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♪ ♪ you are live in the cnn qwest newsroom," i'm paula reid in washington. a monster winter storm has claimed the lives of 16 people and has cut power and electricity. the u.s. department is declaring an emergency for the texas power grid to aid its capacity and this is due to a shortage of electricity. the emergency declaration allows the state's energy provider to exceed environmental emissions limits until usage drops. in new york, a dire situation. hundreds of people have likely been trapped inside their vehicles since yesterday. that includes an 85-year-old grandmother and...

Opened y open yid. she's not going do 90 days anyway. >> that's what i want to talk about. whether or not she will do 90 days. we hear her mother dina say, hay, they're being too harsh. we heard the same when paris hilton went to jail a couple of years ago. paris spent a nanosecond behind bars but it appears it changed her. do you think dina lohan needs to check that situation out? >> the answer is the sheriff's department says someone out there, kind of a first offender, non-violent, will probably do 10% of their sentence. >> 10%? they were saying 20% earlier. a week plus? >> you get -- becau...