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New yorks laguardia airport. tracking data from flight aware.com shows the flight was heading west over new yorks southern tier before abruptly turning toward philadelphia. these are pictures taken by some other passengers. this one by christopher johnson of the crew. 143 passengers, five crew members on board. and, shep, when you look at this and you hear an engine failure in mid-air and the harrowing rescue of all of these passengers that tried to scurry to the rescue of this woman who was lit...

Crippling air, plane and car trouble throughout the region, bryan llenas is at laguardia airport with the latest, whats up with that, bryan? >> good afternoon, eboni, thing are improving at airport, yesterday 3400 flights canceled nationwide because of the north eastern. today 569 according to flight aware.com. boston logan airport is at worst, 100 cancellations today, here at laguardia, its about 46 cancellations this morning, down from 600 and its just not airlines though, amtrak suspended nor...

Canceled expected today. that number keeps going up every time we check. flight aware.com, check it yourself. over 8,000 flights as of right now are expected to be delayed. here at laguardia theyre saying dont come to the airport before checking with your airline. several flights have decided to cancel because the flights werent able to come into the airport last night. >> sandra: when conditions improve it will be something to get all those people where they need to go. >> bill: i wish the airp...

Savannah, georgia, charleston, south carolina you talk about a flash flood emergency situation. that just came across, we understand the death toll from the storm in this part of the united states, three people died in the state of georgia, one person died in the u.s. state of south carolina. the airport situation also another situation weir monitoring because the worlds busiest airport here in georgia, see this image, not so busy because of the flights cancelled or delayed. delta, which is base...

From dayton -- im sorry, flew from cincinnati to dayton and then dayton on here to akron. were going to hear from the ntsb at 3:00 this afternoon but talking to witnesses, looking at a flight information from flight aware.com and talking to a pilot who knows this airport fairly well, it appears that they were coming in in fairly bad weather. the weather at the time according to the meteorologist at our nbc affiliate wkyc in cleveland, the ceiling was about 460 feet which is barely above the mini...

Unfortunately, this is going to linger right through the afternoon. well continue to get bands of heavy snow. we could have an additional 2 to 3 inches in the city and across the northeast as well. so by tonight, this will move out, unfortunately just after the evening commute. so it is going to be a slow go. 5:00 6:00 7:00 as were on the back edge of this. it is going to be brutal on the road. freezing fog was being reported at laguardia and still seeing freezing fog, very dangerous conditions ...

Chance to get out of town that means the gates here at reagan national just outside of washington will be crowded with members of congress and their staffs. while outside, we wait to see some know plows, we could get up to 8 inches in the spot im standing right now. thats a lot for d.c. if we get that much, the federal government will almost certainly close up shop, theyve done so for less. when that happens, remember, just a third of the 300,000 federal workers in the area are on the hook for a...

Expressway, on good day might be move 55:00 miles-per-hour. here its moving five miles-per-hour. schools in the eastern u.s. have been trying to keep kids out of the mess. this map on the screen shows states where schools were either closed or plan to let students out early today, and as you mentioned, this is a real problem for air travelers. at last check, according to flight aware.com, airlines cab sold nearly 3,000 flights in the u.s. today, shep. >> the question that is scripted for me, wha...

Lets head now to new yorks central park where brian ennis is standing by where people are dealing with the aftermath of that powerful winter storm. >> reporter: well, theres about six inks of snow on the ground right now. the temperatures really will hit about 9 degrees, which felt about negative 2, overnight last night. now, the snow is actually, luckily, for much of the country that light, powdery snow, which isnt good enough for really building snowman in central park. youve got people walkin...

>> two words, direct flight. thousands of flights either disease laid or carn selled, and the frustration growing. many people being told it could take days before they take off. dan baker traffics these things. a ceo of flight aware.com and joins us by phone. dan, we heard one horror story of a family who didnt understand how they can go from one sunny location to another and now theyre stuck. >> yes. >> we have a little bit of a delay. dan. >> yes. >> hi. were talking about these -- the flig...