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Airlines expect 45 million will travel this holiday season. david kerley is at reagan airport in washington, d.c. >> the airlines say theyre prepared for the bad weather and tsa has added officers to deal with the two busiest days, tomorrow and friday. >> reporter: meanwhile, back in washington state, officials checking some 450 properties for damage from that tornado. national weather service just announcing it was an ef-2, 300 yards wide with winds up to 130 miles per hour. here in atlanta, we...

One storm from the west with this tornado, just confirmed a short time ago as an ef-2 tornado. massive damage in this neighborhood outside seattle. the other storm tonight, from the south. already with blinding rain outside dallas. the two will merge and then travel right up the east coast. several major cities in the path. interstates, as well. and then the airports, as i mentioned. authorities say, prepare for major delays and cancellations. we do have the newest track, when this all hits. and...

Few jails in america receive as much media coverage as the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. while many stories focus on things like the striped uniform and pink underwear that both male and female inmates are required to wear, we tried to learn more about the inmates themselves. it didnt take long before we noticed rita, who was at maricopa facing 11 felony charges along with various misdemeanors. >> yeah. only 11. not bad. if youre going to go, you got to go all out. right? i got an f-...

The storm surge but this is going to be a real world test when this takes place. and we can no longer see the pier. the city pier is over there. >> thank you very much. but its obscured by the waves the force of these winds are like a tornado. >> the equivalent of an ef-2 or and the wind blowing hitting the surf and creating a misty area on the top of the surf there on ef-3 tornado. top of the rain but they hope a tornado comes and goes in like 15 seconds. and theres no indications at this just ...

Moving fast and again, wrecking havoc along the way. guys? >> mariano for us in florida, this is one of the situations where people say hurricanes are about the wind and thats the most damaging things and the hurricanes about water. we have seen both in the last year. we have seen hurricanes with a lot of water and flooding but this is a primarily wind event thats bringing in a lot of water and flooding with itment lets go to bill karins. >> we are watching the right front quadrant. she never we...

New york. 1 110-mile-an-hour winds ripping the roof off that home. and that nursing home we showed you last night in western pennsylvania, shattered by an ef-2, winds of 115 miles an hour. rob marciano tracking the threat for us again tonight. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. the atmosphere recharged, fueling more storms tonight. you mentioned that tornado watch, here it is, across much of wisconsin and the u.p. of michigan. marquette getting hit right now. thats up until 11:00. then this front...

Will carr, thank you. were monitoring warnings up and down the east coast tonight, and also the aftermath of a deadly tornado elsewhere. look at the cleanup, after a deadly twister in north dakota. it was an ef-2, that means winds 127 miles an hour. destroying homes there and killing a newborn, a baby just 7 days old. and in the east tonight, look at this. hurricane chris now a category 1. winds 90 miles an hour, kicking up possibly life-threatening currents, theyre saying, from the carolinas ...

Meteorologist ana cabrera joins joins us. >> over the weekend, our first major outbreak. tornadic storms as a result. just the beginning of what typically is a season in this direction. by the time we get into may and june, thats when we peak as far as the tornado averages per month. in february we only average about 30. you dont need quantity to get them to be deadly. this is a line that spawned all the deadly tornadoes. we had 12 tornado reports. the national weather service has been out there...

Go out in these conditions. >> reporter: -- drivers carefully navigate past jackknifed semis in lincoln. visibility so low, in some parts of the state, officials even pulled plows off the road. in minnesota, crews like this one take on the backbreaking task of shoveling snow off of sidewalks city-wide. how do you prepare to do this kind of work all day long? >> mental toughness. >> reporter: further south in texas, high winds fueled this grass fire in parker county. nearby schools evacuated. thi...

>> yeah, no question about that. jon karl with new reporting on that meeting with the president a short time ago. jon, thank you. in the meantime, we do move on now, to that other major winter storm on the move tonight. alerts up from minnesota all the way to the northeast, were following this, as well. blizzard conditions in the heartland, cars stuck in deep snow in sioux city, iowa. look at those images. and then tornadoes in the south. an ef-2. winds more than 111 miles an hour in texas. an...