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Comprehensive as usual. thank you very much. we will check back in with you a little later, janice, don't go anywhere. freezing rain and snow hitting chicago. raking havoc on holiday travels. more than 400 flights already cancelled at chicago airports. fox 32 chicago reporter elizabeth matthews is live at the chicago's o'hare airport. elizabeth? >> this winter storm, this winter mess that moved through early this morning. and it's still going on outside. here at o'hare we have had 900 cancellations across the country we have had thousands of cancellations. the bulk of them happening in chicago...

On halloween, i think it was 1994. they were in a holding pattern on the way in to o'hare. ice slowly builds up. and the autopilot just clicks off with no warning when the ice ridges get too big, and the pilots are startled by the loss of the autopilot and they don't recover. there are other cases in which it's postulated that heavy use of the autopilot makes some of your basic flying skills disappear. they wither away. on the other hand the only way you can have a multihour multicontinent flight is with the autopilot. you can't stand there with the yoke or sit there with the yoke and the rudd...

Triggering a sly of delays at the airport on the major holiday travel day and if you are trying to drive through the storm good luck. you can see how the blizzard conditions forced cars and trucks to kid off the roads and a state patrol captain has advise. for the holidays folks want to hit the roads early and if you could delay it by a day that would be great. it will be a time before things are cleaned up. >>gregg: more than 1,000 flights were canceled and we see fewer cancellations today but plenty of delays. we go like to o'hare in moments but, first, rick is standing by in the weather cen...

Glad to have you along today. you can expect a lot of company out on the highway and in the air. aaa predicts more than 92 million americans will travel at least 50 miles over the holiday week. it makes it one of the busiest travel times of the year. nbc stephanie stanton is at chicago's o'hare airport. are things picking up out there? >> well, good morning, contessa. you know, things are dying down a little bit. much busier a few hours ago as people were trying to get out this morning so they could be with their families in the afternoon and evening. some 2.7 million people will hit the skies...

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