ice, wind chill alerts. plus, the january 6th committee just released the final report recommending donald trump be barred from ever holding office again. and for the first time in public, vladimir putin says what the world has known all along, he s wagging war on ukraine. it is friday. welcome to our viewers in the you states and around the world. i m christine romans. let s begin with this. a christmas gut punch from mother nature as a once in a generation storm blasts across the country with the worst yet to come. more than half the u.s. population is under some kind of weather alert. from florida west to washington state. more than 200 million people are under wind chill alerts. more than 80 million under winter weather alerts. more than 40 million other bracing for high winds. needles to say it is a mess for holiday travelers. thousands of flights were canceled thursday. nearly 2700 flights already canceled today with hundreds more delayed. and look at power outage
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
But first, rules of the road are they being enforced in San Francisco, one supervisor says no, no. If you drive in the city, chances are youve seen it blatant disregard for traffic signs and signals and no repercussion. San francisco supervisor Rafael Mandelman wants to know why he sent a letter of inquiry to the Police Department after it reported a 97 drop in traffic citations in eight years. A supervisor mendelman joins us live now to talk about this pretty big issue for the city supervisor. Thanks for your time. Sure good to be here. All right. So youve sent this letter to the Police Department to learn the underlying issues. Have they responded to you yet . What have you learned . Yeah. So we and the board of supervisors has been looking at this issue for as long as ive been on the board, probably longer. And it just gets worse and worse every time we look at these stats. It looks like enforcement has gone down further so that, as you pointed out, its down like 97. So we asked bac
Tracking the storms sincehe begiing of the we. Timing . Ats thlatest anim kari wx chroma kris anim along with watching karis forecast you can also stay on top of the weathe all right. Thank you very much, kari. Along with watching karis forecast you can stay on top of the weather with our nbc bay area app. Download it today, get ahead of the storm and get alerts on when that rain is 30 minutes away from your home or work. Okay. Right now a storm cloud of protesters is followed around at every stop hes made up and down the west coast. The bright bart editor is taking heat for what he feels is an jnd of white nationalism. His next stop is the cal berkeley campus. Nbc bay areas bob redell is joining us from the campus. Bob, theres been violence from previous events. Are they bracing for a chaotic scene here . Reporter good morning to you, sam. U. C. Berkeley police tell us there could be as many as a thousand or perhaps even more people out here pro testing the speech when he speaks tonig
Opposition against the president s pick. Civil rights, human rights and gun violence rights are questioning his record on gun rights, religious freedom and police brutality. Heres a look at his background. The conservative is a 49yearold denver native. He has some local ties too. He attended Georgetown Prep while his mother led the Environmental Protection agency under president reagan. He is also a graduate from harvard law school, one of his classmates former president barack obama. But he has current ties to the Supreme Court. He was a clerk for Anthony Kennedy before going to oxford for a philosophy degree. If confirmed he would not change the si the makeup of the court. We will have more in just a few minutes. Well check in for a look at the chances for gorsuchs c lets get another check on weather and traffic. Chuck bell and Sheena Parveen standing by and Melissa Mollet as well. But you know, chuck, im going to say its cold. I know you dont think its that cold. I think its cold. I