deadly winter weather still wreaking havoc across the country. travel is still a nightmare. unless one of those passengers get a wild hair and decides with a group of other passengers to rent a car and drive 20 hours to their destination together. that s exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while i ll introduce you to this group of intrep travellers, total strangers, who had quite the adventure. they recorded their trip, and it went viral. meanwhile, 10 million people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from this storm is rising. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. and authorities fear that they ll find more bodies in cars, as they begin to dig out from what s being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. and while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. so, i ll talk to a supermarket manager who spent christmas eve
decides with another group of passengers to rent a car drive 20 hours to their destination together. that is exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while, i will introduce you to this group of total travel total strangers, who had a quite an adventure when they decided to drive from tampa to cleveland together and they reported their trip and it went viral. meanwhile, ten billion people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from the storm is dry saying. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. authorities fear that they will find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from what is being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. i will talk to a supermarket messenger who spent christmas eve washing his store who got broken into. i want to bring in now cnn s miguel marquez, he s
that is not good. i don t know. abby, are you guys gonna see each other again? yes, every christmas, we are making this a yearly tradition. wait a minute. no, i am sure that drive 20 hours together every christmas? no, of course not. so, yes, we would love to see a connection. and we have got like a group chat going. but if we see each other in person again that would be lovely. that is awesome. well, you guys, it is great to see all of you. i am so glad it worked out. that is a nice lesson for everyone. that you can rely on the kindness of strangers. brigitte, greg, shelby, abby, have a great rest of your holidays. thank you so much for talking. thank you, alison. thank you. thank you. okay, the trouble walls are not over, sadly, as of this evening, southwest airlines has canceled nearly 70% of their flights and they are not done. so they are not the only airline of course canceling flights. stay with us, we will give you an update.
wait a minute. no, i am sure that drive 20 hours together every christmas? no, of course not. so, yes, we would love to see a connection. and we have got like a group chat going. but if we see each other in person again that would be lovely. that is awesome. well, you guys, it is great to see all of you. i am so glad it worked out. that is a nice lesson for everyone. that you can rely on the kindness of strangers. brigitte, greg, shelby, abby, have a great rest of your holidays. thank you so much for talking. thank you, alison. thank you. thank you. okay, the trouble walls are not over, sadly, as of this evening, southwest airlines has canceled nearly 70% of their flights and they are not done. so they are not the only airline of course canceling flights. stay with us, we will give you an update. at mint we re not into wasting money. so we bought this spiffy stock footage for $500. our footage also came with another hand,
events or travel plans right before christmas, you have to get creative. and that is exactly what my next guest did. the foursome were perfect strangers when their flight was canceled on thursday at tampa international airport. today they are bonded for life, after a long unexpected road trip together to cleveland. and they documented their adventure on tiktok, here is just a piece of that. have a holly jolly christmas. it s the best time of the year. they look like they are having too much fun. the posts have gotten millions of views in four days. the four road trips are here with us tonight. bridget schuster, greg, henry shelby manured and abby ratcliff. thank you, welcome to all of you guys.