you have those delays and cabslations mounting with those who rearranged plans. and you get a crowd like this. we talked to one mom in particular. they were trying to go to boston. they wanted to leave tomorrow night. at the last minute she went this is too dicey and rescheduled that flight for today. take a listen. it s important to get where you re going by christmas, i would change your plans now. and maybe you ll be able to get out tomorrow morning, but if you haven t done it, you should plan on spending christmas wherever you are because you re not going anywhere. reporter: that s what experts are saying. we appreciate her take as a frequent traveler. experts say if you can leave early, do so. that goes for the hundreds of millions of americans hitting the road and roughly the 7 million americans planning to fly if that comes to fruition, it would be a post pandemic record just colliding with this chaos thanks to the winter storm. back to you. i hope you re not spending
country are under winter storm watches, warnings of what is expected to be the worst prechristmas storm in decades. the national weather service sounded the alarm for travellers to prepare for considerable travel impacts as the arctic cold sets in. i want to bring in maggie vespa from chicago o hare airport. at least you re indoors. talk to me about the delays. reporter: we re happy to be indoors, even if this is the scene behind us. you can see the line behind me there. it s always crowded at o hare. especially during the holidays. that line back there is filled with people who are having issues already with their flights. delays and cabslations already stacking up out west. you also combined that with people who are heeding the warnings and they moved their flights up to try to beat this storm. the airlines have waved reboxing fees. they have been asking people it they are flying on thursday or friday to try to move that up and to get ahead of the storm.