Im paula reed in washington. For a ferocious freeze complicating Rescue Efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u. S. Freed warnings in effect across the u. S. Snow and sheets of ice. The storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. Roads impassable in Upstate New York after a monstrous blizzard. For nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. This is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. It was such that we had to pull Emergency Rescue vehicling off the roads. The bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. This morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of holiday travel. 1,800 Flights Canceled again today. We have a team covering this all tracking the latest Winter Weather developments but beginning in buffalo, new york. Paw lo sandoval is there. Last time we spoke we did see some trucks on the road. Whats the latest there . Reporter
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough
i m paula reed in washington. for a ferocious freeze complicating rescue efforts after a deadly winter storm pummeled the u.s. freed warnings in effect across the u.s. snow and sheets of ice. the storm blamed for at least 26 deaths. roads impassable in upstate new york after a monstrous blizzard. for nearly 12 hours it was almost impossible to go anywhere in a vast majority of the community. this is an area with approximately 500,000 residents between the city of buffalo and the suburbs. it was such that we had to pull emergency rescue vehicling off the roads. the bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations. this morning parts of the south seeing the coldest christmas in decades and making a mess of holiday travel. 1,800 flights canceled again today. we have a team covering this all tracking the latest winter weather developments but beginning in buffalo, new york. paw lo sandoval is there. last time we spoke we did see some trucks on the road. what s the latest the
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning.