so far it looks like he s following his regular routine, going golfing this morning, camp david later today to celebrate his birthday. the white house is pointing out he s being updated on a regular basis on this threat. has directed his national security team to take all appropriate steps they say to protect the american people. all right. emily schmidt, thanks so much. keep us posted from washington. the travel alert will impact americans all over the world for about a month. nick valencia is live for us at atlanta s airport, the busiest airport in the world. so, nick, you have been talking to passengers today. are they noticing any differences? are they at all nervous about their travels? reporter: hey, fred. domestically it is business as usual and passengers who are traveling this weekend out of the atlanta airport, which you mentioned is the busiest airport, about 240,000 passengers a day, they shouldn t notice any change. it s no longer lines, no delays related to this tra
them? reporter: yeah. the state department is encouraging those that are traveling abroad to register their trip with the u.s. embassy. depending on the country you re going to, get in touch with that embassy where you re going to be at. also you can register for the smart traveler enrollment program to get alerts about possible crisis situations or emergency situations. i registered yesterday to check out the website. it s pretty easy to navigate. they also encourage the state department encourages passengers to check on the state department website for updates and alerts. fred? all right, nick valencia at atlanta s hartsfield-jackson airport. thanks so much. neighbors along seymour avenue in cleveland, ohio, call michelle knight a real inspiration. on friday knight returned to the home where she and two other women were held and tormented for more than a decade by ariel castro. castro was sentenced on thursday to life plus 1,000 years in prison with no chance of parole. knight
and on sunday, it s seattle at atlanta, followed by the texans taking on new england. a lot going on. who are the giants playing? doesn t really matter. the giants will be victorious. who are the saints playing? rub it in, willis. got two giants fans right here. next year, next year. here s your friday forecast. mountain snow in the cascades. heavy snow from salt lake city to jackson, wyoming. moving later to northwest minnesota. freezing rain in the twin cities and duluth. thunderstorms across the south. showers from knoxville to the eastern seaboard. 40s in the northeast. 50s from the middle of the country. 30s from seattle to boise. passengers taking off from australia were caught up in what looked like a hollywood movie, but this was actually all too real. that s right. a few minutes into a qantas flight yesterday morning, passengers, get this, noticed a huge snake dangling from the wing of the plane.
their previous flight was canceled. delta yesterday cancelling 1,900 flights. today cancels 1,400 flights. delta telling us, they will have a couple hundred flights in the air today. how many of those people will be the lucky ones to be on it? we re not really sure. we ll see how the day goes. as every bit above freezing temperature we have right now is going to be a good sign and continue to improve throughout the day. carol, let s just keep an eye on it and hope some of these people get home today. i hope so. i ran no a man in the hotel in the elevator. he s been stuck here in atlanta for two days. he had a huge bottle of wine. he said i m just going to my room and i m a little depressed right now. i understood that. david mattingly, thanks so much. jill goldberg joins us live by phone from the georgia department of transportation. how are you?
around. the runways may be cleared but there s ice on all the other ways and taxiways that men and vehicle are trying to walk around. there s inherent dangers there. that slows the whole process this. if temperatures go above freezing today, they ll do so briefly and drop back down below freezing tonight and probably stay below freezing tomorrow. if you get a little sun on that black pavement, even if temperatures are below freeze, that will help melt the roadways. a long time forecast for cold here in atlanta and other places in the south that have seen the remnants and impact of this devastating ice event. it s all coming together and it will move up the east coast and they ll be in trouble in a couple of days, right. reporter: they are. and we are hoping there s evidence it doesn t blast up and