here of yazoo city. one family in particular that we met as we arrived here, a couple by the name of robin ashley saxon. they were driving on a road right by here. their family owns this restaurant. there's a restaurant you see here behind me. they were trying to race to get to this restaurant because their family had taken cover in the freezer in this restaurant. but as you'll hear right now, they didn't make it on time. >> i get the sense from what you guys were describing to me you that were right in the middle, it was right on top of you lirlly. >> it was. it was glass, debris flying. when i got out of the car, thinking she was going to get out behind me, i looked back and she didn't even get out of the car. she was so scared. and i was standing against the building and debris was just flying by me, and it was hitting my legs, and glass was flying, and i said -- debris can kill me. i dove back in the car and said come on, we've got to go. we've got to go. >> ashley, what was it like for you? >> it wa

there is just untold damage number in yazoo city. the hometown of our governor, haley barbour that has been obliterated using his words from earlier today, just a large swathe of destruction from the mississippi river all the way to the eastern edge of alabama, all from what seems to be one tornado that they said was three-quarters of a mile wide and possibly an ef-3 with winds up to 150 miles an hour. >> unbelievable. listen, we know it hit a big part of your state, as you said, three-quarters of a mile wide. there are some reports that said it was up to a mile wide. so that's incredible damage, tough economic times for not only cities but states as well. what about your resources there. >> we, thankfully, prepare for these kind of things, we keep that set aside. we have all the state agencies right now working together to provide resources to all these communities that have been hit, everything from the red cross, the salvation army to our department of transportation, public safety, department of health, all of these resources are

a live tower cam pictures from yazoo city. from yazoo city. that's a live tower cam picture. look at the devastation there. that's only a part of it. two of the victims we've told you from the nine people who have died, children. and you need to be on alert at this hour, if you're in alabama, kentucky or tennessee. already there are 43 unconfirmed reports of tornados from northern missouri, through mississippi, perhaps the most destructive one hit yazoo city, mississippi. you just saw live pictures from there. it was before the storm cell traveled across the state and then into alabama. the tornado that blasted through there was almost a mile wide. the yazoo city fire chief says 20 to 30 homes now destroyed there and he believes there are more people, that people were inside of those homes. search-and-rescue efforts underway at this hour. over all 12 counties are reporting injuries that's according to the mississippi emergency management. this situation, as you heard from jacqui jeras, is getting worse. continues to go on. we're going to follow this breaking news story for yo

city, and our daughter was north of yazoo city with her grandmother. any other time, i mean, god had them where he wanted them, because any other time, they would have been with us. >> rob, ashley -- >> it was just a miracle. >> thank you so much and we wish you the best going forward. >> we lost our house and everything, also. >> we're so sorry. we'll keep in you our thoughts. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank pup. >>> now here's harry. >>> now to the showdown in the senate. d dems from pressing ahead with a possible test vote on financial reform even though they shay pot have enough votes. nancy cordes is in washington with details and the numbers. >> reporter: good morning. that's right, both parties say they are for reform and they are deep in negotiations over it. but they're not there yet, which means this vote that democrats have called for today could very well fail. >> i think we will get a bill. if the democrats want a bill, it will give us this things that we think with substantive in nature. >> reporter: but without a deal, many, if not all

ten of the victims were killed in yazoo city. now all that's left are piles of rubble and tales of survival. jay gray reports. sglm it keeps changing shape. bigger, wider. it's expanding now. >> reporter: new video shows the massive tornado that leveled yazoo city. the national weather service now believes it was a mile and a half wide with winds of at least 160 miles an hour. >> it was on the ground about 40 miles here in this county. but apparently for about 150 miles through the state. >> reporter: the devastation is overwhelming. the latest numbers from mississippi emergency management tell part of the horrific story. statewide 10 are dead, 54 injured. 686 homes and buildings damaged or destroyed. more than 300 of those in yahoo city. >> it was a lot of noise and debris. you could hear stuff coming off the roof, you could hear the front window glass breaking. >> reporter: evelyn corely and her husband ran for shelter in the hallway of their home. >> it seemed like it lasted a long time. and then it was over. it was gone, and

