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"cnn newsroom" starts right now. good morning, it's saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. i'm whitney wild in for amara walker. >> and i'm martin savidge in for boris sanchez. and you're in the "cnn newsroom." we begin with a frustrating start to a holiday weekend. more than 200 americans are under winter alert with an arctic blast with heavy snow and ice. the storm has placed enormous strains on america's energy infrastructure. this morning where more than 500,000 homes and businesses are without power. and authorities in tennessee have ordered 15-minute rolling blackouts ...

Drivers stranded on roads and highways. many spent hours in freezing conditions but it is not just the snow and ice. in new jersey, in several coastal areas across the east, the storm brought major flooding. >> meanwhile, air travelers are bracing for another day of frustration. more than 1600 u.s. flights were already cancelled. that comes after 5700 flights were cancelled on friday. >> every solution we went to, we couldn't reach anyone. i stayed on hod ld for eight hos today and was disconnected. that wasn't fun. super frustrating because there's nothing they can do and nothing we can do. >...

The vice president on the hill tonight? >> if senate democrats would like the vice president to go over to the hill, if they believe that would help out the negotiations, if he is prepared to do that i can tell you senior administration officials right now hod ld as that he continued to monitor the talks that are going on on the hill. as you pointed out, the vice president has really been key to these negotiations. mitch mcconnell reached out to him. he really appears, by all accounts, helped to move the needle forwar. he has more than 30 years service as a u.s. senator. the 23 of those were s...