Winter storm death toll rises up to 49 nationwide

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Deadly winter weather is still wreaking havoc across the country: at least 49 people have died from the storm nationwide and thousands of flights have been canceled. In the Buffalo, New York area the death toll has risen to 27 and social media videos reveal looting of local stores. Plus, the January 6 Committee is preparing to release more transcripts of witness interviews. And, the Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on Title 42, migrants at the U.S-Mexico border face dangerously cold temperatures, and thousands lost power in Washington state after four power substations were vandalized. Hosted by Alisyn Camerota. 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	This is CNN Tonight, I'm Allison Kamerata.
0:03.6	Deadly winter weather still wreaking havoc across the country.
0:06.8	Tonight, travel is still a nightmare with thousands of flights canceled and passengers
0:11.8	stranded in airports.
0:13.2	In less, one of those passengers gets a wild hair and decides with a group of other passengers
0:18.9	to rent a car and drive 20 hours to their destination together.
0:23.9	That's exactly what some of our guests tonight did.
0:26.6	In a little while, I'll introduce you to this group of intrepid travelers, total strangers
0:31.5	who had quite an adventure when they decided to drive from Tampa to Cleveland together
0:37.2	and they recorded their trip and it went viral.
0:40.2	Meanwhile, 10 million people across the south are under freeze alerts.
0:44.7	And the death toll from this storm is rising.
0:46.9	At least 49 people have died across the country.
0:50.0	27 of those are in the Buffalo area.
0:52.4	An authorities fear that they'll find more bodies in cars as they begin to dig out from
0:58.2	what's being called the worst storm in the region's history.
1:02.1	You can see some of it there.
1:03.6	And while police have their hands full with rescues, the stores are being looted.
1:07.5	So I'll talk to a supermarket manager who spent Christmas Eve watching his store get
1:11.9	broken into him.
1:12.9	I want to bring in now, CNN's Miguel Marquez.
1:15.1	He's live for us in Rochester, New York.
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