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Right now. and a fox news weather alert. as our reporting begins with the killer cold temperatures crippling much of the midwest. at least six people are now confirmed dead. hundreds of schools are closed and the deep freeze is expected to last quite a while. lets take a look at the windchills right now across that upper midwest portion of the nation. would you look at this? indianapolis, minus 16. chicago, minus 40. detroit, minus 32. look at green bay, marquette, international falls to buffalo...

Minus 8 is your actual air temperature right now, indianapolis, chicago, minus 3 yesterday, madison, wisconsin got to minus 23. definitely cold air that sticks around for a while. heres the mid atlantic, northeast ohio valley, a few showers going through, behind it a little bit of a front. lake effect snow as well. the temps are warmer along the coast. florida, heavy rain throughout much of the rain today, could see some localized flooding. we need some rain in south florida. another batch of sn...

Seats plus or minus 8. so keep that in mind. 224. >> wow. >> minus 8 would get you to 216. 216 would be short of the 218 needed for a majority. 224 plus 8 would get you to 232, comfortably over what you need for a majority. and what that means is if you look at that range, where that number falls in it we think its about right now a 65% chance. about a 2/3 chance that when all these districts come in, if the trends old about a two-thirds chance that democrats will end up in control at the end of...

Youre in this climate and the conditions are really good for you and youre still down 6 or 8 or 7 in the congressional generic count. if your president is minus 8 to 10 in his approval rating with all of this surrounding stuff, what happens when you have a world event that goes out of control? like a hurricane in puerto rico? what happens if the nuclear summit falls apart? i dont want it talk about this in strictly political terms. but if were talking about the polling data. these arent all rosy...

Steve: senior meteorologist janice dean who was immoralityized into their hall of fame last year joins us live. janice: the punxsutawney hall of fame this time of year last year. by the way this hat has a groundhog on it good news is groundhog is only correct 39% of the time. chance for early spring. 107 forecasts, calling for more winter. minus 8. breezy and cold weather there the cold temperatures continue across the you were midwest. great lakes, and the northeast. my concern is we have got t...

Northeast. it could be a messy morning commute. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us live from the cnn weather center. all right, give us the facts. >> yeah, you know, the facts are that its extremely cold. were talking about parts of the reason for the state of emergencies in place across the south could be very much for windchill thats are 10 to 5 below 0 this morning across jackson, birmingham, into atlanta. that is brutally cold windchills. schools, of course, closed across the region part...

Extremely rare to have a storm drop in pressure so rapidly as this one. the pressure is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. you can actually see the cold air being pulled down behind this in the great lakes. thats the biggest fear right now. if you look at the windchill value. minus 8 in chicago, minus 9 in pittsburgh, its going to get much worse in new england. by saturday a windchill of minus 15, boston minus 26, interior sections will have windchills minus 35 to minus 40. so those that lose...

Layering. >> all right. richard, were going to check back in with you. richard, how many years have you -- >> sometimes layers seem to reveal more than they should. >> wow. >> the temperature is 12 degrees fahrenheit. thats about minus 8 or so celsius. and for the next four or five hours, youre all going to be watching the ball. you see where that ball is, right at the top. theres harry and meghan markle behind me. but anyway, theres the ball. at one minute to midnight, the ball starts to drop. ...

The atlantic white shark conservancy says 14-foot sharks were so frozen they couldnt even attempt a necropsy. niagara falls is coated in ice. cnns meteorologist takes a closer look at the forecast. allison? >> the best advice i can give of any folks have plans to go to new york city for new years eve is to bundle up. wear as many layers as possible because some of the coldest days of the upcoming week in new york is going to be the transition from sunday into monday. where the temperatures for t...

And then that will release the next arctic invasion. this stuff is even colder new years eve. minus 8 in chicago with the wind chill. minus 30 in minneapolis. minus 13 in boston. and minus 4 in new york city, potentially the coldest new years eve in the big apple since 1962. tom? >> all those revelers are going to have to bundle up. all right, rob, thanks so much. and despite those freezing temperatures, a million visitors, as we mentioned, are expected here in new york city this new years eve...