Snowbound mid-Atlantic gets set for new round
(CNN) -- As the mid-Atlantic region tried to dig itself out of a record-setting blizzard, a second weather system promised to dump more snow this week.
Federal workers in Washington were asked to stay home Monday except for emergency employees. Students in some schools in the nation's capital also got a snow day.
Many residents who spent the weekend gleefully making snowmen and hurling snowballs grumbled as they painfully shoveled hip-high snow from driveways.
"The streets are pretty well covered," Kingsley Barrito said about his Gaithersburg, Maryland, subdivision.
"No cars coming in or out of here. Hopefully everyone in the community has enough supplies to last them for a little while, because it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon," Barrito said Sunday in a post he submitted to iReport, a CNN Web site that allows people to submit posts, pictures and videos.
Crews worked around the clock to clear roads and repair power lines, warning that it might take days to restore electricity to some customers from Pennsylvania to Virginia.
A record 32.4 inches of snow fell on Washington's Dulles International Airport over two days, breaking a January 7-8, 1996, record of 23.2 inches.
Two of Dulles' four runways were open Monday morning, and officials said they hoped to have a third open later Monday, said Courtney Mickalonis of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority.
The situation there is "getting back to normal," Mickalonis said.
Saints roll, beat Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLI
Indianapolis Colts squander opportunities
The party was on.
It was a celebration Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne and the vast majority of the Indianapolis Colts
wanted no part of. As the Saints reveled in their 31-17 win in Super Bowl XLIV, the Colts had retired to the quiet seclusion of their locker room.
"I didn't even watch them celebrate,'' Wayne said. "I was one of the first ones in the locker room. They're probably still out there.
"That's the way it goes when you win the Super Bowl. You stay out there. When you lose, you go to the locker room.''
If Wayne wasn't the first to the locker room, it might have been his quarterback. There was no congratulatory hug for Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who was named MVP after passing for 288 yards and two touchdowns.
"I'll certainly talk to Drew,'' Manning said after passing for 333 yards with one touchdown and an interception that former Indiana University standout Tracy Porter returned 74 yards for a clinching fourth-quarter touchdown. "I certainly know how it was three years ago when we won. There's not much consolation for the guys that didn't win.
"The stage is being set up for the celebration and it was time for the Saints to celebrate at midfield. They deserved the moment.''
Drew Brees basks in New Orleans' win
Purdue graduate is a hero throughout Who Dat Nation
Perhaps there have been more glamorous quarterback moments in the event's history, such as Joe Namath's upset of the
Baltimore Colts in the third such event in 1969, but Brees' game against the same franchise ranks among the best.
The Purdue University graduate completed 32-of-39 passes for 288 yards, with two touchdowns and no interceptions in a 31-17 victory. He was the only choice for the Most Valuable Player Award presented by another former Boilermaker quarterback, Len Dawson.
"It's unbelievable, incredible," Brees said. "But to be a Super Bowl champion is enough for me."
"Brees was magnificent," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "He played so well, so efficiently. We blocked and gave him time to throw."
Brees didn't start the game well, but he finished with enough completions to tie the Super Bowl record set by Tom Brady.
After four incompletions on the first two series, Brees completed 30 of 33 the rest of the way. One of those passes was dropped, another spiked to the ground to stop the clock on the final drive of the first half.
The Colts never came close to picking off one of Brees' throws, and the only time he picked himself off the turf was on Dwight Freeney's sack. Otherwise, perfect.
And diverse. Eight Saints caught his passes, five catching at least three. Pierre Thomas had a 16-yard catch-and-run for the third-quarter score ignited by the onside kick. Jeremy Shockey also had a score, a 2-yarder to give the Saints the lead for good.
Marques Colston caught a team-high seven passes, including a first-quarter drop that cost New Orleans at least a field goal. He laughed at the playful suggestion he cost Brees the record for Super Bowl completions.
Colston not only totaled 83 receiving yards, he defended his quarterback in the discussion that is bigger than the Saints.
"Hopefully (people) will start putting Drew in that elite quarterback conversation," he said.
The Saints delivered all kinds of talk for future conversations. Once-troubled kicker Garrett Hartley (used a banned substance) became the first kicker in Super Bowl history with three field goals of 40 yards or more. He connected from 47, 46 and 44 yards.
Payton had two of the gutsiest calls in the 44 years of the event. After the Saints failed on a fourth-and-goal at the Colts 1 late in the first half, he used the long halftime to decide to catch Indy excited to get the ball to start the third quarter. The onside kick not only worked, it allowed the Saints to take a 13-10 lead.
Payton said they had worked on the risky play all week in preparation.
"I just told the guys, 'You've got to make me look good right here,'" Payton said.
Every Saint knew it was coming. Those not involved in the play held their breath.
"I was nervous as heck," tailback Reggie Bush said.
'Dear John' replaces 'Avatar' at No. 1
"Dear John" rode a surprisingly strong wave of support from the fickle but fervent teenage girl audience to the highest opening ever for a movie on Super Bowl weekend, knocking "Avatar" out of the top spot in the process.
"Dear John," Hollywood's fifth adaptation of a tear-jerker Nicholas Sparks novel, sold $32.4 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures.
That's significantly above last week's estimates based on pre-release polling, which predicted that "Avatar" would stay ahead of the Sparks film. James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster ended up declining 25% on its eighth weekend to $23.6 million. Combined with the $76 million it collected in 120 foreign countries this weekend, "Avatar" increased its worldwide total to more than $2.2 billion.
The John Travolta over-the-top action flick "From Paris With Love" was a disappointment for Lionsgate, opening to just $8.1 million.
"Dear John," which stars young actors Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, posted the highest Super Bowl opening, not accounting for ticket price inflation, thanks almost entirely to a single demographic: teen and college-age girls. The audience of the Lasse Hallström-directed film was 84% female and 64% under 21, according to exit polls.
Though pictures that appeal to young women can be hugely successful, as evidenced by "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," several recent ones aimed at that crowd have generated less than impressive results, such as "Leap Year" and "The Lovely Bones."
Michael Jackson's doctor: Manslaughter?
Federal prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray. As Hattie Kauffman reports, Murray is facing involuntary manslaughter. (CBS News)
