severe winter weather. but that national weather service because they once in a generation storm, also causing chaos for travelers coast to airports are packed tonight with some 8000 flights either canceled or delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. we have team coverage charles watson is tracking in an lancet. the first to alexis and mcadams live in new york city tracking this cold snap, alexis. hi brian. if tonight another cold night here in new york city. it s nothing compared to other parts of the northeast are dealing with. buffalo, new york was slammed and we are learning about more deaths as authorities are still searching for people who have been stranded on the road for hours. the historic storm is not over yet in buffalo. take a look here on your screen this is a people been dealing with for days they are. this is what look like again this afternoon. at least 12 people have been killed during this winter blast. snowplows trying to make their way th
morning. we re probably still another three to four days left in search and rescue and recovery, so that s a rough time frame that could go in either direction. these are not numbers. this is family members, people didn t just lose their homes. we can rebuild a home. we can get another boat, but when you lose a loved one, there s just no words that can describe how we feel for that family. so we hope and pray those numbers stay as low as possible. more than 430,000 people remain without power across florida, and some in places like fort myers beach and sanibel island could be without power for more than a month. crews are already trying to reconnect the hurricane ravaged barrier islands to the mainland, a temporary gravel bridge to pine island could be done by the end of the week. cnn s boris sanchez is there in lee county. boris, we know that it will take months, if not years to put these communities back together. what s the latest on that path that you know now? re
weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be
liv golf. i m sara sidner in for fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us on this christmas eve. a winter wholall up leaving millions out in the cold, some enduring their coldest christmas in decades. right now nomore than 100 milli people under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana all the way down to florida. some areas in the midwest are dipping into the negative 30s. yes, i said negative 30s. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white outconditions. they say search and rescue is moving extremely slovakia slowly due to the blizzard. the bitter cold proving dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in ohio, icy roads are blamed for a 50-car pileup. you are looking at it there. devastating. in north carolina and a tennessee, places not used to this kind of cold, power companies are running short rolling blackouts to keep up with unusually high energy demand. more than 1.6 million custom
the white house putting itself on the back toward legislative victory, the cdc confessed it dropped the ball when handling the covid pandemic. the agency s director admits the entire department when into overall as it faces criticism over the response to the monkeypox virus. the wilmington delaware, peter. william, inflation reduction act has been the law of the land for several days now but no inflation reduction get in the something? of the president are starting to call him out for. he spends trillions and trillions of dollars we don t have and he was warned not just by people like me who he s not going to listen to but economists who work for people like obama and bill clinton. if you do this, you re going to spark massive inflation and now here we are. maybe it shouldn t be a surprise because senator joe manchin who negotiated said inflation reduction is going to take a while. it s not because we never said anything happened, turn the switch on and off. bottom li