zoraida sambolin. thanks for joining us this morning. we begin with a brutal beginning to the work week, because the very severe weather. people in six states waking up to a big cleanup from missouri to pennsylvania. millions of people battling rain, snow, and potentially dangerous wind this morning. all that slush making roads disastrous, and treacherous. perfect conditions for fender benders. look at the scene in kansas city, missouri. it is causing significant disruptions at lambert st. louis international airport. the storm not even done yet, parts of eastern indiana, and western ohio are under a winter storm warnin through early this afternoon, and that system continues to track eastward. we ve got it covered for you. our shannon travis is in potomac, maryland. jennifer delgado is in the cnn weather center in atlanta. shannon, you got the short end of the stick in the storm. we re going to start with you. short end of the stick, indeed. when we last spoke i gave you a very unsci
look at the scene in kansas city, missouri. causing significant disruptions at lambert st. louis international airport. and the storm is not done yet. parts of eastern indiana and western ohio under a winter storm warning through early this afternoon. the system continues to track eastward right toward us. we got it covered for you though. shannon traffic sis in maryland weather season. what you are season? reporter: hard to believe this is the first week of spring, right? we re here in potomac, maryland. it s been coming down steadily. me and my cameraman eddie were driving in. it was like a blinding whiteout. i want to give you a sense of the accumulation here. very unsif tiun tifk, onscienti two inches. this is the kind that is coming down and sticking together. we re right on i-270.
assessing the plane now, and we ll get the passengers off the air field and work to get equipment to tow the plane off the active runway. until then, that runway is closed and we re just moving traffic on other runways right now. okay. hopefully those on board on this private jet are okay here on this monday afternoon. jeff leigh, thank you so much, spokesman, lambert st. louis airport for me. and now some of the hottest stories in a flash, rapid fire. roll it. those harmless streaks you see here, they could spell big trouble. first full week of march, old man winter hit his stride. pretty quiet this hour in indianapolis. do not let that deceive you. this big snowstorm moves eastward, chicago, philadelphia, washington, d.c., get ready. also today, the health scare appears to be over for britain s queen elizabeth. she was walking out of this hospital, just a couple of hours ago. she was admitted yesterday with symptoms of a stomach bug.
indication, whether it is something else. obviously the pilot is going to spend a good amount of time trying to do that. it sounds like they made a decision to land at lambert st. louis, has a longer runway than the st. louis downtown airport that they were looking at. i guess they made their decision that they re going to land at lambert, which makes sense. if you have a landing gear issue or expecting to have an issue on touchdown, it makes sense to use the longest available runway in the area. right now they re probably either complete something checklists, making some final decisions, and kind of planning out in their mind what they re going to do on that final approach and landing. so upon that final approach, dan, at lambert st. louis international airport, and we know this pilot has circled a couple of times and ultimately made the call as miles o brien put it, concrete is your friend when you re landing this plane, with longer space in front of you, how do you ultimately say,
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