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winter storms from the pacific northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, we ve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. coastal flooding, gail forced winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the ohio turnpike that took one life at least. we re also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. c cnn polo sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at o hare. we begin with polo sandoval. what can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what they re facing tonight? reporter: it is going to be a very long frigid night, jim for county officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of stranded cars inn erie county and rescuig people inside. officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9:30 this morning a driving ban hoping people woul ....
So potent because it s carrying all that moisture from the relatively warm waters of lake erie and producing the snowfall on the opposite end where polo is located and that is where we re going to be measuring snowfall in feet. we might not see buffalo for a couple of days because of how much snow will fall down wind from lake erie, lake on ttario d lake michigan. my hometown in grand rapids is getting hammered. the wind gusts are not typos, right? we re talking about near hurricane forced gusts for many locations as this cold front moves through with wind advisories and warnings in place, all along the eastern seaboard, jim. that combination is amazing and also can be deadly. it s dangerous. derrick van dam, thank you. joining us by phone, buffalo s mayor biron brown. my mayor, we saw w polo sandoval o the streets. it looks like a freezing hurricane. it s cold and strong winds, as ....