even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough
power for the areas. el paso, texas, has also seen brutal temperatures below freezing. that is impacting hundreds of migrants at the border. without proper documentation, they can t make use of government run shelters and have been forced to sleep out in the cold. cnn is following the story in el paso. how are they doing after spending christmas eve. that evening was below freezing in temperature. what you are seeing there? i m seeing positivity. i can tell through are a lot of happy children despite very difficult circumstances. the locals have come throughout the morning to bring a lot of these children gifts. there is even santa claus that stopped by earlier this morning. i certainly want to show you how difficult it is, but also what you re seeing in terms of the children. they have toys lined up. they have new thing tharz pla things they re playing with. that is helpful for the mothers