now, this is a gas line on fire in the middle of all the wreckage. emergency responders say they were slammed with 911 calls for d gas leaks and building collapses. we have a all hands on deck right now. all neighborhoods not just this nei neighborhood. my 25 years here, this is probably the worst damage ooi v seen. just catastrophic. cnn s rosa flores on the ground in pasadena, texas. you have been seeing the damage there. tell us about it, please, rosa. reporter: there were so many intense moments. that s what the people here say. and we re on the path of that destruction. i want you to look over my shoulder because what you re seeing here is some of the downed power lines at this height of this storm. you can see that some of the power poles were snapped like toothpicks. at the height of this storm, about 100,000 customers were without power. if you look beyond these power lines, you ll see there s a mangled mess back there. that s actually a gym. the owner of that
i have to ask you about this. what s going on in washington? i m sure you ve heard about the new house speaker kevin mccarthy last night announcing that he is keeping or kicking two democrats off the intelligence committee or keeping them off the intelligence committee as well, adam schiff, erik swalwell, what do you think of that? this is just like grievance politics that mccarthy is executing right now. he s doing it to basically keep power because i know his members want him to. we know that eric swalwell and schiff have not done anything incorrectly. the fbi has stated that swalwell has been cleared, did not do anything at all, including, you know, paul ryan and different speakers before mccarthy who all have said, there s been nothing incorrectly. so at one point this will obviously change. i think mccarthy is going to look like a fool, but he s only doing this to make sure he can hold power, not because these two are somehow a threat o national security.
the country this morning. which areas are going to be impacted the most. let s bring in meteorologist chad myers, what are we looking at. the snow got on tree limbs and brought power lines down. 150,000 customers without power in that area, and it s still snowing toward the east and northeast. indianapolis up toward toledo. that will be the middle of the cone, the heaviest snowfall, the intense bulls eye of where the snow is falling now, and where it will continue to fall throughout the day. we have snow in detroit, in cleveland, in pittsburgh. very difficult to travel around pittsburgh and those hills with snow coming down at this rate, and the snow continues to come down. snow in chicago. had a picture out of chicago earlier of the snow coming down in downtown. it s coming down harder right now than it has for much of the day. so that s what we re going to be seeing. this heavy snow piling up, 1 inch on top of another, and many areas from indianapolis, about 5 to 6, right through
looks like a defeat on the battlefield could weaken him at home, but at some point he s going to have to make the calculation, does that flip and reverse and continuing the war perhaps weaken him at home. we re not there yet. maybe one day. what about the fact, though, that it was just last thursday that med ve avedev, he said the of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outpress outbreak of nuclear war. nuclear powers do not lose conflicts on which their fate depends. that s central to nuclear d doctrine, and something we have been thinking about all along. how do you help ukraine enough, and not get to that point. you don t want to signal that russian nuclear threats have real weight. what will that teach the russians and the rest of the world, that nuclear weapons are useful. how do you walk that line? you re a diplomat. in the moment, i think you push as we re pushing.
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