Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Monday, January twenty sixth, and
Speaker 1: it has been destructive. It has been devastating, it has
Speaker 1: been deadly, and it is not done. Welcome to this
Speaker 1: episode of Amy and TJ hopping on to give you
Speaker 1: an update on what we are still in the midst of,
Speaker 1: which is a historic storm that's devastating the country in romes.
Speaker 1: We have to say, we're recording this pretty early this
Speaker 1: morning on Monday. This is one you have to The
Speaker 1: mineralogists got this one right. They've been warning us about
Speaker 1: this thing, and it's pretty much happening exactly how they
Speaker 1: said it would, which is disastrous.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean twenty three states have declared states of
Speaker 2: emergency in this country. That is a significant number. That's
Speaker 2: nearly half the country is in a state of emergency.
Speaker 2: And the death toll from this storm is rising. The
Speaker 2: numbers are all over the place, but from what we
Speaker 2: can gather this morning, at least a dozen have died
Speaker 2: because of this storm, and more than eight hundred thousand
Speaker 2: people are without power. We're talking about one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five million Americans impacted by one storm. It's hard
Speaker 2: to get your head around that. And yes, we've been
Speaker 2: warned about it. We've been told about it, but sometimes
Speaker 2: we doubt our local forecasters because we think God's not
Speaker 2: going to be that bad. This one was an all
Speaker 2: day historic event.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope a lot of you all did heed warnings.
Speaker 1: We know a lot of governments across the country, state,
Speaker 1: local communities are shut down for the most part, a
Speaker 1: lot of schools are closed. A lot of airports even
Speaker 1: for the most part you could argue, are closed because
Speaker 1: of cancelations and delays that we have seen. So we
Speaker 1: want to get you caught up about where things are
Speaker 1: right now this moment. As we are recording this on
Speaker 1: Monday morning, it is going to be a difficult day
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. So let's start with that
Speaker 1: first of all. Robes. We'll take it in three different segments. Essentially,
Speaker 1: I guess the devastation with the death toll, what we're
Speaker 1: seeing with power outages, and also what we're going to
Speaker 1: be looking at with travel coming up. But let's start
Speaker 1: there with the death toll. It has been steadily going
Speaker 1: up and by the counts we're seeing now at least
Speaker 1: and we could probably ropes unfortunately, expect this to go up.
Speaker 1: But approximately a dozen folks have been dead, have been
Speaker 1: killed in I guess various ways, and frankly in some
Speaker 1: of the ways we unfortunately were used to seeing during
Speaker 1: a storm like this.
Speaker 2: That's true, and we're getting some of the details about
Speaker 2: some of these deaths. We know that three people died
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, two in Louisiana. We know those were two
Speaker 2: men who both died of hypothermia. Two died in Texas.
Speaker 2: Listened to this just north of Dallas. This is just
Speaker 2: something that's so tragic. The story is this one one
Speaker 2: sixteen year old boy was driving a jeep Wrangler. He
Speaker 2: had two sixteen year old girls being pulled in a
Speaker 2: sled behind the jeep. The sled flew and hit a
Speaker 2: curb and then a tree. One girl died, the other
Speaker 2: girls in critical condition, and then someone else died in
Speaker 2: Tech of hypothermia. Another person died in Kansas. In Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: a woman died after she and her husband were walking
Speaker 2: in a parking lot and a snow plow truck struck
Speaker 2: her didn't see her in all of the binding snow
Speaker 2: and killed her. And then we know that five people
Speaker 2: were found dead here in New York City on Saturday.
Speaker 2: They are believed to have died from exposure hypothermia to
Speaker 2: the cold. Some of those deaths aren't confirmed. And we
Speaker 2: also have a tragic plane crash in Maine where we
Speaker 2: do not know the status of eight people who took
Speaker 2: off around eight pm last night in the heart of
Speaker 2: this massive snowstorm. So those numbers are still we don't
Speaker 2: know if, unfortunately, if those folks will be added to
Speaker 2: the death soull.
