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Southeast, mostly in alabama. the governor there declaring a state of emergency in six counties. residents picked through destruction. >> cleaning stuff i probably need to put in the trash any way, but hey, im grateful. >> reporter: first responders aided those injured in the storm. a metal sheet slammed into a recycling facility, scaring workers. elsewhere, severe storms took down buildings, trees, and power lines. utility workers already on the scene for repairs. the severe storms spawned angu...

They want. so these arent even people in distress. these are people that are taking advantage of a natural disaster and the suffering of many in our community to take what they want. >> cheryl: max gorden with fox weather is live in buffalo with the latest on the ground. max? >> good afternoon. well, people who are calling this the worst storm in a generation, and theres been a lot of snow to fall here. more than 4 feet. maybe even worse than the cumulative snowfall has just been the length of t...

Head to saturday and new york, also improving to the mid 50s too. so well see better conditions when it comes to our temperature, and thats going to make for some major improvements on the east coast and of course, thawing out for places like buffalo, too >> angie, so the improvements are so important here, because what were looking at are all of the utility workers that need to get back out on the streets of buffalo but you were just telling me, five days without seeing anything but the flurrie...

Dark this christmas and officials say power should be restored by later this evening or maybe tomorrow morning that conditions are tough for the utility workers because the high wind topples trees and utilities centers are covered in i.c.e. speaking of icy slippery roads or as a travel ban around the surrounding county right now the roads are very treacherous having people stay off of them because people had to spend the night in their cars and then continuing to rise in new york state seven peo...

And theyve done a good job of being prepared. thats what we try and do here through our disaster emergency services, so we do have outages, we can respond quickly. we did have some very modest outages, but our utility workers worked through these severe temperatures to get power and gas restored. its also important from an energy policy perspective that we continue to pursue an all of the above. if we had pursued a biden administration singular view of eliminating fossil fuels we wouldnt have go...

35,000 people in moore county, north carolina still dont have power, this after what police are describing as an attack on the substation. the power grid going out as a result this weekend. >> utility workers scrambling to fix this massive issue in a matter of days. this issue was created in just seconds. theyre hoping to get power back on for some folks by today. whitney wild has been covering this from the beginning. whitney, as i understand it, theres evidence that investigators found on the ...

Verified more than 700 attacks on ukraines health infrastructure, including hospitals, since the war began — which he said was a clear breach of international law. he called for a "humanitarian health corridor" to be created to all areas of ukraine. half of ukraines energy infrastructure is either damaged or destroyed. this is already having knock—on effects on the health system and on the peoples health. put simply, this winter will be about survival. ukraines president volodymyr zelensky h...

Ukraines president volodymyr zelensky has called on his country to try to limit its use of energy — after what he says has been systematic damage to ukraines energy grid by russian attacks. there have been what he described as unscheduled power cuts due to what he says is a higher level of consumption than can be provided for. translation: of course, energy workers, utility workers, - rescuers and everyone involved are working at their maximum. but the systematic damage to our energy network b...

As much power as they can. translation: of course energy workers, utility workers, - rescuers and everyone involved are working at their maximum, but the systematic damage to our energy network by the attacks of russian terrorists is so significant that all of our people and businesses should be very frugal and try to spread consumption across the day. ive been speaking to oleksandr kharchenko, director at the energy industry research centre in ukraine. i asked him if the country had enough mone...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County and a union representing more than 260 workers have agreed to a new five-year labor contract. Authority board members last week approved the collective bargaining agreement with the Utility Workers of America Local 164 that includes pay raises totaling 14% over the life of