Windows blown out, the blast heard for miles, lighting up the night sky. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start, and im abby phillip. Im christine romans. Wednesday, november 27th, here in new york. Aaa predicts more than 55 million travelers will take to the roads and skies this thanksgiving. In spokane, washington, a 66car pileup on the highway there. State patrol said six people were injured, none of them, thankfully, seriously. A portion from california shut down due to whiteout conditions. Passengers were stranded in denver monday night. A rock slide during the snowstorm adding the misery, temporarily closing westbound interstate 70. We put this fence out because we were concerned about some minor amount might come out. Theyre trying to stay ahead of the falling snow. The state advisory motorists not to travel at all. I70 closed in kansas. They have 1,800 plow trucks and 1,800 workers ready to go. We have times where well expect over an inch an hour snowfall. That coupled with high winds will make it challenging. And the chicago area is under a high wind warning today. Expect the powerful winds to play havoc with air travel throughout the countrys biggest hubs, one of them. New developments in the impeachment probe have the president on shaky grounds. Apparently he already knew about the whistleblower complaint before he decided to release military aid back to ukraine in september. This would suggest an alarm factored into the decision unfreeze aid. Lawyers from the white house briefed the president , told him they were trying to figure out whether they were obligated to turn it over to congress. Cnn has learned the First Official move came the evening of july 25th. Thats the same day mr. Trump and the ukrainian president had the controversial call that spurred the complaint. The official was mike sandy. A transcript of his closed door testimony was just released. He says he told his boss withholding the aid may violate federal law. That was days before his boss, a trump appointee, took over responsibility for the ukraine money. According to the testimony, two people left their jobs at the Budget Office at least partly because of this ukraine mess. And the House Judiciary Committee has now announced its first impeachment hearing. Theres one big difference. President trump and others have been invited to attend. The House Judiciary Committee is opening up a new phase of proceedings in the house when theyll have hearing testimony on impeachment and whether it meets the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. Theyre expected to have a discussion about the facts that were found as part of the twomonth investigation that the House Intelligence Committee and two other committees found in looking into the president s handling of the ukraine policy wlrks he abused his office, violated the law, and withheld military aid that the crew cranian president sought in exchange for investigations. All of that will be discussed. Expect the report first to come from the House Intelligence Committee findings. Then next wednesday will be the hearing before there will be both on articles of impeachment. That could probably take place the second week of december and maybe spill into the third week of december. The third week of december will probably be the week to watch in which the full house will have the opportunity to vote on the articles of impeachment. Democrats are moving full speed ahead. At the moment theyre discussing the sienlds scope, whether its abuse of power, bribery, obstruction of congress, or even objection of congress. But its significant because it signals a new phase of the impeachment probe is coming and coming soon. Back to you. Manu, thank you for that. New insight from the anonymous trump insider who wrote a book and oped documenting the trouble and inner workings of the white house. He or she said they plan to unmask eventually. They said, quote, im not afraid to use my own name to excess concerns of the white house. They added President Trump will hear from me in my own name before the 2020 election. So far the anonymous has only been identified as a senior official. Neither cnn or reddit can offer the author. But they did confirm to Josh Campbell it was anonymous during the q a. The author does admit they were wrong about one thing. They said, my original argument has been thoroughly debunked. In the New York Times oped i suggested that the stt state of top officials in the administration could ameliorate Donald Trumps lapses in judgment. I was dead wrong. No one can thwart his attraction to wrongdoing. The average joe, thats the thing i like about him most. The next challenge will be picking up the pieces. Leading the global effort. Theyre rolling out new campaign ads in iowa. They know a lot of eyeballs will be watching television over the thanksgiving weekend. Heres what she said in a very important interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board. We cant simply say death, we cant do anything. While im out there arguing for children. When i argue the green deal, im going to show exactly how im going to pay for this. Warrens ultra millionaire tax charges 2 . Houses with assets over 1 billion could face a 6 tax. Climate change is making areas