it's hiding the u.s. capitol, which is right behind me. and typically if you were here on the national mall you could see it quite clearly. not the case today with all this snow. i was looking at it, it's good the snowman making snow, nice and packable there. but, we've got snow sweeping all across the washington, d.c. area. that means that the government is closed today. that means that people at the airport are encountering delays and cancellations, travel not exactly fun here in washington as people wake up this morning. now i will say that the road so far have been okay. the snow started coming down here around 6:00 this morning. so it's been at a pretty steady clip ever since then. as i said, when we got here you could see the capitol, now you most certainly cannot. when we got here this morning people were out jogging in shorts. now i've got one, two, three -- three layers on, so i was not jogging in shorts. but hats off to the people that could take the cold this morning. but certainly this storm, it has