Severe weather delays thousands of flights around US

The July 4th holiday travel season is certainly off to a bang. With the early fireworks coming in the form of a barrage of storms nationwide on Sunday, more than 8000 flights across the United States were delayed and more than 2500 cancelled. His travelers got a taste of the hectic holiday crunch. Our flight to Seattle was 7 hours delayed. Ground stops Sunday were issued at all of the New York area's biggest airports, JFK, LaGuardia and Newark. His drivers in Connecticut contended with flooded streets and tangled power lines out West, Evacuations from flash flooding in Ruidoso, NM, the same area that experienced dangerous wildfires just weeks ago. Severe conditions across the country as celebrations for July 4th are already in the works. The TSA's top 10 busiest travel days are filled with dates from the last couple weeks, and the agency projects more than 28 million will fly over an 11 day period surrounding the holiday, a nearly 5 1/2 percent increase from the year before. The record travel coinciding with a major category three hurricane barrel which rapidly intensified over the weekend and now stands to flex 120 mile an hour winds on the Windward Islands. This is a major hurricane. It's not a joke. And the government guys of Barbados also sounding the alarm bells, opening up emergency shelters last night and forcing all businesses to close by 7:00 PM. As far as those flying domestically right now, the TSA projecting Sunday, July 7th as another record breaker. The busiest day at least projected to be of this entire stretch. Chanel, back to you. Get ready. All right, Sam, thank you. And with that, we've got Dylan keeping a very close eye on the weather this busy holiday week. She's in for Al Severe weather over the weekend, more severe weather today. Yes, severe storms, hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat. We've got it all in the forecast this week. So let's start with the severe storms in an area that has been hard hit. By heavy rain lately, so with more rain in the forecast and also winds up to 75 mph or higher, this could be an area where we do see some impact today from those storms. Now tomorrow, we're going to see that just shift a little farther to the east, including areas like northern Missouri, southern Iowa. Again, hard hit areas where the ground is totally saturated. So any additional rainfall could lead to more flooding. And then as we look at the actual amount of rain, some areas, especially near La Crosse, WI, we could end up with more than three inches of rain. So it's been a hard hit area and more rain is in the forecast. Now to the heat. We have 53 million people under some sort of heat advisory, Heat watches actually out near Medford, OR we have heat watches in effect until like July 9th. So we're going to see extreme heat for quite some time. But again, category three now hurricane Barrel is approaching the Windward Islands.