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Interstates are not. look at flight aware. total delays just today over 8700. total cancellations just today over 5400. and over 3,000 cancellations going in and out of the u.s. as far as the entire world. over 9,000 cancellations right now and at o'hare, it's racking up. we are seeing cancellations that are beginning in the low 100s. you know that's going to get worse throughout the day as we hunker down. sun is not up. and we may not go above zero here today in chicago. we're under that winter warning freeze until christmas eve. what a nasty time for this all to happen. but, you know somethi...

Today they're having to pivot their plans in a big way. i talked to one passenger who has changed her flight three times, has had three cancellations, in fact, had to switch airports, take an uber from midway here to o'hare. listen. >> it's really frustrating, but i'm just glad that i was able to get here. the uber ride took me an hour and 45 minutes to get here from midway to o'hare and you've just got to do what you've got to do just to get home for the holidays. >> reporter: this is so, so difficult for the airlines, also so, so difficult for shipping companies like u.p.s., fedex, the unite...

Airport. i imagine the frustration grows, is that's what's going on? >> 3,240 is what we're seeing across the country in terms of cancellations. yesterday we saw only 600 cancellations nationwide. this is really changing as the storm is moving east. today it was primarily focused in the midwest and the west. today it will be the airports in the east. laguardia ranks top as the number of cancellations. seattle, here at o'hare and mud way. detroit, 42% of all flights have been cancelled. it's a major hub for delta airlines. also we'll see cancellations climbing in boston and d.c. the faa says wh...

Delay delays have also begun to boost up. more than 3400. that is more than a thousand just compared to yesterday. more than a thousand flight cancellations more than what we saw on thursday. and just real big numbers. the highest cancellations in terms of airports we're seeing them at la guardia, seattle tacoma and detroit and boston and o'hare and midway airports and the faa considering halting or restricting traffic at airports across the country. not already on the west coast we're seeing those effects. the international airport had a ground stop due to snow and ice. seattle was under a si...

Pete, there is nothing worse showing up at airport, you packed your bags and brought the kids and you see canceled by your flight. what do the numbers look like now? >> reporter: the good news here, jim, is that airlines in large part are preemptively canceling flights. meaning that folks are finding out on their phone before they get to the airport which is one of the reasons why we've seen the numbers dwindle here. 3576 cancellations nationwide. we're almost more than a thousand over what we saw yesterday. 2600 nationwide. we've dwarfed that number as the storm not only effects the midwest b...