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>> reporter: hey, ari, we've been here all day and seen the gamut of what you can experience in travel from lightning and thunderstorms here this morning when caused a ground stop, not just here at dfw, but also in houston to the relatively light traffic that we're seeing now as this transitions from more of an end of a holiday type of travel day to more business people starting to go back for their meetings and business tomorrow. but what we saw here and in houston, those brown stops, even though they were lifted shortly it thereafter, it really impacted travel and rippled across the rest of ...

That set in motion a series of delays that have rippled across the country. i want to show you the current what we call misery map of air travel today and you can see that houston is the worst but as the system moves to the east atlanta is a close second, here in dallas they are recovering somewhat and as these storms move east we're seeing heavy rain in new orleans, a major air travel center as well so there could potentially be problems there later today. and it's not just these cities that we've mentioned. say you're flying from florida to houston you'll be traveling through the stuff movin...

The road. a second skidding out of control. forcing those in the first car to run for their lives. a reminder from state troopers on the dangers of winter driving. >> and for people who did not travel early this morning or this afternoon, there is more trouble ahead tonight, kate, because this system is moving along the gulf coast, impacting places like louisiana, mississippi, alabama. let's take a look at the current misery map, as it's called, for air travelers, where we saw houston and dallas, the worst places this morning. now it's kind of shifted to the east. if you're going through atlan...

Severe storms sweeping across the country making travel headaches for those trying to return home from the holidays. let's get to dallas/ft. worth international. ich is worth noting, even if you're not near dallas, it's a major hub airport. if it has cancellations, you'll feel it all over the country. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, ali. also in houston, the hub for united airlines, we are seeing its spokes, dallas, chicago, newa, because of what happened there and this morning where we had lightning and severe storms move there. they're now moving to the east. i want to give you a look...

Air. not so much on the roads. peter? >> always a good sign when there is green on the misery map. ron mott outside helping us out today. thank you very much. mall mayhem across the country yesterday. fights breaking out at several shopping centers. >> oh, my god! >> there is a look at it. in some places police in riot gear were called in. nbc's morgan radford in garden city, new york. one of the sites of the fhts where they erupted yesterday. morgan, do we have a sense of what might have started the fights? was there a connection between them on social media or elsewhere? were these just inde...