the gift he was his 96 years. reporter: and president biden, a catholic, tweeted of benedict: he ll be remembered as a renowned theologian with a lifetime of devotion to the church guided by his principles and faith. may he continue to be an inspiration to all. benedict will [audio difficulty] todd: all right. it does appear that we may have if lost lauren green, but obviously this is a no mentous day not just in america, but of course around the world. we will be monitoring the events coming out of vatican city, rome, and italy. overnight three nypd officers were stabbed near times square including a rookie literally working his first shift. the attack happening two hours before the ball dropped. the suspect swinging a machete at a group of officers. here s what mayor eric adams had to say about it. these officers responded in an admirable, professional manner, and all officers involved and i must say that
chaos. griff: max gorden is live in hamburg, new york, with the latest. hey, max, how you doing? reporter: merry christmas to you guys. well, this is an area of the country that is well accustomed to winter weather, but this storm has packed an incredible wallop. the national weather service in buffalo [audio difficulty] recorded nearly 3 feet of snowfall with potentially more on the way. one of the big issues is drifting. if drift of snow nearly 7 feet behind me. you look over there, we ve got that vehicle just completely covered in snow. as you mentioned, tens of thousands of folks are without power. crews are out will trying to resore power as quickly as possible,s but officials say it might not return to folks until evening or even tomorrow morning. just a tough christmas for people who are without power right now or maybe even [audio difficulty] buffalo s airport is closed
is and some of the requests were to delete pornographic pictures of hunter biden. given the severe risks here and the lessons of 2016, meaning trump could get elected, we re erring on the side of including a warning, so media conservatives are raising this as being anti-trump move. the. [inaudible] quite frankly [inaudible] [inaudible] a story that is essentially a nonstory, it s really frustrating [audio difficulty] it s problematic because officially this is [laughter] [inaudible conversations] howard: we re going to fix your audio. let me go back to jim. taibbi said he was given access with conditions, but all these attacks on him, i think, are unfair. although posting some people s e-mail addresses was dumb. he looks forward to pr for the richest man on earth and seeing
assistant secretary of state for europe and form orer u.s. ambassador to poland daniel freed. daniel, thank you so much for joining us and giving us your insight and analysis on the current situation. it is the about to be a year in a few short months here. do you see any clear offramps for president putinen, or are you predicting that we might be entering a second year of this? [audio difficulty] the the real issue isn t offering putin offramps. he started a war, and he can t win it. he s losing on the battlefield. he lost another big chunk of occupied ukraine just this past week. so what he s trying to do is batter the ukrainian people, make them suffer, attack civilians trying to destroy ukraine s will to fight. i m not sure it will work. the issue isn t the offramps, the issue is whether ukraine can
this morning you can see some people are digging out. look over here, it s hard to believe now, but that s actually a car underneath all of that snow. that s what some people are waking up to this morning. we also know there are dozens of banded abandoned cars on the roads. officials say these are some of the worst conditions their plow truck drivers have ever dealt with, and what makes this lake effect snow different, it feels wet and it s very heavy leading to those two deaths, people died after shove shoveling their yar- [audio difficulty] a partial building block people are being asked to stay off the roads, a travel ban still many place. major highways shut down, parts of them. but despite the road closure, officials have rescued dozens of vanned drivers. the snow stranded drivers. the snow band shifted back over to buffalo, getting another foot to overnight. [audio difficulty]