atlanta s only had an inch, 2 1/2 below the average. in the northeast, boston half the rain. same for new york, same for philadelphia. that s going to looks like continue as we go throughout the today and december, by the way. much warmer than usual across the lower 48. and little if any travel impact. when bill says science, i black out. we re going to do private tutoring. i don t think it s going to help much. president trump goes ahead as the federal reserve gets drilled. and the other stories driving your business news. we ll be right back. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. (clapping) and the united states postal service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country.
the airport. all the flights are full. yesterday more than 6,000 flights were canceled between philadelphia, new york and boston impacting about half a million travelers. so think about that, every flight here in this area canceled yesterday. that means all those people that were supposed to fly yesterday are now being squeezed on a plane to people who are supposed to fly today. there just aren t enough seats. so they expect the travel impact to linger into at least thursday as the airlines work to get things back on track. and also, many of the planes aren t here yet so flying in the planes this morning from the other regions and then they will resume departures later in the morning. so this is going to take a while to climb out from this, cal. nbc s blake mccoy from an empty and cold-looking times square. louis? time now for business as the eyes of the financial will focus on the fed rate today. the general consensus is that the economy is strong enough to handle another interest
force overseas. he ll do it if necessary, but he s going to have a high standard. okay. wolf blitzer, we ll see you on at 5:00 eastern. a show called the situation room. if you re in the situation room, am i technically in it right now? whatever room i m in there s a situation. wolf blitzer, ladies and gentlemen. we ll see you in a couple hours. thank you so much. still ahead, we have to take you back to philadelphia and let you know the latest on that train derailment the travel impact it s having specifically in this very busy northeastern corridor, what travelers need to expect over the course of the weekend. we re also keeping a close eye on what s been happening, this breaking story out of the white house. a man has been detained just in the last hour accused of trying to fly a drone over the white house fence. he was not successful. he has been detained. new information there. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin.
over. reporter: and this is just one of the six area hospitals that is treating people. among all of the hospitals in this city who took some of the passengers we know that 35 people city wide remain hospitalized. brooke? sunlen thank you. jason carroll, thank you. erin mclayoff lyuf mclaughlin thank you as well. i want to stay on this story out of philadelphia. i want to look at the travel impact this is having across the northeast corridor and a look at what travelers need to expect. also, moments ago jeb bush takes another crack at the question was the iraq war a mistake? his answer, straight ahead. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me and you re talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic. this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective.
washington, d.c. it did warm up but the snow has already fallen. you get a break now and probably more snow at the tail end of the snow but don t expect a lot more accumulating snow in d.c. throughout the day today. further north the snow is hard from baltimore to philly and snowing and 38 degrees and snowing in new york city and heavy snow over the top of philly and trenton soon and then new york city. snow totals in the south were impressive. a lot of this has already fallen but the roanoke area about 12 to 18 inches. out there the western portions of west virginia especially. i mentioned we have about 6 inches in d.c. by the time we are said and done 8 to 12 and i m thinking 8 to 12 for new york city. new york get up to 6 to 8 inches by 10:00 a.m. this morning and only an inch or two right now. another batch will come later. the bull s-eye around hartford to huge travel impact. a lot of people driven in the new york city area the last couple of storms but you haven t