than half of everyone in the u.s. will face dangerous bitter cold temperatures today. plus, the january 6th committee s final report is out which says that donald trump is to blame for the violence on capitol hill. we ll have more. for the first time, vladimir putin uses the word war to describe his invasion of ukraine. live from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster and bianca nobilo. we begin with a huge winter storm bearing down across much of the united states. more than half of the u.s. population, about 117 million people are under windchill and winter weather alerts across the country. dangerous rigid conditions, bitterly cold wind, snow and ice making trip for treacherous travel conditions ahead of the holiday weekend. in south dakota, more than 500 miles of two interstate highways are closed because of high winds and blizzard like conditions. air travel is becoming even more chaotic, as more than 2700 flight scheduled for today have already been cance
don t be surprised if you have a rift at microsoft about whether we should go sam altman full on a.i. or what the altruistic types are saying inside chatgpt. first time saw sam altman worried about how dangerous there could be. could be. still took the money and going full force. is he a true believer. members of that board are not. we are going to hear this debate. let s say be everybody moves to microsoft. this debate will occur at microsoft. guaranteed. brian: you will be back, charlie. okay. brian: fox business. the second hour of fox & friends starts right now. steve: it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. start with a fox weather alert. as americans hit the roads and skies ahead of thanksgiving over the river and through the woods to grandma s house. you have hail ma am memberring gulf coast states on monday. fox weather radar confirms tornadoes did touch down. look at that right there, in southern louisiana last night. ainsley: it is part of the severe stor
that in mind. the heaviest snowfall expected to be up around the great lakes as the wind, that cold wind moves over warmer waters and we could pick up roughly 2 feet of snow, especially toward buffalo and watertown. watch that closely as we move into the holiday. current snowfall through the ohio valley, heavier bands expected reports of columbus into cleveland as we are getting that transition, now. not only through the ohio valley, but right on up into the great lakes as we talked about with like enhanced snowfall, which causes big travel issues, not only on the roadways, so if you can, stay indoors, the best advice i can give you, but also into these more populated areas, some of our bigger airports like boston and new york and back into chicago. thank you very much, we will be watching it very closely. while millions of americans are bracing for the worst weather, still to come, people in the plains and midwest are already feeling the frigid impact. lucy kavenaugh has the latest
bush hagger on first families remembering thiz christmases in the white house. also, we talk about the other big story of the morning that we still haven t gotten time to get to. benghazi. oh, my gosh. boy. a devastating report. aa devastating report. it raising a lot of questions that i wonder p if anyone has the guts to ask. about hillary clinton. yes. here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. we ll talk about the first blizzard the winter moving across the country. big travel issues over the next two days from denver up through areas around chicago. let me show you what the map looks like. this is our winter storm warnings and advisories. the little arrows on here show you blizzard warnings in effect. the storm is now just south of denver. by tomorrow afternoon it s going to be near chicago. it s this area to the north of the storm where the worst of the weather will be with the wind and also the snow. now, the timing of the storm, no problems in morning.
so the bright green areas is where we have the warnings and there are many, many rivers out of their banks. there are many roads covered with water, so keep that in mind as you go throughout the weekend because this is going to be ongoing not just this weekend but well into next week. we ll probably be dealing with flooding the nerks couple of months as it is spring and the snow is melting off and heavy rain showers continue to come down. we do have some delays right now, by the way, chicago o hare a ground stop in effect because we ve got some snow in the area as well as some low clouds. we think the big travel issues tomorrow will be up and down the east coast. this is a very slow-moving system. the severe weather threat not really there for tomorrow but we will see cold air move in behind the system. and we re talking about snow again into interior parts of the northeast. the big cities are going to get out okay on this one, just seeing some of that rain, but we could see half a foo