natural gas rises. meanwhile, the powerful storm is proving to be a nightmare. travelers across the country from flight aware, airlines canceled more than 3700 flights so far for thursday. that's on top of more than the 2,000 flight cancellations that we saw on wednesday. let's break it all down for you. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us from cnn's weather center. good morning, pedram. this is a powerful as well as a dangerous storm. >> yeah, good morning, isa. when you look at a storm this expansive, this is as worst case scenario as it gets with ariel coverage. when you look at the amount of disruptions across dallas, northward into memphis and as far north as cincinnati, these airports, 60 to 90% of their flights leading into thursday have been canceled. it's the early morning hours. it speaks to the wide ranging impacts. 3700 flights have been canceled in the first few hours of