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Households in the northeast are without power. not to mention the impact on travel nearly 700 flights have been canceled so far in the u.s. today. we see that number rising with every hour earlier today, laguardia airport, there was a ground stop issue there. and now theyre warning of two hour delays because of the de-icing of the planes so, these kind of treacherous difficult travel conditions are expected to linger into tomorrow, because this is, lindsey, a multiday storm event. >> okay. emily...

Live tomorrow. and theyre also planning to upgrade their winter resiliency, things like de-icing which were a major problem back during that disease meltdown. they are working on a top to bottom fix. its going to cost many millions of dollars, they say, but they believe theyre going to have a better assessment of what that will look like by march and, again, the airline has said they have done some more minor tweaks that they believe theyre already better set up to prevent a meltdown like that i...

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Near donner pass, plow trains racing to clear the tracks. and in the northeast, the first significant snowfall overnight, more than nine inches in spots. slick roads testing drivers. wrecks across the boston area sunday. bostons logan airport dealing with a combination of snow and de-icing delays. dozens of flights canceled. well, as you can see, folks here in california have their work cut out for them. cars buried under snow, homes blanketed. in the meanwhile, power crews continuing to restore...

Very, very slowly. its not oafver yet for the sta of texas. the good news according to greg abbott is the power grid is holding. take a listen. >> tonight, its anticipated that the entire state will be in a freezing or below freezing temperature situation. importantly, though, the power grid continues to perform well at peak demand during this winter storm. >> reporter: governor greg abbott has activated 27 state agencies deployed 4,000 texas department of transportation personnel. these are the...

Of those people. >> reporter: yeah, lindsay are starting this new year with a lot of frustration and disappointment as they are trying to get back from their holiday plans and events. there are these ongoing delays and cancelations that continue here. airlines are blaming a number of factors. this weekend one of the biggest factors was wintry weather, and chicago was hard hit at both major airports in that weather and that caused a trickle down affect, affecting flights across the country. the a...

Water. tow trucks tried to get to the two cars there on the corner. they couldnt get all the way to them. severe flooding in michigan. some folks got stuck on a plane for nearly 12 hours. happened in kansas city. they sat on a delta plane from 6:30 a.m. until 6:30 in the evening on tuesday. can you imagine? what did they do then? they cancel the flight. one passenger tweeted at delta. some of them im guessing we cant repeat. but others had some thoughts for delta. actually, the flight, officiall...

Already half a foot in some parts of the jersey shore. and it has made a mess of the roads whether youre on a main road or if youre out on the highway it is all the same picture, a lot of slush, ice, people skidding out. we took a ride out on the atlantic city expressway, which is the way you get down here from philadelphia, and it looks like a one-lane highway. normally there are three lanes out there that you can get right quick down to the casinos in atlantic city. and today not so much. we a...

Aven afternoon. a big blizzard is setting up. this northern plain area where we have blizzards going on, a foot of snow and very windy conditions. see this purple here, thats e icing and watching an ice storm set up along with this really really rough conditions across that northern tier. be careful as youre headed out to grandmas. tomorrow up to the 60s in louisville. pretty warm, no major cold air in place for about another week. good news. >> that is good news. >> thank you, rick. coming up...

What do you think could have happened given the overall conditions that weve learned? >> its a two-engine airplane. if there was trouble with one engine, the plane should have been able to fly on the other engine. if he had engine trouble on two of the engines, sounds like icing of the engines. >> and what concerns you about the possible impact of weather in a situation like this? >> well the weather, it was raining pretty routinely through the night and flying at the altitude you would probably...