verified ways viewers can provide help for colorado wildfire victims. you can visit cnn.com/impact. now, airlines have cancelled more than 1,000 u.s. flights today. the website flightaware.com says many were on the east coast. both the omicron variant and a fast moving winter storm are impacting the region. cnn s pete muntean has more. reporter: airlines are once again axing flights by the thousands, this time, thanks to the latest snowstorm hitting airports up the east coast. new york s laguardia airport is facing eight new inches of snow. if i got stuck here then i probably wouldn t be as happy. but as long as i get home i ll be okay. i won t make it in time, i cancelled my flight. i ll try to see hopefully tomorrow if i can find something. reporter: but it s winter weather along with airline shortages that have led to a perfect storm of cancellations
washington, the mayor declaring the city a disaster after 26 inches of snow fell. emergency crews, slid off its foundation, trapping him inside. heavy rains triggered this landslide. it knocked a home 15 to 20 feet down a hill. and then at the same time, you saw the flames there. a ruptured propane tank started a fire. a woman was able to get out on her own. sadly, one of her dogs died. another is still missing. airlines cancelled more than 1,000 u.s. flights today. if you re traveling please check your itinerary. the website flightaware.com, a lot on the east coast here, both the omicron variant and a big storm are the factors. the latest wave pushed the total of air flights by all airlines since christmas, 28,000.
be a messy commute, it s going to be a messy ride if you re going by car. as far as air goes, you re going to see delays today. and the national outlook, what it looks like right now, we re talking about creeping close to 2,000 delays at this hour. again, it s still pretty early. so all the boards like here at reagan, they look good. i m seeing many flights are on time. however, you see cancellations at the obvious places like mississippi, where those deadly tornadoes touched down yesterday. so we see cancellations there. we re also seeing some cancellations, just a sprinkling, maine and indianapolis, most of that is an issue or function of heavy dense fog so we re having some visibility issues. so wide range of weather situations may mean that you re just going to have to be patient. we re also going to be watching chicago o hare airport. looking at flight tracking, website flightaware.com, they re seeing the most cancellations at this hour.
be aware, be nice and be persistent. know where your flight is coming from. the weather where your aircraft started. i like the website flightaware.com. when you check on the flight status you can see where the aircraft was coming from c can predict delays before they even post that. be prepared. if they do it online, over the phone, what is the best bet for that? lines can be really long, there s a whole bunch of people that can help you along the way. they usually pull out my phone first and started dialing.
and if it has been shot down by russia, one wonders what is next and what we hear from our own government on this? jon: reminders what happened to the korean airlines flight back in the early 1980s, korean air 007, strayed, for a variety of reasons into russian airspace and shot down by a russian fighter plane. there is discussion here that this was shot down by a missile from the ground. of course, no way to know who may have been operating that missile, if in fact that is what happened. let s bring into the conversation, robert mark. a commercial airline pilot. publisher of jetchina.com. maybe we get the map up on our screen of the path of the plane from the website flightaware.com. it shows that the track took the plane from amsterdam where it launched, over germany, over poland and apparently just after it entered ukrainian airspace,