Time its time for your eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Rain and snow will be impacting americans from coast to coast to coast. Wild weather threatens to snarl holiday travel. Couldnt be much worse the Central Plains into the great lakes. Blizzard conditions expected. A monster storm in the west coast. Defense secretary mark esper fired navyec ricrd spencer for the handling of the war crimes case involving eddie gallagher. Its about retaliation. Former mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg has officially announced hes running for president. The white house reportedly tried to justify why the president withheld military aid from ukraine after he did it. Everyone was in the loop on this. There was a clear quid pro quo. Reporter a Record Number of people turn out for elections in hong kong. Reporter the prodemocracy opposition has won a resounding victory. Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg out of the hospital. She was admitted with a fever and chills. 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More than 55 million americans will be on the move this week, but a storm in the west is threatening to bring travel misery to many. Winter storm alerts stretch from the rockies to the upper midwest. Some areas expect a foot of snow. Travel could be especially difficult on wednesday. Thats the day before thanksgiving. And a second storm is expected to cause trouble later in the holiday weekend. Cbs news climate and weather contributor, jeff berardelli, is with us. Good morning. How are things looking right now . A lot of frustrated people, i think. Thats my prediction for the upcoming week. It is going to be a tough travel week. This is the setup right now. Big dip in the jet stream, cold air pouring south from canada. The one bit of good news High Pressure across the southeast mild and protected there. Thats the best area this week as we look ahead. Storm forms later tonight and tomorrow morning around denver. Heavy snow, blizzard conditions, gusts over 40 Miles Per Hour, moves through the plains states toward minneapolis. The good news is its rain in chicago, but still going to cause some issues there. Detroit and cleveland. Heavy snow on the northern side of the system as it moves through the plains states. How much snow in generally about 6 to 12 inches is likely as the system makes its way across. And i do think were going to see a footplus in places like the rockies. You can see the wath right there. The purple indicating the heaviest snow. Wind is going to be a very big issue as it moves across the country. Its going to move across the great lakes, probably gusting to 40, 50 Miles Per Hour at times. Eventually it will end up around the new york city area. When it does, we are concerned that the balloons may very well be grounded on thanksgiving morning. That turkey is very concerned. You can see the look in his face because it will be the First Time Since 1971 that kids would not be happy. Say it aint so, jeff. Thats an unhappy looking turkey. President trumps Navy Secretary said he was fired in the controversy over a navy s. E. A. L. Because the president gave him an order he couldnt in good conscience carry out. Secretary Richard Spencers removal follows a dispute that began when the president reversed the navys demotion of Edward Gallagher. Gallagher, convicted of posing with a dead isis fighter in region. He was also accused of murdering a prisoner of war but was acquitted of that charge. David martin is at the pentagon. Whats the response there . Reporter good morning. Well, spencers boss, defense secretary mark esper, says he fired spencer due to losing trust and confidence in him because of a lack of candor. Either way, the case of the navy versus edward gall better has turned into a fullblown fiasco complete with conflicting accounts of why the Navy Secretary had to go. I have not threatened to resign. I am here, i work at the pleasure of the president. Reporter defense secretary mark esper said that spencer had gone behind his back to negotiate with the white house on ways to short circuit Disciplinary Proceedings against gall better. Last week gallagher. Last week the president tweeted, the navy will not be taking gallaghers trident pin, the symbol of his status as an elite navy s. E. A. L. Spencer said he needed to see an in order writing from the president before stopping gallaghers appearance before a review board that could have kicked him out of the elite unit. If the president requests to stop the process, the process stops. Reporter spencers Resignation Letter made it sound like he was fired before he could embarrass the president by resigning on principle. He wrote, i cannot in good conscience obey an order that i believe violates the sacred oath i took. For his part, President Trump tweeted he was not pleased with the way the navy handled the gallagher case, and with spencers inability to manage cost overreturns on bigticket items like a new aircraft carrier. That capped a day in which gallagher appeared on fox news and made openly insubordinate statements about his supervisors. This is all about ego and retaliation. That has nothing to do with