reporter: but christmas in buffalo did come with some unexpected holiday hope on friday a bus full of korean tourists heading for niagara falls got stuck outside their buffalo area home. i said come on in everybody because you re going to be here for a while. reporter: without hesitating the couple welcomed ten strangers in for two nights sharing homemade korean food and the bills game with new friends. you might have saved those people s lives what do you think of that? i feel very grateful we were able to help them because it could have been a very terrible outcome. and i feel like we made ten extra family members reporter: meanwhile, the bills themselves digging out when they got back from chicago. now millions waking up to another frigid day as the northwest braces for more heavy rain, ice, and mountain snow some signs of warmth amid this terrible storm. now to the travel chaos that s still unfolding, thousands of flights canceled over the weekend and the ri
good monday morning. i m hallie jackson in washington we re coming on the air learning more people have been killed in a massive winter storm with emergency workers only starting to get to some of the hardest hit areas now. we just got an update from officials near buffalo we will bring you live what they said we are looking at western new york buried under several feet of snow. the governor describing it all as a war zone. i know how hard this is but western new yorkers are tough. we know how to deal with this. we will get through this together we ll have more on that in a second new tension on the korean peninsula after north korea fires drones over soak soak for the first time in years. how the south is responding. plus, the first christmas holiday inn ukraine since the war began. the defiant message from president zelenskyy later in the show here at home with holiday shopping season over, the return the gift season is kicking into high gear. what you should know abo
attacks on ukraine continued on christmas day. after air strikes at the southern ukrainian city of kherson on christmas over, killing 10 people and wounding 55 more. ukraine s president urging his people to keep the faith we will celebrate our holidays asalways and smile and be happy. this family is doing just that, cooking over gas camping stove are you celebrating christmas in spite of putin i would say yes he wants to ruin our holidays, so some holidays at least for us just like kherson. reporter: from the front lines to the home front, christmas carries on russian bombs leveled this house outside kyiv last christmas at this time you were making christmas dinner here yes, we were decorating the christmas tree here with hand made toys. now they live in a prefab modular home next door, their
here yes we were decorating with hand made toys. now they live in a prefab modular home next door their christmas tree smaller than they are used to. grandson david let me decorate with him david s parents told me david was distraught when his home was destroyed. it was tough for us to accept what happened, she told me much less to explain it to david. the boys on the front are always front of mind. brother mahalo is busy cooking for his comrades are you guys in a good mood, he asks they are, he responds. even though they re not at home they are in a good mood. a bit of christmas spirit even as this war rages on and, hallie, you know, everything is political in ukraine these days, even christmas. st. michael s cathedral, this golden domed cathedral behind