treating disease. they re usually just allowing you to function better usually. if you can get by without them get by without them if you re high risk for heart disease. you see patients all the time who say, doc, i would rather not take medications. i don t like taking medications. there is probably wisdom there when you don t need them. you think about the reasons why, very simple reasons why you might take a pain-killer. you hear things about, for example, tylenol. one wonders if there are any safe pain-killers out there, dr. mckerry. tylenol is separate from this. it s considered an all tefrtiveternative to the drugs in this report. it s got its own problems. there is probably no safe benign medication out there. aspirin is in this family and that s what we use to treat heart attacks. a reminder don t take it if you don t need it. maybe a nice warm cup of tea might help as well.
monday for the entire state. we re talking about dangerously cold weather coming starting sunday night into morning with a little bit of break tomorrow. so i think people here and around the midwest are going to be out tomorrow doing everything and huddled up on monday. sitting by the fire with a nice warm cup of coffee. yeah, today is a good day to run the errands before the real chill hits. tell us about o hare real quick. are the planes moving? yeah, getting much better. midway had a stop going on with southwest airline this morning. that has stopped. they re back flying at midway, as well. o hare has picked up on the backlog. much better situation today than it was yesterday at both airports here in chicago. last two days, more than 4,000 flights have been canceled because of the storm. many highways closed because of the blizzard conditions wreaking havoc on a lot of people trying to get around. rene, what does it look like from washington.