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and natural gas capital of america. we are hoping the lines will come back soon enough because it s really freezing, it s horrible. power companies have started rolling blackouts to take the strain off the electricity grid. indiana has also been hit by the snowstorms, which have claimed at least 25 lives, mostly in car accidents. good morning from the convention centre. but the bitterly low temperatures have also created this, a convention centre near the mexican border. full of frozen turtles. we ve collected a lot, now we ll try to save them. the turtles are alive but have been stunned into a kind of frozen paralysis. they ve been brought here by volunteers hoping they can slowly be thawed back to life. we do have little snaps of cold here and there so we train from anywhere from 100 to 500 cold stunned turtles in a
weather there at the moment. residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes have been filling up their cars with the animals and bringing them to the centre for safety. there are three thousand 500 turles there so far. now it s time for a look at the weather. yet again there is plenty of rain. if like me, you are trying to dodge the wetter moments, it is possible to do so today. the weather front is moving its way west to east at quite a pace. behind it, the cloud is breaking up. there will be some
of frozen paralysis. they ve been brought here by volunteers hoping they can slowly be thawed back to life. we do have little snaps of cold here and there so we train from anywhere from 100 to 500 cold stunned turtles in a year. certainly prepared for the process and know what it looks like and how to effectively handle it. never would we have assumed we were going to have 4700 turtles. the turtles are being washed up on the coast at south padre island in their thousands and being brought ashore as quickly as possible. further to the east in louisiana, ice has transformed the beauty of the bayou. this almost painting like vista capturing the more benign side of this deadly weather system. from ohio to maryland, the snow and cold has brought chaos to millions of americans with temperatures up to 40 degrees below normal.