Holiday Day Could Effect 30 Million
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Live pictures right now from Ferguson, Missouri. That is one of the buildings that was set ablaze after the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown. That set off the protest which is Monday night were violent.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Police moved in quickly to prevent the violence from escalating. Some protesters flipped over a police cruiser and set it on fire, but with the huge National Guard presence, it was much calmer overall than what we saw on Monday. Protests, of course, not only going on in Ferguson.</s>BERMAN: Later this hour, we'll look at the nationwide reaction. Because if you were watching last night, you saw protest after protest, demonstration after demonstration.</s>PEREIRA: Mostly peaceful.</s>BERMAN: Absolutely. All over the country. I guess 170.</s>PEREIRA: Something like that. Can we also point out that we heard, anecdotally, of people saying that protesters were standing in front of the businesses in Ferguson, arm in arm, sort of essentially protecting them from being looted and destroyed? Some of the people on the ground in Ferguson, that's an important story to mention.</s>BERMAN: Absolutely.</s>PEREIRA: Because people have a right to protest. Violently and destructively, not. We want to turn to a story that is a concern for so many people. Some 30 million people from North Carolina all the way to Maine, just in time for Thanksgiving, a messy storm full of snow and rain. Look at the travel delays. Anything in red, that's a concern. We know that this is going to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel week since 2007. Can we show you Virginia? Yeah. Hi, Virginia. We apologize. Already seeing so much snow you're going to have to get that snow blower out earlier than we expected. This is from Bent Mountain on the edge of Roanoke.</s>BERMAN: Virginia is for lovers and skiers, now, apparently. This is what Washington, D.C., looks like right now. You think there was gridlock already? Now the travel delays in D.C. and other east coast airports could be up to six hours long.</s>PEREIRA: How about New York City?</s>BERMAN: New York City is facing up to four inches of snow.</s>PEREIRA: That's right around Central Park. You don't realize it. I'm kidding, it's not.</s>BERMAN: That's the Poconos. They're going to get it much, much worse. They could see maybe a foot. In New England the most important region in the country also will be hit hard by this storm. They can see up to a foot of snow.</s>PEREIRA: 30,000 people could be affected. Our Rosa --</s>BERMAN: That's 30 million. Not to fact check you there.</s>PEREIRA: Add a couple zeros. Rosa Flores is on the ground in Charlton, Massachusetts, just an hour west of Boston, and she's probably thinking let these two wrap it up and get to me because it's freezing cold outside here. Tell us about the conditions where you are, Rosa, you poor thing.</s>ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The temperature has been dropping. It was a toasty 39 degrees about two hours ago. It's dropped to about 32 degrees. Take a look around me. This is the type of snow we've been seeing for the past two hours. Not much is sticking, as you can see, very little. Especially on the roadways. This is the Massachusetts Turnpike. These are the westbound lanes, all these folks headed towards New York. You can see smooth sailing right now. But let me tell you something, we just saw a tweet from state police, all of these folks, their speed limit going to drop from 65 to 40 when they get to Springfield and all the way to New York because there's a lot more snow as you head west. John and Michaela, if there's an M.O. for this storm, that's it. The further west you travel, the more snow you'll see at this point in time. Back to you.</s>BERMAN: There's a line here, and when you cross that line, it's ugly. Lots and lots of snow.</s>PEREIRA: I thought you were thinking of an M.O. as an excuse not to attend that troublesome relative's Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, Rosa. I know that's not you. You'll be there with the people you want to be with. Thanks so much for that report. We should tell you, though, that the concern is, of course, with some of this travel while all the people are looking to get on flights to head to those last-minute flights across the country, something like 200 flights have already been canceled according to flightaware.com. Can we show the map one more time? Are we able to do that? We lost it.</s>BERMAN: The map went away. Snowed under.</s>PEREIRA: Washington, New York, Boston, all of that corridor. A lot of delays.</s>BERMAN: 200 flights isn't a lot unless it's yours.</s>PEREIRA: But remember, it replicates.</s>BERMAN: Cascade effect.</s>PEREIRA: Thank you very much, John. I appreciate that.</s>BERMAN: Speaking of the weather, there's so many people in so many places, racing to get home for the holiday, I don't want to tell you you're too late, but you probably are. Brian Todd is in a race of his own. Brian Todd is hitting the road to New York and he is battling against Erin McPike, who is flying from Washington, D.C. --</s>PEREIRA: Well, he was there. I think he went to get a Dunkin' Donuts coffee.</s>BERMAN: That was Brian Todd who, moments ago, was racing by car --</s>PEREIRA: That has worked out brilliantly.</s>BERMAN: We will check with either the seat or the real Brian Todd later in the show to find out how this ends.</s>PEREIRA: We'll check in with them. All right, also ahead here, we're going to talk more about Officer Wilson's interview. We talked about his words, but now we want to talk hadn't his body language. Does what does that say? We'll take a look.