this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough
economy while railing against the republicans. watch. when it comes to doing something about inflation, republicans said no. i don t want to hear from republicans. they blew up the definite it is. 10 million jobs have been created since i was been president. guess what? gas prices are down $1.30 a gallon. republicans hammering red hot inflation at the roll-out of their commitment to america agenda, which they say they will carry out should ney take back the house. can i afford to fill up my tank? can i afford the food, the milk? whether you go to the grocery store, whether you re bucketing for the home heating bills that are sky rocketing this winter. far left policies have left to record spending. republicans are trying to restrict abortion. it s a fair statement when you look at the republicans commitment to america plan. they don t lay out a precise remedy to solve inflation. so you know, it s topic number 1. wouldn t you think they would have one? yes. but the
politics of the border and immigration. several bus loads of migrants arrived outside the naval observatory, which is the vice president s residence. these are the bus loads we have seen arriving nearly weekly from texas. this has been a plan of governor greg abbott. last night, it was 18 degrees when these migrants arrived. cnn was on scene to watch these i rivals. some of them arriving wearing nothing but t-shirts on their backs. they were greeted by migrant aid groups here in washington, d.c., which took them to local shelters and were able to give them blankets. we know that this border security issue has become so political. but there are human faces to this, which you very much did see and do see in those pictures there from last night. the biden administration waiting to see if title 42, what happens to that with the courts. currently, the supreme court is considering that issue. but the biden administration has said they do want that title 42 authority to lapse, which the
arriving every single will week by greg ab o migrants that arrive in texas after crossing the u.s.-mexico border then bus up here to washington, d.c., and to other cities as well. now some of these migrants in the cold arriving with nothing but t-shirts on their backs. thankfully there were migrant aid groups who were ready and there to receive the migrants who arrived according to one of the volunteers from everywhere from ecuador, cube yashgs nicaragua, venezuela and several other countries. they were then bussed to local shelters. of course this is an on going sparring in the political wars over the border security and thi migration situation. important to remember as we look at the images, these are human faces who are dealing with this situation. the vidbiden administration deag with increased numbers of migrants crossing the u.s. southern border and potentially more expected as that title 42