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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. MISERABLE COMMUTE MAY BE IN STORE FOR THE EAST
• Another wintry mix hit the mid-Atlantic and Northeast during the night, making travel treacherous once again.
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• 2. AP ANALYSIS SHOWS STAGGERING NUMBER OF CANCELED FLIGHTS
• Airlines have eliminated more than 74,000 since Dec. 1. That's 5.5 percent of all flights, and the most in more than 25 years.
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• 3. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN VIRGINIA
• Virginia becomes the first state in the South to have a voter-approved prohibition on same sex marriage overturned.
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• 4. WHY MORE AMERICANS AREN'T GETTING WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY
• There's a social stigma attached to having surgery to lose weight, but biggest reason is few insurers will pay for the procedure.
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• 5. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT COMCAST-TIME WARNER CABLE DEAL
• Predictably, perhaps, people took to the Internet Thursday to vent, citing high prices, missed appointments and fear of a monopoly.
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• 6. ON VALENTINE'S DAY, IT'S BLIND BOVINE LOVE
• Two blind, aging cows, both rescued from the slaughterhouse, find companionship at animal sanctuary in New York.
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• 7. DUBAI EMERGING AS GLOBAL POWERHOUSE IN FASHION
• City is building district dedicated to the industry, and officials hope to make it a base for designers on par with Paris and New York.

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