patti ann? patti ann: greg burke, streaming live from rome, thank you. rick: snow and sleet up and down the east coast but those aren t the only worries, major flooding also a big concern. what the storm is doing in one town in massachusetts. plus. christmas is over. but the shopping season is not. retailers rolling out special deals and bargains, will the weather keep folks at home and away from the malls? we ll talk about it, coming up. i m hugh jidette. as president, i promise your taxes will help build roads, bridges and schools. oh not here, overseas. i ll keep using your taxes to pay over one hundred billion dollars a year in interest to foreign lends, helping their economy. hurting ours.
everything, almost about what the president s strategy for afghanistan and the rest of the world and the pentagon are. patti ann: all right, chris stirewalt, thank you so much for joining us. you bet, you bet! patti ann: you can get powered up every day with criteria stair walt s power play, check it out at fox news.com,/sehq. rick: a potential risk in the skies, planes flying over the u.s., and they could be carrying dangerous cargo, how are they flying under the radar? are we checking them out and the east coast slowly recovering from the massive winter storm and good news for travellers, harris, what is the latest. reporter: they were going to move 44.3 million travellers yesterday and started shutting down the major airports here on the east coast, including j.f.k., la guardia and newark, get this. by 6:00 p.m. eastern today, the faa says, j.f.k. will be open for business. they are already really busy with tons of people waiting to get on those flights, let s hope
we re seeing the biggest impact, still in long island, and la guardia. patti ann: brad hawkins with southwest, thank you. you bet. rick: as they ve talked about the storm forcing the nfl to postpone last night s eagles game at lincoln financial field in south philly. the league citing concerns for the safety of fans, and, workers at the stadium, getting to and from the game and the game now rescheduled, between the eagles an vikings and will be played, tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., joining us on the phone, governor ed rendell, governor, i heard on the television last night that you were upset the game was postponed and you are still governor, didn t you have the juice to get the game going. absolutely not, i don t know if you know, i have done since i have been mayor, pre- and post-game eagles telecast on comcast. so i go about this as a sports commentator and i think it is ridiculous. do you remember the line at the baseball movie, the league of their own, with tom hanks, and he says
schedules, and react dating themselves on their web site. but, there are some seats out there, at this time, you know, the winters holiday, patti ann is spread out over a two week period and you don t have the ebbs and flows you used to and there is strong travel demand now throughout the two week winter holiday. patti ann: how would you describe the impact that the storm is having on southwest? does it will it hurt your airline. fortunately, for us, our meteorology department here in house was able to accurately forecast the track of the storm, and, proactively cancel the flights, in the cities at the times when the snow would be the heaviest, so, now, like all your live shots are showing, we are also digging out, from the inches and the feet of snow in these stations, across the northeast, so, for us, the northeast really is beginning to reopen now, as a mid of midday today after the flights didn t spend the night overnight and, they didn t want to be tracked there and passenge
extreme weather center, rick. rick: full reports on happening now and elizabeth tops the hour and doug, we ll get to you in 20 minutes and maria, you are warm in the studio and we ll talk about at the bottom of the hour. patti ann: you don t have to be in the path of the blizzard to get stuck at the airport, weather delays on the east coast are felt at airports near and far. elizabeth is still in heartsville jackson atlanta international airport and the skies are sunny but passengers are still stuck? they are, the skies are sunny and don t let it deceive you, what we are seeing is a ripple effect here at the world s busiest airport and the storm you see, up north, past through atlanta, this weekend, saturday and sunday and flights are cancelled and the passengers are stuck and many saying they cannot get out until tomorrow afternoon. and, now we spoke with the airlines and they are doing all they can to accommodate the passengers and a lot of people who missed flights are on stand-