Abc news exclusive. Award winning talk show host tavis smiley fires back after losing sponsors. Hes here live speaking out for the first time only on gma. And the force is strong with this one. The last jedi soaring to an out of this galaxy opening. Now, the second largest of all time and its just getting started. And good morning, america. Welcome back from the weekend. Also a big welcome to our weekend anchor paula faris. Thanks, george. Great to be here on a monday. Boy, it was not a happy weekend in atlantas airport. My brotherinlaw was one of the million that was stranded. My sisterinlaw said he had a hard time calling her. The communications were bad and he was literally and figuratively in the dark and airport. Hes still there. 11 hours of chaos. What its like there. In you see the airport cloudy and foggy. There you see it right there. The planes on the tarmac live. Adding insult to injury, thousands were stranded in darkness last night wandering through the airport and others
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] larry right now at noon there is no other way to describe it. It is cold outside. A live look at the white house where some flurries are coming down. Meteorologist alex liggitt is hit with a check of the forecast. Alex just a couple of flurries out there. Isolated in nature. Did not models have what some of the models were predicting. The Winter Weather advisory was allowed to expire earlier than they were putting it out for. Here is the past couple of hours. A lot of it is not reaching the ground. A few stray flurries. No complications as far as the roads or anything like that. No looking relations out there. The frontal boundary is shifting to the south. You see heavier precipitation in areas of eastern carolina. As well. Snow lingering flurries. Skies begin to clear through the afternoon. Winds will start to well. It will feel cold. Across the region, we are around 30 degrees
Lives into the bitter cold. Multiple apartments were destroyed. Ryan hughes, live in gaithersburg with the frightening wakeup call for many people. This happened at a dangerous time, ryan. Ryan it did. We just got an update, the cause being called undetermined. It started in the attic around 5 00 in the morning, a time when many people were asleep. Police and firefighters went doortodoor to make sure everyone got out safe. You can see there is a tarp over top the roof where flames went through earlier this morning. This afternoon, residents were allowed back for a short period to try to salvage anything they can. For so many, not much is left. I cant believe everything is gone. Everything is gone. Ryan two days before ringing in the new year, dozens of people are forced to start over. I am broken, broke down. Ryan towering through the roof at the potomac oaks condos, forcing families into the bitter cold. Eileen lives on the bottom floor and smell the smoke. I went to the front door. I
The minority. Every other School District in the area is closed. Full for a full list, logon or watch the bottom of your screen. Lets get you over to the dynamic duo this morning in the weather center. Eileen how many more hours to we have . Veronica i dont know. [laughter] veronica a lot. [laughter] veronica making sure you stay safe, but now it is about the ice, the wind, and some of the trees that are down across the area with Power Outages that are yet to come our way. Eileen getting to the point rampingings are really up. Follow me, guys, we will take it over, i think. Areant to show you where we dealing with that area of low pressure, but again we are still dealing with lots of different types of precipitation. That has we are seeing those higher snowfall totals in the areas north and west, as we anticipated, which is where the colder air has been. Slightly through d. C. , that makes has slightly limited the titles, or rather the totals. Area of low pressure off the delmarva coas
More likely speed and drive inexperience. Police also investigating whether as a new driver dennis was allowed nonfamily passengers. He knows the pain better than most. In 2008, he lost his own son in an eerily similar crash. And tonight he is urging parents and teens alike to take notice. It is just really sad that we have to continue to go out to these type collisions. But it really inspires me to recognize that we have to do more. We want parents and we want community to get more involved. Brad he knows while this is a period of grieving it is also a time when people are paying attention. There is another message he wants to get out to parents and that has to do with the cars they let the children drive. A 1989 pickup truck with no air bag or modern safety conveniences may seem a good idea but he says get smaller, get more modern. Make sure u your kids cars. In clarksburg, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon what a sad one. The three students werent seniors but a lot of the classmates learne