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Nearly 113 million people nationwide will be traveling this weekend, AAA predicts. With the busiest roads expected to be after the holidays.

AAA is expecting nearly 113 million people to travel for the holiday season over the next two weeks. That's up more than 3 million people from last year, and close to pre-pandemic travel numbers.

Forecast to have wind chill in the negatives on friday. >> communities are about to see temperatures that they havent experienced in a decade or more. >> reporter: the message is the same, even for places used to telling with bad winters. its the combination of snow, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour and the demand to get home for christmas that could mean disaster especially on the roads where aaa estimates the majority of those traveling this holiday week will be driving. >> its not like your...

They havent experienced in a decade, or more. >> reporter: the message is the same. even for places used to dealing with bad winters, the combination of snow, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, and the demand to get home for christmas that could mean disaster, especially on the roads. aaa estimates the majority of those traveling this holiday week will be driving. >> its not like a snow day, you know, when you are a kid. its dangerous and threatening, this is really, very serious weather alert ...

Dealing with bad weathers. its the combination of snow, wind gusts and the demand to get home for christmas. it could mean disaster, especially on the roads where aaa estimates the majority of those traveling this holiday week. >> its not like a snow day. >> now you can see the snow but you can also see me. the fear for officials here is that as this snow subsides in the overnight hours and basically just lays on the ground with it, very pretty like it does behind me, the wind is going to turn t...

We start this hour with the latest on this monster storm thats gripping most of the country. im joined by nbcs marissa para on i-95 near baltimore and meteorologist bill karins and katie beck is at reagan national airport, just outside washington, d.c. we have a lot to cover, were going to start with marissa. more than 90% of people who plan to travel for the holidays said they would be driving, and probably with the situation it is right now, according to aaa, what are you seeing on the roads? ...

Noon pacific time also because of that ice. and you take a look at the misery map you see this is leaving flyers stranded in the worst areas even for those who get outcome of those we have spoken to at the airport traveling this christmas they say has not been pleasant. >> i flew in from minneapolis yesterday, and everything was fine, but once we pushed back from the gate there was a 90 minute delay due to the deicing. 30 below and so they also couldnt get water on the plane which meant no runni...

Not be driving in. how worried are you this will get worse than it already is? >> very worried because aaa tells you to stay off the roads if theres going to be bad weather. with this 200 million people projection of this holiday season, were seeing crashes and we expect to see more. aaa is ready to help with roadside technicians and provider, but the reality is if law enforcement is having a hard time getting to people, so are we. so were encouraging people to stay off the roads completely. if ...

As this monster storm moves across the country, blizzard and icy conditions are leading to widespread accidents, rose closures, and travel bans. emergency services are currently responding to crashes along the ohio turnpike near sandusky, involving multiple, heavily damaged semi trucks and other vehicles, and take a look at the icy conditions that motorists in memphis, tennessee are having to deal with today. the roads just turned into sheets of ice, and the road situation is so bad that memphis...

Of your car which i do not have, but will at some point. but, you know, because this storm is so bad, and its the holidays, you know, theres a good chance now that tow truck drivers like you were saying, police, rescue crews, that they just wont be able to get to the cars. were seeing in memphis that police saying they simply get to accidents that are happening because of the icy conditions. so what advice do you have? what do motorists need to know if they are in an accident and need help, but ...