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Further north, much of the Sacramento Valley and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area are under a high wind warning.
Forecasters are also predicting heavy rain and a chance of flooding along the northern California coast and heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Severe weather conditions could also disrupt air travel from California to the Pacific Northwest.
If you're heading over the river and through the woods today, you are not alone.
AAA predicts more than 122 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home during the peak end-of-year travel period that started last weekend.
The vast majority, more than 109 million, will drive, according to AAA.
a slight increase over last year's record total.
Air travel may set records as well.
The TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, says it's preparing to screen more than 44 million passengers during this holiday season and could set a record for passenger volume for the year.
Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
If you're heading over the river and through the woods today, you are not alone.
AAA predicts more than 122 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles from home during the peak end-of-year travel period that started last weekend.
The vast majority, more than 109 million, will drive, according to AAA, a slight increase over last year's record total.
Air travel may set records as well.
The TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, says it's preparing to screen more than 44 million passengers during this holiday season and could set a record for passenger volume for the year.
Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says New York routinely issues commercial driver's licenses to immigrants that remain valid long after they're legally authorized to be in the country.
And Duffy is threatening to withhold $73 million in federal highway funds unless that changes.
Duffy says investigators found more than half of the 200 licenses they reviewed in New York were issued illegally.