Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
News when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Doug Crisner, and we begin with the massive winter storm spreading ice, snow, and sleet across the eastern U.S. Bloomberg's Craig Allum is tracking the storm.
Chapter 2: What impact does the winter storm have on flights in the eastern U.S.?
The storm is redeveloping off the mid-Atlantic coast. You're taking that storm, which is basically came out of the Mississippi Valley. It started redeveloping in the Mississippi Valley. We had that extra bit of energy over the Great Lakes, and now they're forming into a brand new storm. Right along the Delmarva, so off the southern Jersey coast, Delaware coast, Maryland's eastern shore.
And it will take the rest of the night to get far enough offshore to have the precipitation quit in the northeast.
Now, the storm has grounded thousands of flights. Data from FlightAware show. More than 17,000 cancellations, more than 80 percent of departures have been canceled at Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports, while cancellations at Washington Reagan National top 90 percent. Here is Memphis airport official Glenn Thomas.
The airlines are operating on a very reduced schedule, but our crews have been working 24-7 to keep the runways clear of ice and snow. And it has been a challenge, but they've been up to it. They're working in 12-hour shifts, and they are basically living at our mission support center where they're housed.
That is Memphis airport official Glenn Thomas. Now this storm is also straining power grids. Now the grid in Texas will be facing tight conditions through Monday as demand continues to climb. And the U.S. Department of Energy has ordered the grid operator in Texas to use backup features. at data centers in periods of extreme stress. Also facing cancellations, the NBA.
The league has postponed tonight's game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Denver Nuggets, and the Dallas Mavericks were unable to fly to Milwaukee last evening for their game against the Bucs. In Minneapolis, people brazed freezing temperatures last evening for protests and vigils after a second fatal shooting there by federal agents on Saturday.
Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Preddy, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, after he was subdued on his hands and knees. Now, Preddy had a permit to carry a weapon, which the agents found on him before the killing. The Trump administration is blaming Minnesota state and local officials for the fatality, calling Pretty a domestic terrorist.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison spoke at a press briefing earlier.
We took the action of suing the federal government over Operation Metro Surge. And tomorrow morning, I'm going to be in federal court with my team arguing for a restraining order against Operation Metro Surge.
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