we ll give you an update on that and on the thousands of people without power in washington state after three electrical substations appear to have been attacked as people get together with friends and family over this holiday week, more and more concerns about a rise in cases connected with the triple-demic of flu, covid and rsv. we ve got a look at that in just a minute and the future of title 42 in the hands of the u.s. supreme cou court. a look at how the biden administration is getting ready for what could happen next. and we re learning what the january 6th committee learned and what comes next for the doj investigation into the insurrection we re starting with the winter weather that has already killed dozens of people. those freezing temperatures are going to keep up this week look at officials in eerie county, new york they re announcing 12 more people have been killed by that winter weather meaning 25 people in that county alone have died. nearly 60, 55 total
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attacks like these. you spent the holiday with ukrainians there tell us about that reporter: yeah, i mean, you know, this is something that we keep seeing over and over again. these are ukrainians who are experiencing hardship. they re seeing the front lines in their own houses, in the home front. because like i said a moment ago, all of these russians bombardments, one thing that they have in common is that they re hitting electricity infrastructure so that household that i just spent it was actually two households one of them, their electricity was out and we re seeing that all around this city you can see some lights that are on here. a lot of the power has been restored in kyiv but a lot of ukrainians spent their christmas or ate their christmas dinner by candle light. it s like zelenskyy said to congress a couple of days ago, it s not because it s romantic, it s because they have to, the power has been going out over and over again i got to tell you, hallie, the spirit that
we learned about a fourth attack that was reported on christmas day and in every single one of these attacks, there was some sort of vandalism and at one of those substations, there was even a fire. this left at least 17,000 people without power, and most of the power has been restored to those affected homes, but now investigators are trying to figure out who did this and why. this is part of a growing trend that we have seen not only in the pacific northwest, but in north you may remember that we had five attacks in north carolina, oregon, and washington now, energy experts have stressed the need to harden a lot of these power infrastructure facilities because they say that this could be a target for domestic terrorism. investigators in the christmas day attacks are hesitant to call this domestic terrorism because they say they have yet to find a suspect. hallie the a lot of power utilities around the country had been on a higher alert after
instance, police helping deliver a baby that is the kind of situation we are dealing with there and cleanup, obviously, there s going to be a lot of that in the days ahead from what i ve seen in buffalo you can imagine they re probably running out of places to put the snow and are going to begin dump truck moving it to other sites we ve heard about the first responders themselves having trouble in the snow and having to get help getting their vehicles out of the way. it is just an utter mess in western new york right now if you hear them talking about historic devastating in an area used to snow, you can imagine the scale of what we re dealing with the frigid temperatures across the country. millions of americans woke up again today to brutal cold and the northwest is dealing with bad weather over the next couple of days and, obviously, that is something that is not going to help the travel situation that we ve been keeping an eye on as well, hallie. that s for sure thank you very mu