place. we have a team of people who are helping us out here. we have reporters stretched around the country. we have reporters stretched around the world. even our political reporter dana bash on an airplane at the san francisco international airport affected by this. dana reported for us just a short time ago. dan simon is in san francisco as well. jim tillmon is an aviation expert and richard quest reports on aviation here and is an expert for cnn. i want to go to jim tillmon now. jim, we re looking at this. the weather situation at least from a layman s point of view as i m looking at it doesn t appear to be particularly bad. i don t know what the wind was bad. as you look at these pictures, what do they tell you? after having forecast weather for many, many years, as you know, don, i see absolutely nothing that the weather had to do with this situation, nothing that meets the eye at least. there can be some swirling currents and that sort of thing