two in alabama and ten in mississippi, where yazoo city was crippled by an enormous tornado. don teague has more. >> reporter: there are parts of this town that like the roof of francine cox's house are simply gone. >> i don't know how to put it into words, you know. it's just gone. that's all i can say. >> reporter: at least 340 homes and businesses across mississippi are no longer recognizable. twisted -- >> it hurts all the way through. >> reporter: -- thrashed, or swept away by a massive, fast moving twister that left ten people dead and more than three dozen injured. it's the second time this church has been destroyed. the first time by an arsonist. but what's amazing isn't what's gone, but what, or who, is still here. dale thrasher was alone in the church when the storm hit. he hid under the communion table. >> i asked the good lord to protect me and it's like he put his arms around me. everything else was thrown around except for me and that table. >> reporter: the cleanup is just beginning as neighbors help each other deal with so much loss. volunteers have come from

i don't know where to begin don't know where to end it. >> reporter: the destruction in yazoo city is measured not in air but in blocks. on the ground, you can feel it. >> with moving forward, with the community like this, you know, it's so painful. >> reporter: the twister was one of several that caused a path of destruction almost 200 miles long, killing at least ten people, including a baby and two other children. this woman survived by huddling in the bathroom. >> it came in the bathroom, and just with with the wind, we got down and prayed. >> reporter: in this deeply religious community many spent this sunday praying in churches and for them. the hillcrest baptist church was heavily damaged. >> i went on sanctuary and got on the pulpit table and the whole building fell around it. >> reporter: the mississippi governor, a yazoo city native, promised help for his hometown. >> we will discuss how to get temporary housing because we have a lot of people that need temporary housing. >> the governor says at least 100 homes in yazoo city were damaged or destroyed. the national guard is o

eric horng reports from yazoo city. >> reporter: in this community of shattered homes, survivors claw through rubble searching for any sign of the familiar. >> i don't know what to do. i'm just totally lost. i have nothing. nothing. there's nothing. i don't know where to begin it, i don't know where to end it. >> reporter: the destruction in yazoo city is measured not in buildings but blocks. from the air you can see the full scope of the catastrophe. on the ground you can feel it. >> the hardest part of moving forward is just to see the community like this, you know. it's so painful. >> reporter: the twister was one of several that carved a path of destruction almost 200 miles long across mississippi, killing at least ten people, including a baby and two other children. morgan hayden and jaziah moto survived by huddling in their bathroom. >> we came in the hallway and we could feel the wind just coming through the hallway, like picking us up. we went straight here to the bathroom and just got down. >> reporter: in this deeply religious community, many spent this sunday praying in chu

there's yazoo city. this is in louisiana, watch the cell hold together cutting through yazoo city and the county where there are deaths reported and this holds together as a tornado all the way across the state of mississippi, about 200 miles it held intactful tact and tornados throughout and dave was asking how it's been a calm tornado season so far and updated this little graph you see the white cones, that's the average over the last ten years and where you see the blue where we've been, well below our averages all season long. april now we're getting toward the end of april, but almost towards where we typically would be. you'll notice may when we see the most activity in a typical year so we are ramping up into the height of this. this is where we stand the chance to see severe weather across the eastern seaboard, parts of florida across parts of the ohio river valley and i don't think we'll see anything like yesterday, but only takes one tornado it cause certainly some big devastating consequences,

the yazoo city fire chief says 20 to 30 homes are destroyed. and he believes some people were inside of them when that tornado came through. search-and-rescue of the s are under way at this hour. let's go over now to our meteorologist jacqui jer awho's been tracking this all for you, throughout the evening. jacqui. >> dorng the threat remains widespread at this hour from parts of missouri, stretching wall way down the panhandle of florida. our most recent watch isured here to cover parts of alabama. northwest georgia and including the metro atlanta area until 2:00 in the morning. a good indication that these storms will be holding together and continue through the overnight hours. make sure that you have your noaa radio on before you go to bed. six miles east of coleman, alabama. this continues to move quickly up to the north and the east and to put it into perspective for you here's huntsville in birmingham, just down do the south, so kind of sandwiched about halfway in between the of 2 of those. we also have a very intense line north and west

