Driving ban remains in effect in Buffalo as storm's death toll rises

State and military police were sent Tuesday to keep people off Buffalo's snow-choked roads, and officials kept counting fatalities three days after western New York's deadliest storm in at least two generations.

Even as suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned that police would be stationed at entrances to Buffalo and at major intersections because some drivers were flouting a ban on driving within New York's second-most populous city.

"Please, please, please do not drive in the city of Buffalo, unless you are emergency personnel," Poloncarz said Tuesday. "It is ugly right now on many of the streets."