the handshake. that one i will treasure. jerry, may we all be like jerry in 2023. thank you very much. thank you. thanks all of you for watching. thanks for getting up early. yes. you re fun. we will see you back here tomorrow morning. cnn newsroom starts now. good morning, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we are going to begin this morning with parts of the country trying to dig out from what s been both a dangerous and historic snowstorm. 200 additional national guard soldiers deploying to western new york today as the blizzard has now led to the deaths of at least 17 people there. we now have what will be talked about not just today but for generations, the blizzard of 22. we are still in the throes of this very dangerous life-threatening situation. nationwide more than 1,500 flights already canceled this morning, about the same amount delayed. that s only adding to the backlog from the holiday weekend, but we do have p
effect for those communities through the daylight hours at least. that is because conditions are bad. main roads may be open but they are for emergency travel only. unfortunately we still have a lot of travel of individuals who do not appear to be doing anything other than joy riding or going to a friend s house. they are not emergency personnel. i spoke to individuals today, including supervisor brine culpa who said that the amherst pd are going to go out and stop people at intersection, see if they have emergency travel authorization and if they don t they will ticket them and send them them back on their way. police have been working around the clock on life-saving measures, they have not been going out there ticketing people, but though they re going to because truthfully you are harming our ability to recover and you may be the reason that we are not able to get an ambulance to a location because cars are still getting stuck out there. conditions are bad, especially after the snow