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0 put in long hours to bring faulty furnaces back to life. >> hunker down. you're working a long day. you can't leave people without heat in this. can't do it. >> reporter: all 50 states recorded freezing temperatures at some point tuesday, and an unlucky few recorded record lows. 4 degrees in new york city, negative 11 in cleveland and negative 1 in asheville, north carolina. for millions, the continued cold meant a continued travel nightmare. i-65 in indiana turned into a parking lot for tractor-trailers. and a soggy situation at reagan national airport in washington, when a pipe burst, flooding terminal hallways. passengers nationwide faced delays and cancellations as airlines deiced planes and cleared runways, fighting what sometimes felt like a losing battle against the powerful polar vortex. sarah dallof, nbc news. and nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us in just a moment with what we can expect, and hopefully, that is some relief. and his national security team for "aggressive, suspicious and sometimes condescending and insulting questioning of our military leaders." and while praising hillary clinton, gates expresses dismay at hearing clinton tell the president she only opposed the iraq war because she was running against him in the iowa caucuses. gates writes that the president, in turn, conceded his opposition to the iraq surge was political. still, despite his unusually harsh criticism of obama, gates calls the president's approval of the raid against osama bin laden "one of the most courageous decisions i have ever witnessed in the white house." but the gates book is arming critics of obama's iraq strategy as well. >> 90-some young americans died in fallujah, 600 were wounded. now we see people driving around with black al qaeda flags. that's so sad. what do we tell their families? >> and that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting. well, that blanket of arctic weather sweeping the country is making air travel dangerous, even after takeoff. through that nose. an israeli soccer player made a remarkable, acrobatic midair twist. >> nice. >> did you see that? helping the ball in for a goal, helping his tel aviv team beat haifa 3-1. try doing that twice, right? and the jacksonville jaguars team mascot took a dive on a zip line from high, way, way above! that is frightening. cheerleaders there to encourage him, but hey, they even got in on the action. those are some brave women. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with more on this brutal cold snap. i know, bill, people have been asking you all week long, when is it going to be over. do you have good news for us? soon enough! >> all smug over there. >> from here to summer it warms up considerably. yeah, the cold is on its way out, but not fast enough for many of you out there. and one of the spots that's just really struggled over the last two days has been the greater buffalo area. about 12 to 24 inches of snow, still under blizzard warning. it's still just windy enough for blizzard conditions. we have an incredible snow band also in northern new york, near watertown. that's just a hose of moisture, about 2 inches an hour now in watertown southwards, and those are the areas that are going to end up with feet of snow. so, this is the map you want to see, the 24-hour temperature change map. we're up eight degrees in d.c. this morning compared to this time yesterday. central plains about 15 to 20 degrees warmer. so, it's still cold at 15 in d.c., 9 in new york, still very cold up there around fargo and minneapolis, but the windchills are not as bad as yesterday morning. we have advisories out there. we don't have a lot of warnings. so, again, it's a bundle up as much as you can day, but it's not as extreme as yesterday. and the january thaw is on its way. it looks like from thursday to saturday, the mild air moves across the country. so, then everyone says, okay, when is the next arctic blast coming? that looks to be about ten days from now, at least, and the possibility. again, ten days out is the long-range forecast, so -- >> so, hopefully it changes between now and then. >> very well said. >> all right, thank you, bill. it is so cold out there that an escaped prisoner actually surrenders to police to get warm again. plus, solar flares directed at earth cause trouble for some. and shoppers are making a run to the supermarket for velveeta. we'll tell you why. >> mm-mmm. 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