newsroom. i m paula reed in washington in for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a machete attack on three police officers in times square. the attack unfolded outside a security screening zone set up for last night s festivities. police say the man wielding the machete was just 19 years old. fortunately, all three officers injured are in stable condition. cnn s correspondent is following this story from new york city. gloria, what else do we know about this violent attack? reporter: certainly a trosh f terrifying attack for these three officers. one of the officers just graduating the police academy last week. this happened, as you mentioned, outside of a security zone because everyone who goes to times square to watch the new year s eve ball drop has to go through these screening points for this reason. they are being checked for weapons, items not permitted into this event. and that is where police say a 19-year-old male approached these officers completely unprovoke
bryan kohberger s attorney said he drove to pennsylvania with his father. kohberger s attorney was told that he was driving home for the holidays. authorities tracked the suspect all the way to pennsylvania and watched him for days before finally making an arrest in the middle of the night. veronica miracle is following the story for us from moscow, idaho. what s the mood like now there after there s actually finally an arrest? reporter: paula, the community of moscow has really been on edge for the last seven weeks. it has been very tense here. businesses have shut down early so their employees could get home at a reasonable hour. in fact, other businesses say that some of the employees left the city because this is a college town. students make up a lot of the employees. they didn t feel safe being here. there s such a sense of relief now. of course, it doesn t change the fact that these four gruesome murders happened at the house behind me in this very seemingly safe com
cnn has learned bryan kohberger, the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students, was with his father as he drove cross-country from washington state to pennsylvania before the holidays. police began tracking them at some point during the trip. the four students were stabbed to death in their beds in november. kohberger is charged with four counts of murder in the first degree as well as felony burglary. cnn s jean casarez is in pennsylvania. jean, what else are you learning? reporter: we re learning a little bit more about that trip and we do want to say there is nothing we have learned that his father knew anything about what was happening allegedly with his son in idaho. it s a long drive from idaho, washington, here to pennsylvania. so common sense would say that sometimes it s better to have two people. we do understand that his father flew to the west coast, met his son. it was because it was the holidays. the doctoral courses, school was out. he
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
holiday. freeze warnings still in effect in several states at this hour. blizzard conditions, at least 26 people have died in the actic blast, across eight state. in a hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable. still, a very dangerous situation. driving bans are still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. we want to remind everybody, there was a period hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews, because it was too dangerous. we will talk to that official in just a few minutes. plus, bitter-cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast and southeast, even florida is feeling the chill, much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. let s start in buffalo, new york. polo sandoval is braving is the cold temperatures there. merry christmas. reporter: merry christmas. it is in a recovery process right now, the sun finally came o