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the fourth time in just a month. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, we begin with a brutal winter storm that s been hammering much of the southeastern u.s. with freezing rain and snow. and the northeast is next. as many as 80 million americans were under winter weather alerts on sunday, stretching from georgia to maine. and the effects of this system could cause problems for days to come. states in the appalachian region are seeing heavy snowfall and high winds. parts of north carolina got as much as a foot of snow, or about 30 centimeters. and at least 25 counties declared a state of emergency. down in florida this system spawned tornadoes on the west coast, which destroyed at least 28 homes and damaged dozens more. downed trees and power lines knocked out power to nearly 300,000 customers across the southeast on sunday. more than 150,000 along the east coast are still in the dark. and more ....
polo sandoval in pittsburgh, pete muntean at reagan international airport and jennifer gray with the forecast. polo, how is it now? reporter: we ve seen it come down since yesterday. couple of pauses overnight but continues to come down. the national weather service snow totals around the area of western pennsylvania, parts of ohio, some communities that received perhaps half a foot of snow and the forecast calls for still a couple more inches on top of that. when it comes to the municipalities and various cities, they have working through the night to make sure the roads remain clear and this morning on a monday it s really not the typical monday morning rush hour that you might expect and roads and highways obviously the holiday has something to do with that. some folks are out and about but officials are hoping that is kept to a minimum. when it comes to pittsburgh, city officials received criticism about the way they responded to a recent winter storm and the mayo ....
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 ....
could reach the united states, the real target of north korea missile tests probably was not the west coaster on u.s. but the alliance between u.s. and south korea. south korea seems to want a more normalized relationship with the north, while the north seems to say, you can befriends with us or the united states but not pick to both. talks between the three countries have stalled, leaving the world to wonder if north korea has any real interest of being anything other than an outsider on the world stage. here to help make sense of this house intelligence committee member jim hahn and the great state of connecticut, what do you make of north korea and their actions and capabilities? thank you, trey. we know from serving on intelligence committee that north korea is at the top of the list of frightening places. they are unlike the chinese and the russians. we worry they are not necessary rational decision makers, i mean one man, who cares about one thing, re. surviva ....
and thankfully all the hostages able to escape unharmed, but this is how the fbi described the motive. we do believe from our engagement the subject singly focused on one issue and it was not specifically related to the jewish community. but we will continue to work to find motive and we will continue on that path. dana: after backlash, the fbi doing 180 and sagging in a statement, this is a terrorism related matter and it is being investigated by the joint terrorism task force. president biden reacting with the push for stricter gun control. this was an act of terror, this was an act of terror. allegedly he purchased it on the street. what that means, i don t know. you can t stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something for someone else on the street. there are so many guns. it is ridiculous. and it is because of the failure to focus as hard as we should and consistently as we should on gun purchases, gun sales, and a whole granular of t ....