in yazoo city, chris gutierrez, fox news. >>> another big story, the jason campbell era in d.c. over. he was granted his witch and -- wish and traded to the raiders for fourth-round draft pick in 2012. the move gives him a good chance of becoming the raiders starting quarterback. >> we were frying to find him the proper home to compete for the starting job and the trade worked out to the compensation that we felt comfortable with and it was the place he wanted to go. >> hear what some of the teammate his to say. smile a man is dead after falling 100 feet from the roof of a d.c. building. we're everywhere at 11 and happened this morning. the investigators believe a man was climbing near a smoke stack and that alcohol may have been a factor in the accident and his identity has not been released and he's set to be in his early 20s. >>> poison frontman brett michaels is hospitalized in critical condition after reportedly suffering a massive brain hemorrhage. he had been complaining of excruciating headaches. the 47-year-old recently had an appendectomy in san antonio, texas, more th

the town of yazoo city, mississippi, about an hour north of the capital of jackson. >> this metal beam has been bent around. >> reporter: the twister swept across at least three counties in west central mississippi, leaving a trail of damage. high school senior connor mcrory drove straight into the heart of it. >> go! go! go! >> we were, you know, following-- we were tracking the storm as it made its way up from louisiana. and it kind of actually snuck up on us a little bit faster than expected, and we were only able to catch a glimpse of the tornado before we realized that it was heading right for us, and also, we tried to move, but we didn't have time, and we ended up getting hit by it. >> reporter: experts say the storms that hit the southeast today were especially powerful. >> not only are we talking about multiple tornadoes but we're talking about very violent, strong tornadoes. and any tornadoes that are on the ground have the potential to live for a long time. we did have a track that moved through western mississippi that flattened many homes, damaged many buildings. >> picking

yazoo city. we have team coverage. domenica davis is live in our extreme weather center. first, joining me by phone is reporter, live in yazoo city? >> i am standing next to the tree. ambulances and now taking to the people to the hospitals, treating them for the injuries, but i have to tell you. there are tons of people still trapped in houses and vehicles. people are getting on four-wheelers and trying to get to them. they are hoping to get those people out before it gets dark. there are a lot of people taking equipment, trying to cut down trees. the governor has declared a state of emergency. it is a big mess out here. as we speak, those are guard helicopters over my head. it's sad and terrible, it talked to a man that lost his daughter-in-law. when the tornado hit, she was hit in the back of the head and killed. fortunately her kids are alive but it's awful out here. we are hoping that the survivors are got to as soon as possible. >>> you said one of the first things how long it stayed on the ground and how much notice they had. what you have learned? >> that is one o

to yazoo city where charles hadlock is live for us. charles, let's get a look at what it looks like where you are. a toppled tree there, amazing what power this storm had. >> reporter: it really is, alex. every tornado you see, it's just incredible the power of nature. the thing about this storm is the track of this storm was more than 150 miles long. that's all the way across mississippi. the this storm system, the storm cell touched down just across the mississippi river, and the folks here had warning. they had about an hour's worth of warning knowing that a tornado was on the ground just to the southwest of them. what they didn't know is it was going to take a direct aim right at them. and people said they just couldn't believe what they saw when they looked out the windows. they ran for cover. just over my shoulder here is a steak house. i talked to the owner who said he saw the tornado coming, ran back into the restaurant, got his employees and some of the customers there into the cooler of his restaurant. the restaurant was obli

he starts us off again tonight from yazoo city. charles? >> reporter: good evening, lester. more help poured into the storm-ravaged region today as tornado victims and their neighbors began the tremendous task of rebuilding their lives. the tornado carved a ribbon of despair across central mississippi, claiming ten lives, including three children. in mills springs, j.w. carter mourns his loss. the grandfather of five says his son and five grandchildren were trapped outside this house. the father clutched all his children, but the tornado's winds ripped two from his grip. >> he said he grabbed the kids and tried to get on top of them and tried to put them all in his arms with, but the wind left them off. >> reporter: in hardest hit yazoo city today, residents salvaged what they could and told stories of survival. >> did not see it coming. had heard the sirens. >> reporter: evelyn had just returned home from the grocery store when she heard the sirens. she hid in a hallway inside her home. >> it was just a lot of noise and debris and you could hear stuff coming off the roof, h

jay gray, nbc news, yazoo city, mississippi. emergency teams continued to work on the ground here through the day. officials say it's certain to be a new and difficult recovery. >>> new concerns off the coast of louisiana. that ca tatreau fee left 11 workers missing and now presumed dead. crews were able to siphon off much of the oil slick from the surface and put containment booms in place to keep the oil from drifting. >> there is a moderate amount of residual oil on the surface we are working to clean up as far as offshore as possible. vehicles are trying to close valves deep underwater. if that fails, crews would co drill what's call add interessential weld. that's a process that could take months. >>> today president barack obama will deliver a eulogy for the 29 workers killed in a mine explosion earlier this month. the president and first lady will attend the memorial service in beckley, west virginia. investigators are still trying to figure out what sparked the explosion inside the upper big branch mine. the vice preside

