the handshake. that one i will treasure. jerry, may we all be like jerry in 2023. thank you very much. thank you. thanks all of you for watching. thanks for getting up early. yes. you re fun. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. cnn newsroom starts now. good morning, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we are going to begin this morning with parts of the country trying to dig out from what s been both a dangerous and historic snowstorm. 200 additional national guard soldiers deploying to western new york today as the blizzard has now led to the deaths of at least 17 people there. we now have what will be talked about not just today but for generations, the blizzard of 22. we are still in the throes of this very dangerous life-threatening situation. nationwide more than 1,500 flights already canceled this morning, about the same amount delayed. that s only adding to the backlog from the holiday weekend, but we do have p
we ll give you an update on that and on the thousands of people without power in washington state after three electrical substations appear to have been attacked as people get together with friends and family over this holiday week, more and more concerns about a rise in cases connected with the triple-demic of flu, covid and rsv. we ve got a look at that in just a minute and the future of title 42 in the hands of the u.s. supreme cou court. a look at how the biden administration is getting ready for what could happen next. and we re learning what the january 6th committee learned and what comes next for the doj investigation into the insurrection we re starting with the winter weather that has already killed dozens of people. those freezing temperatures are going to keep up this week look at officials in eerie county, new york they re announcing 12 more people have been killed by that winter weather meaning 25 people in that county alone have died. nearly 60, 55 total
effect for those communities through the daylight hours at least. that is because conditions are bad. main roads may be open but they are for emergency travel only. unfortunately we still have a lot of travel of individuals who do not appear to be doing anything other than joy riding or going to a friend s house. they are not emergency personnel. i spoke to individuals today, including supervisor brine culpa who said that the amherst pd are going to go out and stop people at intersection, see if they have emergency travel authorization and if they don t they will ticket them and send them them back on their way. police have been working around the clock on life-saving measures, they have not been going out there ticketing people, but though they re going to because truthfully you are harming our ability to recover and you may be the reason that we are not able to get an ambulance to a location because cars are still getting stuck out there. conditions are bad, especially after the snow
nearly 60, 55 total across the country. listen now they ve settled down on life-saving rescues, they re going to stop people to see if they have emergency travel authorization. if they don t, they re going to ticket them and send them back on their way. emergency workers are having a tough time getting to people not just because the roads are tricky to get through even now, but they re blocked in other places from folks try to get out and about. they re asking people to please, please stay home as they have found the bodies of people in cars, even in snow banks i want to bring in jessie kirsch who is live for us in new york, shaquille brewster bring us up to speed on what s happening in western new york this morning. reporter: you just underscored at the end there i think something that just illustrates so perfectly the dire situation that we are hearing about from western new york you have people that have been found dead in cars, according to