Dinners fromister. Its wedneth im phillip mena Mother Nature is slowing things good to b yea but down powerful storms are sweeping across the country dumping snow, ice, and heavy rain across much of the midwest just in time for the holiday rush crews have been working hard to clear the runways at the Denver Airport where hundreds of flights were canceled. Heres nbcs molly hunter. Reporter three storms closing in across the country. Denver, already buried in snow, the heavy onslaught shutting down highways across colorado as millions hit the road. Cars skidding out, rescue crews on the scene amid the snowy conditions two rock slides shut down i70 for hours. At Denver Airport flights pid ue 500, delaying nearly 200,000 passengers but at least one denver resident managed to find his way around tractortrailer roads and a semi flipped on its and in nebraska spinouts on icy side the powerful storm now heading east its going to be bad. The snows going to come down hard its going to come down fast reporter airport officials also warning flyers of potential delays as hundreds of airport workers across the country protested to demand better pay and benefits and the busiest travel day of the year many will have no choice but to stay put im just nervous to get home for thanksgiving to be with my family reporter and of course thats what everyone is worried about. Getting home in time for the holidays here in minneapolis theyre expecting the biggest november snowfall in almost a decade. And what that means overnight is crews are out in force 800 though plows on the road 160 pieces of snowclearing equipment at the airport, all to get the roads and runways clear by late morning. Frances . All right, molly, thank you it is giddy up and get out of dodge time well check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins hoos tracking it. What a mess. The airports today, the winds are going to be a huge issue on top of obviously the snow that were dealing with in areas like denver. The cleanup from yesterday and the snowstorm ongoing in areas of minnesota and wisconsin. Heres the two huge storms on the map. Dealing with the airpo the near city airports should start okay but when a period of rain comes through this afternoon and the winds pick up theyll probably be building delays detroit and chicago, minneapolis, could have a lot of delays and cancellations because of high winds. The winds could gust up to 50 to 60 miles per hour. Expect some iffy takeoffs and landings too and then in areas of the west, l. A. And san diego, this was a huge storm that moved on shore last night thats going to have implications then going into thanksgiving day i know some people travel in the morning. These storms are still on the map. Kicking up through northern new england. Still looking at gusty winds in boston and new york. Out west just a mess right through thanksgiving l. A. To areas of texas pick your poison were not done either. Theres another big storm into the weekend. Oh, man that means on the way home might be the same thing. Might need a vacation from the vacation after all that. Thanks, bill more than 55 Million People expected to travel between today and sunday 1. 6 million more travelers than last year. Many people adjusting their plans to try to get ahead of the rush and ahead of the weather. Nbcs tom costello put in the work for us to tell us the best times to hit the road. Tom, good morning. Reporter phillip, good morning. A very early good morning to you. Chances are if youre watching this broadcast youre up early and you may want to get out the door early to bet the rush weve got an analysis showing wh time, the optimal time, in order to bet the rush today. And here is the list and youre not going to be happy. Its courtesy of google. But if you live in the following cities you should really be out the door at 3 00 a. M. To beat the rush boston, chicago, dallas, detroit, houston, phoenix, san francisco, and d. C you can leave at 4 00 a. M. If youre in tampa, miami, orlando, l. A. , new york, philly, and seattle. And guess what you get to sleep until 5 00 a. M. In pittsburgh and also in st. Louis. Keeping in mind of course that this broadcast rolls across the country and so different time zones may be watching us at different times. Listen, the absolute worst time to leave really in every city in the country is between 3 00 p. M. And 7 00 p. M. Wednesday. Thats today because thats when youre going to have heavy, heavy traffic on the nations roads all right. When is the best time to return home, to drive home . Thats going to be, are you ready for this friday 4 00 a. M untirt well. If you dont want to do that, i dont blame you. Try to get out the door sometime on friday or on saturday but on sunday its going to be walltowall people as well. Weve also got to tell you that of course the airports are going to be really trying to recover from the big snowstorm that hit denver theyre digging out. Hopefully denver is