chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
thank you for staying with us. i m alex within new york. this hour we ll have an update on the cancellation crisis that s frustrating customers and flight crews trying to get passengers back home. the pilots did show up. we were there to work and willing and able. southwest just can t match us to the aircraft. that s the problem. also this hour, a closer look at the political strategy for both president biden and former president trump as both men the plot their approaches to 2024. and hopes for a peace agreement in the war in ukraine are weakening as russian officials dismiss president zelenskyy s latest plan after major disagreements over who controls four key regions. we begin this hour with two big stories, weather and trvl. it s the same story for southwest airlines customers today as they see another wave of cancellation ace cross deparn buffalo where the weather is preventing residents from leaving their homes. joining me is blayne alexander at jackson airport in
broken in washington. we want to check in on the weather. we have some dangerous weather ahead. let s go to meteorologist angie lassman for a check on the frigid forecast. angie, we mean frigid. what s going on? yeah, dangerously cold for a lot of people. looks great in boston right now. over the next 24 hours, we could be talking about record lows for them tomorrow morning. we have plenty of alerts up. they are wind chill alerts. advi advisories, watches, warnings, all on the table. 56 million people will be affected by the alerts right now. check out how many people will see wind chills below zero by the time we get into tomorrow. 100 million people are included in that. 18 million people are going to see wind chills below 20. 20 below zero. bitter cold temperatures settling in. for some, we re waking up to minus 8. what it feels like in detroit right now. minus 13 in chicago. washington, d.c., not bad, when we consider where we re going to go for tomorrow. especially in places l
why before i get into how people are feeling and the aftermath of that. so when we compare the two snowstorms, this one saw less snow. however, the reason one of the main factors during this peak, what we were seeing due to the lake effect is negative 20 degree wind chills. what people were up against as they were trying to survive that. this time around, because it was so much colder f someone was outside unable to get inside or maybe they were trapped inside of their car or or worse we saw a lot of people without power, and what we saw is they went without power for several days. so unlike last time, what you have are unsurvivable conditions. if someone is not able to get to a warm place or not able to get to a warming shelter. so there s a lot of shock around