He's following the same path as this week's ice storm.
Two weeks after getting into it with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed over the city's preparedness for Snowjam '14, weatherman Al Roker of NBC's "Today" has picked a fight -- in between Olympic duties in Sochi -- with Bill de Blasio, the new mayor of New York on Twitter. First this:
And then this:
Here's the local spilling of outrage from the New York Daily News:
Ten inches of snow. School buses colliding with cars. Half empty schools.
"It's absolutely a beautiful day out there," beamed New York Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
The clueless chancellor added insult to inclement weather with that head-scratching remark at a news conference Thursday. She and Mayor de Blasio were defending the decision to keep schools open as a snowstorm bombarded the five boroughs.
They tried to fend off criticism that came from everyone from elected officials to students to weatherman Al Roker.
"Unlike some cities, we don't shut down in the face of adversity," said de Blasio, noting that New York City schools have been shuttered only 11 times since 1978. "I'm going to make decisions based on the information we have."
Within minutes of wrapping up the press event, Fariña bailed out of the city's storm center at the Office of Emergency Management. A short time later, Fariña's office announced that her town hall meeting in Brownsville, Brooklyn, was canceled "due to inclement weather."
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