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, detroit, pittsburgh. Feels like of minus 23 and its one degree real temperature in pittsburgh right now. Its all aheaded in that direction. Look down south. Windchills minus 8 in louisville. Minus 7 in st. Louis. Put the freezing temperatures in perspective. Its so cold, you can get frostbite in a matter of minutes. The National Weather service in iowa is warning people to avoid taking deep breaths and to minimize talking. The post office suspecting mail driverries in parts of ten states. The Police Service is asking people not to commit crimes until it warms up a bit. Chicago seeing its coldest was the recorded in three decades. Rail crews are lighting train tracks on fire to prevent the metal from shrinking. Look at lake michigan. Parts of the big lake are frozen but the water is still warmer than the air. That creates steam. One woman said she saw a 40foot wall of steam outside her window. Our chicagobased correspondent mike tobin is braving the cold. Hes there with the emergency weather response. Better cover that face. Yeah, we came five degrees shy of breaking the alltime record. The alltime record setback in 1985 was negative 27. We got to negative 22 overnight. I want to show you the chicago river. It gets serious when you get ice on the river itself. Now its frozen bank to bank. An icebreaker came through earlier today but froze over again. Up above the streets are more bare than when the bears are playing. In weather like this, you often get house fires. People using cheap heaters, using them poorly. A fire on the south side. We cant link it to the cold, but the cold complicated the firefighting efforts. Firefighters had to rotate through warming vehicles so they could keep their hands moving and functioning. They saved four people in the lower levels of the house, two people on the top levels perished. Heres the battalion chief. Our companies did the best they could to get to the attic. A valiant effort by everybody on the scene. These weather conditions make it hard for us to do our job. In minnesota, the department of transportation pulled the snowplows off of the icy roads. That is because the snowplows were breaking down in this brutal cold. So if you do decide to venture out on the streets, operate with the idea that everything underneath you will be a sheet of ice. Just dont go out. About everything is shut down. So much so the mail stopped service in eight states, shep. Shepard tell us about the people you visited in a tent camp. Yeah, theres a tent city just to the southwest of chicago, a Business District of chicago. Some people elected to stay out overnight. An anonymous donor came and sprung for rooms. A lot of people took that option. Georgia royal that calls himself the mayor of the tent city, he opted to stay in the tent city. Keep an eye on his belongings. Heres george. Please go somewhere if it gets bat. No. I have a heater. Its fine. Hes got a heater in his tent. People donate propane for his heater. People have been very good about donating blankets. Food out there, its all freezing outside. The people in the tent city cant eat it fast enough, shep. Shepard mike tobin headed inside along the banks of the chicago river. More on the forecast now. Lets go back to the big wall. Rick reichmuth is joining us. Its cold. Its cold. This was last nights actual air temperature. Not the windchill. Shepard it was colder than the north pole. It was. This is the coldest air on the planet. Think about that, the coldest air on the planet is in southern canada, northern part of the plains. Thats cold. Minus 36 is incredible. Go to the south, minus further south, minus 6 in st. Louis. East, this was the better night. We got two cold nights ahead across the eastern seaboard. Take a look. Minus 40, windchill in baker lake. Minus 40 in chicago. 34 in atlanta. This cold front doesnt go all the way to the south, which is going florida not that bad. Current windchills minus 40 in chicago. Minus 39 in International Falls. We have the actual air temperature, minus 16. So you got to minus 23 overnight in chicago. One more shot tonight where you could get to the alltime record in chicago. Thats probably the only city that we could see that alltime colder temperature broken. Shepard the real temperature. The record is minus 27. Probably a degree or two colder than last night. Then we start to see things improve. I want to show you what happens here by tonight. There you go. 8 00 p. M. , feels like minus 4 in new york. The cold is about to be here in the east. You can see the white. Tomorrow mornings cold. It does start to retreat by the time we get to friday. Still cold. Minus 25 International Falls. Shepard that is a huge swath. State after state after state. It is. If theres any bright side, its not going to the south. Its also not a super long one. This is for everybody, its about a 36 to 48 hour window of this cold. Take a look at chicago. Maybe get to minus 14 today. Take a look at the weekend. 48 degrees by sunday. Well have a 70degree swing across parts of the northern plains. That will feel warm. Theyll be in short sleeves. Shepard by the lakefront. Exactly. Shepard thanks, rick. Hundreds of thousands of students had the day off obviously because the cold is literally so dangerous. School officials in michigan busted out their singing voices to let parents know that school should be closed. Im sad and lonely when youre gone its cold and snowing winter morning its a snow day, a winter cold day shepard theyre pretty good, arent they . Thats principal jim kitchen and ben nenka from schwartz creek, outside flint. Urging the kids to stay safe and wake up before noon to help out your parents. Thats pretty good news for school kids just about anywhere. More ahead on the deep freeze. We head to minneapolis. Always cold there. Not always. But this time of year probably. Forecasters say the windchill could get to minus 50 degrees. Minus 50. And then theres the nfl commissioner Roger Goodell. Dana mentioned this. He made a concession after that blown call against the new orleans saints. Remember that . Why he says he will consider a rule change in the nfl. Plus, were learning about a secret tunnel that leads toward a bank right here in the United States. 