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identifying the suspect who held four people hostage at a texas synagogue for nearly 11 hours saturday. president biden calling it an act of terror. now chilling new audio released of the gunman ranting during that standoff. also this morning, voting rights legislation stalled on capitol hill, but republican senator mitt romney says there is growing bipartisan support for some changes, those to the electoral count act. we ll have more on that and what it means in a moment. let s begin with our wondwinter storm coverage. polo sand volume live in pittsburgh. dianne gallagher, it s the ice, the heavy snow wreaking travel havoc there this morning. what are you seeing? reporter: you mentioned travel havoc, jim, look, yesterday out of charlotte s international airport, 90% of the flights were canceled. a little bit better today with just over a third canceled but significant travel issues threw the carolinas. this is why. you see this slick ice on the ground, you can he ....
plus, if you haven t seen these pictures, you want to. and underwater volcano near tonga has ree resulted for the third time in four days, those pictures captured by satellite. a massive eruption over the weekend sparked tsunami advisories across the u.s. west coast. and in china, major changes now to the winter olympics, which are less than three weeks away. amid coronavirus concerns tickets will not be sold to the general public but distributed by authorities instead. the country s zero covid policy has meant stringent restrictions, new lockdowns, beijing reporting its first case according to its numbers of the highly transmissible omicron variant just this past saturday. we begin first with the winter storm wreaking havoc across the eastern united states this morning. cnn s dianne gallagher is in charlotte, north carolina. polo sandoval is live from pittsburgh. we begin with polo. it s a tough mix, right, because you have the snow, it melts, turns to ice. tell us ....
election was stolen. and in a recorded message to a king prayer breakfast president biden said it is not just enough to praise the civil rights leader but the nation must commit to his unfinished work. doctor king held a mirror up to america and forced us to answer the question, where do we stand, whose side are we on? we re in another moment right now where the mirror is being held up to america, being held up again. will we stand up for an american, where everyone is guaranteed the full protection and full promise of this nation, yes or no. i know where i stand. it is time for every elected official in america to make it clear where they stand. suzanne malveaux is sat another king day event. hello to you. we heard from king s son, we heard from speaker pelosi. what did they say? reporter: well, victor, in fact that event is still going on and really the focus here as martin luther king iii have told me time and time again leading up to the day and the events, no ....
over the course of his historic 30-year military career, the general successfully flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars flying in world war ii, korea, vietnam. he has received numerous accolades throughout his career including the congressional gold medal in 2007. it s a brand new hour, and i m happy to be with you. i m victor blackwell. alisyn is off. more than 50 million people are under winter weather warnings across the east coast. in the southeast yesterday, this brutal storm brought freezing rain and snow and ice to a region where this kind of thing is rare. more than 215,000 people are still without power. road conditions are dangerous as crews are working to clear the snow before low temperatures set in causing slick and icy conditions. north carolina highway patrol has responded to more than 600 car accidents because of the storm. this storm is also causing major disruptions and headaches for air travelers. cnn s pete muntean is at reagan natio ....
and how could this pile of problems. we begin with katie in pittsburgh. katie? we re getting a great from the snow. the storm is not done yet. now the big story is the strong winds blowing the snow around us. this storm cast a wide net impacting the east coast. tens of thousands of people are without power in north carolina, west virginia and georgia. west virginia and the lead with nearly 20,000 outages. maine now creeping up with with more than ten. we saw the snow come up fast. virginia state police were busy responding to almost 500 car accidents because of it. in pittsburgh, not a lot of people are out. if they are, it s to walk their dog or get to work. it s very windy. making for some uncomfortable walking the dog. nothing we re not used to here in pittsburgh. the storm causing more than 4,000 flight cancellations. most of them in and out of douglas international. charlotte is among several pots that are impacted by the winter weather. in florida, there wer ....