renee marsh is joining us just outside of washington, d.c. what are you seeing there? reporter: i can tell you today so far more than 1,500 flight cancellations and for tomorrow seeing nearly 400. if you have been trying to get to your destination and you think you have been hearing the c word a lot, cancellation chances are because we have been seeing it a lot. analysts say this has been one of the worst months when you look at recent years. been cancelled until 6:00 a.m. in the morning. this isn t our first rodeo. we ll get through it. reporter: this season cancelled flights have become synonymous with the wicked winter weather. airline data company says nearly 50,000 u.s. flights were cancelled last month alone, about four times more than the past two years.
inches of snow so far this winter. the normal for the whole season is only about 2 feet. driving there was tough on monday. it could be even worse later today. all right, this morning the airlines are scrambling to recover after thousands of flights were canceled by the snow. a few hundred more still grounded for today, and that s just so far. this morning those who were stuck at the airport, they are hoping, hoping to get out and get back home. we found out that we were flight had been canceled until 6:00 a.m. in the morning. this isn t our first rodeo, so you know, we know about this, but we ll get through it. not their first rodeo. it s not our last rodeo. there s more coming! chad myers tracking this storm for us. hey, chad. you know, i m going to grab phil by the collar and tell old punxsutawney that i really would like him to see his not see his shadow next time. there s the low right there, moving up the east coast. that s where it s going right there. if you are a
flawed concept, fundamentally flawed piece of legislation, and i think the damage that it is doing and will do, if we continue down this path is enormous. we have been significantly expanded the role of the federal government, federal government is good at some things but not others. and, frankly, i i have difficulty understanding how they are going to recover from this. i don t think there s some magic tweak or some piece of legislation that can be passed. it is going to repair it. it is a bad, badly flawed piece of legislation that should never have been passed in the first place and was passed under extraordinary circumstances where it was never given careful consideration. big picture, republican party, looking at the tea party. governor christie s big victory in new jersey. senator ted cruz. what s your thought? well, this isn t our first rodeo. so to speak. not going to remember the reagan-ford years.
flawed concept, fundamentally flawed piece of legislation, and i think the damage that it is doing and will do, if we continue down this path is enormous. we have been significantly expanded the role of the federal government, federal government is good at some things but not others. and, frankly, i i have difficulty understanding how they are going to recover from this. i don t think there s some magic tweak or some piece of legislation that can be passed. it is going to repair it. it is a bad, badly flawed piece of legislation that should never have been passed in the first place and was passed under extraordinary circumstances where it was never given careful consideration. big picture, republican party, looking at the tea party. governor christie s big victory in new jersey. senator ted cruz. what s your thought? well, this isn t our first rodeo. so to speak. not going to remember the reagan-ford years.
it was the spray and sand that crushed so many people back here just all over the sides of the buildings here. in fact, it was the bay side, bill and jeff, that got the worst of it, not the ocean side. so many cars are literally covered, coated in sand in this area. some of the people say the bay met the ocean. they re separated by 12 blocks but literally at the low lying places the water swept right through. 35,000 people who live here, there was a mandatory evacuation in place. the good news is 90% of them heeded that warning but right now i think they have the hurricane equivalent of cabin peer and everybody felt a need to come back out and check it out themselves. your correspondent and colleague up there in rhode island. ron blome is out there. still seeing fierce winds coming onshore. what an amazing scene behind you. a lot haven t seen the ocean that angry, ron. it certainly has changed when talking to some of the longtime residents they say this isn t