This is the transportation secretary’s top concern about winter storm

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins CNN This Morning to discuss the winter storm sweeping across the US. #CNN #News

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  1. Wow!

    10% of flights cancelled…

    Means a lot of aircraft stuck on the ground .

    They can’t get to the places they need to be in order to continue providing transportation.

    Air crews stuck too, which makes it hard for airlines to make sure there are personnel in the right places to keep things running smooth.

    May take some amount of time to recover to a point where normal operations are possible….

  2. What if you didn’t stop?

    What if you went beyond what others expected from you?

    What if you kept pushing each day to be better than yesterday?

    Go find out what your life could be like.

  3. I am staying home for the Holidays due to COVID my first bout in 3 years. Wrapped up warm and cozy with my cup of tea. We are Quebecer’s and used to snow so we become wiser as the years go by and hunker down when the weather gets crazy. Stay home; keep safe.

    1. The port of the capital Saint-Bart in the Caribbean has become the number 1 target for a Russian nuclear strike, Russia’s goal is to destroy the rich!)!”№

  4. Great choice: possibility of spreading and getting a respiratory diseases or spending time in a blizzard. Merry Christmas to all. Stay safe and please wear masks in public places, especially airplanes.

  5. Too bad there isn’t a way to get the melting snow (it will melt) to CA. Double win, no flooding in Co and water in Ca

  6. Try to arrange it so you work for a person who talks this way about the people in his chain of command. Talking like him wouldn’t be a bad idea either. Y’all stay safe; we have a country to rebuild, and we could use as many of the nation’s co-owners chipping in as possible.

  7. I knew when the new CNN morning show started airing that it would be the daily Don Lemon fashion show. What will Don be wearing today? 🤣

    Stay safe, everyone!

  8. He’s sleeping, Uber and Lyft eating the driver’s and the Costumers and he’s sleeping, I’m not voting for you guys anymore.

  9. As a Canadian I can offer some advice buy a generator. Even if you only buy a portable one which usually costs around $400 it will keep you alive.

    1. @Dylan 🙂 If you were fleeing from a blizzard, tornados, hurricanes, whatever, and had one tank of gas in your truck but no money and no gas stations were open, would you ditch the truck and start your journey on foot? Maybe you lived outside all winter because you can’t afford a roof over your head when you are too insane to hold a job down?

    2. @Dylan 🙂 More than 80 Canadians per year freeze to death according to Ottawa Public Health. These are the documented cases. December and January consistently have the highest death rates in Canada each year.

    3. @Dylan 🙂 Northern Canada is currently NEGATIVE 37 degrees Fahrenheit, or NEGATIVE 38 degrees celsius.

      A person’s core body temperature usually hovers around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). Hypothermia occurs when core body temperature dips to around 95 F (35 C) or lower. Surprisingly, people can experience hypothermia in relatively cool, but not freezing, air temperatures — around 30 to 50 F (minus 1 to 10 C) — particularly if they are wet, such as from rain, sweat or submersion in cold water, according to the National Weather Service. The body loses heat about 25 times faster in water than in air, Michael Sawka, chief of the Thermal & Mountain Medicine Division at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), told Live Science in a 2010 interview.
      But hypothermia at these relatively cool temperatures is unusual.
      Temperatures that are subzero, however, are “a whole different animal,” said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
      At minus 30 F (minus 34 C), an otherwise healthy person who isn’t properly dressed for the cold could experience hypothermia in as little as 10 minutes, Glatter said. At minus 40 to minus 50 F (minus 40 to minus 45 C), hypothermia can set in in just 5 to 7 minutes, he said.
      A drop in body temperature prevents critical organs from working properly — including the brain and heart, according to the Mayo Clinic.
      Improper functioning of the heart results in reduced blood flow to many organs, putting the body in a state of shock and increasing the risk of conditions like liver failure and kidney failure, Glatter told Live Science. The very young and the very old are at greater risk for hypothermia because they generally have weaker heart muscles, he said. In addition, older people are more likely to take medications such as beta blockers that can slow heart rate, which further increases their risk of developing hypothermia in the cold.
      Symptoms of mild hypothermia, such as shivering, weakness and confusion, set in when core body temperature reaches about 95 F. After that, “as you start dropping [in core body temperature], bad things happen,” Sawka said.

    4. @Dylan 🙂 Why even bother? Who are you trying to fool or impress with bullshit that is easy to debunk? Did somebody tell you it was smart to consume anti-freeze coolant, and now you have a grudge to settle?

  10. As I watch this terrible storm and plunging temps as well as personally feeling the effects, my mind wanders to Ukraine and reminds me of the cold they are experiencing. When I think about my own frozen pipes I’m reminded that innocent Ukrainian elderly, children and the sick no longer worry about such things because Putin has destroyed their homes. They hide in dark cold holes praying for relief. Not to mention immigrants at the border freezing on the streets of this, our nation under God…Just sayin’

  11. Where I’m at it was windchill of -40°F … I froze within the 50 ft to get to the door. Can’t have any exposed skin at all, if you do you’ll regret it, it feels like needles on the area that gets touched by wind

  12. My husband & I live in a beat-up RV on a friend’s farmland on the high desert plains in the Northeastern corner of Colorado. Tuesday night we hit -22° with a wind chill of -50°. Wednesday, was -17°, Thursday was -11°, & tonight is a balmy -4°. 😭

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