Deadly trend of texting whilst driving. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. The thanksgiving travel nightmare is gripping the east coast. Its complimenting one of the busiest travel dates. Those who were hoping to see loved ones were grippeded by a storm. Its a mix of snow, sleet, rain and winds. Severe conditions are causing havoc up and down the east coast. Winter warnings have been issued from georgia to ver mont. The storm grounded hundreds of flights in central u. S. And is threatening to do the same at the airports of new york, philadelphia and washington. Joining us is Randall Pinkston from la guardia. Miserable for those trying to get to their families. Everyone keeps their fingers crossed. If you leave early in the morning you have a better chance of an ontime takeoff. The arrival and departure boards are showing ontime. If you are travelling along the eastern sea board, into or out of, beware of weather. The winter storm barrelling east disrupted travellers. I missed my connection for albany. Im hyperventilating, and im really crazy. Despite it all millions are determined to reach their destinations for thanksgiving dinner. Wisconsin. Iowa. 50 more travel during thanksgiving than any other time of the year. Bad weather is the last anyone needs. Its never been this bad. We travel from school. Many airports have long lines at the ticket counter and security checkpoints. Depending on conditions delays and cancellations. All it does is take a delay at a couple of airports and the wol country is affected. Air travel amounts to 60 of holiday traffic. Nine out of 10 will drive, covering a distance of 200 miles to visit family and friends. It will be twice as cop guested i would assume, and factor in the weather and the flooding, it will probably create a lot of traffic and slow going. Wednesday is the busiest travel day of the each, its only true if you fly, take a bus or train. On the roads thanksgiving day is busiest. Its too early if youre flying for this tip to help. The best day to fly is thanksgiving. Next year, if you have a choice, do it then. That is interesting advice. I never thought about that. What is the latest when it comes to delays at new yorks major airports. Are we seeing them yet . No delays so far. With the winds whooping and the rain moving in, its a good bet that there would be some delays. Heavy rap expected to arrive within hours. Have you heard anything about passengers at la guardia that made a plan b. Some of the airlines are offering a chance to change tickets without penalty. They were anticipating the delays. And other parts of the country. Check in with your airline if you have flexibility. Randall pinkston there for us, tracking the travel. Taking a look at the planefindertracker. Theres over 1,000 planes in the sky over the u. S. Thats expected to get busier. The wicked weather could force the big balloons out of the macy macys thanksgiving day parade. Wind are high, balloons will be grounded if winds peak higher than 53 Miles Per Hour, a balloon blew out of control, knocking a poll that injured two people. With or without the balloons, organizers say the rest of the play will march on. Nicole mitchell is tracking the weather system for us. To add to what you said about the maceys parade and the ba balloo balloons, its not just the winds sustained, but gusts into the mid30s. We have to watch both elements. As the loan skirts up the coastline well see gusty winds. It will be a concern. You can see where the brunt of the storm is now. Most of the western half of the country is cooperative. This is where you are travelling instead. Rain through the south, busy hubs like atlanta could have delays. This is moving out. Impacting more of the northeast. It will be the new york airport. Philadelphia. If a plain is stuck somewhere. It still could use problems. On the back side of this weve had snow, interior around the lakes. An influx of warm air. Thats why the coast sees rain and snow. Because of the snow interior, thats why we have a lot of Winter Weather advisories. If i go south, the coastline of north carolina, this is when you know its a potent storm, snow, rain and a tornado watch. Theres enough dynamics. Here is how the coastal system might rates up the coastline. Into tomorrow, on the backside of that. It looks like they are on the kuch for the balloon. Well watch that closely. In the meantime precipitation along the coastline. Localized heavier spots, its wind driven making the driving difficult. Interior look for 24 inches of rain. The u. S. Is not the only taste getting an early taste of winter. Europe is under snow. Slowing pedestrians. The snow is likely to be higher. Snow was a surprise in poland, which enjoyed mild conditions for week. Tract trailers were ordered off the road because of 74 mile hour wind. China monitored a pair of u. S. Bombers flying over the East China Sea, flying through air space. The b 52s flew over islands contested by china and japan. The training flight returned to gaum after less than an hour in the air. The air space, said china, is