ahead on cnn newsroom. hundreds if not thousands of americans who are stranded all across the nation are unable to get home. i have no clothes. i have nothing. i have no way to get home. i m beyond frustrated. it hurt because i can t see my dad. i ve lived here my entire life. i remember the blizzard of 77. it was worse. anyone who declares victory and says it s over, it s still a dangerous situation to be out. announcer: live there loren done, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast where thousands of people are stranded at airports after months of arctic storms that pummelled much of the country over the holiday weekend. if you re planning to travel into the new year holiday you could be impacted. the flight tracking website flight aware shows more than 2700 total cancellations occurred in the u.s. today and of those 90% are southwest airlines flights.
you toss in rain on saturday, sunday, monday on top of the heavy snow with a dramatic warmup of temperatures in the 50s we ll have water in businesses and homes. could be a disaster. now out west here comes the next storm. an atmospheric river. it s a fire hose. not one storm, several will bring in heavy amounts of rainfall, heavy mountain snows measured by the meter and the amount of rainfall we ll see will drop into southern california. yes, we ll need it but this will lead to major flash flooding. the first major winter storm in this region. a generational storm is coming to an end. back to you. the republican party is set to retake control of the u.s. house in just a week, but it may not be a smooth start. kevin mccarthy struggled to secure the house speaker position has delayed the naming of members to top committee posts. cnn is keeping a close eye on any new developments. republican leadership has been
canada. it s little more than a post tropical cyclone but has bruised the eastern united states with property damage, flooding, and power outages. at least 20 deaths have been linked to the storm. more than four million customers still don t have electricity. businesses have a lot of clean willi ing up to do. the governor of virginia expects more reports of damage and death today. a state police official in flooded out vermont is afraid of what his crews might discover. the flooding s really bad in vermont this morning. now that the storm has moved out, business owners in new jersey have serious cleaning up to do. irene s rain forced a river out of its banks and into downtown mi millburn. business owners are mopping up floors and basements that are full of water. we have more from mill burn. what s it look like, chris? reporter: good morning, carol. you know, things look a lot better here on the streets of millburn. they don t sound quite right. [ alarm ] reporter: the