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Hundreds of flights cancelled in the new york metro area due to poor visibility and blowing snow. we look at la guardia airport, it has 190 cancellations so far. 120 at jfk. 274 at newark liberty. but if logan is any indication here, things should start to improve and that ripple effect will have a lower effect across the country. now, flight aware, their misery map shows the hot spots around the nation. take a look. most of the misery is concentrated here in the northeast. atlanta and chicago. you can just see some of the places there, the round circles on your map. okay, let's get to msnbc's...

Cots to sleep on. the rest of them have been sleeping on the ground here just waiting and waiting and waiting >> yikes. i guess it looks comfortable enough if you have to spend a night at an airport. poppy harlow, really appreciate it. getting out of new york still a messy proposition. the question is, how is the rest of the country doing. >> especially with a domino effect of canceled flights in rene marsh is in washington. give us a sense of which airports have been hit the worst? >> you just heard poppy say it, waiting and waiting. big picture, the numbers are looking like this. total delay...

>> here's a snapshot. more than 2,000 cancellations so far today and nearly 3,000 delays. you saw ted out there. it looks miserable. if you're traveling it's miserable too, especially if you're going by air and in the problem areas. this is flightaware's misery map. very fitting title. if you look at new york city, large percentage of cancellations and delays, same thing with d.c. same thing in massachusetts. this map is only looking at a four-hour block. at this hour as i speak to you in realtime, in chicago, they are seeing the most number of cancellations and delays. 2378 delays, 31 cancell...

Trying to fly and you're in a problem area. this is our misery map here. and this is looking at a four-hour span. you can see that new york city, it's in the thick of things. d.c. and chicago also seeing problems. those are top airports where we're seeing the most cancellations and delays within a four-hour period. jfk, we know that operations suspended. laguardia airport, we know that they continue with their operations. however, if you're flying in there, don't be surprised if your flight is diverted because they're having visibility issues. at newark, we're also seeing hundreds of cancellat...

Cnn's rene marsh is at the magic wall watching it all. the magic can't make all these problems go away. what can you tell us? >> it certainly can't. these are all the airplanes in the sky as we speak to you right now. more than 5,000. but don't let this picture fool you. there are plenty of planes that cannot get off the ground. we will look real-time at some numbers. these numbers specifically for the hours of 3:00 p.m. eastern time to 7:00 p.m. eastern time, this is called the misery map because a lot of people at these airports are downright miserable. this is by flight aware. you can see n...