congratulations. had a good run this past year and back in the playoffs. back in the playoffs, after beating atlanta, those dirty birds last night, which i wore my fleur-de-lis tie, black and gold tie, feeling good. we ll see what the other big sports stories of the year were coming up in a few minutes. good morning, i m rob nelson. i m mike marusarz. vinita nair is off this morning. the northeast is still struggling after a knockout punch from the blizzard of 2010. you can see why. snow totals range anywhere from three feet in rahway, new jersey, to two feet in brooklyn, and a foot in philadelphia. the storm has left thousands of travelers stuck in airports across the country. here s sharyn alfonsi. reporter: they re calling it the snow-nado. waist-high drifts. weird bouts of lightning. and blinding 70-mile-an-hour wind gusts. sometimes you can see 15 feet in front of you, sometimes 30, then sometimes nothing. reporter: so much snow it brought the east coast to an eerie