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winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people woul ....
Grinches stealing christmas one package at a time called porch pirates. some statements s are trying to back to make porch pirates a felony and some people are taking action to kick the pirates in the booty. more now from 360 east randi kaye. it s so selfish and disrespectful. reporter: janie is one of millions of americans who have had their holiday packages stolen from their front door. we saw that the guy showed up with an empty box as a decoy, i guess, he tried to look like a delivery guy and hurried away with three other packages. reporter: her neighbor s door camera caught the thief and the get away driver in action. nearby another neighbor s camera caught this person dressed in pink stealing holiday gifts from their porch, too. across the country, these so-called porch pirates are ....
Dressed as amazon delivery drivers but police are getting smarter, too. in campbell, california police are putting gps devices in so-called bait packages to track down the thieves. and some homeowners are getting in on it, as well like matt coats from portland who along with his dog marleau came up with ast stinky surprise. i had something disappear off the porch and it was frustrating so i figured it would probably happen again. so i filled up a box full of dog poop. packed it full and left it on the porch. reporter: three days later the stinky box was gone. the thief was caught on camera and in for quite a surprise. good boy. good boy. [ laughter ] reporter: and then there is mark, the former nascar engineer who build a glitter bomb to detour thieves. when the packages are opened, glitter sprays everywhere. but just when you thought the grinch was going to ruin ....
Ruining family s holidays. in sheavereveport, louisiana th woman says her house was targeted twice. it makes me feel violated. this is the first time it s happened to me. reporter: in california this porch pilot dressed in christmas red scaled bushes to grab gifts. we were out working and for someone to come and take $250 worth of items from us is irritati irritating. reporter: south of there in bakersfield a door well camera caught this woman stealing a family s gifts at 3:00 in the morning. it s you re house in the video and you just see somebody taking your property so no, it s not a good feeling. reporter: according to safe wise an online resource for safety and security, porch pirates have stolen at least $260 260 million packages in the last 12 months. the estimated value of the packages nearly $20 billion. porch pirates can be pretty clever, some have reportedly ....