Wicked Weather; Train Derails In South Carolina; "Historic Mistake"
ROMANS (voice-over): A deadly severe storm wreaking havoc across the country. The punch is already packed and what's still on the way. Indra Petersons is tracking the system and how it could affect your holiday travel.</s>SAMBOLIN (voice-over): And a major diplomatic breakthrough with Iran. A historic nuclear deal reached, but some are calling this a historic mistake. We are live in Jerusalem with the controversy.</s>ROMANS: Taylor swift cleaning up at the American Music Awards, but it's Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga grabbing the headlines this morning.</s>SAMBOLIN (on-camera): Welcome back to EARLY START. Nice to have you with us. I'm Zoraida Sambolin.</s>ROMANS (on-camera): That cat is so freaky!</s>SAMBOLIN: I know, right?</s>SAMBOLIN: The singing cats!</s>ROMANS: I know. I'm Christine Romans. It's 40 minutes past the hour.</s>SAMBOLIN: Our top story is this wicked weather making life difficult for millions across the south and impacting many more trying to get around in the air as well. It is moving east today after icing up roads leading to at least six deaths.</s>ROMANS (voice-over): There were car accidents across Oklahoma like this SUV rolling over into a ditch in Oklahoma City. The roads there icy, covered with snow and sleet. More than nine inches of snow fell on Granite, Oklahoma in the southwest part of the state and even more expected to fall today.</s>SAMBOLIN (voice-over): At least three people are dead in car accidents in Texas. This is what it looked like in Abilene. That is west of Dallas. Many accidents reported in Lubbock as well and a bus carrying members of Willie Nelson's band slammed into a bridge pillar on Interstate 30. That's northeast of Dallas. At least three people were hurt, though, Nelson was not on that bus.</s>ROMANS: Right. If you got a flight scheduled today, be sure to call your airline. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Dallas/Ft. Worth International this weekend and more cancellations expected as the storm now moves east. This is, of course, one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. It could be very hard to get where you're going.</s>SAMBOLIN: And there's more, Arizona is trying to dry out from some of the heaviest rain in its history. More than two inches fell on Phoenix Friday and Saturday, nearly an inch and a half on Friday alone. Officials say it's been so wet this fall that the water simply has no place to go.</s>ROMANS: All right. This is the aftermath of the storm in the San Francisco area, tearing down trees, power lines as the height of the storm knocking out electricity, that's right, for tens of thousands of customers.</s>SAMBOLIN: Did you see that tree? Oh my goodness.</s>ROMANS: I know.</s>SAMBOLIN (on-camera): Indra Petersons is tracking the storm for us. It's almost like it's everywhere.</s>INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It literally is. I mean, it's been tracking from the west to the east and, unfortunately, the worst week of all. Let's talk about what's going on right now. Yes, especially in through Texas still expecting delays especially in the morning hours as freezing rain and sleet is out there. It is moving to the east. So by later in the afternoon, it should look better back in through Texas, but Arkansas back through Texas against, freezing rain some places seeing a half an inch and most of them about a quarter of an inch. Either way, that's also bringing down those power lines. Here's the setup. We're looking at the low continuing to track to the east. A lot of moisture being picked up with that and then it's intersecting with a second system, bringing in the cold air. So, we're going to be combining these two and that's the reason we are so concerned for the travel into the northeast as we go through the holidays here. What are we looking at? Two to four inches over the next 24-hour period, even three to five inches into the Carolinas as the system first is kind of a moisture driven storm out of the gulf. Then that system and through tomorrow start to brings rain up the eastern seaboard back into the mid-Atlantic, we start to get this icy condition, so, here's the concern, if you're trying to leave early on Tuesday, especially Tuesday night and through Wednesday. We're really going to see these winds start to gust up ahead of the cold air starting to move in. We're also going to be looking at some heavier snow anywhere from four to inches -- four to eight inches of that snow and then as we get in through Wednesday. Of course, we're talking about more snow really starting to fall, but Wednesday night in through Thursday, things start to clear and by Thanksgiving, things dry up. Hopefully, though, people can get out. It's really going to be a mixed bag of just luck of the draw and timing between the wind, rain, snow, sleet and everything that 's going on.</s>SAMBOLIN: Wow. Be patient, right?</s>PETERSONS: I'm going to try as well. I got a flight, too.</s>SAMBOLIN: All right. Thanks, Indra. Forty-two minutes past the hour. Breaking news from South Carolina where an Amtrak train derailed near Spartanburg. This happened just after midnight. Amtrak says seven of the nine cars on the Amtrak crescent lost contact with the track, but they all did remain upright. And injuries to the 207 passengers and 11 crew members on board are said to be minor. The train was traveling from New Orleans to New York. Amtrak plans to send buses to take the passengers on to their destinations.