. >>> let's get right to rob marciano with the track of this thing. hey, rob. >> it's a powerful, pattern-busting storm. look at the radar. some severe storms rolling across indiana. and blizzard conditions across minnesota. then it traverses the great lakes. rain turns to wind-driven snow and lake effect snow. warnings up for western new york already. 10 to 20 inches across the great lakes. will feel like the teens in chicago and pittsburgh, 20s in d.c. and atlanta. colder in florida on monday. a rude awakening after a mild fall. david? >> rob, thank you. >>> next tonight, chaos on a highway after a school bus driver loses control. the bus then flipping over, skidding to a stop on its side. at least 23 students among the injured tonight. two with critical injuries. this evening, the investigation. was it a mechanical problem, or the driver? here's steve osunsami. >> 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 inju

. >>> let's go right now to meteorologist rob marciano along the west side highway tonight, tracking the storms. rob? >> 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 falling across the northern great lakes. heavy rain from detroit back to chicago, south to i-70. and some thunderstorms this morning across texas have weakened, thankfully, along interstate 10. tomorrow, that front moves off towards the east, but it kind of weakens. we'll get some winter precip in western pennsylvania, along i-80 and north of that into western 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. but for mr. trump, it's also a working holiday. and tonight, he's set to named the t

rob marciano starts us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, much of >> it's been raining nonstop for about 14 hours. >> reporter: more than seven inches of rain falling near the oregon coach. this holiday weekend, portland dealing with submerged streets. >> some moderate street flooding all over the city. >> reporter: workers unclogging trains. rain turning above 3,000 feet. over a foot of snow blanketing the mountains, making driving extremely dangerous. in washington state, a chain reaction crash, shutting down blewett pass. speed and icy roads being blamed. road crews racing to keep highways clear, and warning drivers. >> any corner you go around, you can be turning a corner into heavier snow. weekend. so what's the drive home going to look like? >> it's going to hit the entire west coast. storm number two comes in, watches and warnings posted from canada all the way down to mexico, with winter storm warnings as well. could see two feet in the mountains. the rain goes all the way down to san diego. and throughout the inner mountain west, salt airports could be a mess. and the roads on s

meteorologist rob marciano is tracking it all for us live tonight. rob? >> reporter: hi, david. you know, this year, the tornado count is below average. and we've seen very few this fall. but tonight, the setup is right for multiple spots. we've got watch boxes up for louisiana, mississippi and alabama until 9:00. and then, those tornadoes reported in iowa, a little further north, closer to the low where there's more spin. and more on the back side of that, more snow going to be blowing in the dakotas the next two days. the rain moves east and will be in the northeast, the big cities by 6:00 tomorrow night. it will make for a messy commute. 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. definitely good news there. david? >> tracking it all tonight for us. rob, thank you. >>> next this moay your money. a few hours left in this cyber monday, as they now call it. records already broken in online sales over the thanksgiving holiday. abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis t

>> 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 their journey. but then, the flight overnight crashing, nearly 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. celebrating 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. intact, having slammed into a 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, the chapecoense. making a big tournament for the first time in its history. documenting their trip