good order and discipline. Reporter in addition firing spencer, esper also directed that gall better be allow gallagher be allowed to keep his trident. In a statement to fox news, gallagher thanked the president for stepping in and, quote, correcting all the wrongs that had been done to him. David martin, thank you. Turning to the impeachment inquiry, we have now information about the white house decision to hold up hundreds of millions of dollars in u. S. Military aid to ukraine. Senior Trump Administration officials tell cbs news an internal review uncovered emails showing acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney asking for legal justification for the freeze after the fact. Ben tracy is at the white house. Whats the significance of these emails . Reporter well, these emails are servicing just as democrats are getting close to forming articles of impeachment against President Trump, and they may provide new evidence. Now according to the Washington Post which first reported these emails, the exchanges began after President Trump ordered the hold of military aid to ukraine and after his july 25th call with ukrainian president zelensky in which he asked zelensky to investigate joe and hunter biden. In early august, acting chief of staff milk mull mainy haved the Mick Mulvaney asked for legal justification for withholding the aid. At the podium, he admitted to an investigation into the 2016 election and ukrainian corruption were two of the reasons the aid was held up. In a statement, the office of management and budget stood by its strategy writing, there was a legal concensus at every step of the way that the money could be withheld in order to conduct the policy review. That aid was eventually released to ukraine on september 11th, thats two days after Congress Found out about the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry. All right. Ben, were also learning to the House Intelligence Committee obtained information about a key figure tied to Rudy Giuliani. Reporter thats right. So cbs news has learned that the committee reportedly now has audio and video recordings as well as photographs from giuliani associate lev parnas. He pled not guilty to Campaign Finance charges. The Congressional Committee subpoenaed him last month for information tying him to Rudy Giuliani and President Trump. Parnas is a business associate of giulianis. He played a key role in efforts to launch a ukrainian corruption investigation against joe and hunter biden. And sources tell us that parnas wants to tell his story. And he will comply as necessary. Now over the weekend, Rudy Giuliani said that he has an insurance policy if President Trump were to throw him under the bus. He later clarified that what he meant by hunters was actually dirt on the bidens. Jericka . Ben tracy for us. Thank you. One of the worlds richest people is officially running for president , but he wont be on the ballot in the early contests that are considered critical to most of his rivals. Michael bloomberg, former ads. Ed okeefe is covering campaign 2020. Whats behind the late start strategy for bloomberg . Mow. Money money. Money, money, money. After initially ruling out a run earlier, bloomberg is in running as a moderate democrat. Whether some think hes too wealthy, too old, or too late to join the fray, bloomberg believes he says the best shot of beating the other new yorker in the race, President Trump. He could have just been the middleclass kid who made good. But Michael Bloomberg became the guy who did good. Reporter former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked off his white house bid with a new campaign ad. Now hes taking on him to rebuild a country. Reporter the weeklong ad blitz will roll out in at least 46 states and cost a recordbreaking 34 million. The multibillionaire is promising not to take any Campaign Contributions and wont accept a salary if he wins the white house. Bloomberg, a republican turned independent turned democrat declined to run in 2016. In september he told cbs this morning he wouldnt join the 2020 primary while former Vice President joe biden led the field. There was not a road for me when joe was in the race to get through because we would have split the votes. Reporter that was then. Polls now show an increasingly fluid primary with biden essentially lock friday a fourway race with mayor Pete Buttigieg and liberal seniors Elizabeth Warren and bernie sanders. Biden welcomed the entry this weekend i welcome the competition. Reporter others were critical. The election should not be for sale. Not to billionaires, not to corporate executives. It does not mean billionaires buying elections or just because they are billionaires they think they can run for president. [ cheers ] reporter there are some big hurdles ahead for the mayor. In addition to likely skipping the first two nominating states z in the democratic primary, refusing Campaign Donations means he wont need Democratic NationalCommittee Rules to qualify for primary debates. His team says if the rules change, hell gladly participate. In a few moments ago, he will make his First Campaign stops today in norfolk, virginia. We mentioned that hes