Speaker 1: And travel is impossible. It is virtually impossible in many
Speaker 1: areas of the country. And part of this is going
Speaker 1: to be a problem folks. As we sit here in
Speaker 1: New York. It is what Monday morning, we are not
Speaker 1: predicted to hit a temperature above thirty two above freezing
Speaker 1: until next Whinda at the earliest. So we have a
Speaker 1: pile of snow and ice sitting as layers on these
Speaker 1: roads that don't have a chance of melting for another
Speaker 1: week and a half. That is going to be an
Speaker 1: issue in many places across the country. You all please
Speaker 1: heat these warnings, Please listen to folks. I know some
Speaker 1: folks just have to get out robes, but it is
Speaker 1: slick and it is going to be an invisible sheet
Speaker 1: of ice in many places. From Texas to the Carolinas
Speaker 1: today and in days ahead.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, and look, some places are more adjusted
Speaker 2: or know how to deal with cold like this, with
Speaker 2: ice like this, with snow like this. But so many
Speaker 2: parts of the country, so many of you listening, this
Speaker 2: is an anomaly. This just doesn't happen, and it certainly
Speaker 2: hasn't happened in a very long time. And so many
Speaker 2: folks are dealing with power outages. You just talked about
Speaker 2: that extreme cold. Now imagine you don't have heat, you
Speaker 2: don't have a generator, you don't have a way of
Speaker 2: making your homewarm. I know there are warming centers across
Speaker 2: the country, but eight one hundred and twenty thousand customers
Speaker 2: are without power this morning. That is significant. And Tennessee
Speaker 2: really got hit hard. At least two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: three thousand customers are without power there. Nashville said they
Speaker 2: have not seen an ice storm like this in three decades.
Speaker 2: That's the magnitude of this storm.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be obviously an issue because
Speaker 1: those numbers might go up. The outages. Oftentimes we see
Speaker 1: them at the beginning, initially at the start of a storm,
Speaker 1: and then numbers start to improve. But this is a
Speaker 1: situation where you have ice continuing to build up in places,
Speaker 1: so you could still have power lines coming down, You
Speaker 1: still could have tree limbs coming down on those power lines,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. Tennessee and Mississippi are
Speaker 1: two states at least that are looking at nearly ten
Speaker 1: percent of those states are dark do not have power
Speaker 1: right now. That is a significant issue given the temperatures
Speaker 1: that are not rising. Speaking of those temperatures, speaking of
Speaker 1: the precipitation, We've got some places in the country that's
Speaker 1: all thirty inches plus of snow, and then you have
Speaker 1: some places in the country that saw forty below in
Speaker 1: wind chills. So we're talking about yes, it's cold, this
Speaker 1: is not cold. This is dangerous, downright dangerous in many places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you mentioned the thirty inches of Bonito Lake,
Speaker 2: New Mexico. I think right now, according to the National
Speaker 2: Weather Service had the most snow from this storm thirty
Speaker 2: one inches. That's just even hard to get your head around.
Speaker 2: And if you had anywhere to be. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the roads obviously a major major issue, but so were
Speaker 2: the airport's air travel Sunday they said will be considered
Speaker 2: one of the biggest weather related flight cancelation days in
Speaker 2: US history. That is the impact of this storm. US
Speaker 2: flight cancelations actually hit the highest level since the pandemic
Speaker 2: March thirtieth. They're going back to. Of course, that was
Speaker 2: the day where we found out what was happening in
Speaker 2: this country or in around the world, and all those
Speaker 2: flights got canceled. That was twelve one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: three flights canceled on day March thirtieth, twenty twenty. Yesterday
Speaker 2: eleven thousand and five ninety eight. We were close, and that
Speaker 2: is significant. More than thirty five hundred flight delays or
Speaker 2: excuse me, cancelations are expected today and that doesn't even
Speaker 2: take into account the delays. So if you're trying to
Speaker 2: get somewhere today, probably best in airlines have certainly set
Speaker 2: up situations where you can go online, you can rebook
Speaker 2: your flight, and they are they are waving fees because
Speaker 2: this is an absolute mess. Obviously, with yesterday, with all
Speaker 2: of those cancelations, it's going to take days for airports
Speaker 2: to get back to where they were supposed to be.
