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
area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
60s, right now 56 degrees at dia and close to the foothills 40s. The rest of this evening there is a small chance for stoplight showers around town, for some light showers around town, but the main event doesnt arrive until tomorrow morning. Thats when we could see the possibility of rain and snow in the city. The rest of the afternoon it will be cool. Clouds thicken and overnight our chances for showers increase and by tomorrow morning some of those showers could be mixing with some snow. Coming up in your forecast well talk about our chances for snow on tuesday. I know its thanksgiving week, so well look at that travel weather and also your thanksgiving forecast here in colorado. Thats what people want to know about. Well check in with you later, belen, thanks. A major earthquake has lit off the east coast of japan hit off the east coast of japan they issued a tsunami warning for the district and around that area that is north of tokyo and home to the Nuclear Power plant that was des
This years reopened a lot less than 20 minutes ago after the accident 1245 this afternoon. Lets take a look at video now apparently what happened is northbound san transports with an unknown number of passengers on board around 1245 a southbound green van veered sharply to the left and collided headon the same trend boss. The driver of the vehicle and passenger in the band was rejected the person died on seen the driver taken to hospital died a short time later. Five people on board the bus also transported to hospital receiving non life threatening injuries. As to what is then mutt of swerved across lanes and messiers told me a short time ago there still looking into in dont know what happened. The medical problem the driver had or he was trying to make a lefthand turn into business nearby at this point they do not know that is under investigation. happening now a hit and commuters north bay Bridge Service counseled number of parts on for a survey at least a dozen workers called in si
Leaving over the next hour or so. Much of the morning rain will be exiting. For the morning commute, watch out for the damp roads. Well be in the low 60s. Then sun for the afternoon commute. Dry roads. Should be nice in the upper 70s later this afternoon. The next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Storm team 4 by 4 is hitting the road. Thank you. Right now a water main break in beltsville could affect your morning commute. This is happening on route 1 near montgomery road. Megan mcgrath is live there with whats going on. Reporter a lot of people take route 1 in the southbound direction from beltsville to hop on the beltway, but theres a problem this morning. Take a look at the hole in the righthand lane right at montgomery road by the shell station. We had a water main break overnight that created this huge hole. And were also now smelling natural gas in the area. In fact, theres now a Washington Gas truck on the scene as well. This is going to take some time to repair. So what we