amtrak has a few seats available. now out to chicago to ted rowlands. reporter: we are in the united command center, what an awesome operation here. if you re traveling by air, you re not alone. this is all of the united flights up in the air right now. talk a look at this. this is a taxi monitor, these are people that are trapped on the tarmac. you think my fwogosh they ve forgotten about us. they haven t. there are deicing problems in houston, figuring it out. alex marin is senior vice president, bottom line will people get home for thanksgiving? you bet, ted. we re in great shape despite a little bit of weather from mother nature, we are looking good to get our 400,000 travelers home for thanksgiving. reporter: big problems carolen othe east coast but you heard it from alex, they re getting home for thanksgiving. she has a lot of hope, i like that, glass half full. hope she s right. even if you plan on staying at home and kicking pack on the couch, this nasty weather syste
department, maybe not as nice as the cnn weather center. their own weather forecasters and they re monitoring the weather in detail, jim, as you were saying there s potential for ice. planes coming in with ice on the wings that had to be de-iced. just minor de-icing at this point, not large scale that you would see in i an large snowstorm. it does lead to some delays but we ll manage through it. on this map over here, it s called a taxi monitor. there are no planes up there. which is a good thing. that means you re sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off. and you know, you re sitting on the tarmac and think nobody cares, they do care here, doing everything they can to get you up in the air. it is fascinating all the behind the scenes work that goes on whether it s crew scheduling, desizing, getting planes to where they want to be. the headline i guess, jim, is that so far so good today. the weather was not as bad as they predicted.