supreme court is keeping title 42 in place against the white house s wishes for now. griff: if title 42 is dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border which would add up to over 5 million illegal crossings each year. joey: live from washington and he s got the latest on this, lucas. good morning. the supreme court says title 42 will remain in place for now after 19 states as to the high court to give it around. one of the courts conservative justices sided with his liberal colleagues in the 5-4 ruling. the dissenting opinion, saying the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. court should not be in the business of perpetuating atex design for one emergency only. elected officials have failed to address a different emergency where a court of law not the policymakers of last resort. dhs gave the candidate mission, we will continue to manage the border. we will do so within the constraints of a decades-old immigration system that everyone
there is more than 7,000 utility workers here in the buffalo area. they are working to get the lights back on. as a last update, there was less than 1,000 customers here in erie county without power. some really good news there. unfortunately, there has been looting associated with this storm. people breaking into businesses, stealing tvs, liquor, things you don t need in a storm necessarily. they are not trying to steal essential items. buffalo pd has put together a looting task force. they say they ve arrested eight people so far. this is what buffalo s mayor had to say about the looters. people who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely repreh reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low.
griff: fox whether correspondent joins us live from buffalo. he is at the latest. good morning. after days of wicked winds, frigid temperatures, and more than 4 feet of snow fall, temperatures today are finally going to get above freezing into the 40s. that s going to be a welcome relief for a lot of folks here. unfortunately come this weekend, rain is on the way. this can present a whole new problem for this rain is gonna start melting off of us know that we have seen in some minor flooding could be some possibility. that s the latest challenge where a community that is really endured so much. as you mentioned, more than 30 people confirmed dead because of this winter storm. people have been found in snowbanks and vehicles. some people simply were not able to be reached by first responders as they were having medical emergencies during the storm because the roads were just so bad. at the height of the storm, tens of thousands of people were without power. that number is going down
the numbers, the fentanyl, the bodies, the countless broken records show something absolutely the opposite. the white house has tried to argue we want a billion more dollars for border patrol agents. agents are going to be helpful when it comes to stopping fentanyl and the cartels that they are simply used the process more people at these ports of entry when they are being turned in. the administration talks a lot about management, right? building more processing centers on the border to process more people. there is no talk of stopping the flow from the white house at a all. when border patrol agents are taken off of the front line, they are processing people. it means more fentanyl and drugs coming to the country and more people die as a result. joey: more than 30 people are dead in western new york from the deadliest blizzard buffalo has seen in decades. katie: authorities rushing to deliver ready to eat meals and water since many roads are still buried and a driving ban remai
joey: there are some glimmers of normalcy coming back to the buffalo area. the light rail is being tested out. it could be back online soon. roads are being cleared and buffalo s airport is opening back up at 11:00 a.m. guys. katie: max gordon, thank you for the update. griff: rain, more rain. and of the flight delays are going to continue. katie: not a good week. you can follow this story and all the latest weather developments by downloading the fox whether or not. in any connected devices. in the meantime, someone who is also watching the storm who has been saying something about the flight cancellations, pete buttigieg of course. the transportation secretary. he has mentioned that southwest cancellations just today more than 2500. for tomorrow, more than 2300 cancellations. secretary buttigieg is watching all of this. here s what he had to say. meltdown is the right word.