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it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m pamela brown, and we begin the hour with a travel nightmare. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed across the country today. the hardest hit, southwest airlines, which has scrapped more than 60% of its flights. take a look here. these are some of the long lines of southwest passengers in raleigh, atlanta, and denver airports. in a statement to cnn, southwest airlines said it is, quote, experiencing disruptions across our network as a result of the winter storm s lingering effects on the totality of our operations. carlos suarez is on the southwest side of the terminal. what are you seeing? what are you hearing from passengers? reporter: well, pamela, i m hearing a great deal of frustration from a good number of passengers who are stranded, and are flying southwest airlines or at least they were hoping to today. the airport here in atlanta has seen well over 200 canceled flights and a majority of those flight ....
How long could the delays last? even santa claus is getting delayed by this crazy weather, it s caused total chaos, talking about grounded planes and shuttered package facilities and delivery trucks that can t get back on the roads. even as of today u.p.s. was warning that there will be no package pickup or delivery at almost 900 zip codes across four states, michigan, new york, indiana and ohio. fedex warns of delays through today. the u.s. postal service had to close dozens of post offices and even amazon was forced to shut down some facilities. as far as how long this lasts, it really depends on when everyone is able to dig out, when the infrastructure comes back online, the power, the highways. it s going to take some time, of course, and, you know, in the meantime this is really causing some headaches for a lot of people, especially for those of us who waited until the very last moment to do their christmas shopping and their holiday shopping because all of that stuff is delayed ....
They called this the blizzard of the century and said the weather dangers are far from over. reporter: yeah, we rode it out in shelter, the whole thing, pamela. it s absolutely true. in terms of just the heartbreak we ve seen here, we ve heard from byron brown earlier this afternoon and just describing just the tragic and heartbreaking nature of the job and the duty that the officers are carrying out here in buffalo, and that s going door to door or one stranded car to another, or finding people who sadly did not survive. the storm-related deaths here right now, 25. there is concern here on the grun ground that number will continue to rise. as they re focusing on potential rescue, they are focusing on keeping the streets clear. they re not doing it across the board. it s a calculated approach from city officials. the plow trucks on the streets that lead in and out of some of the medical facilities for example, some of the main arteries as well to allow ....
You put it that could wreak such havoc? it s kind of mind-boggling. yeah, it is. i mean, part of it is our critical infrastructure was built at a time when we worried less about this kind of sabotage, intentional sabotage. we worried about climate change and other issues and a lot of these substations are not p protected. you re driving by them all the time and we don t even know it. they re just facilities, so they would be easy to identify. you can identify them either by passing by, and they re not hard to fortify in the sense that you could just use sandbags, higher fencing, other things to protect the facility that may be at risk, and we need to see that focus by the infrastructure facilities at this stage knowing that this kind of sabotage, easy to do, high probability, and relatively in this stage, low consequence. i mean, what s important to remember, these are impacting the people who are harmed by it very, you know, very deeply. i m not minimizing that, but ....
They also view it as a way to start a race war. we know that. whether we know that is the reason for this particular attack. that is unclear at this stage. so the authorities are keeping the language at sabotage. which just essentially means some vandalism is organized across a series of critical infrastructure facilities. the motivation of the people we don t know yet, so these two things are existing in parallel at this stage. we will find out soon enough whether they re linked, whether this is linked to a concerted attack in washington. i ll tell you a december 25th attack that s hitting three or four substations is being done to make a statement. this is not, like, some guy goofing off. i, you know, this is just base on my experience. so one can assume that there is some motivation behind it. all right, juliet. thank you for offering your perspective and expertise on this. south korea fires off ....