part of its defense zone. Its international territory. Unilateral actions taken by china with the announcement of an East China Sea air defense undermines security, constituting an attempt to change the status quo. East china sea. It serves to increase tensions. Japanese airliners are flying through the zone without notifying budget. China says it will identify the threat level of violations and will respond accordingly. The white house is plating with congress not it scuttle the irannuclear deal. Secretary of state john kerry sent a message to lawmakers in a video, asking them not to pass sanctions unless they doan live up to their agreement. Translation in order to work Nuclear Weapons require highly enriched uranium tore plutonium. Uranium, as i am sure you know is found in nature. At times the video looked like a lesson in nuclear physics. And why, as a result of the deal iran would be unable to produce a weapon if it decided. It explained what the deal meant. Let me tell you what it does not do. Some people are putting out misinformation. I wanted to be clear. It does not lift the current architecture of our sanctions. Some in congress are not persuaded by his arguments. Iran is a threat not just to israel, but the western world. The indications are that when they return from the holiday members of congress will deliberate bipart san legislation only if it does not live up to the deal. The white house appears to be winning the argument. We cannot commit to an endless cycle of conflict. Tough talk and bluster may be easy, but its not right for our security. The administration asked for help finding robert lefer son an american that disappeared on an iraqi island iran says it has no knowledge. This time the white house says it is respectfully asking tehran for sentence. Two u. S. Senators plan to have a bill ready when the Senate Returns from its recess. The measure requires the administration to certify that iran is following the rules. The Obama Administration is looking for a different way to finalise the security deal with afghanistan. White house officials confirm they are pushing the Afghan Foreign minister to sign the deal. Hamid karzai says he will not approve the fact until demands are met. It will keep thousands of troops past next year. Susan rice was facetoface with hamid karzai in afghanistan urging him not to stop the deal. If the deal is not signed, i said to the plt we will have. We will have to begin to plan that we will not keep troops here because they have not been invited because the dsa has not been sign muched. The proposal would keep 10,000 troops in afghanistan through the year 2024. All u. S. Forces will be pulled out if the deal is not signed before the end of this year. Demonstrations are erupting across asia. Hundreds gathered at the interior ministry. They want Yingluck Shinawatra to step down. She is facing a noconfidence vote. This is the fourth day of demonstrations. An arrest warrant is out for a former Parliament Member leading the protest. In india police are enforcing a new law to break up chongss there. Tear gas and Water Cannons were fired at protesters on tuesday. The law was passed sunday by the militarybacked government, requiring approval from authorities for demonstrations of more than 10 people in syria. Human rights activists say its designed to stop protesters. In ukraine demonstrators angry over trade talks with the european union. Police fired tear gas, many of whom camped out in parliament for six days. You crepe could not afrt to cut ties with russia. The trade talks divided the leaders, including the Prime Minister who said he does not want hit country to become a battlefield between the e. U. And moscow. More now from our correspondent. The remarks by the ukrainian Prime Minister came at a cabinet meeting, with the full authority of the government. Its not a contradiction of the president s position, its more of a nuance. The Prime Minister sar if was saying the process would go on. It doesnt mean theyll sign the free trade pact with the europeanionion. Essentially its a game of cat and mouse going on here. The russian president made it very clear that the ukraine will not be a doorstep tore the import of european goods into russia. Hes maintaining the point and is upset. Putin, about the remarks coming out of the european union, saying they should tone down the comments. The momentum is being maintained in the square behind me. At the moment, during the day, numbers are smaller. They swell during the night. 