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tonight. we have a dangerous winter storm bearing down on most of the country tonight. we have millions of americans on the move traveling for the christmas holiday and the storms are brutal. they are unleashing frigid temperatures. you have blizzard conditions and very strong powerful winds. the airlines are canceling thousands of flights. tonight as we are waiting for the final report from january 6th committee which is still not here, we have transcripts from star witnesses and like cassidy hutchinson that show she testified that she felt pressured by trump allies not to cooperate with the committee or questions and instead possibly just risk contempt. an incoming republican congressman now saying he will address discrepancies shall we say in his biography as allegations are mounting that he falsified his resume and family background before being elected. let s begin with the powerful winter blast bearing down on most of the country. it is being called a once in a g ....
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Busiest day for travelers so not a great situation to coincide with the type of weather we re seeing here. i m from minnesota as you know a and we often battle chicago to figure out who is colder. i know chicago knows what it is to be cold and there aren t ample skyways as back home but even for normal chicago cold it is much worse, right? yeah, definitely. in my years living here there are two places i look to make me feel better about the weather. it is usually minneapolis and fargo after that. all of us know how to deal with cold and chicago especially has a huge fleet of snow trucks out on the roads, salt trucks to take care of some of the roads but it is not going to be snow that is the issue. it is trying to battle the ice and why we went to chicago s salt dome as it is known and holds about 50,000 tons of salt. ....
Degrees fahrenheit and wind gusts potentially 40 miles per hour in the morning. it will blow around all the snow and make visibility a real issue i was thinking about that. chicago is a major hub for transportation, major airports as well that are there. how is that weather impacting flights? if there is not visibility pilots are vfr and ifr rated but what is the impact? reporter: in short, not good. we have already seen more than 400 flights canceled at o hare in the last 24 hours alone and the airport said airlines proactively canceled more than 500 because of the winter weather. we ve already seen more than a hundred canceled just since about 5:00. the city department of aviation said over the holiday period through new year s they anticipate nearly 3 million people to pass through the airports, o hare and midway. today was supposed to be the ....
Plummet into 21 degrees or 25 to 30-degree temperature drop. with that wind gusts up to and exceeding 30 miles an hour and behind that snowfall coming. along and north of i-40 we expect maybe an inch or two inches of snowfall. a little further north, the entire state memphis to mountain city before the system is through with us tomorrow morning. that key word you said, expect. because maybe places like chicago, other parts of the country, expect to have the temperature drops and maybe the wind chills but this is not what is typical in a place like tennessee and for many residents they re probably completely unaccustomed and don t necessarily know how to prepare. what is it going to be like for people who are not used to temperatures? is there a way to get the word out to keep them safe and knowledgeable about what to do? you re right. ....