flights for form these numbers will continue to grow, unfortunately. you say that the list would be shorter for those not impacted. once you flick over that first domino, the plane supposed to leave, say, laguardia, grounded because of the weather headed to orlando, isn t going to be there, although the weather in orlando is fine. this is impacting most of the country? exactly right. doesn t necessarily mean how the weather is in your area but how it affects where it s going and the airplane nep. they have to anti-ice because of precip precipitation. chicago, o hare, they re as ready as they can be a new de-icing facility the size of 17 football fields, but still, it s so hard to keep up with that, and that anti-ice and de-ice of
pop his collar like a frat boy back in the day. steve: he probably did it on purpose did i not. i m in a hurry the cardinal is coming. rachel: it s going to feel a lot like christmas because there is a winter storm coming. unfortunately it s going to be a big one. it s a fox weather alert. a holiday travel nightmare is unfolding on the west coast right now. over 300 flights have been cab said or delayed because of heavy snow. high winds, terrible weather, in the pacific northwest. particularly seattle. brian: imagine being in an airport where you have to work in that and go outside and get the luggage out. steve: de-ice. brian: 70 million americans could face life-threatening low temperatures as powerful winter storm sweeps across the northern u.s. rachel: fox weather correspondent robert ray joins us from chicago with the latest. robert? good morning from downtown chicago. you see the magnificent mile here.
to work with low visibility so it would be possible i suspect, once you found it, to send divers down. so we have these parallel efforts that are happening right now, first, of course is search for the plane for more victims and then there s still the ongoing investigation even without the black boxes into what kind of clues are out there that may have told the story of what happened to the plane. miles, today one theory came out in a 14-page report that perhaps there was an icing issue that investigators say their analysis shows there might have been a lot of ice in the clouds when flight 8501 passed through and that impacted the plane s engines. i guess i ve always thought as a traveller, you know, that planes are able to at least control a little bit of that they have the systems to be able to de-ice de-ice, in a sense, enroute encase they encounter bad weather. help me understand what may have contributed here been the factors in which if this de-icing theory is true.
clears officials warn it could be days before the airports are up and running, and rich is live at reagan national airport. there are none of those loaded. how is it otherwise? there aren t any here. i ve been looking. here s the thing here. passengers keep showing up and they re not going anywhere because the runways are closed. possibly they could open this afternoon. they re clearing the taxiways right now. the only runway open in the d.c. area, at dulles, and it s only one runway. they say the airlines have moved some of their planes out so they wouldn t be stuck here and could use them in the rest of the done country. passengers are frustrate. we are on the plane, getting ready to de-ice, and then day i they told everybody get off the