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Well tell you what they do to put down their cell phones. How science makes a corn scalpel obsolete. In is st. Joseph county, its part of the storm system expected to make Holiday Travel difficult in many parts of the country. Tennessee is the dea g good morning, welcome back to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Why you may have one day to pay your bank to deposit money. First a look at what temperatures will do across the county. Nicole mitchell, metrologist is back. The temperatures have been a crucial element of the storm up and down the west coast. Ahead of a low pressure and cold front you get the warm air on the backside. Because the throe has skirted the interior, not over the water and up the coast we have a change between the cold air and the warm air where the front has been. As we look at that this is influx the warm air up the coastline. Thats why a lot of precipitation has been rain. Look at what this does. York 61, albany at 35. Thats saved us in some respects. If the low had gone over the coast and all of this was cold air, it would have been know. Look at york with flex of warm hair. By the time we get into tomorrow, it will be cold. Fortunately it stayed rain with that. The cove si over Birth Control over the Health Reform law is in the hands of the supreme court. The justices decided to hear argument in march. The issue whether private employees need to pay for contraceptive care because of reliagious relief. It must be determined whether a company as the same rights at an individual. The internal reeve knew service is using guidelines to determine if nonprofits should be tax exempt. The groups will be cautioned to pay taxes if it uses a large amount of their budget on political donations. Voters in washington have backed a 15 minimum wage. Its for workers around the seattle tabbing oma airport. Some are calling for a recount. You may be used to paying a fee if your account dips below a certainly amount. 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What the banks might do is cut the interest it offers n o Shortterm Bank deposits, checking deposits. Since those rates are already low to begin with, they may chart charging people to deposit their money at the banks. Banks pay a premium. While talk of charging customers may prove an empty threat, paying interest on excess reserves may prove to be another policy created in the wake of the financial crisis that proves difficult for the fed. Some banks are thinking about charging fees for speaking with a teller or accessing accounts using mobile apps. Here is what is making business news. Wall street could be posed to break more records. Here is where we stand the Dow Jones Industrial average is open at 16,072. The 43rd record high. The s p is at 1802. The nasdaq breaking through the 4,000 mark. European markets are higher at this hour as well. Investigators are positive. In asia markets closed higher there. Hong kong ended at a high after chinas central bank. Hewlett packard will be in the spotlight. The second largest perform c maker swinging to a profit. It credits strong corporate demand. Retailers are pulling out all the stops this Holiday Season. There are six fewer dates between thanksgiving and christmas. Retailers from macys to coles are reopening the playbook by opening their doors on thanksgiving. Retailers are hoping to lure customers online. A lot of retailers open on black friday whether at mid night or friday morning are open on thanksgiving. Its another big day. Online sales begone on thanksgiving. A lot of analysts thing it will be bigger in terms of volume. The National Retail federation estimates 33 million americans will shop on thanksgiving. Shoppers in new gland will not line up for deals on thanksgiving. Rowed island, massar and blue line prohibit most stores opening, including supermarkets and department stores. Pope francis is defining his vision for the future of the Roman Catholic church. He wants to shift power from the vatican and put more effort in helping the poor. Little more than a year passed since he became the head of the catholic church. Prans sis released a pope francis released a major work. He calls for action from within. For a church bruised, hurting from the streets, rather than one clinging to security. He wrote of charity and renewal. The various forms of social disparity, the fetishism of money, exasperation of consumption and unbridled consumerism. He called for the rich to share wealth before. Whilst popes have been criticised for lavish, francis leads by example, living in a guest house, rather than the palace. Some accuse him and his advisor of hypocrisy. Capitalism in all its riches will not live how they live. I think hes woun of the most powerful men. Pope francis is focus the on human rights before. He visited lampedusa, an island of italy when many arrive. This time he calls on all catholics to help. 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Therm movingg to the northeast is expected to make roads dangerous for Holiday Travellers. Welcome back to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Holiday travellers are dealing with a major complication, the storm system slamming the country with a wintry mix is hitting the northeast. Its grounded hundreds of flights and caused accidents on wet and ice yea roads. Police fire tear gas at protesters in ukraine. Demonstrators camped in front of parliament for six days, calling for the president to sign a trade agreement with the european union. Its day four of protests in thailand crowds gathering at the Labor Ministry