month due to omicron cases along with the ongoing shortages for staffing at all of these airlines, travelers are just really feeling the brunt of it, and along comes this nor easter, causing all of those cancellations. and those numbers are pretty hard to believe. new york officials saying more than 76% of flights were canceled at jfk. 98% of flights were canceled here at laguardia yesterday, and newark airport saw 85% of their flights canceled on friday. it s more than 4,000 total across the country, canceled yesterday alone. and things are not looking that much better today. flight aware saying 2,600 delays already this morning and around 1,300 cancellations. this in addition to all of the problems that have been seen along the roads due to blizzard conditions in the northeast, just another trouble spot for all of these people, trying to get to their destinations. here s what some of the folks had to say. the visibility you can t
they re pretty used to this frustration. what a month it s been with all of the problems they have been seeing. if you think about first we had omicron during the holiday travel rush, along with the ongoing staff shortages that airlines have continued to see. now, this nor easter causing this whole new fresh set of problems. you guys mentioned the cancellations. 98% of flights were canceled here from laguardia yesterday. it was not much better for other airports in the region. 4,000 cancellations nationwide on saturday. and not looking a whole lot better today. flight aware says nationwide there have been 7700 delays so far. 2700 cancellations. people are still dealing with, and that s in addition to all of the problems we have seen on the road. travelers are saying that they re pretty fed up with it, trying to find the bright spots, though. here s what some had to say today. come into new york, we did have a delay, but so far so good. we don t have any delays going
when you have winds topping 20 miles per hour, you know this system is powerful and a bomb cyclone it was. it actually was so strong in terms o the winds that it toppled over these electrical pol poles and causing 1.2 million customers are to be without power today. this will stay through the early parts of the weekend. anywhere you see the shaded green, minor to moderate for many locations. winds are creating havoc at a lot of airplanes orts as well. 61 flights cancelled add laguardia yesterday. the coastal flood threat is still a concern because high tides are coming every twelve hour. let s clap for all the pilots safely landed those planes, right? no kidding. derek, thank you. all right, europe also is
been there? it would be in the water. look at this, live pictures of laguardia trying to get the plane off that runway. major backups across the u.s. because of flights being canceled at laguardia yesterday. fascinating to see this. will ripley gives us an update from laguardia. none and christine, throughout the overnight hours, work continuing here to move that delta flight off of the runway where it landed slid about 4,000 feet and ended just dangerously close to the icy water. delta 1086. we saw pictures coming in of two large cranes that were intending to lift the aircraft turn it around and bring it into a hangar. as the ntsb continues to investigate how this happened. passengers describe a really terrifying scenario as this plane from atlanta was coming in on thursday morning, around 11:00. shortly after 11:00. they say there was no traction. they felt a thud they were thrown and then the plane just
succeeded also have some responsibility to give back and invest in infrastructure, invest in unemployment insurance so people can have a leg up. no one is disparaging folks that are successful. okay, let s switch gears here and get to our second topic about vice president joe biden s less than complimentary comments about laguardia yesterday. let s take a listen. if i blindfolded one and took them 2:00 in the morning to the airport in hong kong and said, where do you think you are, this must be america, it s a modern airport. if i took you and blindfolded you to laguardia airport in new york, you must think i must be in some third-world country. i m not joking. okay, then i shouldn t laugh, but jamelle, is that okay for the vice president to say that? absolutely. i mean, you could be proud of your country, you can hold your country in a lot of esteem and recognize that your country has a lot of problems, and the united states, one of our big