the country in traffic accidents from freezing to death in the elements or from a range of other causes as a direct result of this storm. multiday snowfall totals have been titanic, up to 43 inches in hard hit buffalo. governor hochul requesting a federal disaster declaration due to the historic winter storm. it is devastating. it is going to a warzone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it is not just small vehicles, it is literally snowplows, it is major size recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now are we have roads blocked. roads are literally blocked by emergency vehicles so that has made it extremely challenging for us. effect on air travel on a crucial holiday week end was nothing shorts of catastrophic. there were a total of more than 11,000 flights canceled friday, saturday and sunday. this morning so far airlines have canceled another 1300 flights. nationwide more than 60,000 homes and bus
investments from ford and amazon, a blockbuster ipo in 2021 and 3.5 million square foot production plant. but amid explosive growth arrived something else, competition. talk to me about the crowded field and how you try to stand out there and how you can compete when there is entrenched players. i think, first of all, this is like the desired outcome. the scale of the challenge is quite significant. we have to do-to-convert 1.5 billion vehicles to electric as quickly as we possibly can. it is not something that we can do on its own. so a big part of what we wanted to do is to hopefully inspire competition, to instigate others to come into the space. and so in that regard we re incredibly happy to see others there. rivian can be wildly successful and we need many other companies to also be wildly successful. can a truck change everything? well, it can change our company. reporter: in your mind who is
therefore the best way to increase the chances for peaceful solution is to support ukraine. we will not back down. reporter: the past year is setting the stage. the diplomatic storms to come. translator: we will defend ourselves with all available means at our disposal. reporter: putin continues to tease the threat of a nuclear strike. potentially taking diplomacy in 2023 to its limits. to the point where unity of the international community cannot be presumed. reporter: and add to this the increasing tensions with china and 2023 is shaping up to be an even greater challenge than 2022. we recognize china poses a systemic challenge to our values and interests. a challenge that grows more acute as it moves towards even
you don t understand the challenge. so not a surprise that we were losing money. a lot of front end heavy spending necessary to build this kind of a business. from a customer point of view, concerns from a delivery timing and we have really high quality challenge of a lot of customers are really excited about what we re building and would like to have their vehicle, so a best chat think to hahnk challenge to have. and in addition to welcoming competition, the executives at rivian say they don t expect rivian to actually be profitable for the foreseeable future. just ahead, a race to rescue missing skiers in austria. and china under serious strain from the recent outbreak of new covid cases. they release medicine fast for fast pain rerelief. and now get relief without a pillll with tylenol dissolve packs. relilief without the water.
the country in traffic accidents from freezing to death in the elements or from a range of other causes as a direct result of this storm. multiday snowfall totals have been titanic, up to 43 inches in hard hit buffalo. governor hochul requesting a federal disaster declaration due to the historic winter storm. it is devastating. it is going to a warzone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it is not just small vehicles, it is literally snowplows, it is major size recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now are we have roads blocked. roads are literally blocked by emergency vehicles so that has made it extremely challenging for us. effect on air travel on a crucial holiday week end was nothing shorts of catastrophic. there were a total of more than