comcast business. powering possibilities. hello, everyone. it is the top of the hour. thanks so much for being with us. i m kate bolduan. it is the storm impacting pretty much everyone in one way or another across the country today. more than 200 million americans under windchill alerts and holiday travel plans are getting much more complicated by the hour for so many people. life-threatening cold has pushed all the way to the gulf coast and the mexico border and with more than 70 million americans facing temperatures below zero today, blizzard warnings remain in effect for more than 11 million people, mostly near the great lakes. areas near buffalo could see up to three feet of snow. they ve been getting walloped already this season and making matters worse, the damaging winds that knocked out power for more than a million customers from texas to new england, all of this is wreaking havoc on typically one of the busiest travel days of the year. more than 3,900 flights have
These moments come around rarely, its not every single year we get to do an olympic games. And i felt like preparation was going so well and in an instant, its gone. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday. Theyll likely be on the same International Team attempting to conquer europe this summer but before that, theyre on opposite sides trying to do the same for their clubs. Two of englands finest abroad meet in the Champions League semi finals tonight, with both harry kane and Jude Bellingham trying to win the competition for the first time. Theyve been key to their teams getting this far kane has 42 goals overall in his Debut Campaign for Bayern Munich while, even though bellingham has half the amount, thats from midfield, and includes two clasico winners. Their first leg is at the Allianz Arena Tonight and Patrick Gearey looks ahead. I think hes a great player, One Of The Best of all time may be. Jude is exactly the the best of all time may be. Jude is exactly the type the best of al
and other committed neighbors that are helping their unfortunate neighbors out, so we re very, very confident about that. our energy, though, if you recall, during winter storm urie, our grid failed us but this time it seems to be holding strong, although we do have 17,000 homes across the county that are without power, 300 of those have been restored thus far. but those don t seem to be grid related so we re very hopeful about that. this isn t one thing about it, this isn t just a one-day freeze. it is a multiday event. we re seeing that in other places of the country. what does it mean and how does that complicate things? well, it complicates things because, you know, we had to make sure that our rescue and recovery operations are fully functioning. it also complicates it in the
away from this particular area, the road conditions could very well change and so we want people to think about it, if you don t need to make that travel, please don t do so. if you do, then obviously, you know, take your time, be patient, be careful, try to monitor the conditions as you re moving. stay in touch with the respective state alert systems. but, you know, my first recommendation is if you don t have to make the travel, please don t do it. commissioner, thanks for coming on. good luck over the next couple of day, really appreciate it. thank you. cnn has new reporting we want to bring to you about the allegations that twitter suppressed stories about hunter biden. we ll lay out a cnn investigation. what a cnn investigation has uncovered and found. that s next.
our temperatures get above freezing until early next week. all right. so hunker down is the message, i appreciate it. thank you so much. so a big concern for officials in upstate new york are road conditions and as of this morning, they re ordering people to stay off the roads in and around buffalo. a blizzard warning and state of emergency there now in effect. wind gusts are expected to reach 70 miles per hour as temperatures plummet. polo sandoval is there and filed this report. reporter: all you have to do is look around here in buffalo. you can see why officials in erie county, new york, astronauted a travel ban. something we re seeing throughout the region because these wicked winter winds are whipping up the snow and result is whiteout conditions making treacherous treacherous and as officials have said, life-threatening and that s why authorities are hoping that that travel ban will mean that only essential traffic will be on the