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happy holidays we're here at msnbc headquarters in new york city, thank you for spending time with us on this monday the death toll from the once in a lifetime multi-state winter storm over the weekend continues to rise today. up by about 20 from this hour yesterday. we now have at least 55 people dead across 12 states with western new york especially hard-hit nearly half of those fatalities are in new york's erie county alone. the freezing temperatures and wind gusts also knocking out power for tens of thousands. in the latest update today, new york governor kathy hochul told driver...

Secretary of state Antony Blinken we ask him about it. Was that an acknowledgement that iran might have been involved in this attack how he answered, and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas and the faces of war. The Festival Goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. What her family is asking people around the world to do. Our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Well show you some of what we saw in ashkelon closer to gaza earl...

The residents there but also so that rescue workers can get their jobs done, can get those roads cleared and can make sure folks are safe again, richard. >> dasha, we know it is big for buffalo, and when it is big for buffalo, it is big tell us more about the power outages right now. >> that's right. across the country, more than 16,000 without power more than 14,000 without power in erie county and you mentioned it there, this is not an area that is not used to this kind of weather. there have been a lot of parallels with the blizzard of '77 that was incredibly devastating for that area, but ...

Expect tomorrow, aaa and travel experts are calling tomorrow the worst travel day of the year so depending on where you go, you heard that lady mention trains, cars, buses, it's all kind of difficult, that's what folks are going to be dealing with over the next couple of days, at least that's the expectation at this point, richard. >> well, you just made the hair stand up on my back, because that is the day i'll be traveling, we shall see, and talk about folks - >> oh, sorry. >> yes, exactly, both of you were smiling at me saying don't do it. talk about last-minute information and keep up to d...

Russia that's standard policy they've been doing that since the beginning of the war richard, this isn't new because ukraine has managed to strike targets inside russia, and also inside russian occupied ukraine and places like crimea, occupied since 2014 so this is something that the ukrainians have always shown, they have this capability to project their power beyond their own borders, especially when they're armed to the teeth with so many western weapons, as they are now but, you know, this capability is something that we could see expand as the ukrainians tend to, and we've seen over the p...