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0 you think you can handle this ka dunk adunk dunk? missy elliott, work it. i want to arrange a free style battle between alex trebek and wolf blitzer. that s it for us. early start. a devastating deep freeze moves across the country. historically low temperatures creating catastrophe for people in their homes and people on the roads. is there leaf in site? indra petersons is tracking it. a shocking new book. the former secretary and the new book that has washington reeling this morning. why he says things were so bad. he almost quit. dennis rodman under fire on the day of his big basketball game in north korea. after giving a bizarre, angry interview to cnn s new day. we re live with the fallout and what rodman is doing this morning. good morning, everyone. i m christine romans. we have good news, i know this is a break from policy. the good news is, the deep freeze that has kept us in its evil frigid ice grip for days is finally coming to an end. soon, but not yet. but first, we have one more morning of the beyond frigid temperatures. these are the temperatures right now. 13 below in some parts of minnesota. oh, man. sorry, minnesota. the consequences of this, folks, are actually very, very serious. at least 17 deaths blamed on this freeflg weather. village of hamburg, near, buffalo, new york, people have had to deal with whiteout, strong conditions with heavy snow, changes on a dime. people in chicago reliving in that city, chiberia, they have broken 37 hours of subzero temperatures on tuesday. but it s still potentially cold, getting around in danger. drivers getting around. of course, we re talking about black ice. very, very dangerous. this sedan, you can see it spinning out of control. i m sure hundreds having this same problem. officials telling drivers to avoid the roads unless necessary. in minnesota, take a look as a truck flies off a bridge. landed in the interstate lanes of 35, narrowly avoided by oncoming traffic. amazingly, after all of that, the driver survived. that s amazing. century-old pipes and subzero windchills a really bad combination in central connecticut. water mains ruptured in south hartford. some of those pipes date all the way back to the late 1890s. and south carolina. south carolina, thousands losing power because of the cold there. scenes like this, burst pipes, ice everywhere because of what happened in the top floor of a condo complex. a pipe in a launsd roomy erupted from the cold. and there you go. it s almost like you could ice climb up the side of the building there. i just woke up to a six-story man made waterfall. we re talking about the carolinas here. no, wait, there s more, indeed like a plumber s hedge across much of the country. in arkansas, pipes are rupturing almost everywhere. plumbers in little rock say they are so busy, customers are being told there s a two to three-day wait for service calls in little rock. that sound, pretty common across many states, it was so cold, cars wouldn t start. in maryland, aaa said it receives more than 1,000 calls an hour. really business is eye. really busy. i mean, we re totally swamped right now. the bottom line is, we got to get the battery replaced. i was hoping that the car would start so i could get my kid to school. bottom line is it s really cold and bad things are happening for thousands of passengers who saw their flights canceled. today could be the day that they finally get in the air pmp more than 500 flights are grounded today, mostly in cleveland, chicago and buffalo. some passengers say even if they got on a flight in the past few days, their luggage didn t make it. they kept telling us they were loading our luggage on the plane that s why we were played three or four hours. then we got to orlando, it never actually came at all. for the whole entire plane. take a look at this, that s florida, ladies and gentlemen. causing serious freezing on everything. these pictures taken by an ireporter not far from tallahassee. temperatures dropped as low as 19 degrees on tuesday. think of the snowbirds that went down. this is like florida. florida-florida, not florida, michigan. all of those midwesterners trying to escape the cold and it s still cold. indra petersons, make it better for us. good morning. i actually have good news. good news for the midwesterners to imagine that they re stuck in 30 below. relative at 19 degrees. still looking at the dangerous windchills in new york city, so 7 below. notice out towards duluth, they are recovering. mind you, it s a very slow recovery. here s the good stuff, what everyone is waiting for that jet stream way down to the south bringing that cold air even yet even into florida. notice, though, the change, we re going to see the cold air in the jet stream lift up over the next several days. tleek difference, by this weekend, we re actually talking about temperatures back into the 60s. that is what we all inside. finally there is relief in sight. let s start today, is this a slow progress. new york s city high, still below normal. jacksonville, 15 degrees below normal. everyone is expected to go from below normal to above normal by the weekend. thanks for that pattern change. notice, new york city actually goes up to 40s. check out tampa, above normal, almost 80 degrees. that change is on the horizon. there is great news. there is another storm that people will have to pay attention. it s the one in the middle of the country bringing icing to arkansas