Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay