Storm Sparks Travel Chaos, Divide After ICE Shootings, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Karen Moscow. A powerful winter storm has wreaked havoc on a large part of the country and for the very latest we bring in Bloomberg meteorologist Craig Allen.
The winter storm is now a couple hundred miles off the New England coast. It's continuing to move away in the steady snow, sleet and ice.
How has the winter storm affected travel across the U.S.?
It's long over but there still may be some snow showers around during the day. No significant accumulations are expected but one or two of them may dust the ground all over again. This after a solid 5 to 10 inches of snow in and around D.C., 10 to 15 inches around the New York City area, and 15 to 20 around Boston. But there were some locales that measured close to 2 feet, especially up I-91, deeper into New England. A dangerous layer of ice has capped that snow in many areas, and the problem is none of this is going to melt on its own. Bitterly cold temperatures will remain through the week, and so will the snow.
And that's Bloomberg meteorologist Craig Allen. Of course, travel, particularly through the air, continues to be a major headache this morning. And Bloomberg's Lisa Mateo continues our team coverage. Good morning, Lisa.
Those airlines, they certainly have their work cut out for them this morning. Extremely cold air, icy conditions at airports. Along with the roads and highways, it's really making travel difficult. But they are getting there. According to FlightAware, more than 3,600 flights were canceled as of this morning. That's down from the roughly 11,600 cancellations on Sunday. U.S. power grids. Also being put to the test, you have more than 800,000 homes and businesses nationwide have been without electricity. Now, you have the PJM interconnection grid that stretches from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. They're taking that unusual step of paying some major customers to curb power used to also help them prevent the need for those rolling residential blackouts.
In New York, Lisa Mateo, Bloomberg Radio.
Lisa, thank you. We also saw U.S. natural gas prices jump by almost 20 percent as this freezing weather swept across much of the country. It, of course, as you said, boosted heating demand and disrupted supplies. Well, there are competing narratives emerging from Minneapolis after a federal agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen for the second time this month during immigration enforcement. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says the Trump administration has already made up its mind about the scuffle. that killed ICU nurse Alex Preddy on Saturday.
That this was a domestic terrorist, crazed, running at... law enforcement with the intent to kill massive numbers of them, sullying his name within minutes of this event happening.
And that's Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who spoke at a news conference yesterday while Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino held a press event of his own.
How many shots were fired? Where were the weapons located? All those facts are going to come out in the investigation.
And that's Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who says Preddy made the choice to come to the scene with a weapon. Videos taken by bystanders appeared to show Preddy holding up a cell phone as he got between ICE agents and a woman on the street, and shots fired after Preddy was on the ground and disarmed. A federal judge is set to hear arguments today on whether to pause the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The state and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul sued the Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago. Justice Department attorneys have called the lawsuit legally frivolous. After Preddy's killing, more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies are calling for an immediate de-escalation of tensions.
Chief executives from Target, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills and dozens of others have signed a letter from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. In Washington, congressional Republicans are showing signs of wavering in support for President Trump's immigration crackdown.
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