despite a pretty troch rouse commute. that guy is thinking about the game and not the snow. reporter: the hawks are doing great. martha: they call it heart attack snow. that doesn t sound good. i m guessing it will be heavy? reporter: exactly, the wet, heavy snow that comes down and fills up the driveway. you get a lot of people, particularly elderly people, haven t done physical all year. they get out and get physical. it is a lot of work removing wet, heavy snow. what doctors recommend, hire a kid across the street to get the snow off the driveway. when i was a kid growing up here i made bank on days like this. martha: we encourage kids to help the elderly neighbors, do just that, make a little money at the same time. just like mike tobin you can end up successful like our own mike tobin. reporter: there you go. keep dry. bill: mrs. curly paved $15. mrs. sperber paid 20 bucks. i could hit them both, you know? rich man. martha: i can t believe i
heavy, wet snow that plows were unfortunately the victim of slippery roadways. load cloud cover is causing all sorts of havoc particularly when you talk about air travel. well actually you can see the top of the donald trump building in the city of chicago. because the clouds are so low and that is really causing havoc with air travel. jenna. jenna: you guys in chicago know snow better than we do on the east coast. reporter: a little bit. jenna: i will give you that credit, steve. we hear it is not just about the snow and amount of it but what it s like. tell us more about that. reporter: yeah and it s really, really wet. don t know what your snowball making history is like, jenna, if you make a snowball that easy that means the stuff is really wet. it is tough on people especially heart attack snow lifting it up. way tough on roofs. did you get it? reporter: reports of roofs collapsing particularly in missouri and
a mess for anybody that has to deal with this today. give you a look at the snowfall we are dealing with. at the kennedy expressway we have slush on the road but there are areas in chicago where you can t even see the white line. you are on your own out there pretty much. i was doing 25 miles an hour and i was blowing by some of the people. obviously it will take a while for the city to do a lot of stuff. right now we have people doing parking lot plowing getting snow off their car. here s good news for the folks who have to deal with the snow, the kind of snow we are talking about is a light and fluffy snow it s not the heart attack snow that is very, very dangerous. it is something people need to plan ahead for because you have to clear off your car and then you want to be careful. what was interesting today is i saw lienting flash. initially i thought i was getting caught by one of the remembered light cameras because
unexpected, no question about it. but this has to be startling. i have to say that things don t shock me. i was shocked by this. reporter: did your heart skip a beat? could you what happened? i don t know. i think i called home and said, i m coming home. i m stopping my errands for saturday and first i thought that she should come get me, my wife should come get me, and i said, no, the car s drivable, but no back window. reporter: you were out here for about 36 hours or so without power. finally the power s back up. we take for granted so much what it s like to have electricity. what s it like to camp out in your house for 36 hours without it? first, let me give credit to meta, they worked tirelessly in this neighborhood with the tree people cutting it down. you know, you put up with it. we read by flashlight. it got cold, but the bed was the warmest place in town. you know, the thing is, we re such an information-based society, no tv, no internet, no phone. could
see more than a foot of the white stuff. that s actually especially troubling because the trees are not ready at all for this. the trees, still plenty of leaves on them. you have forecasters saying heavy, wet snow, high winds. those are the perfect ingredients for potentially a large problem with the electric grid. we ll have in-depth coverage of the storm with meteorologist chad myers and jacqui jeras in just a few moments. the florida highway patrol arrested a driver accused of going 120 miles per hour. that driver, a miami police officer. the highway patrol says the miami officer was on his way to a second job when he was pulled over and that he was arrested at gunpoint after ignoring multiple warnings to stop. and wikileaks founder julian assange could learn next week whether he will be extradited to sweden. assange deanalyze the accusations saying they are an attempt to smear him because of his work as head of wikileaks which has published confidential u.s. diplo