This is the cbs weekend news. We left a lot more time to travel because we thought it would take a long time to get here and were told to get here earlier than normal. Reporter nationwide more than 60 flights were cancelled and over 1900 delayed. Many of them in snowy chicago according to flight aware, and those numbers were expected to increase. And without a doubt the travel for the yearend holiday has a lot to do with airfares being lower and airfares about 20 lower compared to last year. Robert sinclair is a spokesperson for triple a which estimates that Holiday Travel will set a record for the 9th consecutive year. We think that its totally linked to the economy. Folks have more money in their pockets and taking advantage and spending it by taking a trip. The greatest number of travelers, more than 97 million of them are expected to take to the roads. Where a band of Winter Weather has already created dangerous conditions from nebraska all the way to maine. About 70 of the United
Sheriffs deputies are recovering after being shot. It happened an hour and half ago. Not far from dominion high school. Investigators tell us those deputies are in serious but stable condition and should be fine. They were responding to a domestic situation when they were shot. One person is in custody and we have a crew on the way to the scene. We will get you an update as soon as they arrive. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] snow giving the midwest a White Christmas are we next . Steve rudin in the stormwatch 7 Weather Center has the answer. Thinking. Hful not looking at snow around here. Is on thehe cold air way. Temperature forecast as we move through the evening hours, falling through the lower 40s, eventually into the 30s and even the 20s. We do have a wind advisory set to go into effect that starts at 3 00 in the morning. For the district and closed in areas along the 81 goes
To our son and wife. Answers ad a plea for month after a man was shot and killed while being chased by u. S. Park police. Now, abc 7 news at 11 00, on your side. Kellye right now we are tracking santa as he makes his way around the world. He is in portsmouth, new hampshire, so kids, if you are still up, head to bed as soon as you can. Santa is coming, and temperatures will drop her that meteorologist steve rudin is in the weather center. We are going to get some cold weather and wind . Cold weather and the wind arrives in the Early Morning hours Christmas Day and stick around a good part of the upcoming workweek. Clouds and radar for you ohio, west virginia, and western maryland. County,es in garrett allegheny county, and washington county. Heading closer to the d. C. Metro, not looking at any snow, but light rain showers mixing in with flakes later tonight. Not looking for any accumulations early in the morning. The wind advisory will go into effect 3 a. M. Through the day tomorrow, w
Youre having a white christmas. We may see a passing flurry, snow showers in a couple spots tonight, but the chance for a windy christmas is much higher than a white christmas. Theres no song about that. Get writing. Well show you whats happening because were watching a clipper system and this guy passing to our north, you can see that spin up toward cleveland and buffalo and when we have clippers that move to our north, down here, like heres the spin, we dont get a lot of snow. Yes, the snow is in the mountains of West Virginia and western maryland, but locally we had a couple sprinkles and snow showers earlier. All this really has lifted quickly to the east. There may be some wet flakes mixed in north of baltimore, so were watching that and also a few flakes are trying to fall just east of hagerstown racing in toward western Frederick County and in western maryland throughout areas from hancock west in toward allegheny and Garrett County to 4 inches by morning. Weve got Winter Weathe
Amelia draper joins us now, and the word is what, brrr . Yeah, absolutely, chris. As we look to the end of 2017 and 2018. The weather storys really all about how cold its going to be. Today we were also dealing with the wind. Thankfully right now theyre continuing to die down. Take a look earlier. People along the national mall, the christmas tree, the ellipse. Definitely bundled up. You can see hats and gloves, scarfs, the whole nine yards. And as youre heading out early tomorrow morning, its going to be a cold start. Take a look. High temperatures today. Upper 30s and low 40s across the area. And by the way, i hope youre having a wonderful holiday. 41 degrees was the High Temperature in washington. Right now weve fallen down to 32 with some cloudiness out there. Tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. Its a chilly start. 24 degrees. Thats in washington. So in the more rural locations, the suburbs, youre going to start off the day with temperatures right around 20 degrees. And it will be a bit br