decides with another group of passengers to rent a car drive 20 hours to their destination together. that is exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while, i will introduce you to this group of total travel total strangers, who had a quite an adventure when they decided to drive from tampa to cleveland together and they reported their trip and it went viral. meanwhile, ten billion people across the south are under freeze alerts. and the death toll from the storm is dry saying. at least 49 people have died across the country. 27 of those are in the buffalo area. authorities fear that they will find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from what is being called the worst storm in the region s history. you can see some of it there. while police have their hands full with rescues, stores are being looted. i will talk to a supermarket messenger who spent christmas eve washing his store who got broken into. i want to bring in now cnn s miguel marquez, he s
this hour the latest on a mile shooting which just took place hours ago before new york. at least ten people were killed, three were injured, when a man wearing military style gear opened fire and no market. the suspect is an 18 year old white male who is now in custody. there s evidence of the shooting was racially motivated s. this was pure evil. it was straight-up, racially motivated, hate crime. from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, as an asset, combatants of our community, and trying to put evil upon us. 11 of the people shot were black, two or white. for the late night shooting, honoring an msnbc law enforcement analyst jim kavanaugh. jim, i want you to take a listen to some sound from that press conference, a sheriff aggressive said. this is not a member of the community. he s a little bit more. the shooter was not from this community. in fact, the shooter traveled hours from outside this community. to perpetrate this cri
think that people would take. the turkeys, the hams, things like that. those are all still in the store. it was candy bars, battery s, individual bottles of soda. just a lot of stuff, as the night went on it became less polluting and more of a destruction. over registers were destroyed, the computers were knocked down which is probably one of the biggest problems that we have. in order to get up and running we have to make sure we have sales and stuff working. luckily, today, we didn t save a lot and they are overnighting a sin equipment. they re going to overnight a in when the it opens up in the morning which is outstanding for this company the stores are all independently owned. we are all small business owners. which a lot of people don t understand. yeah. dan, this is what makes this so sad. obviously the community is struggling enough. because of this once in a generation store. it is christmas. and as you say, people often wonder, are these desperate people who are break
that s great. that s really good here. that s the only positive thing i can say. do you know how much, do you know what this is going to cost you? right now we are guesstimate-ing probably around a quarter of 1 million dollars loss. well dan, that is really, as i said that is really adding insult to injury there. in your area, obviously i don t have to tell you. we are trying to reach out, reaching out to councilman trying to get with him, work with him and see if there s anything the city can do or the state. we know the federal was signed today. so we are hoping that maybe, we can get in on some of that that would help speed along this process. okay. we will talk to the president and city council momentarily. we will see if you can help also. dan, take care. hope that you are able to put together something positive for the holidays. we really appreciate you sharing your story with us. this is buffalo, where, this is just, it is in our blood. goebbels is all i can sa
looted. you want the police there. we did. we wanted them to stop doing what they were doing. it was very tough in this area of buffalo. a food desert. in this area. a lot of people know after the shooting, very few grocery stores in this area. so, our goal is to try and maintain the this business and keep it afloat. in order to help out the buffalo community. yeah. hey dan we, now have that video. this is a closed circuit tv that you are able to watch on christmas eve. you are watching the looters just go through your store, obviously uninhibited because police are busy the vote and not able to do anything. do you know what they stole? do you know what kinds of things where they looking for? it really was everything. it really wasn t the normal things you would