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hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we re tracking this massive winter storm sweeping across the united states. it is impacting the vast majority of americans today. just two days before christmas. the storm is bringing blizzard conditions. i mean i don t need to say it. you could see it. blizzard conditions and ice freezing rain and very strong winds to cities coast to coast. areas near the great lakes could see up to three feet of snow like buffalo. but the cold, record-breaking and life-threatening. more than 200 million americans are under windchill alerts. the storm has not knocked out power to at least a million customers so far and travel is starting to get back. more than 3700 flights have been canceled today and more than 2,000 others have been delayed. that is not even to speak of what the roads are like right now. we re going to get to. we have reporters stationed across the country. let s start with meteorologist al alice isson chinchar. up ....
Temperatures are bitter to deal with when you re outside, stay indoors if you possibly can and don t forget to bring your pets inside. absolutely. alice son, thank you so much. so conditions are getting worse and fast in upstate new york. a blizzard warning and a state of emergency are now in effect in an around buffalo. wind gusts today are expected to reach 70 miles per hour. the temperature 23 degrees and falling. polo sandoval is there for us. filed this report moments ago on the new orders for people to stay off the roads. reporter: kate, good to be with you. all you have to do is look around here in buffalo and you could see why officials in erie county, new york, instituted a travel ban. that is seeing throughout the region. because of the wicked winter winds are whipping up snow and the result are white-out conditions that are making travel not only treacherous but as officials have said time and time again leading up to the storm, life-threatening and that is why authori ....
The carolinas in there because none of them can be ruled out at this point. seems like all the news is bad right now. this storm is growing in size and in wind speed. and according to the national hurricane center, this storm will just sit there and basically roil these islands in the bahamas for the better part of 36 hours? yes, and that is the unfortunate part. we expect to slow down. storm surge is expected to be about 15 to 20 feet across the xwams. y bahamas. where you talking 15, 20 inches of rainfall total across a widespread portion of these islan islands and those numbers could go up if it stalls everyone more because when it sits, it can dump more wr5i7b. we learned that from harvey and florence. alice son thank you so much. and this is a category 5 ....