Travel chaos continues in aftermath of ground stop

First on Fox, more headaches today at airports all across America. It's been more than 24 hours since the FAA lifted the nationwide ground stop, and now the airlines are trying to play catch-up. Nearly 6,500 flights have been canceled today, with more than 8,000 flights delayed. Here at home, Orlando International Airport seeing 232 cancellations and nearly 400 delays and counting. But travel officials say the nightmare could be over. We'll be right back. As soon as tomorrow night. Thanks for joining us. I'm Larissa Leo. I'm Manny Martinez. They're scrambling right now to get back to full strength before the start of the next week. Stephanie Buffonti is live for us tonight at Orlando International Airport. And Stephanie, you've spoken with so many people who are stuck there trying to get home. Yeah, it has definitely been a travel nightmare today. All of the issues yesterday kind of bleeding into today. And you mentioned it there, 376 delays here at Orlando International Airport and 220 cancellations. So that is a lot of passengers who are impacted, people trying to come or go home or here to visit. Kind of got sort of canceled after a long time. Of waiting around, asking, and nobody really knew what was going on. And they ended up missing a day and a half at the park. It's a little hard to get to Disney World to meet Mickey. It's been a struggle, but, you know. It's for safety, so I get it. The Bow Waters just got back from an 18-day cruise. They were supposed to fly out of Orlando at 4 p.m. Friday night, but their flight was canceled. They booked a new flight to Dallas, but not without another long wait. Their new itinerary includes a 13-hour layover in St. Louis. I mean, it was a glorious vacation, and this is a terrible ending. Disenchanted, exhausted, sleep deprived, and... Frankly, like I say, this is adding At least $2,500. $700. That's because of the unexpected hotels and flights they had to book. And they're far from alone. Lisa Lee and her mom were supposed to fly from St. Martin to Dallas. But when they couldn't find a flight home, they booked a ticket to Orlando to get back to the U.S. Now they're stuck in Florida, and the earliest flight they could get to Dallas isn't until Monday. At first, they had no idea what was going on. I really didn't know if we were under attack. I didn't understand what was going on. I had to call back to the states to find out what was going on. And then the phones were going. We couldn't even dial out. It was just a nightmare. I'm just glad to be back on American soil. I don't even know how to say that any other way. Passengers waiting around. Kids entertaining themselves on the iconic MCO carpet. Patiently waiting and hoping they can make it home. We ran into a travel agent, Marissa Prejean, who was off the clock and trying to get home herself. She was supposed to fly out of Fort Lauderdale, but her flight was canceled. Took the Brightline, but obsessively refreshed the app on the way here and ended up getting on something tonight. So fingers crossed. So hopefully I'll be home in my bed this evening. Yeah. And she hopefully made it to her flight and that it took off. Now, just to reiterate what she did there, she had a flight that was canceled on Friday. She rebooked it to the earliest one on Sunday and then today kept rechecking, rechecking and was able to push it up to today. So it's a good reminder that you can do that. Larissa? Yeah. And Stephanie, did she give you any other advice? Yes, so like we mentioned she is a travel agent. One thing she said to use is FlightAware. We use that a lot as reporters and she said it's a good thing to put your flight in there and put alerts so you can sometimes see if there's an issue. Sometimes see if there is an issue before you get a notification from the airline itself. And then also she said you can get travel insurance for flights. That is a yearly travel insurance. So if you travel a lot, you're traveling more. multiple times a year, it could be a good idea to do that.