high winds and brutal cold. buffalo getting a stunning 40 inches of snow and could see more today. at least 12 people dead in the area. new york governor kathy hochul is a buffalo native. used to rough winters but not like this. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. buffalo s airport is set to remain closed until tuesday. 3100 flights were canceled christmas day nationwide and more than 1,000 have already been can elide today. charles watson is live at atlanta international airport. hi, charles. good morning. today is looking to be just as busy here in atlanta and at airports across the country. it is 9:00 and check out the long lines that have accumulated at the delta check-in counters. this is the scene, large crowds we re seeing all over the airport leaving the real possibility that today could be a miserable one for folks who are trying to make it onto flights a
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
julie: brutal winter store leaving dozens dead. many without power and travelers stranded. officials in western new york declared a major disaster with massive piles of snow blocking roads, paralyzing emergency response and trapping people in their frigid homes. welcome to a new hour of fox news live. i m julia banderas. alicia: bad weather stretching throughout the country. it left the area around buffalo rick new york buried in several feet of snow with at least 25 storm-related deaths in the western new york area alone. it s not over yet. a local official warning there is more on the way. snow is still dropping in the