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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...

We are hearing final words of a doomed pilot moments before it slammed into the ground. two pilots died when the ups cargo jet crash landed in birmingham, alabama, in august. it wept down short of the runway and exploded in flames. see here where the plane went down, the spot the sort of debris field -- it was this short runway to which it was headed because this other runway was closed for maintenance. it's our understanding there were workers on this longer runway and they were just seconds away from getting it finished or minutes from getting the main runway fixed. the shorter runway the de...

Laguardia. the port authority of newark and new jersey which operates all three major airports there, the airports are open, and the runways remain open at the three new york city airports. and they continue to make passes with the snow-clearing equipment to keep the runway open. if the airline wants to send airplane, 473 systemwide cancellations and the airlines are saying no flights coming in or out of the new york area right now. waiting to hear back from delta. this is delta right here. let's see what delta is talking about, they'll check and tell me to be sure whether anything is canceled...

Canceling a lot of flights. >> i chatted with them before the show and i think it's safe to say through this evening, no flights in or out. i think dulles has one runway open, but that doesn't mean that planes are coming and going there. >> doesn't mean a thing. make sure you check. going to be a mess today, probably tomorrow, as well. our reynolds wolf is out there. he's covering weather as always but also doing something else weather related. he got behind a wheel of a car in this mess. >> got behind a wheel of a car. he's taking a driving class in the snow. i'm not so good driving in snow b...

Phases. we're still experiencing extremely high winds here in the upper keys which is surprising, but this storm is just moving very slow. we're all thinking about our families and everyone that evacuated up north that i know that are experiencing it so we're thinking about them as well. but first things first, right. we got to get the airport open enough to get rotary aircraft. once we get rotary aircraft in we can start moving. then we get the front-end loaders and start pushing to get the runway open for c-130 support that can help get us going if we need medical transport, we get aid assis...