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the weather outside is still frightful and in places still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson. it's hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and elsewhere still in effect. buffalo's airport still closed. the entire eastern part of the country still in a deep freeze. almost 4,000 flights canceled today and nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and the buff...

of the state. buffalo and other cities are struggling to dig out of 43 inches of snow and freezing temperatures and power outages. i'll talk with the buffalo police commissioner this hour. >> many americans are still feeling the effects of the arctic blast, including millions of air travelers. southwest airlines experiencing massive disruptions, with more than 65% of its flights canceled just today, adding to the holiday travel chaos. also tonight, vladimir putin claims he's ready to negotiate a solution to the ukraine war, but a key ukrainian official says the russian president need...

Orderly manner. but they didn't give details on when or how. but overall these changes are a huge sigh of relief for many people in china who have been waiting years and years for a chance to travel abroad to see loved ones overseas. so so, this is an e mogsal moment. >> it certainly is. how and why are chinese authorities changing the way covid is classified as an illness? >> so, these changes to the travel restrictions i just mentioned are actually part of this broader change to how china is managing covid. the country says it is downgrading its covid management to a class b disease. previou...

Downgrading its covid management to a less strict class b disease. previously covid was managed as a class a disease on par with the bubonic fplague, which was the justification for the draconian covid measures. it is a huge sigh of relief for so many people in china who have been waiting and waiting for a chance to travel abroad, see loved ones overseas, and finally they're see ago way out. >> after years of very tight control, how are chinese citizens in the medical system, for that matter, coping with this about-face? >> reporter: there's a lot of shock, wolf, over how unprepared the system...