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Just in from houston where the lightning and storms that we experienced earlier this morning took their toll on a home in the city, sparked a fire. that's the type of weather we were dealing that caused ground stops. there a back log of planes trying to get in and out of those airports and there's a ripple effect across the country. most of the problems are associated with houston and dallas. i have some personal experience with this, have a sister in town, a 7:00 flight this morning left at 10:15. again, with all of these planes full or near 100% capacity, anyoneho misses a connection or who ...

Flights today. laguardia, 200 flights. the worst weather in new york city comes in after the evening rush. now let's take you live to cleveland. look at the snow out here. talk about a white-out. we've got winds here on the lake front gusting to 43 miles an hour. it's 22 degrees. the windchill is 6. then in chicago, where we've had a bit of an overachiever the top number there coming in 18 inches of snow. most of the morning, midway and o'hare were under ground stops. over 1,000 flights canceled since monday. more to come tomorrow. so it's been bad there, but the snow is going to be winding do...

Right now. placing millions of people under a tornado watch. we're talking some of the biggest cities on the east coast. chad myers tracking the storm for us. chad, what's the latest? >> john, an awful lot of airports in the way of this, too. ground stops, jfk, newark. we have seen it all, many areas now, at least two hours delay. a shutdown, lady liberty. it doesn't look bad now, but weather to the west. we'll update you in the next half hour. >> thanks so much for that. all right, top of the hour now, i'm john berman, in for brooke baldwin. just a short time ago, house speaker john boehner...

The cnn weather center. he joins us now. what's going on, chad? >> let me explain what ground stop means to the lay person out there that doesn't get this. this means that if you're on an airplane and you're wanting to fly to laguardia and you're somewhere around the new york city metro area, your plane is going to sit there on the tarmac waiting for this ground stop to leave. not everywhere, planes can still leave from far away destinations like l.a. and phoenix, those places, but the close destinations have to hold, they have to sit there and not try to get in the air because they don't want...

And we'll show you on radar that cell across north carolina, just to kind of put it -- or south carolina, rather, just to put it in perspective for you. this is the one that produced the tornado and another cell follow shortly behind it. we have severe weather going on at this hour across the mid-atlantic states. a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of maryland, virginia, and the delmarva peninsula. really intense storms moving through washington, d.c. and baltimore both right now. we've got a plethora of delays as well as ground stops. planes not taking off. baltimore, laguardia, p...