joining us now is the flight aware ceo daniel baker.he reddest spot on the mess ri map is new york followed by dc and boston. how bad is this? it looks less man than we expected here in new york. is this a big sales moment for you. are people getting premium accounts so they know how they can get from a to b. >> we are hearing that the weather perhaps was not quite as bad as forecasted. but in order to make sure that passengers are accommodated and flights are not getting stuck in the problem areas. the airlines canceled a large number of flights. 8,000 flights canceled so far this week. 5500 today. virtually every flight to and from the new york city area is canceled. so it is crippling travelers. we estimate that this week over 400,000 traveler wills be impacted by all of these cancellations. it is a tough storm that starts in chicago yesterday. we saw a third of the flights that are slowly making their way east and northeast. it impacts a lot of people the inaccurate alerts saying the flight is leaving in 20 minutes, and it is leavin