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At the vatican, pope francis celebrated christmas eve mass at st. peter's basilica. his message: god loves everyone, even the worst of us. here at home, shoppers filled the stores. and by one estimate, 74 million americans waited until the last day to buy at least some of their christmas presents. christmas eve travel came to a halt in chicago today-- when fog shut down both city airports. mola lenghi has been following the holiday getaway-- and leads us off tonight. >> reporter: at airports across the country this morning there was the final push to make it to holiday destinations. by the aft...

Here in terminal b at laguardia airport and you can see it's relatively quiet systemwide. forecast today as the least busy of the travel season. there are some last-minute passengers that are arriving and there was one glitch today early this morning. fog resulted in a ground halt for all incoming parts of my flights at chicago's o'hare and midway airport. operations there have now returned to normal but in total 87 consolations at o'hara making for a total of 158 at that location alone. the airline industry predicts that overall this will be a record-breaking holiday season for air travel, th...

Through security, the sign indicates a seven wait right now i'm a short time ago it was 11 minutes and it is expected to go down further as the day progresses. in there is some bad news today, this coming out of chicago, some of the most recent pictures they are them a very heavy fog this morning in chicago and that resulted in a ground stop both midway and o'hare airports for all incoming flights. as of now, 61 flights at midway have been canceled, three at o'hare. meanwhile today in total this holiday season, at least 7 million americans are expected to fly, a 5% increase over last year. the...

To travel but later this week is when you have to brace yourself. thursday and friday they are forecasting the busiest travel days of the holiday season with 2.9 million passengers on u.s. carriers. there was one glitch today as you mentioned that was worth noting. heavy fog in chicago halted all incoming flights at both oh o'hare and midway airport. operations have since returned to normal but chicago as we all know too well is a significant hub and there have been significant cancellations there at o'hare and midway today alone, we are told at 162 cancellations that have affected the system ...

Right. it's going to be a busy holiday season. we are here at the grover cleveland service area. it's certainly been a popular place for folks to stop before their final destinations. behind me ask tis the new jerse turnpike. you see the cars whizzing past me. it's been like this all morning long. so far no problems to report. things will take a turn. according to aaa, december 26th and 27th travel times might double or even triple in some major cities between the hours of 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. so keep that in mind. overall congestion this week should be done because, as you know, the kid does ar...