A jagged ice rink but small powerful vessels like this one can break through up to 3 feet of that ice providing a clear path for other ships like those carrying heating oil. Something so many homes here in the northeast desperately need. Especially this winter. David . Adrienne bankert, our thanks to you. Next the storm leaving a travel mess. More than 5,000 Flights Canceled in just the last 24 hours. Take a look at new yorks jfk. Firefighting equipment on the tarmac as an American Airlines flight made an Emergency Landing because of an engine problem. Heres linsey davis on that story tonight. Reporter tonight After The Storm Tens Of Thousands of passengers still stranded from both coasts. Were stuck here another day. All the flights before us were canceled. Reporter at laguardia, the Thurston Family has battled cancellations for their flight to aruba since wednesday. Now were booked for tonights flight, but they had to break us all up, each parents flying with children individually, b
this is causing melting of the sea ice within this region and that is having ramifications, again, on our coastal cities. let s talk about charleston. i was there for hurricane dorian. saw the flooded streets with my own eyes. look at the increase in the average coastal flood events that have taking place in this city in the past two decades. we ve had 58 high tide flooding events in charleston. it s no secret, we re under a massive heat wave across the southeast. we ve shattered 20 record highs. it s never been this hot in augusta, mobile, new orleans, savannah. this is yesterday s record high temperatures in that area. we are all feeling it. we have one more day. atlanta, you re in the clear but it is still hot in places like louisiana and texas right now. crazy. all right. thank you. we re back to our top stories in just a moment, including the latest on the impeachment investigation. stay with us.
category threshold, sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. it edges closer to sheore. we have seen the sky illuminate bright green. i would be surprised if we hold onto our electricity for much longer here in common. we have seen some of the captains of the boat that are staying at the hotel that we are at. they re going to ride out from their storm and their boat are the most prized possession. robyn. good luck to them. let s talk about charleston and where you are. everybody visited charleston knows their topography and
we don t know how that s going to go. reporter: with new york s big three airports shut down for most of the day thursday more than 4,300 flights were canceled and dozens international flights to new york and boston had to divert to other airports. this singapore a-380, had to land at stewart air force base in new york, and 31 flights diverted to washington s dulles airport. we didn t have anywhere to go. reporter: some passengers trapped on the tarmac for hours as planes tried to find gates. some managed to make it out faced other problems. this american airlines flight from jfk to cancun, forced to make an emergency landing in the cold after takeoff due to an engine related issue. linsey back with us tonight. you were telling us some signs of life at laguardia but other airports remain closed? reporter: things are starting to get back to normal but more than 200 flights were canceled. let s talk about charleston, south carolina, that airport remains closed.
washington. but let s talk about charleston, south carolina, the racist murderer who was convicted of killing nine worshippers in that church has been sentenced to death. we ll talk live to a woman who lost her mother and two cousins. she has been in that courtroom each and every day. what she thinks of the outcome. coming up.