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good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is monday, january 17th. i m john berman. brianna is working nights this week. here with me, kasie hunt. great to see you, john. great to be back. you have had kind of an adventure. it has been an adventure, yes. i had brain surgery back in october. this is my first day back, and i m thrilled to spend it with you. i m so glad you re here. i know you just want to know the news, so i won t bug you. great to have you back. thanks, john. r50 million people are facing weather alerts as a storm batters the east coast. freezing rain, ice and snow stretching as far as florida. governor kemp staying for people to stay off the roads. high winds and sleet across northern georgia. more of the same in north carolina, where conditions turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off the highway killing two people. multiple tornados touched down in southwest florida. in south carolina, the nati ....
you put up with me. i did text you that. more than 50 million people facing winter weather alerts as a powerful and dangerous winter storm batters the east coast this morning. thousands without power. freezing rain, ice, snow stretching as far south as florida. governor kemp is pleading with georgians to stay off the road. high wind and sleet making driving treacherous. more of the same in north carolina where conditions have turned deadly. a tractor trailer slid off a highway, killing two people, multiple tornados touched down in southwest florida. in lee county, 28 homes were destroyed and dozens more declared unlivable. in south carolina, the national guard had to be called in to assist stranded drivers. black ice and snow in the state remain a threat this morning. and the storm is expected to hit the northeast next. nearly 3 million people under high wind warnings, including here in new york and boston. philadelphia could get some snow. and travel disrupted. 1 ....
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 ....
on a prominent boulevard here in colleyville that s easy to see. you have to go looking for it and know it s there. what kind of calculations went into all of that for the suspect to find this particular synagogue and why? we don t know at this point. i don t know if hostage negotiators if that s the kind of details or information they have been able to garner in their conversation with the suspect throughout the day. all right, stick around as we continue to unpack what has unfolded, ed lavandera, thank you so much. this is cnn s breaking news. just past the top of the hour, welcome everyone, i am michael holmes. breaking news out of texas where all remaining hostages held at that fort worth area synagogue is now free. there was a loud bang out, ed lavandera heard it and gunfire that was heard there in colleyville in texas. just under an hour ago now. then minutes later the texas governor greg abbott tweeted out that the hostages were alive and they were safe. tha ....
breaking news out of texas where all hostages have been rescued after a standoff at a texas synagogue. this happened at the congregation beth israel in colleyville near fort worth. the hostages held for nearly half a day after an attacker stormed into a small worship service on saturday. late saturday, cnn crews on the scene heard a loud bang and then gunfire. the attacker was killed. all remaining hostages freed. moments later, governor greg abbott tweeting out, prayers have been answered, announcing all hostages were out alive and safe. here s how a police official described what led to the rescue. the fbi called out the hostage rescue team, which is an elite hostage rescue force out of quantico, virginia. they immediately when the s.a.c. called, they flew out here. i think they brought 60 or 70 people from washington, d.c. to come and help with this situation. sometime around 9:00 p.m. today, this evening, the hrt, hostage rescue team, breached the synagogue. they ....