unaffordable. In data first compiled by axios, payouts for natural disasters in 2017 and 2018 was 219 billion, the highest ever for a period. Every state, every state saw annual premiums rise between 2007 and 2016. States in Tornado Alley saw the biggest jump. Oklahoma saw premiums 78 a decade. Thats an extra 821 a year. Homeowners have seen insurance costs rise. In california, the problem is wildfires. Insurers are pulling back from highrisk areas leaving homeowners scrambling. Merced filed for bankruptcy after they failed to pay out millions in dollars in claims after the camp fire last year. Witnesses say a blast shook homes east of houston more than 40 miles away. There is a mandatory evacuation for everyone within half a mile of the plant. Police say a local tell a local cnn affiliate everyone else should shelter in place. Officials say no doubt chemicals are being released into the air. There are no reports of injuries so far. It turns out it was a slowmoving blob that locked the white house down at capitol hill tuesday. The blob may have been a flock of unidentified birds. Officials tell cnn they still do not know what triggered the event, but three possible causes are being analyzed, birds, an atmospheric anomaly, or a drone. The annual white house pardoning of the turkey featuring a side helping of president ial griepg. President trump had to decide between bread or butter. It didnt take long for him to veer off topic. Bread and butter have been especially raised by the jacksons to remain calm under any condition, which will be very important because theyve already received subpoenas to appear in adam schiffs basement on thursday. Cant let impeachment go. He spared butter. What happens to bread . I think he gets to live too. Troubling news. Americans are d Young Americans are dying at an alarming rate. Well tell you why. Do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading . 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A new study in the journal of medical Association Shows death rates climbing among young and middleaged adults. For half a century, American Life expectancy grew nearly ten years to 79 by 2014, but then it reversed, creeping down to 78. 8 years in 2017. The study shows increasing suicides, drug overdoseses, alcoholism, and epidemic obesity. Its based on four ohio valley states and northern new england. Four states in one area. Theyve got it. Theyve got a timeout. They dont use it. Yes the lumberjacks have done it. Its the upset of the year in college basketball. The top ranked duke blue devils losing to steven f. Austin, 8583 in a lastsecond buzzer time. The loss snaps dukes 150game nonconference homewinning conference streak, the streak dating back to the year 2000. Wow. A surprise in the uk election. Londons chief rabbi with a harsh attack on the labor leader. How jerry corbin responded live from london. They answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. 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Christine, for more than three years, hes been criticized for first allowing antisemitism to spread in his party and then from the view of the jewish compaparty simply no doing enough to clean it out and then says were on top of this, were dealing with this, and the Jewish Community does not agree with him. And now the chief rabbi has given his verdict and its damming. Damming because were in the middle of a Campaign Election and he arguing what he says. He arguing Jeremy Corbin is unfit to be prime minister. He goes on to say its a failure to see this as a human problem. Its a failure of culture, a failure of leadership, a new poison. Sanked from t sanctioned from the top has taken root in the labor party. Jeremy corbyn spent much of the day fighting back against this. Heres a little bit of what he said. Theres no place whatsoever for antisemitism in any shape or form or in any place whatsoever in modern britain. In the labor government it will not be tolerated whatsoever. Later in a sitdown Jeremy Corbyn was asked four times if he would like to apologize the labor partys handling of antisemiti antisemitism. He ignored four times. The election date here is now just two weeks away, christine. Thank you so much for that. Thanks, phil. 55 Million People traveling for the holidays. They have a pier air of awful ss standing in the way. And its said President Trump knew the whistleblower had filed the complaint. So, you can really promise better sleep . Not promise, prove. Sleep number. This is not a bed its proven quality sleep. If youre like us, you have a box of old video tapes, film reels, and photos, just degrading away in your closet. [nick] legacybox saves these memories by professionally digitizing them on dvd, thumb drive, or the cloud. [adam] its easy. Load legacybox with your media, and you get back your originals and new digitized copies. [nick] legacybox is simple and safe with over a half a million satisfied customers. Preserve your memories today. Visit legacybox. Com and get 40 off. [nick] thats legacybox. Com. Thanksgiving travelers on alert. Backtoback storms unleashing snow, torrential rain, and intense winds coast to coast. What did the president know and when did he know it. A damaging report says he knew about the whistleblower complaint before