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tonight." we have a dangerous winter storm bearing down on most of the country tonight. we have millions of americans on the move traveling for the christmas holiday and the storms are brutal. they are unleashing frigid temperatures. you have blizzard conditions and very strong powerful winds. the airlines are canceling thousands of flights. tonight as we are waiting for the final report from january 6th committee which is still not here, we have transcripts from star witnesses and like cassidy hutchinson that show she testified that she felt pressured by trump allies not to cooperat...

Busiest day for travelers so not a great situation to coincide with the type of weather we're seeing here. >> i'm from minnesota as you know a and we often battle chicago to figure out who is colder. i know chicago knows what it is to be cold and there aren't ample skyways as back home but even for normal chicago cold it is much worse, right? >> yeah, definitely. in my years living here there are two places i look to make me feel better about the weather. it is usually minneapolis and fargo after that. all of us know how to deal with cold and chicago especially has a huge fleet of snow trucks ...

Degrees fahrenheit and wind gusts potentially 40 miles per hour in the morning. it will blow around all the snow and make visibility a real issue >> i was thinking about that. chicago is a major hub for transportation, major airports as well that are there. how is that weather impacting flights? if there is not visibility pilots are vfr and ifr rated but what is the impact? >> reporter: in short, not good. we have already seen more than 400 flights canceled at o'hare in the last 24 hours alone and the airport said airlines proactively canceled more than 500 because of the winter weather. we've...

Plummet into 21 degrees or 25 to 30-degree temperature drop. with that wind gusts up to and exceeding 30 miles an hour and behind that snowfall coming. along and north of i-40 we expect maybe an inch or two inches of snowfall. a little further north, the entire state memphis to mountain city before the system is through with us tomorrow morning. >> that key word you said, expect. because maybe places like chicago, other parts of the country, expect to have the temperature drops and maybe the wind chills but this is not what is typical in a place like tennessee and for many residents they're pr...

See how this could create the dangerous situation. >> omar, please stay safe. hope the residents of chicago will as well and everyone passing through. i can hear the sound all familiar of a car going through the snow trying to make its way over what is happening right now. please stay safe everyone. speaking of temperatures, it is plummeting across the country due to the massive storm. joining me now is patrick sheehan director of tennessee's emergency management agency. thank you for joining us today. we just went to chicago. saw what's happening there. tennessee also being struck hitting nas...