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
i am carley shimkus. todd: i am ashley strohmier and for todd piro and merry christmas with your families and friends or whatever you are doing. currently, we did get to spend some time with our loved ones. look at that. this is may be yesterday santa claus gifted those onesies but we had so much fun on s fox & friends first and we got to hang to 2 mike hang out with santa and to his sleigh, his roster next year if they passed the past but never touched a reindeer before, but that did happen. we got to have a christmas breakfast after i got done with work yesterday but look at maggie. that is my little miss maggie. she was so when enthused of course, ialways get the nicee i m that nice win. but we had some problems with our electricity. ashley: because it stormed? carley: we didn t have power 72 hours and kind of blew up again so we have to go back brand-new, mind you. ashley: were you freezing? carley: we had icicles inside and it was a complete disaster so i fee
one. we met some reindeer and had reindeer on fox square as well. it was a great weekend. ashley: was it cold? carley: that was saturday. 2 degrees outside. so i wanted to put leggings on but didn t have time. the cutest thing in that picture is little miss maggie. she is the sweetest little thing. i couldn t get her jingle bell christmas necklace on. her face right there mike got the naughty cup and i got the nice cup. we actually, it was a little weird christmas for us because our power went out. i was doing the show 4:00 a.m. and oh, my gosh, i m not going to get into the house, i don t know where my key is peer that was the least problems. the transformer blew the fire department came and put the fire out. then, there was ice all over the road on our house, couldn t get out. and a loss of power 72 hours and the generator came on and off. carley: a lot going on at your house. ashley: there was more, there was some good news though. my brother, mitch, his wife, emil
bussed over 15,000 migrants to sanctuary cities providing much-needed relief to communities overwhelmed by the president s open biden border policies. we have karl rove here with us. first to peter doocy. peter. these border crossers arrived in border states. we don t hear much from biden officials. as they arrived in washington d.c. outside the vice president s residence, we have a forceful condemnation. it says this. governor abbott abandoned children on the side of the road and below freezing temperatures on christmas eve without coordinating with any federal or local authorities. this was a shameful stunt. as we have said, we re willing to work with anyone, democrat or republicans on the comprehensive immigration reform. these political games accomplish nothing and put lives in danger. that s as dhs says that they re still using title 42 a lot. listen. dhs continues to fully enforce our immigration of public health laws at the border. people are being expelled as requi
severe winter weather. but that national weather service because they once in a generation storm, also causing chaos for travelers coast to airports are packed tonight with some 8000 flights either canceled or delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. we have team coverage charles watson is tracking in an lancet. the first to alexis and mcadams live in new york city tracking this cold snap, alexis. hi brian. if tonight another cold night here in new york city. it s nothing compared to other parts of the northeast are dealing with. buffalo, new york was slammed and we are learning about more deaths as authorities are still searching for people who have been stranded on the road for hours. the historic storm is not over yet in buffalo. take a look here on your screen this is a people been dealing with for days they are. this is what look like again this afternoon. at least 12 people have been killed during this winter blast. snowplows trying to make their way th