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trouble. plus, china nears a covid breaking point. an outbreak over stretches hospitals and pushes its precedent to take a new step in that country s fight against the virus, and how soon is soon? the committee investigating donald trump s taxes promises to release them any day. this is what we are watching at this hour. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining me. kate bolduan is off today. we begin this hour in western new york where a, quote, generational blizzard is pummeling the city of buffalo and all of erie county. the death toll has climbed to 25 and the county executive says that number is likely to grow. i just have to offer my deepest condolences to those that lost a loved one as a result of this horrible situation. i never thought i would face this. i thought the storm we faced in 2014 would have been the worst in which we had 14 deaths and this far surpassed it and there are probably more deaths that will be announced later today. the city of ....
And they don t know why it occurred. on christmas day more than 14,000 people in the tacoma area were left without power due to vandalism at four separate power substations. authorities have not arrested anyone, and they have not identified a suspect or suspects, and the motive remains unclear. we did get an update on police providing the information on what authorities found and how the investigation is proceeding. take a listen. the suspects cut one of the locks on the fence areas, and made their way inside and caused damage to the substation that ultimately knocked out power for a large amount of residents in the county. it happened in the middle of the night on christmas day causing power outages. nothing was stolen from any of the facilities, so there s a good possibility they are related. we are aware of other incidents ....
For a second. how will border agents disrupt this habitat? the habitat as we all know is being disrupted by motor vehicles coming across from mexico, border patrol agents chasing them through designated wilderness and motor vehicle, and building a berlin-type wall fence that includes virtual fence areas is going to come with a huge infrastructure, a lot of construction, human activity, and it s going to disrupt ongoing efforts by the fish and wildlife service to secure habitat for the pronghorn and many other species, too, i want to reiterate. jenna: let me stop through and get t.j. s point on this. you say that the border patrol is, quote, sensitive. what do you mean by that? we re not going 20 dough going to go around and disrupt the environment any more than we have to, but it s important that we re able to secure the border. ....