in yazoo city, missy, jay gray, news moor. >> want to get to chuck bell now. the same system from mississippi is bringing that swath of potentially severe storms we're looking at right now. >> the very latest, we're still watching for a tornado warning now into washington county, maryland. the last warning expired officially at 6:15. but this storm has al indications that they're going to have to continue to reissue these tornado warnings over the next little bit. so far they've now dropped it down to a severe thunderstorm warning. but nonetheless, we will take you live in to the panhandle of west virginia, southern washington county in maryland. this is where the most important part of this storm is right now. just up to the northeast of charles town in west virginia, getting ready to move into far southern parts of washington county in maryland. i'll zoom in on the most dangerous part of this storm here. just to the south of shepherds town, west virginia, up towards bakerton. also once you get right over the potomac river here into potomac vistas in far sout

in yazoo city, chris gutierrez, fox news. >>> a coroner working in the area was nearly killed himself when the tornado picked up his truck and flipped it over four times. >>> new tonight on fox 5, authorities have arrested and charged a man they spotted with a gun at a north carolina airport. the same airport president obama was using. others say they saw joseph mcvey get out of the car in the public lot wearing a hand gun just as air force one was taking off. these are pictures from mcvey's arrest. authorities believe he might have been trying to impersonate a police officer. >>> today the president and vice president attended a memorial service honoring victims of the west virginia mine disaster. 29 workers were killed earlier this month in a coal mine explosion. fox 5's jennifer davis joins us with more on the service. >> reporter: before today's memorial service the president and vice president met privately and individually with the families of the 29 men killed in the mine explosion. the president publicly promised to do whatever he can to make sure no other miners die pursuing

yazoo city, mississippi was hard hit. nearby in mill springs, some of the worst destruction. j.w. carter lost two grandchildren when they were ripped from their father's arms. >> he said he grabbed the kids and tried to get on top of him and keep them in his arms but the wind lifted them off. >> reporter: also amazing stories of survivor. she heard the wind but didn't think it was a tornado. >> we dropped to the floor. everything was off the wall. everything flying around, debris, insulation. we were covered in trash. we held on, just laid down on the floor. >> reporter: next door her granddaughter was in another trailer that disappeared in the 160-mile-an-hour winds. the house explodes, you're on the phone. the next thing you know you're in the air and then what. >> i fell on a tree and grabbed onto it. >> reporter: you reached down and grabbed a limb? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: at bennie week's house they grabbed furniture. >> furniture was hitting me and i was able to get in the bathroom and on top of them before it hurt us. we're lucky to have our babies with us. >> reporter: he

yazoo city not the only ones getting into this. as you mentioned seven states getting tornado action here over the weekend. there have been severe weather warnings out for parts of florida. the tail end of the system, as it slowly moves to the east, this thing moving painfully slow from its inception almost a week ago. south florida, you are seeing rain. some heavy at times. there have been severe thunderstorm warnings posted with this but those have been lifted. just frog stranglers as far as how much rain is coming. rain will be on the increase in the northeast with wind as well. that's going to create problems of their own. probably going to slow down some of the travel. an hour delay in miami. ft. lauderdale with delays. new york and newark under an hour. that's not horrible. we set it up for another batch of severe weather likely toward the end of the week. we have a few days at least to catch our breath and get the cleanup under way there in mississippi. >> these systems seem to run in a bit of a pattern, right? it looks like

in high school he played for the yazoo city indians. yazoo city one of the towns hardest hit. the governor was there today. >> it's the biggest tornado i can ever remember, and in terms of across, the mile across. car dealership, roof twisted up like a beer can. several hundred people have lost their houses. there are a bunch of people whose houses are not just uninhabitable, they're unidentifiable. >> we show you a map here of the tornadoes reported so far in 2010. you see those red dots. those are all tornadoes reported so far this year. now we'll bring up severe weather reports throughout the year. that includes wind and hail. these are severe weather incidents across the united states in 2010 so far. you see them swept up. the red dots the tornadoes, blue is red -- is wind, excuse me, large hail storms are the gold dots. now i want to take you over to the magic wall and take you to the path of this particular tornado that caused so much destruction. we'll walk across, excuse me, we'll fly you in to show you where the damage is. as we come on in, you come right into central

