experience was summed up to me just a few moments ago. we re trying to fly in to michigan where i m from and they canceled the flight. now they are saying there s no flights until after christmas, not even one anywhere in this area until after christmas. reporter: after christmas. so. reporter: all of you in line you re wasting your time. american airlines stinks. reporter: so the latest average delay times out of laguardia reached two hours and 35 minutes late not to mention canceled flights. that frustrated family you just heard from says they will have to drive the 12 hours to get back home. it s especially important to her. she tells me she hasn t missed a family christmas in 54 years. live at laguardia, brian webb, cbs 2 news. we hope she gets there and everybody gets where they are headed tonight but it is a rainy wednesday night. and our airports, well, things have gotten worse as brian said as the day has progressed. right now the longest delay is at newar
been waiting for flights all day. reporter: the arrival, departure boards spelled out bad news for many travelers. these days, they don t call them delays p they just time. when we first got here they didn t say they were being delayed so we were aggravated but we got coffee and now we are just hanging out until he comes. reporter: by midday, the an hour. arrivals were closer to an hour and a half. it s slow but it s okay. reporter: adding to the overload tighter security courtesy of tsa. fewer passengers able to opt out of body scanners. the ones critics call virtual strip-search machines. i do enough traveling that i m like, you know, really that s not much to see. [ laughter ] [ music ] reporter: tis the season for more people more security so be sure to pack some patience along with your ugly holiday sweats. reporter: the latest average delay times at new york area airports newark the worst delay 3 hours 28 minutes. laguardia is second 2 hours 35 minutes.
planes delayed. packed airports and traffic tied up. tonight, storms causing problems on the roads, and in the sky, as people try to make it home for the holidays, and it is not just here. severe weather in the south. tonight tornadoes turned deadly in laguardia, some travelers night. let s begin with elise finch and the latest on her forecast. i ll start with the totals. just how much rain have we gotten so far? over 2 inches in new york city. ridge port, the big winner, 2.34 inches of rain. the heaviest of that rain is almost behind us. but this is good news for us. you may not necessarily love rain to get you in the holiday spirit, but remember, we have a significant deficit on the year, so we need that rain. the fog, the other huge issue. visibility still low up around white plains around babylon. not great in new york city. fog will remain an issue. the clouds and also showing the moisture. now we ve got one batch that s actually on its way out right now. you see the b
firefighters. they have been in and out of this building trying to make sure that everyone did make it out okay. we have seen them with their flashlights up on ladders early this morning trying to see if anybody else is inside. all of this unfolding around 1:30 this morning at 40 richardson. we have cell phone video where you can see the massive flames towering out of windows. this fire quickly going four alarms. i spoke with a resident off camera who told me he lives inside this building and he woke up to his windows breaking and the flames pouring inside. he was able to make it out okay. i spoke with her friend who lives nearby and she describes what she saw and heard. i just heard a massive explosion. i don t know if it was a bomb. massive flames coming from the building and tons of fire trucks. reporter: now, again we can tell you so far that one firefighter did have some injuries. at this point it s not clear if anybody who lives inside of the building is accounted f
parts of the country are cleaning up from deadly tornadoes over the past several days. we ll have more on the twisters coming up in just a few minutes. and where ever you are during this week with the forecast on the week, the weather app is free. breaking news. hikers had to be rescued after getting trapped on a ledge. it s the same park where another hiker got stuck last week. our reporter is in upper nyack with more. reporter: well, dick, the hikers were stuck for almost three hours after the fire chief said they went climbing off trail and then couldn t get down from the rocks. chopper 2 was over the scene as the rescue operation was happening. the fire department deployed the high angle rescue team and lowered a fireman down to two women stuck about 250 feet off the ground. a man who was with those two women had climbed down by himself earlier and was able to go make the call for help. we were there when the second woman was helped down to safety. but the fire chie