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
otherwise it s out the window. el paso, which has seen an uptick with the policy in place is preparing for the worst. border patrol setting up a massive tent city just outside of downtown. the new york post cover this morning calls the tents a welcome mat for illegal immigration. newly-erected processing center is for the overflow in addition to the permanent one they already have there. the state s governor greg abbott still doing his best to send a border message to the biden administration on christmas eve he dropped three bus loads of illegal immigrants outside of the vice president s home. not the first time he has done this. those on the bus willingly chose to go to the nation s capital. democrats were quick to call him out as heartless. one guest not holding back. why republicans would love to say they re pro-life they only care about children and families when it comes to babies that are in the womb. when they are outside of the womb look at what happened. republi
worried her roof might collapse. elizabeth, were you on the fence about whether or not you were going to evacuate. i was so afraid either way, i didn t know what to do. a lot of people have that idea that they can just wait and see what s going to happen. and that s the problem, because if they wait to see, we won t be able to help them. reporter: and it s not just seniors refusing to leave, going viral online, some florida residents adamant about riding out the storm. our family lives right outside of tampa and we have decided to hunker down. for the people who are not from florida, right, i ve got these big old windows. i don t know if they re going to hold up. reporter: but most are taking the warnings to heart. major roadways have been jammed for the last 24 hours and tampa s airport, completely shut down operations at 5:00 p.m. tuesday. reporter: it was nerve-racking. i literally got the last flight for the day. you re counting your lucky stars right now?
we like the no tie. different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i like you re calling it an experiment. you should be in a white lab coat starting on monday. the waist down, i am. disturbing. this just came a little real just now. wonderful. nice to see you, jake. thanks, jake. have a good weekend. everyone, we re keeping the conversation going tonight not about the lab coat and jake tapper but here we are. i am laura coates in washington d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we have a team here in new york with me. and the other team here in washington d.c. so we re going to kick it off with the herschel walker raphael warnock senate debate. it just wrapped up a little while ago in georgia. we ll talk to the panelists, but wow. have you seen some of these clips? yeah, i was trying to watch it while prepping. it was a very high stakes debate because it s the only one until election day
thanks so much for joining us tonight, and this week in our 9:00 p.m. experiment, until next week, you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok. @jaketapper. our coverage continues with the magnificent laura coates and the excellent alisyn camerota. she s waiting for her adjective to kick in, if she s magnificent, what am i? excellent. there you go. excellent is great dashing jake tapper. simple but classic. we like the no tie. gives a different vibe from him. somebody stole all my ties. it s not a fashion choice. tie left. i see. i also like you re calling it an experiment. you should be in a white lab coat starting on monday. the waist down, i am. disturbing. this just came a little real just now. wonderful. nice to see you, jake. thanks, jake. have a good weekend. everyone, we re keeping the conversation going tonight not about the lab coat and jake tapper but here we are. good evening, everyone. i am laura coates in washington