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Paralyzed emergency response efforts and also caused the city's airport to completely shutdown nearly three days after the blizzard began, people remain stuck in cars on highways and side streets overnight on saturday, more than 50 rescues were made by a specialized team many rescues, including saving other stranded emergency workers. new york governor kathy hochul confirmed sunday evening she is working with the biden administration to get federal assistance and commented on the history making nature of the storm. take a listen. >> you talk about the scale of the storm. those people of my age...

>> -- is impassable in most areas, while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondaries as well as side streets have not been touched yet. this is primarily because the efforts were going towards opening up areas around hospitals, around nursing homes, around other emergent care locations. we also were assisting in life-saving response, so highlifts were going out with ambulances so save lives. i will give you an example of that. an individual woman who was able to get to ecmc, who was going through a complicated pregnancy, could not be handled at ecmc, needed to go ...

>> william: president biden has been briefed on the extreme weather that has killed almost 50 across the country. the white house says it is in touch with officials in new york state after the worst blizzard in buffalo in close to a half a century. >> the city of buffalo is impassable in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondaries, as well as side streets have not been touched yet. >> anita: steve bender from fox weather is standing by. it is just incredible what the storm has wrought on buffalo. but first -- go ahead. >> yeah, anita, when we look...

They also hand out bags with snacks and sexual health products. the condoms are for us, in a way, to help them have safe sex. we're just in an area that these outreach workers know as the red light district, and they say a lot of sex workers will be around here, as well as pimps and drug dealers. and they will all stay in a certain area because they don't need phones, they can find each other quite quickly. and just out of the busier area, we are going to go down some side streets, which is where the workers say a lot of men will come to pick up women. it's not always easy spotting women, and ...

Most of the women you speak to, have they suffered some kind of violence? yeah, yeah. i would say probably... 100% of them. they also hand out bags with snacks and sexual health products. the condoms are for us, in a way, to help them have safe sex. we're just in an area that these outreach workers know as the red light district, and they say a lot of sex workers will be around here, as well as pimps and drug dealers. and they will all stay in a certain area because they don't need phones, they can find each other quite quickly. and just out of the busier area, we're going to go down some side...