eric, if i had known you were interested. dana: i have a question to people who are critical. because the storm shifted and didn t hit d.c. and philly and new york as they thought, there s criticism of the national weather service. i don t think it s warranted but what do you think? i don t think so at all. you can t tell exactly where weather is going to go. we talk about hurricanes. they were originally predicting this be 50 miles off coast. if it had been 50 miles off coast, they warm water from the atlantic wouldn t have come into boston and new york and philadelphia. it would have been in the mid-20s instead of the low 30s. this freezing rain would ve been snow. we would ve had to inches in boston, new york, two feet in boston, two feet in new york just like they projected. instead it moves 40 miles of the west so they got it inland. they can t be perfect. they were close. bob: people upset when they
we re looking at travelers stranded not only in the northeast, but other places, and it s not happening. some are waiting out the storm at washington, d.c. s reagan airport. although it didn t hit d.c. directly, it s producing traffic headaches. let s show you the map that shows you the snow across nearly the entire part of the country. almost everywhere except our nation s capitol. a city buried so severely last year a lot of people called it snow-maggedon. we were just talking about that. hampton pearson is live at reagan national. it looks empty now. reporter: we ve had spurts of activity here. early this morning a first wave of stranded and or rebooked travelers got out of here. a lot of those were tied to delta cancellations and