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You get roundtheclock protection. Shepard President Trump c can congratulating juan guaido there. He is taking on nicholas maduro. Under maduro, the ones rich country has sunk into a deep humanitarian crisis that forced million to leave and millions to live in starvation. Guaido declared himself interim president last woke and swore himself into office. He says venezuelas constitution does indeed allow that because he claims maduros recent reelection was nothing short of a sham. Thousands of antimaduro demonstrators supported guaido as did the United States and many of our allies. Venezuelans taking to the streets again today. Guaido encouraging people to leave their homes and jobs for two hours of demonstrations to demand that maduro resign. The disputed president now says that hes willing to talk with the opposition, but hes refusing to step down. These are pictures from state tv. Maduro visiting a military base today, show of force. So far venezuelas military is still publicly supporting him. Meantime, guaido, the opposition guy, gave his first u. S. Interview since all of this started on the fox business network. He said hes optimistic about the future of his country. Were sure that we are starting to change, this is the last chapter of change, the last chapter of nightmare for many citizens that were forced to migrate, leave their country. Now were waking up to dreams of a prosperous venezuela. Shepard guaido with trish regan. Now to Steve Harrigan live in venezuela, caracas. Shepard shepard, it was a wellorganized demonstration, two hours, small scale. Come out of your office and said you dont want maduro as president anymore and go back to your office or back home. The question is where are the protests going to lead to . Guaido, the Opposition Leader doesnt feel like he can bring the people out on the streets every day. Theyre planning another major rally for saturday. Where is the push going to come from . Guaido says hes optimistic he got an important president ial call today from President Trump backing democracy here in venezuela. Were seeing nicholas maduro, the man that was reelected just last year in a disputed election really shoring up his military support. If you watch state television here, all day long, its maduro with generals, maduro with privates, even maduro who is a very large man running in military drill in green fatigues with the soldiers. Where is the push going to come from . He has the loyalty, the publicly proclaimed loyalty of the top military officials, but are these demonstrators going to get close to the president ial palace and when and if they do, how are the rank and file military soldiers on the ground going to react . Thats not clear. We have real competition, too, between the two sides. On the one hand, you have guaido getting a call from President Trump. On the other hand, you have maduro getting a call from russias president putin. So you have about 15 countries right now backing maduro and about 50 backing guaido. But the real question here is on the ground, where is the push going to come from to get rid of a man called by many a dictator that right now has the Security Forces still under his thumb, shepard. Shepard Steve Harrigan, our eyes and ears in venezuela. Coming up, an update on the reported attack against the Fox Television series empire stair jussie smollett. What police are saying now. And Gwyneth Paltrow accused of a hitandrun on the ski slopes. Now somebody is suing the actress for millions of dollars. Details on the lawsuit and her response. And then the nfl commissioner weighing in on the blown call. The saints fans that say that cost them a trip to the super bowl. A rule change, mr. Goodell . A rule change . Well hear from him coming up. Honorably. Ry one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100 of your homes value. 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You can see the dback make contact with the receiver before the ball aarrived. There it is. No, thats not pass interference. What are you playing alabama . I digress. And i kid in this case. Goodell says he will consider a rule change to address missed calls like that one. David lee miller reporting from new york. David lee . The commissioner says it was not a consideration and he didnt have the authorities to change the controversial ruling or lack thereof that some fans believe cost the saints the nfc championship and a trip to is super bowl. Goodell has not spoken out till today. He ruled out another ref on the field. He said the nfl is going to examine what happened, but he underscored refs are people and people make mistakes. The other complication is that it was a no call. Our coaches and clubs have been resistant and theres not been support to date about having a replay official or somebody in new york throw a flag when theres no flag. The commissioner says the Competitions Committee will be tasked with reviewing the play and providing possible solutions. He says he will be satisfied the next season begins without any rule changes. Shepard . Shepard so on the half time show, the commissioner took questions on that, too, huh . Thats right. He addressed this decision by the band maroon 5, which will perform at half time, not to take part in the customary pregame news conference. There has been speculation that the group didnt want to address questions dealing with player protests. Were extremely pleased with the diversity, the quality and the excitement surrounding our entertainers, this is the biggest stage in the world. I know people want to be part of that. In an earlier statement, the nfl said in part, as it is about the music, the artists will let their show do the talking as they prepare to take the stage sunday. More than 100 Million People are expected to watch the game but perhaps under the closest scrutiny will be the refs. Shepard no dealing with the kneeling. Not today. Police in chicago say they reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance video, but have not found anything showing evidence of an attack against jussie smollett. Hes black and his openly gay. He claims two men approached him around 2 00 a. M. Yesterday, early yesterday and shouted racist and homophobic comments. Jussie smollett said his attackers hit him in the face, poured a chemical on him and wrapped a rope around his neck. So far no witnesses have come from a heavily populated area of chicago. Cops say smollett first went to his Managers Hotel room and then a hospital where were told hes now in good condition. Matt finn reporting live from chicago. Shep, this afternoon Chicago Police tell fox news that they have searched more than 12 surveillance cameras where this alleged attack happened. Theyve not spotted the attack or assailant on tape so now theyre expanding their search to along the chicago river, which they is a is loaded with surveillance cameras and might have captured the attackers on video. This afternoon, police tell fox news they dont have documentation of smollett suffering a broken rib. A broken rib was not documented in their interview with smollett and its not listed in the medical records. Police say the injury could have happened. They dont have it documented. Police say when investigators interviewed smollett, he did have a small white rope around his neck. He said his digital fool print indicates he went to a subway around 4 00 a. M. Hes an actor on empire. The shows creator lee daniels posted a video to instagram saying america is better than that. Jussie, youre my son. You didnt deserve nor does anybody deserve to have a noose around your neck and bleach thrown on you. What lee daniels said about the news and the bleach has not been confirmed by police. Police say they take this case seriously and that the fbi is assisting them. Shep . Shepard this didnt just begin yesterday. Theres reports that the actor r