Good evening and happy Thanksgiving. I'm Nancy Cordes in for Nora. We begin with the stormy

weather whipping up dangerous conditions for millions of Americans tonight as a blast of Arctic air

blows into the central U.S. It's a wet and chilly Thanksgiving in the

northeast, with some places getting up to three inches of rain. But that didn't stop huge crowds from

packing the sidewalks of New York City for the big parade today. The Great Lakes region is bracing

for several feet of snow in the coming days, and snow's

already falling in Albany tonight as upstate New York and New England get a fresh coat.

All this, as temperatures are about to take a polar plunge across much of the country,

the rough weather could snarl travel this weekend as millions head home from

Thanksgiving celebrations. CBS's Rob Marciano is tracking all of it for us tonight. Good evening,

Rob. Hello, Nancy. Yeah, today's travel across the Northeast was no joke, but that rain for the

most part has moved out. Now the cold winds have moved in here in New York City.

The snow is still hanging around across parts of upstate New York and northern New England. And we're still looking at some heavy snow from Rutland, Vermont, all the way through Augusta, Maine. And this cold air is going to infiltrate so much of the country and really kick in a lake-effect snow machine. So everybody that lives Lee of all the Great Lakes,

which are way above normal temperature-wise right now,

that cold air is going to crank things. and really kick in the lake effect snow machine. So everybody that lives Lee of all the Great Lakes,

which are way above normal, temperature-wise, right now,

that cold air is going to crank things up,

not just tonight, not just through tomorrow,

but Saturday and Sunday as well.

Some spots north of Syracuse and south of Buffalo

could see three to five feet of snow

come Monday or Tuesday morning.

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