happy holidays we re here at msnbc headquarters in new york city, thank you for spending time with us on this monday the death toll from the once in a lifetime multi-state winter storm over the weekend continues to rise today. up by about 20 from this hour yesterday. we now have at least 55 people dead across 12 states with western new york especially hard-hit nearly half of those fatalities are in new york s erie county alone. the freezing temperatures and wind gusts also knocking out power for tens of thousands. in the latest update today, new york governor kathy hochul told drivers to stay off the roads and what first responders are discovering as they conduct rescue operations. going into homes, going into vehicles, and too many tragic times finding people who have not survived the experience. they re grieving inside, as we all are, for the families who are getting horrible heart-breaking news that their loved ones succumbed to the storm over the last day or two, and ou
russia that s standard policy they ve been doing that since the beginning of the war richard, this isn t new because ukraine has managed to strike targets inside russia, and also inside russian occupied ukraine and places like crimea, occupied since 2014 so this is something that the ukrainians have always shown, they have this capability to project their power beyond their own borders, especially when they re armed to the teeth with so many western weapons, as they are now but, you know, this capability is something that we could see expand as the ukrainians tend to, and we ve seen over the past couple of months, make some gains on the battle field, and push closer and closer to russian borders. it might be why where we re hearing vladimir putin talking about negotiations, and though nobody here is really taking that all that seriously, but what we just heard today, from the associated press, is the foreign miner center of ukraine, he said that he s expecting to have some kind of peac