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another across the country today. more than 200 million americans under windchill alerts and holiday travel plans are getting much more complicated by the hour for so many people. life-threatening cold has pushed all the way to the gulf coast and the mexico border and with more than 70 million americans facing temperatures below zero today, blizzard warnings remain in effect for more than 11 million people, mostly near the great lakes. areas near buffalo could see up to three feet of snow. they ve been getting walloped already this season and making matters worse, the damaging winds that knocked out power for more than a million customers from texas to new england, all of this is wreaking havoc on typically one of the busiest travel days of the year. more than 3,900 flights have been canceled. more than 3,700 others have been delayed. reporters are covering all of this for you this hour. let s start with our
nationwide and pales in comparison to what we saw yesterday, 2600 cancellations nationwide according to flightaware. the cancellation board, the biggest hub for united airlines. more and more new airports that were previously untouched by this storm keep showing up on this list, laguardia is up really high on the list as is detroit, that s a large hub for delta air lines, about 40% of all flights have been canceled there. the storm is moving east impacting d.c., philadelphia, newark, jfk, the list goes on, boston, so if you were trying to get out from the east coast today you may experience delays and cancellation, not just because of the snow, not just because of the cold but also because of the wind. the cold, though, is a really big factor here and i want you to listen to pete buttigieg who echoed what united airlines told me the other day that the cold is really what s slowing things down for ground crews that makes it hard for them to work to get the airplane moving, loading
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coming from the north. this arctic air really starting to surge down, bringing us the polar plunge we are expecting across much of the country. the thing is it s also not just cold temperatures it s also wind too. a lot of the wind is not only making that temperature feel colder. you ll often hear the windchill we use to describe it but also any of these areas where you re getting snow that is taking that snow and blowing it across the roads bringing visibility down even more. some places as low as a quarter of a mile visibility. so the concern there, too, is reducing visibility and making it even more treacherous to be out on the roads. we also talked about the fact that it s really cold out here. but here s the thing, for some cities say, for example, denver, dallas or new orleans, they will start to rebound as early as saturday. but for much of the eastern u.s., say, new york, d.c., atlanta, we really wasn t see