ed lavandera found out firsthand when he visited people in yazoo city, mississippi, in the aftermath of that storm. >> reporter: i guess the sense from what you guys were describing to me you were right in the middle of it, it was on top of you, literally. >> it was. it was glass, debris flying. when i got out of the car thinking she was going to get out behind me, i looked back and she wouldn't even get out of the car she was so scared. i was standing up against the building and debris was just flying by me. it was hitting my legs and glass was flying. i said, debris could kill me. i dove back in the car and tole her, come on, we got to go, we got to go. >> reporter: what was it like for you? >> it was terrifying. it scared me to death. i've never been in anything like this before in my life. >> reporter: the road that brings you into the hardest part of yazoo city is almost impassable. hundreds of these trees snapped along the way. in the last few hours they've cleared the roadway to a pretty decent extent. we had to find a couple guys here kind enough to bring us in here on four-w

it hit the towns of valley park, yazoo city and durant and we are hearing that some people were trapped inside some of those structures. aside from the reports of the two deaths, we don't know how many people were hurt. the storm generated by a powerful system moving across the central united states today. tornado watches up from southern illinois south to alabama. >>> our ireporters are sending us pictures of the storm that is moving across the southeast. this video by ireporter kathy just south of memphis, tennessee. she says the hail that fell in her town of southhaven, mississippi, a bit bigger than a golf ball and noisy and didn't feel threatening. >>> rescuers have suspended their search for 11 oil rig workers missing in the gulf of mexico. the coast guard says it is unreasonable at this point to expect that any of them survived. the search covered 5,200 square miles over 3 days. even though the search is suspended, the case is not closed. >> we have not 100% certainty accounted for all the lifeboats and we don't know what was launched from the rig and might still be the rig and t

. >> tonight we are getting a new look at the tornado that ripped through yazoo city. the latest estimate indicates it had winds of 160 miles an hour, close to 1.5 miles wide. >> we had double windows, and broke everyone of them. it just came through and demolished the front of my house. >> the damage stretches across at least 16 counties. trees were snapped in half and the bark stripped away. others were literally pulled from the earth. electric lines were tossed to the ground and left in a tangled mess. most of this picket fence community is now broken and battered. >> the winds were so intense at the time of the storm, it ripped this giant oak tree from its roots, tossing it up on to richard bennetts house. >> bennett lost just about everything. >> i grew up here my whole life, for 26 years. it is hard to believe. i did not believe it until i actually came back and saw it myself. >> for so many, even harder to comprehend what comes next. >> you can track storms all across the country and here at home using our interactive radar. it allows you to follow the wet weath

the damage is particularly bad in yazoo city. several twisters caused a path of destruction for nearly 200 miles. >> you could feel the wind just coming through the hallway, picking us up and went straight to the back room. just got down and prayed. >> i don't know what to do. i'm just totally lost. i have nothing. nothing. just nothing. i don't know where to begin. don't know where to end it. >> the governor of mississippi has seen the damage and says that the first thing on his agenda is to help the homeless. he's already started the process of temporary housing to help those whose homes were destroyed by the tornadoes. >>> we're 10 minutes away from 7:00. anne arundel county fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused a parked fire engine to roll down a hill and yet get this, several children on board this. happened in pasadena saturday as a volunteer fire company visited a child's birthday party. eight children were in the engine, were checking out the truck, when it started to roll down the hill. one man jumped i

city. already reports of 30 homes that have been damaged with the tornado as it continues to plow off to the northeast, it's moving relatively 15 miles per hour, so it's a fast moving tornado, but it's a very serious situation, a tornado emergency for yazoo city and certainly looking for more to come with the severe weather setup we are going to be watching. there is that cell that moves off to the northeast. behind it we have more convex firing up. here is a look at the wider picture and you can see the watch boxes we're going to be looking at. these will keep growing through the day and you're seeing they're starting to move up to the north. and the watch boxes, not only looking to the deep south and threat for severe weather and even up through the mississippi valley, the tennessee valley you're going to start to see that severe weather creep into your area by this afternoon and even into this evening. we'll continue to check it out through the rest of the afternoon and keep monitoring t

