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Feel the impact from heavy snow winds. more than 2,000 flights were canceled or delayed today in the u.s. are only going to get worse. we've got a team of reporters covering these monster storms and where they're heading. barry pedersen leads off us in denver. barry, how are things in the mile-high city? >> reporter: the conditions are getting a little better, but because of the storm, hundreds of miles of interstate were closed in colorado, kansas, wyoming, and nebraska. and that's a preview of what's coming from this storm. here in denver, a night and a day of snow meant a nightmare of peopl...

With two storms, one that the national weather service says is dangerously strong and unprecedented. both could ruin thanksgiving travel plans for tens of millions. snow is falling right now in salt lake city, the leading edge of a storm that will dump about a foot of snow there by the holiday. more than two-thirds of americans could be hit by powerful wind, rain, or snow. wcbs' lonnie quinn has the latest forecast, but first adriana diaz is at chicago's o'hare airport. adriana, this is shaping up to be quite a rough holiday getaway. >> reporter: that's right, norah. as the snow moves east, mo...

New report from the united nations is looking at the sweeping consequences of climate change. the report by the inter governmental panel on climate change is having an impact on the world on the ice that makes up so much of the earth and rising seas and melting glaciers is all but certain. and the report claims that the warming climate is killing coral reefs with monster storms and deadly marine heat waves and record losses of sea ice even worse. the panel says given current emissions level, a number of series of effects are essentially avoidable including 100 year floods that will become comm...

Tragic example of that. >> thank you. a massive storm is being blamed for two deaths and flooding in the south and it could bring blizzard conditions to millions this weekend. >> good morning, erica. we have a lot to talk about. we have the storm system stretching from the northeast all the way down to the south, bringing monster storms to places like new orleans this morning, and also raining in d.c., new york, atlanta, boston, and getting a mix of rain and even a little bit of snow, but all of this rain over the last 24 hours across the south with the slow-moving system, we saw ten inches ...

Temperatures make it that much stronger than it normally would have been? that's where the science has taken us. so we're trying to advance the narrative. did this storm happen because of a warmer planet, but was this storm worse because of a warmer planet? >> it does seem like the warm waters of the gulf were a factor in terms of the rapid intensification. >> guaranteed. this is usually the peak of the warmth there anyways. in october, we've had monster storms in the gulf before. a lot of times they fizzle before they get to land. this one decided not to. so the water temperature was a little...