Speaker 2: And school districts, well, mom and dads, you all already
Speaker 2: know a lot of your kids are not going to
Speaker 2: school today. But I know TJ. Sabine was pretty upset
Speaker 2: because even though she's not going to school today, she's
Speaker 2: still learning today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a different lot than the school district like
Speaker 1: New York. Of course they have so many other days,
Speaker 1: other holidays. Is at the very diverse city, so they
Speaker 1: cannot afford to take days off. You gotta get kids
Speaker 1: in certain numbers parents to cross the country. No, so yes,
Speaker 1: they there are no snow days. There are just days
Speaker 1: you don't go physically into your building. The rest of
Speaker 1: them are remote remote learning days, which of course we
Speaker 1: got something out of the pandemic. We don't have to
Speaker 1: have it canceled snow days essentially for kids across the country.
Speaker 2: They now know how to do this via zoom. You
Speaker 2: could see Sabine or we could hear Sabine's disappointment when
Speaker 2: she was like, wait, what we have to do zoom?
Speaker 2: But that is what a lot of kids. They can
Speaker 2: still probably take some time off maybe and get into
Speaker 2: the snow and have some fun, but it is so
Speaker 2: cold out there. It is tough. And speaking of man,
Speaker 2: this hitting close to home when we're talking about where
Speaker 2: some of this snow hit Arkansas. That was a big
Speaker 2: news maker over the weekend, your home state. Twelve inches
Speaker 2: of snow in some parts of Arkansas, ten inches in
Speaker 2: North Little Rock. But they had a situation with a
Speaker 2: dock where heavy snow came crashing down on these houseboats.
Speaker 2: A whole doc people had to be rescued. This is
Speaker 2: again a part of the country that just isn't used
Speaker 2: to see. How much snow did you see when you
Speaker 2: were living in Arkansas?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I can't remember. I don't have any
Speaker 1: childhood memories of snow. But no, I grew up in
Speaker 1: the Memphis area, and yeah, we don't get snow. We
Speaker 1: don't do this. I didn't know that snow boots were necessary.
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this stuff until I'm moving
Speaker 1: to New York. Really, so it is it's that factors
Speaker 1: in as well, with people not know exactly how to
Speaker 1: deal with it, with cities not necessarily being prepared for
Speaker 1: something this large. No fault of theirs, but historically, why
Speaker 1: do I need to get this many snow trucks? We
Speaker 1: only have one big snow every twenty five years. We
Speaker 1: understand that, but now we need the trucks. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: a lot of cities are dealing with that. But stay here, folks.
Speaker 1: We will give you the very latest and the update
Speaker 1: on what's happening right now with flights across the country.
Speaker 1: Stay here, all right, folks, will continue here on this Monday,
Speaker 1: January twenty six. Just wanted to hop on and give
Speaker 1: you the very latest on what's happening across the country
Speaker 1: with this storm that has been devastating and it is
Speaker 1: now deadly. At least about a dozen attributed to this snowstorm, snowstorm,
Speaker 1: ice storm, severe cold storm, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: but it's hitting right now. It continues to have an
Speaker 1: impact across the country and particularly the south. But really,
Speaker 1: you can draw a line from almost New Mexico all
Speaker 1: the way to North Carolina with a fat crayon, make
Speaker 1: it pink, and draw from New Mexico to North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and that's really the chunk of the country that is
Speaker 1: just continuing to be devastated right now. Robes, I think
Speaker 1: most people are resigned to the idea that you're not
Speaker 1: traveling right now. Yeah, I guess some people you absolutely
Speaker 1: have to get somewhere, but most people are You have
Speaker 1: to understand it's.
