been planning this vacation for about a year and a half now so to run into this road block it s frustrating. we re freaking out now because we re running out of time. reporter: i d be freaking out, too. in l.a. i m sure it feels lovely but that s what happens when new york, boston and chicago get hit so goes the rest of the country as well. speaking of the airports, pamela brown, who never speepz slooepz and on our phone reporting from sun-up to suncounsel i heard you with the corrections on the closures as opposed to the flight operations stop annuals at one of the airports in the area. can you run down the airport situation as it currently stands, pam? absolutely. bulk of these cancellations and delays we re seeing are at airports, major hubs in the midwest and northeast. at jfk airport the terminals are open so the airport is open but the flight operations are halted until at least 9:30 a.m. that could change. at this point the port authority telling us flight operations
into an accident. i was just praying to god nobody was going to die. from the roads to the skies, a little better news for those of you hoping to hop on airplanes today. more than 1,000 have been canceled nationwide, but that s down, just to put this in context. that is down from 1900 yesterday. so let s talk about what things look like outside. chad myers is nice and warm in the cnn weather center. fred, let s begin with you. i saw the alert from the national weather service. we re talking what record snowfall for today. reporter: yeah, record snowfalls forecasted today. already coming down, brooke, at jfk airport, at newark airport, and also here in central park. certainly a day to remember. there was a little snow, a lot of snow earlier today, especially around lunchtime. it has died down a little bit however, there is still precipitation coming down. also, new york city seems to be quite well prepared for all this. there have been salt-spreading
areas. and 6,000 cases of people or budget acknowledge bypassing government screeners. this comes after folks discovered two stun guns in a man s checked luggage on sunday, at j.f.k. airport in new york. two daze before that a cleaning crew found a stun gun left behind on a jetblue plane at newark airport. and earlier this month, officials accused a nigerian american man of getting interest a cross country many with an expired boarding pass issued in someone s else name. the transportation security agency says the breaches represent a small fraction of 1 percent of the billions of people who pass through the nasa s airports and a statement from the t.s.a. reads in part many of the instances were thwarted or discovered in the act. they were reported, investigated, and remedied. and it continues airports today are safer than ever before. and now, we have president of
comes open. and to many airline passengers, this one was not so funny. at jfk airport young children were allowed into the control tower and delivered the radio transmissions to pilots preparing for takeoff. clear for takeoff. clear for takeoff. thank you very much. have a great day. contact departure, adios. adios. adios amigos. jfk handles 1100 flights and 130,000 passengers each day. the faa has begun an investigation. meanwhile the controller and his supervisor have been suspended. sounds of the week. straight ahead we ll check in with our own sara haines. sarah, what do you have? if you ve ever sent a text message you ve regretted, i have just the solution for you.
families in harm s way, 21 percent of you are not so sure. go on and vote. martha: well, inexperienced air traffic controllers are now being blamed for a near collision in the sky over our nation s capitol, internal faa documents say a united airlines jet was within 15 seconds of hitting a business jet last monday. an on board warning system ordered the pilots to take evasive action but the ntsb says if the air traffic controllers had done the job properly that warning system probably would never have needed to be triggered in this situation. near collisions have been on the rise in the region as new controllers are training to replace a generation of retirees. that s unnerving. a scary story, it really is. here s another scary story, at jfk airport in new york city, things are back to normal but late last night a bomb scare forced police to shut down a terminal there. police say it was all because of a force alarm, blaming an anom nous phone call and unintended bag