on. they get the edge of the story. they understand the headlines, they understand bill taylor to a certain degree. they don t read the 15-page opening statement. but they know. and to for them to look at joe biden, you get the increasing conversation with people and at the end of the conversation they basically just want this thing calmed down. yeah. they want someone who will calm the situation down, get it back to a state of semi normalcy, if we can ever get back to a state of semi normalcy. and bide zen thn does that for o many people. mika just nailed it, when you talk to people about elizabeth warren, they like her plan. she has a plan for everything. but they inevitably end up saying how much is all of this going to cost in the public education aspect? the medicare for all aspect, how much is it going to cost? she has no answer yet. all right. we ll continue this conversation.
rochester and we are stuck here. all right. nearly 16,000 flights were canceled because of sandy. more than 6,000 just today alone and there are still some flights that have been canceled already for tomorrow. nbc s tom costello joins us live from reagan national airport. tom, when do we expect things to return to semi-normalcy. i know this ripple effect is big. reporter: it really depends on the airport. here at washington reagan airport, you can see it is still really quiet and we are just now on the status board starting to show half a dozen flights and that s it. half a dozen flights where they are looking at flights coming in this afternoon and starting to go out. it is a small trickle. keep in mind the washington airports were not affected by the storm. yes, we saw the airlines cancel their flights in and out of here, but there s no damage, not like we had in new york city s airports. philadelphia, jfk, newark and all of the airports up and down the east coast in that parti