bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm
right now. so we re going from these brutal temperatures to what they describe as unseasonably warm temperatures. but being out here now, we re still too far away from when that happens. shaq, get some cover right now. it is really brutal. thank you very much for being with us. angie, what s the status on the storm right now? so a roller coaster ride here. not what shaq is talking about down the line as we get into next week, but the next couple hours, we could see big temperature drops. still dealing with the snow where shaq is in parts of michigan, detroit, starting to see that snow wind down. places like buffalo, we re going to see this for the long haul. this is going to be something that we ll deal with here as we get through at least saturday and even into the early parts of sunday. we ll start to wind down. when it comes to rain, you saw the rain falling in the northeast. that is creating that wet surface on the roadways. we re in for a big temperature drop. check out what h
a winter where system bringing snow wind and temperatures making its way along the midwest. wind chill advisories will effect about 135 million people in coming days. forecasters expect the so-called bomb cyclone to develop near the great lakes. that occurs when atmospheric pressure drops quickly in a strong storm. the weather system is affecting the travel plans of tens of millions of people who are trying to get away for the holidays. senior correspondent mike tobin is at o hare international airport in chicago tonight. good evening, mike, there could be some upset people there. there certainly could be and here in chicago they are expected to get the worst of it and the flight cancellations are materializing. 262 flights thus far have been canceled out of o hare. 116 out of midway. nationwide, 2271 domestic flights have been canceled and millions of people are just trying to make it home.
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