wealthy. The 34 million hes putting into ad buys is the equivalent of every american writing a check for 39. Small change for a guy worth im glad you know the math. Somebody fact check that for me. Hes an analytial guy. He wouldnt do this unless he saw a pathway. Hes analyzed this since 2008. The proposal debts Korea Movement in hong kong is celebrating a landslide victory in local elections. A record 71 of voters went to the polls yesterday. Prodemocracy candidates won 80 of the contested District Council seats. This comes after months of antigovernment protests. Ramy inocencio is in hong kong. Whats the mood there . Reporter good morning. Prodemocracy supporters and their winning candidates cheered on line and on the streets. Some people even popped champagne bottles when one reviled beijing protester lost his seat. Others who lost even pub bowed while accepting defeat. That here is a major cultural act of apology. There all comes after the past half year of often violent protests. At times those have crippled the city, even damaged its economy. But demonstrators turned to peaceful action on sunday at the ballot box, looked past the months of chaos, and sent a very clear message they want democracy. The record turnout says theyre angry at their government. And by extension, beijing and the communist party. And theyre demanding the right to have one person, one vote, to elect their chief executive. Now, they dont have that now, but the reality of these very local elections is that theyre high on symbolism but very low on any political leverage for any real kind of reform. That means that the protests that weve been seeing over the past six months, over this international, very beautiful and very wellknown city,a probably set to continue. Ill take this. Ramy other thank you so much. Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg is recovering from a twoday hospital stay. The 86yearold was admitted to john hopkins on friday after suffering fevers and chills. Ginsburg has had a number of Health Issues in recent years. Shes been treated four times for cancer, including twice in the past year alone. A Court Spokesman said shes doing well. A british newspaper is reporting the fbi is now looking into how it can interview britains Prince Andrew over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Queen elizabeths second son is already facing consequences within the royal household. Rocks annie interry with the latest Roxana Saberi with the latest. Prince andrew is stepping aside from all the charities hes involved in, at least for now. A drastic move but one aimed at stopping organizations from distancing themselves from him. So far the palace wont comment on whether the fbi is trying to interview him. Would you be willing to testify or give a statement under oath if you were asked . Well, im like everybody else. Im and i would have to take all the legal advice that there was before i was to do that sort of of thing. Reporter battling backlash after this bbc interview more than a week ago, Prince Andrew has since said hell cooperate with Law Enforcement agencies investigating his late friend, epstein. You now the fbi wants to interview him. We understand that the fbi are looking for ways to speak to him in britain through the u. S. Justice department to see logistically how that could be done. Sources close to Prince Andrew have said hed be happy to do that. Reporter the news comes as Buckingham Palace confirmed Prince Andrew is temporarily standing back from the more than 230 charities hes nilled in. Several organization hes involved in. Self organizations like the royal Philharmonic Orchestra had already cut ties with him. Queen elizabeth has not commented publicly on the scandal. Friday she was spotted horseback riding with Prince Andrew in what was seen as a public show of support. Now shes reportedly canceled the big party shed planned to host in february for his 60th birthday. Privately shes, you know, shes supporting him. Hes her son. But you know, shes pretty frustrated that this has been overshadowing a huge amount of the royal family, the work theyre doing. Reporter the sun is reporting that the princes friend, glaine max well, will speak with the fbi about their ties to epstein. They appear in a photo with one of epsteins accusers. Thank you so much. Breaking news in germany where one of europes most valuable collections of jewels was robbed overnight. German Officials Say the Green Vault Museum in dresden held many priceless treasures, and burglars broke in early this morning and took items that, according to one published report, could be worth more than 1 billion. Police have made no arrests at this point. One of the green vaults bestknown gems, a 41carat diamond, is on loan to the metropolitan museum of art. At least that is safe. Someone make sure George Clooney wasnt in the country. Sounds like oceans 14 here. We have an update on a story we reported in the spring. Ahead, the amazing recovery of a 5yearold boy thrown from a third story balcony at the mall of america. First, 7 18. Time to check local weather. Fo we have much more news ahead. One of r. Kell we have much more news ahead. One of r. Kellys livein gi