more than 3,000 flights were cancelled today, including a third of the flights here at chicago s o hare. across the country, stranded passengers are sleeping on cots waiting to find out when they can finally get home. this guy spent two days stuck at laguardia trying to get to chicago. my flight got cancelled twice and i was not even informed. reporter: on the road things were just as bad in many areas. in illinois hundreds of people stranded in vehicles had to be rescued. some freeways including a portion of interstate 65 in indiana were completely closed for hours because of unsafe conditions. the main roads are great. the back roads are still slippery. i have my baby in the back. i m trying to go slow. reporter: things are getting much better around the midwest. we re into the single digits and quite frankly feels pretty balmy. balmy, thank you very much for that, ted.
third of the flights here at chicago s o hare. across the country, stranded passengers are sleeping on cots waiting to find out when they can finally get home. this guy spent two days stuck at laguardia trying to get to chicago. my flight got cancelled twice and i was not even informed. reporter: on the road things were just as bad in many areas. in illinois hundreds of people stranded in vehicles had to be rescued. some freeways including a portion of interstate 65 in indiana were completely closed for hours because of unsafe conditions. the main roads are great. the back roads are still slippery. i have my baby in the back. i m trying to go slow. reporter: things are getting much better around the midwest. we re into the single digits and quite frankly feels pretty balmy. balmy, thank you very much for that, ted.
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good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn t make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. good morning, washington. it is 10:21 there in the nation s capital, and relatively warm today when you consider the temperatures around the country. 37 degrees. balmy. balmy. yeah. you could probably take off the earmuffs in that weather. speaking of washington, the supreme court facing another thorny question about obamacare. this week, a coalition of religious nonprofits asked the supreme court to block a key provision. it forces them to offer birth control to their workers, and they want to be included in an exemption for religious groups. sunlynn joins us with more. how soon do you think the
with the schools off, people are enjoying the snow day. and now to massachusetts, one of the states hit hardest by the storm. and richmond lui from boston. reporter: good day to you. to bookend what craig melvin saying about the first challenge for the new york mayor, this is the final challenge for the boston mayor. good thing today, the difference between 12 hours ago and now, it s now a balmy, if i it say that, 12 degrees. it was about 2 degrees 12 hours ago. if you look behind me, a building you re familiar, the customs building now has sun upon it. and that means a lot of different things. come down the streets from the customs building, once the tallest in the country, the streets are now wet. and we have seen for the first time coming down these streets the salt trucks. earlier it was too cold to get