</s>ROMANS: The world continues to react to the nuclear agreement with Iran reached during intense negotiations in Geneva. Under the terms of the deal, the Rouhani government would limit some parts of its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of some international sanctions. The agreement is only for six months and Iran would be free to continue enriching uranium. That has some in Congress and allies like Israel furious. Ian Lee is live in Jerusalem with the reaction from the Netanyahu government. Ian, Israel has had a little over 24 hours now to digest this news. How are things today?</s>IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I think really the best way to describe it is frustrated. The government here is frustrated that they weren't able to avert this deal before it happened in the weeks leading up to it. They anticipated a deal could go through so they tried very hard to torpedo this deal. They say they're not against negotiations, but for Israel, it's an all or nothing deal. Either Iran gives up their nuclear program and sanctions are lifted or Iran doesn't and sanctions are kept in place. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it historic mistake, but he also was very much adamant that Israeli will protect itself. Take a listen to this.</s>BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: We cannot and will not allow a regime that calls for the distraction of Israel to obtain the means to achieve its goal. We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon's capability.</s>LEE: Well, there hasn't been any word of a military strike. They've been downplaying that, but they said all options remain on the table. But really, it seems like right now, the only thing Israel can do is work with the governments involved in this deal to make sure that Iran lives up to their obligations.</s>ROMANS: How badly have these negotiations, strained relations between the U.S. and Israeli at this point?</s>LEE: Well, if you just looking at it, it looks like relations between the two countries are strained, albeit Secretary Kerry came out and said that there's no daylight in the relationship, that it is a strong bond. We've also had members in the Israeli government say that it is a strong bond, but despite that, you've had the sparring back and forth -- back and forth over the course of a week. And it does seem like it has been frayed albeit temporarily, but there is some mistrust as some analysts have called it.</s>ROMANS: All right. Ian Lee, thank you so much for that report. We'll continue to follow the reaction.</s>SAMBOLIN: Sorry about that. Forty-six minutes past the hour. The Iran deal impacting the price of oil crude fell on the international markets with traders' hopeful the agreement could mean sanctions blocking Iranian oil experts could someday be lifted. We should note the deal leaves those sanctions in place for now. And sales to the west will continue to be blocked, but deeper cuts to oil production are now off the table.</s>ROMANS: World markets reacting from oil to gold to stocks. A proposed security agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan is looking shaky this morning. Afghanistan's elders just met with President Karzai for four days and they're urging him to sign a deal to keep some U.S. support troops in his country beyond 2014, but Karzai is refusing to do it. He wants to wait until after presidential elections in April. The U.S. has set a firm December 31st deadline for him to decide.</s>SAMBOLIN: Let's take a look at what's coming up on "NEW DAY. Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan joining us this morning. Good morning.</s>ROMANS: Hey, guys!</s>KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, guys!</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: How are you doing? We're going to be talking about this deal with Iran as nuclear threat really being taken away. It's only four or five pages long, but it sure is getting a lot more talk than that. We're going to show you what we give and what we get and why the critics are responding the way they are about the deal. There's a lot of animosity towards this deal. We're also going to bring in the White House one of chief advisers and figure out why this is seen as progress and we're going to bring you Christiane Amanpour as well and give the international flavor of this. We'll cover it all ways for you this morning.</s>BOLDUAN: And also, update on a story that we've been following for you. There's been an arrest in one of the cases that's scary and really unnerving knockout game. Many wondering, is this a dangerous new trend or is this just random isolated incidents? Assault is assault, but is this knockout game an urban myth or is it more than that? We're going to be talking about it, guys.</s>ROMANS: Oh, good. All right. We can't wait to see that.</s>SAMBOLIN: All right, guys. And coming up, disturbing new details of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre being revealed today. Why the records released is causing so much controversy?