randi? happy traveling. thanks, chad, for that. as you said, new york took the brunt of it and normally takes it in stride between the subway and utilities underground show rarely sticks once they get plowed but this time it was snow, snow and more snow and cnn s merry snow. reporter: cars buried in snow. buses stranded and abandoned. one even caught fire after overheating. new york city, hammered with 20 plus inches of powder and drifts even higher with winds gusting over 35 miles per hour. a ghosttown above grown. a commuter s hell under it. hundreds of people were stranded on subways for hours. new yorker ross den captured these images den says he and fellow passengers spent several hours on this subway with no heat in freezing temperatures. the mayor called the storm one of the most challenges new york has seen in a decade, adding 911
i ll make it smaller. newark had two feet of snow on the ground. you have to get all of the snow off the runway, off the tarmac and off the areas where the planes and jets should go. where your bags are going to go as well. obviously, you can t get ought all of that out of the way at a time. here s the problem. we have 10,000 or 20,000 people that didn t get to where they were trying to get to today. now they re going to try to get on planes tomorrow. those planes only have ten empty seats. what are you going to do with 20,000 people getting on ten empty seats and another ten on the next plane? it is going to be a stand-by nightmare. martin savidge was at atlanta hartsfield-jackson tonight and they told some flyers there tonight that lost their flights today due to cancellations, they would be rebooked on saturday. that s next year. randi? happy traveling. thanks, chad, for that. as you said, new york took the brunt of it and normally takes it in stride between the subway and utiliti
and it s all because of this. i ll make it smaller. newark had two feet of snow on the ground. you have to get all of the snow off the runway, off the tarmac and off the areas where the planes and jets should go. where your bags are going to go as well. obviously, you can t get ought all of that out of the way at a time. here s the problem. we have 10,000 or 20,000 people that didn t get to where they were trying to get to today. now they re going to try to get on planes tomorrow. those planes only have ten empty seats. what are you going to do with 20,000 people getting on ten empty seats and another ten on the next plane? it is going to be a stand-by nightmare. may tin saw vij was at atlanta hartsfield-jackson tonight and they told some flyers there tonight that lost their flights today due to cancellations, they would be rebooked on saturday. that s next year. randi? happy traveling.
i ll make it smaller. newark had two feet of snow on the ground. you have to get all of the snow off the runway, off the tarmac and off the areas where the planes and jets should go. where your bags are going to go as well. obviously, you can t get ought all of that out of the way at a time. here s the problem. we have 10,000 or 20,000 people that didn t get to where they were trying to get to today. now they re going to try to get on planes tomorrow. those planes only have ten empty seats. what are you going to do with 20,000 people getting on ten empty seats and another ten on the next plane? it is going to be a stand-by nightmare. martin savidge was at atlanta hartsfield-jackson tonight and they told some flyers there tonight that lost their flights today due to cancellations, they would be rebooked on saturday. that s next year. randi? happy traveling. thanks, chad, for that. as you said, new york took the
the next plane? it is going to be a stand-by nightmare. martin savidge was at atlanta hartsfield-jackson tonight and they told some flyers there tonight that lost their flights today due to cancellations, they would be rebooked on saturday. that s next year. randi? happy traveling. thanks, chad, for that. up next, the 911 call following the death of a beer tycoon s girlfriend. why did police wait so long to release the tape? and do they give any new clues about the untimely death of the 27-year-old former model. president obama is bringing back the end of life counseling measures that were dropped from health care reform. we ve got the facts to help you make sense of the fight.