in the light of her faith, in his first christmas message. it is in the life giving light and with the true humility that lies in our service to others, but i believe we can find hope for the future. millions of people in the us and canada are spending christmas in the grip of a severe winter storm. it s brought extreme frost, heavy snow and strong winds. at least 35 people have died in weather related incidents, and around 175,000 homes are without power. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports. a very white christmas has turned more into a deep freeze. the city of buffalo in new york state is used to tough weather conditions, but this storm has left it paralysed. many don t even have any power to cook their christmas lunch. i m really glad that i have a fireplace because otherwise i d be freezing right now. 43 inches of snow fell here as of christmas morning. driving is banned as the blizzard conditions leave roads impassable, power substations frozen and at l
in a pile up in ohio. four others died in crashes in missouri and kansas. the nation s capital has avoided much of the worst weather but the bomb cyclone has left its mark. hundreds of water pipes are frozen, temperatures continue to drop, and many of the city s homeless people have been given emergency shelter. the storm is continuing to barrel up along the east coast here and across much of the us, and the advice remains to avoid travelling unless it s essential. and it s notjust the snow and ice causing mayhem. high winds have brought high tides and flooding on the eastern seaboard. forecasters say the storm will ease off in the next few days but freezing temperatures are likely to linger for some time. nomia iqbal, bbc news, washington. i spoke to meteorologist carl lam who is stranded in his office buffalo. well, i m right in our
so important to provide life saving information for those that are watching, that have power, to take the appropriate precautions, but most importantly to remind people that if you don t have to travel, you don t need to go out because a lot of the traffic congestion was due to people going out and doing some last minute holiday shopping or other errands on the day before christmas eve and then they got stuck and then that led to a whole other set of problems with people trying to get unstuck, and it was just this kind of endless cycle of people getting stuck, and unfortunately people were trapped inside their vehicles when snow was piling up, so it really was a lose lose situation. and 35 people have died, it s obviously incredibly serious. could the weather get worse? when is it expected to get better? in buffalo we ve had 12 casualties and it was a wide array of causes, including shovelling, including people that weren t able to get the emergency medical care
television station, i ve been here since friday with no way to get home because i live just south of the city of buffalo, and conditions were treacherous, especially right in our city. we had winds that were gusting as strong as i27km/hr, we had about a metre of snow at our airport and the drifts from the snow are about 2 2.5 metres in some spots, so it has just been a storm for the ages. this is historic and we really are just starting to deal with the cleanup phase of this storm after two days of brutal winds, lots of snow and just bone chilling cold. oh, and you mentioned that there was no way to get home so you re obviously having to spend christmas day in the studio and that s a reality for so many, isn t it? oh, it absolutely is, but we take ourjob so seriously and it s