federal government. many families that i spoke to says they feel like the state of texas is not open to civil rights action and to conversations about race in the classroom. they hope the federal government steps in. antonia, thank you so much. i m jose diaz-balart. i ll see you tomorrow night on nbc nightly news saturday. you can reach me on twitter or instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up right now. good morning. i m lindsey reiser in new york. it s a busy friday with a lot of news starting with the winter onslaught. the storm system is bearing down on the northeast with millions of americans facing snow, ice, heavy rain and strong wind gusts in some areas. that system dropped two feet of
bulldozer. you can t just sort of plow this out of the way and leave it there. a snowfall like this where it was a warmer temperature, cold air was a heavy, wet snow. so not only is the sheer height of the snow in buffalo, that volume of snow at that weight, that density, makes it too heavy to push. plow trucks can t push that. so we would love to be able to push snow, and we do that for the normal snowfall, but this removed us to that removal process. reporter: so this visual tells you everything, yes, buffalo is used to getting big know events. similar operations happening. not just here in buffalo, but
areas could see 10 to 13 inches of snowfall. the gusty winds, heavy, wet snow. trees and power lines are coming down. 80,000 customers without power at this hour. snowfall accumulations in the past 24 hours in this region have pushed up. it s all rainfall. on the order of 1 and 2 inch having come back. almost 40 mile per hour gusty winds. we do expect this to be the story through much of this afternoon with the gusty winds continuing. snowfall, this is where people are asking where is that spring weather. michigan, illinois, ohio, as much as 10 to 20 inches of snow