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talk about with the relatives tomorrow, how about going to a place where you can all sit quietly and not look at each other? your best bets for thanksgiving at the movies. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m john berman, filling in for jake tapper today. our national lead is thanksgiving travel. you may have to spend a lot longer staring at your departure gate than you ever wanted. you may have to endure a few extra hours of the kids yelling in the back seat, but the good news is, besides the fact they love you, probably, is despite the storms stretching from the mid-atlantic to the northeast causing lengthy delays, many of you should get to your destinations with plenty of time to fall into a tryptophan coma in front of the television. the bad weather is on its way out, but it has nasty parting gifts for some areas. one of our ireporters sent in these shots from a snow-covered buffalo new york. parts of the state got dumped
tornadoes that wrecked havoc in communities across this midwest section of the country sunday, but illinois here, really took the brunt of the storms. six people died. on the ground. it s on the ground! [ bleep ] and you can see from video after video, we have thanks to you, our ireporters, the chaos captured on cell phones. the timing of these tornadoes actually may have been a blessing because the sto he hit the city of washington, illinois, sunday morning. so many of the town s 15,000 inhabitants were at church. one woman says the winds swept her home and everything in it right away. i don t really think it s hit home. the house was on the other side of the garage, and it s completely gone i had two pet. one is still missing. we re hoping that somebody s got
people walking on the streets and, quite frajly, some of them are everyone starting to clean upright there. now we re going to take you to chicago. hopefully, we ll be able to listen to this for a little bit. take a listen to this. so this was one of our ireporters. you can tell that it s bad, but it s not too bad. it s intense, and this ireporter described it as intensive. it was windy and raining. it felt more like strong winlds.