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Forecast. pack your patience. >> today is the day where biggest travel day but the weather is going to cooperate for the most part. snow and ice in wisconsin and minnesota. worst of the thunderstorms are down here in east texas just north of the houston area. shreveport has been in the rain all morning long. thats moving across interstate 20. memphis is also going to be very wet. lets get into the travel maps for today. these are the airport concerns. i have four of the major airports. the possi...

Platte into the central portions of nebraska, southern sections of south dakota, southern minnesota. thats thanks to an on coming winter storm that will impact travel conditions there late monday night into tuesday. more on that in just a second. now, the warm sector of the storm was warm enough to produce heavy rainfall. in fact, texas received anywhere between four to six inches of rain across the dallas-fort worth area causing some flooding concerns along the interstate 20 corridor. and get t...

Capitals band wagon when it suits me fine. >> you already jumped off. >> i know its going off a cliff. tell me about the severe weather today. >> today we wont be as bad was tornadoes but it only takes one. unfortunately it looks like we learned that lesson again. its east of dallas north of interstate 20. the estimate about 30% of the homes were damaged by this tornado. you can imagine the impacts on a small community. theyre going door to door. these are some of the pictures from over the week...

Interstate. you take a look. the particular storm, of course has had a history of producing tornadoes. tornado watches in effect with the storm producing 1,000 lightning strikes per hour. talk about a night to be challenging to sleep in. the tornado watch in effect until 5:00 a.m. local time. we cannot rule out the rotation. we zoom out the perspective. this weather will migrate off to the east. 54 million people will be in line for more severe weather on monday. here is the national perspective...

Expected on the mountains and temperatures into the 30s. possibly meaning the coldest weather at the rose parade since 1952. john ehrlichmann, abc news, los angeles. see whats in store for us on this first day of 2015, heres accuweathers justin povick. good morning. >> thank you kendis and reena. the northeast, to kick off 2015, will be quite chilly once again on thursday. a couple of pockets of snow. and some of the snows will be locally heavy. but, again, like i said, locally. so only a coup...

>> there you go. >> im buying swag before i leave. >> i like that. >> my daughter would love this. >> always looking for a sale. so we bring this in the summer right now. a lot of people were on interstate 20 and so its easy to see them traveling and on vacation. and theyll stop by. theyll stop into the shop and say hello. theyll take a picture. >> yeah. ill pop in all the time. and i get a kick out of -- i get a kick out of watching the reaction. >> and theyre pulling your beard? thats happened...

>> there you go. >> im buying swag before i leave. >> i like that. >> my daughter would love this. >> always looking for a sale. so we bring this in the summer right now. a lot of people were on interstate 20 and so its easy to see them traveling and on vacation. and theyll stop by. theyll stop into the shop and say hello. theyll take a picture. >> yeah. ill pop in all the time. and i get a kick out of -- i get a kick out of watching the reaction. >> and theyre pulling your beard? thats happened...

>> there you go. >> im buying swag before i leave. >> i like that. >> my daughter would love this. >> always looking for a sale. so we bring this in the summer right now. a lot of people were on interstate 20 and so its easy to see them traveling and on vacation. and theyll stop by. theyll stop into the shop and say hello. theyll take a picture. >> yeah. ill pop in all the time. and i get a kick out of -- i get a kick out of watching the reaction. >> and theyre pulling your beard? thats happened...

Lots of lightning has moved on from oklahoma city and is now traveling along interstate 20 and dallas. youre going to see some showers and storms in your forecast, in the next couple of hours. where you see the green shaded area from lubbock to oklahoma city, to springfield, down towards little rock, this is where we have the flood potential, because days and days of rainfall, and the moisture, the water just cant soak into the ground anymore, so youre going to be very susceptible to flooding, f...

In the meantime, joe bastardi says folks in the path of the storms better hunker up to because more could be on the way. whats going on here, joe? >> well, we have a big clash going on in the atmosphere rooking now. tupelo, mississippi, apparently much of tupelo has been directly hit by a major tornado. we can see the debris signature on the ray tar. when you see that on the radar, when the radar picks up things in the air that arent supposed to be in the air, this has probably been a devastatin...