Winter storm and severe cold sweeps across U.S.

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Millions of Americans are being impacted by a monster winter storm that’s bringing ice, wind, snow and bitter cold to multiple parts of the country. More than 5,000 flights have been canceled as people try to get home for the holidays. Buffalo, New York Mayor Byron Brown gives AC360 an update from his city, where wind gusts have been close to 80 mph and snow totals are expected to be measured in feet. Plus, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol released their final report and another batch of witness interview transcripts. CNN Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider tells AC360 the key takeaways from the report and what she’s learning from the newly released testimonies. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The worst weather imaginable at the worst possible time.
0:05.2	Jim Chudot here in tonight for Anderson.
0:07.8	Tens of millions of Americans right now are facing the brunt of one of the biggest winter
0:11.8	storms in modern memory from the Pacific Northwest to New England, Texas to Tallahassee.
0:18.2	We have seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour, coastal flooding,
0:24.5	gale force winds, blizzard conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including
0:31.5	the one you see here on the Ohio turnpike, which took at least one life.
0:36.1	We're also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights
0:41.2	canceled.
0:42.2	See, it's Polo Sanduball is in Buffalo, ground zero right now for the storm, where we're
0:47.2	just learning that hundreds of drivers are now stranded on icy roads in Arctic temperatures,
0:52.1	Omar Hemenes.
0:53.4	These at Chicago's Oher Airport meteorologist Eric Van Dam is in the weather center.
0:57.9	We begin with Polo Sanduball in Buffalo.
1:00.1	Polo, I wonder what you could tell us about these stranded drivers and what exactly they're
1:04.4	facing tonight.
1:05.4	Hey, Erie County officials, it is going to be a very long, frigid night, Jim, for Erie
1:13.5	County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through what is being reported
1:18.8	as hundreds of stranded cars all over Erie County and potentially rescuing the people
1:24.1	inside.
1:25.1	Authorities have told us that this is something that they feared was going to happen.
1:29.6	That's why they implemented at 9.30 this morning, a driving ban, hoping that people would
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