cold will set in. blizzard warnings are out and many states have declared emergencies. this is middletown connecticut. the storm has left a lot of snow on the roads already. what a mess. the layers of dangerous ice and heavy snowfall have closed airports from texas to long island. christin ayers reports the bay area is feeling the effects of the bay area this morning. reporter: good morning. there certainly is an impact here at san francisco international airport. we just talked to a couple of people who have been standed here overnight. behind me you can see security lines are going moving. many more flights to the midwest and northeast have been cancelled on various airlines. we have flights that we have seen from american airlines, southwest, jetblue and continental all canceling flights to chicago, new york, newark and many other flights. that colossal storm has paralyzed travel as you mentioned from the northeast all the way out to texas. we actually just spoke to a co
hospital for examination. she is pregnant by jose rodriguez, the man accused of kidnapping his son. and minutes after the abduction, driving himself and 4-year-old cardenas into the canal. all of our evidence leads us to believe that jose rodriguez is probably also in the canal. reporter: for the community, it is not the fate of rodriguez but the sad end of a young life. look at that smile. he was precious. reporter: that weighs on their thoughts. we have to start the healing process. we don t know where to even start on that as a community. reporter: even though rodriguez is believed to be dead and his body in the canal. a homicide warrant was issued for his arrest. but the sheriff says nothing suggests that rodriguez had the infrastructure, the finance to pull off this kidnapping and simply disappear. it could take two weeks for juliani s body to be found in the canal. today is exactly 14 days since the boy was abducted in patterson. the next day a field hand
that he is burning in hell and i don t have to worry about him taking my unborn baby girl. now let s hear the story. we recovered the body of a small child whose physical description and clothing description matches that of our kidnapping victim. a mother s worst nightmare becomes reality. the search for juliani cardenas is over. friends say the four-year-old brightened this patterson neighborhood. beautiful child. beautiful smile, happy. two weeks ago, jose rodriguez allegedly snatched jewuliani fr his grandmother s arms. by the time i heard him, he was already going down to his room. they pulled up rodriguez s car friday, and today, 30 miles down stre downstream, they found the little boy s body. his grandmother remained in her home today. friend who spoke with her say she s relying on her faith. obviously, she would rather him be with them, but she believes he s in heaven. friends and neighbors did their best to comfort each other. i tell you, we ve been
tuesday, february 2, groundhog day. i m sydnie kohara. i m elizabeth wenger. time now 4:30. a colossal winter storm continues to lash a third of the u.s. this morning. blizzard warnings run and emergencies have been declared. terrell brown tells us it is far from over. reporter: chicago s used to brutal winters but not like this. a megablizzard is slamming the windy city this morning with up to two feet of snow and gale- force winds. that s going to really sting, it s windy and biting but i think we ll be all right. reporter: drives were stranded for hours on lakeshore drive after it was shut down and for the first time in 12 years, city schools made today a snow day. all the heavy snow is too much for some buildings to handle. surveillance video captured this roof buckling at a hardware store in minnesota. five workers inside narrowly escaped. i run back in, hit the floor, the building is coming down! you can see the roof is collapsing. reporter: here in new yo
good afternoon. we have breaking news to report from the central valley this noontime. a child s body has been found in a canal. though the body has not been identified, there s word that it matches the description of a 4-year-old patterson boy kidnapped two weeks ago. jade hernandez has learned who spotted the body and where it was found. jade? reporter: well, that s right. this story unfolded in a way no one wanted it to. the amber alert issued two weeks ago was supposed to bring little juliani cardenas home, instead it led to a recovery effort of the delta canal. a man noticed the body in the water, found 30 miles near patterson. the clothing and description of boy in the amber alert does match the body found. just 30 minutes ago, i spoke to the stanislaus county deputy sheriff. it s a saddening to it s a saddening that he was sad ending to this. we were hoping he was somewhere else. reporter: this discovery comes 1 days after juliani cardenas went miss 14 days