people's heads. we may never know exactly what we do know is that we stopped a bad situation here and for that we're very thankful. >> and i think everyone is very lucky that that is the case. richard beary the chief of the university of central florida police department. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> all right. i think for 20 minutes it has officially been spring. you wouldn't know it today is the first day of spring snow and cold temperatures still gripping much of the northeast and the midwest. cnn's chris welch is live in minneapolis this morning where the hardy people of minnesota are like, you know, their neighbors in iowa where i'm from, we, this is the time of year when you just have to kind of give up hope, and wait for the first daffodil. they're still waiting. >> you really do have to wait. and yeah, they are still waiting. we were spoiled last year, it was so warm this same time. but look at me now. i'm standing on a snow pile in a parking lot here. this is basically, about 15 feet of dirty snow. it's been cleared from the streets of minneapolis, and put here. now this snow is pretty dirty. so this has been here for quite some time.