allowing military aid to ukraine. New insight from officials known as anonymous. Theyll reveal themselves before the 2020 election and a surprising admission about their own oped. And breaking overnight, a powerful explosion at a Chemical Plant in texas. Windows blown out. The blast heard for miles lighting up the night sky. Welcome back to early start, everyone. Im christine romans. Im abby phillips. Nice to see you. Not one, but two powerful storms trav s affecting travele coast to coast. West of spokane, washington, a 60plus car pileup on an icy highway following a snowstorm. The state patrol says at least six people were injured. Thankfully none of them were seriously injured. Overnight we learned parts of interstate 5, a key link from oregon to california has been shut out due to white jous conditions. Parts of colorado buried under 3 feet of snow, stranding more than 1,100 passengers in denver on monday night. West of denver a rock slide during the snowstorm added to the misery temporarily closing westbound interstate 70. In nebraska, plow crews we put this fence out because we were concerned about some minor issues may come about. Didnt anticipate this. In nebraska, plow crews with shovels trying to dig out. I70 closed in western kansas. And the Minnesota Department of transportation says it has 800 plow trucks and 1,800 workers ready to go. We also we do have some times where were expecting over an inch an hour of snowfall and that coupled with high winds is going to make it a bit of a challenge in terms of visibility. An inch an hour of snowfall. The chicago area under a high wind warning. Expect the powerful winds to play havoc with one of the countrys biggest hubs. In total. Theyre now under some kind of Winter Weather advisory. Meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the latest. Christine and abby, this could be the thanksgiving that is memorable for perhaps the wrong reason. With backtoback storm systems, one across the midwest t other across the west coast, its going to be getting stronger and really producing dire traveling conditions for travelers. All right. This Weather Report is brought to you by ninja foodi, the grill that air fries, sizzles and cris crisps. They might see some of the wind gusts outside the parameters there. And for the airports, problematic because of volume but mostly because of the weather. New york along the i95 corridor, cleveland, detroit, minneapolis, out in san francisco, wow. Theyve already shut down some interstates in some portions of the central u. S. And nebraska right around ashland to the south along interstate 5. So well keep you updated on that. Back to you guys. Thanks for that. New developments in the impeachment probe has President Trump on shakier ground this morning according to the New York Times. The president already knew about the whistleblower complaint that ignited the inquiry before he decided to release military aid back to ukraine in september. This would suggest alarm among officials at least factored into the decision to unfreeze aid to help ukraine fend off the russians. Lawyers from the white house briefed the president and told him they were trying to figure out whether they were obligated to turn the complaint over to congress. Cnn has learned the First Official move to withhold aid came the evening of july 25th. Thats the same day mr. Trump and the ukrainian president had the conversation that spawned the complaint. Mark sandy in the office of management and budget, his transcript was just released. He told his boss withholding aid might violate the law. According to the testimony two people left their jobs at the Budget Office, partly because of the ukraine mess. Theres one big difference this time. President trump and his lawyers have been cordially invited to attend. President trump took the stage for a homecoming rally last night in his newly declared home state of florida and he railed against the impeachment investigation with a familiar vulgar refrain. Theyre pushing that impeachment witch hunt, and a lot of bad things are happening to them because you see whats happening in the polls . Everybody said thats really bullshit. Actually that comment is b. S. Im not going to say it on the Family Program here. A new poll shows 50 of the country supports impeachment and removing the president from office. Mr. Trump also claims he really would like his top officials to testify in the impeachment hearings. Lets not forget hes the one whos stopping them, and the court ruled this week they should testify. The president insists by blocking their testimony, he is fighting for future president s. All right. A House Committee is suing the attorney general and commerce secretary in federal court for refusing to comply with subpoena. The Oversight Committee is looking into it. Its the democrats first move after ta federal judge shot dow claims of immunity for aid. Democrats said the administration tried to add a Citizenship Question to discourage noncitizens from responding to the census. President trump ultimately caved on adding the question. New insight this morning from the anonymous trump insider who wrote a book and oped who wrote on the troubling inner workings of the white house. During a questionandanswer session on red