trouble. plus, china nears a covid breaking point. an outbreak over stretches hospitals and pushes its precedent to take a new step in that country s fight against the virus, and how soon is soon? the committee investigating donald trump s taxes promises to release them any day. this is what we are watching at this hour. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining me. kate bolduan is off today. we begin this hour in western new york where a, quote, generational blizzard is pummeling the city of buffalo and all of erie county. the death toll has climbed to 25 and the county executive says that number is likely to grow. i just have to offer my deepest condolences to those that lost a loved one as a result of this horrible situation. i never thought i would face this. i thought the storm we faced in 2014 would have been the worst in which we had 14 deaths and this far surpassed it and there are probably more deaths that will be announced later today. the city of buffal
spacex told the pentagon it could no longer continue to fund star link terminals in ukraine indefinitely. and elon musk backtracked saying his company will continue to fund star link, and the country being too dependent on one billionaire. coming in at number four hear that? that is what the black hole at the center of the milly way galaxy sounds like. in 2022, scientists were anyone to capture an image of it for the first time, and it was captured by a global network of s synchronized global instruments, and some 27,000 light-years away from earth. number three is the world s first planetary defense mission.