white. we didn t even have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us. the house was shaking. we were all close together in the middle room of the house. wow. it s the craziest thing i ve ever been involved in. more than 20 million people are under high wind alerts in the mid atlantic, northeast and western u.s. meteorologist alilison chinchar is keeping an eye on all of this. this storm is heading out into the open atlantic, hopefully giving folks a break 24 hours from now. we still have heavy bands of snow across maine, new hampshire. you re getting a little bit of wraparound in upstate new york, places like watertown new york continuing to see snow. when you factor in the snow and wind component, it can lead to whiteout conditions. travel going to be very dicey in some spots. even farther south away from the snow, you still have wind advisories in place, looking at wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour. that could lead to trees down and additional power outages.
and a son to being the person indicted and convicted of killing them. that was striking. it also speaks to how close knit that area is. i wonder too, after hearing that, why wasn t there a bigger fight for a change of venue? would that have made a difference? i think at the onset of this case, the defense had to make a strategy call. on one hand, now in hindsight, there s always the concern you re going to have a prejudiced jury, because the murdaughs are so prevalent in the community. we ve seen these netflix documentaries that talk about a lot of stuff that isn t even in the trial. is that jury pool tainted? that s one camp.
police responded in a much different fashion. they had mounted police, water cannons, stun grenades. there were dozens of injuries and arrests. and last week were those settler revenge attacks after two israeli brothers were killed earlier that day by palestinian gunmen. many of these protesters have started a chant asking the police why wasn t there this big of a police military presence to protect those people. there s a lot of concern these protests tonight could see the same sort of police response as on wednesday. one of the most right wing members of netanyahu s government has talked about taking a stronger stand against protesters. the former defense official