have been like two weeks ago. full of cars and roadways are full of cars and it s quite a difference when you look at the roadways now and you see that there is a handful of people. we pulled over to the side of the road so we can give you the best picture. i just watched a guy slipping and siding down the interstate as we are sitting here and cleaning off the wind shield wipers and moving further along down the road. this must have been incredibly treacherous and easy to drive on when you are one of the few cars on the roadway. s on the a good sign there not people out and about today. ed, i want to go to ted meyers keeping an eye on the flights. in atlanta. how much worse could this get? i don t think we will get 15 to 20 flights in or out of the city today. 69% over 800 flights in and another 800 flights out that
0 opinioni i continuing yesterday and they reached a verdict of guilty on 20 of 21 counts guilty of taking bribes. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. in the situation room, newsroom continues right now with don lemon. wolf, thank you very much. i m don lemon. live from washington, thank you so much for joining us. big news happening here. we will start at the white house today. president obama is about to sign an order to raise the minimum wage paid to federal contract workers. you remember during the state of the union, the president promised. he said i have a pin and i have a phone and i m going to use it. meaning he s going to use that pen to raise the minimum wage from $7.75 an hour to $10.10 an hour. the room getting ready for the president. he will be out at any moment to discuss that. talk about it with our analyst gloria borger. first we are going to get to the weather. millions of southerners, especially georgia and the carolinas, crippling ice storm groundin
reporter: we met sandy at this massachusetts sheriff s office where six k-9s train every day, jumping hurdles, running through tunnels wearing those vests. sandy started 13 years ago and donations have poured in big and small. recently allison henry donated her birthday money, enough to vest her local k-9 officer named riker. so far, no k-9 has been turned away. in fact, more than 450 dogs have gotten the body armor in 37 states. officer meyers dog will get his in weeks. what is it about a k-9? i think i see the bond when i look at each of these officers with their dog and i feel like i m doing what i am meant to do. reporter: committing to her passion to protect k-9s. abc news, bristol county, massachusetts. this is one of those things where you think, i m an animal lover and always wanted to donate but i m tired of donating to the aspca or i don t know where the money is going. this is the kind of foundation where you know exactly where the money is going. it makes dollar
line, the first on the scene. the most dangerous confrontations. saint paul police k-9 is dead. the k-9 officer died shot and killed the dog. reporter: just last month, the k-9 from sacramento county shot in the chest while chasing a robbery suspect. he survived. it s a headline that officer ed meyers hears all too often. my partner looks out for me. i look out for my partner. reporter: partners that do their job without a crucial life-saving tool, a bulletproof vest. that s where sandy marcel comes in. custom-fitted k-9 vests cost $950. too expensive for most police departments. so sandy, a lifelong animal lover, started vested interest s in k-9s working tirelessly from home to raise the money. the dog goes in first. he s a first responder and deserves to have a vest just like his human partners.
the storm chasers were in. as you can see, it is absolutely crushed. many of the nine victims were in their cars when the cornados hit. they heard sirens on friday night, and then they tried to get away, but they ended up stuck in their cars in traffic right in the path of tornadoes. ted meyers is live for us in el reno, oklahoma, at the moment. this storm may have surprised people even used to tornadoes because it took such a big turn or series of turns, yeah? a series of turns and typically a big storm, a big tornado like this won t do that. it will continue on its path straight ahead, but at the beginning part, think about a top that hasn t started to spin yet, doesn t have good gyro, it will wobble one way and another. that s what it did. here s a graphic, the left side of the screen, the left part, the initial touchdown, tracking to the southeast, also tracking to our south where we were here in el reno looking at it, and