welcome back. you're watching msnbc. happening now, a major winter storm packing snow and freezing rain. the worst. well, it's pushing eastward. so get ready. the storm hit the northern plains and the great lakes, downing power lines, causing highway pile-ups and thousands and thousands of flight cancellations. morgan radford is at chicago's o'hare airport, where more than 1,300 flights were grounded. morgan, with the exception of frustration, anger, maybe desperation, what's the situation there now? >> reporter: we're seeing all of it here now. in fact, hundreds of flights canceled this morning. nearly half of them right here in chicago. but interestingly, stephanie, that's actually a relief compared to the thousands that were canceled over the weekend. you can see passengers here behind me. many of them scrambling to book on later flights. some telling me they have to buy