about all the cold air filling in behind it. all the snow expected to pile up here is going to last, guys. >> indra, thank you for that. we'll be monitoring the situation. while washington, d.c. may be shut down on one level, certainly the government is on high alert because the situation on ukraine is moving quickly and in the wrong direction. there was an assault this morning on weapons depot in crimea. thousands of russian soldiers have taken control of the crimean peninsula and ukraine's new government has been told that its military must be at full alert. now, at the same time, nato is trying to figure out how to ease the tensions, european foreign ministers are holding their own meetings on the situation. we go to brussels to erin with