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>> william: president biden has been briefed on the extreme weather that has killed almost 50 across the country. the white house says it is in touch with officials in new york state after the worst blizzard in buffalo in close to a half a century. >> the city of buffalo is impassable in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondaries, as well as side streets have not been touched yet. >> anita: steve bender from fox weather is standing by. it is just incredible what the storm has wrought on buffalo. but first -- go ahead. >> yeah, anita, when we look...

If people do not do the right thing. >> a driving ban is in the area. meteorologist derek van dam live in the cnn weather center. you heard him, this is not normal heavy buffalo snow. this is something different. what's the latest forecast. >> reporter: that's right, christine. we wouldn't be leading the news show with snow in buffalo. this is different. it has the potential to paralyze, actually cripple the city of buffalo and a few other locations as well. we go back to 2014. they had a similar lake-effect snow event. there were fatalities associated with that just from buildings collapsing ...

Reaction? >> nobody ever thinks it's going to happen to their loved one until it does. you know, we were focused -- rightly focused on buffalo and uvalde right now but every day in our country 110 families lose a loved one to gun violence and hundreds more shot and wounded. the reality is in our country today it happens everywhere. and it's not always the tragedies that make the news. the more common situation is the ones that don't. you know, the reality is that every hour that passes without meaningful action to reduce gun violence in our country just brings us closer to the next mass shooti...

Senate judiciary doing their hearing today. they're going to hear from the son of one of the women who was killed at the tops market in buffalo, and then we're also going to see victims' families speak tomorrow in front of the house oversight committee. they're doing their own hearing focused on buffalo and uvalde trying to keep the focus on these gun violence deaths and the ways the house and senate both are trying to tackle this problem. just in the last few minutes as you were talking to the congressman, senate majority leader chuck schumer went to the floor and said democrats are aware the...

Centered around self-defense, not service in the militia. that was part of a broad push, and effort by the national rifle association, and other gun rights advocates to try to influence the understanding at the second amendment. >> eric, i only have about 30 seconds left but i do want to ask you in uvalde, do math math shootings like we saw on buffalo and uvalde, shootings in new york city subway system, do this factor to the justices decisions? >> it is hard to say. there's a lot of evidence that the court is attuned to where the american public is, at any given time. there is a big issue in ...