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The east side of manhattan, we're told from a source that he said he thought he had a window in all of that weather, about five to seven-minute window to take off. once he got actually in the air and started making his way around the lower part of manhattan and up the west side, there was some communication back to the heliport at some point that he needed to come back. and we're being told then the last communication this pilot had with the heliport was that he was unsure of his location or he had some visibility issues, but that seems to be the last communication, at least from the people th...

From the island and south. >> because the statue of liberty is way down here. >> you've got la guardia way off to the right and they've got visibility issues. and it's possible it could have tried to come over central park and then fly south, and then i'm way off the screen and almost out of the studio with where the stathe statue of liberty is. it comes north and has a problem -- >> so this building is the 104th tallest building in the country. it's not anywhere close to being the tallest building in m manhattan. but if it's encountering some problems it's pretty tall. maybe the pilot is look...

Has a car in front of it or in the drive way. so that's kind of telling me that it hit so hard, people had no time. >> i mean, i understand it's not just the flames and the wind, the smoke is also causing significant difficulties. >> yes and no. during the course of this fire, after that particular firestorm went through, we have what's called an inversion layer. the coal holds the smoke down close to the ground. sometimes we do have visibility issues, and that would hamper our aircraft efforts at times. again, we've had all the resources, aircraft. they pump 331,000 gallons of retardant out o...

If there are drainage issues, you want to be careful. as far as air travel goes, if you are on a very early flight that was a good move. because things look good right now. however, we are expecting those delays to build up throughout the day. we're going to be paying special attention to new york city airports, chicago, as well as atlanta, we're talking about heavy rain in the northeast, possibly some fog, so we'll have some visibility issues. at this hour the big picture here, we are inching at this early hour towards the 2,000 mark, as it relates to delays. over 400 cancellations. but again...

Be a messy commute, it's going to be a messy ride if you're going by car. as far as air goes, you're going to see delays today. and the national outlook, what it looks like right now, we're talking about creeping close to 2,000 delays at this hour. again, it's still pretty early. so all the boards like here at reagan, they look good. i'm seeing many flights are on time. however, you see cancellations at the obvious places like mississippi, where those deadly tornadoes touched down yesterday. so we see cancellations there. we're also seeing some cancellations, just a sprinkling, maine and india...