Speaker 2: Not happening, No and yes, because if you have delays
Speaker 2: like we saw yesterday at the airport, now you're trying
Speaker 2: to get out somewhere today and there were already, as
Speaker 2: we mentioned, thousands of cancelations, delays stacking up, piling up.
Speaker 2: This thing isn't going to get back to normal in
Speaker 2: terms of air travel, at least for several days. So yes,
Speaker 2: people will have to be understand of the situation at
Speaker 2: hand with all of the weather delays that continue as far.
Speaker 1: As this morning goes. We're giving you this real time again,
Speaker 1: as of this recording of this morning, we're already seeing
Speaker 1: about four thousand delays in the country. Again, this is
Speaker 1: coming to us from Flight Aware at this point. Don't
Speaker 1: have to explain what that is. Most people who travel
Speaker 1: are aware of that by now, but they are giving
Speaker 1: real time updates about what's happening in the worst right now.
Speaker 1: The airport's being impact as far as cancelation goes. Boston, JFK, Newark, LaGuardia, Reagan, National, Charlotte, Dallas, Nashville, Philadelphia, Washington.
Speaker 1: You get the point here. These are all the cities
Speaker 1: on the East Coast right now, but Boston sixty percent
Speaker 1: of flights this morning so far have been canceled.
Speaker 2: Wow, that I mean that is significant. You know what,
Speaker 2: actually what headlines stood out to me. This may sound trivial,
Speaker 2: but certainly if you're a New Yorker, you understand how
Speaker 2: important our delivery systems are here, especially in a snowstorm
Speaker 2: like this. It got so bad that DoorDash suspended all
Speaker 2: operations yesterday until today. You know that's a big deal
Speaker 2: because New Yorkers who don't want to get out, We
Speaker 2: rely on our folks who get out there and bring
Speaker 2: things when stuff is tough to get around, or at
Speaker 2: least the weather makes it tough to get around. I've
Speaker 2: never seen door Dash suspend deliveries here in New York City,
Speaker 2: at least in recent history. I haven't seen that. That
Speaker 2: was a sign of the severity of the storm. At
Speaker 2: least here in New York City. That was significant. But
Speaker 2: we've got some of the highest no totals, just out
Speaker 2: of curiosity who got pounded the most. I mentioned those
Speaker 2: thirty one inches in New Mexico, Crested Butte, Colorado twenty
Speaker 2: three inches, but New City, New York seventeen point six inches,
Speaker 2: Connecticut eighteen inches, New Jersey seventeen inches. So that fell
Speaker 2: in line with what forecasters were suggesting. But again, we
Speaker 2: have not seen snow like this in five years here
Speaker 2: in the Northeast, and for some folks during this weather,
Speaker 2: this is the most snow they've ever seen in their lives.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned, babe, what comes next now is this
Speaker 2: cold weather. Millions of folks now are going to be
Speaker 2: ten to forty degrees below average for the many, many
Speaker 2: days to come, and that is dangerous. Of course. So
Speaker 2: many of the deaths we've talked about already from this
Speaker 2: storm came from exposure, came from cold weather. So when
Speaker 2: you've got wind chills minus twenty, minus thirty, that is significant.
Speaker 2: And I was looking to see the National Weather Service
Speaker 2: put it like this. They said, from Montana to the
Speaker 2: Florida Panhandle, there are cold weather advisories and extreme cold
Speaker 2: warnings for all of those folks in that path. And
Speaker 2: I know it's January, but still this is dangerous cold.
Speaker 2: And just wanted to jump on and let everyone know that, yes,
Speaker 2: we are maybe through the worst of the precipitation right now,
Speaker 2: but we've got a lot of that dangerous weather behind it,
Speaker 2: with wind chills and cold weather. So please everyone stay put.
Speaker 2: If You can bundle up, of course, and we will
Speaker 2: be monitoring this situation and bring you any new developments,
Speaker 2: but as always, we appreciate you listening to us. Everyone,
Speaker 2: I'm Ami Robot alongside the