region. in the northeast, itally still snowing. that it s still snowing. that might make for weather troubles. watch for heavy snow, especially areas in red today. take it easy on the roads. not only are we looking at the snow, but we re looking at windy conditions, as well. we ll see substantial snow in the great lakes. the winds will be strong. even where it s not snowing. wind advisories posted through the mid-atlantic to the northeast. snow from idaho through the midsection. then sunny and cold. a cold one in the south. look for highs in the 40s in tennessee and georgia. snow will be heavy for areas of wyoming back toward montana, and bitter cold temperatures. that s the main thing to note. an arctic blast will stick around from christmas through 2017. thanks. as families wake up this christmas morning, there was last-minute scrambling going on, especially if you did shopping on line. shippers were working overtime to make sure your gifts made it to the tree in time.
is to find the black boxes. the pilot said he was having some weather troubles wanted to climb above it. he did not immediately get approval to do that should he have done it on his own? i don t think so. the thunderstorm is going to go much higher than the airplane could climb. if he is trying to climb up over the thunderstorms he is not make think right decision. the turn is a correct maneuver to get away from thunderstorms but i don t think the climb would have made any difference. we talk about air france 447 in which their pitot tube iced over the auto pilot shut off. the pilots flew a perfectly good working airplane other than the pete to tube in a stall attitude down to the surface of the ocean. that happened at night. they weren t aware of their southernings, couldn t tell where the horizon was didn t think their computers were giving them good information. there would have been some daylight in malaysia in this
also, if you tried to fly last month, there s a good chance you hit weather troubles. is it the worst time to fly in years? we re crunching the numbers and will take a look for you.
when you re doing things for safety reasons, not only of our people and our assets but inevitably our customers, i think we re doing them the best service possible, no matter how hard the short term pain is. reporter: cancellations impacted 150,000 passengers. jet blie predicts the backlog could take another day to work through. i got the last seat, first flight out. reporter: almost every major airline was impacted by the polar vortex, but jetblue beared the brunt. the vast majority of their flights from the northeast, most from jfk, they were more affected. reporter: jetblue has a history of weather troubles. in a 2007 storm, passengers sat for eight hours on the tarmac in
sponsors included 20,000 border security agents and promszed to finish the 700 mile fence. that lured republican senators to the yes column. maybe some more would have voted yes, if they were not stuck on planes with weather troubles. the reality is, three or four more votes probably wouldn t have changed the real split inside the gop on whether or not any kind of path to citizenship should be voted on before they first take the issue of border security off the table. it s something i talked about with steve king, a congressman from iowa. republicans voted for it because it s a promise of border security. it s barely a fig leaf. republicans on the house side are going to understand this, we don t want to grant a