it, he or she said they plan to unmask eventually. No time line was given but they said, quote, im not afraid to use my own name to spread concern about the current occupant of the oval office, adding, President Trump will hear from me in my name before the 2020 election. So far anonymous has only been identified as a senior official in the trump administration. Neither cnn nor reddit can verify this is the author of the book. The author does admit they were wrong about one important thing. My original argument has been thoroughly debunked. In the New York Times oped i suggested that the steady state of the top officials in the administration could ameliorate Donald Trumps lapses in judgment. I was dead wrong. No one can thwart his attraction to wrongdoing. He added he was gutless. The next president will face enormous challenges picking up the pieces in foreign policy. Bernie sanders, joe biden, and Elizabeth Warren rolling out new campaign ads in iowa. They know a lot of eyeballs will be watching television over the thanksgiving holiday, and sanders is focusing on farmers, biden on foreign policies, and warren on the Global Climate crisis. Shes standing by the wealth tax to pay for her agenda. Heres what she said in a very important interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board. We cant simply say debt, therefore, we cant do anything when im out there arguing for universal child care or for housing. Im going to show first how to pay for it. When im arguing for a green new deal, im going to show exactly how im going to pay for this. Warrens ultra millnary tax charges 2 on every dollar of net worth above 50 million. Households with over a billion would face 6 tax. We have breaking news. A powerful explosion earlier this morning at a chemical placket eap plant east of texas. It shook windows. Theres an evacuation a half mile from the plant. Police told evan they should shelter in place. Officials are releasing what chemicals are being released into the air, but so far no reports of injury. Google was seen as the place to work. Theyre facing backlash from employees. Theyre claiming sexual congratulationses and issues on climate change. On monday google fired four employees. Some employees are accusing google of suppressing its critics. Someone tweeted google fired four of my coworks after asking if google was helping families at the border. Others call it Union Busting dressed up in Tech Industry jargon. Overnight, new trouble as the cave fire expands. Developing overnight, new evacuations in Santa Barbara county where the cave fire continues to burn. A strong storm is decreasing the risk of debris flow in and below the burn area. The fire began monday in the san padres national forest. Its 10 contained. Thousands of people have already been forced to flee. A patient at a southern new jersey hospital was accidentally given a kidney that was intended for someone else. Both patients at Virtua Health said both were around the same age and had the same name. The patient who was supposed to get the kidney did receive one six days later. The hospital says both patients are doing well and they have taken steps to avoid a repeat. I want to warn you here, this video is difficult to watch. John and Amber Saldate tied the animal to the back of a pickup to drag it off of their ranch. Amber was calling the horse names. T its hard to understand why anyone would think that was all rig right. Not what you want to hear. According to the cdc, 67 people have been sickened in 19 states with 27 new cases reported in the last few days alone. The outbreak is connected to lettuce harvested in salinas, california. Stores nationwide are being urged to stop selling the lettuce. The faa pushing back. The faa normally lets manufacturers sign off on the safety of their own planes, but in the wake of two crashes that kill third degree 46 people, the faa wrote a letter telling boeing only the agency can sign off on returning the boeing max to the skies. Meanwhile theyre scrambling to find space to add the 42 737s theyre manufacturing skra have you bought a car . Well have more next. Here, it all starts with a simple. Hello hi how can i help . A data plan for everyone. Everyone . Everyone. Lets send to everyone wifi up there . Uhh. Sure, why not . Howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. That was easy glad i could help. At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. Syracuse university is beefing up security in the wake of several racist incidents on campus earlier this month. That includes the deployment of 19 new residential safety officers. Schools plan to install cameras in common spaces and stair wells and classrooms. The School Chancellor says he hopes to have the cameras in place by the time students return to school next week. A climber fell. Emily harrington was trying to scale a route on the grand monolith when she fell and was pinned down. Remarkably she only suffered cuts and bruises. Harrington posted a message on instagram sharing photos of her injuries and saying shes extremely grateful for her rescuers that im going to stay on the couch. Very safe on the couch. The companys sameday delivery call ed a company. The robots were violating multiple traffic laws. Mayor bill de blasio piling