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As orlando. of the more than 4,000 flights cancelled this misery map from flightaware shows boston, new york city, and d.c. airports are among the hardest hit. laguardia and jfk airports suspending service, then closing entirely for most of the day. sebastian reed, stranded at laguardia, after trying to pick up a friend whose flight never arrived. >> its a nightmare. >> reporter: baltimore-washington airport receiving so many diverted flights it stopped accepting international diversions. forcin...

Flight from savannah, georgia, skidded off and i see pathway after landing last night. you can see the tracks out the window there. your line reports nobody was hurt. another image shows firefighters outside the airbus, nearly 3 inches of snow had fallen and at one point, airport workers say visibility was near zero in here, you can see firefighters getting on board to check on passengers and help them off the plane. they release a statement that the airline used buses to get the passengers from...

Take a look, hallie. were going to go right through this plate glass window. this is at theyre doing out at laguardia between concourses c and d. theres not a single plane out there, right? so even if they got it all cl d cleaned right away, theres no way theyll be able to take off because there arent any planes here. thats not going to happen until tomorrow. this is a full-going, ongoing effort but all the runways around laguardia, newark and j.f.k. here is the misery map. we have all red over ...

One death blamed so far on a powerful winter storm battering the northeast right now. a doorman died after sustaining injuries in an accident while shoveling snow. the storm affecting more than 50 million people creating blizzard conditions, dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas. hundreds of schools up and down the northeast corridor are closed. check out the flight aware map that we have. misery map. nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled today. the storm creating a phenomenon known a...

Better clearly from the view behind you, right? >> absolutely. much better. its now working as its supposed to. you got about 8,000 passengers here and thousands more at many other airports, international airports like newark,j.f.k., boston where passeers arrived and found themselves just dealing with a real nightmare and the nightmare sort of continues today because a lot of people when they come into like miami international airport, theyre making a connection. because of those delays, they di...

>> reporter: hey, ari, weve been here all day and seen the gamut of what you can experience in travel from lightning and thunderstorms here this morning when caused a ground stop, not just here at dfw, but also in houston to the relatively light traffic that were seeing now as this transitions from more of an end of a holiday type of travel day to more business people starting to go back for their meetings and business tomorrow. but what we saw here and in houston, those brown stops, even though...

That set in motion a series of delays that have rippled across the country. i want to show you the current what we call misery map of air travel today and you can see that houston is the worst but as the system moves to the east atlanta is a close second, here in dallas they are recovering somewhat and as these storms move east were seeing heavy rain in new orleans, a major air travel center as well so there could potentially be problems there later today. and its not just these cities that weve...

The road. a second skidding out of control. forcing those in the first car to run for their lives. a reminder from state troopers on the dangers of winter driving. >> and for people who did not travel early this morning or this afternoon, there is more trouble ahead tonight, kate, because this system is moving along the gulf coast, impacting places like louisiana, mississippi, alabama. lets take a look at the current misery map, as its called, for air travelers, where we saw houston and dallas, ...

Severe storms sweeping across the country making travel headaches for those trying to return home from the holidays. lets get to dallas/ft. worth international. ich is worth noting, even if youre not near dallas, its a major hub airport. if it has cancellations, youll feel it all over the country. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, ali. also in houston, the hub for united airlines, we are seeing its spokes, dallas, chicago, newa, because of what happened there and this morning where we had l...

Air. not so much on the roads. peter? >> always a good sign when there is green on the misery map. ron mott outside helping us out today. thank you very much. mall mayhem across the country yesterday. fights breaking out at several shopping centers. >> oh, my god! >> there is a look at it. in some places police in riot gear were called in. nbcs morgan radford in garden city, new york. one of the sites of the fhts where they erupted yesterday. morgan, do we have a sense of what might have started...