trish trisha fox news alert. artic weather gripping much of the u.s. tonight. the worst could come this weekend as millions around the world are here in new york getting ready to ring in the new year. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is live in the fox extreme weather center with the very, very cold forecast. hi,. >> rick: rick you know, it's going to be bad for a lot of people wh for a lot of days. probably talking about the second week of january before we see any real significant warm-up from this cold air that we are talking about. here did you go. this is what it feels like right now. obviously going towards northern canada and that's where the super cold air is. a lot of that air is settling down across the lower 48. feels like minus 17 in fargo. cold air is spilling on the eastern side of the rockies all across west part of texas. 37 is the actual air temperature in dallas.