blanketing the sand, leaving the popular beach town. maryland's governor declaring a stat

there are people tweeting from airplanes at this moment stuck on the tarmac for five-plus hours. up to 20 hours without food, without water and without access to toilets. apparently there are so many flights that have come in there are no gate access because of the storm and they're having trouble deplaning people. the port authority is bringing in mobile staircases and deplaning people on the tarmac and busing people off. it's a serious situation at jfq right now. here are some folks that we spoke with at dulles airport in d.c. >> we don't want pretzels and business cuts businespretzel.i i want my lugg. >> take a look at this video. this was taken by the mount washington observatory in new hampshire. this guy is blowing bubbles and you can see the bubbles freeze instantly. he's able to pick it up with his hand like a baseball. mount washington and new hampshire is tied right now for the second coldest place on earth. that is tied with armstrong, ontario. at the summit of mount washington right now in new hampshire, it is minus 36. that's not the windchill. you're talking about a

why the frustrated passenger walked onto the tarmac. >> the time is 6:52. happening today, the winter's first snow pack survey is set to be done. >> it hasn't snowed much so far. probably too early to worry. it reaches its peak depth and water content in april. they use the water content to help them anticipate the runoff from the mountains during the spring snow melt. they take five measurements between january and may. >>> the legal sale of recreational marijuana is in full swing in california but not everything is in place. a computerized system that was supposed to track all of the marijuana grown and sold is not up and running yet. the state department of food and agriculture says the system was implemented yesterday but it is still not required because training will be needed before it becomes mandatory later in the year. they want to track the marijuana so it doesn't head to the black market. community activists in marin county are working to make sure that the social host laws are followed. people who host parties are responsible for any consequence