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♪ hello. i'm pamela brown. welcome to "cnn newsroom." the historic storm the new york governor called the blizzard of the century has now killed 25 people in the buffalo area. and a top erie county official says that number is likely to rise. he said the conditions have been so severe, their own rescuers needed rescuing. intense winds created whiteout conditions as 43 inches of snow dropped in just 24 hours. listen to what one family with four young kids faced, after they lost power and went in search of a heated hotel room. >> it was very intense. we tried to keep it together fo...

Going through this. melissa bell, thank you very much. the week of drills is exacerbating the tensions with taiwan. taiwan says 47 chinese aircrafts have crossed the median line on the taiwan strait into its airspace on sunday. cnn pentagon correspondent oren leberman joins us live. h oren how is the u.s. interpreting the drills. >> reporter: china and taiwan, see this done repeatedly, with larger numbers of aircraft io t self-identification zones. and there's another group of aircraft that doesn't quite cross that median line of the taiwan strait. for china, this serves a few purposes. firs...