day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough people. we have enough trucks. we have enough suvs and humvees and snowmobiles. it s just they cannot move on our streets when they re clogged up with first of all abandoned vehicles blocking the roads. they all have to be individually towed and put somewhere else. then the plows have to get through. plows have gotten stuck. and then the visibility issues. the federal government has offered all assistance we need and we ll certainly be asking them for help. but they can t change the weather on the ground right now and that s the most important thing we need right now. we need this to stop. meanwhile, the bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. parts of the south seeing their coldest christmas in decades. and the cold conditions creating a nightmare scenario for travelers. more than 1700 flights canceled again today following days o
i m paula reed in washington. for a ferocious freeze complicating rescue efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u.s. freed warnings in effect across the u.s. snow and sheets of ice. the storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. roads impassable in upstate new york after a monstrous blizzard. for nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. this is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. it was such that we had to pull emergency rescue vehicling off the roads. the bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. this morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of
son josh jumped out to help. he tweeted out a photo of himself along with the message first on the scene to big accident. see pics of car in the house. i lifted four people out to safety. all okay. thankful. why thank you very much. anna. and to add the icing on the news cake we have great rick reichmuth standing by. the cold icing. chilly, frigid as some would say. here you go. temps warming um from where they were from your thanksgiving. climbing 3 to 5 degrees. we will take it current temps as you are waking up. factor in the wind, great lakes around the north cool as well. texas, 36 is what it feels like this morning. el paso. after we dealt with that storm that hit most of the country last week and big messy day at least on the east on wednesday. we are quiet.