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
well, this post-christmas blizzard is the latest in a wild string of weather event this is year. in february we saw the so-called snow-maggedon in the d.c. area. during a three-day period in april there was an outbreak of hundreds of reported tornadoes in colorado and north carolina. in just the last week, heavy rain caused massive flooding in california. it triggered mud slides that destroyed homes. you have some people looking at the series of events and wondering if climate change is to blame. with me is a doctor from the pew center on global climate change. you look at tennessee and the wicked flooding they had there. this has been or the global warming system.
be in news or law enforcement or emergency services. one man in news is studio b s shepherd smith. you have to brave the snow as well. you would think it never snowed before. i have a theory on this. i think the people of new york city in the tri-state area have been jealous of all the attention d.c. is going. now that we are getting a few flakes we are jumping up and down like it s snow-maggedon. blago will be on today. he has more charges. the former governor illinois is screaming play the tapes. they are not going to play those tapes. we ll get into that with our legal guys. also these fires down in tyler, texas, the authorities have come to a major conclusion in this case and the police chief from the tyler police department will be on with us.
senate and what can be put together through congress. basically, the senate is, i think the numbers i hear, they think they can get a bill that s about $80 billion, this jobs bill. it will be heavy on tax incentives for small business and for some others. the house bill, a little bit larger. i think it was $180 billion if my numbers are correct in my head there. apologies if it s not. and the white house is somewhere in between. they want something a little more robust out of the senate. but there was a lot of optimism, boehner and mcconnell both out here, saying they expect a bipartisan jobs bill to come through. the goal was to get it passed in the senate this week. i think snow-maggedon is holding that back a little bit. problem is president s day weekend. that s why there was such a rush to get it done before president s day. before i let you go, i want to ask steve liesman about what a jobs bill would even do. but we had this notice, this press release from john boehner
and have a kid because you re worried about the study? that would be crazy. thank you. snow maggedon. the mid-atlantic storm is no laughing matter for some of you. a second snowstorm is on the way. i ve been an ameriprise financial advisor for 24 years. 23 years. 21 years. i do really love what i do. i have clients down the block.