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
breaking in for formula and diapers and hams, or are they kids or whatever characterize it however you like who are just, as you say, bent on destruction and stealing candy bars? what s really sad is look at the time stamp on this. this is 30 minutes after midnight on christmas eve. like i said, they really didn t take food. it wasn t people coming in looking for food because they were hungry or because the stores were closed or anything. it was just looting and destruction. dan, when are you going to be able to are you open again? is the store open again? we are not open. we got in there today. we got in around 11:00 today. we had to wait for things to calm down in that area. there were a lot of carjackings and things like that. it is hard to get around now because of the snow. my management team got in there. one of my liaisons with corporate save-a-lot went in there with me. we spent the day getting it cleaned up.
think that people would take. the turkeys, the hams, things like that. those are all still in the store. it was candy bars, battery s, individual bottles of soda. just a lot of stuff, as the night went on it became less polluting and more of a destruction. over registers were destroyed, the computers were knocked down which is probably one of the biggest problems that we have. in order to get up and running we have to make sure we have sales and stuff working. luckily, today, we didn t save a lot and they are overnighting a sin equipment. they re going to overnight a in when the it opens up in the morning which is outstanding for this company the stores are all independently owned. we are all small business owners. which a lot of people don t understand. yeah. dan, this is what makes this so sad. obviously the community is struggling enough. because of this once in a generation store. it is christmas. and as you say, people often wonder, are these desperate people who are break
there, bent on destruction, on a suicide mission with a machine gun or a vest full of hand grenades or a rocket-propelled grenade could kill 10 20 people before it got shut down. so the penetration of restricted air space is important. the good thing is, nobody was hurt, it s kind of a quack stunt. and we re going to evaluate it i m sure the service, the capital police the postal inspectors and the aviation districts are going to tighten this up for us. this shouldn t happen anymore. we can use this as a learning experience, because nobody got hurt. but learning experience jim. can this be stopped? can we stop this from happening again? well, i think you ve got to start with the rings of security. you ve got to know who s leaving these airports within a certain range of the capitol. because these things have limited range, and a lot of small, light aircraft do have