What we’re watching Wednesday

Good morning. Here are some of the top stories we’re watching today:

Winter storm threatens Thanksgiving travel

Responsible for at least 11 deaths, winter storm Boreas barreled into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Wednesday, threatening holiday travel plans as 43 million Americans take to the roads and skies. Forecasters expect the wintry mix of heavy rain, wind, snow and ice to worsen as the day continues.

The National Weather Service radar is tracking the winter storm as it advances on the East Coast. And also check out FlightAware’s MiseryMap, which tracks weather and flight data, including delays and cancellations.

Winter storm disrupting #Thanksgiving travel in US http://t.co/E3DvRvTSXs & pic.twitter.com/f2vlqiU8h6

— BBC News US (@BBCNewsUS) November 27, 2013

Karzai’s shifting demands

In an interview with Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that before he signs the security agreement, the U.S. must first agree to not raid Afghan homes and help restart peace talks with the Taliban. He also said that the U.S. must not interfere with his country’s presidential elections in April 2014 and seemed to have taken a step back from his previous demands to release Afghan prisoners from Guantanamo. Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with Obama and senior members of his administration in January about the future of American commitment to Afghanistan and when troops may leave the country after more than 10 years of war. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

“I briefed [National Security Advisor Susan Rice] about how America and other Western nations interfered in the previous presidential election, how they delayed the election, how they maligned the first round ballot,” [Karzai told RFE/RL’s Akbar Ayazi.](http://www.rferl.org/content/karzai-interview-kabul/25181323.html) “Keeping in view that experience, and as the president of Afghanistan today, it is my duty not to allow foreigners to either malign Afghanistan’s next presidential election or stretch the process so that they can manipulate it.”

The White House maintained that if the agreement faces more delays, the U.S. will have to start planning the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by the end of 2014.

First printed book in the U.S. sold for $14.2M at auction

The Associated Press reports that the Bay Psalm Book, thought to be the first book printed in the U.S., sold at Sotheby’s in Manhattan for nearly $14.2 million Tuesday. It broke the auction record for a printed book, besting a copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” that previously fetched $11.5 million in 2010.