daughter as well, who s helping her mom with his initiative. their goal is to try to get 20% of corporate boards, for women, to be 20% of the makeup of the corporate boards by the year 2020. we well, it seems like that seems easy. but they re at 11% right now. and i love her quote, you can do it all, just not at the same time. i heard somebody say you can t actually have it all, you actually have to make a choice of which direction you want to go. she s found a balance. coming up, we re going to stick with this weather. atlanta, the south some of the places down there, as you know, not used to the snow. we don t know what to do. i didn t even have snow boots. no. and there s really no match against ice. if there s ice on the roads there s not. nothing you can do about that. the problem is, the temperatures aren t going up enough to melt the ice. if it freezes, when is it going
so when you said yesterday there was like a skating rink we re not kidding. we did see a little melting. even this morning with temperatures in the 20s don t have my skates on. did the video stop? i don t have my skates on but it s still kind of slick here. that s for sure. rob, those are some fancy boots you have on there. reporter: yeah, these are my training skates. my double-bladers. your friends t.j. holmes, was forced to go out and buy himself some boots yesterday. rob knows on average reporter: you finally do that? you know, rob, we only get about four inches you all said annually snow in atlanta. that s home for me. reporter: if that. i had no reason to have snow boots. but yesterday they all sent me out took him all day. took a while. but i m good to go. reporter: be prepared. embrace the cold. embrace the winter weather. embrace. not there yet but working on it, rob. this morning s top stories just minutes away.
with the very latest. and there s also a lot happening as we prepare to ring in the new year all over the world people have found their own unique ways to celebrate. so, what do you have planned for tonight? nancy is a social commentator and she s joining us. all right, nancy, celebrations around the world, this is always one of my favorite things to see all the fireworks from all around the world p. how are you celebrating? it sounds really exciting. i plan to put on my bathrobe and walk half a block to my neigh r neighbor s house and i know it sounds really wild. i always wanted to have the kind of life where all my close friends live within walking distance so that on new year s eve i could just sort of walk around and come home. sounds very exciting. are you going to have to put on snow boots with your robe? it s a look i have really come to love. it s the snow boots, the robe and sometimes a coat over it. the sloshing through the snow in
this was one big storms and airlines and airports aren t staffed like they used to be. if you want them to hire more people, expect higher ticket fares. get out before the blizzard, i learned that. and check flightview.com. they ll give you the truth about your flight so you don t book a flight that has already been canceled. or bring an extra pair of board shorts. you were in florida. snow boots, a tank, flip-flops. enjoy yourself why you can. thanks a lot, tom. an investigation is under way into the chairlift accident that sent skiers plunging 30 feet into the snow in maine. eight people, including three children, are hospitalized this morning after the mishap. today show spoke exclusively with two of the victims that escaped serious injury. we just dropped and we just saw the ground coming closer and closer to us. i don t think it really occurred to us what was going on. it was very scary, but we re very grateful that we were not
and in the past couple of days, a lot of the computer models had the storm off to the west. we thought that eastern long island, massachusetts would get clipped with the system. the storm will be closer to shore, impacting washington, some blustery winds, we may look at a white-out condition. we are monitoring this. when you talk about a noreaster, 20 miles, 50 miles closer to shore can make a difference. we will give you updates as we get them. be prepared, for those of you traveling, i would say, leave early on sunday, it will get worse sunday night into monday morning. we are looking at a nice christmas day. the day after will be rough. pack the snow boots if you are going to be traveling to the northeast.