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Out at 4:30, and yesterday we called change to be on an earlier flight. and so when i saw the snow, i thought, oh, good, we're on an earlier flight. if we get delayed, at least we'll get there. >> rachel, john, and their slightly camera-shy son didn't take any chances. for many travelers, weather is top of mind as a winter storm threatens to snarl travel from the east coast to the midwest. >> we were monitoring the weather a little bit, and we're thinking we're going to be okay. >> reporter: so far at least 15,000 flights have been delayed this weekend. more than a thousand canceled, all accor...

Ice dams have been breaking as temperatures continue to rise. it is quite a different story here in the northeast, however, which is bracing for its first sub zero windchills and even more snow. it comes after yesterday's blast that shut down schools, cancelled flights and triggered countless accidents. abc's marci gonzalez has the latest. >> reporter: a white slushy mess across much of the northeast. virginia to new england getting a wallop of winter-like weather with as much as seven inches of snow falling in some areas. >> i worked in it 35 years in the show, in the airport. so it was hor...

It is quite a different story here in the northeast, however, which is bracing for its first sub zero windchills and even more snow. it comes after yesterday's blast that shut down schools, cancelled flights and triggered countless accidents. abc's marci gonzalez has the latest. >> reporter: a white slushy mess across much of the northeast. virginia to new england getting a wallop of winter-like weather with as much as seven inches of snow falling in some areas. >> i worked in it 35 years in the show, in the airport. so it was horrible. >> reporter: fred schmitt knows the headaches they were f...

So we have christine live at the magic wall keeping an eye on where the air is hurting us the most. >> it's right here, but that will have a ripple effect across the country. this is a live map from plane finder.net. this is right now what we're seeing in the country. you can see how crowded it is. the orange planes are your commercial flights. red, that's cargo planes. there are 1463 flights right now in the air over the united states. this is the misery map. it is from flightaware.com. just shows you how miserable it is depending on where you are and the focus right now, new york city as we'...

I swapped it for staying in. [ shouts ] guess who's going out tomorrow. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. it is so good. flight delays and cancellations are piling up as a thanksgiving storm sweeps across the east coast. at least 200 flights have already been canceled today according to flightaware.com. that pushes the total flights canceled this week to more than 1500. nbc's katy tur is at laguardia airport in new york city. how are things there? >> reporter: laguardia is not so bad. across the country, though, about 239 flights canceled, hundreds of others delayed. ...