thirds ems vehicles have bee stopped. how are things looking right now as we look at a snow plo trying to clear why some the snow and ice there what is your message to th folks there, the residence tha you re overseeing. well, alex, thanks fo having us. it s still very bad here the front had actually gone little north into niagar county, niagara falls is and has moved back south in th community. unfortunately we have some really sad stories here. buffalo police found their first body of an individual wh died in a vehicle it appears overnight. and that body is being taken t area hospital fo identification and confirmatio with the family. we unfortunately are expecting additional ones of these it s been a horrendous horrendous 24 to 36 hours. as you know, many of our emergency vehicles were stuc as they were trying to respond to calls last night, to th point where we could not guarantee emergency service in an area that roughly has about
outage restorations, or issue associated with when the weather was going to get better it was clogging up our lines on average we were receiving hundreds of calls over 400 calls every hour and it wa causing backups. we have a full complement of people working including a off-site locations, but when people are calling with no life-threatening issues, they re actually hurting our ability to respond to those wh actually might have life-threatening situation so, for those that are in th buffalo new york area, if it s life-threatening, call 9-1-1 if it s non-life-threatening but emergency situation, you can call 716, 858, s and o w snow, which is 7669. we ll put you in the queue t try to help out soon as we can erie county new yor executive, mine pullen cars. tell you what i ll say to al this is godspeed i hope we get out of the soon. michael morris thoughts on the january six report, plus the fight that erupted over to former friends in th
a very good day to all of you from msnbc here in los angeles, merry christmas eve t those of you celebrating and welcome everyone to alex witt reports let s get to the very latest o the deadly december blizzard winter storms making the way across the u.s. leaving many states under blankets of dangerous lead cold wind chills at least 20 people have died i storm early to incidents acros the country, and in just the last hour almost 800,000 households remain withou power. now the hardest hit states are north carolina, and maine. in buffalo new york, the peace bridge crossing between u.s. and canada remains closed. buffalo airport official tweeting just a few minutes ag that rescue teams are stil trying to reach people strande in their car saying they hav provided shelter for roughly 6 people so far. officials are warning i don take the storm seriously i am actually doing thi briefing from a home without