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happy holidays we re here at msnbc headquarters in new york city, thank you for spending time with us on this monday the death toll from the once in a lifetime multi-state winter storm over the weekend continues to rise today. up by about 20 from this hour yesterday. we now have at least 55 people dead across 12 states with western new york especially hard-hit nearly half of those fatalities are in new york s erie county alone. the freezing temperatures and wind gusts also knocking out power for tens of thousands. in the latest update today, new york governor kathy hochul told drivers to stay off the roads and what first responders are discovering as they conduct rescue operations. going into homes, going into vehicles, and too many tragic times finding people who have not survived the experience. they re grieving inside, as we all are, for the families who are getting horrible heart-breaking news that their loved ones succumbed to the storm over the last day or two, ....
Secretary of state Antony Blinken we ask him about it. Was that an acknowledgement that iran might have been involved in this attack how he answered, and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas and the faces of war. The Festival Goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. What her family is asking people around the world to do. Our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Well show you some of what we saw in ashkelon closer to gaza earlier, but we start here in tel aviv tonight, where for six days now, the world has watched and waited for the full might of the israeli response to the horrific at attacks inflicted upon it anticipated by many to be a massive invasio ....
The residents there but also so that rescue workers can get their jobs done, can get those roads cleared and can make sure folks are safe again, richard. dasha, we know it is big for buffalo, and when it is big for buffalo, it is big tell us more about the power outages right now. that s right. across the country, more than 16,000 without power more than 14,000 without power in erie county and you mentioned it there, this is not an area that is not used to this kind of weather. there have been a lot of parallels with the blizzard of 77 that was incredibly devastating for that area, but folks there used to the cold and used to a lot of the snow but many people saying this is unlike anything that they ve ever seen, richard. and shaq, to you, as you heard from one of the travelers, this was certainly a revelation we ve heard many times, a zoo, basically, and a zoo, it is crazy, we might even call it the wild kingdom right now, when you look at airports what are you seeing today? ....
Expect tomorrow, aaa and travel experts are calling tomorrow the worst travel day of the year so depending on where you go, you heard that lady mention trains, cars, buses, it s all kind of difficult, that s what folks are going to be dealing with over the next couple of days, at least that s the expectation at this point, richard. well, you just made the hair stand up on my back, because that is the day i ll be traveling, we shall see, and talk about folks - oh, sorry. yes, exactly, both of you were smiling at me saying don t do it. talk about last-minute information and keep up to date, we re just hearing here, shaq, buffalo airport will be closed down until wednesday 11:00 a.m. it just came in. so things are changing as we go. shaq brewster, thank you so much, dasha burns as well, out of new york. appreciate it. now, we were hearing about the loss of power, this is a little bit different, at least 17,000 people left without power, in washington state sunday after four electr ....
Russia that s standard policy they ve been doing that since the beginning of the war richard, this isn t new because ukraine has managed to strike targets inside russia, and also inside russian occupied ukraine and places like crimea, occupied since 2014 so this is something that the ukrainians have always shown, they have this capability to project their power beyond their own borders, especially when they re armed to the teeth with so many western weapons, as they are now but, you know, this capability is something that we could see expand as the ukrainians tend to, and we ve seen over the past couple of months, make some gains on the battle field, and push closer and closer to russian borders. it might be why where we re hearing vladimir putin talking about negotiations, and though nobody here is really taking that all that seriously, but what we just heard today, from the associated press, is the foreign miner center of ukraine, he said that he s expecting to have some kind of peac ....