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the travel nightmare that began before christmas is is still not over. pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and when we left you last night, southwest airlines ceo was apologizing to all the passengers stranded by all the flights the company canceled due to the weather and its system meltdown. well, 24 hours later there are about another 2,500 reasons to apologize, as in about 2,500 more cancellations today and nearly as many tomorrow. and it's gotten to the point that southwest has been busing some people from airports as far away as new york's laguardia and denver to houston....

the world. i'm whitney wild. the death toll from that huge winter storm keeps rising. it is now up to 62 deaths across 11 states. of those by far the greatest share were in erie county, new york, where at least 37 people died. >> a horrible storm with too many deaths. we know without the work of these first responders and others, more people would have died. >> first responders are still checking on callers they couldn't reach in buffalo which was buried under nearly 52 inches of snow. overnight buffalo lifted a driving ban. cnn's miguel marquez has more on the digout. >> reporter: b...

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Visibility. >> monique alexander died in the storm on christmas eve. a buffalo native who had been through many snowstorms here thought this one was the same. >> we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right away though. >> a simple decision on any other day, life threatening in this storm. >> my kids, they lost their grandmother and that was her most important role in their life was being a good grandmother and now they just have memories. >> reporter: in erie county alone, at least 37 killed for extreme weather accustomed to major snowstorms. where every person who d...

The buffalo native who had been through many snowstorms here thought this one was the same. >> we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right away, though. >> reporter: a simple decision on any other day. life-threatening in this storm. >> my kids, they lost their grandmother. and that was her most important role in her life, was being a good grandmother. and now they just have memories. >> reporter: in erie county alone at least 37 killed in extreme weather in an area accustomed to severe snowstorms. for every person who died dozens of stories of those who stepped up a...