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it is noon eastern, 9:00 pacific. i'm sarah sider in in for the lab tpous fredricka. we begin this hour with bad news. it is blanketing the united states. at least 15 people have been killed due to the icy weather across multiple states. you're looking at a crash there. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white-out were conditions. they say search and rescue obviously hard to move about is moving extra slow due to the blizzards. new york governor kathy hochul said first responders may not be able to reach you if you need help. >> it is absolutely dange...

So our national guard, our first responders, our ambulances, our fire trucks are all getting stuck in the snow as well. in fact,, almost every fire truck in the city of buffalo is stranded. it is stuck in snow. >> right now more than 100 million people are under wind chill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana down to, yes, florida. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us in just a bit. but first let's go to our polo sandoval who is still stuck in buffalo, new york, out braving the temperatures out there. it is extremely dangerous. can you just give us an idea what it feels like ...

Right there the election administrator for harris county she and some of her employees have been sleeping overnight in the election center to get ready to deal with this. they are pretty fearful they don't even know the full scale of the challenges that they're facing and they won't know it until after the election. exactly what you just said, they're really worried we won't know how bad this turned out to be until after march 1st. >> really good to have you to bring the sample ballot and go through literally line by line on how problematic it is. i appreciate that. thank you. they might hav...