here's rob marciano. >> reporter: tonight, 43 wildfires in the southeast burning across 8 states, investigators saying some of those fires were intentionally set and already making arrests. including 21-year-old johnny mullins, who allegedly confessed he set the fire in eastern kentucky to draw attention to his facebook page. >> got some forest fires here. >> reporter: the aspiring weatherman, seen here warning people to be aware of flames, now facing a felony arson charge. smoke from the fires fanning out hundreds of miles. spreading a haunting haze across the southern sky. >> the smoke almost blocks out the sun. >> reporter: in lake lure, north carolina, this brush fire engulfing the entire hillside, forcing some families to flee their homes. >> it's devastating and heartbreaking. >> rob marciano joins us now. any rain on the way for the south? >> there is some rain in the southeast, but not for the fire zone. take a look at the radar. it's close, in the carolinas, but the fires are in the dry air. it's going to go up the east coast, and tomorrow, along the i-95, not a lot of heavy rain. but

. >>> let's get right out to rob marciano. where is the storm now, and where is it heading next? >> reporter: it's centered in northern new england, but what's remarkable, how much snow has fallen away from the lake effect snow zone. look at the radar. it's still coming down in parts of the hudson valley. accumulating heavily east of albany. with over a foot of snow. piling up along i-80. want to show you as what's going on as far as windchills. tomorrow, 23 in cincinnati. 28 in atlanta. so, a cold blast of winter after what's been a pretty mild fall. dan? >> rob, thank you. >>> adding insult to injury for any travelerorried about this, thousands of workers at chicago's o'hare airport are preparing to go on strike week. airports across the country looking to avoid long lines like we saw last summer. here now, gloria riviera. >> reporter: tonight, fears an already hectic travel season could be even worse. 2,000 employees working at major hub, chicago o'hare, from baggage handlers to cleaning crews, are poised to strike over low wages. in a statement, american airlines said, "we ar

>> rob marciano with us tonight. rob, thank you. >>> we turn next here to the other major story tonight, the deadly plane crash. the images of that team celebrating along the way on that journey. but then, the flight overnight crashing, nearly everyone onboard was killed. the flight was carrying a brazilian soccer team to a finals match, crashing on a hillside in colombia. and we have just learned here what happened right before that crash. that team had so much to look forward to. self-brating a cinderella rise on their way to a playoff game. 71 people killed. but miraculously, six were found outside the plane, somehow they survived. abc's david kerley on what happened in those final moments. >> reporter: only part of the fuselage of the jet was left intact, having slammed into a hil hill. through the day, the grim task of recovering the bodies of the 71 onboard who were killed. but remarkably, those six survivors found away from the fuselage. it was to be a joyous trip for the regional brazilian soccer team, making

so, let's get right to rob marciano, tracking it all for us. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. another day here in the northeast of soaking rain. but the rough stuff is in the south. so, we begin there. severe line of thunderstorms rolling across into the kaur lie thats. a tornado warning out right now for charlotte, north carolina, a dangerous situation there. you certainly want to be taking cover. and these storms roll all the way down to florida. with the bad has come the good. five inches of record-breaking rain in knoxville. some of that getting into the fire zone, helping that situation for sure. tomorrow morning, the heavy rain moving into the northeast. wintry precip in through maine and heavy rain through boston. by tomorrow, it moves offshore, and finally, some quiet weather for two days. that will be good. david? >> rob marciano, thank you. >>> we also have new reporting tonight after that deadly plane crash. the horrific scene, that team celebrating a cinderella season, then almost every one of them dying on that flight. the charter flight going down in bad weather

. >>> let's get right to rob marciano with the track of this thing. >> it's a powerful, pattern-busting storm. severe storms, and rain turns to wind-driven snow and lake effect snow. warnings up for western new york already. lakes. will feel like the teens in chicago and pittsburgh, 20s in d.c. and atlanta. a rude awakening after a mild fall. david? >> thank you. >>> next tonight, chaos on a highway after a school bus driver loses control. at least 23 students among the injured tonight. two with critical injuries. this evening, the investigation. >> reporter: this was supposed to be a scholastic achievement trip for dozens of high school students from chester county, tennessee. but instead tonight, 23 of them are recovering from injuries on the highway, after one of their school buses lost control exiting onto this offramp. >> and it flipped back over to the left side and it turned over. >> reporter: first responders outside nashville needed a long line of stretchers. students who weren't hurt stood together, and prayed for those who were. there were three buses total. all headed to the

rob marciano live tonight. rob? >> reporter: hi, david. the tornado count is below average this year. for multiple spots. look at the radar. we've got watch boxes up for louisiana, mississippi and alabama until 9:00. and then those tornadoes reported in iowa, little further north, closer to the low where there's more spin. and snow is going to be blowing in the dakotas. the rain moves east and will be in the northeast, the big cities by 6:00 tomorrow night. extreme drought in new england, they will take this rain. extreme drought in the southeast, and the fire zone, this will put some of the fires out. good newsth >> tracking it all tonight for us. rob, thank you. >>> next, to your money. a few hours left in the cyber monday, as they now call it. records already broken ain onlie sales. abc's rebecca jarvis tonight, helping to save your money, with deals still to be had in the hours ahead. >> reporter: tonight, a cyber monday for the record books. rather than rush into stores, shoppers today racing online. overall, sales expected to top ama

. >>> let's go right now to meteorologist rob marciano along the west sideig >> reporter: hey, byron. traffic is heavy here, but it's dry across the east coast. not going to last, though. we've got a large system that stretches from canada all the way to mexico. look at the radar. some wet snow across the noern great lakes. heavy rain from detroit back to chicago, south to i-70. and thunderstorms this morning across texas have weakened along interstate 10. tomorrow, that front moves off to the east, but kind of weakens. winter precip into western pennsylvania and western new into the pacific northwest. safe travels to everyone on this holiday. byron? >> rob, thank you so much. >>> next, president-elect donald trump and his family have already made their holiday getaway. arriving last night at the airport in palm beach, florida. they're spending thanksgiving at their mar-a-lago resort. for mr. trump, it is also a working holiday. he's named two new members of his cabinet. abc's mary bruce is in palm beach tonight. >> reporter: tonight, donald trump's luxury mar-a-lago resort, now a sec