flying over the persian gulf coast. airplanes face the risk of being misidentified as tensions escalate between u.s. and iran and iraqi government officials express fear of getting caught in the middle. let s go to bill neely. he s joining us from iraq. bill, a good day for you. first up on the airliners. what are you hearing on this today? reporter: yeah. good morning, alex. this is a fairly standard warning and it comes really from the faa distributed, of course, by u.s. ploediplomats. remember the per man is gulf is a airline hub and the faa is warning of heightened military activity and asking pilots to be very aware with their navigation equipment or breaks in communication and be aware of what might be causing that and the possibility of being
billion, we talk about other projects. the saudis don t have well, i should say this, the cost of oil has gone down significantly and with it too, somewhat the economics of the saudi nation. so they are not they re still a rich and powerful nation. but they don t have as much as they used to, right? they don t. and they re borrowing in a way that they won t and selling off some of their major oil company that they can raise money for an ipo, raise money to invest in projects like car manufacturing, invest in tourism, invest in an airline hub. they ve got an eyes to the future, but they don t have the money and part of the reason for that is the price of oil dropped. and that leaves the royal family, the government in this country who has a massive amount of wealth and many people in the country who don t enjoy that same sort of wealth have seen their prices of fuel, gas, and oil go up. subsidies come down. and while the price of oil drops. those subsidies were cut. there was a ba
latchia appalachias. cincinnati is an airline hub. let s go to wednesday. this is when everyone will be rushing around. almost no matter where you are, at least along the eastern half of the country, you are impacted by the weather. primarily wet weather across the southeast. mix of ice and snow and into the interior sections, along the i-95 corridor. that s what we look for snow. could be fairly significant. i want to show you this. as you see the pink-shaded area, that s where we are looking at freezing rain, sleet. possibly starting out as snow fall. heavy snow in the ohio river valley and eastern great lakes. that s going to be quite heavy. timing really could not be worse. let s talk about thanksgiving day. what does it look like, especially for the north. i m so glad you asked.
it whips you. the semis we almost see a semi jackknife in front of us. well, dylan dreier is here with more. hey, alex. as this storm continues to move eastward, we are going to see it turn into more of a rain and wind event. despite the fact that it s 20 degrees in chicago, 22 in kansas city, it s only 34 in dallas. that s why dallas has been right on that borderline between rain and freezing rain. windchills are well down into the single digits and teens across most of the country. the snow is still coming down through new mexico and into northern texas and into oklahoma as well where we have already picked up over a foot of snow in some areas. now, in dallas itself, a major airline hub, we are looking at the freezing rain to take hold, even though it s not that bad right now. as we go into tonight and this storm ramps up a little bit, we are looking at some of that freezing rain to continue to coat trees and power lines. power outages will be an issue and the roads will be ver
a lot of unexpected wind and a lot of snow. but it s nice out here right now. reporter: up and down the west coast, it s cleanup time. wild wind storms took out huge trees from washington to southern california. garcon martinez was in this truck. he s lucky to be alive. i seen it was pretty windy and my truck was rattling a little bit. but i never expected a tree to fall on me. reporter: high winds knocked out power at the happiest place on earth, putting disneyland in the dark as the cold moved in. should we blame you for this? you re going to blame santa this close to christmas? where is my naughty list? reporter: the storm is now headed east, and places like chicago, which hasn t seen a significant snowstorm yet this season, is now look at anywhere from three to six inches of snow. clayton sandell, abc news, denver. first, one major airline hub, denver, then another, chicago.