Will there be snow in Des Moines on Thanksgiving? Perhaps, but the chance of Iowa's capital city receiving its first significant snowfall of the season increases from Black Friday through the weekend.

Bracing for record holiday travel by planes, trains and automobiles -- 31 million people are expected to fly this Thanksgiving holiday.

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat," an official said.