communities, people are taking different approaches, maybe they re going to stay with , they re staying at evacuation centers. it s still a tense situation, but i will say it appears relief is on the way, the winds have died down, we are not seeing those 85 mile per hour wind gusts or above 100 mile per hour wind gusts. and then also something i should mention, snow is expected to move in, so it s really this weather whiplash we re seeing here. yesterday fire, today snow. so hopefully relief, but regardless the path of destruction is done, hundreds of people will be moving returning to their homes to find them completely charred and reduced to rubble, yasmin. wow. just devastating images there. emilie, seek safety for now, thank you for joining us, we will talk to you again at the top of the hour and please stay safe amidst all of the weather there. thank you. so i want to go a few miles away from where emilie is to the mayor of superior, colorado,
gusts topping 100 miles per hour, and then parched ground. this area is in an extreme drought, just 1.6 inches of rain since august. this community dealing with a lot right now, yasmin. so, emilie, talk me through a couple things, a lot of folks are worried about the people who have had to evacuate their homes. are they safe and sound? where why they evacuated to, and did they get enough time to get out? you know, i think we re still waiting to answer that last question. if you listen to the dispatch and the chaos yesterday, you will hear them talking about people running on foot away from the fires, or the flames coming up to people s doorsteps. the flames coming near a hotel with residents speeding out. we saw snarled lines of traffic, people trying to evacuate, entire communities trying to evacuate, but just because of how quickly the winds pushed the fire into some of these
the economy and travel. i think that the numbers here at 9:00 a.m. out east, it s only 6:00 a.m. out west, there s already more than 1,200 canceled flights today alone. look out in denver, already today 245 flights in denver international airport that have already been canceled. you are seeing this over the course of the last more than a week. just look at these numbers. yesterday more than 1,400 canceled flights, seattle was so hard hit by the winter storms over this last week, today 300 canceled flights. you are seeing a backlog of americans who are trying to travel across this country, who frankly cannot. here in the greater new york city area, the airports here more than 300 canceled flights just yesterday. and this is really two-pronged, one, the weather, you are seeing winter storm frida hitting colorado, new mexico, arizona also in the midwest, iowa, nebraska. it will be making its way we re talking about winter wind chills, we re talking about snow
and sleet. that is going to be hitting michigan and iowa today. it will be making its way to ohio and new york tomorrow, but also we re talking about omicron here. we re talking about these airliners who have been very direct in saying they frankly do not have the staffing because of shortages in order to maintain their airlines, noting that they canceled it. tsa has already tripled the number of its tsa agents over the last week that are out and in just the last hour the faa stating they are expecting further delays and cancellations because of their own staffing issues. yasmin? so we re talking about staff shortages on the airlines of course affecting travel across the board. tsa as well. priscilla, with that i want to go to you. you re looking at new york city obviously the center it seems for celebrations when it comes to new year s eve, right, paramedics, fire, police have all been affected by omicron, the subway shutting down as well on this new year s eve. how are they prepari
gusts making it nearly impossible for fire crews to fight the flames. as the fire moved so quickly, the length of a football field gone in seconds. at least six people are injured and officials saying the fire likely started after the raging wind gusts brought down power lines. i want to go right to emily ekada standing by for us in lewisville, colorado. emily, talk us through what you ve been seeing as you ve been there. reporter: yasmin, i will say it s hard to put into words the degree of devastation we re seeing in these neighborhoods. as you mentioned we just came from one in louisville, the homes reduced to rubble, we re seeing charged out vehicles, trees, and then small hot spots scattered about. it really is quite apocalyptic looking and the sun is still not even up yet. you will expect we will get to understand the gravity of the damage even more so once the