Monday UPDATE: Death Toll Rising in Historic Winter Storm
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Millions of you are waking up this morning with snow, ice and sub freezing temperatures and hundreds of thousands are without power. At least a dozen people have died so far from the weekend storm, and that number is expected to rise as dangerous cold takes its grip on much of the country for the next week. More than 23 states have issued states of emergency and 17 states have recorded snowfalls of more than a foot.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:16.5 | It is Monday, January 26th, and it has been destructive. It has been devastating. It has been |
| 0:23.5 | deadly. And it is not done. Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. hopping on to give you |
| 0:30.4 | an update on what we are still in the midst of, which is a historic storm that's devastating |
| 0:35.4 | the country. In Rome, we have to say, we're recording this |
| 0:38.3 | pretty early this morning on Monday. This is one. You have to, the meteorologist got this one right. |
| 0:43.6 | They've been warning us about this thing, and it's pretty much happening exactly how they said |
| 0:47.1 | it would, which is disastrous. Yes, I mean, 23 states have declared states of emergency in this country. |
| 0:54.7 | That is a significant number. |
| 0:56.9 | That's nearly half the country is in a state of emergency. |
| 1:01.5 | And the death toll from this storm is rising. |
| 1:04.4 | The numbers are all over the place. |
| 1:05.7 | But from what we can gather this morning, at least a dozen have died because of this storm and more than 800,000 people |
| 1:13.8 | are without power. We're talking about 185 million Americans impacted by one storm. It's hard to get |
| 1:20.7 | your head around that. And yes, we've been warned about it. We've been told about it. But sometimes |
| 1:25.5 | we doubt our local forecasters because we |
| 1:29.1 | think, oh, it's not going to be that bad. This one was an all-day historic event. I hope a lot of |
| 1:35.2 | you all did heed warnings. We know a lot of governments across the country. State, local |
| 1:41.6 | communities are shut down for the most part. A lot of schools are closed. A lot of airports, even, for the most part, you could argue, are closed because of cancellations and delays that we have seen. So we want to get you caught up about where things are right now. This moment, as we are recording this on Monday morning, it is going to be a difficult day for a lot of people. So let's start with that, first of all, Robs. We'll take it in three different segments. Essentially, I guess, the devastation with the death toll, what we're seeing with power outages, and also what we're going to be looking at with travel coming up. But let's start there with the death toll. It has been steadily going up, and by the counts we're seeing now at least, and we could |
| 2:18.7 | probably, Robs unfortunately expect this to go up, but approximately a dozen folks have been dead, |
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