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 experiencing belo
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
feet of former president trump. we ll have the key takeaways from that 845-page document, and also what s next in the investigation. plus, parents in search of children s medication are finding shelves bare in some places. so what s behind the shortage and what to do if your local pharmacy doesn t have what you need. and cnn sitting down with legacy producer clive davis, with a look at his storied career, the moment he knew something was very wrong with whitney houston. it is saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. thank you very much for waking up with us. we re going to begin sorry. i do that to you all the time. go for it, martin. we begin with the frigid and frustrating start of this holiday weekend. more than 200 million americans are under windchill alert, with the arctic blast that is delivering freezing temperatures, powerful winds and heavy snow and ice. just about everybody is aware of this. high winds produce dangerous windchills across the unit
first we couldn t feed our children because of the formula shortage, and now another challenge. but being able to take basic care of them. reporter: athena jones, cnn, new york. not easy to be a parent in this country right now. as athena jones, thank you. let s bring in author of lifelines. dr. wen, merry christmas. thank you for being with us. merry christmas to you as well, paula. so what impact are you seeing from the shortage of medications? well, i think there are a lot of parents who are worried, even if their kid isn t sick right now, they wonder what happens if somebody develops a fever and needs these medications? it s important to remind people that fever reducing medicines are not the only thing you can do. there are other things, including drinking lots of fluids, and know too that store