Today is up with of the busiest travel days of the year. Hope are you ready. We have millions out there treking aross the country to the see loved ones for the holidays. Many will be flying. Heres Tom Byrum Costello with details. Reporter from coasttocoast, a record setting travel season, with today the busiest, nationwide, 6 million are flying this season. Atlanta, chicago, l. A. And denver. In the tower at chicago ohare, controllers now using a new system to speed things along. Flight paths reroutes and weather, now transmitted directly to the cockpit computer, cutting down on radio chatter and tarmac wait times. Still the vast majority of americans, 94 million, are hitting the roads, gasoline now 2. 26 on average up 13 cents in a month, at the utah dot center, they are preparing for a massive storm in the rockies. Between 12 and 24 inches in the mountains, a lot of that will be blowing snow in the higher elevations. A rush to reunite with family and friend. Obviously, weather is goi
If you think your plans are held up look at that guy. Hes in a worse situation. Good friday morning, im kendis gibson. And im Mara Schiavocampo in for diane macedo. We begin this morning with president elect donald trump triggering fears of a Nuclear Arms Race with a tweet about expanding Americas Nuclear capability. It does appear to be a major break from longstanding u. S. Policy. His team scrambling overnight to clarify that hes not advocating the use of nukes but it follows a similar statement from Vladimir Putin about his countrys own nuclear arsenal. Abcs maggie rulli has the latest live for us from washington. Maggie, good morning. Reporter good morning. The president elect might be staying out of sight in his south florida estate at maralago but has twitter to keep him busy and in the headlines. The president elect might not be in the white house just yet but hes already taking a jab at tweeting out, the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability un
Italian authorites say he was killed in a shootout with police this morning. It happened at a routine id check point. Police say he pulled a gun on an officer and fired. The officer was shot in the shoulder. As the shoot out took place, the suspect yelled allah akbar, accoridng to police. 12 people died in that truck attack monday night. We are expecting a press conference from european Law Enforcement. As soon as that happenes we will bring it to you. Rain for part of Christmas Eve sunny seasonable christmas unseasonably mild early next week cooler dry for new years weekend today sunny early, then becoming mostly cloudy. Cooler. Highs 4651 winds s 5 mph tonight cloudy. Showers developing after midnight. Lows 3640 winds s 5 mph Christmas Eve morning rain. Cloudy after noon with clearing skies after 6pm. Highs 4951 winds sw 5 mph with now just two days until christmas, mi are scrambling to holiday. Scott taylor is live from Regan National airport this morning. Scott how are the lines th
Million americans head out for the holidays. And a dramatic holiday rescue caught on camera. A young boy found helplessly dangling by his backpack after slipping off a ski lift. Theyre coming. They know. Theyre copping. The Good Samaritans who kept him calm and hanging on as the dramatic rescue unfolded. Good morning, america. Dan, you feeling better . Im happy to be here. They told me i might be able to wear a matching holiday sweater with michael again. You have matching ties. We are different sizes, it may surprise people. Only slightly. The camera guys are going what . Its Christmas Eve eve. That means 103 million americans are expected to hit the roads and skies for a records very busy out there and also in the News Department as well. Breaking terror news from overnight. That berlin market suspect gunned down in italy ending his run across europe. Matt gutman has all the latest from berlin. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, amy. It was a dramatic gunfight. Anis amri stop
Toward the back of his own backyard. He called 911. Police arrived and determined the woman 22 years old was dead and suffered from upper body trauma. No further details jobbed that. The woman did not live nearby. However, the police say the man found dead in his town home last night after 8 00 in springfield, about five minutes away, 22yearold Henok Yohannes was the victim of a homicide. Five minutes away from the scene in burke. Police were called to the home on Blarney Stone Court in springfield where they found yohannes murdered. Also upper body trauma. I am just sad. He was a nice young man. Very helpful. Through the initial distribution last night the detectives were able to discover some things that made them feel or appears to link to this case. Jeff so that is a big ue what exactly happened to the two 22yearold individual, one male and one female. So many questions still remain. The police have not put out a call for a suspect suspect at the moment. They dont have anybody in c