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have been empty for more than six weeks. reporter: as for this family it s frustrating and it s scary. first we couldn t feed our children because of the infant formula shortage and now we re facing another challenge with being able to take basic care of them. reporter: athena jones, cnn, new york. hello. i m kristen fisher. welcome to cnn newsroom. this massive winter storm system is barrelling towards the east coast this hour, and this arctic chill is straining the power grids, closing airports from coast to coast, and causing deadly road conditions on one of the busiest travel days of the year. look at this video that we just got in from hamburg, new york. snowing and flooding on the coast at the same time. deep floodwaters across new england are a huge concern heading into the weekend as temperatures continue to drop, and nearby buffalo, officials have closed the airport and canceled all flights. you can see why. over 70 million americans are experiencin ....
As this monster storm moves across the country, blizzard and icy conditions are leading to widespread accidents, rose closures, and travel bans. emergency services are currently responding to crashes along the ohio turnpike near sandusky, involving multiple, heavily damaged semi trucks and other vehicles, and take a look at the icy conditions that motorists in memphis, tennessee are having to deal with today. the roads just turned into sheets of ice, and the road situation is so bad that memphis police are not responding to car accidents due to the dangerous weather. so ike diaz is the spokesperson for aaa. you re predicting about 100 million people will drive more than 50 miles from home for the h hol holidays. many of them will be driving in weather conditions she they sho ....
Take the storm seriously. live for us in carolina beach, north carolina. we ll stay in touch. as we continue to cover this. now let s bring in our colleague nick watt. live in north myrtle beach, south carolina. an important tourist destination for sure. costing the city a lot of money. the big thing is tell us about the situation of the storm. you re getting wind but are you getting rain? we had a little bit of rain earlier in the evening. and the wind as just started picking up. in the last 15, 20 minutes. we re expecting 5:00 a.m. local time for it to get strong. and the afternoon gusts of 90 miles per hour. that s around 140 kilometers adds the monster storm moves in. there are a lot of comparisons here to the last really big ....
Carolina coast. this is really life-threatening indeed. jennifer, thanks for that update. along the carolina coast, it s the last best chance to get out before this monster storm moves in. not everyone, though, is heeding the orders to leave. let s go to cnn s brian todd, in swan quarter, north carolina, for us. so brian, what s the latest where you are? reporter: wolf, these ferries represented the last best chance for hundreds of people to get off of north carolina s isolated barrier islands. but tonight these ferries have stopped. they are more down to ride out the storm, and the people on those islands and up and down this coastline are now just bracing. some are hunkering down and boarding up, while most are gassing up and leaving town. we need to get out of here and be safe. reporter: up and down the carolina coast, these are the final hours to evacuate ahead of what authorities say will be a major hurricane with heavy flooding. this is going to be, you know, a mike t ....
Locals in the area. jillian: winter weather ramping up across the country is a monster storm moves north. rob: the unrelenting cold, this miserable weather blamed for 18 deaths over the last week. white out conditions causing this deadly pile up near buffalo, new york. look at that, this is bonkers. heather: one person was killed, several injured. you can t see a thing in front of you. everything was blurry. i can t feel my fingertips. heather: even florida not bad, flurries in northern parts of the state. and esteemed tracking it all with what we can expect. reporter: i will fully admit this forecast is really hard in terms of snow forecasting for ....