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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....

effect there, and although a driving ban has now been lifted, local officials are urging people to stay off the roads, unless they absolutely have to. >> i'm asking people to still be cautious, and if you don't need to drive, please don't. >> and the winter travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans still stranded in airports across the country. almost every airline in the nation has bounced back from the storm, except southwest airlines. at this hour, southwest has canceled almost 60% of its flights for today. now, giving a new update this afternoon, on when they plan to ...

Enough snow has fallen on Western New York that schools need to be shut down for a 4th consecutive day.

Residents across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast hoping to get a jump start on spring cleaning this weekend will need to adjust their plans accordingly as a surge of Arctic air will get the gears of the lake-effect snow machine cranking once again. The Great Lakes have already produced some major snow events going back to the fall and early winter, including two historic lake-effect snowstorms that impacted the Buffalo, New York, area in November and December. While the incoming snow this

Search for those still missing. nbc's marissa para is on the ground with the latest. >> buffalo is in the process of thawing out. in terms of where what it looks like it, depends where you are. with the roads back open, the travel ban now reduced it a travel advisory, and we know the airport is back open. the railway system is back open. and in terms of what happens next, there is a lot of people still in the process of digging themselves out. we know that a lot of the main roads look very good. i want to show you something that really illustrates what lake effect snowstorms can do. take a loo...