of cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 25th. of course you know, we ve all been waiting for this beautiful morning. i m amara walker. good morning and merry christmas to you as well. thank you for spending part of your holiday morning with us. just ahead this morning, fighting racism from a one horse open sleigh, after getting hate mail for put putting up a black stanta in his yard santa in h yard, one man fights back. and how dollar stars are quickly becoming the go-to destination for shoppers. and we re going to introduce you to this year s cnn hero of the year, with a heart warming moment as she accepted her award. first let s get you caught up with this morning s headlines with whitney wilde. good morning and merry christmas to you, if you re celebrating at home. we begin with this brutal weather storm. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm and more than a quarter million people are without electricity. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterda
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
i m paula reed in washington. for a ferocious freeze complicating rescue efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u.s. freed warnings in effect across the u.s. snow and sheets of ice. the storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. roads impassable in upstate new york after a monstrous blizzard. for nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. this is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. it was such that we had to pull emergency rescue vehicling off the roads. the bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. this morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of holiday travel. 1,800 flights canceled again today. we have a team covering this all tracking the latest winter weather developments but beginning in buffalo, new york. paw lo sandoval is there. last time we spoke we did see some trucks on the road. what s the latest the
yours in everyone at home watching us. i am brian llenas and for eric shawn, western new york is no stranger to severe winter storm, but this blizzard hit with a vengeance dropping more than 3 feet of snow officials blame them for multiple deaths and the region, the storm causing chaos for air travelers coast to coast , millions are stuck at packed airports with thousands of flights canceled and delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. anita: we have fox news team coverage, meteorologist michael on whether any relief is in sight. charles watson is in atlanta on travel grinding to a halt at the nation s busiest airport but first to fox weather max gordon in the hard-hit buffalo suburb of hamburg new york, max, the other day you spent the night in your car because of the weather and now it looks like you re in the middle of a blizzard, tough duty for you over christmas my friend. merry christmas to both of you, a very white christmas for folks and western ne
passengers have to wait to fly? russia s deadly new attacks in ukraine the city liberated just weeks ago and now back in putin s crosshairs ukrainian families defiant and determined to keep christmas alive. holiday messages of hope. the services around the world. the faithful now back in person, the pope s message of peace and the royal family s first christmas without the queen. and the nfl players making music with a mission this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening at a time of year so many of us want to be with loved ones, intense winter conditions and sub-zero chills are making it dangerous or altogether impossible to travel safely 100 million people are under winter weather alerts coast to coast. lake-effect snow have hamstrung parts of the midwest and blizzard-like conditions have stranded drivers and all bu shut down buffalo. at least 23 people have died across the country and at a time of year filled with twinkling lights, hundreds of