[Whitfield:] The folks in Denver, Colorado, they know blizzards, but I don't know, this time of year in November. Take a look at these pictures right there, pretty severe. Powerful winds combined with that heavy snow making travel pretty treacherous and, in fact, they're experiencing near hurricane-force winds, something like 70 miles per hour. And the roads are very icy, so while a lot of folks are dreaming of going to the ski resorts to get in some early skiing.
[Jacqui Jeras, Ams Meteorologist:] Don't do it today.
[Whitfield:] You wouldn't want to be on those roads because look at this. This is what happens. A lot of folks have gotten into pretty nasty trouble there. Jacqui Jeras, how long is this going to last? Is this one of those quickie blizzards or it's going to hang around for a while?
[Jeras:] Well, you know, they've dealt with this much of the day yesterday and today it's still going on. It kind of came in two separate waves. You mentioned just how bad the travel is. Take a look at this. This is I-70. This is near Loveland Pass. Loveland Pass is closed, you can't get through there. There have been a number of accidents. You can see how slowly traffic is moving and roads are ice and snow covered. So it's really a bad deal. Those winds that Fredricka mentioned, beyond hurricane force, at least beyond Category 1, to 115 miles reported in the Frisco area. So the big story is really, this storm, which is going to be pulling out of the Rockies. There's a great difference between pressures here and that's why the wind is strong and really the wind is the key to this storm and why it's making things so treacherous for all those folks. Now we do have blizzard warnings in effect, it's not Denver, it's west of here. It's on up into the high country, and when all is said and done, we're talking one to two feet of snow in the highest elevations. This storm system is going to head eastward for tomorrow, Fredricka, and we'll be watching it from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast for showers and thundershowers, not the snow.
[Whitfield:] OK. All right, that's good. All right, thanks so much, Jacqui.
[Jeras:] Sure.
[Whitfield:] All right, well, take a look at this. This is the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan. Reporters got an up close and personal look at it. We'll show you some other pictures when we come right back.