Physicians james neutral well, welcome to all you watching us here in the United States, canada, and Around The World. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom aid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough. Now its no wasnt biden announces plans for the us to airdropped desperately needed food and supplies into gaza. This as the idf says, its suspending military activities and parts of the enclave on a daily basis, plus mourners are still paying their last respects to russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny a day after he was laid to rest in moscow. Were live in berlin with a look at how people are honoring the fearless dissident. And our Blockbuster Blizzard is slamming california hey, whats up to 12 feet of snow and 140 mile per hour winds. Weve got the latest from the Weather Center on this extremely dangerous storm live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber we begin with a Surprise Announcement from the Israeli Military. It says it will suspend military activities in
we ll continue our special comp of the death of nelson mandela in just a minute. but first some other stories. an ice storm is knocking out power and making drive dangerous all the way from texas to tennessee. and snow is also falling in arkansas, felt all night there. the weather being blamed for one death already there. and nearly a quarter million people are without power in the dallas area alone. and they re warning for catastrophic conditions for parts of arkansas and tennessee. and chad myers, i m almost afraid to hear the forecast. i have a google earth and i can draw all the way around the ice storm. 120,000 square miles right now being covered up by ice. so if you have power lines down in that large of an area, these power crews aren t going to be able to get the lines up very
year. it might be an opportunity for investors to start taking money off the table. we ll see. thanks to all of you. let s talk about the weather. it s nasty. a massive winter storm sweeping from texas to tennessee. dumping snow and ice and sending temperatures down ward. slick roads in north texas are slowing the drive down. nearly a quarter million people are without power right now in the dallas area. storms affecting air travel nationwide. flightsaware.com reporting more than 1200 flights have been canceled already. alina machado is in dallas where freezing rain has fallen all morning. good morning. reporter: freezing rain has been falling all morning, so has sleet at times. and right now, it seems it seems like we re getting a bit of a break. we do have the occasional wind
impacting this big city. many places have already seen the system. you can see from southern indiana all the way through texas, we ve seen the impact of the ice storm already on its way. a potentially catastrophic ice storm blanketed the nation s midsection over night. treacherous roadways and large scale power outages forced oklahoma, arkansas, and tennessee to declare a state of emergency. northeast arkansas frozen and leaving many without power. an out knowledge, officials say, that could last up to a week. temperatures expected to stay below freezing for many days. this icy mixture of snow, sleet, and freezing rain caused multiple rollovers in arkansas. and in oklahoma, the driver of
reported accidents in this area. let s talk about power outages, there are more than 230,000 people waking up today without power in this area, and carol, if this continues, this will likely continue to rise. i was just going to i m sorry, i had a noise in my ear and couldn t hear the last part of what you said but i do hear the freezing rain falling onto the ground in your microphone, so let s just allow people to listen so they can glory in the freezing rain, along with you. reporter: it s definitely coming down here, and it will continue to come down it seems for a while. like i said earlier, when you think it s easing up, it picks right back up. i know, it s amazing, you can hear it fall. alina machado thanks so much, we appreciate it. later in the show we ll take you to memphis, they re suffering there, too. we ll be back with much more in the newsroom. symptoms. you give them the giggles. tylenol cold® helps relieve your worst cold and flu symptoms.