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Regular day. but again, this catch-up going to take a long time for the airlines to fill whatever empty seats they can find to get people to their destinations. clayton, you know how rare empty seats are on planes these days. >> thats right. crowded there. doug live for us this morning in reagan international airport, thanks so much. coming up here on the show, is "winters tale" the perfect valentines day movie? kevin mccarthy has his review. on this date in 1859, oregon became the 33rd stat...

Deal with the stranded motorists. >> i think maybe folks can understand when you didnt anticipate it. i dont think people are going to accept and i dont think you expect them to, we were caught off guard. youve got students stuck in schools. >> what im trying to say is were trying to play catchup. >> i understand that. do you need more resources? birmingham, alabama, not a place we talk about winter weather like this. is it a shortage of resources? >> we basically have what they call sand trucks...

Up the palate of "saturday night live." >> lets talk about that. rachel, you and i are facebook friends. after the show you wrote, this felt like a big catch-up, leap forward for an american media institution. tell me why. >> snl reflects the reality and the current popular culture. and so when that is reflected largely through the views of a mostly white writers room and mostly white cast without diversity across gender and race and experience, then youre going to have something much more narro...

Of 2014 is legendary attorney and harvard law professor, alan dershowitz. we are catching him in miami. professor, thanks for joining us. its clear were in a whole new world when laws about drones are making it into the books. >> well, thats absolutely right. the law is desperately trying to stay ahead of technology. in my book "taking the stand" i predict that science will triumph over law, that technology will always prevail over law, that the law will always be playing catch-up. this time, th...

>> they should be confused. the federal government still takes the position technically that youre violating federal law if youre complying with the state law. obama administration i believe recently has taken a turn on its enforcement to drug enforcement. the pardons are only a handful. the statutory change for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. the beginning of the end of the, quote, war against drugs, particularly recreational drugs as opposed to krim criminogenic drugs. the federal government...

Ups and fed-ex is playing catch- up. what are they trying to do? >> ups is going to offer $20 gift cards and refunds to customers who failed to arrive. the refunds will cover shipping charges. ups shutdown a statement on christmas saying it experienced heavy holiday volume and the volume of air packages exceeded the delivery system. fed-ex said they were sorry for the it lays. ups shipped more than 132 million packages during its peak the seven days before christmas. ups shattered their records ...

That the time is ticking right now. deadline, kyra, to sign up for health care to ensure you get it by january 1st is tonight at midnight. >> lets be transparent. theyre still playing catch-up in a big way to get to this goal. very lofty goal. its not an arbitrary goal. one that could decide whether obamacare gets off the ground. what do they do next? >> well, certainly youre going to continue to see the president -- and he has enlisted the first lady out there trying to advocate for people to g...

York area, boston will see rain, snow, very high winds in boston. in florida, showers and storms start to push into that area as we go through the afternoon. that could slow you down. also detroit could see low clouds and snow showers later this afternoon. i was mentioning the winds. look at this. this is 11:00 this morning. could see gusts of 45, 29 in boston, 30 in new york and washington. as we go through the afternoon, they should relax just a little bit. so those airlines will be playing ca...

Available, we all remember a few weeks ago when former virginia gubernatorial candidate creigh deeds son attacked him, then shot himself, his son having been turned away from a mental health facility. virginia governor bob mcdonnell today announcing some new mental health initiatives in the commonwealth of virginia. his successor applauding the efforts. this is really where a lot of the real change is going to happen, right, at the state and local level. what can you expect to see, what are yo...

The gemini program was specifically to show that we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon, you had to have a capability of two weeks in space. you had to be able to rendezvous. you had to be able to -- do e.v.a., get outside the spacecraft in a space suit, and you had to have a guided re-entry. we practiced all of those missions in gemini. so gemini was an extremely important part of the lunar program. >> on june 3rd, 1965, on gemini iv, astronaut edward white became the...