they will only reschedule, but the only availabilities they have is on monday. so i d be stuck here for two days, and miss christmas we have to, you really ca empathize with travelers lik julie and there. but i will tell you, alex, a bit of breaking news, as tha soundbite was playing, she actually walked by and told me that she did manage to find flight for tomorrow morning. social be up to spend at least christmas evening with famil members. so some good positive upliftin news there that s a nicer note to end thi report on. a nice change! i will take it! yeah, i m glad for the i musketeer it listening to her, it s just heartbreaking. i m just gonna go home subtitles. thank you so much emily for. that let s go now to the buffalo area, we have shows yo the peace bridge joining me now is erie count new york executive, mark poloncarz. mark, we have listened to your updates in what you have sai hundreds of drivers were standard in cars, adding two
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they re going around, and th one thing that you never kno can change, is a visibility. you see, how very quickly, i there are wind gusts, that truck that you can see in fron of us right now, that could go away and that s why they r emphasizing and want everyon to go and take it slow now what we re experiencin here, is the back end of thi storm. but the buffalo area is getting, is what we got already that s where you hang thos white out conditions, concerns about emergency officials, a emergency operations not abl to get out we ve got a report the count officials saying that about tw thirds of emergency vehicles were actually stuck this morning. you ve got hundreds of drivers stranded at buffalo airport. we learned that the airpor will be closed until monda because of the snow that they re getting and th quantity of snow that they r getting combined with the wind that is what you get with thos blizzard warnings. what they re seeing is what we were getting they re getting a more intense
on, but there s other parts of the system that we re not done with just yet. that s a lake effect snow. we re really looking a difficult conditions continuin for buffalo right now. we have lake effect snow ban that just set up shop and ha continued to hammer folk there. and it s not just the snow falling, it s really those winds that are making it dangerous for anyone that plan to be out and about at all i that area. you can see these wind gusts o up to 60 miles per hour, w could see some higher than tha and remember, this has bee ongoing for the buffalo area from more than 24 to 36 hours. since early yesterday mornin they were dealing with that. the power outages, we now, hav been widespread. you can see those wind gusts across the great lakes, an into the northeast, and into places like burlington yesterday saw wind gusts of 70 miles per hour today, not as intense but stil elevated that means those temperature that are cold are going to fee even colder. it means any snow on the groun