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Southeast, mostly in alabama. the governor there declaring a state of emergency in six counties. residents picked through destruction. >> cleaning stuff i probably need to put in the trash any way, but hey, i'm grateful. >> reporter: first responders aided those injured in the storm. a metal sheet slammed into a recycling facility, scaring workers. elsewhere, severe storms took down buildings, trees, and power lines. utility workers already on the scene for repairs. the severe storms spawned anguish in monroe county, mississippi. >> my helper's house got blowed away. we came over here to see w...

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 take what they want. >> cheryl: max gorden with fox weather is live in buffalo with the latest on the ground. max? >> good afternoon. well, people who are calling this the worst storm in a generation, and there's been a lot of snow to fall here. more than 4 feet. maybe even worse than the cumulative snowfall has just been the length of this storm. this storm started up on friday morning, and it has been going on ever since then. real...

Head to saturday and new york, also improving to the mid 50s too. so we'll see better conditions when it comes to our temperature, and that's going to make for some major improvements on the east coast and of course, thawing out for places like buffalo, too >> angie, so the improvements are so important here, because what we're looking at are all of the utility workers that need to get back out on the streets of buffalo but you were just telling me, five days without seeing anything but the flurries in front of you, the question is when will it get better for them when they can work today is a...

Dark this christmas and officials say power should be restored by later this evening or maybe tomorrow morning that conditions are tough for the utility workers because the high wind topples trees and utilities centers are covered in i.c.e. speaking of icy slippery roads or as a travel ban around the surrounding county right now the roads are very treacherous having people stay off of them because people had to spend the night in their cars and then continuing to rise in new york state seven people confirmed dead one-man frozen to death in buffalo and two other emergency responders having medi...

And they've done a good job of being prepared. that's what we try and do here through our disaster emergency services, so we do have outages, we can respond quickly. we did have some very modest outages, but our utility workers worked through these severe temperatures to get power and gas restored. it's also important from an energy policy perspective that we continue to pursue an all of the above. if we had pursued a biden administration singular view of eliminating fossil fuels we wouldn't have gotten through the way we did. it's important that we have the right energy policy to make sure we...