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NEW YORK (AP) — The East Coast is starting to recover from a major snowstorm, but it will take some time for air travel to get back to normal. More than 11,000 flights have been canceled from Friday to Monday. United Airlines said via Twitter that it plans to start "very limited operations" at Newark and other New York City metro airports this afternoon.
UNDATED (AP) — A stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is still closed, but Gov. Tom Wolf says officials hope to have traffic moving again by mid-afternoon. He says only 20 tractor-trailers remain on the closed stretch of the roadway in the western part of the state where more than 500 vehicles were stranded at the height of the storm.
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago Police deputy superintendent who left to head police departments in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia is returning to Chicago to help make changes to the police force. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office says Charles Ramsey will be a senior adviser to the department and will help "guide civil rights reforms." President Barack Obama last year named Ramsey a co-chair of the President's Task Force on 21st Century policing.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A family friend says larger-than-life Nashville political figure John Jay Hooker Jr. has died at 85. He had been suffering from melanoma and spent his last days fighting to make physician-assisted suicide legal in Tennessee. Hooker was the Democratic party's nominee for governor of Tennessee in the 1970 and 1998 races. Many people in Nashville remember him for his Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken franchise.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — An environmental group in California is recruiting drone hobbyists and smartphone users to map flooding and coastal damage after El Nino storms with the idea that the images will help predict what the future coastline will look like as sea levels rise from global warming. The Nature Conservancy launched the "Phones & Drones El Nino Mapping Initiative" this month and is working with a private company to stitch the geotagged images into 3D maps.
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