where he faces a possible life sentence and in ukraine, resistance forces are on the offensive as some analysts say the military s fighting capabilities are running out. we ll take you live to kyiv. but we begin with our top story right now, unfolding across the country, a travel nightmare for millions of people trying to get home after the christmas holiday as a monstrous winter storm barrels east. right now, more than 2800 flights have been cancelled. that s today alone leaving frustrated travelers strand ed i airport terminals. southwest will operate just one-third of its scheduled flights in the coming days representative from the pilot association says the airline s scheduling system is partly to blame. the death toll has climbed to 63 nationwide after this brutal storm blanketed parts of western new york with as much as four feet of snow and brought powerful wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour with more snow in the forecast, tishls fear the deet death toll could cont
plus, thousands of travelers stranded this afternoon with southwest airlines at the center of a hot mess. 70% of their scheduled flights canceled we ve got the nightmare situation for folks trying to get home after the holidays and what the biden administration is saying about it in just the last couple of hours. we ll also take you live to one of the hardest hit areas in the destructive holiday winter storm where they are just starting to dig out even with driving bans still in effect in some spots. and donald trump s tax returns could be made public at some point. i m hallie jackson in washington, d.c. with you on this tuesday afternoon and we re starting with the uncertainty over what could happen with title 42 as we await a decision from the supreme court we know the biden administration wants this to be lifted, but they don t want the rug pulled out from them overnight. josh is live at the white house with this story. the issue with this, right, is that many people thi
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
severe winter weather. but that national weather service because they once in a generation storm, also causing chaos for travelers coast to airports are packed tonight with some 8000 flights either canceled or delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. we have team coverage charles watson is tracking in an lancet. the first to alexis and mcadams live in new york city tracking this cold snap, alexis. hi brian. if tonight another cold night here in new york city. it s nothing compared to other parts of the northeast are dealing with. buffalo, new york was slammed and we are learning about more deaths as authorities are still searching for people who have been stranded on the road for hours. the historic storm is not over yet in buffalo. take a look here on your screen this is a people been dealing with for days they are. this is what look like again this afternoon. at least 12 people have been killed during this winter blast. snowplows trying to make their way th
international airport. surprisingly a busy day for christmas at atlanta international thousands are more trying to get home and those are holding out hope that santa will give them the gift to be home for the holidays. up until this point it has been a nightmare for tens of thousands of holiday travelers of cancellations and delays have played airports nationwide because of the deadly arctic blast we have been dealing with today there have been more than 3600 delays and more than 1600 flight cancellations. not great but little lower than 24 hours ago and conditions are improving across the nation at the transit hub that make no mistake airlines and airports are not out of the woods just yet the brutal temperatures snap close the delta lounge in the international terminal and at the airport shut on friday and officials say it will remain close through 11:00 a.m. on monday when wind and visibility are expected to improve. canceling so many plans for the holidays and we are