A brutal freeze is paralyzing parts of the United States. At least 50 people have died in the fierce winter storm with 27 of those deaths in western New York. Tens of thousands of customers across the country are still without electricity. Buffalo, New York Mayor Byron Brown joined Laura Barrón-López to discuss the storm's toll on his city.

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