martians, our sunday night mystery and much more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. we begin with the secret service crisis. congress will hold hearings over the agency s prostitution scandal. they will look at what happened in colombia and all that led up to it. meantime, congressman peter king is concerned about the agency s future. we have to find out what is going to be done to ensure or to minimize the possibility of this ever happening again because i have great regard for the secret service. i believe director sullivan has done a fine job. but you can t allow 11 men like this to tarnish the great reputation of that industry. let s go live to colombia. police are conducting their own investigation now. drew, it appears the woman at the center of this scandal has gone underground. what are you learning about this? reporter: absolutely correct. she has an attorney. that attorney has apparently farming around her
we re going to get a nice break for the most part in the weather come tomorrow, but thursday into friday, we might see that next outbreak of severe weather and yeah, that wintry weather which is going to be arriving. we ll talk about that in your travel impact in the next half hour. thank you. mitt romney taking the official first step in his bid to become the president of the united states. the former governor of massachusetts announced yesterday that he is setting up a presidential exploratory committee. the republican front runner says the country is going into the wrong direction and he is the man to turn it around. from my vantage point in business and government, i ve become convinced that america has been put on a dangerous course by washington politicians and it s become even worse during the last two years. but i m also convinced that with able leadership, america s best days are still ahead. former owe limben carl lewis is trying to reach a new finish
highway between canada and southern california. it handles a significant volume of traffic every day and that traffic now is being rerouted basically through the city of mount vernon. so you re taking freeway traffic and diverting it through city streets. it will be a significant travel impact on people s schedules. jon: there were two bridges right? one for each direction of traffic? is the other one considered safe? actually this is, there s, there s two bridges in this area. one happened else traffic basically within the city. this bridge is the bridge that handles, is basically i-5. it handled the north and southbound traffic for i-5. jon: i looked at an aerial photo assumed the bridges i saw side by side are for different traffic directions, but they are again as you say one coming out of the city, apparently? right. one handles city traffic and the one that went down handles all the interstate 5 traffic. jon: it tiled he will be some length of time before
it s where jim cantore is going to be. alex, i keep joking they are going to look like a snowman. it s where all the snowfall is coming down. a lot of features from the weather channel and weather.com. we ll be here with you, again, bringing live weather updates. stay with us for this one. it really is a doozy. happy holidays. happy holidays and then some. we ll stay with you all morning for the busy forecast. thank you so much, danielle. a travel impact now. a dramatic one. the ice and snow are forcing airlines to cancel flights while drivers struggle out there. veronica is monitoring all the troubles for us. good morning. good morning. the flight delays are continuing to pile up. let s look at john f. kennedy airport. the snow hasn t started, yet. airlines are cancelling flights