my town again. and i don t feel safe right now. did you shorten my life now? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are with we going to enjoy it? you burned me. not too much to ask right? yes, quite a night on cnn. that was a night filled with mixed emotions. she will be back with us tomorrow. angry ohio residents grilling officials about the toxic train disaster but were the answers good enough. we ll show you the key moments from the cnn town hall. secretary pete buttigieg is set to visit the crash scene just a few hours from now. a lot of people ask how are we doing? i will be honest with you, not good. but we are doing the best we can. as it hits us. that is position no one would want to be in especially as a tv journalist. the reason he is feeling that way tv journalists there doing their jobs. even when they had to report the unthinkable, the attack on one of their very own colleagues. and a storm shifting to the east. 60 million people. reporter: we begin wi
polo sandoval is in new york and naddio romero is live in atlanta. so let s check in with shimon prokupecz. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, so thousands out here now, fredricka. as they listen to some of the speakers. that are taking the stage here, local politician and other folks from planned parenthood. speaking to the crowd and getting them fired up. and then look apr this crowd here as you see signs everywhere here for many of the people who have come here from all across the country. places like seattle, and other parts of west coast and people who drove here from baltimore, and from new york city. all wanting to be here to fight, they say, as they begin what they say a new phase in this fight. they are saying that they are fighting for abortion access, the concern being that many people who can t afford, who are living in poverty, this will effect them the most. and so many of them out here today fighting, voicing their opinion after the leaked draft opinion. as
and speaking of, doing their duties now. we want to turn to the weather. more than 60 million people coast-to-coast are under winter alerts this morning. for some states the coldest temperatures of the season. more than 850,000 people are left without power in places like michigan, california and illinois. that really spans almost everything and 1700 flights have been canceled. delta and southwest are among the airlines most affected and causing 150 crashes in utah. there is one fatality reported. did i read that right? yes. one fatality. let s go to adrian. i am glad you are well off the highway and being as safe as possible. so now report the weather conditions where you are,
for them. don t think people realize how dangerous it is to be a local reporter. one thing, i was a local reporter for a long time, before being at nbc and then coming here. the one when i saw adrian broadous, and she was on the side of the road. i hated to do live shots on the side of highways. many people are killed. someone was going to talladega for the auto race and died on the side of the road and moments later i had to do a live shot on the side of the road and it made me uncomfortable. once i was in philadelphia and i rounded the corner with a camera man and someone was shooting someone running away. and it was just moments. you remember the helicopter crash for channel 4. and i was not in philadelphia, but there was a weather man that died in a helicopter crash.
that the message that is sounded here not only in chicago, will be heard across the country and influence those who could make decisions. for those of you who are not familiar, earlier this week the city s mayor lori lightfoot fledged $500,000 to support reproductive health care here in the city of chicago. and the state s mayor, j.b. pritzker backs that and calling on the the u.s. senate to step up and defend women s rights. in illinois it is one of the most liberal states in the midwest, when it comes to abortion rights. fred. adrian broadous and camilla barnal. thank you. cnn s david culliver finally able to leave china s strict lockdown. his incredible journey next. of . that s whyhy we build technoloy