a good wednesday, turkey day eve to everybody. good morning, everybody i m harry smith. better start getting everything ready for tomorrow. i m maggie rodriguez. welcome to the early show. american teenager amanda knox spent her thanksgiving eve in court in italy beginning her appeal of her murder conviction there. this is a huge risk because if she loses, she could wind up spending life in prison versus 26 years. ahead this morning, we will be speaking with her parents about this process. but, on this wednesday, we begin with getaway day. if you are one of the millions of americans heading off this morning allow yourself lots of extra travel time because it promises to be slow going on the roads and especially at the airport. we ve got team coverage this morning of today s big holiday rush. we begin with cbs news correspondent mark strassmann, in atlanta this morning. mark, good morning. how is it looking there? reporter: good morning, maggie. getaway day as you put it
street tunnel. eastbound i-66 in virginia, a little slow, not too bad from route 50 to 123. beyond that point, clear sail to beltway. more traffic at 6:12. thanks. at the top of the hour, we are focused on thanksgiving travel this morning. 990,000 people in the region expected to drive 50 miles or more at some point tomorrow. here is the current live look at the i-95 south of the beltway. you know that it will be packed with drivers. now to maryland, a look at interstate 95 between capital and beltway belt ways. it will be packed with people headed north to philadelphia, new jersey, new york, beyond. one of the biggest tie-ups on 95 is at the toll plaza at the maryland, delaware line. under construction, delaware prediction epic backups. six, even ten mile backups. the secret us out on the side roads. do what you can to get around it. today is the busiest day of the year for amtrak. union station will be packed. for advice on riding the rails, we are joined by steve
early this wednesday morning, live from buckingham palace early this wednesday morning, november 24th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs a good wednesday, turkey day eve to everybody. good morning, everybody i m harry smith. better start getting everything ready for tomorrow. i m maggie rodriguez. welcome to the early show. american teenager amanda knox spent her thanksgiving eve in court in italy beginning her appeal of her murder conviction there. this is a huge risk because if she loses, she could wind up spending life in prison versus 26 years. ahead this morning, we will be speaking with her parents about this process. but, on this wednesday, we begin with getaway day. if you are one of the millions of americans heading off this morning allow yourself lots of extra travel time because it promises to be slow going on the roads and especially at the airport. we ve got team coverage this morning of today s big holiday rush. we begin with cbs news correspondent mark stras
captioning funded by cbs and a good wednesday turkey day eve to everybody. good morning, everybody. i m harry smith. better start getting everything ready for tomorrow. i m maggie rodriguez. welcome to the early show. american teenager amanda knox spent her thanksgiving eve in court beginning the appeal of the murder conviction there. this is a huge risk because if she loses she could wind up spending life in prison versus 26 years. ahead this morning, we ll be speaking with her parents about this process. but on this wednesday, we begin with getaway day. if you re one of the millions of americans heading off this morning, allow yourself extra travel time and promises to be slow going on the roads and especially at the airport. we have team coverage of today s big holiday rush. we begin with cbs news front mark straussman in atlanta this morning. mark, good morning. how s it looking there? reporter: good morning, maggie. it is getaway day and travel is moving closer