back to normal today, wednesday, but theyve got a lot of catchup to do from all the Flight Cancellations they had and that big storm hitting minneapolis, expected to impact minneapolis and also potentially chicago. Phillip, back to you all right head to the airport. Thank you, tom House Democrats getting new insight into the impeachment inquiry this morning the Intelligence Community released transcripts from two more impeachment witnesses who testified behind closed doors. One from an assistant to the secretary of state phillip reeker and the other mark sandy, who is a career fi at the White House Office of management and budget sandy told lawmakers that two staffers left the omb after expressing frustration overt unexpected hold on aid to ukraine. Meanwhile, President Trump stayed on the attack at a rally in floridanight. First it was the russia hoax. Then you look, the mueller deal. You remember that mess now the same maniacs are pushing the deranged impeachment think of this. Impeachment. Impeachment. A witch hunt the president is also distancing himself from his personal attorney this morning Nbcs Kristen Welker has more. Reporter President Trump saying he had no role in his personal attorney Rudy Giulianis push for political investigations in ukraine at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, telling bill oreilly so you didnt direct him to go to ukraine to no. I didnt direct him. But he he is a he is a warrior. Reporter it comes as House Democrats announced impeachment hearings next week in the judiciary committee. The chairman writing to the president asking if you and your counsel plan to attend meanwhile, the president reacting to that legal setback after a federal judge ruled former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn must testify before Congress Though he may not have to answer every question the judge writing, president s are not kings, rejecting the Justice Departments argument that top president ial advisers are immune from being called to testify before congress. The Justice Department appealed the ruling the president tweeting, i would love to have mike pompeo, rick perry, mick mulvaney, and many others testify about the phony impeachment hoax future president s should in no way be compromised. And pompeo was asked whether he is considering testifying. When the time is right all good things happen i think mike pompeo would be a critical person to hear from right away and then rick perry reporter and President Trump ignored shouted questions about the intensifying probe are you going to testify . Reporter but joked about the impeachment investigation during that white house tradition of pardoning turkeys. Theyve already received subpoenas to appear dam schiffs basement on thursday. Reporter former National Security adviser john bolton says bolton wont testify without a subpoena meanwhile bolton putting out a mysterious tweet saying our countrys commitment to National Security is under attack from within thank you the day before thanksgiving the cdc has announced an additional 27 people have been sickened from the multistate outbreak of e. Coli in romaine lettuce, bringing the total number of cases to 67 in 19 states last week the Agency Issued a warning to consumers not to eat romaine lettuce grown in salinas, california after at least 40 people became ill the fda is still investigating the exact source of the contamination but say its the same e. Coli strain tied to previous outbreaks in Santa Barbara thousands were evacuated after a raging wildfire exploded overnight. Hundreds of firefighters are battling the cave fire its been smoldering on the county line, scorching over 4,000 acres. Firefighters say theyve been facing some of the toughest condition, trying to contain it as winds blow every which way. Firefighters are hoping for a little rain from a cold front that is moving across the state. An earthshattering upset in College Basketball as stephen f. Austin bedevilled duke loose theyve got it theyve got a time out, they dont use it bain yes the lumberjacks have done it is the ball oust his hand when that clock goes to zero oh, my goodness, it is. Just in time. The unranked lumberjacks knerngrom nathanbain before this duke had won 150e c. They were 27point underdogs they won that game thats Something Else lets check back in with bill on these storms really going to affect so many our travel we talked about the airports. Lets talk about the people who have to deal with it on the roads or however youre going to get around, not in the air 19 Million People still impacted by the Winter Weather alerts many of them in the west, the Mountain West is just getting nailed today a lot of the passes are going to have chains required or clothes. Check ahead. We still have all of our snow in areas from minneapolis to northern wisconsin if that wasnt bad enough we have 91 Million People under wind alerts today. 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