Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
welcome to viewers joining us in the united states and around the world watching cnn newsroom i m rosemary church norfolk southern getting slammed again after another train derailed in ohio, what we know about the second train and what it was carrying. an active gop likely presidential candidates speaking from maryland to california nailing talking points but refusing to target trump. is that a winning strategy? the battle for bakhmut and what it could mean for the war in ukraine if the city falls to the russians. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. start in the u.s. midwest with where the u.s.s transportation investigation board is sending to ohio 24 hours after another norfolk southern freight train derailed, the second derailment by that company in that state in a little over a had month after the toxic crash in east palestine, cnn polo sandoval has the latest the owner and operator in saturday s derailment s
winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay
this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up and we don t lose this many people in flooding. it is a real tough one. rescuers are working around the clock. the national guard from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia are lifting hundreds from the floodwaters. more than 600 already. washed away roads and bridges adding to the already very complicated recovery efforts. cnn s evan is at a command center for the research and rescue efforts. how are they coordinating what, is going on? reporter: well, hi, fred, when they say command center, they mean a place people gather. this is a parking lot of a shopping center here in jackson, kentucky, that is in the middle of where the floodwaters happened and behind me agencies are coming from all over the country, all over the state to work to try to help find people who might be trapped or still need help in the floodwaters and they re also working with a
start in the u.s. midwest with where the u.s.s transportation investigation board is sending to ohio 24 hours after another norfolk southern freight train derailed, the second derailment by that company in that state in a little over a had month after the toxic crash in east palestine, cnn polo sandoval has the latest the owner and operator in saturday s derailment saying there were hazardous materials transported on this train including ethanol and propane but they were not on the train cars that actually left the tracks on saturday. it s a 20 out of the 212 train cars left the tracks as the train was headed for northern ohio to birmingham alabama. shifted the focus on four tanker train cars, who were hauling what s being described as diesel