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Talk with Travelocity's Rally Caparas
Aired February 17, 2003 - 07:36 ET
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CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The snow beginning to pull out of D.C. and away from Baltimore, although there's still one more band of snow that's going to be with us, at least for the next hour or so, maybe even two hours for you, D.C., but it's just about done.
That's some good news for the airports, although they are already wrecked.
And here with that is our friend Rally Caparas -- Rally, what do you have this morning?
RALLY CAPARAS, TRAVELOCITY: Chad, we have more of what you're talking about. You keep ordering up more snow and people are going to get upset with that, I'll tell you.
It's terrible out there, folks, if you're flying today, and it's going to get worse, as Chad told you.
The snow is moving into Boston as we speak and here's how it's going to affect your flights today headed into the busy, busy Northeast. It won't be busy today, however.
Boston's Logan, they're delay free, believe it or not, at the moment. But they will start to see slowly 60 minute arrival delays. That'll turn into 90 minute arrival delays later on this afternoon and then in the evening we'll start to see two and three hour, many cancellations. We've already seen hundreds of cancellations and I'm talking 500, 600 before the day's over.
New York Metro is two to three hour delays. Once they start getting into the air again there's lot of holding going on. You can expect delays to double and cancellations to increase there also.
Philadelphia International, two to three hour delays will be the average, but they will start to see a little bit more movement late, late, late this evening.
The D.C. Metros, Baltimore-Washington, Reagan and Dulles, Baltimore and Reagan are closed. They're not opening until noon. Dulles has two runways that will flip-flop back and forth. Until then, you'll see two to three hour delays into Dulles.
Paula, I'll be back in about 30 minutes with more from Travelocity's Eye On The Sky.
Back over to you in the studios.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Rally.
Appreciate it.
More now on that storm. The mid-Atlantic states get smacked with the biggest snowstorm in years.
Let's go back out to Jason Carroll, who is attempting to stand by out there when the winds aren't blowing him over -- good morning, Jason.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you again, Paula.
The wind's really kicking up here. Imagine if you had to wake up this morning and come out to a car like this one here, buried in the snow where the plows have been coming along and doing their duty. This is what a lot of New Yorkers are going to wake up and find as they head out to their vehicles in the morning.
About seven inches of snow has fallen so far, but we're expecting anywhere between now 18 and 24 inches of snow to fall just in New York City. You could take a look and see the reason why we were under a blizzard warning, near whiteout conditions, winds gusting anywhere between 35 miles per hour and more, depending upon where you are.
Snow plows like this one out on the road. Fifteen hundred of them out on the roads here in New York City. About 140,000 tons of salt being spread throughout the city, as well, to help those people who are daring enough to make it on their way out on the roadways -- Paula.
ZAHN: The good news, though, once again, a lot of people simply stayed out of the city because it's the holiday and they weren't going to even attempt to get in, right?
CARROLL: Absolutely. Take a look behind me. You can see. Look at this, Columbus Circle, you know even on a holiday, it would be packed out here with cars. Empty, simply because a lot of people took the advice of weather casters and decided to stay home.
ZAHN: We do listen to them on occasion.
Thanks, Jason. See you in a little bit.
CARROLL: On occasion, yes.
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Aired February 17, 2003 - 07:36 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The snow beginning to pull out of D.C. and away from Baltimore, although there's still one more band of snow that's going to be with us, at least for the next hour or so, maybe even two hours for you, D.C., but it's just about done.
That's some good news for the airports, although they are already wrecked.
And here with that is our friend Rally Caparas -- Rally, what do you have this morning?
RALLY CAPARAS, TRAVELOCITY: Chad, we have more of what you're talking about. You keep ordering up more snow and people are going to get upset with that, I'll tell you.
It's terrible out there, folks, if you're flying today, and it's going to get worse, as Chad told you.
The snow is moving into Boston as we speak and here's how it's going to affect your flights today headed into the busy, busy Northeast. It won't be busy today, however.
Boston's Logan, they're delay free, believe it or not, at the moment. But they will start to see slowly 60 minute arrival delays. That'll turn into 90 minute arrival delays later on this afternoon and then in the evening we'll start to see two and three hour, many cancellations. We've already seen hundreds of cancellations and I'm talking 500, 600 before the day's over.
New York Metro is two to three hour delays. Once they start getting into the air again there's lot of holding going on. You can expect delays to double and cancellations to increase there also.
Philadelphia International, two to three hour delays will be the average, but they will start to see a little bit more movement late, late, late this evening.
The D.C. Metros, Baltimore-Washington, Reagan and Dulles, Baltimore and Reagan are closed. They're not opening until noon. Dulles has two runways that will flip-flop back and forth. Until then, you'll see two to three hour delays into Dulles.
Paula, I'll be back in about 30 minutes with more from Travelocity's Eye On The Sky.
Back over to you in the studios.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Rally.
Appreciate it.
More now on that storm. The mid-Atlantic states get smacked with the biggest snowstorm in years.
Let's go back out to Jason Carroll, who is attempting to stand by out there when the winds aren't blowing him over -- good morning, Jason.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you again, Paula.
The wind's really kicking up here. Imagine if you had to wake up this morning and come out to a car like this one here, buried in the snow where the plows have been coming along and doing their duty. This is what a lot of New Yorkers are going to wake up and find as they head out to their vehicles in the morning.
About seven inches of snow has fallen so far, but we're expecting anywhere between now 18 and 24 inches of snow to fall just in New York City. You could take a look and see the reason why we were under a blizzard warning, near whiteout conditions, winds gusting anywhere between 35 miles per hour and more, depending upon where you are.
Snow plows like this one out on the road. Fifteen hundred of them out on the roads here in New York City. About 140,000 tons of salt being spread throughout the city, as well, to help those people who are daring enough to make it on their way out on the roadways -- Paula.
ZAHN: The good news, though, once again, a lot of people simply stayed out of the city because it's the holiday and they weren't going to even attempt to get in, right?
CARROLL: Absolutely. Take a look behind me. You can see. Look at this, Columbus Circle, you know even on a holiday, it would be packed out here with cars. Empty, simply because a lot of people took the advice of weather casters and decided to stay home.
ZAHN: We do listen to them on occasion.
Thanks, Jason. See you in a little bit.
CARROLL: On occasion, yes.
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