struggling to find salt. new york governor cuomo put out a statement this week talking about the snow problem and said new york state will be giving snow to those towns in the long island area to help them shore up the snalt they need. it s not just the northeast as molly was reporting. old man winter putting a big chill in the economy nationwide. to sandra smith. neil, while some 47,000 flights have been canceled so far this year and that s this is only the first week in february, more cancellations today after 39,000 canceled flights in january. that was the most ever for any month since october 2012 and ta was when hooushg sandy pummeled the east coast. mall closures, five major malls in new jersey opened a rare two hours late as workers struggled to make it in op time. banks had to alter their hours. capital one bank opened late for
hampshire and into maine where you are without power and parts of michigan getting lake-effect snow. that snow problem is the only real problem we re dealing with as far as travel. a lot of people traveling back today. people without power still struggling unfortunately. a look at sports. serena williams made the associated press female athlete of the year. williams compiled a 34 match winning streak and raised her grand slam championship to 17. this year she earned $12 million in prize money, a record for women s tennis, the third a.p. award for williams. you talk about a fashion faux pas, even going into the nba, if you watched any nba games yesterday you probably noticed those hideous sleeved jerseys worn by players foregoing the traditional tank top
factors? i think, to be honest, i think the georgian team itself has been incredible with regard to this. the president of georgia said the support that they received from all the sorry all the athletes and the ioc and everyone was just phenomenal. they felt very supported. we were all very pleased that they decided to stay in the games and to give it their best. i think, frankly, that s what what everyone would want, everyone would expect. we ve been able to do that. we re now on to the games. medals are being given out. the joy of the sport is coming, i think, to the fore. in vancouver over the last couple of days, i can t remember a time in my lifetime when there has been as much enthusiasm, as much energy, as much happening in the downtown as happened over the last weekend. the other thing that struck me was how, or what a good job, i guess i should say, the organizers have done coping with the snow problem. can you just share a little bit a couple of stories with
how much money are they spending up there? well, they re spending $5.6 billion. they built a new road that goes from vancouver to whistler. they have the convention center expansion, a new light rail line. the infrastructure is a legacy in vancouver no matter what. 12 1/2 inches of snow here in dallas. you said you re putting snow in your suitcase? i put the snow in my suitcase. i m going to bring it up to whistler, the ski resort up there, see what we can do to solve the snow problem. that s my ingenious solution to this. weather man i m not. is the weather cooperating or is it still the best man-made snow ever? yeah. but see the vancouver olympic committee has thought about every contingency. they re going to get by with that. there is a lot of precipitation. i guess jacqui jeras and others can talk about this but the weather s thrown on its head. 12 1/2 inches down here and no
snowstorm in washington, d.c. without missing the leadership, willie geist, of marion barry, who phoned from jamaica and said that god made the snow, god can make the snow away. it was jamaica. dude, what could he do down there? tickets were nonrefundable too. he was probably having a snowstorm of his own in jamaica at the same time. stop. you guys could use some snow in vancouver, right? yeah. nothing on the ground. 40 degrees or so during the day. are you looking at pictures of dump trucks trucking in snow and doing it in by helicopter to cyprus mountain. up on the big mountain, on whistler, plenty of snow falling right now. olympic organizers say despite all of the national consternation, over the snow problem, it s not a problem at