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Very long day in the d.c. area. >> certainly. pack your patience, we like to say that because we mean it. needless to say, air travelers are out of luck once again. cancelled flights reaching record numbers. many of them preemptively as the storm churns through the northeast. cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans has a look at the situation with the airlines and i'm expecting going to be tough today? >> it is really tough. come on. this is craziness. i've stopped counting how many of these storms we've had. right now d.c. is virtually at a standstill this morning. all runways a...

Heavy snow potentially on the back side of this system. so of course, that means we're going to see snow moving in, and that means delays. let's look at the current situation here. we have had over 900 flights cancelled in and out of the u.s. about 160 or so plus in and out of chicago o'hare so far today. you can see this is the flight explorer, shows where the planes are now. not as many in the air today as there would be, due to this inclement weather situation. then as we head into sunday, through the afternoon, overnight and into tomorrow, we will see snow moving into chicago. it will cont...

Suffering through frigid conditions, samantha mohr is tracking the conditions. >> it brought in thousands of cancellations as far as flights are concerned, and now this next system is moving in. it's developing much across the south central u.s. it's headed toward the northeast, and along with it we'll see that wintry mix, heavy snow behind it, and then comes the art tick air and that art tick air will be settling down into the deep south as well. so when you take a look at our flight explorer and we get information from flight aware, we already had a thousand flights cancel in and out of the ...

Two storms for the uk and for wales. this is a big effect here. we are going to have waves of 40 to 50 feet along this coast, the west coast of from wales all the way back down toward the uk. a little bit farther away from london. we're not going to get the significant action in london. wind gusts of 0 miles per hour. think about that when you push the waves against the rocky shores. we'll see rainfall and snow in the higher elevations just north of dublin and north of glasgow, the wind, as well. this is wind gusts tonight. there are a lot of planes on the way to this area for tonight's landin...

mattresses. some senators agree. they're ought to be a law. >> our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby's bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. >> cnn's dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? >> reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn't realize as a new mom and ma...