yesterday in preparation. now, the snow team here, they've been kind of bored the last couple of years because as you know, we haven't gotten much snow in washington lately and i spoke to the airport operations manager, dana pitts, just a short time ago about what they're doing to stay open. >> we were getting down to bare pavement and that is our goal to provide a product no worse than wet. but because of that, we need to keep them moving because when you get a snowfall rate of an inch an hour, this is probably close to that. then you've got to get back where you started in order to keep it open. >> now, really, the international flights are what are taking precedence here. those are really high volume flights and we've seen a couple take off and land while we've been here for the past couple of hours. >> pretty unbelievable considering the snow we see coming down there. you're one tough cookie. thanks for that report. let's turn now to susan