and tennessee. regardless, it s warmer, i don t care if anyone cares about rain. there s big news out of washington this morning, that city s in kind of a shock over former defense secretary robert gates, the former defense secretary is criticizing president obama and his handling of the war in afghanistan. in his new book, gates said that he almost quit in 2009 over a dispute on how to carry out the war there. gates says that president obama lost his faith in the afghan war, strategy, at least. he questioned his own commanders and listened too much to negative reviews through his advisers including vice president biden. so the harshest word are directed by gates. he calls the president a man of integrity. but he also writes, and here s the dagger, i think he s been wrong on almost every foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. nearly every issue. the administration responded with saying deliberations over the afghanistan war policy have been widely reported and that the vice president relies on the president s good counsel every day. and the battle over emergency jobless benefits. the six republicans joined with the democrats to get the bill to 60 votes it needed to advance. but in change for those votes, and there s as you a quid pro quo, right? those republicans need to find new spending cuts to pay for the $6.5 price tag. it s not clear if that can be easily done. remember, they can t agree on much some washington these days. president obama invited them to send them a bill he can sign for those who lost benefits. it s hard out there. a lot of our friends, a lot of our neighbors who lost their jobs, and they are working their tails off every single day trying to find a new job. now, as the job market keeps getting better, more and more of these folks will find work. but in the meantime, the insurance keeps them from falling off a cliff. there s no word yet if the house plans to take up the extension. u.s. stock futures this morning, lower after a strong gain yesterday. the dow jumped 100 points yesterday. it was the s&p s first gain of the year. you have three goose eggs to start out the year. that had people a little concerned. right now in europe, stocks are down. we haven t started our day yet. but tokyo has finished the nikkei closed with a gain. in tech, she was the star of the consumer electronics show yesterday. at 5:50. trey raidle getting back to business. returning to capitol hill for the first time since pleading guilty to cocaine possession in late november. radel said he will rebuild trust. he faces a struf re-election challenge. we hear from former congresswoman gabrielle giffords three years shot to the day in a parking lot. giffords writes of new progress in the ability to regain the use of her right arm. she said it took many hours of rehab, but her arm now responds to her commands. and she draws a parallel with efforts on gun control telling her supporters to remain patient and keep working on it. the first batch of syria s chemical weapons materials have left the country. the u.s. says the cache of weapons is loaded on to a cargo ship. this is the first critical step in the international operation of ridding syria of its declared chemical weapons program by the middle of next year. big step. now, to england in a deadly helicopter crash. this chopper went down on a small village in the country s training mission. all four crew members on board were killed. let s get the latest from matthew crash. he s near the crash scene. matthew, what can you tell us? reporter: well, it s a tragedy here on the north coast of norfolk, a. reporter: remote part of the united kingdom. you can see that the police behind me have cordoned you have off the helicopter. a sort of modified black hawk helicopter had four people on board and all of them have been confirmed by the british police to be dead at this point. they haven t given the names of those individuals until the next of kin have been identified. at the moment, investigators are on the scene to try to get to the bottom of what caused this. obviously, these are very highly trained personnel. they re looking at the possibility of pilot error. they re looking at the possibility of technical failure on board one of those choppers. there are actually two u.s. military helicopters back there inside the cordon. they are flying together on a low-level training exercise around this part of britain when one of them had these problems and went down. the other chopper landed to try and provide assistance. it s been told to stay there until the area has been cleared by the accident investigators. to make sure it doesn t its takeoff doesn t disrupt any of the potential clues as to what happened. later on today, we re expecting the bodies of the deceased to be taken away. and obviously, their next of kin to be informed, christine. all right. matthew chance for us. thank you so much, matthew. coming up, dennis rodman, unleashed, angry, unhinged on cnn s new day. his interview drawing backlash on the day of his big basketball game. i guess his birthday present to the north korean dictator. we re live with creation from rodman from those people rodman have. and what the former nba star is doing today. prison break at a kentucky jail. but this inmate, he didn t get far, why he called police on himself. that s ahead. that s helpful. and jetblue paying up to customers left stranded at airports across the country. the 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