wow. thanks so much to you for joining us. ac 360 begins now. the forecast? wretched. the timing? even worse. once in a generation winter storm and this one they say is going to be very, very dangerous. i m in for anderson, john berman here. already nearly half the country s population is shivering under wind chill alerts or has seen temperatures drop as much as 70 degrees overnight. this is sioux falls, south dakota. you know it s cold there when the falls at sioux falls stop falling. because they re frozen solid. you know how widespread the big chill could get when places as far south as tallahassee in florida are forecasting lows in the low 20s. if that weren t enough we re seeing countless blizzard warnings, flood watches, wind and ice advisories and of course thousands of flight cancellations. nearly 2400 already today. more than 2,000 for tomorrow. all of this smack dab in the middle of the christmas travel rush. it s not just snow. it is wind and cold as part o
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
it s pretty icy and very slick. like even in the areas that have been plowed really well, if you get about 40 miles per hour, you start sliding around. we rented a cabin for the week this week but we had to cancel it because we were worried we wouldn t get out of there later or get up the driveway. so we actually stayed home this week instead of going on a trip. that s the perils of winter but this is something else. wrong. look at us. hey! this is going to be trouble. it s about to be on. sarah and i have known each other forever. poppy and kaitlan are off, sara sidner is with us. are you ready for the weather? no. this is why i m here. this suit it s hot. it s hot. thank you. millions of americans coast to coast bracing for extremely low temperatures, dangerous wind chills and power outages. it is serious out there. we have reporters across the country covering the storm. plus the january 6th committee releasing the final report and placing the
good friday morning to you, it is christmas eve eve. i m jim sciutto. let s begin with the massive winter storm slamming the u.s. with dangerously low temperatures, record-breaking wind chills and heavy snow, only becoming stronger today. the storm stretching from the canadian border to the mexican border is expected to become what s known as a bomb cyclone as it moves into the great lakes today with intense pressures matching that of a category 2 hurricane. right now across the country hundreds of thousands are without power, travel plans upended for many going into the holiday weekend. more than 3,100 flights canceled already today. dozens of governors creating emergency response plans heading into this holiday weekend including opening temporary warming shelters just to get people out of the cold. i will speak with one of those governors, kentucky s andy beshear in just a moment. let s get to our team covering what s being called a once in a generation storm. we begin in u
liv golf. i m sara sidner in for fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us on this christmas eve. a winter wholall up leaving millions out in the cold, some enduring their coldest christmas in decades. right now nomore than 100 milli people under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana all the way down to florida. some areas in the midwest are dipping into the negative 30s. yes, i said negative 30s. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white outconditions. they say search and rescue is moving extremely slovakia slowly due to the blizzard. the bitter cold proving dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in ohio, icy roads are blamed for a 50-car pileup. you are looking at it there. devastating. in north carolina and a tennessee, places not used to this kind of cold, power companies are running short rolling blackouts to keep up with unusually high energy demand. more than 1.6 million custom