department, maybe not as nice as the cnn weather center. their own weather forecasters and they re monitoring the weather in detail, jim, as you were saying there s potential for ice. planes coming in with ice on the wings that had to be de-iced. just minor de-icing at this point, not large scale that you would see in i an large snowstorm. it does lead to some delays but we ll manage through it. on this map over here, it s called a taxi monitor. there are no planes up there. which is a good thing. that means you re sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off. and you know, you re sitting on the tarmac and think nobody cares, they do care here, doing everything they can to get you up in the air. it is fascinating all the behind the scenes work that goes on whether it s crew scheduling, desizing, getting planes to where they want to be. the headline i guess, jim, is that so far so good today. the weather was not as bad as they predicted.
secured position or have moved out from the aircraft as you pointed out before sitting on the tarmac waiting for permission to get to their gates. andrea. kristen welker at the white house has information. kristen. andrea, i can tell you president obama was briefed on this shooting just a few moments a ago. we expect the white house to put out a statement shortly. typically he s briefed by his white house security monitor lisa monaco. jay carney will begin his briefing shortly. i anticipate he will get questions about the shooting. as you know, the president has been in office during a number of shootings. what typically happens, he gets briefed, updated through the the day as situations like this evolve. the latest from the white house is the president has been briefed. no reaction at this point in time. we anticipate we ll be getting more reaction from the white
the cnn weather center. he joins us now. what s going on, chad? let me explain what ground stop means to the lay person out there that doesn t get this. this means that if you re on an airplane and you re wanting to fly to laguardia and you re somewhere around the new york city metro area, your plane is going to sit there on the tarmac waiting for this ground stop to leave. not everywhere, planes can still leave from far away destinations like l.a. and phoenix, those places, but the close destinations have to hold, they have to sit there and not try to get in the air because they don t want them spinning around. baltimore, you see all the ground stops. let me get to the delays, because this is what s really put you at unease. 45 minutes, bwi. laguardia, two hours. newark, 90 minutes. philadelphia, one hour. d.c.a., 90 minutes. there s one right here, ground delays in boston at an hour. newark, jfk at three hours and 25 minutes right now. and the storms aren t even to new york city ye
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he was bailed out almost immediately. they continued an investigation. what police discovered was disturbing. you mentioned the suicide of his son, his 14-year-old son which occurred back in march and followed some relatively minor disciplinary action at the school. following that suicide police say it really set off the father and changed things. they discovered these e-mails that he sent to himself an his wife that describes some very, very disturbing plots at the high school. he appeared to be very serious about all this. he was clearly starting fires and working on burning the school down. that was the beginning of his threat. he said he was going to, in his e-mails to his wife, he indicated he wanted to acquire some firearms and go to the school and just do a great deal of violence at the school including sexual assaults and random violents against the kids. he s being held without bail. we have reached out to his attorney. he has not returned our calls. i want to po