shooting. specific or not to one individual, there has been a shooting on purdue university and one person is dead. brooke? okay, jean casarez, if you get more information, let us know, thank you. and we have live coverage from every angle of this storm system moving across the country s eastern corridor. zain asher out and about in new york. ted rowlands standing by in chicago. renee marsh inside reagan national in the washington, d.c. area. and jennifer grey here watching the storm system in studio 7. but zain asher, let s begin with you. the snow was really coming down last hour. that appears to be the same. reporter: hey, brooke. it s starting to get really thick and it s coming down faster and faster. but it s expected to get really nasty in about an hour from now. so as the day progresses, we re expecting the snow to get heavy. i m just going to step aside so
renee marsh inside reagan national. renee, how many cancellations, how many delays are you seeing? reporter: if you re traveling, you don t want to hear this number. it s inching towards 3,000 at this hour. but to put this all in perspective on an average day, we see about 200 flight cancellations. so we are well above that. the airports that are really being hit the hardest, we re talking about philadelphia, new york area, where we just saw zain. also the d.c. area airports, they re getting hit as well. i can tell you that there s already some accumulation on the tarmac here at dca. we went down into their operations center a short time ago where they are paying attention to everything. we re talking about the temperature. we re talking about what is the temperature of the ground at this point. they re looking at every single detail, because if they need to, they need to get out there and start treating the runways. take a listen to some of the folks who are working 24/7 in the oper