nbc's ron allen has our story tonight. >> e-s, hey, hey, what do you say!> reporter: revere high in massachusetts has just about everything for its students. >> good afternoon, everybody. tomorrow is spirit day. wear your school colors. >> hi. >> reporter: however, senior lucy salez, who's determined to be a chemical engineer, wanted something more. >> there weren't really electives here that i wanted take that were specific for what i want to do later in life. >> reporter: so each day for one period, lucy leaves revere high's traditional classrooms to take a course called chemicals of civilization. the teacher is in vermont. students log in from several states. the class is completely online. >> i get to do it when i want and where i want. >> reporter: cyberschool, or virtual learning, is one of the hottest trends in education. more than 2 million pre-k to 12th graders are involved and that number is expected to grow to more than 10 million within the next 4 years. >> we're looking forward to the day when we don't talk about online classes versus face-to-f

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nbc's ron allen is there for us this morning. ron, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. what a way to end the holiday travel season. terminal c here, which is headquarters for couldn't nental airlines, was shut down for some six or seven hours from about until about 12:45 in the morning yesterday. thousands of flights were canceled. thousands, dozens of flights were canceled, thousands were stranded because somehow, a man apparently here, to meet an arriving flight, got to the other side of the airport, to the secure side of the airport. he went through a passageway or through a door, it's unclear how he got there. and it's unclear why security staff didn't stop him. so the result was that they took everybody who had cleared security, even people who were sitting on airlines and brought them back to the public side of the airport where they searched that area. with dogs, they looked at videotape trying to identify the man. and some airport officials say they think this man probably doesn't even know what he di

nbc's ron allen reports on how one of the hottest trends in education is helping some students get to the next level. >> reporter: revere high in massachusetts has just about everything for its students. >> good afternoon, everybody. tomorrow is spirit day. wear your school colors. >> hi. >> reporter: however, senior lucy slals, who's determined to be a chemical engineer, wanted something more. >> there weren really electives here that i wanted to take that were specific for what i want to do later in life. >> reporter: so for each day for one period, lucy leaves revere high's traditional classrooms to take a course called chemicals of civilization. the teacher is in vermont. students log in from several states. the class is completely online. >> i get to do it when i want and where i want. >> reporter: cyberschool or virtual learning is one of the hottest trends in education. more than 2 million pre-k to 12th graders are involved and that number is expected to grow to 10 million within the next four years. >> we're looking forward to the day where we don't talk about online classes v

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