and snow. search and rescue efforts are still underway, and new york s governor has declared a state of emergency. the severe winter weather impacting multiple states, leaving more than 50 americans data across this country. and in buffalo there is chaos in the streets. thieves are breaking into abandoned stores and hollowing out big ticket items like televisions. buffalo mayor byron brown, outraged. people who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm, it s just absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low. for some of the pictures that we have seen in social media of these looters, they are not looting foods and medicines. they are just looting items that they want. so these aren t even people in distress. these are people that are taking advantage of a natural disaster and the suffering of many in our community to tak
past few days. as you mentioned, the death toll continues to climb. we got an update from officials, 35 now in erie county confirmed dead. we are hearing all sorts of stories, people found in snowbanks, people found dead in cars, and some people first responders couldn t even reach because the roads were just so bad. officials are working very hard to clear the roads. there are still travel ban s in place in some areas, but in other areas, all those bans have been lifting and people have been able to get out on the roads. this has caused mayhem for travel. buffalo niagara international airport is still close at this hour. it is expected to reopen at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, but thousands of sites across the country have been impacted. a little bit of good news, though, here in buffalo, supermarkets are expected to reopen later today. the first fresh food a lot of people will have gotten in a few days.
contagions, from infectious diseases, from trauma, from dehydration, from contaminated water. all of this is an enormous mess. not to mention dr. robert redfield told me this, the former cdc director the concern for the customs and border protection agents themselves. cheryl: to your point, michele, we have seen high rates of suicide, alcoholism. there is a mental health crisis going on with those border agents down in texas. let s go back here. president biden, he went to arizona recently, but couldn t be bothered to hop in his helicopter for a wet, a 45 minute flight down to the border? i don t have time, no creases of the border. michele: they are so afraid of the optics of him standing there looking at this damage. that s what they re afraid of. for him to say they re more important things to do? imagine this, the hypocrisy of putting a gag order on the numbers for the cdc. imagine four years ago if the