on the tweets saying if we see any of these bots well send them packing. A group of new yorkers serving up a full thanksgiving dinner on the subway. The video of the mobile friendsgiving this past weekend weekend viral. The train was decked out with tables full of thanksgiving staples and riders were serving food. The people behind it say its been this the works for months, that they wanted to give back to their community in a unique way. What were they saying to you . Thank you. Thank you. And that mac and cheese is on point. The group says Going Forward they plan on making this an annual thanksgiving tradition. I could use a little thanksgiving. Loose theyve got it. Timeout. They dont use it. Yes the lumberjacks have done it its the upset of the year in basketball. The topranked duke blue devils losing to stephen f. Austin in a lastskomt bucket in overtime. The loss snaps dukes 150game nonconference homewinning streak. The streak goes back to 2000. Lets take a look at markets around the world right now. A little bit of optimism. Looking at u. S. Futures could lean higher. Wheel closely watch the futures market. Weve got about four hours until the market opens. New Government DataShows Chinese profits posted the biggest decline amid the trade war. On wall street right now, the futures up just a little bit. Stocks finished slightly higher tuesday, loing their second record close in a row. The dow closed up 54. The s p 500, the nasdaq also higher. These are records, folks. President trump suggested final u. S. china trade talks are in the final throes. They said the two countries reached a consensus on how to resolve key issues, watching closely to see if theres news of a skinny, skinny, skinny deal some day soon here. Prices for soybeans, pork, corn, milk, and other products fall because of the u. S. china trade war. New data from the department of agriculture shows whos getting that money. Iowa famers have received 767 million so far. Thats the most nationally. After iowa. The states with the most assistance, illinois, minnesota, texas, and kansas. Data shows the top 10 of farmers received the bulk of the money. That means the big corporate farms with already deeper pockets and bank accounts. Theyre receiving more of the money than the small family farmers who are really on the bubble here. It looks like 2019 will be a terrible year for auto sales. Theyre on trend for a 4 drop. Thats the biggest decline since 2008. Its not good for manufacturing folks. They slowed for a third month as the effects of the u. S. china trade war took its toll. It comes back to trade. Possible Global Manufacturing could rebound next year. Again, that depends on a deal with china. While keeping the timehonored tradition of pardoning the national turkey, President Trump couldnt help but get in a dig at his impeachment nemesis. Bread and butter have been especially raised by the jacksons to remain calm under any condition, which will be very important because theyve already received subpoenas to appear in adam schiffs base millionaire only thursday. No days off for the impeachment griping. And while you were sleeping, Stephen Colbert took that opening and ran with it. Up next, continuing coverage of the impeachment hearings. If you would please rise, raise your right hand, i will begin by swearing you in. Do you swear or affirm the testimony youre about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you gochld you are now recognized for your opening statement. Did you feel threatened . Okay. Thats hilarious. Thats funny. Thanks to our International Viewers for joining us. Have a great rest of the day. For our u. S. Viewers, early start starts right now. Thanksgiving travelers on alert. Backtoback storms unleashing snow, torrential rain, and intense wind coast to coast. What did the president know and when did he know it . The damaging new report says he knew about the whistleblower complaint before allowing military aid to ukraine. New insight from the official known as anonymous. They will reveal themselves before the 2020 election and the surprise admission about what they got wrong. And breaking overnight, a powerful explosion at a Chemical Plant in texas. Windows blown out, the blast heard for miles lighting up the night sky. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im abby phillip. Nice to see you here today. Great to have you onboard. Im christine romans. Not one but two holiday storms affecting travelers from coast to coast. Aaa predicts more than 55 million travelers taking to the skies and roads for thanksgiving. In spokane, washington, a 60plus car pileup following a snow starm. The state patrol said none were hurt seriously. On interstate 5, a link between oregon and california, a portion has been shut down due to whiteout conditions. Parts of colorado buried under 3 feet of snow, stranding more than 1,100 passengers at Denver International airport on monday night. In the mountains a rock slide during the snowstorm adding to the misery, temporarily closing westbound interstate 70. We put this fence out because we were concerned about some minor incivility might be coming out. Didnt anticipate this. Plow crews and shovels trying to stay ahead of the snow. I70 closed in western kansas. The Minnesota Department