. 54 tornadoes left this path of destruction. -- yazoo city. 10 people were killed. two did in alabama. more than 80 twisters in the midwest. they shattered buildings and many are now homeless. >> i have nothing. there's nothing. i don't know where to begin. >> since thursday, more than 80 tornadoes have hit the south and midwest, more than double what we saw in march. in our area that same storm system did cause severe weather, but nothing compared to what residents in mississippi are still dealing with. courtney robinson reporting. >> we are following a developing story out of taiwan. a powerful quake has struck that asian islands. no reports of injury or damage from the 6.5 quake. no tsunami alert was issued. taiwan is often rattled by earthquakes, most of them are minor. >> just about 5:30. democrats today will for the plan to put more regulations on wall street. the bill does not have bipartisan support. the white house has its own objections. supporters say it would prevent a meltdown of the one that crippled the nation's economy. brianne carter has details. >>

tracking it again in the vicinity of yazoo city, confirmed tornado on the ground. we'll keep bringing you the latest. more coming up on "cnn newsroom." ( tires screeching ) there's never been a better time... ( tires squealing ) to have bad tires. come to meineke and save $20 on two or more tires. at meineke, you're always the driver. >>> something pretty powerful is happening this weekend in atlanta. a girthing of some 30 families who lost love ones during the civil rights era. murders, missing persons cases. all of it still unresolved. the event is called "never too late for justice" hosted by the syracuse university law school's cold case justice initiative pap group of law professors and students dedicated to trying to solve these cases forgotten by almost everyone, except, of course, the victims' families. so here to tell us all about it the program's co-director, professor paula johnson and relatives of warless jackson, a mississippi factory worker killed in a mysterious explosion. the family members, his sister denise ford are joining me right now. good to s

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yazoo city was hit the hardest. 100 homes in the town and surrounding county are no longer habitable. we go to west virginia where barack obama attended a funeral service for the 29 coal miners who died earlier this month. ♪ my comfort my shelter ♪ >> the workers were killed in an explosion of the nation's worst mine disaster in decades. today's service feature add photo of each of the men with their families placing miner helmets atop of 29 white crosses. president obama talked about the men who chose to take on such dangerous work. >> all that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground was all for the families. it was all for you, for a car in the driveway, a roof overhead, for a chance to give their kids opportunities that they would never know. and enjoy retirement with their spouses. it was all in the hopes of something better. so these miners lived as they died -- in pursuit of the american dream. >> the president also called for a better safety measures for coal miners to prevent future disasters. protesters rally against arizona's new immigration law toda

yazoo city, mississippi with the most damage. at least 100 homes damaged or destroyed. the mississippi governor called it utter owibility ration. he said the full scope won't be known until later this week. the governor declared a state of emergency. survivors went back to the demolished homes to see what they could salvage. >>> we were talking about the rick of severe weather in that part of the country. so the weather service is already targeting that area. the clean-up continues today. as far as our weather is concerned, we'll see -- we could see some thunderstorms later o we don't expect much in the way of severe weather for today. i just don't think the dynamics will be there although some of the thunderstorms could contain some gusty wind and some hail. we are in the 50s right now currently at reagan national airport. it is 54 degrees. 53 at dulles and 51 at bwi marshall. the storms that came through our region yesterday evening, some thunderstorms primarily to the north of washington, d.c. that is where the heaviest rain and the most thunderstorm activity was. th

the wind was so strong that a trash can from a bar in yazoo city was found three miles away. >>> former panamanian dik take hor has been extradited. he's going to face trial for alleged money laundering. u.s. troops arrested noriega after he was convicted. he spent the last 20 years in a florida prison. he faces another ten years in france if convicted. >>> in just ten days new rules are going to be put in effect. as of thursday airlines are going to have to let you off the plane if it's on the tarmac for more than three hours or they could face fines of up to $27,000 per person, per passenger, but some of the critics say the airlines are just going to end up canalling more flights to avoid the fines. >>> i don't know what your attitude about that is but i'm like, if i e-mail going to have to sit there for six hours, can sell the flight, please. give me a new number, i can go have dinner, something, you know? >> i'm with you. >> how are you, bob? >> i'm good. >> our little outrage story there. >> you have to have one. another story is this one. how about heavy snow for new england for a