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The spirit of the american athletes. >> go usa! >> reporter: and back here at home fans felt it, too. they met around tv sets to see the competitors they'll be watching in the days to come. in waukesha, wisconsin, family of nick pearson gathered to watch the second time owe limpon. >> just proud, bursting at the seams. >> reporter: what do the games mean to the average american? >> i've been waiting to watch the last two months. >> apolo ohno so cute and skates really fast. >> reporter: for many these games couldn't come at a better time, a distraction for some still digging out from a record ...

Tens of thousands of people have no power right now, hundreds of planes have been grounded, schools are closed, and this thing is just getting started. aide ran live for us in fort worth, what's the situation there, adrian? >> john, we had that record amount of snow, we want to show you that first up. we're standing just off an expressway here, and you can see how deep it is, easily running midway up to my shins here. this specific area we know we're dealing with 11 inches or so, and now we're dealing with the consequences of that record snowfall. we've been standing by throughout the morning,...

On the side streets. and to washington, d.c. where the snow is still coming. and the weather loop shows that this storm is moving to the east and should be out of everyone's way by early in the morning but not before a drop of record snowfall. continuing coverage throughout the night.

From other states and doing our very best to punch through and get our people out of this and back to normal as quickly as we can. >> governor, we couldn't help but notice in the sound bite you appeared a little bit frustrated with people complaining about their roads. explain your level of frustration, if you will, with some people in your view being unreasonable with expectations in the record snowfall. >> well, again, this was such a record snowfall. most of us are accustomed to being able to call our county council people, city council people and get our roads scraped down to the pavement....

Major blizzard. take your pick, if you live in the northeast, they all apply. if you live or around the nation's capital, you were living last weekend's nightmare. record snowfall for the second time in a week. tom foreman joins me from the thick of it. >> reporter: anderson, the capital has never really seen any weather like this in the winter in recorded history. and the result has been staggering. this is the third day in which the federal government has been shut down by this. that's not a cheap prospect. one official estimates it is costing $100 million every day in lost productivity. but...