low, really the scariest aspect of it is being out in a car because you hear so many times when these things happen there are 50 car pileups. let s get to it. here s the satellite picture, it happened 5:10 to 5:30. there s tehran. what s moving through, this purple, red, orange, the white, that s the clouds, the thunderstorm, and of course all the sand and dust and debris. so technically it s called a haboob. here s the deal. it has to be an aired area. as air is forced down and then this air is forced forward because of this thunderstorm that has a cold front with it. you really have to have very strong winds to boot. that kind of kicks up all the dust and debris and moves it. it s a wall of just brown dust that there s no visibility through. actually, these haboobs can get as high as 10,000 feet in the air. they re 10 to 30 minutes long,
pradaxa side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you or someone you love has afib not caused by a heart valve problem. .ask your doctor about reducing the risk of stroke with pradaxa. severe weather across several states is causing structural damage. car pileups and sent a few hosp. a high school east of nashville, powerful wind gusts blew part of the gymnasium across the parking lot. school officials say their air conditioning unit, which was once on the roof, enough is in the middle of the basketball court. in illinois, state police blame fog and poor visibility for two separate pileups on interstate 57 southwest of chicago. they say the crashes hit nearly a dozen people to the hospital but their injuries are not life-threatening, and here s how one driver described the scene. a couple of semis were
ago. new york city had about a foot of snow, north carolina, abandoned cars are still on the roadway today, and in washington the government telling nonemergency workers to stay home like this government employee in d.c. a lot of people do try to keep working from home and all that, but eventually i think i ve canceled a couple of things today because i needed to come out on the hill with my kids. [laughter] just kick back and enjoy it. martha: you ve got to do that once in a while. jonathan hunt live outside fox news headquarters in new york city. how s it looking today? reporter: well, martha, i know that the head of new york city schools got into trouble when she said this yesterday in the middle of a blizzard, but really here in new york it is a beautiful day today. the temperatures comfortably above freezing, the snow has stopped for now at least. the roads are clear. not so easy a commute for a lot of people in the rest of the northeast, though. take a live look at the pennsy
serious storm. you could see the flags over here just being whipped by the wind. the snow is blowing very dramatically. it hurts your face just to be standing out here in the snow. over here you can see or you can t see interstate 25. normally the speed limit on the interstate is 75 miles per hour. you can see this vehicle goes by us going much slowerer. you can also see on the other side of the interstate vehicles anti-depressanting south at a very slow rate of speed. perhaps 30 miles an hour or so. for the past 20 miles we have seen a succession of accidents. multi car pileups, spinouts, traffic backed up for a half mile or so heading south because of the accidents. we couldn t even pull over to shoot pictures of what happened. it was just too dangerous. a very serious winter-type storm has hit colorado in early spring. we saw probably at least a dozen
we are at a rest stop off interstate 25 between colorado springs and pueblo, colorado. we are in the middle of a serious storm. you could see the flags over here just being whipped by the wind. the snow is blowing very dramatically. it hurts your face just to be standing out here in the snow. over here you can see or you can t see interstate 25. normally the speed limit on the interstate is 75 miles per hour. you can see this vehicle goes by us going much slowerer. you can also see on the other side of the interstate vehicles heading south at a very slow rate of speed. perhaps 30 miles an hour or so. for the past 20 miles we have seen a succession of accidents. multi car pileups, spinouts, traffic backed up for a half mile or so heading south because of the accidents. we couldn t even pull over to shoot pictures of what happened. it was just too dangerous. a very serious winter-type storm has hit colorado in early spring. it s not just colorado impacted by these closures affecting