for john roberts. today some of the big stories. we re still talking about the storm, but at least not talking about another one coming. the east coast buried under record-breaking snow. we saw two blizzards in a week. 40 inches of snow in the capitol. good news now that maybe some of the airports will be opening up. two runways at dulles re-opened minutes ago. the first flight landed there 45 minutes ago. reagan national not open yet. we are waiting for information as well from the baltimore airport. cnn uncovering shocking allegations against toyota employees and the feds say toyota has known about the sudden acceleration problems for at least six years and in cases the feds may have looked the other way. it is a story you will want to hear this morning before going to work. and the vice president speaking about sarah palin like a lot of people have been doing over the past week or so. you need to hear what he had to say, actually talking about
from other states and doing our very best to punch through and get our people out of this and back to normal as quickly as we can. governor, we couldn t help but notice in the sound bite you appeared a little bit frustrated with people complaining about their roads. explain your level of frustration, if you will, with some people in your view being unreasonable with expectations in the record snowfall. well, again, this was such a record snowfall. most of us are accustomed to being able to call our county council people, city council people and get our roads scraped down to the pavement. i think that because of that tradition a lot of us did not appreciate just how much snow we were dealing with here and what a tremendous burden and strain that was on the first responders, paramedics and firefighters. i think the vast majority have come to understand that, look, we need to keep the roads
it, certainly the timing of it, as well, is going to go down in the history books. at one point the massive storm produced two inches of snow an hour. two blizzards in one week. dropping a staggering 40 inches of snow in the nation s capital. government offices shut down for a third day. costing $100 million a day in lost productivity. at times, it may have been beautiful to look at or play in. but the snow did do damage. 22 roof collapses reported in d.c., including this one at the smithsonian storage facility. capital area s two airports shut down. thousands of flights canceled. williamsburg, virginia, a 50-car pileup on interstate 64 sent seven people to the hospital with minor injuries. and shut down the interstate for hours. central pennsylvania, one person was killed after two large pileups closed interstate 80. and at the big apple, 2,000 plows and spreaders tackled
private company have to recuse themselves from an agency that may look at that company like toyota. but once they are there, no longer applied. the beginning of the problems, we still have a lot of questions about what toyota knew and what s the fix. if they hadn t been so close maybe there would have been aer more aggressive follow up to say, we need these documents and until we rule it out we won t decide what it is. deb, thank you so much. thank you. time for a look at other top stories. from the nation s capital to new york city, still digging out from record-shattering snow. two blizzards dropping 40 inches on washington, d.c. this week. government offices shut down for a fourth day today. and airports are closed, too. officials plan to re-open dulles and reagan national in the next half hour. celebrations to mark the anniversary of iran s revolution, so far without significant disruption. there were reports that
school. canyons of lower manhattan, wall street, covered in snow. it will be operating as usual today. little bit more of a slow go. when you look at it on a map, you think about the number of people, close 100 million people affected by the two last storms, it is a remarkable thing. jacqui jeras has been talking about the shift going to the south. record snowfalls down there by the end of the weekend. unbelievable winter in 2009 and 2010, that s for sure. it ain t over yet. it is going to be a problem in our neck of the woods, it sounds like, in atlanta. we will talk about that more in just a little bit. thanks. spread the storms around. you know. yeah. slowly things are getting back. baltimore-washington airport expected to have the first flight out in the next- hour. in northbound the runways are clear. many flights are still in limbo this morning. allan chernoff is live at la