the insurrection act and the rest of it is going to help us going forward for sure. thank you, jennifer. it is good to see you. so this major a major holiday travel mess is playing out before us. because of this winter storm. thousands of flights already delayed or canceled. up next, cnn s ivan rodriguez has an update from the busiest airport. as we head to break, here is live pictures from near seattle international airport where just one runway is operating due to the ice and heavy wind conditions. we ll be right back. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. lily! welcome to our third bark-ery. oh, i can tell business is going through the “woof”. but seriously we nd a reliable way to help keep everyone connected from wherever we go. the right wireless planfor .
weather that s going to be super impactful to people as they try to gear up and celebrate their holiday. we re talking about a massive winter storm storm bringing snow to places like kansas city and chicago through the day today. it will bring blizzard conditions to folks in those areas in the upper midwest and great lakes as well. and we re also dealing with a rain event that s impacting folks into the northeast, which likely will cause some flash freezing later through the next couple days as we see a big drop in temperatures. there s the winter alerts. more than 100 million people impacted by these blizzard warnings are up for eight states. so you can see just the wide swath of the country that s going to be seeing the snowfall and not to mention the really gusty wind conditions that will make traveling on the roads really difficult. reduced visibility is expected to drop to zero. snowfall accumulations upwards of a foot and a half for places like western michigan and the upper peni
drive i was talking on the radio to notify dispatch. we made the decision to not test any of the narcotics roadside because of the wind conditions. it was windy. the possibility of us opening the narcotics could endanger us. so we went when i went to notify dispatch we were going to head to the police department i felt very light-headed and i couldn t talk. like i was choking. after watching the body cam now i hear myself, i was choking but i remember consciously being aware. i didn t think i was overdosing. that never went through my mind at the time. i was so hyperfix ateed on my car is in drive. hit the brake, keep the brake so don t role. i wanted to get a drink so bad. i thought it would help me for some reason. bill: what a story. we have this video here. this is july of last year in san diego. apparently another officer collapsing after fentanyl
winds 124 punta gorda 140 came coral we have almost two million without power. we are going to 3.5 maybe 4 million without power as the system rakes florida central 100 miles per hour. the root systems of these trees are not going to be able to handle the wind conditions as it moves across the region. here s the thing many folks came from the tampa area because they thought they would be safer and this would miss them. now the hurricane has followed them to orlando. you mentioned punta gorda. bill i m going to bring back in. i m pretty sure you can hear me. bill is our climate correspondent. you ve got questions for tom? you want to ask him some stuff? it s interesting. i met a gentleman who is a structural engineer.
st. san teachings river in south carolina and sebastian inlet. a hurricane watch has been issued from that same area, fall ouja county line to seamount san teachings, river. a storm warning is to little river inlet south carolina. what this means as we look at the map and pull it out if we want to. this thing will cook inland, too. that s where you get the warnings for tornadoes and things that can twist off and emerge from the wind conditions that are around the eye of the storm as it moves into florida. now, something else sticks out to me, too. a storm surge warning in effect. tampa bay is on that list. it is second on the list. we knew about the lower florida keys. tampa bay remaining on that list. why is that important?