you are live in the cnn qwest newsroom, i m paula reid in washington. a monster winter storm has claimed the lives of 16 people and has cut power and electricity. the u.s. department is declaring an emergency for the texas power grid to aid its capacity and this is due to a shortage of electricity. the emergency declaration allows the state s energy provider to exceed environmental emissions limits until usage drops. in new york, a dire situation. hundreds of people have likely been trapped inside their vehicles since yesterday. that includes an 85-year-old grandmother and her son. they ve been turning the car on and off for heat and to save gas. sub-zero temperatures are widespread across the country and more than 750,000 customers remain without power. the power grid operator for 13 states is now asking residents to reduce their power usage to avoid widespread outages. holiday travel by road and air has been disrupted, and today alone more than 2600 flightses have be
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cancelled and when we re talking about cancellations, that is north of 6,000 flights. a lot of the passengers that we talked to said they really only learned about their flight cancellations once they got to the airport. a lot of them told us the issue was their connecting flights. they were able to get to atlanta from an original destination, however, we were told their flights elsewhere were cancelled and they re trying to figure out exactly what is next and here s what some passengers told us. i m active duty, and i had a flight yesterday. the plane got re-routed because i guess they had to do a plane swap. so it wasn t weather-related and i re-booked three times today. they kept bouncing me from another airline to another airline. i think they re being of clever but here i am the third time. yeah. that guy there as you can imagine pretty frustrated with
In an Instagram post, one of the pilots Luke Aikens acknowledged that the FAA had denied permission for the stunt but "made the personal decision to move forward" with it.