wednesday. big-time travel impacts expected from washington, d.c., to philadelphia to new york city to boston and right on into the midcoast of maine. further inland west of interstate 95 corridor is where we will see heavier snow amounts starting off wednesday morning over eastern maryland, over the poconos and eastbound into the overnight time frame. thanksgiving day itself, very cold throughout the east. showers continuing over the ohio valley but the worst of the snows will have pressed out off to the north and east. meanwhile in the short term, santa ana winds continue with fire danger over southern california. t.j. and reena. thank you so much. take a look at what mother nature whipped up. this monster tornado blew across a field in south africa over the weekend. it was the second twister to hit that country in a week. as big as this one is, you can see people standing out in the open watching. fortunately no one was hurt. more than 20 homes were hit. president obama in searc
a penalty but even the penalty isn t doing it. it will essentially be a high risk pool iw which is expensive to cover. bill: many questions remaining how all this turns out. two hearings on tap. martha: a pair of twin bombings rocking lebanon s capital overnight. a powerful blast set off near iran s embassy in beruit. 23 people were killed in these explosions. 140 were injured. an affiliate of died has claimed responsibility threatening more attacks if iran does not pull its troops out of nearby syria. bill: picking up the pieces at home after this monster tornado. we have a look at the devastation in communities like washington, illinois. the pictures you are about to see have stunning.
i hope no one is hurt. our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name. this is a fox news weather alert. you are watching video taken by one person who was caught in that monster tornado there. this is washington, illinois. tornados and severe thunderstorms sweeping over ten states. here is what we know at this hour. 7 million people have been in the path of this fast moving system. hardest hit south illinois. the illinois national guard has been dispatched to the areas that have been hit. the city of gifford also seeing
there. let s take a look at atlanta. as you re fly into the region, rain showers and heavier rainfall in the south. let s take you to the graphic. here say look at what we re talking about. this is the radar. a lot of heavy rain out there. this is going to be mean round after round of shower activity. some of these locations we re talking four to six inches. we ll get to that in just a moment. we ll send it back over to you two. jennifer, thank you very much. you know it s been almost three months since that monster tornado tore through moore, oklahoma. you remember it. it killed 24 people, that included seven children at an elementary school. triggered emotional reunions for survivors and their parents. it s painful to watch. this week, students in moore returned to those classrooms. and many were anxious about how school might be different after the tornado.
them. plus, we re at the scene of a raging california wildfire this hour threatening thousands of homes in los angeles. crews are trying to direct an attack on the blaze. plus, violence exploding in turkey. could have the same kind of impact as the arab spring. cnn is on the ground for you. i m wolf blitzer, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. the death toll just rose again from the latest round of killer tornados to hammer oklahoma. authorities now say at least 18 people were killed, including an 8-year-old girl whose body was found today near the deep fork river. oklahoma city was hardest hit by the twisters that barrelled through the state friday night, less than two weeks after a monster tornado struck. since the storm passed, residents of oklahoma city have been dealing with a new threat,