ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
have been empty for more than six weeks. reporter: as for this family it s frustrating and it s scary. first we couldn t feed our children because of the infant formula shortage and now we re facing another challenge with being able to take basic care of them. reporter: athena jones, cnn, new york. hello. i m kristen fisher. welcome to cnn newsroom. this massive winter storm system is barrelling towards the east coast this hour, and this arctic chill is straining the power grids, closing airports from coast to coast, and causing deadly road conditions on one of the busiest travel days of the year. look at this video that we just got in from hamburg, new york. snowing and flooding on the coast at the same time. deep floodwaters across new england are a huge concern heading into the weekend as temperatures continue to drop, and nearby buffalo, officials have closed the airport and canceled all flights. you can see why. over 70 million americans are experiencing belo
over 1 million people are without power. from texas, to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures are kicking in. more than 200 millions americans are currently on no warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary pete pete says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights were canceled. now of course that means 90% of flights were not canceled. but you know, for goes about 2% would consider that a lot, so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers. now it will getting back to normal but we are seeing again over the middle of the country that that extreme cold in the east that that wind and snow is coming. and is going to be rough or certainly, the next couple of days when it comes aviation. so far over 26,000 flights have been delayed, nearly 9,000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago at the latest. jaime. hello there
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today is actually a holiday fess vas. the tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances. i have got a lot of problems with you people. now, you are going to hear about it. you, krueger. my son tells me your company stinks. oh, god. and now as festivus rolls on. until you pin me, george, festivus is not over. oh, please. somebody stop this. let s rumble. katie: this year s festivus like all the others with the airing of grievances. we have a lot of problems with the way swawgd p washington was. works. the unwiths who run it the ones supposed to represent us shown time and time again they only represent themselves. reminded of this every year on festivus when senator rand paul releases a report on how the government spent your hard earned tax money throughout the year. this year washington, d.c. outdid themselves spending over $482 billion on wasteful projects like dropping $3 million to inject hamsters with steroids and watching them fight. another 2 m