can t rent a car to go back to boseman. there s no flights back to boseman, no flights to nashville until christmas eve or christmas or like the 26th. so stressed. boy, oh boy. that s the situation at the airport. but then out on the roads, people at home with no elect electricity. good morning, it is friday, december 23rd, poppy and kaitlan are off. sara sidner is with me. i m happy to be here. usually i m out there and you re in here. but it s dangerous and getting worse by the minute. we re covering the blizzard wreaking havoc ahead of the holidays nationwide. living in limbo, migrants braving freezing temperatures for a chance to reach the united states. a cnn report from the border. one man is responsible. the january 6th committee report declares donald trump caused the insurrection. what the panel recommends now. but we begin with this, more than 200 million americans spending the holiday weekend under wind chill alerts as an arctic blast plunges temperatur
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gnarled travel, another threat. and that is, of course, the power grid. let s look at that, white out conditions there. about 820,000 customers are without power. the most outages seen in georgia, connecticut, south carolina and texas. let s go to craig miller, professor of electrical and commuterr computer engineerig at carnegie university. thank you for being here. what strain do you expect the storm to place on the power grids across the country. there are two strains we have to worry about. the first is the fact that ice is going to be building up on the electrical wires, the ones in your neighborhood, the so-called distribution wires. and a lot of them will fall and have to be replaced, which is very difficult under the current
we do harden our grid for example, our grid infrastructure. make sure that we have the ability to prevent these, you know, the fact that you see this transmission tower go across the mississippi river and that all of our transmission wires and distribution wires are on wooden poles. i mean in some areas we should be burying those wires so we don t end up doing this again. so the bottom line is we have to build back better and we have to make sure that we address climate change so that we don t continue to see this exacerbated every single year. yeah. on that overlooking of those power lines, there s an interesting piece in the times about why katrina didn t bury why new orleans didn t bury power lines after katrina. one of the big things that comes up is it s expensive. it s really expensive. yeah. that s been the that has been the we saw the $16 billion that got spent on the levies that appears to have worked in this case, but it is
fact that you see this transmission tower, go across the mississippi, river and that all of our transmission wires and distribution wires around wooden poles. in some areas, we should be burying that, those wires, we should be burying, it s so we don t the end of doing this again. the bottom line is, we have to build back better, and we have to make sure that we address climate change, so that we do not continue to exceed this exasperated every single year. on that, we re looking at those powerlines, there s an interesting piece in the times today about why the new orleans didn t very parlance, after, katrina and one of the big things that comes up and all this stuff is expensive. it s really expensive, that s been, we saw the 16 billion dollars that guy spent on the levees, that appears to have worked in this case, but it is going to take money to do this, stuff and that s what it all comes down to, the investments are costly. that s why the president