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amara lloyd. msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it has christmas day many have yet to know thei families to two historic winte storm that we've bee monitoring all weekend for you over 5000 flights in the unite states have been delayed o completely canceled today. the airports in buffalo ne york is completely close and we remain so until tuesday this storm is just as much deadly as it is inconvenient at least through people dyin from weather related causes an hundreds of thousands losing power. also this hour look at how families in ukrain are making the most of the holiday. de...

Christmas eve for them take that as you will. no question, this is bee problematic weather. it has become unfortunatel deadly weather as well we are looking at reports from officials in multiple states more than 30 people dead those deaths all being blame on the winter weather we'v experience buffalo is getting pummeled by this weather the governor of new york i saying that this storm is goin to go down as the most devastating in the history o buffalo. for context, for people wh don't know, that part of new york state, western york i very familiar with bad weather we were there in november whe...

Nowhere near normal snow for buffalo, new york. >> reporter: west of buffalo, dozens of truckers hunkers down wednesday night, packing this rest area off interstate 90 to ride out the storm there. new york's governor closing more than 130 miles of the through way from rochester to the pennsylvania border to commercial traffic, including big rigs starting this afternoon. >> when they jackknife, as we saw in previous storms, they literally can paralyze our highways, stranding motorists for hours, if not days. >> reporter: that's what happened almost exactly eight years ago. in november of 2014, ...

Of course, we are here covering it from start-to-finish. >> brrrr, brrrr, brrrr! thank you, jennifer gray, for putting up the weather and being in the middle out there this morning. >> with a smile to top it off. they are bracing for the back end after brutal one-two punch in chicago. they are not even close to being out of the woods. a separate lake effect system is moving into the windy city right now. by tonight the area could get socked up to 10 more inches of snow. hundreds of flights in and out of chicago's o'hare airport have already been cancelled. t's not much better in fall there w...