to the ground. rob and mike? thanks, jeremy. police in miami have arrested a man after a bizarre scare at the airport there. the suspect s luggage literally started exploding when it was taken off the plane by baggage handlers. police say hundreds of bullet parts were inside that luggage and they say when one of the parts ignited all the others went off as well. police say the incident is not connected to terrorism. the airport problems in moscow are so bad, russia s president wants prosecutors to investigate. thousands of passengers have been stuck for days after an ice storm grounded flights and knocked out power at the airport. the president wants to know if any laws were broken. passengers say there was little food and no information about when their flights would actually take off. this might be a little hard to hear considering the travel troubles of the last few days but airline fares are going up yet again. united, continental, delta, maybe even american are all adding
latest. hi, jeremy. reporter: rob and mike, good morning. it s still windy here in maine. investigators are trying to figure out if wind is in fact what caused this accident. nine people were taken to the hospital, several others injured, some of them children. skiers with cameras captured what happened next. the pictures reveal the horror for the skiers on the mountain. rebecca london was on one of the lifts that fell. it happened so fast, i didn t really have time to be afraid. it kind of lurched back and then i didn t realize we were just we just dropped. we were about six chairs up from where it fell. and my mom, she fell off and she s in the hospital right now with a cracked rib. my wife, daughter and i immediately went down to start helping out get chairs off of people. most people were able to crawl out from under the chairs without a problem. reporter: skiers snapped photos of the injured. the slopes turned into a triage center. some remained trapped in the air.
might want to log off, watch this story, make your decision after this. sound advice. good morning, i m mike marusarz. vinita nair is on vacation. i m rob nelson. the travel backlog from sunday s blizzard is finally beginning to clear out but still there are thousands of passengers stuck far, far from their destinations. wet weather now returning to california after last week s terrible storm there. t.j. winick has the latest. good morning, t.j. reporter: good morning, rob and mike. we re here on west 67th street. things are looking pretty good. besides those two cars still covered in snow. this street was actually plowed on monday. but streets in some of the outer boroughs like staten island and brooklyn were not plowed so quickly. just one frustration out of many for those who had to endure the blizzard of 2010. post-christmas travelers are carrying a bit more baggage than usual. thousands of canceled flights. it could be friday before many make it home. four internationa
the rockies with heavy snow, even salt lake city, more than a foot as we go into wednesday night. for the southeast it s been pretty chilly over the past couple of days. fortunately temperatures are warming up and it will be warmer by the afternoon. now back to you, rob and mike. ava, thanks. here s the rest of your wednesday weather. the rainstorm in the west should stretch into the phoenix area where we ll see about 10 inches of snow from that system well into the dakotas and northern minnesota. expect showers and thunderstorms from houston and new orleans north to st. louis. meanwhile, 40 degrees in omaha. 36 in chicago. 28 in fargo. boise 34. portland 42. sacramento 51. 30s meanwhile from boston down to baltimore. 51 in atlanta. and a damp 66 in new orleans. weather or faulty equipment may have led to a ski lift accident in maine. some skiers fell while others were stranded 30 feet in the air when the lift failed. it was a frightening scene as you can imagine at the sugar
started out in california where they had record rainfall. david muir has a look at the storm which traveled from west to east. reporter: it rained for a week straight in california, and that rain of course led to those mudslides that swallowed cars and nearly entire homes. 11 california counties were under states of emergency. and as the storm system moved eastward and the air grew colder it buried parts of the rockies with up to 9 feet of snow. in some places talk of the biggest christmas avalanche warnings ever. after it dipped to the south it barreled upward into the northeast. bringing that hurricane-strength blizzard to life. what a messy december from one end of the country to the next. abc s david muir reporting there. this blizzard is going down in history as one of the worst ever. accuweather meteorologist ava dinges is looking at the records. good morning, ava. good morning, rob and mike. cleanup definitely continues in