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alissa, annie, david and heather again. heather keeps me sane. she makes sure i don't completely go crazy on the air. thank you to you all. it takes a team to make some show work. paula reid coming up. you are live in the cnn "newsroom." i'm paula reid in washington. a christmas eve storm for the ages. we are tracking the very latest on the severe weather impacting millions across the u.s. at least 16 storm-related deaths have been reported, including two in erie county, new york, in what may be the area's worst winter storm since the famous 1977 buffalo blizzard. jefferson county,...

♪ ♪ you are live in the cnn qwest newsroom," i'm paula reid in washington. a monster winter storm has claimed the lives of 16 people and has cut power and electricity. the u.s. department is declaring an emergency for the texas power grid to aid its capacity and this is due to a shortage of electricity. the emergency declaration allows the state's energy provider to exceed environmental emissions limits until usage drops. in new york, a dire situation. hundreds of people have likely been trapped inside their vehicles since yesterday. that includes an 85-year-old grandmother and...

Were prepared and we were ready to support the needs of this storm. as i mentioned, we have actually over 1,500 federal responders that are on the ground in the affected area. this includes over 300 personnel from fema as well as over 500 urban search and rescue personnel ready to support any of the state's requests. as of 7:30 this morning -- and i know these numbers are dynamic and fluid. as of 7:30 this morning, there are nearly 3,000 customer outages for power in florida, and we do expect those numbers to continue to rise as the storm passes through and goes into georgia and we'll see powe...

Take more severe measures, potentially rotating customer outages, which is something we are trying to prevent. and conversation helps a lot. >> so when can you expect customers to be able to return to normal, normal every day power usage. >> we're thinking tomorrow around should be fine. and many customers will be unaffected by this. but the customers that do have the opportunity to take some measures, that will be very helpful because we have seen it work. >> i don't know if we said this during the introduction, how does someone know if this applies to them? what is the area? how can they fin...

A massive winter storm. many emergency officials are still working to restore power lines damaged by ice accumulations, winds, and fallen trees. among the states seeing the most customer outages are new york, ohio, and tennessee, as well, which accounts for nearly half of the outages nationwide. in virginia. mask mandates in southern school districts can replace for now after a judge granted a temporary restraining order against governor glenn youngkin's optional masking in several schools. the temporary block is in effect until the final ruling on the case, but the state has already said it...